WEBVTT - CA Heading In Wrong Direction (10/09) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.240 KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Kobelt Podcast 0:00:04.300 --> 0:00:10.450 on the iHeartRadio app. Hey there. Welcome. KFI AM 640. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:14.540 More stimulating talk radio. The John Kobelt Show. And we 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.560 are on every day from 3 to 6. And whatever 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.660 you miss after 6 o'clock, John Kobelt Show on demand 0:00:21.460 --> 0:00:23.939 on the iHeart app. We are live on X, live 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.520 on YouTube. It's a live stream video. You can watch 0:00:27.540 --> 0:00:30.870 me wave my arms in the air. and look like a, 0:00:30.980 --> 0:00:33.979 look like an idiot. Um, and we want you to 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:36.710 join us today. We've got so much stuff and a 0:00:36.770 --> 0:00:40.169 lot of it's crazy. And I'm going to start with 0:00:40.570 --> 0:00:43.709 a new survey, a poll done by the Manhattan Institute. 0:00:44.409 --> 0:00:49.779 Now we often have, uh, Manhattan Institute writers, uh, who, 0:00:49.860 --> 0:00:53.860 who have done incredibly good investigations on all the nonsense 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:59.370 that goes on in California. Um, And this poll is 0:00:59.890 --> 0:01:04.680 very revealing. I'm not all that much into polling, but 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.080 this one tells me things that I know are true, 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:14.400 even if I don't like the results. And here's what 0:01:14.420 --> 0:01:20.060 I'm seeing in this. Most people are unhappy with the 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:25.709 state of California. It's not just you and me. It's 0:01:25.730 --> 0:01:27.649 not just the rest of your family and your neighbors, 0:01:27.870 --> 0:01:30.990 your friends who have moved. Most of the state does 0:01:31.050 --> 0:01:36.069 not like where it's going. In fact, there's only 32% 0:01:36.069 --> 0:01:40.800 of voters who think our state is headed in a 0:01:40.860 --> 0:01:49.140 better direction than other states. 81% of Californians say the 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:53.780 state has a bigger homeless problem than other states. So 0:01:53.800 --> 0:02:00.170 we know. It's bad here. 83% of those who live 0:02:00.190 --> 0:02:05.350 in Los Angeles. I will not call them Angelenos. I 0:02:05.410 --> 0:02:08.790 hate that word. I do too. Makes my skin crawl. 0:02:09.380 --> 0:02:15.059 I started hating it during the Garcetti years. Angelenos. 83% 0:02:15.060 --> 0:02:18.400 of those who live in Los Angeles says the state 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:23.340 has a worse homeless problem than all the others. So 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.880 everybody can use their eyes and see what's going on. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:36.380 And here's the key. They know that not forcing them 0:02:37.100 --> 0:02:40.840 into drug treatment and mental health treatment is what is 0:02:40.900 --> 0:02:48.210 perpetuating the problem. They know this is not a housing issue, 0:02:48.290 --> 0:02:51.350 which is the lie that everybody in government has told 0:02:51.430 --> 0:02:55.910 us now for 10 years. From Newsom to Bass to 0:02:55.930 --> 0:03:03.240 Rahman to Garcetti, all of them. Here you go. By 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.880 60 to 29, voters say the homeless crisis is driven 0:03:07.419 --> 0:03:13.700 mainly by drug addiction and mental illness, not housing costs. 0:03:13.700 --> 0:03:20.709 60 to 29. So all that preaching, all that money 0:03:21.050 --> 0:03:26.010 that we've spent that has gone into the housing hole 0:03:26.090 --> 0:03:33.590 to be stolen by crooked developers, you haven't fooled anybody. 0:03:34.860 --> 0:03:37.460 All the money that the L.A. County Supervisors has blown, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.279 all the money LASA has blown, all the money that 0:03:40.300 --> 0:03:45.150 the Bass Administration and the Garcetti Administration has blown, People 0:03:45.190 --> 0:03:50.310 know it's been blown. I guess they still think all 0:03:50.350 --> 0:03:54.460 that extra tax money goes to homeless services. This is 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.120 what I don't understand. I don't understand the voting pattern. 