1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,680 Speaker 1: It is the news Blitz with Randy Wang on Talk 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: radio seven ninety KABC. Let's get right into today's California 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Report at Randywangradio dot substack dot com. This is so embarrassing, 4 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: but not surprising whatsoever. A new whistleblower complaint inside La County, 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: specifically in the Office of Emergency Management, is making quite 6 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: the allegation that on January seventh, twenty twenty five, in 7 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,639 Speaker 1: the overnight hours, as the Eaton fire was exploding in 8 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: Altadena and Pasadena, the director of that department was allegedly 9 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,279 Speaker 1: sleeping on the job. The whistleblower is the guy that 10 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: came in to replace him in the morning, and allegedly 11 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: the guy is walking around and saying, I don't even 12 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: know what we're doing here, why are we even activated, 13 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: to which the whistleblower says, he said, look at the TV. 14 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 1: Apparently three employees have cooperated this. He has denied it. 15 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: The county says they're going to investigate it, but the 16 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: guy is going on the record. He's not like hiding 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: his identity and hopefully he will be protected by California's 18 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,479 Speaker 1: whistleblower laws. So if the county tries to retaliate against 19 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: him for speaking out. By the way, the man in question, 20 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: he's already retired, probably living on a sweet pension. But 21 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: I don't want to see the county retaliing against this guy. 22 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: Everyone should be encouraged to feel safe to speak up 23 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: when they see such negligence. And the Office of Emergency 24 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: Management sure had a lot of disasters during the fires, 25 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: including specifically when it comes to the Eaton fire, and 26 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: that night in question, that emergency alerts didn't go out 27 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: to a lot of people in Alta Dina, and the 28 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: next day you had emergency alerts going out erroneously to 29 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: the entire county. Do you remember this. There was this 30 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: is day two or day three of the fires, and 31 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: you had the Palisades fire going on, you had the 32 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: Eaton fire going on. There was another fire in Silmar, 33 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: and then another one. I swear I remember this. It 34 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: was called the Kenneth fire, and it broke out in 35 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: Woodland Hills, and the county sent out an emergency alert 36 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: to all ten million residents to evacuate for that one, 37 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: and then sent another one saying are bad. And the 38 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: guy who's in charge of the Office of Emergency Management 39 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: at the press conference a few days later, said well, 40 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: we investigated it and it is not because of any 41 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: human error that that alert was sent out, which to 42 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 1: this day I do not understand what that means. So 43 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 1: check out that story from ABC seven as they interview 44 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: the whistleblower, because that is embarrassing. But this is La 45 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 1: County now staying on the Eaton fire, sokel Edison, even 46 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: though they won't admit it, they've pretty much accepted that 47 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: they're responsible for starting that fire with their aged equipment 48 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: the zombie tower as some call it. And that is why, 49 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: even though they don't want to admit it, because of 50 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: all the liability, they've been offering claims to wildfire survivors 51 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: in Alta Dina in exchange for promising that you won't 52 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,959 Speaker 1: sue them, and they have put out thirty one million 53 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: dollars in settlements. Some people think the offers are fair. 54 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 1: Some people think the offers are not fair at all. 55 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: But you know, if you're trying to rebuild and the 56 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: insurance companies aren't making you whole, I mean it's something 57 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: the lawsuit process could take years and years and years. 58 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you where I have a problem with this, 59 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: because this is not the first fire that sokel Edison 60 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: was responsible for. There's been several, including recently the Woolsey 61 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: Fire and the Signal fire just a few years ago. 62 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: And in those instances, even when so Cal Edison was 63 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: deemed responsible, they paid out the victims and were allowed 64 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: to by the California Public Utilities Commission to pass on 65 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: those costs to rate payers. There is something so wrong 66 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: with the way our system is set up with these monopolies, 67 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: whether it's so Cal Edison here, PG and E in 68 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: northern California or San Diego Gas and Electric where their 69 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: own people get appointed to the regulator. CPUC is full 70 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: of former PG and E and so Cal Edison executives 71 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: appointed by the governor who's been a pretty big benefactor 72 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 1: to these monopolies, and they get all kinds of sweetheart deals, 73 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 1: like a guaranteed return on investment if they do wildfire mitigation, 74 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: although there's not a whole lot of accountability as to 75 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: what it is. When they do something bad, they get 76 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: bailed out and they can pass on the cost to 77 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: the rate payer. I just I do not understand it. 78 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: I think, even though I disagree with ninety percent of 79 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 1: his