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Speaker 1: we have a lot of good stuff. In fact, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna play you a clip of a California State Assemblyman

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Speaker 1: from right here in Los Angeles, in Hollywood, who thinks

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Speaker 1: that if you don't want biological mails playing sports with

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Speaker 1: your daughters in school, you are a Nazi. That's right,

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Speaker 1: you are a Nazi. If you don't want biological mail

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna we're going to play the clip coming up

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Speaker 1: tell you we have a poll online. Would this be

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Speaker 1: on Twitter? Instagram? Okay, this is an Instagram poll at

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Speaker 1: John Cobelt Radio, and the question is who do you

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Speaker 1: believe is to blame for the tax increases in La

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Speaker 1: County when this homeless money is wasted or at least

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Speaker 1: unaccounted for. And so far, stupid voters get the most

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Speaker 1: blamed from our audience sixty one percent, greedy politicians twenty

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Speaker 1: three percent, fraudulent nonprofits twelve percent, and slimy lobbyists four percent.

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Speaker 1: So you can continue answering that question on Instagram. Who

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Speaker 1: our audience is blaming stupid voters. Perhaps you're one of them.

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Speaker 1: You can redeem yourself. You know, you can always start

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Speaker 1: voting Brett now I would I would guess stupid voters

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Speaker 1: existence of Rick Zebur as California State assemblymen. Yesterday we

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Speaker 1: Kate Sanchez has a bill that would protect girls in sports.

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Speaker 1: You can't have biological boys men playing in girls sports.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's the thrust of the bill you've probably seen.

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Speaker 1: And if you haven't. You should look, there are videos

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Speaker 1: these poor girls. Because while these boys may consider themselves girls,

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Speaker 1: parents say it's wrong. I mean, this is another over

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Speaker 1: eighty percent of the country says it's wrong to have

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Speaker 1: biological males playing girl sports. And I would bet for

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't know the person who thinks

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Speaker 1: Zeburr is a Democratic assemblyman and he's part of this

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Speaker 1: mentally unbalanced progressive crowd. They have cluster b personality disorders,

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Speaker 1: and you see this played out by the hysterical screaming.

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Speaker 2: What Donald Trump has done in this administration has done

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Speaker 2: seeking reproductive healthcare. The Trump administration has not only targeted

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Speaker 2: This is about this, this is about this, is about

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Speaker 2: the Holocaust Memorial Museum, there's a quote it basically said,

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Speaker 2: And then they came for me, and there was no

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Speaker 2: one left to speak for me. Our march towards autocracy

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I don't think you'll run across a more

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Speaker 1: hysterical speech if you live another one hundred years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he actually thinks that if you don't want your daughter

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Speaker 1: if you look it up, there's something called cluster B

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Speaker 1: personality disorder, and these are narcissistic attention seekers. They engage

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Speaker 1: Transgender people should be left alone. Most everyone agrees to that.

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Speaker 1: Peyton McNabb is a girl in North Carolina. She was

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Speaker 1: Zeburgh is obviously insane to start. I mean, when I

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Speaker 1: the Nazis. People are not Nazis because they don't want

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Speaker 1: to Rick Seburgh, yeah, you're just like the Nazis who

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Speaker 1: How's that you have squatters. Maybe maybe you have expensive

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Speaker 5: Well, you think everybody here is You think everybody in

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Speaker 1: But we know that's not the case. No, we got

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I don't know why they're voting this way.

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Speaker 5: No Gavin, because he's so handsome as you'd like to say.

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Speaker 1: I know. But there are some some people less discerning.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 1: We are on every day from one until four and

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Speaker 1: Show podcast posted after four o'clock, also on the iHeart app.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday was a big day in homeless Land because a

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Speaker 1: I hold drudge.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think we all know that. We all know

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Speaker 3: So the county has decided they're moving forward to create

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Speaker 3: It would be curious to see what happens next for her,

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Speaker 1: She went over that too, and they cut her mic,

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Speaker 3: She didn't have her remarks prepared, it looked like so

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Speaker 3: There weren't any seconds for that, unfortunately, that were allocated.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so the bulk of that will now go,

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Speaker 1: So it seems like the county supervisors were upset with

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Speaker 1: It's just they're gonna be the boss rather than having

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Speaker 3: In fact, Supervisor Lindsay Horvath who pushed this motion forward

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Speaker 1: At LASA, that's very pointed.

