1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every day, 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: actually we're on constantly. We do it live from one 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,159 Speaker 1: to four on KFI. You can hear the stream on 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio app and then the podcast posted after 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: four o'clock also on the app. It's John Cobelt's show 7 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: on demand and that is available all the time. For example, 8 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: if you miss Tom Homan on yesterday's show, you could 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,839 Speaker 1: listen to the podcast from yesterday. He was on with 10 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: us in the first hour of the program. You'll be 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: able to listen to that whenever you want so iHeartRadio app. 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: Today's show posted after four o'clock. Sometimes you can't do 13 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: better than just read the press release. Supervise this. Orange 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: County Supervisors Don Ragner and Janet Wynn are introducing an 15 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: emergency agenda item that directs the Red Start to investigate, 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: disclosed and remove non human voter registrations and voting records 17 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: after felony charges against the owner of a dog that 18 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: voted in two elections. The woman was in Costa Mesa 19 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 1: and the dog, who is now deceased, voted in the 20 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 1: Newsome recall election. And also what was the other thing 21 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: it was for? It was a what was the other thing? Well, 22 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: it was two votes. And of course they're investigating Debora's 23 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: dogs because now they're under suspicion. You better live a 24 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: clean life, you know, we always have a target on 25 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: our back. I know, I know. And I was thinking, 26 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: you know, if they went after debor, what would they 27 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: go after? And probably your dog's voting record the first thing. 28 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 2: No, they hate politics and politicians. 29 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: Now we have we have Don Wagner coming on right, Okay, 30 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: Don Wagner, Range County Supervisor. He's going to talk about 31 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: this because you know, put aside the dog situation, there 32 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: are a lot of what they call dirty voting roles 33 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: in the state. In fact, in La County there was 34 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: a lawsuit and La County had to clear one point 35 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: six million ineligible voters. Let's get Don Wagner on Orange 36 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: County Supervisor. Don, how are you? 37 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 3: I'm good, John, how are you well? 38 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: This has become quite a story. The dog that voted 39 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: twice the other. 40 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,519 Speaker 3: Election was the twenty two primary. 41 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: To twenty two primary. Now have they found out if 42 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 1: this dog was a Newsome voter? Was this dog part 43 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: of the problem. 44 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 3: Oh now, now that's funny, because I tried to get 45 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,399 Speaker 3: our registrar to at least tell me was the dog 46 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 3: registered Republican, Democrat, no party preference and he wouldn't do 47 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 3: it because of the privacy law. And I thought, wait 48 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 3: a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute, it's a dog. Dog. 49 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 3: Dogs don't have privacy rights. And the dog dead. He said, no, 50 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 3: he wouldn't. You wouldn't tell me. You can't make this up, John, 51 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 3: A dead dog, inked. I was trying to get the 52 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 3: registration he wouldn't tell me. Turns out it was a 53 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 3: no party preference voter. It was yes. I know, you 54 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 3: have to laugh. 55 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: It's so really, this is the Orange County Registrar. 56 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 3: Orange County Registrar, my advisive counsel. I can't tell you, supervisor, 57 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 3: whether it was a Republican or a Democrat or a 58 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 3: no party preference. It's a privacy. It's a dog, it's 59 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 3: a dead dog. I have emails. I have I have 60 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 3: half a dozen emails and this he wouldn't tell me. 61 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: Really, no, could you to us? I'd love to read 62 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: them on the air. 63 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 3: I will forward those to you. 64 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: Okay. 65 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 3: He finally found late yesterday after I just went ballistic. 66 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 3: He finally forwarded us late yesterday. Apparently there is some 67 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 3: exception to those no disclosure rules when it's a public issue. 68 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 3: So he finally told me at about seven thirty last 69 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 3: night that this was a no party preference. Dog. You 70 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 3: just you gotta laugh because it's a serious problem, but 71 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 3: you gotta laugh. 72 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, now, what's this? I'm sorry, I'm just maybing 73 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 1: done for the rest of the show. So what's this? 74 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: What's this agenda item? What do you want the registrar? 