platform, and I think he's incredibly obnoxious. The one 80 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: thing I like about Tom Steyer's campaign for governor is 81 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: that he is the only one saying that we need 82 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: to end the monopolies. I don't know how he would 83 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 1: do it, but I really think so Cal Edison needs 84 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: to go. I think PG and E needs to go. 85 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: I think the municipal utilities have a more vested interest 86 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: in making sure they don't burn down the city. Now, 87 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: there can still be problems. LEDWP had its own set 88 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: of failures. Ginny's Kenione is for the Palisades fire, But ultimately, 89 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: I just don't believe in monopolies. And there's so much 90 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 1: corruption in Sacramento tied to these monopolies. And I don't 91 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 1: think we're going to see any change in behavior when 92 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: it comes to fixing their broken equipment that could lead 93 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: to a wildfire. Hell, they'll do the undergrounding as long 94 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: as they can pass on the cost to you. So, 95 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: you know, I understand free market capitalism, but it's not 96 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: a free market. There is no competition. You have to 97 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: be with SoCal Leedison or you have to be with 98 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: PG and E. So at that point, maybe it makes 99 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: more sense to have these utilities be municipally owned and 100 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: any profits go back into the city or I don't know, 101 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: lowering the damn bills. But that's my thought on it. 102 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: If you have a different opinion, please reach out now. 103 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: Last night was the Oscars. I watched it because I'm 104 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: a huge fan of Conan O'Brien, and you know, every 105 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: once in a while, even though we haven't seen most 106 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: of the movies, we've seen two thirds of Sinners. The 107 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: last third was a little too scary for the wife, 108 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: so we're gonna have to finish that during the day. 109 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: But you know, it gets you a little window into 110 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: some of these movies that maybe you should check out 111 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: when you're endlessly scrolling on Netflix, or you've watched the 112 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: newest season of Love Island so many times you got 113 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: to move on. But while the event was going on, 114 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: there was something else going on in Hollywood, and Matthew Sedorf, 115 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: who's one of my favorite reporters over at Fox eleven, 116 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: covered the fact that because the Oscars take place in 117 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard at the Dolby Theater, there's obviously 118 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: all kinds of street closures. We know that in Hollywood 119 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: Boulevard at Hollywood and Highland is closed for a good 120 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: week leading up to it. But what also was going 121 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:40,679 Speaker 1: on in the half mile radius around the oscars were 122 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: all of these temporary no parking signs that were incredibly 123 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: confusing that the parking officers who were pushing out tickets 124 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: didn't understand what the signs meant, and hundreds of people 125 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: got their car towed over the weekend, each tuning to 126 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: about four there are one hundred dollars, even though it 127 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense as to what the signs were for. 128 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: We're not talking about parking on Hollywood Boulevard, so people 129 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: should be upset about that, especially when the city has 130 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: no clue what the restrictions they're putting in mean, yet 131 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: they'll tow your car. I've had my car towed once. 132 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: I went down to Orange County to meet some friends 133 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: in a new Mammi Burger, and I don't remember why 134 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: I thought this was a good idea, but I could 135 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: not find parking space in the shopping center where the 136 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: Omami Burger was, so I saw a little space across 137 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: the street and it didn't have a no parking I 138 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: didn't think it had a no parking sign, but I 139 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: should have noticed that it wasn't really a parking space, 140 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: because when I came out, my car was gone, and 141 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: I wasn't really sure what to do about it. Luckily, 142 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: my friends were able to drive me to the towing 143 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: yard and I was able to get the car back. 144 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: And then it was like one in the morning and 145 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: it was raining in a ask me three hundred dollars 146 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: and not fun. Having your car toad is not fun. 147 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: Now I don't know how to feel about this next story, 148 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: because on one hand, I could think of worse uses 149 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: of county money. But the County of La has a 150 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: new program where if you want to become a street vendor, 151 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: you want to pass out fruit on the road, you 152 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: want to, you know, cook little kebabs, you you want 153 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: to have a little food cart so you can start 154 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: your own business and make some money. Well, the barrier 155 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: to entry for a lot of people is having the 156 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: money to buy one of those cards. They can range 157 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: from seventeen hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars. So 158 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: La County is coming out free permits and free carts 159 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,679 Speaker 1: to certain people. If they say, hey, I want to 160 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: open a cart. Here you go, free food cart and 161 