1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 1: I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 2: We are on from three to six every day, and 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 2: after six o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the 5 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 2: iHeart app. And that's where you get to listen to 6 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 2: what you missed. It's the podcast version. We will get 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 2: right to it. 8 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: Here. We got Steve Hilton on the line. 9 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 2: Steve Hilton the number one candidate for governor right now, 10 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 2: according to the latest polls shows him in first place, 11 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 2: was sixteen percent of the vote. He's running as a Republican. 12 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: Former Fox News host, He's a businessman, former advisor to 13 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 2: the British Prime Minister David Cameron, among other things. Steve's 14 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 2: been on with us a number of times. Welcome, how 15 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 2: are you well. 16 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 3: I'm very happy to be with you, John. It's always 17 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 3: great to be with you. But of course I shouldn't 18 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 3: be with you because I should be on stage literally 19 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 3: right now. It's kicking off the debate, the governor candidate's 20 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 3: debate that was supposed to be happening as we speak 21 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 3: at USC but it was canceled because of Democrat insanity 22 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 3: and they seem to not be able to run anything 23 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 3: in this state. They can't get anything done. They can't 24 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 3: get the high speed rail done, can't build the Butterfly Bridge, 25 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 3: can't clean up homelessness, can't get the people mover at 26 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 3: Lax finished. And now we see they can't even organize 27 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 3: a debate. What a joke. 28 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 2: Let me let me explain for people not keeping up 29 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 2: on this. You were going to be at the debate 30 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 2: with other Republican, another Republican Chad Bianco, and there were 31 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 2: four Democrats, Eric Swawell, Katie Porter, Tom Steyer, Mett Mayhon, 32 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 2: the San Jose mayor, and then there were one, two, three, 33 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 2: four others that were not invited because they're polling and 34 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 2: their funding was so low, Javier Bucera, Viragosa, Betty Yee, 35 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 2: Tony Thurman. There they've pulled it three percent, three percent, 36 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 2: two percent, one percent, and the people running the debate 37 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 2: at USC and Channel seven decided, okay, we got to 38 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 2: cut this somewhere, and those four were cut and they said, hey, 39 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 2: we're all people of color, you can't do that, and they. 40 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: Made a big rockets over their race. 41 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: But the truth is they just so far don't have 42 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 2: any popularity and they don't have any money, and they 43 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 2: canceled the whole debate. 44 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,679 Speaker 3: That's crazy, it's insane. Well, this is what actually ams 45 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 3: so so led by having a besera, the ridiculous clown 46 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 3: who's Biden's HHS secretary who remember, let's not forget you know, 47 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 3: forcing two year olds to wear masks and the vaccine 48 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 3: mandate on everyone. So he is the first one. He 49 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 3: started at the end of the last end of last 50 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 3: week making a fuss about this, calling on the rest 51 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 3: of us to boycott the debate and whatever. It's racism, 52 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 3: where of course they play the race card because they're Democrats, 53 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 3: and you know, as you just pointed out, they're not excluded. 54 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 3: They weren't excluded because of their race. They were dropped 55 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 3: because they weren't doing well enough in the race because 56 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 3: they had no support. Basically, so they got they try 57 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 3: and get it all going over the weekend on social media. 58 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 3: But the real decisive thing was yesterday when they got 59 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 3: their cronies in the California legislation, the Democrats in the 60 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 3: state legislature, all the different endless interest groups and leftist 61 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 3: factions put together a letter all their little logos on it. 62 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 3: The LGBTQ Caucus, and the Native American called the Women's Caucus, 63 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,959 Speaker 3: and the Black Caucus, Latino ca all these groups, right, 64 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 3: they write a letter and it's signed by the leader 65 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 3: of the Democrats in the State Assembly and the leader 66 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 3: of the Democrats in the State Senate, and they send 67 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 3: a letter to USC demanding the changes. They laughably, they say, 68 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 3: these leading candidates need to be put in leading candidates 69 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 3: with one percent? What are you talking about, They're just 70 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 3: a joke anyway, to their shame, USC caves to them. 71 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 3: These people can't believe he council the whole thing. It's 72 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 3: absolutely unbelievable. 