1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: I Am six forty. You're listening to the John and 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. So Johnny 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: Ken Show, John Cobelt and Ken Chapeau AM six forty 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and we're on the 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: radio from one until four and then after four o'clock. 6 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: The iHeart app is where you go for the Johnny 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: Ken on demand podcast in case you missed something. 8 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 2: The vagrants have caused a lot of damage in southern California. 9 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 2: One of the worst places on the West Side is 10 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: in Plia del Rey. It's called the Biona Wetlands, and 11 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 2: that's what it is, an ecological preserve. Yet because there 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 2: was property there, they pulled up along Jefferson Boulevard and 13 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 2: they started piling on living out of RVs. 14 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: Some what do they call them. 15 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 2: Van lords or r V lords probably rent these to 16 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 2: the people to live in off this wetlands, and it's 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 2: been a problem for years. 18 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: Now it looks like some. 19 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:00,959 Speaker 2: Progress is being made at cleaning up the wetlands Jefferson Boulevard. 20 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 2: Will talk to council Member Tracy Park after the news 21 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 2: at two thirty and about thirty minutes on the Johnny 22 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 2: Ken show. 23 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: We've been at war for many years with Hassan Akrada. 24 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: He's this government bureaucrat who studied under in communist Russia 25 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: times back in the nineteen eighties. The subway system he 26 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 1: had to do with, right, right, He was studied at 27 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: the University of Moscow and he was a bureaucrat in 28 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: charge of the Moscow subway system. Then came to America 29 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: and infiltrated American bureaucracies such as the Southern California Association 30 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: of Governments, which is a collection of all the governments 31 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: in La and Orange County, all the towns and cities. 32 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: They come together because they have obviously mutual needs and concerns. 33 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: And then he moved on to San Diego and that 34 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: Association of Governments, and along the way it's been about 35 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: getting rid of cars, just absolutely ruining the car experience 36 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: for all of us any for anything from road diets, 37 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: toll lanes, taxes by the mile, you name it. It's been. 38 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 2: He's been like a one man, obsessive, crazy person trying 39 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 2: to take away our right to drive a freaking car 40 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 2: because he doesn't like it. There's no other reasons he 41 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 2: doesn't like it. We were glad when he left the 42 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 2: Southern California Association of Governments, and then he became San 43 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 2: Diego's problem, taking on the job the CEO of SANDDAG, 44 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 2: that's the San Diego Association of Governments. But he's announced 45 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 2: at the end of the year, or even before then, 46 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 2: he's heading out. Yeah, he's wasted a ton of tax 47 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: money along the way as well. Let's get Carl Demio 48 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,119 Speaker 2: on It was a political activist, a talk show host 49 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 2: down in San Diego at Coco Radio. 50 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: Carl, how are you? 51 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 3: I am very happy, but I don't like to delay ratification. 52 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 3: I want Hassana Crada to be gone now, not at 53 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:04,399 Speaker 3: the end of the year. 54 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: How much damage does he caused your area? 55 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 3: Oh? Oh, this guy is a bully. He has raided 56 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 3: road repair funds. He has given contractors who are with 57 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 3: the unions, the labor unions, these no bid inflated contracts, 58 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 3: provided that they back politicians who will keep him into office. 59 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 3: He has actually donated two politicians who oversee his salary 60 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 3: and benefits and performance review, which is completely unethical. And 61 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 3: this guy has been trying to get a mileage tax 62 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 3: implemented down here in the city of San Diego in 63 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 3: the County of San Diego. For the past four years, 64 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 3: we've been able to block them. And now it seems 65 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 3: as though maybe he realizes that nobody wants what he's 66 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 3: trying to sell, and he's willing to leave. But he's 67 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 3: done so much damage, guys, and it has set us 68 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 3: back about a decade or more in terms of the 69 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 3: projects that were planned and that were basically shelved under 70 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 3: his leadership. 71 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 2: Well, he would squash highway projects, freeways, cancel them, yet 72 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 2: cancel them and divert the funding to transit and bus passes, 73 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,799 Speaker 2: and even six million to nine million dollars per. 74 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 3: Mile bike lanes. And surely, surely, if you give me 75 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 3: a can of white paint, I can get it done 76 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 3: for a couple thousand per mile. But no, he was 77 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 3: giving out contracts six and a half million dollars, nine 78 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 3: million dollars per mile for bike lanes. 79 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: Then million. So this is just out and out corruption. 