0:03:57.900 --> 0:04:01.000 Everybody just voted, well, a majority just voted to increase 0:04:01.060 --> 0:04:07.020 our taxes. Well, the homeless tax money goes a lot 0:04:07.060 --> 0:04:13.310 into these fake housing programs, and it's stolen by these developers, 0:04:13.790 --> 0:04:21.750 fake developers. 60 to 29. So I can't tell you 0:04:21.770 --> 0:04:25.010 how many times I've seen quotes from everyone in government 0:04:25.860 --> 0:04:30.060 that carries on about the housing crisis. That these are 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:34.060 people who were squeezed out because of landlords and rent 0:04:34.100 --> 0:04:37.790 and this. And it's like, no. We all see them 0:04:37.820 --> 0:04:42.970 on the street. They're drug addicts and mental patients. By 0:04:42.970 --> 0:04:48.660 62 to 20, They say providing treatment, even without consent, 0:04:49.660 --> 0:04:55.200 is more compassionate than leaving people in the streets. That 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.039 is a view that is shared by majorities of Democrats. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:06.520 Not just Republicans, not just independents, but majorities of Democrats 0:05:07.450 --> 0:05:13.750 say providing treatment, even if you force them, is more compassionate. 0:05:14.940 --> 0:05:21.960 There's only a small minority of voters who think that 0:05:23.540 --> 0:05:26.539 giving them a house without treatment or leaving them on 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.040 the streets without treatment is compassionate. But that is the 0:05:30.140 --> 0:05:36.010 overwhelming policy and has been for over 10 years. A 0:05:36.050 --> 0:05:43.310 majority of even Nithya Raman supporters believe that providing treatment 0:05:44.570 --> 0:05:48.190 even if you force them, is more compassionate. Even Nithya 0:05:48.230 --> 0:05:52.350 Raman supporters. Do you realize we have been held hostage 0:05:52.589 --> 0:05:56.460 by the activist crazies and that the people in government, 0:05:56.860 --> 0:06:01.780 two things, maybe both, either are terrified of the activists 0:06:02.620 --> 0:06:05.940 so they keep shoveling the money into the black hole 0:06:07.060 --> 0:06:11.130 or they're getting kickbacks, they're in on it. Maybe both. 0:06:12.430 --> 0:06:14.650 That's the only thing that would explain this. If you 0:06:14.670 --> 0:06:19.070 have a 62 to 20, three to one margin among 0:06:19.089 --> 0:06:22.370 your voters that, hey, we got to give them treatment, 0:06:22.470 --> 0:06:25.330 even if it's forced, and you have a program that 0:06:25.390 --> 0:06:30.480 doesn't give them treatment, doesn't force them, and instead gives 0:06:30.540 --> 0:06:33.860 money away to criminals, you must be in on the 0:06:33.900 --> 0:06:37.460 criminal operation. You must be in on the grift. I 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:44.359 can't come up with another conclusion. So for all the 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:51.200 howling about billionaires in this state, Californians oppose the billionaire 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:59.250 wealth tax 50 to 35. Independents oppose it 51 to 34. 0:06:59.250 --> 0:07:01.170 And I would think there's two parts to that. First 0:07:01.210 --> 0:07:04.100 of all, you're stealing money from people. I don't care 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.440 how much you have. I don't care how much people have. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.340 You can't go into a billionaire's house and just start 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:14.360 stealing his televisions and his desktop computers. You can't just 0:07:14.380 --> 0:07:17.790 steal his sofas or his artwork. That's a crime. So 0:07:17.810 --> 0:07:20.090 the state shouldn't be stealing it either. And then everybody 0:07:20.130 --> 0:07:24.050 knows the money is going to go where? To all 0:07:24.070 --> 0:07:30.380 the corruption in the state? That doesn't sound right, to 0:07:30.420 --> 0:07:33.280 steal money from people because they're successful and give it 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:40.050 to the corrupt, to the thieves. 55% of Californians say 0:07:40.070 --> 0:07:43.910 their state is less business friendly than all the other states. 