73 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 2: What's crazy is you and Chad Bianca are leading with 74 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 2: sixteen and fourteen. Swallow Porter and Steyer are four and 75 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 2: six points behind at ten percent. Most people don't know 76 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 2: who all these candidates are. And swallowll Porter and Steyer 77 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 2: are now off the stage. This was one of the 78 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 2: great opportunities to introduce themselves to the public, the wider public, 79 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 2: you know, with Channel seven broadcasting it, and instead they're 80 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 2: taken out of the game. So the Democrats are taking 81 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 2: their three top candidates off television screens, so the race 82 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 2: is frozen and you and Bianco are still on top. 83 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 3: I know it's crazy, and some of the other poles 84 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 3: haven't even further ahead. You know, it's just ridiculous. But 85 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 3: this shows you something very important about the Democrats. Number one, 86 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 3: they totally clueless and incompetent. But number two, always the 87 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 3: ideology comes first, and the interest come first. The interest 88 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 3: groups their own internal interests, not what the public needs 89 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 3: or what is in the interests of the state. It's 90 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 3: just whatever serves their internal political bs. And this is 91 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 3: what you get after sixteen years of one party rule. 92 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 3: It just becomes totally corrupted. They don't care about the 93 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 3: real world, that detached from reality. All is it's about 94 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 3: is their own ridiculous ideology and internal political gains, and 95 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 3: the rest of us can get lost. Well, this is 96 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 3: how This is their attitude to the whole state and 97 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 3: to everything. And that's why I'm really confident we're going 98 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 3: to kick them out this year. People are sick of 99 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 3: all this. 100 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 2: We got dozens of major problems and major issues. We 101 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 2: seem to get new big ones every week, and they 102 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 2: decide to fold up their tent and walk out and 103 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 2: not have a debate. And USC ought to be ashamed 104 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 2: of themselves. Channel seven ought to be ashamed of itself. 105 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 2: They should set up a debate in their studio. They 106 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 2: got plenty of room for that. I don't get any 107 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 2: of this. 108 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: This is nuts. 109 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 2: The public wants to know what's going to go on 110 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 2: here in the next few years because we're in an 111 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 2: emergency situation, and instead there's no debate, there's no discussion. 112 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: It's nuts. 113 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 3: It is completely nuts. I found out, by the way, 114 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 3: just to show you how nuts it was, this is 115 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 3: they announced this at midnight last night, like within twenty 116 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 3: fours less than twenty four hours before the debay. I 117 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 3: found out this morning around six am when I was 118 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:09,919 Speaker 3: getting in the car to go to the airport. I 119 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 3: live in a Bayer I was flying down this morning. 120 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 3: That's what I found out. It's just ridiculous. It makes 121 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 3: there's such this clown show that we've had. I mean, 122 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 3: obviously this is a debate, doesn't affect anybody in the 123 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 3: real world, but it just shows this is what they're 124 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 3: like on everything. This is why we've got the highest 125 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 3: cost of living. Crimes are disaster, The schools were disaster, homelessness. 126 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 3: This is a really good example of what a bunch 127 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 3: of clowns. They all are, and it's just it's so ridiculous, 128 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 3: it's almost I still can't quite believe that it happened 129 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 3: that here we are, this is California, with these Democrats 130 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 3: in charge. 131 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 2: I have counted about seven different media investigations or government 132 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 2: investigations into the hospice scandal, the daycare center scandal, where 133 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 2: there are no patients, there are no kids, there's billions 134 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 2: of dollars wasted, and so far, Gavin Newsom's only response 135 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 2: is to smear one of the reporters, Nick Shirley. 136 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: Twice as being a pedophile. 137 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 2: He followed up with a second post the other day 138 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: insinuating he's a pedophile. 