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Speaker 3: This is just we are we are tired of seeing

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not necessarily that money is missing, by the way,

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Speaker 3: it's just that money and that it's a significant sum.

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Speaker 1: That's billion with a B.

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Speaker 3: A lot of the blacks pay our money that that

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Speaker 3: you should be seeing results for it's being spent, but

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Speaker 3: we're not. We're not sure how right. So it's going

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Speaker 3: out to organizations. Uh, there are a lot of homeless

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Speaker 3: service providers across LA across LA County, and they're collecting

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Speaker 3: this money, but they don't have any metrics to measure

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Speaker 3: their success.

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Speaker 1: Right, So some of these organizations, these nonprofits, they might

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Speaker 1: get cut now exactly, okay, And that's why I think

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Speaker 1: the city, these city council people are upset. I think

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Speaker 1: they got friends and relatives running these nonprofits and they're

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Speaker 1: upset for their buy who are being kicked off the

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Speaker 1: gravy train.

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Speaker 3: There are certainly homeless service providers in various council districts

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Speaker 3: that serve those special areas that may be an area

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Speaker 3: of concern theseus.

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Speaker 1: Then they're politically connected to these people. That's how you

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Speaker 1: get these contracts. I mean Valicia Adams Callum, who's the director,

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Speaker 1: gave two million dollars to her husband's nonprofit.

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Speaker 3: That didn't come up yesterday either. Oh that, but that

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Speaker 3: is an accurate statement.

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Speaker 1: See, this is all the good stuff. If I ran

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Speaker 1: this meeting, this is the stuff that would get covered.

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Speaker 3: We'll see if that comes up at the next court hearing,

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Speaker 3: which is scheduled in a couple of weeks. I believe

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Speaker 3: they're all supposed to be going back down to the

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Speaker 3: Federal Courthouse to hear from Judge Carter again, and this

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Speaker 3: time I anticipate everybody who.

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Speaker 1: Is requested to show up will show up. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: saw there's a story in the Early Times today that

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Speaker 1: you know, he seems like he'd like to blow the

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Speaker 1: place up, but he doesn't know what to replace it with.

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Speaker 1: Do you got more stuff?

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Speaker 3: We can talk about what went down at city Hall

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Speaker 3: yesterday too, because interestingly, as the city council people were

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Speaker 3: groveling for loss of to stay together, they were cutting

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Speaker 3: back on mayorback us as inside safe program.

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Speaker 1: Oh definitely then, because that's her crown jewel. All right.

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Speaker 1: More from Michael Monks and KFI News on this homeless

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Speaker 1: disaster here in La City and County that's why you

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Speaker 1: have so many bodies lying and dying in the streets.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 1: We are on from one until four o'clock and two o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Two o'clock means it's Alex Stone from ABC News. The

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Speaker 1: Menendez brothers entourage is upset with the La County DA

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Speaker 1: Nathan Hackman. They think he's letting politics interfere with their

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Speaker 1: desire to see the poor boys set free after their

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Speaker 1: double murder. We will talk about that with Alex coming

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Speaker 1: up right after two o'clock. Continue here, Michael Monks from

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Speaker 1: KFI News. The homeless tax went into effect yesterday and

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Speaker 1: and then the La County Board of Supervisors voted to

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Speaker 1: basically defund LASA keep the money for themselves, and they

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Speaker 1: are going to transfer a lot of the workers to

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Speaker 1: the county. And I guess the Board of Supervisors will

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Speaker 1: find a director to oversee the whole homeless operation. LA

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Speaker 1: City Council. People are upset with this. And now you

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Speaker 1: said the La City Council, though acted out against Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass over this homeless issue, which I was surprised to hear.

