1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Are you welcome to 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: the show. It's good that you're here. How are you? 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: I'm just handy. 5 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 2: How are you? 6 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: I'm fine? You look dandy? I look dandy. 7 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 3: Yes, like handy? 8 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: Yes you do. You got a pink and blue outfit. 9 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: On today, We're gonna get right into this. Two rounds 10 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: of the moistline coming up after three o'clock, and we're 11 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: going to start here with Jamie Page from the West 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 1: Side Current. We talked to Jamie yesterday at this time 13 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 1: because that hearing before the federal Judge David Carter is 14 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: now ongoing, and uh, it's looking into where billions of 15 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: dollars went that was meant to combat homelessness. We've spent 16 00:00:54,040 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: many billions over the years with little results, and in fact, 17 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: it's gotten worse in a lot of ways. And it's 18 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: one of the most perplexing and infuriating things about life 19 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: in La City and County is that the homeless have 20 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: fouled our streets and our public places, and the city 21 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: and the county taxes us. Unfortunately, the voters agree to 22 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: these taxes and the money disappears. There's been a lawsuit 23 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: by the LA Alliance for Human Rights, which includes a 24 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 1: lot of business interests who are trying to force the 25 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: city in county to do something. A lot of the 26 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: controversy surrounds LASA, the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, and 27 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: we're going to talk now to Jamie Page because they're 28 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: getting top city officials. They're being forced to testify before 29 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: Judge Carter. He's running his own show here. This is 30 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: not a trial in the sense of you have a 31 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: jury and they're trying to determine guilt in regards to 32 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: a crime. This is more like an investigation to see 33 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: where the money went and whether the judge ought to 34 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: turn over the whole operation to an outside receiver, an 35 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: outside person entity. Let's get Jamie paige on. 36 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 4: Great job explaining it, Hi, John, thank you. 37 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: It's not easy to explain, but you've been writing great 38 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: stories for the West Side Current. One quick question before 39 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: we get into the meat of what's been happening in 40 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: the last day or two is Karen Bass. Has she 41 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,959 Speaker 1: testified or will she testify anytime soon? 42 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 4: So Karen Bass was subpoena along with some of the 43 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 4: council members. But the opposite side, the city attorneys who 44 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 4: were hired, filed a motion to quash the subpoena. So 45 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 4: we should find out within the next hour or so 46 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 4: if the judge is going to grant that or deny it. 47 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 4: I've been told on background that it will probably be granted, 48 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 4: which means the mayor will not have to testify. 49 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: And on what basis does she not have to testify 50 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: since she's in charge? Do you know? 51 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 4: That's a good question, and they're not explaining the details 52 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 4: to us about that, although I have heard that the 53 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 4: city plans to appeal this evidentiary hearing. And it's very 54 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 4: evident when you're in the court, every single question that 55 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 4: Ellie Alliance asks a witness on stand is objected to. 56 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 4: So this is this is going to be a very 57 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 4: long drawn out case, and at times it becomes very 58 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 4: confusing because a witness will go to answer a question 59 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 4: and an objection will will be made and so we 60 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 4: then the judge needs to either as you know, overrule 61 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 4: or overrule their objection, So then they have to go 62 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 4: through this conference of kim they answer it or not. 63 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 4: Is this privileged information? So Matt Zevo who's been on 64 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 4: the stand since Tuesday, has been going through the lion's 65 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 4: share of the testimony. But this should have been wrapped 66 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 4: up the first day. But because of this being drawn out, 67 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 4: we're kind of all last night here in wait till 68 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 4: seven pm. That's very unheard of. 69 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: So this is a lawsuit by LA Alliance for Human 70 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: Rights against city and the county and the uh they 71 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: have eleven attorneys I read? Is that true? Yeah, a 72 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: city in county has eleven attorneys. 73 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 4: Well, the city and here's here's. 74 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: A city has eleven attorneys. 