80 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 3: It's it's absolute coruption. We found. You know, they they're 81 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 3: bank rolling right now with signature drive to put a 82 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 3: sales tax on the ballot, which would not put a 83 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 3: single dollar into roads, a single dollar into potholes. But 84 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 3: it would pay for electric buses, electric charging stations, climate change, 85 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:12,239 Speaker 3: climate change, and transit transit programs. And so he gives 86 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 3: out these contracts to these companies from Sanddag and at 87 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 3: inflated prices. And the auditor has even said that the 88 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 3: contracting process was not properly followed. And then these contractors 89 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 3: are turning around cutting one hundred thousand dollars checks to 90 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 3: a campaign committee to do a tax increase. And so look, 91 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 3: this thing thinks, why are there. 92 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: Never criminal investigations into all this? This is a criminal enterprise. 93 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 3: He's actually bullied the auditor and tried to get her fired. 94 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 3: She's actually a very good auditor. The Sanddag auditor has 95 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 3: stood her ground and exposed him from using credit cards 96 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 3: for expensive steak dinners and bottles of wine to his 97 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 3: Get this, he's getting a seventeen thousand dollars a year 98 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 3: auto allowance while he preaches to you and me that 99 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 3: we should be writing the bus. He didn't make them up. 100 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 2: Well, no, you know this is all about the people 101 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 2: on the inside making money off this climate hysteria. 102 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: Because what you do is you scare this three steps. 103 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: You scare people, you control them, and then you charge 104 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 1: them and those are the three steps. And that's what 105 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: Hassanokrata does. He didn't give a rats ask about climate change. 106 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: But he knows that he could frighten people and guilt 107 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: them into agreeing to all his crazy schemes and eventually 108 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: make money off it. And that's that's the whole game now. 109 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 3: It is, it is, and he has it down to 110 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 3: a science. And we've been picking up seats actually because 111 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 3: of him. We were winning Democrat seats and we finally 112 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 3: got enough votes to gum up the works, just kind 113 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 3: of slow down his mileage tax and he's not happy 114 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 3: about it. And in this next election, we really believe 115 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 3: that we have a shot of getting enough votes to 116 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 3: remove him from office. The writing is on the wall, 117 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 3: and I think that that's why he's leaving. And I 118 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 3: think even Democrats are telling him that he's too divisive, 119 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 3: that he needs to go look for a different job. 120 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 3: I just I really really am afraid of whatever community 121 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 3: he slithers into. That because when he showed up in 122 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 3: San Diego, I did some research and I saw what 123 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 3: you guys were doing in LA to expose him in 124 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 3: in the and to hold him accountable, which, by the way, 125 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 3: was very, very enjoyable listening to your podcasts and seeing 126 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 3: the posts. But I kept warning people, I'm like, look, 127 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 3: you know, check out these stories from John and Ken 128 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 3: about his terrible experience up in Los Angeles. Why in 129 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 3: the hell would you want to hire him? But unfortunately 130 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 3: the liberal politicians down here knew exactly what they were getting, 131 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 3: and they hire him. 132 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 2: He's he's very smart because what he did is he 133 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 2: took over a pair of obscure agencies. 134 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think one out of one 135 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: hundred people know what SANDDAG is or STAGS or or 136 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: what possibly what business they would be up to, or 137 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: you know what what is what is their domain? What 138 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: do they have control over? 139 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 2: They have no idea that they control the transportation system 140 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 2: in southern California between all the cities and the counties, 141 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 2: and and that's all the. 142 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 3: Car tax and gas tax and sales tax revenues. Yeah, 143 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 3: that have been now assigned to those agencies. That's a 144 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 3: lot of money. We're talking billions and billions of dollars. 145 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: So why is he leaving? Is he just not getting. 146 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 3: So they've been losing seats. He has he has been 147 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 3: the best foil for us to go after his mileage 148 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 3: tax and his road diets and his bike lanes, and 149 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 3: we've been using his bad policies to flip seats. And 150 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 3: even in this latest election, there's a county supervisorial seat 151 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 3: up with Nathan Fletcher resigning and guess what the number 152 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,559 Speaker 3: one issue is standag and the mileage tax. So I 153 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 3: think enough Democrats are finally realizing that this guy's no 154 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 3: good and that they're going to cost him seats, and 155 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 3: so they're trying to get him out the door as 156 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 3: quickly as possible. Well, he said he's sticking around to 157 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 3: the end of the year. Guys, that means he's going 158 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 3: to pull two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in taxpayer 159 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 3: compensation through the end of the year. My view is, 160 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 3: get him the hell out of the office now and 161 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 3: replace them h and right of way, audit everything on 162 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 3: the way out. Make sure that we audit everything, because 163 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of problems that we're going 164 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 3: to discover. 