1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 1: Light in any five o'clock hour, we'll give you everything 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: we got concerning yesterday's election results, both in La La County, 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: southern California the nation. It's coming up in the big 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: five o'clock hour in fifteen minutes. There is another keyword 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: which you will obtain and you'll follow what John reads 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: for the instructions to enter our contest to win possible 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: thousand dollars in our inflation cash bonus money. It's coming 8 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: up fifteen minutes on K five. All right, So we 9 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: have this a strange story out of Riverside County which 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: we're going to explore with reporter Corbyn Carson. The DA 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 1: out there has announced that well, due to a judge shortage, 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: they got to dismiss five hundred criminal court cases. We 13 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: need to dig into this and find out why and 14 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: what kind of cases they are. Let's bring Corbin on 15 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: and talk about it. Carbon. How are you yees doing great? Yes? 16 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: So strange. You really took the words right out of 17 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: my mouth. I started reporting on this a couple of 18 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: weeks ago. It was just does of cases back then, 19 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: but now they're saying, as you said, more than five 20 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: hundred criminal cases. Fifty of those are felony cases. I 21 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: spoke with Riverside County Chief Assistant DA John Aki. Here's 22 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: some of those cases that were dismissed. Just in the 23 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: last week. We have the case of people versus Flores, 24 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 1: which was an attempted murder, assault with a firearm, robbery, 25 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: and assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer. 26 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: That case was just dismissed. See attempt robberies that have 27 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: been dismissed this past week, the carjacking, several domestic violence cases. 28 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: We had one where a senior pastor who committed sexual 29 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: batteries as a misdemeanor at the New Beginnings Community Church, 30 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: which we can never refile now, and that was a 31 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: registerable offense. And he goes on to include robberies, shootings 32 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: into inhabited dwellings, hate crimes, arson DUIs And here's what 33 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: the judges say. The Riverside County Superior Court Presiding Judge 34 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: John Monterroso says the dismissals are due to a chronic 35 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: shortage of judges. The judge says the courts have ninety 36 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: available judicial officer positions and some of them are even vacant. 37 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: Plus Monterroso cited a study that's indicated Riverside County should 38 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: have one hundred and fifteen judicial officers to deal with 39 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: the popular it's population side. So they're short about twenty 40 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: five officers. What do you mean officers? Are there you 41 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: talking to judges? I'm sorry, judicial officers. Judges. They're short 42 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: about twenty five judges. Are these guys? Aren't these guys elected? 43 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: How are they? How do you get on the Riverside 44 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: County Superior Court. They're saying that they only have the available, 45 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: they're only available, they're only allotted ninety available positions, and 46 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: that it's interesting because I spoke to DA Mike Kestron 47 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: about this also, he said, this is a ruse of 48 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: sorts to try to get people up in the legislature 49 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: to allow them to have more judges in their capacity. 50 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: You mean instead, it appears to me that the courts 51 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: are using this to get the attention of decision makers 52 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: and sacraments, the governor in the legislature to highlight the 53 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: lack of judicial resources that we have here in Riverside County. 54 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: And while I agree we have had historically lack of 55 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: judicial resources, that's not what's causing the current backlog and dismissals. 56 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: It's it's obviously COVID and and the fact that the 57 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: courts were shut down for two years. If the situation 58 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: is dire enough that we need to dismiss violent felonies, 59 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: then perhaps we need to consider doing night court, weekend court, 60 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: longer hours. It's an emergency. We should be treating it 61 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: as an emergency, not dismissing cases. And then everybody goes 62 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: home at four. They shut down the courts for two years. 63 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: I've seen that. I mean, well, I'm right, yeah. You know, 64 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: by shutdowns their meaning they're they're they're putting off trials 65 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: that need to have in person juries. There was the 66 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: all courts were going through this, but the prosecutors are 67 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: saying and they're going through this backlog of cases as well. 68 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: In Riverside County, it's I think it's close to three 69 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: thousand cases that are on backlog. And these have time 70 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: limits that mean people need to they have their time 71 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: when they're due in court. They're allowed to have their 72 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: day in court on a certain on a certain time frame. 