0:07:49.130 --> 0:07:52.860 And more people than not rate the state negatively on 0:07:52.920 --> 0:08:00.400 our infrastructure, public safety, and corruption. Okay, so you would 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:04.270 think this would be a watershed election, right? By a 0:08:04.310 --> 0:08:08.810 three-to-one margin, they hate the current homeless policy. They think 0:08:08.910 --> 0:08:12.210 the business climate here is the worst in the nation. 0:08:13.770 --> 0:08:18.890 They think, with huge majorities, that the power of the 0:08:18.950 --> 0:08:25.930 public sector unions need to be reined in. Okay. Newsom 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:34.189 has a negative favorability rating. So does Kamala Harris. A 0:08:34.250 --> 0:08:38.250 majority believe that the Medi-Cal program should be limited to 0:08:38.390 --> 0:08:44.059 legal residents, not include illegal aliens. That's a majority. Now, 0:08:44.179 --> 0:08:48.140 how many different policies go against what the majority believe 0:08:48.179 --> 0:08:49.260 and what the majority want? 0:08:50.690 --> 0:08:50.810 So. 0:08:51.429 --> 0:08:53.730 Who do you think the majority is going to be 0:08:53.770 --> 0:08:59.550 voting for for governor in a month, according to this poll? 0:09:01.130 --> 0:09:03.200 Now we're really getting to the crux of the problem. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.100 And I'll tell you about that when we come back. 0:09:06.220 --> 0:09:12.579 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:09:12.580 --> 0:09:16.800 OK, let's continue. Manhattan Institute has done a fascinating poll. 0:09:17.220 --> 0:09:18.920 And I need an answer because this is making me 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.080 crazy here. And, you know, I'm already living on the 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:27.179 edge mentally. So according to the poll, they interviewed 1,000 0:09:27.179 --> 0:09:32.140 people and 450 of them in L.A. And people say 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:37.729 by a 60 to 29 margin, the homeless crisis is 0:09:37.790 --> 0:09:42.290 driven mainly by drugs and mental illness, not housing costs. Okay? 0:09:43.030 --> 0:09:48.720 To me, that's obvious. But all the policy... is backwards. Secondly, 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.360 by 62 to 20, they said the compassionate thing to 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.319 do is give them treatment, even if it's against their will. 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:03.740 62 to 20. that that's more compassionate than leaving them 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.500 in the street well that's not the policy we have 0:10:07.540 --> 0:10:12.949 in LA now by the way this view is shared 0:10:13.010 --> 0:10:20.010 by majorities of Democrats and even Nithya Raman supporters So 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:24.040 as far as demographics, it's pretty unanimous. Two things on 0:10:24.059 --> 0:10:29.160 the homeless crisis. Most people agree it's drugs and mental illness, 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.880 not housing. Secondly, it is better to give them treatment, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.720 even if it's forced, than leave them in the street. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.370 And then you look at the polling on who they're 0:10:43.390 --> 0:10:50.750 going to elect governor. And Javier Becerra has a 17-point 0:10:50.809 --> 0:10:58.710 lead over Steve Hilton. Now, Javier Becerra will continue the 0:10:58.750 --> 0:11:03.840 Newsom policies of spending money primarily on housing, even if 0:11:03.910 --> 0:11:09.959 it's wasted, and much of it is, even though it 0:11:09.980 --> 0:11:14.030 takes years and years to build any housing. And you 0:11:14.050 --> 0:11:18.500 can't put these crazy people in housing anyway because the 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.699 buildings turn into drug dens. They turn into mental institutions 0:11:23.780 --> 0:11:29.300 without the treatment. Steve Hilton says up front that this 0:11:29.390 --> 0:11:38.470 is drugs and mental illness, and we've got to treat that. Majorities, 0:11:39.090 --> 0:11:44.360 according to this poll... think California is headed in a 0:11:44.500 --> 0:11:51.910 worse direction than the other states. 