1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on every day 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:09,959 Speaker 1: from one until four o'clock, and every day after four 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: o'clock we release the podcast, John Cobelt's Show on demand, 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,319 Speaker 1: same as the radio show, so you should always know 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: everything that's gone on every day. We have multiple sources 7 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: for you to hear the entire program. Let's we We 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: really really have a lot today and I want to 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: start with Carl Demio, the Republican Assemblement from San Diego. Oh, 10 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: today's the first day of the California Post. Yes, this 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: is the sister publication of the New York Post, and 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: they have a staff dedicated to California News, California politics, 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:51,919 Speaker 1: California sports, California celebrity, Hollywood news, the whole thing. And 14 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: if this is an example of what their day to 15 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: day coverage is going to be like, this is going 16 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: to completely transform the media l gape here because there's 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: nobody in LA or Sacramento covering this stuff, or San Francisco, 18 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: nobody in any media. This is what the Los Angeles 19 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 1: Times is doing. But it is such a shriveled up 20 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: old rag there is just it's impotent. They don't have 21 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: the juice anymore. They don't have the personnel, the money. 22 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:28,199 Speaker 1: Carl wor At a peace for the California Post about 23 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: the Transparency Foundation. They have released a study analyzing the 24 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: cost of living in California. Take a typical middle class 25 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: family of three. Do you know it costs twenty nine 26 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty three dollars more a year than 27 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: the national average to live in California. The family of 28 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: three middle class twenty nine thousand dollars more than the 29 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: national average. Let's get Carl to mid on. Carl, how 30 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: are you? 31 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 2: And I'm doing well, But you know, people in California 32 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 2: are getting absolutely crushed by the cost of living. I 33 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 2: call it the California cost of living penalty, and it 34 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,559 Speaker 2: keeps getting higher and higher each year. But the politicians, 35 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: as I layout in my off ed in the California Post, 36 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 2: the politicians lie to shift the blame and they say 37 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 2: it's Trump's fault, it's the oil company's fault, it's mister Magoo, 38 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 2: it's the guy behind that tree over there. It's actually 39 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 2: the California politicians, state and local who enacted the highest 40 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 2: tax burn in the highest level of regulation of any 41 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 2: state that are crushing the California dream. And so this 42 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 2: study from the Transparency Foundation shows that you know your 43 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: your cost of living is nearly thirty thousand dollars more 44 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 2: for a middle class family, and it goes line by 45 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 2: line in a household budget. I encourage everyone to check 46 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 2: it out. But you know, if I were to present 47 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 2: that op ed to the La Times or the San 48 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 2: Francisco Chronicle or the Sacramento Bee or any other paper 49 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 2: or new outlet in California because of their liberal bias, 50 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 2: they would reject it because they don't want people to 51 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 2: learn the truth. And at least the California Post is 52 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 2: an alternative for us now in California to get at 53 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 2: least balanced news and some real investigative reporting on what's 54 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 2: really going on in California state and local politics. I 55 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 2: welcome their launch, and I was very honored to be 56 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 2: asked to pent a column for their inaugural issue. 57 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: Can I list the percentage increases in all the categories 58 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: that you put in your story here and then you 59 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: can tut them off. All right, this is for real. 60 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: Californias pay one hundred and twenty four percent more to 61 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: own a home, fifty percent more to rent an apartment, 62 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: fifty percent more for gas, twenty seven percent more for food, 63 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: forty eight percent more for water, forty five percent more 64 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: for taxes, fifty one percent more for childcare, one hundred 65 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: and one percent more for electricity, twenty percent more for 66 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: car insurance. Yikes. Those are most of the major categories 67 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: in life. That's that's nine major category. 68 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not a single category in your household budget 69 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 2: that you pay less than the average of other states. 