75 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 4: Well the first day eleven so two of their own, 76 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 4: but they hired a high profile law firm to come 77 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 4: into the case. Just a couple hours and we're just 78 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 4: doing loose math here thinking this is probably a taxpayer. 79 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 4: This is costing taxpayers. It's got to be like ninety 80 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 4: grand a day that we're talking about. How these attorneys 81 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 4: and the West Side Regional Alliance for Councils just filed 82 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 4: a request to see if they can get the retainer 83 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 4: information for to see what we are paying us. 84 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: They must have a lot to hide the city. When 85 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: you hire eleven attorneys to run. 86 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 4: Doubling down, tripling down, not enough that we lost two 87 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 4: billion dollars. Now we're going to pay at least one 88 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 4: hundred thousand, if not more. 89 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: I think o J only had eight attorneys. This is 90 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 1: quite the collection, all right. So let's start with Matt Zabo. 91 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: He is give me his title. 92 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 5: He's a he's a city administrative officer, city administrative officer, 93 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 5: and that he's got the duty of following where the 94 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 5: money is going in and out. 95 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 4: Essentially, he's the accountant. He's the city's accountant. So so yes, 96 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 4: at the end of the day, all the seats go 97 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 4: through him. Although he has testified that even though he 98 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 4: gets reports, it's up to the owner of the report 99 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 4: LASA in this case, to put together a full report. 100 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,559 Speaker 4: So yesterday on the stand he was testifying about how 101 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 4: if the information isn't in report that LASA gave them, 102 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 4: he doesn't have it either. 103 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: And you wrote about these performance metrics they call them 104 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: from LASSA, and it looks like whatever the performance metrics 105 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: were in all these different categories, they fell way way short. 106 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: Can you talk about that? 107 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 4: Well, not only did they fall short, it's also important 108 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 4: to highlight that it in some cases that LASA just 109 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 4: did not do the reporting on it. So we have 110 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 4: some you know, KPIs that we all look at when 111 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 4: we're trying to figure out if something works or not. 112 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 4: And in this case, it was the data completeness go 113 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 4: and they were supposed to hit a goal of ninety 114 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 4: five percent, So that means all the data that comes in, 115 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 4: they're supposed to compile it and then turn it over. 116 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 4: LASA just chose not to report on it. And that 117 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 4: was the back and forth between the attorneys as asking, well, 118 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 4: you are the keeper of this information, so did you 119 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 4: ask for it when you did not get it, So 120 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 4: we have loss of refusing to get to take the 121 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 4: information or report on it, and then we have the 122 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 4: city just not asking the follow up questions of where 123 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 4: is it all right? 124 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: So there was a twenty five percent goal regarding placing 125 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: homeless people in permanent housing, goal twenty five percent. Apparently 126 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: LASA only reached four percent. The goal was twenty five 127 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: percent of homeless to get substance abuse treatment and they 128 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,239 Speaker 1: only hit six percent. Mental health needs twenty five percent 129 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: was the goal? Six percent four percent? Yeah, Rather so 130 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: in all these categories it was twenty five percent was 131 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: the goal, which to me isn't a very high goal. 132 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: I mean seventy five percent they never expected to reach. 133 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: And in these cases it's four percent for permanent housing, 134 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: six percent for substance abuse, four percent for mental health needs. 135 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: This is a huge, gigantic failure. You're talking about roughly 136 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the population not getting housing, not 137 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: getting mental health treatment, and not getting a drug treatment. 138 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, and all of this came out in the audit. 139 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 4: What we're in through right now, What we're going through 140 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 4: again is an evidentiary hearing, so kind of going line 141 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 4: by line exactly what you're doing right now and asking 142 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 4: the questions that should have been asked in twenty twenty 143 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 4: two when they settled. This lawsuit was filed in twenty 144 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 4: twenty the city entered into a settlement. We should be 145 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 4: way ahead of where we are. We're still out of 146 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 4: four percent reporting and this is five years later. Those 147 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 4: of us who paid axes, who walk on our streets 148 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 4: every day see the homelessness crisis. But here we are 149 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 4: in a courtroom, nitpicking on a four to twenty five percent. 