75 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: And by the way, his name is Bob Page, just 76 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 1: so you know, uh, you want him to investigate and 77 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: do what here? 78 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 3: So so here here's the issue. And by the way, 79 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 3: it got voted down by the three Democrats on my 80 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 3: voy board voted against the item that Supervisor Win and 81 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 3: I brought. And it was and the reason we did 82 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 3: it on an emergency basis is because tomorrow is the 83 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 3: day that registrar is going to run all the voting 84 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,600 Speaker 3: records so that they can start printing ballots for the 85 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 3: gerrymanderin special election in November. So tomorrow they're going to 86 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 3: run the roles and what Janet and I were asking 87 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 3: today was you know, at least take the next twenty 88 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 3: four hours and let's investigate. Are there other dogs? Are 89 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 3: there cats? How do we clean our voter rolls before 90 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 3: we run them? And that got voted down three to two. 91 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: Really, yes, they won't even let you clean the voter 92 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: rolls of dead dogs and dead cats. 93 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 3: They would not let us bring it up today. They said, oh, 94 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,919 Speaker 3: come back on, you know at our next meeting. It's like, 95 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 3: all right, we will, but by then the voter roles 96 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 3: have been run. 97 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: What is going on? It seems like everybody's insane. 98 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 3: Now, well we it is. Everybody is insane, and you 99 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 3: just you can't make it up. When they're saying privacy 100 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 3: for a dog prevents us from cleaning the voting roles 101 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 3: or or at least even admitting anything about this dog. 102 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 3: It's surreal. But we have we have Obviously there's a 103 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 3: problem there, and you know, we're in the middle of 104 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 3: a lawsuit from the Department of Justice. There are seventeen 105 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 3: self admitted and that's critical. These people have admitted that 106 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 3: they are here illegally and they are registered to vote, 107 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:38,359 Speaker 3: and the registrar is fighting the Department of Justice to 108 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 3: not turn over the unredacted records of those voters. Now 109 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 3: those voters know who they are, they've registered, they have 110 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 3: self admitted, and we can't even get a hold of 111 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 3: that type of information to see how do they register? 112 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 3: How did this dog get registered? Where are the holes 113 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 3: in the system that's allowing this to happen? And is 114 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 3: it the tip of the iceberg or is there a 115 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 3: whole big chunk of ice below there where we have 116 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 3: problems And it's like, Nope, nothing to see here. Privacy 117 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 3: in California, you can't you can't investigate this. 118 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: Well, if La County had over we've got to be 119 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:18,119 Speaker 1: able to clear our roles. If La County had over 120 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: a million and a half ineligible names on the voter rolls, 121 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: you could easily have five hundred thousand. 122 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 3: Absolutely they had more. They had more registered voters than 123 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 3: human beings living in Los Angeles. There's a problem. There 124 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 3: is a problem, and it's clearly here in Orange County 125 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 3: as well, and no willingness on the part of my 126 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 3: board to confront it head on. 127 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: And there's no way to know how many of these people, 128 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: people who moved, people who are dead dogs that are dead, 129 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: illegal aliens. You know, all the categories, how many of 130 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: them actually vote, or people will steal their names and 131 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: use their identities to vote. 132 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 3: It's why we need voter ID. Apparently the way they 133 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 3: found out about this dog was that there wasn't a 134 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 3: dog didn't have any voter ID when it tried to 135 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 3: vote in the in the twenty two general primary election. 136 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 3: And when you're voting just your first time, you're supposed 137 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 3: to show an ID unless it's only a state election, 138 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 3: because the state will not do voter ID. And so 139 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 3: that dog's vote counted in the Newsom recall, at least 140 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 3: it didn't count in twenty two. And and there's there's 141 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 3: just a problem here that we're not allowed Apparently we're 142 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 3: not allowed to even ask the questions. They voted against 143 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 3: bringing the questions to the registrar today. 