73 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: And one of the things that are really go ahead. No, 74 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: I think this is the case. He cited a defendant 75 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: who had by himself who been charged with attempted murder, 76 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: assault with a gun, robbery, assault with a deadly weapon 77 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: on a peace officer, and resisting a peace officer. They 78 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: couldn't find room for that guy to be tried. Yeah, 79 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: they're they're saying that they just don't have in a 80 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: lot of these cases are also being refiled, but sometimes 81 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:35,919 Speaker 1: the rules only allow them to refile them one or 82 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: two times, depending on the case. But I mean, are 83 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: they these I mean, are they looking at the guys 84 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: who committed the worst crimes and saying, all right, we 85 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: have to try this crowd here. Not according to the 86 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: DA's office, they're saying that this this is just you know, 87 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: most of these are they're saying, most of these are 88 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: like domestic violence cases and DUIs and then you had 89 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: the fifty felonies. But they think that the more violent felonies, 90 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: the worst is yet to come, that this is actually 91 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: going to get even worse. And and here are some 92 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: of the consequences. I just want to give you some 93 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: of this. This kind of the fallout that's happening to 94 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: these victims. They're walking out of court smiling and laughing, 95 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: and we've seen it. It kind of makes a sick 96 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: to our stomach to watch these domestic violence defendants walk 97 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: out laughing. And how does that make the victims feel 98 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: at that this point in time, They've they risked everything, 99 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: they try and go through the court process only to 100 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: see it fail them. Who can blame them when the 101 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: defendant is let out and back into their home again 102 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: simply to abuse them again. And that was a key, 103 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: and he said, Plus, the defense lawyers are lying and 104 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: saying they're ready for trial because they know the court 105 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: has no judge available, which will mean it will also 106 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: have the chance of getting dismissed. And then on top 107 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: of that, defendants that don't want to take a plea deal. 108 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: How is it we have a judge shortage? Is there 109 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: just not enough judges or why can't they fill these 110 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: slots and get more judges in the courts? Well, again, 111 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: the two things. Number one is that they only have 112 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: the allotted amount that they're they're allowed to have. And 113 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: the second thing is that this has been going on 114 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: for decades. This is a problem that's been going on 115 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: for some time, all right, So it's this is it 116 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: the state legislature that does the allotments? Like who just side? 117 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 1: So the state legislature wants to dump all the prisoners 118 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: out of jail. Anyway, I'm reading this Riverside County presiding 119 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: judge here, John monte Rosso. Did you talk to him? 120 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,119 Speaker 1: He said, the area the Riverside has three point seven 121 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,239 Speaker 1: judicial officers per one hundred thousand residents. The statewide averages 122 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: eleven point four per one hundred thousand. That is a 123 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: big difference. Exactly is there any reason Riverside's been historically 124 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: screwed on the judges? The judges, I don't understand why, Yeah, 125 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 1: do we know what this is the rest of the 126 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 1: state's getting eleven and Riverside is getting three per one 127 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: hundred thousand. What? What? What? Why? Let me let me 128 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: explain the nuance of what the Riverside County Day is saying. 129 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 1: They're saying that this is going on, This is a 130 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: problem that state is happening statewide, and then also statewide, 131 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: you have all these counties that are struggling under this 132 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: backlog of cases from the from the pandemic. The Riverside 133 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: County DA's office is saying, the courts justin Riverside County 134 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: are using this as an opportunity, using that backlog in 135 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: the pandemic cases as an opportunity to shed light on 136 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: the lack of judicial resources. But at the same time 137 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: they're affecting public safety. At least that's what the Riverside 138 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: County DA says. I mean, somebody has to take over 139 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: the system here. There's got to be some kind of 140 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: leadership where everybody should stand and says, Okay, here's how 141 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: we're going to handle this, and we've got you. I mean, 142 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: they can't hire retired judges, they can't import judges from 143 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: other counties. That the weekend and night court idea, I mean, 144 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: all that stuff. It should be an emergency where you 145 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: do everything humanly possible to try the worst criminals that 146 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: have charges against them. Now, the courts did say that 147 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: they're using civil judges or to hear criminal trials. They 148 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: have some departments that are designated to hear criminal trials. 