150 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 4: As you just pointed out, we should be at eighty 151 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 4: percent by now ninety five. 152 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: I don't understand, how do you only help four percent 153 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: of those who needed mental health treatment. You four percent. 154 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 4: We don't have the beds, that's what they'll tell you 155 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 4: as well. And we don't have the bet. 156 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: But where'd the billions? Gould check up by? You should 157 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: buy a lot of beds. Beds aren't that expensive. 158 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 4: There was a there was a witness on stand yesterday 159 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 4: who does a who does tiny home villages, and she 160 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 4: came up with the price tag of a tiny home 161 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 4: village that she did in I want to say, Santa Barbara, 162 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 4: four hundred dollars a night for folks. And this testimony 163 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 4: was not allowed because it was objected so much that 164 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 4: we shouldn't be comparing to other cities. But it was 165 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,559 Speaker 4: still eye opening to see what we could be paying 166 00:09:58,559 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 4: and paying. 167 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: Us only injections. This whole thing must be excruciating to 168 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: watch and listen to. 169 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 4: Oh gosh, we all just look. I mean, sometimes you 170 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 4: hear the same answer five times because of the objections. 171 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: Can you hang out for another segment? You got time? 172 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 4: Sure? Sure? 173 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: All right? Yeah, we got Jamie Page on Westside Current 174 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: dot com. West Side Current, go read their stuff when 175 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: we come back. I want to find out as a 176 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: new character in this story, doctor Estimey a goonifer? Is 177 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: that how you say it? As a Deputy mayor of 178 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: Homelessness and Community Health. I didn't know there was such 179 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,199 Speaker 1: a thing, but she is. And apparently she was combative 180 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: and evasive. Well, there's a lot. There's a lot of 181 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: sketchy characters who are governing this place and a lot 182 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 1: of money's disappearing. 183 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am 184 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 2: sixty uh. 185 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: We are on every day from one until four o'clock 186 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: and then after four o'clock John cobelt Show on demand. 187 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: That's the podcast, so anything you miss you can hear 188 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: later on posted after four o'clock. We're going to continue 189 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: with Jimmy Page, reported for the West Side Current Westside 190 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: Current dot com and she's one of the few in 191 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 1: LA media who's actually covering this lawsuit from a group 192 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: called La Alliance for Human Rights. There's a lot of 193 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 1: business groups involved in this. They filed a suit against 194 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: the city in County trying to get them to account 195 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: for all the money that was spent on homelessness over 196 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: the last many years with nothing to show for it. 197 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 1: And in the first segment, we told you that LASA, 198 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: which is the bureaucracy that oversees homelessness for the county 199 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: and city, only reported four percent of the homeless they 200 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: put in permanent housing. Only six percent of the homeless 201 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: got drug treatment, and only four percent got mental health treatment. 202 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: So on average, ninety five percent of the homeless that 203 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 1: you see got no drug treatment, no mental health treatment, 204 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:09,319 Speaker 1: or no permanent housing. Ninety five percent. And this is 205 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: after year. This lawsuit was originally filed in twenty twenty. 206 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: Let's get Jamie back on here. We have a new character, 207 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: a doctor Estima p. A Gonifer. She's the first ever 208 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: Deputy Mayor of Homelessness and Community Health. I looked up 209 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,559 Speaker 1: her bio. I don't know if any of this makes sense. 210 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: This is with Kaiser Permanente. She has a bio. Doctor 211 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:41,359 Speaker 1: sm esme A Gonifer is committed to advancing health equity 212 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 1: and justice for vulnerable individuals and populations, including veterans an 213 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: individuals experiencing homeless and incarceration. Her work amplifies these voices 214 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: through narratives, mixed methods, and community partnered participatory research to 215 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 1: impact health delivery innovation that addresses social determinants of health. 