70 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 2: And this is where this data is so important because 71 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 2: when when Gavin Newsom and the LA Times and all 72 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 2: these other media outlets say it's Donald Trump's fault, well, okay, 73 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 2: even if you believe that horse craft, which I don't. 74 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 2: Even if you believe it, then why do we still 75 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 2: pay one hundred and you know, twenty four percent more 76 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,039 Speaker 2: for our housing or you know, thirty seven percent more 77 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 2: for any other item of our household budget? 78 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: This is compared to a national average. Those are all 79 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: democratic and Republican states. We are we are hugely more 80 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: expensive than national average. So that there's no way president 81 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: could could target one state. That's impossible. 82 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 2: Correct, And when they say the oil companies are price gouging? 83 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: Are we to believe that they're price gouging in California? 84 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 2: Is that why we have you know, a gas price 85 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 2: that is, you know, a buck fifty more per gallon 86 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 2: than the national average on a good day, and it's 87 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 2: usually two dollars to two hundred and two dollars and 88 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 2: fifty cents higher than the national average. So here's the deal. 89 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 2: As soon as we expose these liars, then we actually 90 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 2: can hold them accountable. But right now the lies are 91 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 2: being parroted by liberal media. And that's why having outside 92 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 2: you know, independent media outlets like your show and the 93 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 2: California Post, it's so important. 94 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, how can we fix this? What has to be done? 95 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,799 Speaker 1: Because this is a lot of damage being done to people, 96 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: and it's the wonder that that people are moving out 97 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: by the millions in recent years. This is not a 98 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: lord after thirty dollars. Nobody has that money. 99 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked, because I cover that in this 100 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 2: offbed as well, after exposing the fact that you're paying 101 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 2: twenty nine thousand dollars more to live here, and it's 102 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 2: you know, all you know, based upon state local policies, 103 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 2: I say, Democrats were given an opportunity in Sacramento last 104 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 2: year in two bills that I introduced to reduce cost 105 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 2: of living. One was called the Cost of Living Reduction 106 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 2: Act AB twenty three. The other was relating to reducing 107 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,239 Speaker 2: the cost of home insurance fire insurance AB five sixty seven. 108 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 2: Both these bills were killed by the Democrats, but both 109 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 2: of these bills would have provided a solution. AB twenty 110 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 2: three says any time an item of the household budget 111 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 2: in California is calculated to be ten percent higher cost 112 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:36,119 Speaker 2: than national average, the state agencies that regulate that item, 113 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 2: whether it's housing or food or healthcare, would be mandated 114 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 2: to roll back the regulations to benchmark to the lowest 115 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 2: cost state. Now the opponents are going to say, well, 116 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 2: we need those regulations to protect safety and health and 117 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 2: quality of life. Excuse me. People are not dying in 118 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 2: the streets in the low cost state, but they can't 119 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 2: afford to live here. So let's try it at least 120 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 2: and see if we can bend the costs. Democrats killed 121 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 2: both bills. The other bill on insurance said that we 122 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 2: would suspend any taxes on any item that's higher than 123 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 2: the national average, and if that kicked in. That meant 124 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 2: that you'd save money on your home insurance, your gas bill, 125 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 2: you save money on your electricity bill. Any taxation would 126 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,239 Speaker 2: be suspended because why should politicians be able to price 127 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 2: gouge on you when you're already paying more than the 128 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 2: national average. I think they should be the first to 129 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 2: forfeit their piece of the pot. And so by by 130 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 2: analyzing politicians for high costs, it forces them to actually 131 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 2: act on the problem and try to reduce the costs 132 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 2: for the right payers. 133 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: This is a great piece you wrote, Karl, and the 134 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: numbers speak for themselves. Nobody can argue with these numbers 135 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: because you have compared California to the national average according 136 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: to the Transparency Foundation. So it has nothing to do 137 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: with what the political leanings of state has. And boy, 138 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: what you said about the oil coup companies, I've been 139 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: talking about for several years now. It is impossible for 140 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: the oil companies to gouge just Californians and nobody else. 141 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: If you had the capability of gouging and getting away 142 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: with it, why would you just pick one state and 143 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: let the forty nine other states run free. I mean, 144 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: there's states where you can get gas for under two 145 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: dollars a gallon. Now, why wouldn't they charge four bucks? 