139 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: I am flatterergasted by this, that what is going on 140 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: with him. 141 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 3: It's totally disgusting, and this is what happens with everything. Actually, 142 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 3: they just kind of he constantly does this gas lighting, 143 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 3: pretending everything's fine because he's only interested in one thing now, 144 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 3: running for president. That's the only thing he's thinking about. 145 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 3: I mean, he's barely been in the state this year. 146 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 3: He's not constantly running around the country pushing his pathetic 147 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 3: book and trying to win support for his presidential bid, 148 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 3: and so he doesn't care about Ark, doesn't care about 149 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 3: anything going on here, and he's terrified that he's gonna 150 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 3: what's going to happen to him is what happened to 151 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 3: Tim Watts in Minnesota, who was all set to be 152 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 3: re elected governor inn Soda, and then the Nick Shirley 153 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 3: broke the fraud scandal there and that was over for 154 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 3: Tim Walls, and he's terrified the same thing's going to happen. Well, 155 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now, it is going to happen, 156 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 3: and it is already happening exactly as you pointed out. 157 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 3: All these investigations we're doing ours with col Doze, the 158 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 3: California Department of governm Efficiency that I set up two 159 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 3: months ago. We've now published three fraud reports. One on 160 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 3: the cannabis tax money going for Democrat voter registration instead 161 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 3: of the substance abuse prevention. The second one was on 162 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 3: some ridiculous scheme that they're supposed to be paying for 163 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 3: solar panels on low income apartment buildings actually being siphoned 164 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 3: off to Democrat political organizing. And then the last one 165 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 3: was the Project Homekey, the homelessness funding funding billions of 166 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 3: dollars there being siphoned off into the pockets of crony 167 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 3: developers and homeless get nothing. So I mean it's just 168 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 3: and there's much more to come. I mean, we are 169 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 3: doing these at the rate of one every other week, 170 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 3: and so he is going to be exposed as totally 171 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:03,439 Speaker 3: useless in every way, like not interested in actually governing, 172 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 3: not capable of governing. The results are a total disaster. 173 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 3: We have the worst outcomes on everything that matters pretty 174 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 3: much of all fifty states, and it's going to kill 175 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 3: his presidential bit because in the end, what who wants 176 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 3: that in the rest of the country. And another thing 177 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 3: I always point out is when I'm elected in November 178 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 3: and take office in January and I'm cleaning up California 179 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 3: in the process, I will be exposing for the whole 180 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 3: country what a mess he's made of everything. And he's 181 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 3: not going to like that. Either. 182 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 1: Can you hang on another segment or do you have 183 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: to run? 184 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:37,119 Speaker 3: No? Absolutely? 185 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: God time? 186 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 2: Okay, good, we'll talk more with Steve Hilton. He's the 187 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 2: leading candidate for governor and the election day is June second, 188 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 2: but the ballots are mailed to you first week of May. 189 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 2: So more with Steve Hilton coming up next. 190 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 191 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 4: six forty. 192 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 2: Followers on Cobelt Radio, on social media at John Cobelt Radio, 193 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 2: Subscribe on YouTube at YouTube dot com, slash at John 194 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 2: Cobelt Show, and if you go to all those websites 195 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 2: you will see how to celebrate the removal of Judice 196 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 2: Quez as the CEO of the LADWP. 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All the information is 207 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 2: on our social media sites along with the instructional video. 208 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 2: Let's continue now with Steve Hilton, who is the leading 209 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 2: candidate for governor here in California. He's on top of 210 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 2: the polls. In fact, we have two Republicans on the 211 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 2: top and the Democrats are all lagging behind. And they 212 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 2: had their own debate canceled today because it wasn't it 213 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 2: wasn't attendant enough to the candidates of color. We're all 214 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 2: at the bottom of the polling. It's very weird. But 215 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 2: let's get Steve back on. Steve, you've been doing these 216 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 2: investigations into the massive waste caldos you grew up, and 217 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 2: you talked about one of them, and if you could 218 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 2: explain it a little bit for people, because I'm sure 219 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 2: a lot of people are not aware of what you're 220 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 2: doing about Project Home Key, which is a huge amount 221 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 2: of tax money that went for homeless spending that is 222 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 2: completely out of control. Tell us what your investigation found. 