149 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: They're assigning newly appointed judges to hear criminal trial departments. 150 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: And they're still behind there. They're they're they're trying to 151 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: use courtrooms immediately after they become available to assign them 152 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: to trials, and they're still behind. And then again on 153 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: the other side, just one more I want to I 154 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: want to play this for you from Aki to talk 155 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: about some of these cases, because you were asking about 156 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: a triage and this seems like another one that should 157 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: have been allowed to be continued whenever it's ready. Right, Well, 158 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: that's a good exam on exactly several driving under the 159 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: influence cases dismissed, including one that caused serious injury to 160 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: a victim who drove eleven hours from Idaho to make 161 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: a statement, but the judge, despite hearing the pleas of 162 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: the victim in that case, dismissed the case anyway. And 163 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: another which is an assault with a deadly weapon, which 164 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: was a machete where this guy took a machete to 165 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 1: his victims. In that case was miss for a second time, 166 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: so that can't be refiled. And that's a case that 167 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: we've put up on appeal. And then remember that I 168 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: said that the Riverside County DA's office says this more 169 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: than five hundred cases that have been dismissed now in 170 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, that more is to come. 171 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: They think this will continue all right as all right, 172 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: and this is incredible, Thanks for coming on. Thanks guys, 173 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: Cormn Carson, camfine News. This I think you hit it. 174 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: If this is coming out of Sacramento, this is another 175 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: ploy to send nobody to prison, to jail. They let's 176 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: just reduced the number of judges so the cases are dismissed. 177 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: This is like to fund the police they defunded, right, 178 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: hadn't even thought of that. That's a great angle to 179 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 1: come in at. Why Riverside County though three point seven 180 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: judicial officers per one hundred thousand residents, the statewide averages 181 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: eleven point four, that's like four times fewer an they 182 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: do this to Riverside were they were they coming up 183 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: with too many prosecutions? Is that what they did? I 184 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: don't know. I remember years ago they told the Samberg 185 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: Dino County DA remember Brown, Yeah, famously called him up 186 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: and say stop setding gus prisoners. Stop it. Oh, we 187 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: don't want him or your prisoners coming out of your county. 188 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: That's uh, that's that that is real. Whole system is 189 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: just collapsed. And they shouldn't have closed the courts for 190 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: two freaking years for COVID. That was unnecessary. They didn't 191 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: even do an online zoom court or I've seen zoom cord. 192 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: I mean you see it on TV all the time. 193 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: They show everybody's on his screen. What this is crazy? Heyman, 194 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 1: he was talking about the juries. Though have to be 195 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: there in person. Why do they have to be there 196 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: in person? I guess because they can watch the reactions. 197 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: They can really study the defendant and the case. Look 198 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: at the look at the suit that the gang members wearing. 199 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 1: I don't know they be led to believe that he's 200 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: a peaceful person to come it up next. This is frustrating. 201 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: You have a shot at a thousand dollars. That's right. 202 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: We got a keyword for you and instructions to follow 203 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: us to how to win the money. John and Ken 204 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: k if I am forty live everywhere on the iHeart 205 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 1: Radio app From the world of La City Council corruption. 206 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: Something fascinating is going on right now. We have a 207 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: trial that's taking place over some of the developers scandal. 