144 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: That's very suspicious because they don't know what this would 145 00:08:53,840 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: lead to, and and and the Prop fifty LL they 146 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: don't really want to hear that. They don't want that 147 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: news to be leaking out. And because they want they 148 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: want these voters for the Prop fifty election in November. 149 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 3: We need our roles to be clear, wow and clean 150 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 3: and well, that's a bridge too far. 151 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: Well, don that's the biggest laugh I had in a while. 152 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: Thank you very much for coming on. You're welcome in 153 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: Orange County, said, and send us those emails. Send it 154 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: to Ray, I'll send you. Okay, all right. Don Wager 155 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: the Orange County Supervisor, and uh uh yeah, the registrar, 156 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: Bob Page, that's his name in Orange County. You are 157 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: paying your tax money to Bob Page too, and he 158 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 1: is zealously protecting the privacy rights of a dead dog. 159 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: So we don't know how this person, how this dog 160 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: was registered as a Democrat or Republican or a non 161 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: partisan voter. Great, uh, we live in great times. 162 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 163 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 4: six forty. 164 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: We are on every day from one until four o'clock. 165 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: You can't get this stuff anywhere else after four John 166 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. Well, we 167 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: just had Don Wagner on from he's the Orange Kunty 168 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: supervisor and he told us how the two dogs, No, 169 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: the dog who voted twice in recent elections died. Don 170 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: Wagner was trying to get information about the dogs vote. 171 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: Wants to find out if he was registered as a 172 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: Republican or Democrat right, and the registrar the registrar Bob 173 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: Page would not tell Wagner for quite a while, claiming 174 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 1: that it violates privacy laws. Now, A, it's a dog, 175 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: and b it's a dead dog. And what did what 176 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: did Bob Page think was going to happen? If he 177 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 1: told Wagner what the registration was, the political registration. 178 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 2: The dog would rise from the dead and file a lawsuit. 179 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 1: Let the dog have standing? Do dogs have the legal 180 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: rights to sue? Probably in California. Yeah, it's just unbelievable. Well, 181 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: when we get the email exchange between Bob Page and 182 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 1: Don Wagner, we're going to read it to you. All right, now, 183 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: this this you're not going to believe how many times 184 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 1: the day? 185 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 2: Why say all the time and every time you're right. 186 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: There's too many things. Okay, So we told you as 187 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: late as yesterday, and we have for months, that gas 188 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: is likely to go up to eight to ten dollars 189 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: a gallon over the next months, maybe you know, three months, 190 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: six months, a year. It's not precise, and it's going 191 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: to happen, but it's going to happen. One of the 192 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: big reasons is two refineries are closing. Phillip sixty six 193 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,959 Speaker 1: is closing one refinery down in the La Or area 194 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: here in Carson, and Villero is closing a refinery up 195 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: in northern California in Benetia. And this this finally got 196 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: Newsom into a panic because the reason for the closure 197 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:33,199 Speaker 1: is Newsom's excessive punishing taxes and regulation and Phillip sixty 198 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: six and Valero said, can't do it anymore, We're done. 199 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: So Newsom is trying to get a buyer for the 200 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: Valero refinery in Benetia, and they were going worldwide. They 201 00:12:52,559 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: cannot find one plan B. California legislators are considereding paying 202 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:07,560 Speaker 1: Valero hundreds of millions of dollars to cover maintenance costs 203 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: to prevent the closure of the refinery. Between eighty and 204 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars of state funds would be spent 205 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: on the maintenance work. But it doesn't say, look, I 206 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: assume this is our tax money or is this some 207 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: of the money they've already stolen from the oil companies 208 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: with the with their with their excessive taxes, Like where 209 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: is this money coming from? Because I guess they couldn't 210 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: find a buyer because who's going to who's going to 211 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: buy something that I guess loses a lot of money 212 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: because the taxes and regulations are overwhelming. Under the deal, 213 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 1: the state would pay Valero to can you continue operating? 