146 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: I saw in Colorado because family member lives in Colorado 147 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: where it's like a dollar eighty nine a gallon in 148 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: his town. 149 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 2: Down the politicians. As long as the politicians get away 150 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: with these lies and shift the blame, then nobody ever 151 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 2: holds them accountable for fixing the problem they created. That's 152 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 2: why all this stuff is happening. And that's why I'm 153 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 2: appreciative of your show and the California Post and a 154 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 2: few others for helping get the word out the crew 155 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 2: to California voters. 156 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: All Right, Carl, I'm talking again soon. Thank you for 157 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: coming on. 158 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Carldon. 159 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 1: Mylet Republican assemblymen, and it is in the California Post, 160 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: his piece about the extremely high cost of living in 161 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: California double in triple digit more on a percentage basis 162 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: according to the Transparency Foundation in nine major categories. All right, 163 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: when we come back, I want to give full credit 164 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: to the guy who was originally responsible for uncovering that 165 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: massive homeless fraud story last in a week, when we 166 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: found out some creep named Alexander Sefurian, Alexander super excuse me, 167 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,959 Speaker 1: stole twenty three million dollars, according to the FEDS, and 168 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: a homeless drift whose office originally uncovered it. We mentioned 169 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: this last week, but I wasn't sure if it was true. 170 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: It is true, and I want to give him full credit. 171 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 172 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 3: six forty. 173 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: In the next segment, after Debor's news, we're going to 174 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 1: have Congressman Kevin Kylie on. He has come on periodically 175 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,079 Speaker 1: over the last couple of years and said that he's 176 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: had a proposal to cut off funding for high speed 177 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: rail from Washington forever, not just withdraw current funding or 178 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: clawback old funding, but make sure it never happens again. 179 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: And now what he wrote up is inside a big 180 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: budget bill and that's going to pass. And we're going 181 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: to talk to Kevin Kylie because it's a big win. 182 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: They're for sure, at least for the next three years, 183 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: no more federal funding for high speed rail in California. 184 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: The FEDS have pulled out. We're no longer a partner 185 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: in this, so we will talk to Kevin Kylie coming 186 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: up now. When the story broke about this Alexander Suffer 187 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: who's this alleged sleesbag. The Feds and Bill Saley say 188 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: that he ran a fake homeless nonprofit called Abundant Blessings 189 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: and ran off with twenty three million dollars of your money. 190 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 1: For the life of me, I don't understand how this 191 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: could possibly be a political debate, a Pardsan debate. Sue 192 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: first stole twenty three million, and this comes. This is 193 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: on Gavin Newsom's doorstep and Karen Bass's doorstep. And here's why. 194 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 1: They created a system where people could apply for tens 195 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars in phony homeless grants without any investigation, 196 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:45,439 Speaker 1: without any vetting, without any regulation or oversight whatsoever. If 197 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: you set up that system, you are responsible when other 198 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: people abuse the system and other people use it to 199 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: steal tax money. You everyone knows that there are government parasites, 200 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: thieves who go running toward pots of money. They put 201 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: out a pot of money with like a neon invitation saying, hey, 202 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: come steal this homeless money. We're not gonna look, we're 203 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: not going to ask any questions. And Gavin Newsom knows that, 204 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: and so does Karen Bass. So they are responsible for 205 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: the fraud. One hundred percent. Now, who found the fraud? Well, 206 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: this came up last week and I was a little skeptical. 