223 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 2: This is a Newsom production, Yeah, exactly. 224 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 3: So this was when they try to get it all started. 225 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 3: So many that the insane spending that we've got now 226 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 3: in waste and fraud, all in the pandemic where they 227 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,079 Speaker 3: just splurged out the money. It's like, we've got to 228 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 3: get people out of off the streets and COVID and 229 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 3: then we'll just buy up hotels and properties and put 230 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 3: people in there because there's no one traveling. So this 231 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 3: whole kind of thing, and that's what happened. Now three 232 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 3: point eight billion dollars has gone into this and it's 233 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 3: basically a property scam. That's actually what's going on here. 234 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:26,319 Speaker 3: And so they end up taking hotels or in the 235 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,839 Speaker 3: case that we found, which was a vacant property, so 236 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:34,839 Speaker 3: a vacant piece of land in the Inglewood, and they 237 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 3: gave it a sweetheart permitting deal. The land changed that 238 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 3: the developer got it from with government assistance for a 239 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 3: tiny amount of money. Then they massively inflated the value, 240 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 3: sold it back, built with sweetheart deals for permitting things 241 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 3: that you could never imagine normal projects getting. They got 242 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,599 Speaker 3: the approvals, built this apartment, built there, one hundred and 243 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 3: twenty units or whatever, and most of them are empty. 244 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 3: So the developer gets the money because they sell the 245 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 3: property back to the government and they and they and 246 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,559 Speaker 3: the whole you know organization that's running it making hundreds 247 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 3: of millions of dollars, and there's not there's not even 248 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:17,959 Speaker 3: been used for the purpose. There's a few people in there, 249 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 3: but it's mostly empty. We looked at the whole portfolio 250 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 3: of project home key buildings that we could get our 251 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 3: hands on. The vacancy rate is fifty five percent. Like 252 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 3: they've got all the we're spending all this money and 253 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 3: like they're half empty, and that we're spending going well. 254 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 2: We're spending billions of dollars to build a relurbish the 255 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 2: these these homeless housing centers, and there aren't many homeless 256 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 2: living in there, but the developers are making a bloody 257 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 2: fortune of our tax. 258 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 3: Rights, exactly right. And that's what we call. It's a 259 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 3: perfect example of what we you know, we talk about 260 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 3: the homeless industrial complex. That's what it is, because there's 261 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 3: basically two to it. These non profits we keep hearing 262 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 3: about that get paid our money for delivering I'm going 263 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 3: to put it in quote marks services to homeless people 264 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 3: that actually don't get them off drugs, don't deal with 265 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 3: their alcohol addiction or mental health problems or whatever it 266 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 3: may be. They just keep being the nonprofits keep getting 267 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 3: paid even if the homeless people just stay there. And 268 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 3: then the other component of it are the developers. And 269 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 3: these are developers. Remember they give money to the politicians. 270 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 3: So it's totally correct. 271 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about. 272 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 2: It some of this money has to be kicked back 273 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 2: to the politicians in some form. 274 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 3: It's got to be exactly And now that explains why 275 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 3: when you've even got Democrats calling for audits. So this 276 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 3: has happened twice. Now, so at the state level, if 277 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 3: you remember, there was the state auditor, at the request 278 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 3: of a Republican legislator, took a look at the homeless 279 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 3: spending and that's where that famous number twenty four billion 280 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 3: came from. That the state auditor saying there's twenty four 281 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 3: billion dollars of homeless money that we have no idea 282 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 3: where it went state spending. The Democrat supermajority in the 283 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 3: state legislature then passed a specific bill demanding a detailed 284 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 3: audit of that money. They passed a bill and Gavin 285 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 3: Newsom vetoed it. What's the hiding the second and then 286 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 3: you have the exact same parallel in LA. Almost uncannily 287 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 3: the number