165 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, and the frustrating thing is he's appointed, not elected, 166 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: So the average person can hear about this strange, strangely 167 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: named man and his weird policies. But what are you 168 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: going to do. They don't know who's on the board, 169 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 1: they don't know what the mechanism is, how he he 170 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,839 Speaker 1: got there, how he would leave. It's barely covered in 171 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: the media. 172 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 3: Nope, they don't want to cover it. And a lot 173 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 3: of them actually are are in favor of it. Right now. 174 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 3: The petition that they're they're circulating the tax increase, they 175 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 3: say it's to fixed potholes. That's how they're selling it. 176 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 3: And this is the petition that Hassanakrata has gotten these 177 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 3: contracts to these contractors, these construction firms, to then turn 178 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 3: around and give these campaign contributions for And we've been 179 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 3: trying to get the media to expose the fact that 180 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 3: they're collecting signatures using fraud and deception. The media doesn't 181 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 3: want to cover it. They actually kind of like the 182 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 3: idea of this green new deal happening in a local agency. 183 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 3: So we haven't had the sort of transparency that's needed. 184 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 3: But I think a lot of the voters have woken up. 185 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 3: They realize that this is bad. Their commute is getting worse, 186 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 3: their cost of driving is going up, and I think 187 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 3: they're starting to put and two together and hold some 188 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 3: of the politicians accountable. That's why this guy's leaving, no 189 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 3: other reason. He would have stuck around longer had we 190 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 3: not started to create the controversy that we did. 191 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: Well, good, good work, Carl. 192 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for coming on and updating us on the 193 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 2: scourge of this man. 194 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: We appreciate it. 195 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 3: Hey. By the way, by the way, I hear that 196 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 3: he's been spotted in LA. Maybe there's another agency absurd. 197 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, that's right. He's going to keep rolling. He's 198 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: made a lot of money on these rackets. All right, 199 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: Thanks Carl. Thanks guys, it's called Demayo Reform. 200 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 2: California talk show host and Coco Radio in San Diego 201 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 2: telling us that well, the reign of asan Hekrada is 202 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 2: ahead of the San Diego Association of Governments, is going 203 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 2: to come to an end, supposed to near the end 204 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 2: of the year, but as Carl just said, hopefully sooner. 205 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 2: And of course, he used to run the Southern California 206 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 2: Association of Governments. And this is who's behind all these 207 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 2: ideas for road diets and my ch taxes and bike 208 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 2: lanes and everything else that make sure bi driving so horrendous. 209 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: Do you imagine the crimes that were committed to lay 210 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: down six million dollars a mile for bike lanes, six 211 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 1: million dollars for a bike lane that nobody will take. 212 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: All right, we got more coming up. 213 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 2: Johnny Ken KFI AM six forty Live everywhere iHeartRadio app. 214 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 215 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: AM six forty. We're on from one till four after 216 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 1: four o'clock iHeart appter John and Ken on demand podcast. 217 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 1: All Right. 218 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 2: La City Council Member Tracy Park will join us once 219 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 2: again after two thirty to talk about some progress being 220 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 2: made in cleaning up Jefferson Boulevard by the Bayona Wetlands 221 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 2: and Plia del Rey, which has been the scourge of 222 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 2: just RVs, burnt out cars, vans, old school bus. I 223 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 2: saw there once. Those are just people, the vagrants living 224 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 2: right there by the wetlands and destroying the beautiful blue butterfly. Yeah, 225 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 2: that we talked about that. Really, I'm very upset about that. 226 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 2: I don't like butterflies being touched. You've become very sensitive 227 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 2: about these creatures and they're living. 228 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 1: Things, well, so are cows, and you eat them every day. 229 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,079 Speaker 1: Butterflies don't taste good. You've never had one, you. 230 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 2: Ever had a butterfly Burgner. It's just not much to it. 231 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 2: It's all wing, isn't it. It's all wing, beautiful wings. 232 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: It's no meat. 233 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 2: They keep telling us the monarchs are disappearing, but I 234 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,439 Speaker 2: tell you, out on my walks there's tons of monarchs 235 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 2: just flying around everywhere. They're kind of fun to watch too, 236 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 2: the way they nose dive into the vegetation. And yeah, 237 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 2: they get attracted to colors. Sometimes if you're wearing like 238 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 2: a really bright color, they might come towards you. I 239 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,839 Speaker 2: can spend all day watching birds and butterflies, Is that right? 