81% think we have 0:11:51.929 --> 0:11:56.929 a bigger homeless problem than all the other states. 83% 0:11:56.929 --> 0:11:59.230 of those in Los Angeles think we have a bigger 0:11:59.270 --> 0:12:04.050 homeless problem than other states. A majority says California is 0:12:04.210 --> 0:12:09.079 less business friendly than all the other states. Majorities of 0:12:09.140 --> 0:12:14.390 people think the state Look at the state negatively, infrastructure, 0:12:14.429 --> 0:12:19.500 public safety, and corruption. Now, let me ask you this. 0:12:21.580 --> 0:12:26.860 Newsom and Kamala Harris have net negative favorability ratings. And 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:31.820 here comes Javier Becerra, who is not campaigning. The number 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.420 of statements he's made publicly, I can count on one hand. 0:12:35.100 --> 0:12:38.000 But his main statement is he's going to be continuing 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.690 all the Newsom policies. Well, the public hates the Newsom policies. 0:12:43.059 --> 0:12:45.880 But Becerra is up by 17 points over Hilton. And 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.120 so this is what I'm wondering about the people who 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.330 are going to vote for Becerra anyway. Is the point 0:12:51.390 --> 0:12:54.550 of your vote just to elect a Democrat no matter what? 0:12:55.590 --> 0:12:59.090 Or at any moment in your life, do you think 0:12:59.550 --> 0:13:05.439 my vote should go towards making things better here? Like, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.300 I don't understand the point of the vote if you're 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.850 just going to ratify all the things you hate. It's 0:13:14.510 --> 0:13:20.720 Newsom's policies and other Democrat policies from the Assembly and 0:13:20.740 --> 0:13:23.900 the State Senate. It's their policies that have created a 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:29.489 lot of this mess. And in every category, majorities of 0:13:29.530 --> 0:13:36.329 Democrats hate this. So what's the problem with electing a 0:13:36.370 --> 0:13:41.110 guy like Steve Hilton who agrees with you and has 0:13:41.170 --> 0:13:44.589 ideas to make it better? And you're not allowed to 0:13:44.670 --> 0:13:48.030 use the word Trump because he's irrelevant to this. I'm 0:13:48.050 --> 0:13:51.210 not discussing that. I don't want to hear that. He's 0:13:51.250 --> 0:13:55.720 not part of this discussion. He's not here. This is 0:13:55.790 --> 0:13:59.360 simply a state with a lot of bad policies perpetuated 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:03.579 by Gavin Newsom and the Democratic legislature. And majorities want 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:08.560 Newsom's successor to win even though he would continue all 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.819 the policies you don't like. I don't know how to 0:14:10.860 --> 0:14:16.510 make this any clearer. But that's nuts. Elections are supposed 0:14:16.530 --> 0:14:19.490 to be about changing the course of things when things 0:14:19.550 --> 0:14:24.000 get rough. I've lived in a lot of Democratic states. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:31.360 In fact, most of my life, up until California, I 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:35.200 lived in New Jersey, which is mostly Democratic. New York, 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.920 mostly Democratic. Even for a year in Illinois, mostly Democratic. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:45.980 But in all three states, occasionally, Republican governors appeared. Usually 0:14:46.150 --> 0:14:49.360 after there was, or in the case of New York City, 0:14:49.580 --> 0:14:54.700 where I lived, Rudy Giuliani appeared. Because sometimes, even though 0:14:54.740 --> 0:14:59.560 these Democrats were naturally aligned that way, they could say, wow, 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:04.930 life has gotten bad here. This isn't good. Let's go 0:15:04.990 --> 0:15:07.690 the other way for a while. Maybe one term. Maybe 0:15:07.710 --> 0:15:12.910 two terms. Not forever, but every once in a while. Otherwise, whatever. 