00:09:55,520 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 1: free permit, you can start selling your food. And that 162 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: is nice, and that's probably a nice leg up for 163 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: whoever touches this program that's going to affect them. They're 164 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: going to be able to make money, and they would 165 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 1: assume that means they can buy more things and they 166 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: can pay more taxes. Great, But at the other end, 167 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: we're always making it easier to allow sidewalk vending, to 168 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: allow street vending, adding even more competition to our brick 169 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: and mortar restaurants that are so hardly struggling right now, 170 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: and we're not doing anything to make it easier for 171 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: them to run their businesses. We can pose all kinds 172 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: of restrictions in fees and regulations that make it so 173 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: much harder to run a restaurant. And there is a 174 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: finite amount of food that can be eaten every single day. 175 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: So you split that pie enough, you're going to see 176 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,359 Speaker 1: what we have been seeing in a lot of restaurants. 177 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: They're just going away if there's this much competition. Also, 178 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: I know that the Health Department says they put out permits, 179 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: but I have seen a lot of street vending in 180 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: my day. I've seen a lot of sidewalk vending in 181 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: my day, and just every single time I go to 182 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: the Pantagious Theater and you've got the hot dogs with 183 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: the propane tanks and the bacon. There's nobody adhering to 184 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: any food codes there. There's nobody at La County Public 185 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: Health checking out to make sure that those people are 186 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: wearing the proper safety gear, that their things are clean. 187 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 1: You know, it's almost like there's so much under regulation 188 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: in that world. So again, I like the entrepreneurial spirit 189 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 1: of it, but maybe we could do more to help 190 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: the restaurants. Also now in the Bay Area, San Francisco 191 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: wants to cut down on illegal dumping because illegal dumping 192 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: is an embarrassment for any city. Los Angeles Oakland also 193 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: known as the City of Dumpy, and one of the 194 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: simpler ways to crack down an illegal dumping is to 195 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: simply put out dumps, tell the people when they're going 196 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: to be bring your crap. But illegal dumping in itself 197 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: is just a simple failure of government or government policies. 198 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: For instance, in Los Angeles, there's a lot of illegal 199 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: dumping that goes on every single day in the subpulvt 200 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: A basin, and the reason for that is you have 201 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: a lot of contractors that have a lot of waste 202 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: and junk and stuff from whatever jobs that they're doing 203 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 1: in the San Fernando Valley, and it is so expensive 204 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: to haul trash to the dump and Sun Valley that 205 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: they dump it in the suppulvt a basin And if 206 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: they get caught, the fine for illegal dumping is less 207 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: than if they took their load to the dump. That's wrong. 208 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: The fine should be heavier, or it should be cheaper 209 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: to throw away your trash. We are overcharging for trash removal. 210 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: And when you do that, what happens people just start 211 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: littering everywhere. So let's figure that one out, because I 212 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: guarantee you ultimately it's gonna cost us a hell of 213 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: a lot more to clean up these giant messes with 214 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: all the loss productivity and everything else than if we 215 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: just made it cheaper to take things to the dump. 216 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: Why can't we do what Switzerland does? Is it Switzerland 217 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: or Sweden? One of these countries? Maybe it's Germany. There's 218 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: a country in Europe. I'm gonna look it up during 219 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: the break where they actually have a system where I 220 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: think it is Switzerland. They actually take all of their 221 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: trash and they have figured out a way to make 222 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 1: energy from it in a clean burning way where it 223 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 1: actually powers a lot of their country. That's a simple 224 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: thing to do, and we certainly have a lot of 225 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: trash gas prices going through the roof seven dollars gas. 226 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: It's on its way, as this war in Iran doesn't 227 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: seem to be going anywhere close to an end anytime soon. 228 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's not looking good. I don't 229 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: understand why we're in the Middle East again, but it's 230 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: above my pay grade right ABC seven in the Bay 231 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 1: wanted to figure out what's cheaper when gas is this expensive, 232 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: driving or taking the bar. I'm going to assume taking 233 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: the bart is a lot cheaper. And we've been telling 234 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: you a lot about strike at Palooza in Dublin. The 235 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: teacher strike is over, and is this going to end 236 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: the same way some of the other strikes, like the 237 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: San Francisco teacher strikes have where they make a deal 238 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: that they can't possibly afford. Probably in Oakland, they're starting 239 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: to issue tickets for these speeding cameras, and I guess 240 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: we want to cut down on speeding. I see these 241 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: things in Los Angeles, But when do you ever get 242 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: to speed. In Los Angeles, traffic is awful all the time. 243 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: But hey, some people can follow the rules, some people cannot. 