240 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: Yeah? All right, you want to come visit me when 241 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: I'm eighty five. I'll be in the park. You do 242 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: some forest bathing. 243 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 2: Hey, we're just talking about the Southern California Association governments 244 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 2: in the San Diego Association governments, and this creep by 245 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 2: the name of Hassana Crada who's on his way out. 246 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 2: Another thing they would want you to do is to 247 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 2: if you're going to drive drive an electric vehicle. Two 248 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 2: stories have come our way that have to be mentioned. 249 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 2: Tesla created a secret team to suppress thousands of driving 250 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 2: range complaints. This has gone on for quite a while. 251 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 2: And it's quite a story. People would buy themselves at Tesla. 252 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 2: One guy bought a used twenty twenty one Model three. 253 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 2: He took a look at the driving range three hundred 254 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 2: and fifty three miles on a fully charged battery. He 255 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 2: got out there, he started driving on a family road 256 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 2: trip from Colorado to California and realized, oh, no, it's. 257 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: Going to be significantly less. In fact, it started to 258 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: look like it was going to be half that range. 259 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 2: Because cold weather presents a probably talk about hot weather, 260 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 2: but cold weather. 261 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:55,119 Speaker 1: Presents of weather and cold weather he can greatly diminish 262 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: your range. 263 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 2: So what Tesla started to get a barrage of complaints 264 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 2: from people like, is there something wrong with my car? 265 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 2: It's not getting anywhere near the number of miles it says, 266 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 2: after I give it a full charge, can I come in? 267 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: They had a team to divert you. 268 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 2: They would tell you things like, oh, remote Diagnostics says 269 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 2: your battery's fine, We're gonna cancel your visit, and it 270 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 2: says here. They would even celebrate in the room where 271 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 2: these guys were doing this, I guess, like. 272 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: The boiler room. Did you see this? 273 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 2: Put their phones on mute and strike a metal xylophone, 274 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 2: triggering applause from coworkers who sometimes stood on their desks 275 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 2: to cheer on the canceled deployments. 276 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: What kind of monkeys get paid to work in an 277 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: office and stand on desks cheering. Another guy's hitting a 278 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: xylophone because they just scammed a customer out of a 279 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: Tesla appointment, right. 280 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 2: Because they told them that they don't answer the phone, 281 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 2: or there's nothing wrong with your car and we're full 282 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 2: up today, or they would get credit for average number 283 00:15:58,160 --> 00:15:59,239 Speaker 2: of diverted appointments. 284 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: But it's an amazing that all the employees buy into 285 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: this scam. 286 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 2: They all know what they're doing. They'll have to getting paid, well, 287 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 2: they'll go right exactly. 288 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: That's all they have to do is they probably all 289 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: get bonuses based on the number of appointments they get canceled. 290 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: So they're happy to do it and to celebrate. They're 291 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: celebrating the money that they're going to make and the 292 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 1: stupid xylophone. So what kind of what kind of operation 293 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: is elon Musk running here? Because I heard, I think 294 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: Fridays when I first got win to this this kind 295 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: of story where they said a study is shown that 296 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: on average electric cars get about twelve percent less mileage 297 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: than claimed, and Tesla's were the worst. They got twenty 298 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: five percent less. That was on Friday. I heard and 299 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: then hear about the secret team banging their xylophone and 300 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: standing on desks to thwart the appointment. 301 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 2: And if you're going to drive in any conditions where 302 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 2: you have to use the air conditioner or winter the 303 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 2: heater or whatever, all of this is going. 304 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: To greatly affect your range. What they did is they 305 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 1: rigged the software so that when you started your car 306 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: after a full charge, it would show that you had 307 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty or four hundred miles, and it 308 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: would go down at a proportional rate. But when you 309 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:23,880 Speaker 1: got below half, then suddenly you'd get the real projection, 310 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: you'd get the real protection to a remaining driving range. Yes, 311 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: suddenly your dashboard panel the number would take a nose dive. 312 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 1: Now suddenly you're running out of juice. 313 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,360 Speaker 2: Because they didn't want drivers to get stranded, but they 314 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 2: also didn't want them to know the truth right short range. 