216 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: I mean what a stew of gobbledegook and nonsense. What 217 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: the hell is all that about? That's what she does. 218 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,959 Speaker 4: It was confusing when she was on the stand too, 219 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 4: although we did learn that she got the role in 220 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 4: twenty four and she got it through knowing the mayor 221 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 4: when she was in the White House, So that's the 222 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 4: connection there. Although when she was being questioned and testifying, 223 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 4: her scope of her job was a lot more narrow 224 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 4: than what the LA Alliance city attorneys were trying to 225 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 4: get at. You know, she's supposed to be in charge 226 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,359 Speaker 4: of homelessness, but she was when I said the word combative, 227 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 4: she just kept coming back with, my role is to 228 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 4: make sure insights safe works. We weren't sure. 229 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: Well, you know that this LA Alliance had made a 230 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: settlement with the city several years ago, and an attorney 231 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: asked a gnifer if she ever read it, and she says, 232 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: I may have skimmed it, maybe skimmed it once. Well, 233 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: that was the agreement that the city was bound to 234 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 1: honor from the last round of lawsuits. 235 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 4: That's when I became combative in court too. They kept 236 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 4: asking her in different ways, but this is your role. 237 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 4: You're supposed to be overseeing homelessness, and she tried to 238 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 4: separate herself from the agreements that the city came into, 239 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 4: and she kept saying, my job is to get them 240 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 4: into beds, and then the attorney would say, well, the 241 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 4: whole settlement is about beds. The whole settlement is about 242 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 4: getting them into beds, and then her you know, coming 243 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 4: back to yes, but it takes a long time, and 244 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 4: it goes into compassion and getting to know folks and 245 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 4: getting them into the bed and so although that may 246 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 4: be her story, that's not what the settlement of a 247 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 4: lawsuit is, and it's all written out what someone is 248 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 4: and what the requirement is. 249 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: Her gibberish here, narratives, mixed methods, community partner participatory research. 250 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 1: It's nobody on the planet who knows what any of 251 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: that means. And she's being asked a direct question of hey, 252 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: are you getting these people into beds? And she doesn't 253 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: know how to answer because she's lost in all this 254 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: bizarre social justice jargon. 255 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 4: I often heard the word it's my job to make 256 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 4: them feel cared for and loved in the courtroom as well, too, 257 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 4: So yes, that support to your. 258 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 1: Theory to make them feel cared for and loved. The 259 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,119 Speaker 1: purpose of this is to get them off the streets. 260 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: We can't take care of their love issues. That's not possible. 261 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 4: And I think that the lawsuit is supposed to make 262 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 4: us all kind of whole as a community. Right, it's 263 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 4: not safe for anybody for them to be living on 264 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 4: the streets, whether it's medical safety or physical safety, and 265 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 4: the streets are dangerous. We all know that. It just 266 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 4: feels like the city and the county continued to resist 267 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 4: what could be the greatest outcome for all of us. 268 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: Well, it's such a massive failure. Did you get a 269 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: sense that the city administrative ornor Matt Zabo or this 270 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: doctor Agonafer do they care or they just care taking 271 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: the failure day to day and punching the clock. Do 272 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: they seem in any way unhappy with the non existent 273 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: progress after all these billions of dollars? Anybody embarrassed? Anybody angry? 274 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 4: My assessment is it's not about Zabo's he's our accountant, right, 275 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 4: although he should be fiscally responsible for us. But the 276 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 4: city attorney was in the courtroom yesterday, but overall the 277 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 4: mayor housn't showed up. I haven't seen any city council members. 278 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 4: I haven't seen anybody from the city who say they 279 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 4: care show up to this case. There's a handful of 280 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 4: us in the courtroom, and to me, that's an identifier 281 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 4: of who really cares about the outcome of this case, 282 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 4: the homelessness crisis. 283 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 1: Are you the only reporter covering this day? 284 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 4: There's just a handful of us. I'd say about five. Yeah, 285 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 4: any trickle in and out, but there's yeah. I feel 286 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 4: like we've been the only one covering this since twenty twenty. 