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Speaker 1: Explain the detail it was a big day for homeless

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Speaker 1: stuff in La County yesterday because, yeah, the sales tax

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Speaker 1: the new department at the county level. Meanwhile, this thing

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Speaker 1: kind of flew under the radar because we were watching

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Speaker 1: the homeless department thing at the county building. But at

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Speaker 1: City Hall, the Inside Safe program, Mayor Karen Bass's signature

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Speaker 1: anti homeless program, is now required to come to council

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Speaker 1: every quarter because the council wasn't happy last year the

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Speaker 1: budget was created. This year, they mandated that Karen Bass's

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Speaker 1: team come to council every quarter and tell how much

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Speaker 1: they want and what they want to use it for.

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Speaker 1: It's that time of the year.

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Speaker 3: So City Administrator Matt Zabo showed up and he says,

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Speaker 3: a Mayor Bass would like forty six point one million

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Speaker 3: dollars to cover the cost of Inside Safe and her

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Speaker 3: other initiatives.

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Speaker 1: To address homelessness.

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Speaker 3: And the council had a lot of questions, expressed a

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Speaker 3: lot of doubt about how the spending has gone.

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Speaker 1: Now, they what the efficacy.

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Speaker 3: I'll say some on the council starting last year, it's

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Speaker 3: why they're doing these quarterly reports.

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Speaker 1: Said.

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Speaker 3: This program is very secretive and it's a lot of money,

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Speaker 3: and we're not sure we're seeing the results that we

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Speaker 3: should be seeing, and some council districts are being serviced

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Speaker 3: more than others, and what's going on. So that at

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Speaker 3: least mandated that Karen Bass's team show up every quarter.

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Speaker 3: But it got real bad for her yesterday because she

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Speaker 3: asked for forty six point one million and left with

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Speaker 3: seventeen million.

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Speaker 1: Few less than that. Twenty nine point one million.

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Speaker 3: Is what she got because some of that is already

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Speaker 3: basically spent. So they needed to cover the cost of

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Speaker 3: some of the hotel rooms, for example, and some of

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Speaker 3: the third party providers needed to be paid, so that's

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Speaker 3: what they limited it to.

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Speaker 1: But say, it's seventeen million dollars short of her request.

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Speaker 3: Seventeen million dollars short of the request, and that's because

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Speaker 3: Counselman Nitthia Raman, who by the way, after this council

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Speaker 3: meeting went to the supervisor's meeting and begged them to

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Speaker 3: keep lossa intact. She's the chair of the Housing and

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Speaker 3: Homeless Committee. She said she wanted to limit the transfer

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Speaker 3: of funds to inside Safe and she also encouraged the

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Speaker 3: rest of the council to do so. This is the

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Speaker 3: same council woman who was singing losses praises at yesterday's borders.

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Speaker 3: That shows you a bit of a discrepancy between how

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Speaker 3: she feels about the traditional homeless programs and what Karen

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Speaker 3: Bass is doing. Ramen said that it should not be

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Speaker 3: viewed as conflict with the mayor, that it should not

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Speaker 3: be looked at as any type of criticism of Mayor

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Speaker 3: Karen Bass.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's nonsense. Asked for forty six millions, she

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Speaker 1: gets twenty nine million. Basically, they're saying, well, we don't

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Speaker 1: trust you, or we think this inside safe isn't working

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Speaker 1: the way you claim it.

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Speaker 3: Is what she says, she being councilman Niffia Rahm, and

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Speaker 3: she said, this change, this reduction, the amount that we're

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Speaker 3: willing to sign off on first, is designed quote to

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Speaker 3: make us better at doing the work that we have

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Speaker 3: all committed to over and over again.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like gobbledygook. Yeah, well, I mean it's the

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Speaker 1: same message that you've been getting.

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Speaker 3: But it is interesting to watch right that the same

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Speaker 3: folks who march down to the supervisor's meeting and said

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Speaker 3: status quo, status quo, status quo. As it relates to

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Speaker 3: what Lassa has been doing. Says that Karen Bass's program

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Speaker 3: should have less money because the status quo is not

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Speaker 3: good enough.