244 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: So I guess we're going to start ticketing and for that. 245 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: And we've told you about this homeless encampment. They got 246 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: moved in Oakland because of work from Caltrans. They were 247 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: on Caltrans property, then they moved to private property. They 248 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: got kicked out of there. They moved the city property, 249 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: and the city's like, yeah, you could stay here. It's fine, 250 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: because of course the residents just have to deal with 251 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: the city sanctioned homeless encampments. And I love this story. 252 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: I remember it from about a year ago. A couple 253 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: in San Francisco. They went to an auction and they 254 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: thought that their house next to them, a duplex, was 255 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: on auction, and so they put down a bid and 256 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: ended up for twenty five thousand dollars getting this parcel. 257 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: And they're like, this is great, a second home we 258 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: could turned into a rental. It's going to be incredible. 259 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: When they got the deed, they realized they did not 260 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: buy the house next door. They bought a patch of 261 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: dirt in an alley. That's right. They bought a twenty 262 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: five thousand dollars patch of dirt that they couldn't do 263 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: anything with. Well, apparently an artist saw the story offered 264 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: to buy it from them because he wants to make 265 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: a quilt on it or something some kind of art. 266 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: And they are finally free of the twenty five thousand 267 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: dollars patch of dirt, and San Jose gas prices are 268 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: going up like everywhere else in Matt May, the mayor 269 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: of San Jose, is the first gubernatorial candidate on the 270 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: Democrat side to call for Gavin Newsom to suspend the 271 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 1: gas tax, which is over fifty cents on every single 272 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: gallon of gas that you buy. And it would only 273 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: be an eight billion dollar cut to the states three 274 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: hundred billion dollar budget to do that, and it would 275 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: make a whole lot of people real happy, real quick 276 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: or not. In Sacramento, the Atomas teachers strike continues because 277 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: they want more money. They want cheaper healthcare. Can the 278 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: districts afford it? Probably not. In Sacramento, lawmakers are trying 279 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: to amend and change California's insane elder parole law, where 280 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: if you've served over twenty years and you are fifty, 281 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: apparently you're eligible for parole. It doesn't matter what horrific 282 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 1: things that you did, and that needs to be changed, 283 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: especially now that people are paying attention. The SEIU Local 284 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: one thousand is once again pushing back against Gavin Newsom's 285 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: return to work order, and they're totally in the right 286 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: about this. Why do we need to force people to 287 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: go back into the office when they're doing that job remotely? 288 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: Just fine, it costs more money, it's gonna have more traffic, 289 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 1: they're gonna need more office space. Or they could take 290 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: that office space and they could sell it. They could 291 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: redevelop it, and then the sandwich shop downtown will have 292 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: those people to sell to. Every single time there's a 293 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 1: story about return to work, it's always about the poor 294 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: sandwich shop. I feel for the sandwich shop, but you 295 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: can put other people in there. I'm an advocate for 296 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 1: remote work where it makes sense, and then the traffic 297 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: would be freed up for all the people where it 298 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. And Ashley Zavala on KCRA three is incredible. 299 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: She's the best, and she has a statewide political show 300 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: called California Politics three sixty. It now airs on Sunday 301 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: mornings in Los Angeles on Fox eleven and in the 302 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: Bay on KTVU Fox two, and of course on KCA 303 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,400 Speaker 1: three and Sacramento. She had some really great interviews this week, 304 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: including a whistle blower at the California Department of Corrections 305 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: and Rehabilitation talking about that when we put someone out 306 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: on parole, we don't really monitor them and that has 307 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 1: had deadly consequences. She also interviewed the president of the 308 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: California Teachers Association, asking what's with all the coordinated strikes 309 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: all happening at the same time. It's a very interesting 310 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 1: back and forth. And she also talked to Lauren said 311 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: she Haz, the new chair of the California Air Resources Board, 312 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: about the new regulations passed by the legislature to extend 313 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: cap and trade that are going to push out even 314 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: more refiners. And there's another weird story here. Apparently there's 315 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: this Dolly part and charity that wanted to give books 316 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 1: to kids, and California's like, let's do that. That sounds great. 317 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: Here's a whole bunch of money to the California libraries. 