208 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: That was large real estate development companies bribing city officials 209 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: in order to get their projects done. But this trial 210 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: involves a company. The man who owns the company is 211 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: a fugitive, probably somewhere in China. So the defendant is 212 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: just a table with attorneys representing a company. The prosecution, 213 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: of course, is the federal government. And that issue. Here 214 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: is the man who will be on trial in February 215 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: x Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Weheart Jose's Are. And 216 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: what's also fascinating about this is his own family is 217 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: going on the stand and telling about how they helped 218 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: launder money for all the bribes that we's Are took 219 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: from this company. This company and its top executive, a 220 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: manned by the name of Whang, apparently bribed we'se Are 221 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: with more than one and a half million dollars in cash, 222 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: trips on private jets, casino chips, and hookers an exchange 223 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: for him supporting the La Grand Hotel project. There always 224 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: seems to be hookers involved. Hookers are valuable to use 225 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: the the jets, the casino chips, not enough million and 226 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,559 Speaker 1: a half dollars worth, not enough to go in to Vegas. 227 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 1: There has to be hookers. You've got to throw in 228 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: some hookers. So there are three separate trials that are 229 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: coming out of this thirty four count indictment against wes 230 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 1: Are his associates alleging corruption. But let's talk for a 231 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: moment about these family members of Weslar who are testifying 232 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: about laundering the bribes. I just find this fascinating. Wesar's brother, Salvador, 233 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: he pled guilty to Lyne to FBI as about receiving 234 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: envelopes of cash from his brother. He testified that Wesar 235 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: gave him cash that he deposited into his bank account 236 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 1: and exchange for checks written out to we's are from 237 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: his own account. There you go. That's money reached as 238 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: high as ten thousand dollars. One time, in August of 239 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, the councilman gave his brother a bunch of 240 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: bundled hundred dollar bills and his brother wrote him a 241 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: check for the total. That's how you launch your the money. 242 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: And guess what The brother is a long time La 243 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: County employee. Doesn't say what he does for a living, 244 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: well nothing by definition, and like true mob fashion, the 245 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: brother testified when I asked him what's this about, the 246 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: response was better for you not to know. I love 247 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 1: that one. Now would you do that? If one are 248 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 1: your brothers? Ye gave you bundles one hundred dollars bills 249 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: and said writing a check for jack and did it repeatedly? 250 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: Would you would you actually accept? It's better for you 251 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: not to know, better for you not to know, Boddy, 252 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: you could get rubbed out. I don't want you involved 253 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: in this, right, he didn't know. That's why the brother 254 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: was charged with lying because I guess he was asked 255 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: about this and he knew it was shaky. And well, 256 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,959 Speaker 1: now the other person testifying is jose Weazar's estranged wife, 257 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: Rachelle Rigos. This is even more fast, and she choose badly. 258 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: She she apparently was crying a bit, and she was 259 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: worried that her husband was involved in an extramarital affair. 260 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: And then in August to twenty thirteen, Yeah, well he 261 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: got sued by a former eight alleging sex harassment and 262 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: the woman was asking for six hundred thousand dollars to 263 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: more than a million to settle the case. So they 264 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: had this meeting. This would be a deputy mayor Raymond Chan. 265 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: Jose weisar Weasar's wife's deputy mayor's huh yeah, he's also 266 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: been yeah. And and this billionaire Whang who they called 267 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: chairman Wang. This is the guy that's the futitive, it's 268 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: not yeah, so Wang he wanted to know how he 269 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: could help resolve this lawsuit. What can I do here? Right? Okay? 270 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: How can I fix this? I can pay her off 271 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: for you, which is what essentially happened. And she said 272 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: they asked me they wanted to know if I was 273 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: going to stay in the marriage. Would I stand with Jose? 274 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: While I felt humiliated, angry and devastated, but I agreed 275 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: to stay. I think she ran for office too, or 276 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: tried to. I think so well. I mean she was 277 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: benefiting from the million and a half in cash, yeah, 278 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: but maybe she didn't have actions. What about the hook earth. 279 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: I don't think she had access to the prostitutes that 280 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: was for Jose. So they resolved the suits and he 281 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: gets reelected. Nanny starts traveling to Vegas and all over 282 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: the world on his weekend gambling trips, and she said 283 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: she found a stack of cash of hundreds in their home. 284 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: She attempted to speak to him, but the conversation turned unpleasant. 