287 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: You're the only one I can find. We're raised, look too, 288 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: not that we're looking for someone else. You're doing a 289 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: great job coming on with us, but we're good. We're 290 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: kind of shocked because the whole city in county needs 291 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: to know this, and at any TV reporters show up. 292 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 4: I think, well, yesterday for about ten minutes, I'm not 293 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 4: sure I recognize her, but I'm not sure what affiliation 294 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 4: she's from. This should be the biggest story in Los 295 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 4: Angeles by far. This is the biggest story. Two point 296 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:50,199 Speaker 4: three billion dollars that are on accounted floor in a 297 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:54,959 Speaker 4: system that is supposed to help us solve homelessness on 298 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 4: our streets, and it only gets worse year by year, 299 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 4: and as you pointed out yesterday, the point in time count, 300 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 4: there's evidence to show that the same amount of people 301 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 4: who died on our street is the same amount of 302 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 4: the number that adds up to how we got a 303 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 4: decrease in our count last year. 304 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, the decrease is the two thousand plus that died. 305 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: Is the judge Judge Carter at times in these cases, 306 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: he's very pointed and very critical. Has he shown any 307 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: indication of what he thinks of the testimony in the 308 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: last few days. 309 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 4: He's not in This is just my observation because I'm 310 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 4: also following the VA lawsuit. There's fear of an appeal, 311 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 4: and so he's doing what he's supposed to do as 312 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 4: a judge, just listening to objections and either sustaining or overruling. 313 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 4: That's the most we're getting from him. It's very unusual, 314 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 4: because yes, he is the character that we all pay 315 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 4: attention to usually, but he's very restrained right now, and 316 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 4: I think it's because he doesn't want to see an appeal. 317 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 4: At the end. This is all about receivership, right It's 318 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 4: all about seeing somebody else take over. So I think 319 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 4: he wants to see that. I think, but he's got 320 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 4: to follow follow what he needs to do as a 321 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 4: judge right. 322 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: Now, this is really an abomination. Thank you very much, Jamie, 323 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: Jamie Page Westside Current dot com. Subscribe to that news 324 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,479 Speaker 1: site read her articles. Thanks for coming on, Jamie. 325 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 326 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 2: six forty. 327 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four and then 328 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand and you 329 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 1: could listen to what you missed. Boy, That was some 330 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: report at the about the lawsuit trial going on in 331 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: Los Angeles before federal Judge David Carter. There is a 332 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: group called let me get their name right, La Alliance 333 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: for Human Rights. It's a group of residents and business 334 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: owners who have come together to try to force the 335 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 1: city and the county LASA to be accountable for all 336 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,399 Speaker 1: the billions of dollars they have blown on homelessness. And 337 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: it's not gotten any better. It's gotten worse, obviously. And 338 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 1: Karen Vas and the alley headed Border Supervisors and all 339 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 1: their lackeys and parasites, just a lot of the public 340 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: constantly bogus claims bogus statistics when everybody with their own 341 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 1: eyes can see that this has been getting worse and 342 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: worse for ten years now. Now this lawsuit again, it's 343 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: it's the Alliance for Human Rights. They're trying to get 344 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:44,239 Speaker 1: the city in county to to get homeless people off 345 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 1: the streets. And if Judge Harder rules against the city, 346 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: then the whole system they go into receivership. An outside person, 347 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: some outside entity is going to take it over. But 348 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: the statistics here are so damning, so infuriating, so incredibly outrageous. 349 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: Matt Zebo testified as the city administrative officer. Jamie Page 350 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: from Westside Current said, basically, he's the accountant, and he 351 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 1: says the LASSA has only placed four percent of the 352 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: homeless and permanent housing four percent. And this is over 353 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:39,439 Speaker 1: a period of many years. Only four percent got mental 354 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: health treatment, only six percent got drug treatment. So you 355 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: add that up and ninety five ninety six percent of 356 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: the homeless never got permanent housing, ninety four percent of 357 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,040 Speaker 1: those with drug problems didn't get any drug treatment, and 358 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: six percent of those who are mentally ill never got 359 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: mental health treatment after we gave them billions of dollars. 360 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I know Bill A. Saley is doing 361 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 1: an investigation on behalf of the federal government, because if 362 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: there's any federal money in this pot, then people ought 363 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:23,959 Speaker 1: to be charged and put in prison, a federal prison. Uh, 364 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: it is shocking that it's not shocking, but Gavin Newsom 365 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: ought to have the Attorney General do an investigation so 366 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: some of these people could be put in state prison. 