0:15:14.410 --> 0:15:16.830 All these bad policies are going to continue forever. Now, 0:15:16.890 --> 0:15:20.970 why do you want that? Again, you must answer the 0:15:20.990 --> 0:15:24.500 question without using the word Trump. He's got no bearing 0:15:24.530 --> 0:15:26.280 on this. And you know he has no bearing on this. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.860 But Sarah's up by 17 points, according to this poll. 0:15:34.980 --> 0:15:35.990 I don't understand. I. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:47.890 Most people don't like what's going on in most issues 0:15:47.950 --> 0:15:50.790 here in the state. It's been one party rule for 0:15:50.790 --> 0:15:55.900 16 years, top to bottom. The Republicans don't have any 0:15:56.020 --> 0:16:01.640 offices in state government, don't have the legislature, nobody in L.A. City, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:07.140 nobody on the city council. Can we have a minor change? 0:16:08.190 --> 0:16:13.530 A couple of people? Because this isn't working? If it's working, 0:16:13.550 --> 0:16:18.870 it doesn't matter. This is not an ideology debate. This 0:16:18.970 --> 0:16:23.210 is daily life is busted. We've got to fix so 0:16:23.230 --> 0:16:28.070 we can enjoy daily life. Just don't. I mean, there's 0:16:28.090 --> 0:16:30.950 a month left. I wish people would think this through. 0:16:30.970 --> 0:16:34.170 It's not such a big deal to vote for the 0:16:34.270 --> 0:16:38.620 other side once in a while. So clearly, the current 0:16:39.140 --> 0:16:44.400 group has ruined the place. And everybody agrees, or most agree, 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.750 except for the fringes, the crazies. The place is wrecked. 0:16:48.450 --> 0:16:51.690 So come up with something else. Why is that so hard? 0:16:52.950 --> 0:17:04.670 More coming up. KF1 AM640, more stimulating talk radio. John 0:17:04.730 --> 0:17:08.350 Cobell show, two rounds of the Moistline coming up at 0:17:08.350 --> 0:17:13.810 520 and 550. And we're live on X, live on YouTube. 0:17:14.910 --> 0:17:18.090 And we just told you about this Manhattan Institute poll, 0:17:18.570 --> 0:17:21.740 which shows that most people in the state, regardless of party, 0:17:23.300 --> 0:17:26.639 most voters are unhappy with the way things are going 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:32.680 in many different ways. But still, Javier Baccaria has a 0:17:32.700 --> 0:17:35.960 17-point lead. It makes no sense because he has promised 0:17:36.500 --> 0:17:42.320 to continue all the policies that people hate from Gavin 0:17:42.340 --> 0:17:48.609 Newsom and the legislature. And I think votes should be 0:17:48.670 --> 0:17:54.810 about changing direction, making things better. I guess I'm in 0:17:54.830 --> 0:17:59.250 the minority on that. Because these people agree with you 0:17:59.290 --> 0:18:04.889 and I that Things are bad, and we want them better. Instead, 0:18:04.910 --> 0:18:07.669 they're going to vote for the guy who has said explicitly, no, 0:18:07.690 --> 0:18:11.870 he's going to keep them the same. Then there's L.A. 0:18:14.109 --> 0:18:18.010 This same organization, the Manhattan Institute, they did a survey 0:18:18.050 --> 0:18:20.930 of likely voters here in Los Angeles, and they have 0:18:21.609 --> 0:18:26.700 Nithya Raman with a six-point lead over Karen Bass. It's 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:32.040 three points if you include leaners. Okay, let's include the 0:18:32.100 --> 0:18:34.420 leaners and say it's three points. I saw another poll 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:40.270 yesterday sponsored by the Firefighters Union, and it had Robin 0:18:40.290 --> 0:18:44.389 ahead by two points, 35-33. So it's close. It's margin 0:18:44.410 --> 0:18:47.990 of error close. And there's a lot of Spencer Pratt 0:18:48.030 --> 0:18:55.750 voters still outstanding. In fact, half the Spencer Pratt voters 0:18:56.340 --> 0:18:58.660 say they're not going to vote in the mayoral race. 