207 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: Kenneth Bhee is the Los Angeles Controller and he's with 208 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: the Democratic Socialists of America, and that is the party 209 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: that has a number of people, I think four or 210 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:39,199 Speaker 1: five of them on the LA City Council. Zorn Mondami 211 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: in New York City, the mayor, he's a DSA guy, 212 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: and and there they're modern day communists. Their philosophies are 213 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:52,079 Speaker 1: quite destructive and you could see it. You go to 214 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: the districts where you have DSA representatives and go to 215 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: the districts where you don't. It's a big difference. They 216 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:07,359 Speaker 1: allow all kinds of crime, mayhem, homelessness, drug addiction, mental patience, 217 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: just the whole works. It's pretty foul going in a 218 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 1: lot of these DSA districts. Nobody normal would move in there. Well, 219 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: turns out Kevin Maheel's office were they were the ones 220 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: who got the tip that Sufer was stealing twenty three 221 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: million dollars and it was from his offices fraud, waste 222 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: and Abuse units. Now I thought first I thought, well, 223 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: maybe he's glimbing onto this, and I wondered, well, if 224 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: he knew about it, why didn't he bust these people. Well, 225 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: it turns out what he said is true. He only 226 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: has five fraud investigators period. This is Los Angeles. He 227 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: has five. You could five more than five fraudsters in 228 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: one apartment, let alone the whole city. We have over 229 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: forty departments. There's an annual budget of every department that 230 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: abounced over thirty five billion dollars. Last year's office received 231 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: over seven hundred fraud, waste and abuse claims and he 232 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: only has five investigators. So this was turned over to 233 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: the District Attorney's office, Dathan Hakman and the US Attorney's office, 234 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: and they Hawkman and Bill A. Sale and their staffs 235 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: did the work. Because if you didn't hear, Alexander Sufer 236 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: was so twenty three million at a seven million dollar 237 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: house in Westwood. He had one hundred and twenty five 238 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: thousand dollar range. Rover, sent his kids to private school, 239 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: went on elaborate vacations like to Hawaii, and hired his wife, 240 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: who's an attorney, and paid her one hundred and twenty 241 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: nine thousand dollars a year. This is what I told you, Remember, 242 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: I told you for years these nonprofits. What you do 243 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: You get a grant money and then you hire all 244 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: the friends and relatives and they're making six figures. That's 245 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: exactly what happened here. Sufer's wife was hired for one 246 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine thousand. Here is audio of Kenneth Mahea, 247 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: the Ali City Controller, discussing Sufer's arrest. 248 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 4: Today, a homeless service provider was arrested for fraudulently obtaining 249 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 4: twenty three million dollars in taxpayer funds. This all stem 250 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 4: from my office's fraud, waste and Abuse Units investigation when 251 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 4: we received the hotline tip about residents at a homeless 252 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 4: site not being served the necessary and contractual meals. When 253 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 4: we went there, we found out that residents were being 254 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 4: served with instant ramen, cans of beans and breakfast bars. 255 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 4: When we asked for documentation and backup for invoices and 256 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 4: billing documents, we noticed that we were given fake invoices 257 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 4: as well. So this led to the District Attorney's office 258 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 4: and the US Attorney's office investigating this and leading to 259 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 4: this arrest. My office only has five fraudways and abuse 260 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 4: investigators for the second largest city in the United States, 261 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 4: have over forty departments and there is an annual budget 262 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 4: of every department that amounts to over thirty five billion dollars. 263 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 4: Last year, my office received over seven hundred fraudways and 264 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 4: abused claims. If the city is very serious about ensuring 265 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 4: that there is transparency and accountability over your tax dollars, 266 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 4: but most importantly making sure that these tax dollars are 267 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 4: helping the most vulnerable people in need, then we need 268 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 4: to invest in stronger oversight and independence in our office. 269 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: And as far as his wife is concerned, her name 270 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: is Ashley A Fromion and he was paid. He paid 271 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: her one hundred and twenty nine five hundred dollars for 272 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: this fake nonprofit abundant blessings in twenty twenty four and 273 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: together Ashley and Alexander they lived a good life. You 274 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: steal twenty three million dollars, you're gonna have a good time. 275 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:10,120 Speaker 1: And that's what Sufher is being charged with. So anyway, 276 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: high praise to Kenneth Mahea. Whatever the tip was on 277 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: a phone call or an email or documents slid under 278 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 1: his door, but they could have just ignored it. They 279 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: could have said, hey, look we're overwhelmed. At least he 280 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: turned this one over to