285 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: Leap off or something. She found a lot one hundred 286 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 1: dollar bills about it in thick hidden in a traveler's 287 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: belt in a pocket of one of his suits. Her 288 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: husband also gave her cash in amounts of two hundred 289 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: to one thousand dollars to deposit in her bank account. 290 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: See you again, trying to launder the money somehow, and 291 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: some of the bank records were presented to the jury. 292 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: The couple has been married for twenty three years. I 293 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: got four kids, ages twelve to twenty. There's a horrible way, 294 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: a monster. He has no chance. I don't know what 295 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: he thinks he's doing. Going on trial next February because 296 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: his own family members are up there talking about laundering 297 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: money for when you got your wife and your brother. 298 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: Yeah they've turned on yet, yeah yeah, And this is 299 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: a lot of money that this is a big bribe, 300 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 1: a million and a half dollars. Yeah. Yeah, he faces 301 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: quite a few years in good and the fence. Don't 302 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: get around. They'll get him all right. When we come back, 303 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: we got more to talk about. 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We'll talk 312 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: all about the election results and what we know right 313 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: now coming up in the five o'clock hour, both the 314 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: city of la the county, the States, and the national scene. 315 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: Old Joe who held a fifty four minute press conference, 316 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: coming out acting like he's king of the world, and 317 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: supposedly yesterday the White House was completely quiet, but because 318 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,959 Speaker 1: things didn't crash as badly as they thought they were 319 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: gonna crash. This is how you claim victory. We'll get 320 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: into all of this stupid The Republicans win the House 321 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 1: and his agenda is dead for the next two years. Yeah, 322 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: I hate I hate this blatant BS. It's like the 323 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: Democrats lost the House. Doesn't matter our economic policies, they're 324 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: saying today the voters approved, Well, that's it for his 325 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: economic policies because he's not getting anything else. Crazy through 326 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: not likely redlock, she said, it is still up for 327 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: grabs and may end up fifty fifty again. Anyway, we'll 328 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,719 Speaker 1: talk about all this a little later on the show. Oh, 329 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: you know, we come back around as something we talked 330 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 1: about a lot years ago on the John and Ken Show, 331 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: public employee pensions. Now there's going to come a day. 332 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: It may not be as bad this year, but the 333 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: markets not performing as well as they've done in recent 334 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: years here in twenty twenty two. This means that the state, 335 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 1: which relies so much on wealthy people's income taxes, probably 336 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: will not see the kind of surplus as they've seen 337 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: the past couple of years, and they will not beginning 338 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: all that COVID relief money made up by Washington DC. 339 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: Yeah so, and the local governments are already hurting because 340 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 1: it's not just state employees that get us ramped up 341 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: in these pension problems. As we've said many times on 342 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: this show. Back in nineteen ninety nine, when Gray Davis 343 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: was governor and they redid the pension statewide, a lot 344 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: of counties and city governments and their employees there copied. 345 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: So pension Scott really robust for a lot of public 346 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: employee workers. Robust is a good word for it, overstuffed. 347 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: So now we bring you this chapter. Apparently one thousand, 348 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: seven hundred Cowper's pensions are so large they exceed an 349 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: IRS limit. The IRS sets an annual cap. This year 350 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: it's two hundred and forty five thousand dollars above that. 351 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: Public pension payments must be treated as wages. That means 352 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: they're subject to the same with holdings and deductions as 353 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: if the person was still employed. That's the rules. Apparently, 354 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 1: these extra large pensions are growing more numerous in California. 355 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: This is resulting an added cost for cities and counties 356 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: who have to pay them. There's even a picture which 357 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: is great of the Sacramento Mayor, DARRYL Steinberg, who used 358 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: to be the leader of the state Senate. It was 359 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: a long time Sacramento state hack politicians and he was 360 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: now he's the mayor of Sacramento. He was there back 361 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: then in the legislature when when pensions were there, and 362 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: he says, well, even if we get measure you passed. 