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:03.540 They'll skip that line. half of the Pratt voters will 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:08.510 not support either Bass or Rahman. Of course, I guess 0:19:08.630 --> 0:19:11.570 half are claiming they will eventually vote for one or 0:19:11.590 --> 0:19:19.600 the other. But that's the undecided. Rahman and Bass have 0:19:20.140 --> 0:19:22.440 all the votes that they're going to get from their 0:19:22.500 --> 0:19:26.260 original fans. It's not that far off. Oh, and then 0:19:26.300 --> 0:19:30.909 Rahman always has those extra fake votes from the... dying 0:19:30.990 --> 0:19:35.980 drug addicts at Skid Row. Rahman has run into a 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.580 big buzzsaw this week, as you may have heard, because 0:19:39.940 --> 0:19:43.810 she made a video with some crackpot troll of an 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.750 activist named Ed Joy. And apparently the two of them 0:19:47.850 --> 0:19:52.410 learned a new word called fascist, and all the variations 0:19:52.430 --> 0:19:54.629 of the word fascist without knowing the meaning of it. 0:19:55.200 --> 0:20:03.180 Fascist would be Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini. But Rahman expanded 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.280 the definition to include Karen Bass and Jim McDonald, the 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:12.210 police chief. And at the end of the video, Choi, 0:20:12.810 --> 0:20:17.090 the nutty activist, and Rahman, the nutty wannabe mayor, chanted 0:20:17.130 --> 0:20:21.870 this line together. Only you can stop fascist liars. Only 0:20:21.890 --> 0:20:26.330 you can stop fascist liars. Flashing photos of Jim McDonnell 0:20:26.750 --> 0:20:28.649 and Karen Bass, just in case you didn't get the 0:20:28.690 --> 0:20:34.810 point in the previous 90 seconds. Now, Nithya Rahman then 0:20:35.070 --> 0:20:41.670 posts that on her social media. All right, so she 0:20:41.990 --> 0:20:46.109 poses for the video, did an interview with wacky Ed Choi, 0:20:47.310 --> 0:20:53.180 then does the fascist chant, then posts the video. Let's 0:20:53.260 --> 0:20:58.200 play a cut here. This is Colin Nolan, NBC4. Karen Bass... 0:20:58.850 --> 0:21:00.570 Responding to Rahman's comments. 0:21:00.950 --> 0:21:02.929 It was incredibly irresponsible. 0:21:03.390 --> 0:21:06.610 During a news conference today regarding a drug trafficking crackdown 0:21:06.670 --> 0:21:09.950 on Skid Row, Bass said the social media post indicated 0:21:10.170 --> 0:21:12.919 her opponent was, quote, not ready for prime time. 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:17.080 That's not the responsibility or the behavior or the stature 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.160 of the mayor of Los Angeles. We just spent our 0:21:20.220 --> 0:21:26.229 morning saving lives. That's what law enforcement does. 0:21:26.250 --> 0:21:33.320 All right. Now, because it's really a dumb thing to do. 0:21:33.820 --> 0:21:36.920 It's really a dumb thing to go after the police 0:21:36.980 --> 0:21:41.960 chief on the same day that the police department is 0:21:42.420 --> 0:21:50.070 helping federal law enforcement arrest 25 drug dealers on Skid Row. 0:21:53.250 --> 0:21:56.409 Of course, I can see Rahman being upset because if 0:21:56.470 --> 0:22:00.620 the Skid Row crowd isn't on drugs... then they can't 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.850 be used to vote for Nithya. She's probably upset that 0:22:03.869 --> 0:22:10.100 her people have fewer drugs to access. Well, here's cut 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:15.280 three from the same report, NBC4, Nithya Raman. Guess what 0:22:15.300 --> 0:22:15.800 she says. 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.609 The video was edited to make it seem as if 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.770 I was answering a question about Mayor Bass or about 0:22:23.869 --> 0:22:27.410 Chief McDonald. But in reality, my comments about fascism were 0:22:27.430 --> 0:22:28.810 about ice on our streets. 0:22:29.290 --> 0:22:32.119 For the record, you weren't calling her the mayor or 0:22:32.130 --> 0:22:33.100 the police chief a fascist. 0:22:33.220 --> 0:22:35.040 I was not. I absolutely was not. 0:22:36.390 --> 0:22:38.609 But you saw the video and you posted it on 0:22:38.630 --> 0:22:45.840 your social media. So you're full of crap. You're full 0:22:45.950 --> 0:22:48.640 of crap. Why'd you post it? And then when there 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:56.440 was a delusion of criticism, you deleted it. This is crazy. 