to Bill a Sale and 281 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: to Nathan Hackman, and now Sufer is getting arrested. He 282 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: still is a socialist, and I'll still be skeptical every 283 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 1: time his name appears in one of these stories. But 284 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: he did the right thing, and he helped get the 285 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 1: ball rolling. And this is what they all should be doing, 286 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: whatever the political leanings. Your job is to get all 287 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: the fraud and waste out of the system, get rid 288 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:58,239 Speaker 1: of the criminals. And so Mahea did it. Hawkman's doing it, 289 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 1: Bill Saley's doing it. And that's all that matters. I 290 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: don't want to hear about your political leanings and your 291 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 1: political complaints. Bad guys get arrested and put in prison 292 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: for a long time. All right. When we come back, 293 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: Kevin Kylie and he is the congressman in Northern California, 294 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 1: and he is another one. He's getting it done. He's 295 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:21,959 Speaker 1: getting a provision in the new budget bill that's going 296 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 1: to permanently cut off funding for high speed rail from 297 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: the federal government. That's next. 298 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am 299 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 3: six forty. 300 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: We are in every day from one until four o'clock 301 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 1: and then if you miss anything after four o'clock, it's 302 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 1: the podcast, same as the radio show. John Cobelt's show 303 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 1: on demand is what it's called. And again that's on 304 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,479 Speaker 1: the iHeart app. We are now going to go to 305 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: Congressman Kevin Kylie represents north northern California. I spent a 306 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: lot of years in the legislature as well, and he 307 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: has been on a number of times over the last 308 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: year or two. How do we get federal funding cut 309 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: off for high speed rail? Once and for all? The 310 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: Trump administration has pulled back the existing funding that was 311 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: headed to Newsom, and now Kylie has done something to 312 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: permanently cut the funding stream. Kevin, how are you? 313 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 5: I'm doing great? How are you? John? 314 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: You talked about doing this for quite a while, but 315 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: now it's in writing. It's part of a real bill. 316 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 1: Tell us what's going on? 317 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. So we have enacted or passed through the 318 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 5: House as part of one of these bipartisan appropriations bills, 319 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 5: a proposal that I introduced to the beginning of last year, 320 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 5: which is to say, not only are we going to 321 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 5: cut off further funding for the high speed rail, we 322 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:45,919 Speaker 5: are going to make that project permanently ineligible for federal funding. 323 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 5: So this passed actually in an overwhelming bipartisan vote. Did 324 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 5: it work for the storm? The Senate would have passed 325 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 5: it on Friday end, it'd already be law. But this 326 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 5: bill is going to become off. 327 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 1: Okay, so you're talking about it being a piece of 328 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: a much larger how'd your bill? 329 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 5: That's right, it got incorporated into the appropriations of bill 330 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 5: dealing with transportation and other matters. 331 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 1: Did you get any pushback? I know the Democrats don't 332 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,640 Speaker 1: have a whole lot of power there, but was there 333 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 1: anybody trying to make a stink about this? That high 334 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: speed rail? You know, clean energy, green energy, all that nonsense. 335 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 5: You know, honestly, not much. The project has become such 336 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 5: an embarrassment that I think that you know, there are 337 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 5: very few defenders of it remaining. 338 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:35,439 Speaker 1: Wow, how come the only ones are in state government 339 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 1: here in California? Wait, I know the answer that this 340 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: really is a griff, this whole thing, isn't it. 341 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 5: Well, I think that there's a very strong evidence to 342 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 5: suggest that this money is not going where it's supposed to, 343 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 5: or at least a portion of it is. That's why 344 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 5: I asked the FBI director to look into this as well. 345 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 5: When you spend now seventeen eighteen billion dollars and you 346 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 5: literally don't have any track, that kind of raises some 347 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 5: pretty serious questions that I wear all the money went. 348 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, so when you say permanently ineligible, it means that 349 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: they would have to start from scratch with a funding 350 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: bill in some other Congress. 351 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 5: That's correct. You couldn't just for example, you know, during 352 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 5: the Biden administration you had Bodhagies in the Department of Transportation. 