367 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,479 Speaker 1: How can you spend all these billions of dollars? I mean, 368 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 1: the last audit, just for the last couple of years 369 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: found two point three billion dollars not properly accounted for. 370 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: Nobody got the mental health treatment, nobody got the drug treatment, 371 00:22:53,720 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: nobody got the housing, nobody at all. Money's gone. These 372 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: are all thieves. And then this, this, this, this, this doctor. 373 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: She's now the deputy mayor, the first ever deputy man. 374 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 1: By the way, these are all Karen pass hires. Karen 375 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: Pass hired the woman who has turned LASA into this 376 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: giant sucking money pit. Remember this Valicia Callum, Adams, Valicia 377 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 1: Adams Kellum, I don't know. Throw her names up in 378 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: the air and see how they fall. The Valicia Adams Callum. 379 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: Then this this other one and I never heard of 380 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: her doctor Estimate Agoniffer she's the Deputy Mayor of homelessness 381 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: and like I said, to go to go to the 382 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: website at at Kaiser and and she uh she amplifies 383 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: voices of the homeless through narratives, mixed methods and community 384 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: partner participatory research. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Picture 385 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 1: of her with a big smile. Another Karen Pass. Everybody 386 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:14,199 Speaker 1: Karen Pass hires is completely incompetent and they all have 387 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: doctor It's this this uh estmagnon doctorate. Uh Vlicia Adams 388 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 1: callum who runs loss of doctorate? What what kind of 389 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: doctorates are these? And they're combative and they're evasive and 390 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: nobody covers this. What I'm serious the people who run 391 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 1: the news departments in the city. This is one of 392 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 1: the biggest scandals the city has ever seen. Hello, one 393 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: reporter for one day, make it a lead story. You 394 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: gotta do a primetime special on this. What's wrong with you? Really? 395 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 1: All the newsrooms here in Los Angeles nobody covering this. 396 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 1: It's billions of dollars. The number one issue. I think 397 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 1: over ninety percent of the public in Los Angeles says 398 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: the number one issue is the homelessness and we spend 399 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: billions of dollars and look where it's all wasted. And 400 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 1: look at these these these pathetic, puny statistics, and no 401 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 1: one's even trying to say they're doing a good job 402 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 1: inside safe. That was a scam. I'm going to repeat this. 403 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: Jamie Page mentioned it. Bass has been going around claiming 404 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: that in the last year homelessness was down by over 405 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 1: two thousand people. Yeah, they died. The difference between the 406 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: twenty the difference between the count last year year of 407 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 1: the count this year almost exactly matches the number who died. 408 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 1: That's the only way that Karen Bass got any homeless 409 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: off the street. They expired, they ceased to exist. So 410 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 1: now you don't count. Well, they're not homeless anymore. Yeah, 411 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: you're right, got me on that one. If they're dead, 412 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 1: they're not homeless. They're dead. So Bass is waiting for 413 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: a bumper crop of homeless dead so her statistics look 414 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: better next year when she runs for reelection. When she 415 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 1: runs for reelection, swallow that one. Who it is absolutely 416 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: beyond insane. And the city hires eleven lawyers with your 417 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 1: tax money to object to every question from the attorneys 418 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: for the LA Alliance and the LA Alliance for Human 419 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: Rights is just people here in the city. It is citizens, 420 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: it is business owners, and they're trying to force the 421 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 1: city in the county to get the homeless people off 422 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: the street and use the money that we paid by 423 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: the billions, and they won't do it. And when their 424 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: attorney asks appointed questions of these city bureaucrats who are 425 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: just sad, pathetic losers, objection, objection, objection. These lawyers are scum. 426 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 1: These lawyers are parasitical scum. The hall operation is a sore. 427 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:47,679 Speaker 1: The bureaucrats, the attorneys, what God, And they're not helping anybody, 428 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:55,919 Speaker 1: and then manipulate you emotionally to pay more taxes because 429 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 1: it's our brothers and sisters, remember that phony Bologna weasel, 430 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: Eric Garcetti, our fellow Angelinos who fallen on tough times, 431 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: our brother and sister Angelinos. It was lying. It's a racket. 