0:22:58.780 --> 0:23:01.419 Only you can stop fascist liars? Well, first of all, 0:23:01.660 --> 0:23:08.420 calling ICE that is bad enough. Because ICE cleared out, arrested, 0:23:08.500 --> 0:23:13.619 deported tons of criminal illegal aliens. I like all the 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:16.000 LA officials are running around beating their chests about the 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:18.119 lower crime rate. Gee, what do you think a big 0:23:18.180 --> 0:23:21.790 part of that was? Was getting rid of the illegal aliens. 0:23:23.590 --> 0:23:28.090 Many of them involved in the drug trade. What's wrong 0:23:28.109 --> 0:23:32.350 with you? If they're criminal illegal aliens with felonies on 0:23:32.390 --> 0:23:37.020 their record... Your policy gave him sanctuary in L.A., so 0:23:37.060 --> 0:23:40.920 of course there was lots of crime in L.A. Then 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:43.600 when the Trump administration came in and cleared out the 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:48.810 criminal illegal aliens, the crime went down. How about that? Instead, 0:23:48.850 --> 0:23:53.129 you call ICE fascist, you call Jim McDonald fascist because 0:23:53.310 --> 0:23:57.970 LAPD was protecting ICE, and then for good measure, you 0:23:58.010 --> 0:24:03.419 threw in Karen Bass, who was busy cheering on The 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.430 protesters at the time. So, I mean, Nithya Raman's brain 0:24:06.490 --> 0:24:09.230 is so scrambled. Her brain is as scrambled as all 0:24:09.250 --> 0:24:11.720 the drug addicts that were recruited to vote for her. 0:24:13.869 --> 0:24:18.210 So how could she deny her comments when, as she, 0:24:18.470 --> 0:24:21.389 play the chant part again, okay? Understand this if you 0:24:21.410 --> 0:24:27.260 haven't seen the video. She and Ed Choi. Only you 0:24:27.340 --> 0:24:31.859 can stop fascist liars. They were flashing in the video. 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:38.909 Pictures of McDonald and Karen Bass. Rahman sees this and 0:24:38.950 --> 0:24:43.250 puts it on social media. And now she's denying? That's 0:24:43.270 --> 0:24:50.510 who she meant? No. She got her hormones all whipped 0:24:50.630 --> 0:24:56.859 up by those activists and went a little crazy and 0:24:56.880 --> 0:25:00.600 started saying crazy things. Because she is. She's absolutely nuts. 0:25:01.490 --> 0:25:05.630 She's been yelling defund the police for years, for years, 0:25:05.869 --> 0:25:09.250 defund the police, defund the police, defund ICE. Her party, 0:25:09.910 --> 0:25:14.450 her political party, DSA, is for the abolition of ICE, 0:25:14.710 --> 0:25:18.840 the abolition of jails, the abolition of prisons. You go 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:25.280 read their websites. And she signs an agreement to co-govern 0:25:25.300 --> 0:25:28.399 with the DSA when she got their endorsement. So what 0:25:28.420 --> 0:25:29.220 do you think is going to happen? 0:25:31.190 --> 0:25:35.640 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:43.220 KFI AM 640 live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's 0:25:43.260 --> 0:25:45.619 the John Kobelt Show. Coming up after Debra's news at 0:25:45.619 --> 0:25:49.070 4 o'clock, Saeed Kashani is coming on. He's an attorney 0:25:49.609 --> 0:25:53.230 who was living in the Palisades when the fire destroyed 0:25:53.250 --> 0:25:56.750 his home. And he has been a one-man investigative team 0:25:56.890 --> 0:26:03.070 ever since. And he has a question. About Janice Quinonez, remember? 0:26:04.270 --> 0:26:08.170 The idiot that ran the DWP was getting $ 750, 000 a 0:26:08.300 --> 0:26:15.800 year and never filled up the reservoir? Well, he wondered, 0:26:15.859 --> 0:26:19.540 why did the Puerto Rican utility that hired Janice Quinonez 0:26:20.500 --> 0:26:25.440 give her the same $ 750, 000 salary as DWP? 0:26:27.570 --> 0:26:27.730 Hmm. 0:26:29.230 --> 0:26:32.990 Looks like there's a story there. Maybe a deal. And 0:26:33.010 --> 0:26:37.930 we'll have Syed Kashani coming up. Now, oh, I forgot 0:26:37.950 --> 0:26:39.250 to tell you, I had a water main break in 0:26:39.270 --> 0:26:41.959 front of my house last night. Did you go swimming? Oh, 0:26:41.980 --> 0:26:44.820 you can't swim. I can't swim. No, if I jumped 0:26:44.859 --> 0:26:48.000 into the water, it would wash me away and I'd 0:26:48.020 --> 0:26:50.060 be gone. Oh, that would be very sad. Well, thank you. 0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:54.230 You're welcome. When I pulled up, it started just moments 0:26:54.290 --> 0:26:56.609 before I pulled up. In fact, I didn't even notice it. 0:26:56.630 --> 0:26:59.659 What did you do? Well, I didn't do anything. I 0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:01.530 drove up to my driveway. I know, but you said 0:27:01.570 --> 0:27:04.109 it started moments before you pulled up. So I'm just 0:27:04.150 --> 0:27:06.650 thinking that maybe something you did. Did you get something? 