353 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 5: They would just award these, you know, multiple billion dollar 354 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 5: grants to California High speed rail. So we're now saying 355 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 5: that you can't do that that when you when it 356 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 5: comes to divving up the transportation money, this project is ineligible. 357 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 5: California's share of those federal dollars sort should go towards 358 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 5: our roads, our highways, real transportation. 359 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 1: You've been pushing this, as you said, for for a 360 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: while now, and obviously there's a lot of lobbying that 361 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: goes on. There's a lot of internal meanings. Did you 362 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: ever get approached by anybody in the Newsomb administration sit 363 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: you down and say, Kevin, I know you want to 364 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: defund us permanently. Here's why this project is good. Here's 365 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: why it's going to work. Here's why it's not what 366 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: you think it is. Anybody ever from the Newsom side 367 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: try to make that case to you. 368 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 5: No, certainly not to me, and I see. Really the 369 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 5: only defense they ever have of it is though it's 370 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 5: created so many jobs. But I mean, you could create jobs, 371 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 5: you know, paying people to dig a hole and then 372 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 5: shovel the dirt back in. What would be great is 373 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 5: if we should create jobs on something that is actually useful. 374 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 5: In fact, if you spend these funds on building roads, 375 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 5: for example, you create even more jobs because you employ 376 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 5: people to build the roads, and then you also stimulate 377 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 5: economic activity from improving your infrastructure, and that creates even 378 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 5: more jobs. 379 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: Well, this is pretty close to hiring people to dig 380 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: holes and fill them up again, I mean exactly in 381 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: this case. They just built these pilings that stuck up 382 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: in the sky that is supposed to carry elevated tracks someday. 383 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,919 Speaker 1: But that's all they did. There was never a step 384 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: two on this. 385 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 5: Well, they recently proclaimed that they have now entered the 386 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 5: track laying phase, whatever the heck that means. I mean, 387 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 5: you know, eighteen years in here, and they have quote 388 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 5: unquote entered the track laying phase, not right laying track, 389 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 5: but they've they've entered that phase. So you know, every 390 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 5: time they try to celebrate some milestone, they just make 391 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,640 Speaker 5: the case even further again for when this disaster. 392 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: You know, what's comical is how they keep changing what 393 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 1: the destination points are going to be, because you know, 394 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: it was supposed to be Sacramento to San Francisco to 395 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: La to Anaheim or San Diego. Right, that was thirty 396 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: three billion dollars and it should have been operating already, 397 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,919 Speaker 1: and then somehow it turned into Bakersfield and Merced, and 398 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: then it was shafter to Madera, which are two towns 399 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 1: outside of Bakersfield Merced. Then I read the other day 400 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: that no, really, we're going to build it to Gilroy 401 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: where they have the garlic festival, and I don't think 402 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: there's anything else going on in Gilroy, And I forgot 403 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:51,439 Speaker 1: what was the what was the other end? Uh? It 404 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,919 Speaker 1: wasn't baker I mean it's like towns you're barely aware of, 405 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 1: and they keep having these announcements like no, no, here's 406 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,919 Speaker 1: where it's going to go. But the whole concept of 407 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 1: San Francisco in La was long out the. 408 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 5: Window, exactly I mean. And and by the way, the 409 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 5: initial projection was this whole thing lasm Redisco would be 410 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 5: done by twenty twenty at a cost of, as you say, 411 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 5: thirty three billion dollars. Now, of course, here we are 412 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 5: in twenty twenty six. No passenger has even gotten close 413 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 5: to riding it because it doesn't exist. The overall projective 414 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 5: cost is now something like one hundred and twenty eight billion. 415 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 5: And even the New York Times did an expose a 416 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 5: finding if they kept building at the current pace, we 417 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 5: wouldn't have the train done by the year twenty one hundred, 418 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 5: by the end of this century. 