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Speaker 2: I am six forty.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand also on

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Speaker 3: the iHeart app. We will talk now to John Allen

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Speaker 3: just a moment. John is a businessman. He owns some

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Speaker 3: properties at Santa Monica Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica,

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Speaker 3: and the La Times had an absolutely astonishing piece of

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Speaker 3: journalist to journalistic garbage yesterday where they tried to figure

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Speaker 3: out why Santa Monica is broke, and they settled on

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Speaker 3: everything but the top two reasons, which is rampant homelessness

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Speaker 3: and also at the crime associated with it, and also

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Speaker 3: completely ignored that Santa Monica started spiraling down quickly when

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Speaker 3: the Black Lives Matter riots destroyed many business is that

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Speaker 3: we're never seen again between setting fires and smashing their

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Speaker 3: windows and stealing all the stuff, and anything about the

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Speaker 3: Black Lives Matter riots or the unbelievable sick homelessness was

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Speaker 3: not mentioned. They want to blame everything on one police

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Speaker 3: dispatcher who sexually abused one hundred and eighty kids, and

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Speaker 3: it's across the city two hundred and twenty nine million dollars,

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Speaker 3: which is part of the issue, but far from all

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Speaker 3: the issue. And it's the tax revenues that are down

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Speaker 3: drastically because of all the reasons I mentioned, and the

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Speaker 3: La Times, Salvador Hernandez and Richard Winton simply will not

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Speaker 3: print the truth, and their bosses won't print the truth.

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Speaker 3: Their editors they refuse to. But you know, I looked

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Speaker 3: up another La Times story yesterday. I checked the writers

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Speaker 3: bio I always do, and she had pink hair. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: imagine being an La Times journalist and you've got pink hair.

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Speaker 3: And that's just representative. It's all left wing, progressive, lunatic

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Speaker 3: people in their twenties. They're the same people who well,

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Speaker 3: we'll go through the whole list, but you see them

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Speaker 3: acting out everywhere. Let's get John Alley on. John Alley's

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Speaker 3: the businessman and he's been on our show many times

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Speaker 3: desperately trying to wake people up in the city.

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Speaker 4: John, how are you good? John? It's called transactional politics.

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Speaker 4: It's a passion for the pension Santa Monica has. The

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Speaker 4: homelessness is draining Santa Monica's revenues. The city has the

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Speaker 4: highest tax residents and businesses in the country, has the

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Speaker 4: highest sale taxes in California, highest transfer tax on the

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Speaker 4: sale of real property in the state. It's not the country.

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Speaker 4: Santa Monica is spending last year and just last month, coincidentally,

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Speaker 4: fifty five million a year on Grant's NGO's ineffective homeless services,

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Speaker 4: which is really a broad term. And nonprofits like the

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Speaker 4: People Concerned Venice Family Clinic Claire Matrix that in the

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Speaker 4: annual declaration of a homeless emergency just adds more paid

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Speaker 4: staff and higher numbers of transiend addicts, and you know what,

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Speaker 4: It's a sad, sad endless circle. There's no good end

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Speaker 4: because this city Council in Santa Monica has stood by

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Speaker 4: as they allow Barbara Ferrer from the County Department of

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Speaker 4: Public Health and Supervisor Lindsay Horvath to pay the Venice

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Speaker 4: Family Clinic to distribute needles meth pipes in the parks.

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Speaker 4: Even our own mayor, who's against the program, said she

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Speaker 4: doesn't want to push Supervisor Whoorvat too hard on this

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Speaker 4: issue because quote, the city may need her help securing

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Speaker 4: funds for other needs. So we believe and we're pushing

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Speaker 4: hard until all the nonprofits and grantees of city funds

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Speaker 4: can define what success is and verify how many people

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Speaker 4: they have sent home, show how many every how every

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Speaker 3: It's it's stunning how much damage these nonprofits, these NGOs

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Speaker 3: which are non government organizations. Uh, what they've done. I

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Speaker 3: mean they've they've really stolen all the money and nothing works.

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Speaker 3: None of their programs work. They make them worse. I mean,

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Speaker 3: when you start feeding drugs and drug paraphernalia to the

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Speaker 3: drug addicts, you're you've completely lost it. That that's the

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Speaker 3: worst possible thing to do. We got services for drug addicts.

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Speaker 3: There's no services for people. The people are taxpayers, the

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Speaker 3: business owners, the homeowners, there's no services for them.

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Speaker 2: There's services for the drug addicts.