number twenty four billion to statewide for LA 288 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 3: it was two point four billion. That was the number 289 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 3: that that emerged through a court case. You had business 290 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 3: owners and others in downtown LA suing the city over 291 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 3: failure to deal with and the judge found two point 292 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 3: four billion that wasn't accounted for. The city auditor in 293 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 3: La who was elected as a Democrat socialist like Afar 294 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 3: Left Bernie sandersgun Mandarmi figure then demanded an audit. And 295 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 3: guess what Karen Bass vetoed that she said were doing 296 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 3: an audit and in fact now she's trying to eliminate 297 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 3: the whole position because they know that if this is 298 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 3: really exposed, their crony connections and corruption will be explosed. 299 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 2: She also hired no, no exaggeration, fifteen lawyers to prevent 300 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 2: her from having to testify in the civil suit around 301 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 2: this missing money. Fifteen lawyers. They've made millions of dollars 302 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 2: to protect you're from testifying, and she got away with it. 303 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 3: I mean, this is this is, this is why all 304 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 3: of this ties together, right the council debate, the total 305 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 3: kind of you know, blocking of any transparency around their spending. 306 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 3: They know that they've run this state into the ground, 307 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 3: and they've got this incredible arrogance of a ruling elite 308 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 3: that doesn't care about the people, doesn't care about our money, 309 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 3: doesn't care about results. All they care about is their 310 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 3: power and their position and their political cronies. That's it, 311 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 3: and that's why I and I feel like there's a 312 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 3: we're getting to a tipping point in California. And it's 313 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 3: actually exactly as you say. You've got all these different investigations. 314 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 3: You've got Asked, you've got the Faredes, you've got Nick Shirley, 315 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 3: you've got James O'Keeffe. I was with James O'Keeffe on Saturday. 316 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 3: We just put out a video with him today. He's 317 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 3: exposing the election fraud, buying votes, buying signatures. Much of 318 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:22,199 Speaker 3: that one of the projects that James O'Keeffe filmed in 319 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 3: front of in La where you saw those people with 320 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 3: cash being bribed to make fake names to register to 321 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 3: vote and then put their names on ballot. And it's 322 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 3: all paid once. Some of that money is taxpayer money 323 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 3: because it's coming from one of the homeless project home 324 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 3: key nonprofits. I mean, the whole thing is tied together, 325 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 3: and here's the real business model being exposed because you've 326 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 3: got tax pay And so this goes back to some 327 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 3: of our Caldoje things, right, the first two I mentioned 328 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 3: the cannabis tax one and the solar panels that never happened. 329 00:17:55,359 --> 00:18:00,360 Speaker 3: Where did that money actually go Democrat voter registration, and 330 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 3: that's the part that James O'Keefe exposed, where the money 331 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 3: is then being handed out to homeless people to register 332 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 3: to vote in other people's names and then signed up 333 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 3: for ballot initiatives. There's just extraordinary levels of institutional corruption 334 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 3: and fraud and that's what's being exposed. And it's and 335 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 3: the volume on this is going to get louder and 336 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 3: louder and louder. The Manhattan Institute justin they just set 337 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:31,360 Speaker 3: up in California a new California Bureau just to investigate corruption. 338 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 3: I was just talking to them about it the other day. 339 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 3: So this is it's over, I think for this corrupt 340 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 3: regime in California. I really believe it's over this year. 341 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 2: Steve Hilton, we will talk again soon. Thank you for 342 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 2: coming on, and I hope people are listening and absorbing 343 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 2: and digesting all this. 344 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: Thank you. Thanks a lot. 345 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:51,640 Speaker 3: Great to be with you, John. 346 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 2: Thanks all right, the leading candidate for governor in California, 347 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 2: Steve Hilton on top of the palls. And when we 348 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 2: come back, I'll just read you this headline. Chevron gives 349 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom the middle finger. What's this about? It's about oil. 350 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 2: We'll tell you next. 351 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 352 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 4: six forty. 353 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show continues here. We're on from three to 354 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,360 Speaker 2: six after six o'clock. Whatever you missed is on the podcast, 355 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 2: same as the radio show. John Cobelt's show on demand, 356 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 2: it's called and First Hour. We covered extensively the phenomena. 