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Speaker 1: It seems like everything is hitting a boiling point now

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Speaker 1: after the two audits have said this is a disaster here.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of money either it's unaccounted for and

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Speaker 1: you know, the judge is threatening to just turn everything

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Speaker 1: upside down.

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Speaker 3: This is all coming to a head, and it's it

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Speaker 3: seems to be timed well enough to get the city

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Speaker 3: at least give the city enough time to get its

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Speaker 3: act together before the world comes to visit us in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight for the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: But it's not a lot of it. They wouldn't do

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Speaker 1: it for us. But if you know the French you're

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Speaker 1: coming for a visit, then we've got to clean up that.

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Speaker 3: That's correct, But like right now, I'm sure that it's

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Speaker 3: not connected to that, because people who are proponents of

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Speaker 3: the Olympics, like Mayor Karen Bass, wanted to keep loss intact,

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Speaker 3: wanted all a seventeen million more dollars for our program.

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Speaker 1: But you're right, I mean, did any of them ever

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Speaker 1: address why none of this has worked? Because you've got

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Speaker 1: all these various agencies and levels of government and funding sources,

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Speaker 1: and you know, they're moving people around and moving money around.

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Speaker 1: They're cutting this, they're expanding that, but in the end

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Speaker 1: we end up with more homeless bodies in the street.

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Speaker 1: I mean, does anybody say none of this has worked?

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Speaker 1: Not yet?

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Speaker 3: And what I think the people of La County rightfully

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Speaker 3: should be asking at this point is, yeah, sure, you're

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Speaker 3: going to keep better track of the money because it's

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Speaker 3: now inside a government agency rather than a quasi government aid.

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Speaker 3: See that there are different rules and all that, and

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Speaker 3: people who are electorally accountable to people with ballots every

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Speaker 3: few years. So that's a big change. But what's changing

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Speaker 3: with the strategy? Because you can point to data all

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Speaker 3: you want that comes from loss about how many people

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Speaker 3: have been put in various types of houses exactly, because

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Speaker 3: if you're still seeing the same number of homeless people

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Speaker 3: outside of park you want to take your kids to

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Speaker 3: or near an overpass that you drive by, and it

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Speaker 3: makes you uncomfortable or creates an unsafe situation, that it

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter. So what is the strategy going to be?

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Speaker 3: Because it's not just about housing. We know a lot

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Speaker 3: of these people who are on our streets. They didn't

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Speaker 3: miss last month's rent. No, these are drug addicts or mentally.

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Speaker 1: What they want don't want to admit is that these

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Speaker 1: drug addicts and these mental patients they're not looking for housing.

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Speaker 1: They're looking for a hit, a drug hit, or you know,

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Speaker 1: they want to just be left alone to talk to

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Speaker 1: their demons late at night.

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Speaker 3: Well, the sales tax that you're now paying a higher

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Speaker 3: percentage of is supposed to help homelessness, but also specifically

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Speaker 3: through mental health, that is supposed to be a big

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Speaker 3: part of it.

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Speaker 1: I've heard that like a ten thousand times in the

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Speaker 1: last ten years. All Right, Michael Monk's very good reporting.

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Speaker 1: My pleasure. You're all over this. This is great. I

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Speaker 1: want to do more because the Judge Carter is absolutely

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Speaker 1: at his wits end with this whole situation. I don't

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Speaker 1: think people know just how badly managed this entire issue

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Speaker 1: has been. The county, the city, the mayor, all of it.

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Speaker 1: Nobody knows what they're doing. Nobody. We will continue with

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Speaker 1: Alex Stone because the Menendez brothers, family and friends. Boy,

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Speaker 1: they just never lose their passion for defending two guys

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Speaker 1: who blew their parents' heads off. They're upset with Nathan Hawkman.

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Speaker 1: They think his actions are political because Hakman doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to release the two brothers. Immediately, we got Deborah Mark

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Speaker 1: live the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been

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Speaker 1: listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always

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Speaker 1: hear the show live on KFI Am six forty from

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