WEBVTT - The Progressive Way Failed (11/02) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.240 KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Kobelt Podcast 0:00:04.300 --> 0:00:11.260 on the iHeartRadio app. KFI AM 640. More stimulating talk radio. 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:15.590 John Kobelt Show. We're on from 3 to 6 after 0:00:15.590 --> 0:00:18.230 6 o'clock. John Kobelt Show on demand. That's the podcast 0:00:18.690 --> 0:00:23.650 to listen to what you missed. And you can watch 0:00:23.690 --> 0:00:26.790 us live on YouTube and on X right now. You 0:00:26.810 --> 0:00:29.930 want to see video. Let's talk with Robert Gutierrez, president 0:00:30.030 --> 0:00:36.450 of the California Taxpayers Association. Prop 42, we recommended a yes. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:41.260 So does Gutierrez and the California Taxpayers Association. And this 0:00:41.380 --> 0:00:47.560 is about keeping the grubby hands of the California government 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.739 out of your retirement savings. You see what they're trying 0:00:51.780 --> 0:00:54.720 to do to billionaires. Eventually, they're going to spread that 0:00:54.780 --> 0:01:01.800 philosophy to everybody. And that billionaire tax scheme is just 0:01:01.810 --> 0:01:07.000 to set a precedent. Let's get Robert on. How are you, Robert? Hi, John. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:07.520 How's it going? 0:01:08.300 --> 0:01:12.639 I'm good. Talk about the dangers of Prop 42 because, 0:01:13.220 --> 0:01:16.390 as you know, most people really don't have the time 0:01:16.430 --> 0:01:20.950 to pay attention to what's going on here and what 0:01:20.990 --> 0:01:24.850 the real forces are out there. And Prop 42 is 0:01:24.870 --> 0:01:26.490 to provide them protection, correct? 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.320 Absolutely. This is a simple measure. California Taxes Association supports 0:01:31.380 --> 0:01:37.030 Prop 42 because it protects Californians' hard-earned savings, retirement funds, 0:01:37.810 --> 0:01:40.930 and Californians already pay income tax on the money that 0:01:40.950 --> 0:01:42.650 they earn, and we don't think you should have to 0:01:42.690 --> 0:01:43.190 pay twice. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.480 So this would be things like your 401k accounts and 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:49.280 your IRAs. 0:01:50.260 --> 0:01:55.770 Right. 401Ks, retirement, pensions. If you're a public employee, small 0:01:55.810 --> 0:02:00.290 businesses are protected. So it's really about all the savings 0:02:00.390 --> 0:02:03.860 and personal property that everyone spends a lifetime saving up for. 0:02:04.820 --> 0:02:10.280 So right now, the Constitution allows for the politicians to 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.560 go after all those accounts if they want? 0:02:13.930 --> 0:02:14.050 Right. 0:02:14.070 --> 0:02:17.350 There's nothing in the Constitution to stop the legislature or 0:02:17.430 --> 0:02:20.370 special interests from coming to taxpayers and saying, hey, we 0:02:20.410 --> 0:02:23.600 want to go after 401ks or life savings or other 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.639 personal property like furniture or whatever else is in your house. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.460 There's nothing to stop the legislature from doing it, and 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:35.350 they've tried five times in the past over the last 0:02:35.590 --> 0:02:36.430 half decade or so. 0:02:37.030 --> 0:02:39.389 How have they tried? I mean, is this something they've 0:02:39.410 --> 0:02:43.900 tried with a– With propositions? Because I would think they 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.060 can pass whatever they want in the legislature. 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:47.200 Right. 0:02:47.220 --> 0:02:52.359 They've introduced legislation, but saner minds have prevailed, and they 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:56.440 did not go forward with that. So we think regardless 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.490 of what happens this election cycle, we know the legislature 0:03:00.500 --> 0:03:02.090 is going to come back. They're going to look at 0:03:02.750 --> 0:03:08.280 creative new ways to tax people. And 401ks, pensions, life savings, 0:03:08.380 --> 0:03:11.480 that's all vulnerable and at risk for the legislature to 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:12.880 come and potentially tax. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.669 Well, because they don't fear getting voted out of office, 0:03:16.389 --> 0:03:19.850 their arrogance increases every year. And every year they do 0:03:19.910 --> 0:03:24.169 have dozens of new tax ideas. So eventually this will 0:03:24.190 --> 0:03:28.820 go through. Even if they hold back their impulse this year, 0:03:28.900 --> 0:03:31.200 next year, there's always a greater chance it happens. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.500 Absolutely. And I think, you know, anybody in California knows 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.220 the state's already way too expensive. I think what we're 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.740 doing with Prop 42 is we're saying, look, taxpayers need stable, 0:03:41.820 --> 0:03:44.640 predictable rules so you can plan and you can save 0:03:44.710 --> 0:03:46.610 with some sort of certainty. 0:03:46.630 --> 0:03:50.630 All right. So this will protect 401k plans, IRAs, pensions, 0:03:50.790 --> 0:03:54.550 personal savings account, no new taxes from the state. This 0:03:54.610 --> 0:03:57.350 is a constitutional amendment that prohibits it, right? 0:03:58.330 --> 0:04:03.430 It's a constitutional prohibition on taxes on your assets. Right. 0:04:03.990 --> 0:04:07.250 And there's a lot of unions that would be affected, 0:04:08.510 --> 0:04:13.740 that would have their pension benefits protected by this proposition. Yeah, 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.359 we got a lot of broad support. Caltech supports Prop 42. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:22.320 We also got the professional firefighters, peace officers, California Small 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.770 Business Association, veterans. So it's a very broad group of 0:04:27.230 --> 0:04:28.290 folks that are supporting this. 0:04:29.330 --> 0:04:32.409 Yeah, and this came out of realizing what Prop 40 0:04:32.410 --> 0:04:37.080 is about because while it starts by confiscating the billionaire's money, 0:04:37.300 --> 0:04:41.460 eventually they'll be expanding that to– well, they can expand 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:42.500 it to everybody in the state. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.060 Absolutely, absolutely. 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.590 This money has already been taxed. It's already been taxed 0:04:47.610 --> 0:04:50.070 before it was put in these accounts, and they want 0:04:50.089 --> 0:04:53.630 to tax it a second time, and that's just– that's unconscionable. 0:04:54.460 --> 0:04:54.740 All right. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:05:00.650 Well, yes on 42 gives you constitutional protection against the 0:05:00.770 --> 0:05:03.390 legislature and the governor coming in and taking the money, 0:05:03.910 --> 0:05:06.969 taxing the money in your 401k, IRA and pensions and 0:05:07.470 --> 0:05:10.510 other retirement and savings accounts. Robert Gutierrez, thank you very 0:05:10.550 --> 0:05:11.210 much for coming on. 0:05:12.450 --> 0:05:13.750 Thanks so much. 0:05:14.010 --> 0:05:19.020 President of the California Taxpayers Association. A lot of things 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:24.000 to fear. They they they can pass. And what they'll 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:28.289 do is they'll do it, you know, during the dead season, 0:05:28.450 --> 0:05:31.310 maybe the summertime when you're not paying attention late on 0:05:31.330 --> 0:05:34.469 a Friday night. It never gets any media coverage. And 0:05:34.490 --> 0:05:38.039 you'll just find out in the next tax year. It's like, hey, 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.060 they've got some kind of crazy tax now in your 401k. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:47.260 And and good luck when you start withdrawing money. They're 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.640 about confiscation. and do not believe any of the reasons 0:05:51.690 --> 0:05:54.410 they give for the confiscation. It is about taking the 0:05:54.450 --> 0:05:59.290 money and enriching their massive bureaucracy, their friends, their relatives, 0:05:59.350 --> 0:06:03.960 the nonprofits, the agencies. That's the only purpose for this. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.659 Just you think high-speed rail, you think the homeless industry. 0:06:07.410 --> 0:06:09.110 That's all you need to know. All you got to 0:06:09.130 --> 0:06:12.729 think is homeless, high-speed rail. That's the template. That's the 0:06:12.770 --> 0:06:13.690 template for all of this. 0:06:14.589 --> 0:06:19.010 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:06:19.010 --> 0:06:21.270 All right. 0:06:21.750 --> 0:06:25.150 I told you last week. Oh, the driving tax with 0:06:25.210 --> 0:06:31.620 Javier Becerra. Javier Becerra has a driving tax, a mileage tax. 0:06:32.940 --> 0:06:37.480 Every mile you drive, that might be 10 cents. which 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.580 means it'll cost you a thousand dollars a year. And 0:06:40.620 --> 0:06:43.580 it'll cost your spouse a thousand dollars a year. If 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:48.180 you drive 10,000 miles and maybe it'll be 8 cents, 0:06:48.180 --> 0:06:52.420 6 cents, maybe you'll drive 12,000, 15,000. You get the idea. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.479 It all averages out. Steve Hilton's done the calculations to 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.660 10,000 to a thousand dollars a person. You got a 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.680 teenage driver. I could be another thousand dollars in the family. And, 0:07:05.820 --> 0:07:11.990 So overwhelmingly, Becerra, even though he hasn't campaigned, the polls 0:07:12.010 --> 0:07:14.930 say he's got a lead, big lead. Maybe he does. 0:07:15.450 --> 0:07:21.600 Who the hell knows? But I tried not to use 0:07:21.660 --> 0:07:25.500 this phrase, and I think I just succeeded maybe except 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.320 for once or twice over the last 12 years. But 0:07:29.370 --> 0:07:34.130 this really is Trump derangement syndrome. Because overwhelmingly, people are 0:07:34.170 --> 0:07:37.890 saying they're voting for Becerra to send a message against Trump. 0:07:39.310 --> 0:07:43.590 And apparently the message you're sending Trump is, hey, we're 0:07:43.630 --> 0:07:50.670 willing to tax ourselves $ 2, 000 a family just to show you. Now, 0:07:50.850 --> 0:07:54.840 trust me, Trump doesn't care if Becerra wins or not. 0:07:56.220 --> 0:07:59.420 He doesn't. And he doesn't care if you make an 0:07:59.500 --> 0:08:03.100 extra $ 2, 000. if you get taxed another $ 2, 000 or not. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.240 In fact, it just gives him more material to use. 0:08:10.020 --> 0:08:13.619 But it does affect you. But Sarah has made it clear, 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:22.390 it's $ 2, 000 a family, $ 1, 000 for every husband, wife, and spouse. 0:08:24.110 --> 0:08:29.370 That's what you're getting from him, just for starters. And 0:08:29.430 --> 0:08:32.520 here's how they do it. Josh Cohn in the California 0:08:32.580 --> 0:08:40.220 Post says, a six-month California pilot program offers a glimpse 0:08:40.820 --> 0:08:44.710 of how the state could track your every move. It 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:49.670 could be GPS-equipped tracking devices. Do you want a GPS 0:08:49.690 --> 0:08:52.809 device on your car that reports back to the government 0:08:52.910 --> 0:08:56.110 where you go and how much you drove to get there? 0:08:58.270 --> 0:09:02.670 It could be You have to send photos of your odometer. 0:09:04.150 --> 0:09:10.360 They tested four different ways. 800 people volunteered. I can't 0:09:10.540 --> 0:09:14.020 stand the people here in California who volunteer for these programs, 0:09:14.420 --> 0:09:18.380 these pilot programs. All 800 should be deported. They should 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.880 be deported to that El Salvadoran prison and have their 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:26.490 heads shaved and their bodies forcibly covered in tattoos. You 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.200 participate with these wacky programs? This is on top of 0:09:30.220 --> 0:09:35.199 the gas tax. What the hell kind of message are 0:09:35.220 --> 0:09:39.099 you sending Trump to tax yourself $ 2, 000 and have a 0:09:39.140 --> 0:09:49.940 GPS device