318 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: And then they set up a nonprofit to run this program, 319 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: and six hundred and fifty thousand dollars is missing, so 320 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: you can check that out. And in San Diego, a 321 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: ballot measure from one of the members of the city 322 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 1: Council would ban the city from incre from adding fees 323 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: to park at the beach. Now that is a proposition 324 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 1: that I can get behind. That's today's California Report. You 325 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: can subscribe at Randy Wang Radio dot substack dot com. 326 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: It's free. 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Grew up in 355 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: the Palisades listening to you and Tim Conway. Okay, I'm 356 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 1: freaking out thinking that somebody could have grown up listening 357 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: to me, but I have been in this business for 358 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: twenty years. This year, please do a story on how 359 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 1: La County is allowing lawful homeowners to be evicted from 360 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: homes they've lived in for decades without proof of title 361 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 1: or deed. Okay, so, let's find out what this is 362 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: all about. Let's welcome to the show. Tamar Gomez Cononees Tamra, 363 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hi, Randy, So tell us what 364 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 1: exactly is happening with the home you've been living in 365 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: for many years? 366 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 2: Okay? So, I my famili's owned a home in Boyle 367 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,959 Speaker 2: Heights for over one hundred and fifteen years. Were the 368 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 2: only people that have ever owned this land and this 369 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:32,120 Speaker 2: house my father transferred. I had lived in it since 370 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 2: twenty oh seven. My dad transferred titled to me in 371 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, and then in twenty twenty, after he died, 372 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 2: a woman that he used to have sex with began 373 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 2: to claim that she owned this property. 374 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 3: LA. 375 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 2: Fast forward a few years. LA County allowed her to 376 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 2: begin eviction process without Bruce's title or deed. I'm stuck. 377 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 2: I had exparte hearing today where I submitted proof that 378 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 2: I'm on the title, I'm on the deed. I inherited 379 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 2: this in twenty seventeen. The judge is super like he's 380 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 2: only looking at it as, oh, well, it's here in 381 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 2: landlord ofviction. So I'm just going to proceed with this 382 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 2: as a landlord tenant eviction. Although I have never been 383 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 2: a tenant. I've never paid rents. There was a trust 384 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,439 Speaker 2: set up to cover all expenses. My dad was a 385 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 2: UCLA history professor. He owned our house in the Palisades 386 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,400 Speaker 2: for years before this, and before he inherited this property. 387 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 2: This is inherited property. There's no way anyone, even if 388 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 2: they were lawfully married, who claim that this is that 389 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 2: this is their property. And my issue is that I've 390 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 2: been in court since November just trying to get them 391 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 2: to put a stay on because she got it to 392 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 2: the point where the sheriff posted, you know, you've got 393 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 2: to be out of here in three days or quit. 394 00:22:58,359 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 2: And I was like, wait a minute, this is my home. 395 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 2: I own this and there's nothing set up. When I went, 396 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 2: I literally ran to the courthouse and just upside of downtown. 397 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 2: I ran over there, got there an hour before they closed, 398 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 2: and I was like, wait a minute, how is this 399 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 2: able to happen. It's the same judge, the same department 400 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 2: where a lot of people who are like I'm meeting 401 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 2: them in the hallways. I'm meeting them at city Hall 402 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 2: where they're saying I've owned this property. Now somebody I 403 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 2: don't know is saying that they've owned it, and the 404 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 2: clerks at La County let them go ahead and start. 405 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 2: I guess anybody can go ahead and start an eviction 406 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 2: proceeding without proof that she never lived here. She was 407 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 2: my teaching assistant at UCLA at one point. And that's 408 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 2: literally what is going on is like I can't and 409 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 2: the judge won't throw it back into probate. He says 410 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 2: he doesn't have the power to do that. He keeps 411 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 2: on granting decisions in her favor and just telling me, 412 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 2: you know that, I'm repeating myself, and I'm like, well, 413 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 2: you know what I'm pro pers here. I don't have 414 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 2: sixty thousand to get because that's what I'm getting quoted 415 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 2: just because of the value of the property. People want 416 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 2: thirty thousand and fifty thousand retainer to take me into court. 