419 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: Oh I missed that one. All right, So all right, 420 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: it's past the House. This will pass the Senate as 421 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 1: soon as they clear the snow, and obviously Trump will 422 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 1: sign this pretty soon. And then this this whole era, 423 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: as far as the federal government's involvement is over. No 424 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: more federal funding for high speed rail. 425 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 5: That's right. And I think that the next step then 426 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 5: is that hopefully this causes the state to come to 427 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 5: its senses, probably a decision of the next governor saying, well, 428 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,879 Speaker 5: it's the federal you know, investment that has kept this 429 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,639 Speaker 5: on life support, that's been pulled out from under us. 430 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,880 Speaker 5: There is no viable pathword. That's a the Federal Auto 431 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 5: found no viable pathword. And so it's time to stop 432 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 5: throwing good money after bad and to stop wasting billions 433 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 5: and state taxpayer dollars as well. 434 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: All right, great work, Congressman Kevin Kylie from a Northern 435 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: California Republican, thank you for doing this. 436 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 5: Thanks my friend, you bet all right, Talk with you soon. 437 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 1: And I find it interesting that nobody came to him 438 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 1: with an argument right on how this is necessary for 439 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:38,199 Speaker 1: the economy, this is necessary for transportation purposes, necessary for 440 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: the environment to have this electric train, and they don't. 441 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: They don't. They've given up trying to even explain or 442 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: defend this thing. It's just it's just a money grab, 443 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: a scam. Are more coming up. 444 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI am 445 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 3: six forty. 446 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: We will talk about the Minneapolis situation after two a clock. 447 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 1: We've got Jennal Janelle I think is how you say 448 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: her name, Janelle Klein from ABC News, and she's reporting 449 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: from Minneapolis. We're also gonna have Don Mahalakhan. He is 450 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: the ABC News Law Enforcement contributor and a retired senior 451 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 1: Secret Service agent, and he'll have something to say about 452 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: the police response and that killing that happened over the weekend. 453 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,239 Speaker 1: This is one of those stories I've told you we 454 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: started the three day rules some years ago. When you 455 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: have an incendiary story and it's not clear exactly what happened, 456 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 1: it's better to hang back and wait because the story 457 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 1: the facts that are revealed changed constantly. There is a 458 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: lot of bad reporting and biased reporting on going on, 459 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: and it is hard to figure out exactly what's going 460 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: on often, but we will do the best we can 461 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: next hour. This is really important. Katie Grimes from the 462 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: California Globe californiaglobe dot com alerted this to us a 463 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: few weeks ago, and we posted a video of me 464 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 1: interviewing her online and this particular clip got the biggest 465 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,159 Speaker 1: response of any clip we've ever posted. Last time I 466 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 1: looked at it was nine hundred and ten thousand views. 467 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: Ted Cruise retweeted it. Ted Cruise retweeted it, and it 468 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 1: really went all around the country, far beyond California, And 469 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 1: you know, I don't spend a lot of time obsessing 470 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: on social media posts from something spikes like that it 471 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: says something this really resonated with people. And it's the 472 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: San Francisco story that Katie wrote about five million dollars. 473 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,719 Speaker 1: The San Francisco City government spends every year to serve 474 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: booze to homeless alcoholics. They started this during COVID and 475 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 1: here's their claim. Now I know this was just about 476 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: enriching probably fake alcoholic treatment nonprofits. Right. It was called 477 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 1: the Managed Alcohol Program Map. It was created by the 478 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:36,640 Speaker 1: San Francisco Department of Health April twenty twenty because San 479 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: Francisco took the vagrants off the street and put them 480 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: in really nice hotels. And a year later, my wife 481 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: and I went to San Francisco, one of my sons 482 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 1: was going to school there, and we stayed in a 483 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: really nice hotel. No, we stayed in one hotel, but 484 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: we went to have lunch in another that was really 485 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 1: top ups score just have lunch, and there's one of 486 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: these homeless guys but still living there because he was 487 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: sprawled out in a booth asleep and he was dining 488 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: in their nice restaurant at the hotel. But I guess 489 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: he was using tax money to serve him. They're really 490 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: good food, they're really great lunches. And then people started 491 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 1: talking and telling me how they'd have all kinds