315 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: And they put a safety buffer. They put an extra 316 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 1: fifteen miles of additional range that doesn't show up on 317 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: your readout, So your panel is lying to you all along. 318 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: First it tells you you have way more range than 319 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: you really do, and then at the end there's some 320 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: extra secret range in case you haven't found the charger yet. Wow. 321 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: I mean, that is just blatantly dishonest. 322 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 2: The other story is it apparently if Ford Motor Company 323 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 2: is having trouble selling its electric vehicles, they're gonna lose 324 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 2: three billion dollars on electric cars in twenty twenty three. 325 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 2: Ford plans to make two million electric cars every year 326 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 2: by the year twenty twenty five. They sold sixty one, 327 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 2: five hundred and seventy five last year. That would be 328 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 2: a rosie of prediction for the future. Is California gonna 329 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 2: buy them all? 330 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: Is that the idea? Or because we're gonna have that mandate? 331 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: And and well, I don't I don't understand this. The 332 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: math doesn't work. EV sales dropped almost three percent for 333 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: the quarter. Certain models like the Mustang Mock E sales 334 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: are down twenty one percent, the E Transit electric van 335 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: sales down almost twenty four percent. They've lost a total 336 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: of four and a half billion dollars three billion last year. 337 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: How well, you can't stay in business here. I don't 338 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,360 Speaker 1: see how you could, right, I don't. I don't see. 339 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 2: You can't keep this up unless there's a real seat 340 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 2: change in people's buying patterns. 341 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: But it's just not happening for Ford. 342 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 2: So how is how does Ford sell this to all 343 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 2: the tall the Wall Street investors? 344 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: And one thing? 345 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 2: Ford does they separate out their EV numbers. A lot 346 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:28,679 Speaker 2: of other companies don't. They just mix them in there 347 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 2: with the rest of their sales. 348 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 1: I'm sure it's it's down across the board, right because 349 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,199 Speaker 1: you can't get chargers. Just start with that. That's the 350 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: deal breaker right there. There's hardly any charges around. Tesla 351 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:44,439 Speaker 1: at least has a network, but all the other companies don't. 352 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 1: And you know, then we can go with ten other 353 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 1: reasons why electric vehicles suck, But it starts with you. 354 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 1: You you can't charge the damn thing and they're lying 355 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: about how much raine you get? All right, let me 356 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 1: come back. Weird, weird situation that all is, there's some 357 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: other secret story going on here. No American company takes 358 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 1: a four and a half billion dollar hit. That doesn't 359 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: seem right, does it. It doesn't. 360 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 2: You would normally think that if the business is failing 361 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 2: that badly, you get out of it, so right, all right. 362 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 2: Council Member Tracy Park is coming on next to talk 363 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 2: about a bit of a cleanup on the west side 364 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 2: there at the Biona Wetlands. 365 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: Of all the RV's the scourge. 366 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 2: Johnny KENKFI AM six forty live everywhere I heard radio app. 367 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 368 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: AM six forty on the radio one till four after 369 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: four o'clock. I heeart after the Johnny Can on demand podcast. 370 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 2: Well, there are some ugly homeless situations all around southern California. 371 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 2: One of the worst is a huge RV encampment on 372 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 2: the west side and Plia del Rey. It's a place 373 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 2: called the Biona Wetlands. I have personally driven past there 374 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 2: many times watched to grow over the years. People basically 375 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 2: live in their RVs there, and of course they have 376 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 2: to well they have waste and such, right, so it 377 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 2: has to be dumped somewhere and the wetlands has suffered 378 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 2: from this, and there have been people who live in 379 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 2: the neighborhood who have formed groups to fight this, but 380 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,639 Speaker 2: it only seems to get worse. And of course the 381 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 2: city councilman for most of this time was John's good 382 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: friend Mike Bonnen. He decided not to run for reelection. 383 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 2: We now have Tracy Park, who ran on a campaign 384 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 2: to do something about the homeless problems in many neighborhoods 385 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,919 Speaker 2: in her district. Last time we had her on, we 386 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 2: asked her about this one because this has been a real, real, 387 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 2: big problem and apparently there has been some reported success 388 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 2: in clearing out a stretch of Jefferson Boulevard along the reserve. 389 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 2: Let's get Tracy back on the show and talk about 390 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 2: what they've done there. 