363 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 1: They were passing some tax, the money will probably be 364 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: eaten up by skyrocketing pension costs. Yeah. Oh really another 365 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 1: passing what tax increases in order to pay the excessive pensions? Um, well, 366 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 1: I think it's just general revenue money. But oh, we've 367 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 1: seen this. There are many towns and cities that keep 368 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: pushing sales tax increases on the voters, trying to tell them, oh, 369 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: we need this so that we can continue to have 370 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: public safety programs, you know, fire and police. But really 371 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: what it was is to try to feed the pension machine. 372 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: No measure you was a sales tax increase. Yeah, same thing, right, 373 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: So they so they raised taxes and it's all going 374 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 1: to go to government employee pensions, not not just any pensions, 375 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: but all the overstuffed, excessive pensions. And they don't tell 376 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 1: you that though, when when they put it on the ballot, 377 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: they say, oh my god, if we don't get this 378 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,879 Speaker 1: tax increase, we'll have to cut police and fire. You 379 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 1: won't be safe. You better vote for it. But you're right. 380 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 1: They passed that in twenty eighteen, and now most of 381 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: the new money from this sales tax is going to 382 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: be eaten up by the pensions. Oh see that. I 383 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 1: knew this was going to happen. We talked about this. 384 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 1: When the pensions get so excessive, they'll run short of 385 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: money and then they'll start raising taxes, and I wonder, 386 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: but you know, the thing is they'll just raise taxes 387 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: and claim, oh no, this is gonna go for roads, 388 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 1: or this is gonna go for schools, and you're gonna 389 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: use the usual list of excuses, right, and then they 390 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: steal the money and give it to the lazy, deadwood elderly, 391 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: because they know if they put Measure you on the 392 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,360 Speaker 1: ballot and tell you this is to help us pay 393 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 1: off the pensions, you'll vote no. You'll say no, you 394 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: shouldn't have given those pensions here. Listen to this. At 395 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: the time, Steinberg and the Sacramento Council said, Measure you 396 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:42,880 Speaker 1: money could be used to bolster an inclusive economy, grow jobs, 397 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 1: and provide housing that is affordable to all. So that's 398 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: how they were selling the taxes. Oh, oh, we're gonna 399 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: build affordable housing, you know, get the homeless out of 400 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: the riverbed. Oh we're gonna have an inclusive What the 401 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 1: hell is it? Inclusive economy? What does that mean? God, 402 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 1: that word makes me crazy. Grow jobs, grow jobs or 403 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 1: do they have a job farm? They plant job seeds? 404 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: How does the government grow jobs? What they they ripped 405 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: everybody off for a half set sales tax and get 406 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 1: and gave it away to the loser government employees. Oh 407 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: that's criminal. Apparently in twenty thirteen they did pass the 408 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: Public Employees Pension Reform Act, so that they have capped 409 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: the pensions at the federal limit. But everybody who started 410 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: work before January first, twenty thirteen remains eligible for the 411 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: generous benefits that they were promised. And according to this 412 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: story in the sacrament will Be there has been a 413 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 1: forty percent increase in retirees receiving pensions above the IRS 414 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 1: limit than there were four years ago. Because that's what's happening. 415 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: Grow and grow the public, right, What a bunch of suckers. 416 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 1: They've sent this on the show for years. Nobody in 417 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: the real world gets pensions. People are four oh one case, 418 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: they have savings accounts. Tell me why people leave politicians 419 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: when they sell these these taxes. Well, like, if somebody 420 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: came up to you and said, here, would you give me, 421 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: you know, two hundred dollars and I promise a more 422 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 1: inclusive economy? What would you say to them on the street? 423 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: You call the police. Probably it's a good buzzword. Inclusive, 424 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: an inclusive economy. What does that mean? But that's what 425 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: they did. I bet you that's what was in the 426 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: ads and in the speeches. We're gonna have a more 427 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: inclusive economy. Just just just pony up and you see 428 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: these pensions. I mean sometimes pensions are five hundred thousand 429 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: dollars a year. They are right, loyal. Like I said, 430 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: the IRS cap is two forty five thousand, and there's 431 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 1: seventeen hundred cowpers people getting and we've seen that, we've 432 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: seen some of these city managers. The worst of it 433 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,399 Speaker 1: is usually the local manager. Guys, city