417 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 2: I don't get me started on the legal service providers, 418 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 2: because aside from the Shriver help desk in the bottom 419 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,679 Speaker 2: floor of Moss Like, it's been really it's just been 420 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 2: a really difficult process. And I've proven that I'm the 421 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 2: lawful owner, and there are seams, and the judge is 422 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 2: just like it's an La County judge. I went to 423 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 2: a city hall meeting last week when they were discussing 424 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 2: all these housing things, and I said, hey, wait a minute, 425 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 2: what about all of us? And there were a bunch 426 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,239 Speaker 2: of us, and a lot of us seem to be 427 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 2: ones that have lost property in the Palisades fire. I 428 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: lost my inherited property there. The same woman and he's 429 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 2: trying to kick me out, is claiming that she owned 430 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 2: that property. She told the fire department I was dead. 431 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:12,640 Speaker 2: She collected funds meant for Palisades Fire survivors in my name, 432 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 2: claiming that I was dead and she was my lawful heir, 433 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 2: which is not true. And after, you know, the house 434 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 2: that she was squadding in in the Palisades that I 435 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 2: had been in litigation to get her out of, after 436 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 2: that burnt down, she decided she was going to have 437 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 2: vict to me from a house that my great grandparents 438 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 2: bought over one hundred and fifteen years ago, and that 439 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 2: has always been in our family. My dad set up 440 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 2: a trust before he died to make sure that it 441 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 2: stayed with the biological errors of this family, and I 442 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 2: just don't know what else to do. I don't know 443 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 2: how to get this into a pellet. I don't know 444 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 2: what to do because there's nothing set up for I'm 445 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 2: not once it gets into landslord tenant court, they're gonna 446 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 2: let you stay there like And to me, that doesn't 447 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 2: seem logical when it's like, well, she's not the landlord, 448 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 2: I'm the owner. 449 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,880 Speaker 1: No, she's not the landlord. And it seems like they're 450 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: straight up fraud going on here. And I don't understand 451 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: how anyone at the city or the county wouldn't immediately 452 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: like raise a red flag of Okay, this is what's 453 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: going on here. Sounds pretty illegal to me. She doesn't 454 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: own the house. How can she kick you out of it? 455 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 2: You know what? This is what's really insidious and just 456 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,360 Speaker 2: what I've noticed in terms of the culture at the 457 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,719 Speaker 2: La County Courthouse. The judges aren't making the decisions, and 458 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 2: the court clerks aren't making decisions. They have what are 459 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 2: called legal assistants that sit in the back of the courtroom. 460 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 2: They basically make a decision before the judge ever gets there, 461 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 2: and he just basically verbalizes it. That's my other issue 462 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 2: I've had hearings that were not recorded. I've had hearings 463 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,199 Speaker 2: where I was mocked for having a chronic illness and 464 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 2: asking for an extension on the stay, saying like, oh, 465 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 2: all women having ses like that, ha haa ha ha, 466 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 2: just the culture of it. And then today when I 467 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 2: was they denied the ex party. And yet they're allowing 468 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 2: me to hold the hearing in April on a motion 469 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 2: to stay the eviction. So at the same time they're 470 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 2: refusing to stay the eviction. It's my home. The least 471 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 2: they could do is stay the eviction because she hasn't 472 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 2: submitted title rouzied because she'd have to do so under perjury. 473 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 2: So they're just letting it roll through. Like her attorney 474 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 2: didn't appear today, she didn't appear today, that they went 475 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,439 Speaker 2: ahead and granted in her favor. Anyway, you know, in 476 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 2: most parts, when you don't appear, you lose. So I 477 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,440 Speaker 2: really don't understand what the motivation is of La County 478 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 2: to just keep rolling because there's no recourse for me. 479 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 2: I can't go to anyone and say, hey, this is fraudulent. 480 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,479 Speaker 2: You know, whether you want to decide on fraud or not, 481 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 2: but you know, because then people say, oh, you can't 482 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 2: accuse her of fraud. Yes, I can if I'm a 483 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 2: lawful owner. And if she's telling people that I'm dead 484 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 2: and she's collecting Palisades fire money, then where's that money? 485 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 3: You know? What? 486 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 2: How is it? I was never even contacted. What is 487 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 2: going on? 488 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:05,360 Speaker 3: She has? 489 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 2: This woman and her children have basically stolen my real property, 490 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 2: my intellectual my dad's intellectual property, which was substantial. And 491 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 2: I'm literally in a house that I have paid property 492 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 2: taxes for utility. She also was able to use my 493 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 2: dad's Social Security cards to get my utility shut off 494 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 2: almost two years ago and refuses to work. Yeah, and 495 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 2: DWT refuses to work with me. All they keep saying. 496 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 2: They refused to tell me anything about the balance whatever. 497 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,479 Speaker 2: They admitted that she listened to this. She dressed up 498 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 2: an old guy as my dad. They walked into a 499 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 2: DWT counter, he showed the Social Security card and they 500 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 2: had it shut off. The DDVP admitted fraud. They said, yeah, 501 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 2: you know, because I was like, well, my dad's obituary 502 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 2: was on the front page of the La Times in 503 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 2: twenty twenty that, you know, so obviously he's not alive anymore. 