214 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: It's Benetia refinery. It's going to close in April, the 215 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: latest in a string of California fuel plant shutdowns. Benetia. 216 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: The town would be in big trouble because they're gonna 217 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: lose ten million dollars if Valera closes, big hit to 218 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: the budget. According to the mayor, Steve Young. That isn't 219 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: Steve Young, the ex football player, is it? Probably another one. 220 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: Maintenance is one of the biggest operating costs for refiners, 221 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: and the expense of major overhauls every four or five 222 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: years can be a catalyst for closure. Now, they they 223 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: charge us excessive amounts in gas taxes, and then they 224 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: overregulate the refineries and that adds to the gas price. 225 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: They also tax the refineries, so they have all kinds 226 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: of income coming in with the state, billions and billions 227 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: of dollars, and it just makes everything difficult, and there's 228 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: no reason for it. None of the other states do this, 229 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: none of them. There's no state anywhere close to the 230 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: price of our gas. I was coming out of lax 231 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: the other night, five twenty nine, a gallon down some 232 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: Polota Bullvard all the stations at five twenty nine after 233 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: the plane landed. That's what hit me. Valerio's not commenting. Oh, 234 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: Newsom's office is not commenting. The state Senate and Assembly 235 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: leaders are not commenting. Boy, these guys are clowns. These 236 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: guys are absolute bozos. Newsom has been trashing the oil 237 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: companies for years, claiming they were gouging us, that they're 238 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: all greedy and awful and horrible. And the oil companies 239 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: called this buffet, said fine, we're gone. Can't afford this 240 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: place anyway. And now he's begging him to stay, and 241 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: they said, no, well we'll find you another buyer. Go ahead. 242 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: I couldn't find another buyer, all right, how about if 243 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: we pay you. Wow? What an embarrassment he is. He 244 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: is such an embarrassment. This is such bad policy. This 245 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: is bad, bad, bad, bad policy. And you want to 246 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 1: give more power with the redistricting of the congressional seats. 247 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: You wanted him to be president. Really, the hell is 248 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: wrong with people? All right? To stop for a moment, 249 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: I'm very tired, you are. Yeah, when we come back, 250 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: I gotta talk about this poor woman in Charlotte got 251 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: stabbed to death by that by that monster, because more 252 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: terrible stuff has come out about him and about what 253 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: she went through. That is next. 254 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 255 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 4: six forty. 256 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: Moist lying for Friday is eight seven seven Moist steady 257 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: six eight seven seven Moist steady six. You usually talk 258 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:04,439 Speaker 1: about feature on the iHeartRadio app. This story makes me 259 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: physically sick. And it's about Irena Zarutska, the Ukrainian war refugee, 260 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: twenty three year old, beautiful woman who is in Charlotte. 261 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: She escaped the war. She was working in Charlotte. Now 262 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: and she's taking the local train, sits down in her 263 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: seat and there is this monster beast sitting behind her 264 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: that moved in in the row behind her, and he 265 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: gets up and pulls out a large knife and starts 266 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: stabbing repeatedly. Now, yesterday there was the video of him 267 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: standing up and pulling out the knife, but she doesn't 268 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: know he's there yet. Now they're publishing more photos and video, 269 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: and I'm looking at some of the photos here because 270 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,919 Speaker 1: he got up and faced her from the aisle and 271 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: is looming over her, and she looks absolutely horrified, terrified, 272 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: trying to cover her face, bawling up onto the seat. 273 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: She looks so scared and helpless. And this is right 274 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 1: before he pulls the niath out and slaughters her. 275 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 2: And nobody on this train helped, nobody grabbed him, nobody 276 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 2: did anything. 277 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: No, he walked by with blood dripping from his knife 278 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: for his clothing and you can see the drops of blood, 279 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: and nobody did anything. 280 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 2: Well, I can imagine at that point you're scared that 281 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 2: you're going to be the next victim. 