managers like that 434 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. H'm 435 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: that guy in Vernon that got a pile of money. Yeah, 436 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: Vernon government's like ten people, ten people, and he gave 437 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: himself like five different jobs. So he collected all these pensions. No, 438 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: it's ten people in ten thousand factories. Yes, exactly right, 439 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: he collected all that extra bundy. All right, Coming up 440 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 1: after five o'clock they'll do a complete rundown on all 441 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: the campaign results the elections. John and Ken kf I 442 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: am six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app 443 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: By coming up after five o'clock, we'll run down all 444 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 1: the election results both locally and nationally and statewide here 445 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: on the John and Ken Show. Well, the Berkeley City 446 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: Council they like to be first with things. They voted 447 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: last week to approve a proposal that would ban you 448 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:54,640 Speaker 1: from turning right on red at a red light. Why 449 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 1: they could have put up signs at every intersection with 450 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: a light in the small city and forming drivers of 451 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: the rule policies like eliminating right on red or smart 452 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: and easy ways to begin the process of Oh there's 453 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: your word, deprioritizing car use in Berkeley, and placing lives 454 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:21,879 Speaker 1: above driver convenience. See it's part of the sickness that 455 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: gets you addicted to driving. You can make a right 456 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: remember that that's many years ago, the right on red 457 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 1: all United States. I think New York City is the 458 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: only place you couldn't do it. I do it even 459 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: if it says no right on red. Oh do you 460 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: when you just look ground for a cop if there's 461 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: no copy? How you do it? Why? Why would you 462 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: not do it? Uh? No reason. This comes from council 463 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: members Terry Taplin and Susan Wengraff in their proposal. They 464 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: want to put up four signs at each intersection is 465 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: part of the band to comply with state law. Council 466 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 1: members passed the proposal as a budget referral, meaning they 467 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: could still they would still need to approve funding funding 468 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: because they have to put up the signs. I cost 469 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars to install the 470 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: signs at all one hundred and thirty five intersections that 471 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 1: have lights in this These are these really are religious fanatics. 472 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: These are really cult members. Yes, but you know what, 473 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: Berkeley wonderful university, but the town itself, you're not pretty wild. 474 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: If you don't go there, you're not missing anything. They 475 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: have more like zombies per square mile than any place 476 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 1: I've ever seen outside of skid row. Yeah, yeah, not 477 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: just homeless, but but active psychotics, screaming in the streets, 478 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 1: half naked. M They seem to get the best drugs 479 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 1: there because the vagrants in the streets of Berkeley are 480 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: really are their own species. They're really aggressive, they really 481 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 1: make a lot of noise. I've been there and there's 482 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 1: just like howling and screaming in the night, in the nights. 483 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 1: In the night, Yes, at night, there's these small little 484 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: riots that break out on the streets in the middle 485 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: of the night. I would say there's probably a lot 486 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: of tolerance there for that behavior. That would I would 487 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: expect that from Berkeley people. Terrifying though, Do they not 488 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:22,879 Speaker 1: have a nervous system that registers fear? Right? I didn't 489 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: know this right on red was called the California rule, 490 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: but the rule was expanded to other states during the 491 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies gas crisis. Oh I see, so this is 492 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: a way to save on gas. Because you have to 493 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 1: make a full stop before you turned, you could kind 494 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: of screws up there. And the government legalize the practice 495 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six is when we first got right 496 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: on red. Just keep traffic moving. That makes the traffic 497 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: move faster if if the right turn, people can get 498 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: out of the main lane and get on another street. Apparently, 499 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties, a study show that allowing right 500 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: on Red caused an increase in pedestrian ashes by sixty 501 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: percent and bike crashes went up one hundred percent. According 502 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: to the two council members, bikers and the pedestrians ought 503 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 1: to look where they're going, stay out of the street. 