of 492 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: crazy people screaming in the hotel garage, getting into fights 493 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 1: and doing their drugs. And it was about that time 494 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: that San Francisco decided, well, you know, the these alcoholic vagrants, 495 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: they're going to go into alcohol withdrawal and that would 496 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: be very cruel, so let's buy booze for them. So 497 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: they were spending five million dollars a year. Now here's 498 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: here's why you'll know that this was a total scam, 499 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: that this was a criminal opera. The program served just 500 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: fifty five clients, amounting to a tab of four hundred 501 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: and fifty four thousand dollars for each alcoholic vagrant. Now, 502 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 1: nobody can drink four hundred and fifty four thousand dollars 503 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: worth of booze, not even over five years. Fifty five 504 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 1: clients in five years, four hundred and fifty four thousand 505 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: dollars that did not go for whiskey or beer or vodka. 506 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: They wanted to prevent, they claimed, chronic alcoholics from dangerous withdrawal. 507 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: While the stores and bars were closed, so they would 508 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 1: bring you. It says here doses of beer and liquor. 509 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: Now the name of the nonprofit that got the contract 510 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: since twenty twenty three, Community Forward. You love these names. 511 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: It's like Alexander suffer abundant blessings. Community Forward And they 512 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: even put out a video in twenty twenty four about 513 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: one of the success stories. One of the success stories 514 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:21,479 Speaker 1: was a drunk that went from thirty six emergency visits 515 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: a year to fewer than ten. What this is what 516 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 1: we spend our tax money on? This guy was so 517 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 1: blasted on booze that he was in the emergency room 518 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 1: thirty six times from poisoning the south of alcohol or 519 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: maybe he'd have severe withdrawal. I don't know, but now 520 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 1: fewer than ten because what they do is they would 521 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: measure out the doses of alcohol. Community Forward got almost 522 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: eighteen million in government contracts in grants last year ten 523 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 1: million WHOA no, make it almost eleven million? Don'ting this 524 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: salaries and compensation? Look at that to hand out booze 525 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 1: to homeless alcoholics. They spent Is this right? They spent 526 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: seven million on the booze and eleven million to the 527 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 1: people who handed out the booze on the sidewalk eleven million. 528 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 1: The CEO Carrazardell got two hundred and twenty five thousand, 529 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: seven hundred and ninety four dollars. This was the first 530 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: of its kind in the United States. This is like 531 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: those stupid free needle exchanges. Fortunately, San Francisco and those 532 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 1: residents woke up some years ago when they kicked out 533 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 1: who's that da Chesebodeen? That was their version of gascon. 534 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 1: They kicked him out of office a few years back. Well, 535 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,479 Speaker 1: they got rid of London, breed the mayor, and what 536 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: did they do? They elected a smart, successful businessman, Daniel Lourie. 537 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 1: He's the heir to the Levi clothing company, Daniel Lourie. 538 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: So he's doing smart things like ending this five million 539 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: dollars a year whiskey and beer festival for homeless people. 540 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 1: Now we had our chance to elect a smart, successful businessman, 541 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 1: Rick Carusso, and we blew it and elected the uh 542 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 1: Fidel Castro worshiper, the want to be communist Karen Bass. 543 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: So our street disaster continues. San Francisco's is getting better 544 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,600 Speaker 1: under LORII. Could you believe the kind of corruption though 545 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty four thousand dollars per alcoholic four 546 00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four thousand dollars at about sixty percent 547 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 1: of the money was going to salaries and another compensation 548 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:16,799 Speaker 1: the criminals. These most of these non profits organized crime operations. Well, 549 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: at least Daniel Lurie's figured it out. Karen Bass doesn't care. 550 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,839 Speaker 1: We come back, all right, We're gonna go to Minneapolis, 551 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 1: see what's going on there. Janelle Klein, ABC News correspondent 552 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 1: is gonna give us a live report after another killing 553 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 1: by Department of Homeland Security and now they're they're advertising 554 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: this guy as a nurse. We will talk about this 555 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,319 Speaker 1: next Deborah Mark live in the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, 556 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You 557 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,799 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 558 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 559 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,920 Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app