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Speaker 4: You hit it right on. Santa Monica's ground zero for

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Speaker 4: homeless frauds, very poor, due diligence on selection of city manager,

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Speaker 4: and overall disdain for downtown property owners it assesses for

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Speaker 4: simply owning property on the Third Street, Promenade, Ocean Avenue. Nearby.

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Speaker 4: City leaders right now are living in a different reality.

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Speaker 4: They're in a bubble, and yet they have the highest

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Speaker 4: the police chief tells us over seventy five percent of

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Speaker 3: Is this one big joke to the city council because

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Speaker 3: they and all their worker friends are getting paid lots

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Speaker 4: That's what's happening. And we're seeing more and more housing

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Speaker 4: with quote unquote wrap around services go into suburban areas

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Speaker 4: on Wiltshire. In the next four years, you'll see a

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Speaker 4: lot of changes that just add more homeless on the

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Speaker 4: which is good, but we'll see. I mean, the last election,

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Speaker 4: twenty five percent of residents voted for council because they

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Speaker 4: didn't know who was running, and seventy five percent of

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Speaker 4: those same people voted for state, regional and federal races.

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Speaker 4: So that's got to change.

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Speaker 3: It's been a long time coming though. This spiral has

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Speaker 3: been going on for so many years. And we've talked

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Speaker 3: with you before and you're always hopeful that the next

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Speaker 3: round of elections. You know, people are make it up.

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Speaker 3: They're starting to get it, and I'm thinking, how much

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Speaker 3: have do You just have to walk outside for an

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Speaker 3: hour and it should be clear that you have to

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Speaker 3: vote everyone out of office with no exceptions.

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Speaker 2: An hour.

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Speaker 3: Just walk up and down the promenade, walk up and

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Speaker 3: walk to Santa Monica Place.

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Speaker 2: It's astounding.

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Speaker 4: Well, We've asked our council members, our mayors to walk

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Speaker 4: with us, walk into the stores with us, and that's

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Speaker 4: what we're trying to do downtown Santa Monica. They don't

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Speaker 4: do it. They're not encouraging any of the retailers to stay.

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Speaker 4: We have an interesting banner on the third Street promenade

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Speaker 4: and it's a fellow Santa Monica and Steven Miller, who

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Speaker 4: was a nineteen ninety two or ninety three grad His

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Speaker 4: family still lives in the city and he's the deputy

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Speaker 4: chief of staff to our president, someone that we should revere.

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Speaker 4: On the other hand, we have a mayor who said

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Speaker 4: that she'd rather not associate his name with our city.

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Speaker 4: Something wrong there.

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Speaker 3: I've never seen a city go through this and it

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Speaker 3: spiral down so fast, and they won't you talk about

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Speaker 3: taking them on a walk, but they know it's there,

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Speaker 3: they don't care.

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Speaker 2: And I guess that's the part I'm trying to understand.

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Speaker 3: Are they all looting so much money that they find

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Speaker 3: they find it entertaining that people like you are waving

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Speaker 3: your hands and saying, we have to fix this, we

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Speaker 3: have to do this. Please come with me, let's walk.

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Speaker 3: Do they just look at everybody as a bunch of

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Speaker 3: poor SAPs and they're laughing their asses off, and they're

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Speaker 3: raking in six figure salaries and all their buddies at

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Speaker 3: the nonprofits are getting six figure salaries, and they know

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Speaker 3: much of the public is just too dumb, too ignorant,

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Speaker 3: too had a touch to care. And it's like, we've

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Speaker 3: got the part because the tax revenues are way down.

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Speaker 4: They're way down, way down. Our coalition now has about

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Speaker 4: seven thousand people that are active behind the scenes. And

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Speaker 4: what's going to happen is what happened. In twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 4: County grand jury ruled Santa Monica to be the most,

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Speaker 4: if not one of, the worst financially managed cities in

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Speaker 4: all of La County eighty eight cities. Santa Monica was

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Speaker 4: on top. In addition to crime currently and we'll see

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Speaker 4: something happen, whether it's from Washington, whether it's help from outside,

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Speaker 4: but the status quo won't continue. And that's what we're

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Speaker 4: calling attention to. Santa Monica is the focus. Even though

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Speaker 4: it's not safe enough to host volleyball beach beach volleyball,

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Speaker 4: it's the centerpiece. When you think of La you think

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Speaker 4: think of the ocean. We've got to fix this, and

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Speaker 4: if we don't fix it in the city, it'll be

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Speaker 4: fixed for us by the Feds.

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Speaker 2: I to come in because I don't.

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Speaker 3: I think the people in the city council and the

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Speaker 3: people working in the government they're doing this on purpose.