installed in your vehicle? You could allow your 0:09:49.980 --> 0:09:55.840 car's built-in technology to transmit the mileage data. You could 0:09:55.940 --> 0:09:58.810 use a device without the GPS. These were the four 0:09:58.850 --> 0:10:04.050 different ideas they tested. A third of the participants chose 0:10:04.390 --> 0:10:07.860 GPS devices. A third of them chose to send the 0:10:07.910 --> 0:10:13.480 government all the information about where they travel and how 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:18.569 far they travel. Why would you do that? These are 0:10:18.590 --> 0:10:20.209 the same people who don't want a flock camera in 0:10:20.230 --> 0:10:23.090 their neighborhoods because then the criminals would be tracked down easier. 0:10:32.750 --> 0:10:35.770 They tried different charging methods. One was about three cents 0:10:35.820 --> 0:10:39.620 a mile. Again, this is just a test. And half 0:10:39.660 --> 0:10:44.480 of them got individualized rates based on their fuel efficiency. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:45.100 Oh! 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.630 So this is to force people to buy the car 0:10:49.450 --> 0:10:54.310 that Javier Becerra approves of. Oh, look at that. You 0:10:54.350 --> 0:10:56.590 don't pay as much in a mileage tax if you 0:10:56.630 --> 0:11:01.600 drive a car that we approve of. Do you know 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:08.840 who authorized, who wrote the bill? Scott Weiner. That communist 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:17.020 weirdo up in San Francisco. That guy. The guy dresses 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.730 in leather chaps and then posts the photos online. You 0:11:21.780 --> 0:11:26.390 ever see that? I have. Once you see that, you 0:11:26.429 --> 0:11:28.750 can never get it out of your head. Sometimes at 0:11:28.750 --> 0:11:30.950 2 in the morning, if I can't sleep, I suddenly 0:11:31.070 --> 0:11:34.050 scream because I think of Scott Weiner and his chaps. Really? 0:11:34.210 --> 0:11:34.510 Yeah. 0:11:35.490 --> 0:11:41.110 It terrifies me. California is that bill allowed California to 0:11:41.130 --> 0:11:46.150 test ways of collecting road charges. based on actual mileage. Now, 0:11:46.850 --> 0:11:52.650 and then I heard that stupid little dud, Becerra, mumbling 0:11:52.700 --> 0:11:55.940 to a reporter, same canned line, well, you know, we've 0:11:55.980 --> 0:11:58.140 got to fix the roads and bridges, you know, we 0:11:58.179 --> 0:12:01.800 need money for that. They have a budget of $ 9 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.580 billion a year, and our roads are either the worst 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.880 or the next to worst roads in the nation. 0:12:08.260 --> 0:12:11.950 But don't those reporters say, but The gas tax was 0:12:12.590 --> 0:12:14.050 to help fix the road. 0:12:14.190 --> 0:12:19.930 So what is this? No, reporters don't do that. The 0:12:19.980 --> 0:12:23.079 reporters are all on board on the progressive train. No, 0:12:23.140 --> 0:12:26.199 they don't. Now, reporters in other cities do that. In 0:12:26.220 --> 0:12:30.339 New York City, they would do that. Not here. Now, 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.180 Steve Hilton says he's going to veto a mileage tax. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:38.450 He called it gouging. Of course it's gouging. So, again, 0:12:38.690 --> 0:12:44.240 what's the message you're sending? If you chose Hilton, you 0:12:44.260 --> 0:12:48.900 wouldn't get that $ 2, 000 tax. You choose Becerra, you're getting 0:12:48.940 --> 0:12:53.979 a $ 2, 000 tax, but you're sending Trump a message. And 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.490 Trump is sitting there, it's like, well, these people are 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.429 dumb as bricks. They sent me a message that they're 0:12:59.450 --> 0:13:02.230 willing to tax themselves $ 2, 000 to send me a message? 0:13:05.870 --> 0:13:10.220 I tell you, if this all comes to be, You 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:15.880 cannot possibly get stupider than the majority voting population here 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.780 in California. It's got to be the stupidest group of 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.439 humans I have ever encountered in my life. I have 0:13:22.620 --> 0:13:28.199 never seen anything like this. I'm going to send Trump 0:13:28.260 --> 0:13:32.329 a message. Here, here's $ 2, 000. You tell him I'm paying 0:13:32.610 --> 0:13:35.950 the state $ 2, 000 extra. Hey, how's that for a message? 