282 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know there was a woman across from 283 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: her and she's looks terrified, leaning up against the opposite door. Oh, 284 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,400 Speaker 1: I'll just never forget that. I mean, it's just it's 285 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: just so so awful. And it turns out he was 286 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 1: arrested fourteen times. Fourteen times. I've got to get the 287 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:23,479 Speaker 1: news story here the Free Press. You go to go 288 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: to the FP dot com and they have a rundown 289 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 1: of what happened. Just bear with me a second. It did. 290 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: This stupid thing is reloading on me and they have 291 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:51,239 Speaker 1: mugshots out. Now, all this fourteen mugshots lined up, and 292 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: it turns out that this was what the last two 293 00:19:55,560 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: Democratic governors put into place, and they got rid of bail, basically, 294 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 1: they got rid of cash bail, and they deprioritized a 295 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 1: lot of felonies, so prison wasn't an option much of 296 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 1: the time anymore, or if he went to prison, it 297 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: would be for a short time. And then they have 298 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: a mayor named vy Lyles, and she's an older woman, 299 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: she's an idiot in the Karen Bass mode. And she 300 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 1: demanded the same compassion, diligence and commitment as cancer and 301 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: heart disease for Brown for his mental illness. She demanded 302 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: compassion for the mental illness that Brown was suffering from 303 00:20:54,680 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: that led him to slaughter. Arina Zarutska, she said she's 304 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: not villainizing those who struggle with their mental health or 305 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: those who are unhoused. 306 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 2: By Lyles, how would she feel if that was her daughter. 307 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 2: I don't think she'd be saying the same thing. 308 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: She says. Mental health, like the schizophrenia Brown was diagnosed with, 309 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence and 310 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: commitment as cancer and heart disease. Those who are unhoused frequent, 311 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: are more frequently the victims of crimes and not the perpetrators. 312 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 1: The hell was she talking about? So here's the rundown. 313 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 1: His name is Di Carlos Brown Di Carlos. He's charged 314 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: with first degree murder. A career criminal fourteen previous arrests, 315 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: including robbery and assault. Here's a few details. In twenty fourteen, 316 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: Brown was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to prison. 317 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: He was released in September of twenty twenty. In February 318 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: of twenty one, he was arrested again for assaulting his sister, 319 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 1: leaving her with minor injuries. Within weeks, he was arrested 320 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: for injury to personal property and trespassing. In July of 321 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, he was arrested for a domestic disturbance. 322 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 1: His criminal record goes back to when he was a minor. 323 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,880 Speaker 1: He has a history of mental illness. His mother told 324 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 1: a Charlotte TV station she noticed aggressive behavior after Brown 325 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 1: was released from prison on the armed robbery conviction. Eventually 326 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,479 Speaker 1: she got an involuntary commitment order from the courts. He 327 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: was under psychiatric monitoring for two weeks and diagnosed with schizophrenia. 328 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: After the monitoring ended. His aggression got worse and she 329 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: had to kick him out. In January of this year, 330 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 1: Brown was charged with misusing nine to one one. The 331 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: officers were called to his home. They spoke with him. 332 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: He told them that someone gave him men made material 333 00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 1: that controlled what he ate and where he walked in talked. 334 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: Brown then wanted the officers to investigate the material that 335 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: was inside of his body. They told him he was 336 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: experiencing a medical issue. They couldn't do anything for him, 337 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: so he called nine to one one right in front 338 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,360 Speaker 1: of the officers. This is all in the court records, 339 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 1: but a magistrate, Teresa Stokes, allowed Brown to be released 340 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: from prison because he made a written promise to appear 341 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: in court at a later date, And during a July 342 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: twenty ninth hearing about the same case, a local judge, 343 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:36,240 Speaker 1: Roy Wiggins ordered a forensic evaluation but did not detain Brown. 344 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: He remained free and Brown was still a waiting trial 345 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: when he boarded the train on August twenty second and 346 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 1: killed Irena Zorutska, and the mayor says she wants compassion 347 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 1: for Brown because of his mental health and unhoused conditions. 348 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: Wiles didn't mention his career criminal status. In her comments, 349 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: she said, we have to do better for those members 350 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: of our community who need help and have no place 351 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: to go. Can't you see Bass saying all this? My god, 352 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,199 Speaker 1: this is this is just the worst thing I have 353 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 1: seen and heard of in quite a while. I cannot believe. 