391 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: Tracy, thanks for coming on. 392 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:01,159 Speaker 4: It's good to be here. Guys. 393 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: How are you We're good? How much has been accomplished 394 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:04,160 Speaker 1: so far? 395 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 4: Well, since we began this project last week, we have 396 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 4: now successfully cleared about a thousand foot stretch of Jefferson 397 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 4: which has eliminated approximately sixty five percent or so of 398 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 4: the vehicles that had been encamped at that location. 399 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,400 Speaker 1: And how many how many are vs did you pull 400 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: out of there? And how many encampments tents were you 401 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:38,120 Speaker 1: able to move? 402 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 2: So on. 403 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 4: The day that we began this we were able to 404 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 4: work with residents of twenty five different vehicles. Some of 405 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 4: those did have tents as well. That were set up 406 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 4: in the area. All of those vehicles are now gone, 407 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 4: with the exception of of a couple of them that 408 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:07,239 Speaker 4: are still remaining there. Those have been voluntarily relinquished and 409 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 4: we are in the process of having those disposed of 410 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 4: as we continue our work down Jefferson Boulevard over the 411 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 4: next several weeks. We will continue our efforts engaging with 412 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 4: the folks who are in those vehicles, and we expect 413 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 4: to see further reductions in the number of cars that 414 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 4: are there as we continue this until we are finished 415 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,920 Speaker 4: and the entire area has been cleared and we can 416 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,880 Speaker 4: move forward with the trail rehabilitation project. 417 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: Over twenty vehicles have been removed, twenty five already, twenty 418 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: five already. What is the process? I mean, what finally 419 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: allowed you to get rid of these vehicles? Because it's 420 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: been so many years and the whole system has failed. 421 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 2: So what happened here? What was the mechanism to unlock 422 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,120 Speaker 2: the blockade? 423 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 4: You know, honestly, John and Candice was a matter of 424 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 4: leadership and resolved to get it done. And you know, 425 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 4: we've talked about this a few times. I mean, this 426 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 4: is a very jurisdictionally complicated area. A lot of you know, 427 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 4: layers of work that had to go into this, and 428 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 4: we actually started working on this program. It has been 429 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 4: a priority to me from the outset. We started working 430 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 4: on this back in January, securing some of the pieces 431 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 4: legislatively lead that we're going to be needed to get 432 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 4: it done, and we started working with LASSA and our 433 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 4: nonprofit partners to beget outreach all the way back in March. 434 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 4: It took some time to secure the resources that we're 435 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 4: going to be necessary to get this done, but through 436 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 4: a very effective collaboration with Friends of Biona Wetlands, the 437 00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 4: Biona Wetlands Conservancy, and local neighborhood activists and community organizations 438 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 4: like Friends of the Jungle, we just we are not 439 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 4: taking no for an answer anymore and we are moving forward. 440 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 2: How much damage was done? Do we have an assessment 441 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 2: yet to the wetlands? 442 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 4: You know, I think that now that Friends of Biona 443 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 4: Wetlands are going to safely be able to get into 444 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 4: the area and begin the process of removing the debris 445 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 4: and the litter and assessing the damage to the landscape, 446 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 4: will have a better idea of it. I will tell you, 447 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 4: just anecdotally from having been out there, pretty often myself. 448 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,439 Speaker 4: Over the last several days, you know, a lot of 449 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 4: the large debris has been removed, but you know, there 450 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 4: are bits of electronic scrap, plastic, cigarette butts, discarded needles. 451 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 4: There's just a lot of debris, and it is going 452 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 4: to take some time, but I'll be out there with 453 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 4: my own two hands picking up the garbage and cleaning 454 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 4: up the mess until we are able to leave this 455 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,360 Speaker 4: incredible asset in much better condition than we found it 456 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 4: and to return it to use and enjoyment by the 457 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 4: entire community. 458 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: Where did the RVs go? 459 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 4: So a number of them have been relinquished to the 460 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 4: city for folks that are moving indoors, and others had 461 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 4: decided and this has been you know, in some cases 462 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:33,439 Speaker 4: a very challenging constituency to engage with have decided that, 463 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 4: you know, they're not interested in services, and so LASA 464 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 4: is continuing to work with them, and we will continue 465 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 4: in our efforts not just for these folks, but to 466 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 4: folks living in vehicles and ten encampments all over the 467 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 4: dist so. 468 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: They move the RV somewhere else, and there. 469 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 4: Are certainly are cases where folks have moved to other locations. 470 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't have those details. LASA is 471 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 4: working very close with those folks, and we will continue 472 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 4: to do that to make sure that this, you know, 473 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 4: isn't a problem that just continues to spread from one 474 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 4: location to another. 