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:43.140 All right, we come back. We're going to talk to 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:48.829 LAPD Detective Jamie McBride, Board of Directors, Los Angeles Police 0:13:48.890 --> 0:13:57.520 Protective League. They are supporting Karen Bass' warning about Nithya Raman. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.800 And I think I'm joining their team now because Rahman's 0:14:04.370 --> 0:14:08.070 crew was using my name in their political propaganda in 0:14:08.150 --> 0:14:13.150 text messages to try to manipulate people not to vote 0:14:13.370 --> 0:14:17.929 in the mayor's race based on something I said. And, well, 0:14:18.230 --> 0:14:22.450 screw the Rahman campaign. And they finally pushed me over 0:14:22.510 --> 0:14:28.220 the edge. And now we're going to talk with... Jamie 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:32.550 McBride of the Police Protective League here in LA. 0:14:33.650 --> 0:14:38.090 You're listening to John Kobelt On Demand from KFI AM 640. 0:14:38.090 --> 0:14:48.300 KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. John Kobelt Show, 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.340 on until 6, after 6, John Kobelt Show On Demand. 0:14:51.970 --> 0:14:54.850 on the iHeart app. That's the podcast. We're live on X, 0:14:54.950 --> 0:14:58.830 live on YouTube, and we're now live with LAPD detective 0:14:59.270 --> 0:15:01.720 Jamie McBride. He's on the board of directors of the 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:06.960 Los Angeles Police Protective League. That's the police union. And 0:15:08.260 --> 0:15:12.500 they're very much against Nithya Raman becoming the mayor and 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:16.450 being in charge of things here. They've thrown their support 0:15:16.470 --> 0:15:19.890 with Karen Bass. Let's get Jamie McBride on. Jamie, how 0:15:19.930 --> 0:15:20.140 are you? 0:15:21.810 --> 0:15:23.050 I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. 0:15:23.970 --> 0:15:27.560 Obviously, both candidates are an impossible sell to a lot 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.260 of people. So how do you make the case for 0:15:30.300 --> 0:15:33.160 Karen Bass here to people who really look at her 0:15:34.510 --> 0:15:36.810 last four years as being a colossal failure? 0:15:38.510 --> 0:15:41.690 Sure. Let's go back to the beginning. The Protective League, 0:15:41.710 --> 0:15:43.600 which is the police union that I'm one of the 0:15:43.620 --> 0:15:46.880 directors on, we spent a lot of money for Rick Caruso, 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.940 and obviously we lost. Within two weeks, Karen Bass reached 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.600 out to us and wanted to have a meeting with us. 0:15:53.100 --> 0:15:55.040 She told us in this meeting, she says, we have 0:15:55.060 --> 0:15:57.180 the same goal, and that's to keep the community safe. 0:15:57.220 --> 0:16:00.410 How can we work together? That was the first step 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.460 on having a pretty good relationship with her. You know, 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.920 she asked for funding for 170 officers, and Nithya Raman 0:16:07.940 --> 0:16:11.180 voted it down. And mind you, we're already down 1,500 officers. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.840 She was only asking for funding for 170. You know, 0:16:14.900 --> 0:16:17.720 you look at Nithya Raman. She already said she's a DSA, 0:16:17.740 --> 0:16:20.440 a Democratic Socialist of America. If you go on their website, 0:16:20.460 --> 0:16:23.020 they're not hiding anything. They want to abolish the police 0:16:23.060 --> 0:16:25.540 and prisons. So what happens if your daughter goes out, 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.850 gets raped, and they catch the person? Where does that 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.040 person go if there's no prison? You know, they also 0:16:30.090 --> 0:16:34.490 want to seize privately owned businesses and homes. They want 0:16:34.510 --> 0:16:38.210 to have homeless encampments near schools, parks, daycare centers. And 0:16:38.230 --> 0:16:41.950 they also want to legalize drug injection sites throughout the city. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:43.700 I mean, this is just some of the stuff that 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.580 she supports, that being Nithya Raman. And Nithya Raman already 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.320 says she wants to co-govern with the DSA. And that's 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.620 what they stand for. It's right on their website. I mean, 0:16:53.300 --> 0:16:55.940 I'm a conservative. And on my days off for the 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.720 last four weeks, I've been knocking on doors throughout the city, 0:16:59.020 --> 0:17:01.780 trying to educate people on what Nithya Raman stands for 0:17:01.820 --> 0:17:03.220 and the DSA and what it's going to do to 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.760 the city. And then I also asked them to vote 0:17:05.780 --> 0:17:08.620 for Bass. Now, some of those people are saying that, 0:17:09.190 --> 0:17:10.230 you know what, I'm going to stay out of it. 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:11.699 The problem is if you stay out of it, you 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.359 might as well count that as a vote for Nithya Raman. 0:17:13.820 --> 0:17:15.780 I mean, I feel that strongly about it. I think 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.980 if Nithya Raman, I know Nithya Raman becomes the mayor, 0:17:19.500 --> 0:17:25.630 stand by. And right now, Mayor Bass, District Attorney Hockman, 0:17:25.790 --> 0:17:28.390 and Chief McDonald are doing a great job. Last year 0:17:28.430 --> 0:17:30.409 in 2025, we were at an all-time low since 1966. 0:17:30.390 --> 0:17:36.950 We had 230 homicides. And why is that? Because they 0:17:36.990 --> 0:17:39.490 work great together. They all believe in public safety. And 0:17:39.510 --> 0:17:41.449 that's what they're about. They're about going out there trying 0:17:41.470 --> 0:17:44.310 to prevent crimes from occurring and reducing the crime. If 0:17:44.350 --> 0:17:46.030 Nithya Raman comes in play, you're going to see that 0:17:46.050 --> 0:17:48.410 homicides go back to 1,000 a year, like we had 0:17:48.450 --> 0:17:49.679 my first start in my career in the 1990s. And 0:17:49.740 --> 0:17:50.859 in the 1990s, it was over 1,000 a year in 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:56.430 Los Angeles. So there's a lot of things at risk here. 0:17:56.670 --> 0:18:01.470 And this election here can damage decades. That's how long 0:18:01.510 --> 0:18:03.950 it can be to recover the damage she can do 0:18:03.970 --> 0:18:04.450 to the city. 0:18:04.540 --> 0:18:08.080 When you were going door to door, how much did 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.320 people seem to know and understand about Nithya Raman and 0:18:11.340 --> 0:18:14.659 the DSA? Did they know that she would be against 0:18:14.700 --> 0:18:20.820 the existence of police, the existence of jails and prisons? No. 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:22.919 And the thing was, they were just kind of like, 0:18:23.859 --> 0:18:25.540 they know the whole bass thing. They thought, well, I 0:18:25.580 --> 0:18:27.420 want to vote for bass. And they didn't really know 0:18:27.460 --> 0:18:30.639 much about Nithya Rama until we educated them. And I 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.280 can tell you, after we talked to them and passed 0:18:32.340 --> 0:18:34.960 out our pamphlets, they said they would vote for bass. 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.139 And so it's important that we go out there and 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.580 continue to educate people all the way up until things 0:18:39.619 --> 0:18:41.739 close tomorrow night, because we need to make sure that 0:18:41.780 --> 0:18:44.510 to defeat Nithya Rama, if you want to have safety 0:18:45.270 --> 0:18:47.649 in Los Angeles, you have to vote for Karen Bass. 0:18:48.450 --> 0:18:51.109 When you, have you talked to any DSA people to 0:18:51.270 --> 0:18:55.880 try to, understand what they think would happen if we 0:18:55.980 --> 0:18:59.280 did all the things that they're proposing, you know, getting 