432 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: It's a money laundering racket for everybody politically connected to 433 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 1: Bass or Garcetti and everybody, and I mean everybody. Karen 434 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 1: Bass hires is an incompetent boob with a doctorate, which 435 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: is ingram richer. They're well educated, in competent boobs. How 436 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: could you get a worst best of the homelessness in 437 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, a problem that virtually no other city outside 438 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: of California has. This is part of the progressive disease 439 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: that's infected the state and seems to have paralyzed all 440 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: the right thinking people in this state who keep voting 441 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: for these incredibly destructive losers and keep financing all their 442 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: ridiculous criminal policies. This is crime. You take billions of dollars, 443 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 1: and again they can't account for it. It's not even 444 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: written on paper where they blew the money and who 445 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: stole the money, and nobody in and by the way, 446 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: I couldn't find anything in the La Times either, So 447 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what's up with Patrick sun Chian, but 448 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: I couldn't find anybody assigned to this story the last 449 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 1: couple of days, and nobody from Channel two four seven, nine, 450 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: eleven five. I don't know. Jami Bage said she thought 451 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: she saw one person there for about ten minutes. This 452 00:29:54,720 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: is just a travesty, absolutely travesty. All right, more coming up, 453 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: We've got some We got a lot of dog stories today. 454 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. 455 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,479 Speaker 1: You don't sound happy about that. They're not good dog stories. 456 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 3: No, they're not, and one of them I'm going to 457 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 3: be talking about my news. 458 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 2: All right, you're listening to John Cobelts on demand from 459 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty coming. 460 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 1: Up after two o'clock. The outrages continue. There is a 461 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 1: horrific bill coming from that weirdo Scott Wayner, who's the 462 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: state senator up in San Francisco. It's a horrific housing bill. 463 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: It would require cities to approve buildings even if they 464 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: were ten stories tall in single family neighborhoods if your 465 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: development is within half a mile of a bus stop. 466 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 1: So if you're within half a mile of a major 467 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: road like say Venora Boulevard or Wilshire Boulevard or any 468 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: of the big boulevards that have lots of bus stops, 469 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: no more single family z owing. The city would be 470 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 1: forced to approve buildings that are ten stories tall, completely 471 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: destroying residential suburban neighborhoods. That communist sicko, weirdo, Scott Wiener. 472 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 1: We're going to talk to journalists Chris Lagras about it. 473 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: This came flying out of nowhere. Uh now, you mentioned 474 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: this story in the news. Have you seen the video 475 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: of this? Yeah? I did. There's a Coasta mesa animal 476 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 1: rescue employee, a woman that was seen on video dragging 477 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 1: a limp dog down the sidewalk, dragged by the leash. 478 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: Dogs not moving at all on its own, and it's 479 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: just dragged. And this is a rescue what some dogs 480 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: just don't get a break, you know, Priceless Pets Rescue 481 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: says Ladies a walker. So the dog wasn't walking. The 482 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: dog was absolutely motionless, and she's pulling it along the 483 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 1: sidewalk the way you'd pull a wagon. 484 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 3: Why is she doing this job if she hates animals 485 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 3: so much? 486 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,719 Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, why would you want to do this? 487 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: I don't know. 488 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 3: I always thought that people that would work in an 489 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 3: animal rescue are going to be the kindest, gentlest people 490 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 3: that will be nice to the animals. Okay, you know 491 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 3: what we need to do, John, We need to drag her. 492 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 1: I'm going to put a leash on her. 493 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 3: I'm going to drag her on the sidewalk. 494 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark Justice, yep A, putt me in charge. Anybody 495 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 1: abuses animals gets exactly the same treatment as I'm with you. Uh, 496 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: Priceless Pets Rescue, Well, they hired her. Yeah, oh, and 497 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 1: they called the video absolutely unacceptable. Well, unacceptable is the 498 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 1: new cool word to use. 499 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 3: I think it's a little more than unacceptable. 500 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,920 Speaker 1: It's like what a thousand people rioted last Saturday. Carabas said, 501 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 1: that is unacceptable. I'm sorry, that's unacceptable. Okay. She was 502 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 1: just so mean, mean and uncaring. If you saw her, 503 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: the look on her face, she was just dragging it 504 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 1: like it was, you know, a sack of groceries in 505 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 1: a in a in a wagon. Why I don't know. 506 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: Why would you do that? Why would Why wouldn't you 507 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: be upset by that? Oh? Why wouldn't you? 508 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 3: I think most people, most people watching this viral video 509 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 3: would be very upset. 