0:27:06.690 --> 0:27:06.790 No. 0:27:06.810 --> 0:27:08.990 You know, it was dark. It's not dark when I 0:27:09.030 --> 0:27:13.370 get home. Yeah, I know. And, you know, I don't 0:27:13.390 --> 0:27:15.520 really pay attention. Oh, you don't? 0:27:15.880 --> 0:27:16.100 Yeah. 0:27:16.119 --> 0:27:17.800 Oh, no, I didn't know that about you. No, when 0:27:17.820 --> 0:27:20.300 I drive, I don't really pay attention. Oh, that's terrifying. 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:24.260 And I just kind of lost my own thoughts. Mm-hmm. 0:27:24.619 --> 0:27:26.460 So I just rolled into the driveway. We had a 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:30.090 little wooden gate that slides open. And I got out 0:27:30.109 --> 0:27:34.389 of the car, and it smells wet and humid. And 0:27:35.170 --> 0:27:39.109 I'm looking around. It's like the sprinklers aren't on. I 0:27:39.150 --> 0:27:41.659 don't see a hose running or anything. Why does it 0:27:41.700 --> 0:27:43.420 smell wet? It wasn't raining. Well, did your butler come 0:27:43.480 --> 0:27:46.929 out to help you? I don't have a butler. Ha, ha, ha, ha. 0:27:48.220 --> 0:27:50.639 I don't know what goes on at your mansion. I 0:27:50.660 --> 0:27:52.570 don't have a mansion, nor do I have a butler. 0:27:52.590 --> 0:27:57.989 But anyway, go on. I go in the house, and 0:27:58.030 --> 0:28:02.570 then I, I don't know, I noticed something. I'm trying 0:28:02.590 --> 0:28:07.890 to think. I went back out. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:28:07.950 --> 0:28:10.580 My wife said, go get the mail from the mailbox. Okay, 0:28:10.600 --> 0:28:12.460 so I went back out to get the mailbox, and 0:28:12.500 --> 0:28:16.560 there's two DWP workers, and they have one of their 0:28:16.580 --> 0:28:20.910 trucks just had shown up. And I notice now there's 0:28:20.990 --> 0:28:26.570 water gushing from a hole that bubbled up underneath the roadway. 0:28:26.950 --> 0:28:29.730 And it's also coming out of the curbside drains. There's 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:31.459 a lot of water gushing right in front of my 0:28:31.500 --> 0:28:34.060 house and then headed down to the left. And I 0:28:34.100 --> 0:28:35.900 said to him, what's going on? He goes, oh, water 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:40.500 main break. I don't know. And he's trying to pry 0:28:40.560 --> 0:28:43.440 open this metal panel on the sidewalk to get down 0:28:43.500 --> 0:28:49.530 at the pipes. And then they disappear. And our water 0:28:49.590 --> 0:28:52.030 is out. Our water is out for the rest of 0:28:52.050 --> 0:28:56.250 the night right up until this morning. I kept calling 0:28:56.270 --> 0:28:57.050 the DWP. 0:28:57.310 --> 0:28:57.530 Yeah. 0:28:57.670 --> 0:29:00.730 And you would go through the rigmarole of the phone tree, 0:29:00.750 --> 0:29:05.340 you know, the voice recordings. And twice I reported this 0:29:05.560 --> 0:29:08.100 apparent leak, told them that they had a crew here. 0:29:09.200 --> 0:29:12.760 Neither operator knew anything about it. They had no information. 0:29:12.800 --> 0:29:15.219 They said, well, it's not listed. You had a crew here. 0:29:15.240 --> 0:29:17.910 What do you mean it's not listed? This does not 0:29:17.970 --> 0:29:19.870 surprise me. My wife called a third time. Got the 0:29:19.910 --> 0:29:22.760 same routine. This is over a three-hour period. We called 0:29:22.780 --> 0:29:26.500 three times. Everybody that answered said, oh, look into it. Yeah, 0:29:26.540 --> 0:29:29.500 I see that you called before. Well, I know I 0:29:29.540 --> 0:29:32.460 called before. I told you I called before. I made 0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:36.030 the call. I was there. Would keep going back outside. 0:29:36.550 --> 0:29:39.510 And at some point, they left orange traffic cones in 0:29:39.530 --> 0:29:41.700 front of our house and then the house across the street. 0:29:43.280 --> 0:29:45.220 He goes, well, if they left orange traffic cones, it 0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:48.840