357 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 2: We have people living in the sewers underneath Los Angeles. 358 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 2: Fox eleven. Matthew Seedorf discovered this story in South LA, 359 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 2: but they could be everywhere. Yes, there's people living in 360 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 2: the sores and they're climbing out of the man halls 361 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:50,199 Speaker 2: and you would not believe how disgusting, disgusting it is 362 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 2: under there. So you could listen to that. We just 363 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 2: had Steve Hilton on, who is the leading candidate for governor, 364 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 2: and we talked for a half an hour about all 365 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 2: the corruption and nonsense going on in the state. Now, 366 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,639 Speaker 2: there is a headline in the California Post Chevron gives 367 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom the middle finger, and it's about oil. And 368 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 2: before I get into the meat of the story, here's 369 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 2: what you ought to know. 370 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 3: Well. 371 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 2: Number One, personally, I paid six dollars six dollars for 372 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 2: a gallon of gas. I had an empty tank. I 373 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 2: needed twenty I couldn't even get there because the pump 374 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 2: stopped at one hundred dollars. 375 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: It stopped at sixteen gallons. 376 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 2: And I didn't feel like, you know, you gotta take 377 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 2: the nozzle out, hang it up, and then put your 378 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 2: credit card back in and start the process again for 379 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 2: the last four gallons, and I just didn't want to 380 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 2: do it. 381 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 1: I wanted to move on. 382 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 2: So you can't get a tank full of gas for 383 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 2: one hundred dollars six dollars, well, you know, exaggerate. It 384 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 2: was actually five dollars ninety nine and nine tenths of 385 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 2: a cent, you know, so it's a tenth of a 386 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 2: cent short of six. But I'm going to round it up. 387 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 2: But I want to, you know, I want total transparencies here. 388 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 2: So I look at the state averages. In California, the 389 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 2: average is five eighty two, five eighty two. 390 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: You know what. 391 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:28,719 Speaker 2: The nation average is three ninety seven. And there are 392 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 2: thirty nine states where gas still sells in the threes 393 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 2: thirty nine states. Oklahoma is at three twenty six, Kansas 394 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 2: at three twenty seven. I was at three thirty one, 395 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 2: and we are at five eighty two, and we are 396 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 2: fifty three cents higher than the next. 397 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: State, Washington. 398 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 2: Hawaii is only the third most expensive at five twenty eight. 399 00:21:55,720 --> 00:22:00,880 Speaker 2: We're at five eighty two. Massive shortage of oil being 400 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 2: produced in this state. Do you know two thirds of 401 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:07,360 Speaker 2: our oil now comes from overseas here in California because 402 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 2: Newsom will not allow oil to be drilled for here 403 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 2: in California anymore. And we have one point seven billion 404 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 2: barrels of oil proven reserves, they call it one point 405 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 2: seven billion barrels. We can't use any of it. There 406 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 2: are two things underground here in California. We have billions 407 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 2: of barrels of oil, and we have drug addicts and 408 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 2: mental patients living in the sewers. That's what's going on 409 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 2: down below. We can't touch it because of that. Of that, mister, 410 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 2: ninety three iq. 411 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 3: To be. 412 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 2: It's got to be lower than ninety three, because if 413 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 2: I told you the gas is going for six bucks 414 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 2: a gallon and we're importing two thirds of the oil 415 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 2: used in the state, you would probably say, hey, if 416 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 2: we have almost two billion barrels of oil underneath, let's 417 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 2: use that and Newsom says. 418 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,159 Speaker 1: No, what a dumb cluck. 419 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 2: Now, recently, Donald Trump, Yes, Donald Trump, he did a 420 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 2: really good thing. He signed an executive order invoking the 421 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 2: Defense Production Act. So that allows the federal government to 422 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:33,440 Speaker 2: open production of critical materials like oil and gas, for example. 423 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 2: And what that allowed is this company called Sable had 424 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 2: oil production facilities offshore Santa Barbara. They haven't operated since 425 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:50,679 Speaker 2: twenty fifteen. Well, as soon as Trump signed the Defense 426 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 2: Production Act, they started sending oil through the pipeline. In fact, 427 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 2: they had a lot of oil in storage. And now 428 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 2: there's a buyer. And this is where Chevron gives Gavin 429 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 2: Newsom the middle finger, according to the California Post, because Chevron. 