504 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 2: They let her do this in twenty twenty three, and 505 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 2: she's put a block so that nobody else can set 506 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 2: up an account on this property, and the DVP is 507 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 2: honoring that, and all they do when I try to 508 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,719 Speaker 2: contact them like I need utilities on, like I've got 509 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 2: a generator, you know what I mean, It's like it's 510 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 2: like I'm being forced to live off the grid by 511 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 2: someone who is not the lawful owner and DWP all 512 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 2: they said is like, do you do you have a lawyer, 513 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 2: because you know, we think this is going to litigation. 514 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 2: I was like, I'm trying to resolve this and just 515 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 2: get the utilities turned back on. No one will work 516 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 2: with me on that. My council member is completely useless. 517 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 2: She has one staff member who's perpetually overworked. They never 518 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 2: have city council hours. That's what I've been told to do. 519 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,479 Speaker 2: Go through your city council person. She's never available or 520 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 2: HERADO has meetings at her house about city council business. 521 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 2: And I've been told like, if you can't get to 522 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 2: go to her house and have a meeting, it's not 523 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 2: going to happen. So, as someone who survived WESAR and KDL, 524 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 2: to me, that's like a whole new level of corruption 525 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 2: that's dressed up in a giggling people pleasing avoidance council 526 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 2: member who's getting paid like a quarter million dollars to 527 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 2: do nothing like her. There's no recourse for me. 528 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: That's my main Well, here's what I don't understand, Tamera, 529 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you sharing your story, but it's 530 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: wild to me that, you know, all we've heard about 531 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: from the city and the county is all the protections 532 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 1: that they have passed for, you know, trying to not 533 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 1: get people evicted. We literally measure ula the real estate 534 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: transfer tax. They just opt a contract to spend city 535 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: money on a whole bunch of eviction defense attorneys. They're 536 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: supposed to help out people getting evicted, and they are. 537 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: None of this gets offered to you somebody who's being 538 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: wrongfully evicted. They only for those services to people that 539 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: are being evicted because they're not paying their rent. I 540 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: do not understand all the things that the county and 541 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 1: the city say they do to protect people from getting evicted, 542 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 1: and this is happening and they're all just green lighting. 543 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 3: It, right. 544 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 2: And that's the other thing. Let me tell you, without 545 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 2: going into too much detail, because I'm still trying to 546 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 2: resolve something with them, But what is the motivation for 547 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 2: any of the legal service providers to actually win a case? 548 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 2: And if I don't qualify as a tenant because I've 549 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 2: never paid rent, because I've owned this house. Who pays 550 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 2: rent in their own house? How do I then qualify 551 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 2: for the pro bono services? You know they're not motivated 552 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 2: to win. And you know this woman shut off my 553 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 2: utilities and the trash, she shut off the US mail, 554 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 2: and there's no way she could keep on doing it. 555 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 2: I can't file charges against her with LAPD. That's why 556 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 2: I'm like, what are these protections? Because I haven't been 557 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 2: protected at all. I've just been made more and more vulnerable. 558 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 2: And literally, the guy who's not the court clerk but 559 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 2: the legal assistant who signed off on all the paperwork, 560 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 2: he was laughing at me in the corridor today after 561 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 2: my exparte hearing when I asked, wait a minute, isn't 562 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,719 Speaker 2: it contradictory for you guys not to stay the eviction? 563 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 2: And yet we're gonna have a hearing about staying the 564 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 2: eviction in April, Like what happens if I get If 565 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,720 Speaker 2: I get evicted before that? You know this is a 566 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 2: pending lockout, there's no protections for me. 567 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 3: Where do I go? 568 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 1: You know, this was my home, So it's like it's 569 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: such a wild story, Tamar, what do you? What do 570 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: you at this point? 571 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 2: Do you need? 572 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: Is it legal representation? Because it sounds like navigating this 573 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: on your own is insane. 574 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 2: It's been really hard, but you know this is I need. 575 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 2: I need competent legal representation. I and you know, I 576 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 2: know people are super good hearted and stuff, but I 577 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 2: need someone that's going to go in and appear for me. 578 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 2: Because as as appearing proper, I feel like I'm being 579 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 2: held to a higher standard than the actual lawyer who 580 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,480 Speaker 2: lied about service. And the judge wouldn't see my evidence, 581 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 2: the proof of service. It's just like it's very much 582 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 2: like a boys club where they're laughing at me or 583 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 2: thinking that, and I'm like, all of this is documented. 584 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 2: This woman admitted to shutting off the utility, she admitted 585 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 2: to shutting off the postal service. All of this has 586 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 2: really happened, and yet there's no recourse for me. All 587 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 2: they keep saying is go to your city council member 588 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 2: who's never available, who says I can't hire more staff. 