354 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: The Progressives all have to go. They have to be 355 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: chased out of office. No more discussing with them anything. 356 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 1: The progressives are disgusting and destructive. They kill people, They 357 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 1: cause towns to burn, they cause people to die, people 358 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: get raped, people get murdered because of progressive policy. The 359 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: last two governors of North Carolina got rid of bail. 360 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: I'll give you a rundown on that part when we 361 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: come back. 362 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty. 363 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: John coblt Show, so you can follow us at John 364 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: Cobolt Radio on social media at John Cobelt Radio. We're 365 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: continuing about this brutal, vicious murder of this poor Ukrainian 366 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: war refugee, beautiful girl twenty three years old. Her name's 367 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:22,640 Speaker 1: Irena Zarutska, and they released video and photos today of 368 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: her cowering and fear trying to cover her face balled ups. 369 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: Scared of this monster with his dreadlocks. He's got tattoos 370 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: up to his neck, arrested fourteen times, he was schizophrenic, 371 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: and nothing in the North Carolina government worked nothing. They 372 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,640 Speaker 1: didn't put him in a mental institution. They didn't put 373 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 1: him in prison and keep him there. Fourteen arrests, fourteen mugshots. 374 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,719 Speaker 1: Go look this up. Caroline Levity is the spokesperson for Trump, 375 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: and I don't know how many left wing TV networks 376 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: or media outlets broadcast her comments here, but I'm going 377 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,479 Speaker 1: to read them all the way Back in twenty twenty, 378 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 1: North Carolina's then Democrat Governor Roy Cooper established a so 379 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: called Task Force for Racial Equity and Criminal Justice. Sounds nice, 380 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 1: but it's not. That task force was co authored by 381 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 1: the then Attorney General and current Democrat Governor Josh Stein 382 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: and recommended quote reimagining public safety to promote diversion and 383 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: other alternatives to arrest. It also advised to deemphasize some 384 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: felony crimes, prioritize restorative justice, and elimited cash bail. Democrats 385 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 1: in North Carolina and nationwide are consumed with pushing awoke 386 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: soft on crime agenda, no matter how many minutes innocent 387 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,160 Speaker 1: American suffer as a result. I'm sorry if they're seeing 388 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: that video and seeing what's going on here in La 389 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: you know what, I don't care. He had to send 390 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,959 Speaker 1: in the National Guard, send in the Marines, he can 391 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,880 Speaker 1: send in the army, he can declare martial law. Uh 392 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 1: and you hear what they ought to do is have 393 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 1: Ice round up all the city council members and Karen Bass. 394 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: They ought to round up the mayor in uh in 395 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: uh Charlotte and that city council and just take them 396 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: out of the country, go send them to that El 397 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: Salvador Superbacks prison and could spend their time with all 398 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: the violent gang member felons that they love. I mean, 399 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 1: this is this is this, This is overwhelmingly awful. This is 400 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: horrible and every day I mean if these who why 401 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 1: do people elect these a holes? Why their policies are awful? 402 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,399 Speaker 1: They result in violence and death. They have failed now 403 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:13,400 Speaker 1: for many years. Why why why do people do this? 404 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 1: Nobody ever used to vote people like this. We nobody 405 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: had these philosophies. Why would you, I'm telling you, look 406 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,920 Speaker 1: up this guy and look at all the photos and 407 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: look at at at Irena Sarutska cowering in her seat 408 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: right before she was stabbed, repeatedly de Carlos Brown, I 409 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: don't understand. And then Mayor actually goes out there and says, well, 410 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: we have to have compassion for him, for him, for 411 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 1: his mental illness and his unhoused status. Really she said that, Really, 412 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: that's what she believes. And she's the mayor of Charlotte, 413 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: and we have that governing us here. Three quarters of 414 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:14,239 Speaker 1: the city councils like that. I don't understand. All right, 415 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 1: Conways up next, and we have Michael Krozer live in 416 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening 417 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: to The John Cobalt Show podcast. 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