430 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: Says, you know, we'll buy that oil. 431 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,400 Speaker 2: We're gonna buy twenty thousand barrels of oil a day 432 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 2: from Sable. They're gonna transmit it from Santa Barbara to 433 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 2: El Segundo. According to Chevron executive Andy Waltz, We're gonna 434 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 2: run Sables crude oil at El Segundo in April and 435 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 2: they can handle the supply forty five thousand to fifty 436 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 2: five thousand barrels per day. And of course that little 437 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 2: dwarf rob Banta and Newsom have filed a lawsuit against Trump, 438 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:51,400 Speaker 2: saying it illegally asserts exclusive jurisdiction over California onshore oil pipelines. 439 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 2: And they're still claiming, they're still claiming that the oil 440 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 2: companies are price gouging us. Here we're at almost We're 441 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 2: at almost six bucks on average. I see plenty of 442 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 2: six dollars gas in the state, and in Kansas it's 443 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 2: three twenty. We're at six. It is not the oil 444 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 2: company's price gouging. Gavin Newsom is tax gouging. Is that 445 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 2: a phrase? I think I invented one. He's tax gouging. 446 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 2: Spread that around when he. 447 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,360 Speaker 1: Does that oil. When he does that. 448 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 2: Oil companies are price scouging, it makes me crazy. It 449 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 2: is a complete, absolute, unbelievable, overwhelming Why but you knew 450 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,879 Speaker 2: that because it came out of Gavin Newsom's mouth. 451 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: No, he's tax gouging. 452 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 2: How else do you get six bucks a gallon gas 453 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 2: when thirty nine states are still in the threes? Good lord, 454 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 2: So now that oil is going to run through El 455 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 2: Segundo and it'll have a small effect on things here. 456 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: We'll continue. 457 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 458 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 4: six forty. 459 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 2: All right after six you can listen to the podcast 460 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show on demand, same as the radio show. 461 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 1: Everything you missed. 462 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 2: Start out with our number one because we spend a 463 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 2: lot of time in the first hour on all the 464 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 2: mental patients and drug addicts living underground. Yes, they're living 465 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,679 Speaker 2: in the Los Angeles sore system for real. Matthew Sedor 466 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 2: from Fox eleven had a report, so that's that's really 467 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,879 Speaker 2: of note there. And we had Steve Hilton on in 468 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 2: this hour, the five o'clock hour, which would be our 469 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 2: number three. All right, let's been funny to get to 470 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 2: this the whole show, but we've just had too much 471 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 2: going on. There's a new poll out on the mayor's 472 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 2: race in Los Angeles, and you may think at first 473 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 2: that this is good for Karen Bass because she's come 474 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 2: out on top right now, but listen to this from 475 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 2: Josh Haskell ABC seven. 476 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,160 Speaker 5: A new poll in the LA mayor's race shows Mayor 477 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 5: Karen Bass could be in trouble. In the Berkeley Institute 478 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 5: of Governmental Studies LA Times poll, Bass is in the 479 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 5: lead at twenty five percent, with council member Nicthia Rahman 480 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 5: at seventeen percent, reality TV star and Palisades Fire victim 481 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 5: Spencer Proud at fourteen percent, community organizer Ray Wong at 482 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,119 Speaker 5: eight percent, and tech entrepreneur Adam Miller at six percent. 483 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 5: Roughly twenty five percent of voters are undecided. 484 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 6: Angelinos tend to re elect their mayors. You have to 485 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 6: go back more than twenty years, back to two thousand 486 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 6: and five to find the last mayor, James Hahn, who 487 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 6: is not re elected office. 488 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 5: Political communications lecturer Dan Schnur says the race is very 489 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 5: much about Bass's response to the Palisades Fire, and what 490 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 5: she should be most concerned about is that only thirty 491 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 5: one percent of those polled view her favorably. More than 492 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 5: half fifty six percent have an unfavorable view of the 493 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 5: incumbent mayor. 494 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 6: These are very discouraging, if not downright devastating, whole numbers 495 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:00,719 Speaker 6: for Karen Bass. She's running ahead of her opponent's only 496 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,640 Speaker 6: because her opponents are not very well known. 