475 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: Can you clear the entire area out? I know that's 476 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: the goal. Is that doable anytime soon? 477 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 4: You know, we are going to Yes, it is doable, 478 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 4: We are going to do it. We will continue our 479 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 4: efforts over the next few weeks until the entire area 480 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 4: is clear, and we have a lot of anticipated improvement 481 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 4: projects for the area that are really genuinely going to 482 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 4: return this to the community in a way that invites 483 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 4: children and field trips and families and environmentalists and bird 484 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 4: watchers back to the area. And I am so excited 485 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 4: that we have been able to do two things that 486 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 4: were really important to me. One was to address the 487 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 4: homelessness with the urgency that it needed, and two to 488 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 4: ensure that we are protecting our environment. And you know, 489 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 4: this is this is a perfect example of the work 490 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,199 Speaker 4: my office is doing on both fronts. 491 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 2: Now, you say you've been out there, have you ever 492 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,479 Speaker 2: talked to the people that are living in the RVs 493 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 2: and just find out, you know, why they can't find 494 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 2: somewhere else so they don't destroy the environment. 495 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 4: You know, I have, over the last couple of years 496 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 4: on a number of occasions, had opportunity to talk with 497 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 4: folks that were there, and it's you know a lot 498 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 4: of different human stories and reasons why folks were where 499 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 4: they were, and you know, primarily for folks that were working, 500 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 4: that were struggling economically, they were more they were really 501 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 4: willing to engage with us, and we're willing to accept 502 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 4: safer alternatives. Unfortunately, there are a lot of folks out 503 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 4: there with some very serious mental health and addiction issues, 504 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 4: and a number of them you know, have been resistant 505 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 4: to those We won't give up. We will keep trying 506 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 4: with them, but it's been definitely sort of a mixed 507 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 4: population and more challenging than some of the other initiatives 508 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 4: that we've done. 509 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 2: And you're confident that people won't come back after there's 510 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 2: a let up in the clomps, how are you going 511 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 2: to keep them out? 512 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 4: You know, we've got plans to Jefferson Boulevard is in 513 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 4: poor condition currently. We have plans to restore the road 514 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 4: to improve the bike lane so that will serve as 515 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 4: a barrier to any further parking in that area, which 516 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 4: by the way, has been designated as a no parking 517 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 4: area for a very long time and certainly long before 518 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 4: this encampment issue was there. So we are going to 519 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 4: ensure that this problem does not happen again. It should 520 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 4: not have ever been allowed to happen in the first place. 521 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 4: And my only regret in this is that it has 522 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 4: taken as long as it has taken to start the 523 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 4: process of delivering this outcome. 524 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much. Can I can make 525 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: one personal request, Well, since I had heard you got 526 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: there's eight new tents along the VA, some of them 527 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: have come back. Send somebody to bring him. 528 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 2: Avenue Santas Yeah, off Santa Sente on the side of 529 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 2: the VA. 530 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 1: They're they're starting to come back there. And that that 531 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: was a big success. 532 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 4: Yes, it was, and we are aware of that situation. 533 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 4: My team is already engaging with the VA and a 534 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 4: number of our veteran service agencies there and we will 535 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 4: continue to do that. That is a priority for me 536 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,719 Speaker 4: and we will definitely continue to focus resources on that. 537 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 4: We do not want to see that problem repeat. 538 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: All right, Tracy, great work, congratulations. 539 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 4: Thank you very much. 540 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 3: It's always great to talk to you guys. 541 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 2: All right, all right, Tracy Park, the city council member 542 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 2: for John's district there on the west side, is that 543 00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 2: the eleventh council district anyway, She of course knows that 544 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 2: she was elected to clean up some of these homeless 545 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 2: problems and they're working right now on that horrible situation 546 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 2: on the west side at the Bayona. 547 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: Wetlands and Plia Delray to get rid of the RVs. 548 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 2: More coming up, Johnny KENKFI AM six forty Live everywhere 549 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. 550 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John and Ken Show. 551 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 2: You can always hear us live on KFI AM six 552 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 2: forty one pm to four pm every Monday through Friday, 553 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.