504 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: It's not meant for you. Right. I had an annoying 505 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: biker in front of me. I was trying to make 506 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: a ride on Red, and I went off into the 507 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: right lane of this boulevard, which was like half a 508 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 1: parking space and half a bike lane. But I want 509 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 1: to make a ride on Red, so I commandeered the 510 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: lane and there was a biker in front of me, 511 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: and I just slowly moving up and moving up, and 512 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: he's looking around, looking around. Finally moved over. I successfully 513 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: intimidated him, and he moved over to the lane next 514 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 1: to me, and I got to make my ride on red. 515 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: That's a that's it's a fun game to play, like 516 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 1: roads are meant for cars. The supremacy of the I'm 517 00:29:54,880 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: a car supremacist. Yes, you are a car supremacists. You 518 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: believe that when you have to do takes priority over 519 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: what anybody else's right. That's right. And if you're walking, 520 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: you can't be important. That's right. Get back up on 521 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,880 Speaker 1: a bicycle. You're really on a Pott's right. Take you 522 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: and your bright yellow Spandex and go to a public 523 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 1: park and ride. Get out of my way. Washington, DC 524 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: plans to ban right right on Red by twenty twenty five, 525 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: as they mentioned New York City or Washington DC. Yes, 526 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 1: that's another human sewer though, that's amazing. Could they have 527 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: huge homeless problems and crime problems? What is it with 528 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: these towns? They're very consistent. They all have the same beliefs. 529 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: Is there some sort of bible that they've published on 530 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: the progressive belief system. Is there some religious connection towards 531 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 1: allowing psychotic drug addicts to run crazy in the street 532 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: and not allowing ride on reds? How do they all 533 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: have the same the same ideas? The council members wrote, 534 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: Berkeley can join the cities of Washington, New York and 535 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: taking a new approach to achieving Vision zero goals. There 536 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: it is again referring to the Global Initiative aim that 537 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: eliminating traffic deaths. Why, oh, yes, the famous Eric Garcetti 538 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: believe zero. Most of the deaths are from drunk pedestrians 539 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: or drugged out pedestrians, or drunk dry in the morning, right, yeah, 540 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 1: three in the morning. That's where most of these habits. 541 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: Very few people get run over on a normal day 542 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: from a right on red. In fact, I'd like to 543 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: know the number of bodies. Show me, give me the 544 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: names of the bodies of people right on red where 545 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: they weren't drunk. Well, this is just another weapon they 546 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: use in the war on cars, That's all it is. 547 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 1: They use percentages to exaggerate things, to make it sound like, 548 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: oh my god, it went up sixty percent. Oh that's awful, 549 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: And you find out it went up from ten to 550 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: sixteen or something like that. That's that's but that's how 551 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,239 Speaker 1: it was. That's how they frame it so they can 552 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,479 Speaker 1: get your attention that this is indeed horrible, horrible thing. 553 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 1: We have to do something about it right now. That 554 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 1: was Mike Bonden's propaganda method. Yeah, shappy, he's gone for sure, Yeah, 555 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: he is really gone for sure. What day does the 556 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: new City Council take over? Maybe the first? I think 557 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: it's in December. Is it in December? Yeah, I don't 558 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 1: think it's January. We gotta have we gotta have some 559 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: kind of on air celebration because we will be Mike 560 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: Bonden free. That little troll is going to be sent 561 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: back into his borough until he runs for something else. 562 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: I don't think a guy like that can stay on 563 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: the sidelines. I don't know what it'll be, but I 564 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: don't know. I think he'll try to make a comeback. 565 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: I just worst, just one of the worst people you 566 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: will ever meet in life, really one of the most 567 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: and I've met him in person, personally repulsive. Well, the 568 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 1: seat that he occupies on the City Council for Council 569 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: District eleven may go to the person we recommended. You 570 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: voted for you vote for Tracy Park. We'll talk about that. 571 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: She's expected to come on the show tomorrow. She's up 572 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: by ten percentage points over the challenger. There the Bin 573 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 1: and the Bonnen acolyte, Aaron Darling. We'll talk about all 574 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: the election results and more coming up. John and Ken 575 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: kf I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeart 576 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: Radio app and Jeffer Mark Live in the twenty four 577 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: hour calf I Newsroom.