497 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 5: Eyewitness News interviewed Mayor Bass earlier this month about the 498 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 5: state of the race. 499 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 2: I think the overall electorate is in a very sour mood, 500 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,640 Speaker 2: but it just shows me that I have work to do, 501 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 2: and I am ready for the work. 502 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 1: I have always worked very hard. I'm a workhorse, not 503 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: a show horse. 504 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 5: Nithiur Rahman says she's very encouraged by this poll as 505 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 5: it shows she's the top challenger to Bass in this 506 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 5: wide open race. 507 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 7: As someone who has jumped into this race just six 508 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 7: weeks ago, to see that my candidacy is already in 509 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 7: the top two is really exciting. The reasons that drew 510 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 7: me to jump in this race a sense of frustration 511 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 7: with the way that things were moving in the city 512 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 7: of Los Angeles, a sense of urgency that things needed 513 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 7: to change. That feels like it's being reflected in how 514 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 7: the voters are engaging with my campaign. 515 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 5: In the primary for the mayor's races June second, and 516 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 5: if a candidate doesn't receive more than fifty percent of 517 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 5: the vote, the top two finishers will move on to November. 518 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 2: All right, here's how I'm looking at this. Everybody hates 519 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 2: Karen Bass, they really do. I mean, yeah, there's a 520 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 2: group of diehards. But this is a George Gascone situation. 521 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 2: It's eerily similar because if you remember, George Gascone got 522 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 2: about twenty five percent of the vote in the early polls, 523 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 2: and he made it to the top two. But when 524 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 2: there was a real vote between him and Nathan Hawkman, 525 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 2: Hawkman blew him away. It's like around sixty forty. So 526 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 2: Karen Bass can't get a majority vote either the first 527 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 2: time or the second time because people just don't like her. 528 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 2: They want anybody else. She can't come back from the fire. 529 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 2: She can't come back from being in Africa. She can't 530 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 2: come back from defunding the police. She can't come back with. 531 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 3: Well, she. 532 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 2: Completely dismantled that fire department after action report. That's a 533 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 2: big lie, that after action report, and then she covered 534 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 2: up the lie. She can't come back from that. Everybody 535 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 2: hates her. The thing is, you don't want Nythia Ramen. 536 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 2: The only other choice is gonna be Spencer Pratt. We're 537 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 2: gonna have Spencer Pratt on. I think, well, it's gonna 538 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 2: be Thursday, right Thursday, at three o'clock, Spencer Pratt is 539 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 2: gonna be on the start of the show. 540 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 1: So we got to take a ride with him. 541 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 2: Nythia Ramen is a full blown Zoron mom Donnie like communist, 542 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 2: absolute communist, and Bass is cooked. She killed people, She 543 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 2: destroyed thousands of buildings. Her and her buddy Janie knonas 544 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 2: they were friends. Bass gave her communias that job. Remember 545 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 2: Kenyodia's is her going away party is Thursday. You go 546 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 2: on all our social media channels and I put out 547 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 2: a video too as well, because it's an open house. 548 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 2: You go to the party, or at least send her 549 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 2: that present we suggest, which is a ten foot rubber 550 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 2: hose for nineteen ninety nine at Amazon, because that's what 551 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 2: she needed to refill the reservoir. So instructions on how 552 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 2: to deal with conunias, instructions on how to deal with Bass. 553 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 2: Don't vote for her, You vote for Spencer Pratt. You 554 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 2: don't want Nithio Ramen. Everybody hates Bass. She's not going 555 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 2: to get a majority. You read up on Pratt, look 556 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,480 Speaker 2: on his social media channels. This is the way we 557 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 2: got to go. He's gonna come here on Thursday at 558 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 2: three o'clock. All right, we will see you tomorrow. And 559 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 2: we've got Mark Ronner and for Michael Krozer, Conway's next 560 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 2: Debra Mark live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 561 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 2: You've been listening to The John Cobelt Show podcast. You 562 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 563 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 2: forty from three to six pm every Monday through Friday, 564 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 2: and of course anytime I'm on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 565 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 4: K f I A M six four stimulating talk