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:03.760 rid of police and jails and prisons and bail and 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.600 all that? What do they think is going to happen 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:07.139 to the city? 0:19:08.890 --> 0:19:11.640 You know, it's funny you mention that. I myself talked 0:19:11.660 --> 0:19:13.419 to a few, and I've also seen some interviews where 0:19:13.460 --> 0:19:17.169 those questions were asked to DSA people, and they have 0:19:17.190 --> 0:19:20.730 no answer. They look dumbfounded when you're asking those questions. Like, okay, 0:19:20.850 --> 0:19:24.970 exactly that question. If you have somebody that rapes your daughter, 0:19:25.330 --> 0:19:26.810 who's going to go out and arrest them? And if 0:19:26.850 --> 0:19:28.670 they are caught, where are they going to go? If 0:19:29.050 --> 0:19:31.669 there's no prison? And they had no response. They had 0:19:31.690 --> 0:19:33.129 no response? That's how clueless these people are. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:35.200 Well, that sounds like they're in a cult. 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:35.900 It's crazy. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:38.760 That's exactly right. Now, go. 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:40.580 Ahead. 0:19:41.550 --> 0:19:45.220 No, you're right. It's a cult. But it doesn't take much. 0:19:45.260 --> 0:19:48.070 Look at Seattle. They have a socialist mayor there. And 0:19:48.109 --> 0:19:49.970 look what's going on in Seattle. You have closed business 0:19:50.590 --> 0:19:54.470 You have drugs everywhere. You have homelessness everywhere. Then you 0:19:54.490 --> 0:19:57.109 look at New York. They're following suit right now. And 0:19:57.130 --> 0:19:59.030 that's what's going to happen here, especially with the DSA 0:19:59.070 --> 0:20:02.070 behind them. The DSA is a whole other monster, not 0:20:02.090 --> 0:20:05.109 just a socialist, a democratic socialist. And those are even worse. 0:20:05.550 --> 0:20:08.149 Like I said, they believe in seizing everything. They want 0:20:08.170 --> 0:20:11.960 to control you. And that's what's scary. But, again, you know, 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:13.980 we're trying to educate people as fast as we can. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.310 And the people we reach out to and we actually 0:20:17.330 --> 0:20:19.410 talk to them, they actually said they're going to vote. 0:20:19.470 --> 0:20:20.450 And that's what's important. 0:20:21.570 --> 0:20:25.350 Has Raman or anyone from her team come to speak 0:20:25.390 --> 0:20:25.710 with you? 0:20:27.630 --> 0:20:31.160 No, no. We've actually made attempts to call her office. 0:20:31.180 --> 0:20:35.360 I haven't got a return call. Really? Yeah. Yes. 0:20:35.780 --> 0:20:37.040 I hear that a lot. 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:37.919 She just doesn't. 0:20:38.100 --> 0:20:41.290 She and her office just doesn't respond to lots of 0:20:41.350 --> 0:20:45.090 people and lots of issues and complaints that people have. 0:20:45.190 --> 0:20:46.330 They just shut down. 0:20:48.070 --> 0:20:49.730 You know, and she talks about right now how she 0:20:49.830 --> 0:20:53.169 reduced homelessness in her area, but then she disapproved. She 0:20:53.190 --> 0:20:54.930 was one of the council members that approved to have 0:20:54.990 --> 0:20:57.650 homeless go back to the parks and camp out there 0:20:57.670 --> 0:21:00.410 at the parks. You know, this this is about and 0:21:00.430 --> 0:21:02.230 they talk about quality of life for the homeless. Well, 0:21:02.250 --> 0:21:04.169 what about the children that live in Los Angeles? What 0:21:04.190 --> 0:21:06.370 about their quality of life? Is this is this their 0:21:06.430 --> 0:21:09.859 new normal? They walk around, they see homeless encampments everywhere. 