510 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,719 Speaker 1: But she ends up working for the Animal Shoves yea, 511 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: and they hire her. 512 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 4: Yes. 513 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, look, you don't when you hire somebody, 514 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 3: you don't know every little thing that somebody's gonna do. 515 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 1: I get that. 516 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 3: I don't understand why this woman would want to work 517 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 3: at an animal rescue. 518 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: I guess it was too much trouble for her. She 519 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 1: was too tired. She didn't realize she'd be walking dogs. 520 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:09,399 Speaker 4: Too bad. 521 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: You a pain in the ass, No digging ditches. We 522 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,359 Speaker 1: don't have time now. But we will do this later 523 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 1: in the show. This is another horrible Karen bass Hire 524 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: and it's a woman named Stacy Danes and apparently the 525 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 1: Los Angeles City animal shelters are in a total dysfunction, 526 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: total disasters. And Danes was was making two hundred and 527 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: seventy three thousand dollars a year and she was unable 528 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,600 Speaker 1: to fix all the problems. The problems going on are 529 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 1: things they're gonna they're gonna make What this lady was 530 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 1: doing in Costa Mesa seemed like parking citation. Are you 531 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 1: STI these are actual felonies. Yes, that's why I want 532 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 1: to do it later when we've got more time. But 533 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 1: she she tried to take over the Stacey Danes and 534 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,080 Speaker 1: she was a year as an animal services general manager 535 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 1: and she's gone on paid leave and then she quit 536 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,960 Speaker 1: and she is now talking to the La Times about 537 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,200 Speaker 1: what she saw and it is going to make you 538 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 1: so sick, so angry. 539 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 3: Do we really have to do this? 540 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,399 Speaker 1: Well, if we don't, it's going to go on. That's 541 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,920 Speaker 1: you know, that's that is true because a lot of 542 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,720 Speaker 1: people don't know what's going on in the city animal shelters, 543 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 1: and they don't realize just how much I guess Karen 544 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 1: bat Bass not only hates people, but hates animals because 545 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: she's allowed this to go on for quite some time 546 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,359 Speaker 1: and hasn't taken any action against it. 547 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,360 Speaker 3: And before you go and you buy a designer dog, 548 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:57,319 Speaker 3: like some people, go to a shelter and adopt. These 549 00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,720 Speaker 3: animals need you, that's my PSA. 550 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,359 Speaker 1: Get them out of the La City Chess first place 551 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,480 Speaker 1: you should go, because seriously, I'm not exaggerating. They're torturing animals. 552 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 1: Oh no story, Yeah, yeah, torturing you. Well you want 553 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: to hear one example. 554 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,360 Speaker 3: Not really, but I know you're gonna do it anyway. 555 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 1: Apparently some of the employees routinely terrorized the dogs by 556 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 1: banging on their kennels and then sprang them with water 557 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,399 Speaker 1: to move them back, and she said she was told 558 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 1: that's how we train the dogs, so it was it 559 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:34,440 Speaker 1: was a mental torture. 560 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,000 Speaker 3: Okay, you know what, these people that are torturing animals, 561 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:38,799 Speaker 3: we're gonna put them in cages and we're going to do. 562 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,600 Speaker 1: The city day. Put you in charge of this whole system. 563 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,319 Speaker 1: You really should. Yeah, I'll straighten things out, all right. 564 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: We'll get to that later next hour. Chris Lagrau coming 565 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,840 Speaker 1: up next. He's a journalist. Boy. There's so many, so 566 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,760 Speaker 1: many horrible stories today, Santa Pill seventy nine. It would 567 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,360 Speaker 1: require cities to approve buildings ten stories in your single 568 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 1: family neighborhood if you happen to be within a half 569 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 1: mile of a bus stop. This is out of the 570 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:13,960 Speaker 1: behind of Scott Wiener, that weird, evil communist Democratic State 571 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: senator from San Francisco, Scott Wiener. It's a bad idea. 572 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,759 Speaker 1: He's sponsoring it. Hey, you've been listening to the John 573 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,480 Speaker 1: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 574 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,360 Speaker 1: on KFI AM six forty from one to four pm 575 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,440 Speaker 1: every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand 576 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:30,920 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app.