589 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 2: Because there's a freez on staff or whatever. So then 590 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 2: what am I supposed to do? Like this state attorney general, 591 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 2: I need someone who could think creatively legally because when 592 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 2: I thought about, Okay, let's file a habitability lawsuit against her, 593 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 2: the very high end lord that was kind enough to 594 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 2: donate a time said you can't you own the house? 595 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 2: Who are you going to do to yourself? That's why 596 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 2: it's like, if that, if it's legally recognized that I 597 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 2: am the owner, how is the judge in Department ninety 598 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,960 Speaker 2: one at Mosque allowing this to continue and allowing his 599 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 2: employees to laugh about it in the hallway. I just 600 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,760 Speaker 2: think like the overall added and I'm not asking people 601 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 2: to sympathize with me, but it's like we could at 602 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 2: least be professional and answer my questions. It seems to 603 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 2: me contradictory. You're going to deny an ex party, you're 604 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 2: going to deny the stay of eviction, and yet we're 605 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:29,399 Speaker 2: going to have emotion about staying the eviction a month 606 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,439 Speaker 2: from now. So what am I supposed to do? Stay 607 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 2: home all day and hope that no one shows up 608 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,439 Speaker 2: to lock me out? Because that's basically what I'm being 609 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 2: forced to do. You know, I'm Tamra. 610 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 1: You have a go fund me set up if people 611 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 1: want to help with that, but I'm also going to 612 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: put this out as well. And by the way, if 613 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: you want to see that GoFundMe, just search for Gomez 614 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 1: Kinonis and it comes up. But if anyone out there, 615 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:53,880 Speaker 1: because I'm sure we have a lot of attorneys that 616 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 1: are listening, if you have any advice for this story, 617 00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: If you have any advice for Tamra, email me at 618 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 1: Randy wang Ray at gmail dot com all forward it 619 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: to her, so maybe we could figure out a way 620 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,680 Speaker 1: to resolve this, because this just seems I can't believe 621 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 1: nobody at the city or nobody at the county even 622 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: wants to listen to your story, let alone help you 623 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: out of this insanity that you're going through. 624 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 2: It is and that's the thing. I've been approached by 625 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 2: a couple of lawyers since I think giving testimony at 626 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:27,799 Speaker 2: city hall meetings. They're like, wait, WHOA And they've never 627 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 2: heard of anything like this before, you know, COVID and 628 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,839 Speaker 2: before when people are like all of a sudden, oh 629 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 2: guess what, I think I own your house and they're 630 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 2: pushing this through I think I think there's enough people 631 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,920 Speaker 2: for a class action against the County of Los Angeles, 632 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 2: and I feel that the City of Los Angeles is 633 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 2: obligated to protect me as a citizen against the county's 634 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 2: unlawful actions to evict me from my own home. 635 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 1: Like it certainly seems that they should be wanting to 636 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 1: protect you, because that's all they talk about is protecting 637 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,360 Speaker 1: people from an eviction, and here's a wrongful one, and 638 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: they're not doing anything about a Tamara, we're out of time. 639 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 1: You can check out the GoFundMe by searching for Gomez 640 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,839 Speaker 1: ken yonaz and if you have any legal advice that 641 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 1: you would like me to forward to tamor you can 642 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,800 Speaker 1: email me at Randy Wangradio at gmail dot com. Tamara, 643 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,280 Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on today and sharing 644 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 1: your story. 645 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,759 Speaker 2: Oh thank you. I love you and thank you so much. 646 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 2: Randy Godless. 647 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 1: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's 648 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,279 Speaker 1: the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. Let's go 649 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: to Ben in Beverly Hills. Ben, you got about a 650 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:33,520 Speaker 1: minute go. 651 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 3: Yeah. I am from Department ninety, another judge that hates 652 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 3: landlords and I had been sued eight times by a squatter. 653 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,279 Speaker 3: He wrote a book on how to build landlords, and 654 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,320 Speaker 3: the court didn't really care. It was past the statute 655 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,959 Speaker 3: of limitations. After the fifth lawsuit, the court didn't care, 656 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,800 Speaker 3: just kept giving him one opportunity after another to lose. 657 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,080 Speaker 3: And he lost another case, and this time he was 658 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,799 Speaker 3: suing me for calling him fraud in the courtroom, and 659 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 3: instead of dismissing the case, the judge waited a few 660 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:10,880 Speaker 3: days and of course awarded it to me. 661 00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:13,840 Speaker 1: It's wild, Ben, that all of this seems to happen 662 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,839 Speaker 1: all the times, and there's so much complacency at La 663 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,759 Speaker 1: County courts. It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on 664 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:20,640 Speaker 1: KABC