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.660 You know, my office is near is on a street 0:21:12.700 --> 0:21:15.420 near the 110 freeway. Just the other day, I'm driving 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.540 to work. I see a lady pushing a special needs 0:21:18.619 --> 0:21:21.850 kid in a wheelchair. She had to go off into 0:21:21.890 --> 0:21:23.890 the street. There's no way to get around this homeless 0:21:23.910 --> 0:21:26.369 encampment on the sidewalk just to get around and then 0:21:26.410 --> 0:21:30.010 go back onto the sidewalk. Right. And again, and this 0:21:30.070 --> 0:21:31.570 is what they want near the schools. We have them 0:21:31.590 --> 0:21:33.170 right by our right by our school, right up by 0:21:33.210 --> 0:21:35.770 our office. There's homeless scammers right there. That's why we're 0:21:35.790 --> 0:21:38.929 telling people go to go to Rahman facts dot com 0:21:39.380 --> 0:21:41.520 and look what look what Nikki Rahman is about. Go 0:21:41.540 --> 0:21:43.820 to Rahman facts dot com. You'll see that you'll see 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:45.460 everything about her. All right. 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:49.000 LAPD Detective Jamie McBride on the board of directors of 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:52.420 the L.A. Police Protective League. That's the police union. Thank 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:53.090 you for coming on. 0:21:54.890 --> 0:21:56.750 I appreciate your support. Thank you. 0:21:56.770 --> 0:21:59.990 There he is. We will discuss all this further coming up. 0:22:00.890 --> 0:22:07.500 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:22:07.500 --> 0:22:10.919 John Kobelt show KFI AM 640 live everywhere on the 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:16.060 iHeartRadio app. Coming up at 520, Steve Hilton making one 0:22:16.100 --> 0:22:19.160 last tour with us. Steve Hilton, Republican running for governor. 0:22:20.380 --> 0:22:26.330 He's the candidate who's not going to raise... You raise 0:22:26.330 --> 0:22:32.090 $ 2, 000 in taxes just because you drive? That mileage tax, 0:22:32.130 --> 0:22:35.770 that driving tax idea, that's Javier Becerra's that he announced 0:22:35.890 --> 0:22:45.890 he's going to impose. $ 2, 000 per family, per husband and wife. $ 2, 000. 0:22:42.270 --> 0:22:46.390 Becerra said he would veto any proposal like that. Oh, 0:22:47.930 --> 0:22:49.710 I'm sorry. You want to send a message to Trump? 0:22:49.890 --> 0:22:50.130 Okay. Okay. 0:22:52.060 --> 0:22:55.919 Dear Donald, I'm taxing myself $ 2, 000 to send you a message. 0:22:58.400 --> 0:22:59.619 Maybe Trump will reimburse you. 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:00.060 I don't know. 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:11.150 Stupid asses. Another topic I'm completely sick of. This whole 0:23:11.170 --> 0:23:15.210 defund the police, replace police with social workers. Good Lord. 0:23:15.830 --> 0:23:18.730 Somebody's got to dig a grave for this and bury 0:23:18.770 --> 0:23:22.750 it once and for all. The answer is no. And 0:23:22.810 --> 0:23:26.290 we played this clip last week. And I'm going to 0:23:26.350 --> 0:23:28.909 play it again because this is Nithya Raman with a 0:23:28.950 --> 0:23:32.629 podcast host named Graham Stephan on the Iced Coffee Hour. 0:23:32.970 --> 0:23:34.950 Listen to her nonsense. 0:23:35.350 --> 0:23:38.230 There's thousands of calls that are coming in, calls for 0:23:38.260 --> 0:23:41.160 service that are for things that you don't need armed 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:43.580 officers to go out for, like the issue that you 0:23:43.619 --> 0:23:47.820 had with a person who was on your sidewalk, who 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:51.240 was clearly homeless. who is maybe not someone you feel 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:54.560 comfortable talking to, LAPD would come out to that situation 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:57.030 and not be able to do anything, right? If there's 0:23:57.050 --> 0:23:59.570 not a crime happening there, if they're not a threat 0:23:59.590 --> 0:24:00.050 to themselves. 0:24:00.090 --> 0:24:01.830 Oh, there is a crime. They're doing drugs. 0:24:02.070 --> 0:24:04.630 Well, no, if they're just sitting on your sidewalk. 0:24:04.650 --> 0:24:05.800 No, they're doing drugs. 0:24:05.990 --> 0:24:08.960 Well, that's a different situation, right? What I'm talking about 0:24:09.020 --> 0:24:11.990 is someone sitting on your sidewalk talking to talking to 0:24:12.030 --> 0:24:13.170 themselves potentially. 0:24:13.369 --> 0:24:16.100 Oh, no, no, no. I mean, that's not what I'm taught. 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:18.360 Anytime the police have been called, it's because they're doing 0:24:18.380 --> 0:24:19.100