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Speaker 2: They don't care.

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Speaker 3: They have a huge gravy train and they're taking the

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Speaker 3: some on the Cayman Islands or the Bahamas or wherever

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Speaker 3: enjoying the racket. This has got to be by the sign.

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Speaker 4: They feel they're doing their job when they award contracts

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Speaker 4: to NGOs and nonprofits. But then the auditors who have

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Speaker 4: been with the city council for years since twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 4: look over their books and find out that there's missing

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Speaker 4: funds on account for you.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: And it goes on and on, and as long as

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Speaker 3: The homeless, they can they can shovel all the tax

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Speaker 3: and hides the money. It's a some criminal operation the

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Speaker 3: Santa Monica City government. John Ally, thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 4: Oh thank you, John.

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Speaker 5: Okay, John Ally, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand

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Speaker 2: Moistline for Friday.

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Speaker 3: just had John Ally on his businessman Santa Monica has

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Speaker 3: some properties on the promenade about this atrocious, false, twisted

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Speaker 3: lie that the La Times published about Santa Monica a

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Speaker 3: dire fiscal crisis, and almost no mention that the revenues

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Speaker 3: and they'll mention on how the black Lives matter riots

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Speaker 3: tourism is way down, and tax revenues are down, retail

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Speaker 2: You nowhere else.

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Speaker 3: This has happened because of the progressives and the corrupt

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Speaker 3: machine they built to steal money. The biggest mall in

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Speaker 3: and progressive politics. It is now ninety three percent empty,

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Speaker 3: ninety three percent empty. Its value is now down to

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Speaker 3: one hundred ninety five million dollars. It was worth a

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Speaker 3: billion dollars a billion dollars more in twenty sixteen, and

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Speaker 2: It's also in a least default legal situation.

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Speaker 3: Apparently, the San Francisco Unified School District owns part of

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Speaker 3: the land that the mall sits on and it gets

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Speaker 3: the land. Six more restaurants have closed. In April, Bloomingdale's closed.

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Speaker 3: And it was it was all crime and homelessness. It

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Speaker 3: San Francisco. Three percent empty. Sata Monica Place is seventy

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Speaker 3: you know a lot of people buy their stuff on

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Speaker 3: an Amazon. Go to suburban shopping malls. It's a lot

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Speaker 1: So anyway, so anyway, what so, anyway, So just to

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Speaker 3: And so you have to vote no on Prop fifty.

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Speaker 3: And they accused Trump of subverting democracy, of being a

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Speaker 3: I've never seen anybody more contemptuous of the public and

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Speaker 3: They'll tell you they didn't get any calls to redraw

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Speaker 3: Everything Schwarzeneger said there is correct. This is really an

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 3: We're going to close with something that's going to enrage you.

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Speaker 3: I just found it, and then something that's really funny.

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Speaker 3: ABC News correspondent Matt Gutman did a report on Charlie

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Speaker 3: Matt Gutman, the ABC News correspondent, said it was very

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Speaker 3: This is the FBI director Cash Patel getting it on

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Speaker 3: with Adam Schiff. Schiff is going after Patel, and Schiff

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Speaker 3: was wanted to know why Gallaine Maxwell was transferred to

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Speaker 2: Listen to this. This is great.

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Speaker 6: The Bureau Prisons decided on their own without any consultation

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Speaker 2: Do you think they're stupid? No?

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Speaker 7: I think the American people believe the truth that I'm

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Speaker 7: reponization of intelligence, the likes of cover up, and we

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Speaker 7: have talentlessly proven you to be a lawyer in Russia

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Speaker 2: An utter callard.

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Speaker 6: I'm not surprised.

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Speaker 7: I'm not surprised. You continue to lie from your perch

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Speaker 7: and put on a show of you so you can

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Speaker 7: go raise money for your charade. You are political buffoon

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Speaker 6: Well, you can take take it to.

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Speaker 7: The bank that the FBI is protected Lake Country, the

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Speaker 7: Term say, I'm the most transferent FBI director in history.

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Speaker 7: Forty three thousand pages of information to you. I challenge

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Speaker 7: you can say anything credibly to the truth. Go ahead

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Speaker 7: and run to the cameras where you want to go.

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Speaker 2: You'll be quiet.

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Speaker 3: That is FBI Director Cash Ptel screaming at our Senator

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Speaker 3: Adam Schiff and the gavel was being banged by uh,

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Speaker 3: what's his name of, Chuck Grassley's senator from Island.

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Speaker 2: Okay. That's does get better than that?

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