1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty, you're listening to the 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. It's the John 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: coblt Show. Well, I've everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: we are on every day from one until four o'clock, 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: so you're right on time, and then every day after 6 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: four o'clock if you missed any part of the program. 7 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 1: That's what the podcast is for. John Cobelt's show on 8 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: demand on the iHeart app millions of downloads a year, 9 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: so there's a lot of people are not fully present 10 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: between one and four. But that's why we have this 11 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: public service, really, and we can also make extra money 12 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: on it as well. Let me let let me start 13 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: with something. You know, if I could dance, I would 14 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: do And I told you so, dance because I just 15 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: told you so just a few days ago and it 16 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: turns out to be so true. What did I say 17 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: last week? I said, here's three dots. I'm going to 18 00:00:55,480 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: connect them for you. Number One, Karen Bass is slowing 19 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:05,919 Speaker 1: the permits to rebuild in the Palisades. Number two, Scott 20 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: Wiener has a bill so low income housing apartment towers 21 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: could be built in any normal residential neighborhood. Yeah, and 22 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: he's been pushing that through trying for a few years now. 23 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: And then the third dot, and there's a fourth dot coming. 24 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: The third dot was Gavin Newsom is offering one hundred 25 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 1: and one million dollars so that developers can build low 26 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: income housing. Let me say this as plain as I can. 27 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: Karen Bass and the La City Council have no interest 28 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: in restoring Pacific Palisades to its former state. Zero. Karen 29 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: Bass didn't go to Cuba sixteen times so that she 30 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: could rebuild a paradi dice for wealthy white homeowners in 31 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: the Palisades. That's not on the game plan, all right. 32 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: She this is such a rare opportunity for her to 33 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: impose her socialist, communist dreams. No way, she's giving it up. 34 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: And if you wonder what I'm referring to, go to 35 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: the podcast yesterday between one thirty and two. It was 36 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: a little primer on Karen Bass's immersion into communist Cuba 37 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: under Castro. She spent quite a bit of time there, 38 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 1: working there and working with a revolutionary organization in the 39 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies and it actually this organization trained a number 40 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: of terrorists. I don't think Bass ever hit the level 41 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: of terrorist, but she did immerse herself in that kind 42 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: of rhetoric, and she went to Cuba many many times, 43 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: big fan of Fidel Castro, and you have to keep 44 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: that in the back of your mind when you look 45 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: at her decisions, you look at her behavior. So she 46 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: is not expediting the building permits. Scott Wiener would like 47 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: all residential neighborhoods to have low income housing apartment towers. 48 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsimith is throwing in one hundred million dollars at 49 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: tax money so developers can start building those low income 50 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: housing towers. The fourth dot today connected to the third dot, 51 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: there is another bill, it's new moving through the legislature 52 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: that will allow the City of Los Angeles to buy 53 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: lots in the Palisades to build low income housing. Send 54 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: it Built five forty nine. Are you listening to me 55 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: if you're in the Palisades? Send it Built five forty 56 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: nine would allow property taxes to fund what lawmakers are 57 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: calling resilient rebuilding authorities. Why doesn't that sound like something 58 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: out of the Soviet Union. Resilient rebuilding authorities. These are 59 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 1: government agencies that could buy and this is an LA 60 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 1: magazine the ruined land and get loans to rebuild, and 61 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,239 Speaker 1: forty percent of the funding must be earmarked for building 62 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: multi unit low income housing on lots where single family 63 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: homes once stood in Altadena, Pacific Palisades, Malibu and other areas. 64 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: This is separate from Gavin Newsom and is one hundred 65 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: and one million dollars to build more life low income housing. 66 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: So now you have two major low income housing programs 67 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: that have been launched within a week. You have very 68 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 1: few permits. They have done very little to rebuild the 69 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 1: infrastructure in the Palisades, and like I said, I go 70 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: there every week or two, sometimes several times in a week. 71 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: I've seen repeatedly that nothing is going on there. They 72 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: need They didn't. They didn't have the reservoir filled in 73 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: right too. Come year and a half, the electrical lines 74 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,799 Speaker 1: need to be buried. They're going to build a future Palisades, 75 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: you got to put the wires underground. Nothing's happening on 76 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: that front. The fire Department is still way underfunded because 77 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: Bass defunded the fire department. Police Department is way underfunded 78 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 1: because Bass defunded that agency as well. And now Newsom 79 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: now is not only giving one hundred million dollars to 80 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 1: jump start the building of low income housing. The Senate 81 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: is going to allow Los Angeles. That would mean Karen 82 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: Bass to buy some of the burned out lots and 83 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 1: they'll be able to get the loans. You can't get 84 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: the loans and you can't get the insurance if you're 85 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: currently living in the Palisades. But the City of Los 86 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: Angeles will be able to get the loans and forty 87 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: percent will be earmarked for low income housing. Remember, in 88 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: this case, a city agency, resilient rebuilding authorities, a city 89 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: agency is buying the land. It's not like they're getting 90 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: the money and then giving it to developers. They're going 91 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: to be the developers with our tax money. And the 92 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: Palisades will never be allowed to return to its former state. 93 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: People there will never have a chance to rebuild the 94 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: homes that they loved. If you don't if you don't 95 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: make it so they can have insurance, and if you 96 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: don't make it that they can get a permit. And 97 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: at the same times, they're so busy, they're going to 98 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: be so busy buying lots and hiring builders, and Newsom 99 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: is busy handing out money to builders and it's all 100 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: about low income housing. It's all about giving poor people 101 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: a chance to enjoy life. In the Palisades, you overlook 102 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: the ocean, beautiful mountain vistas, cooler weather, very placid way 103 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: of life. That's why people moved there and paid so 104 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: much money to be there. Well, that's wrong. Bass is 105 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: a communist heart Newsom is close behind, and they had 106 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: been railing about the wealthy and income inequality all their 107 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: miserable lives. Now here's a chance they're not going to 108 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: blow it. No way. I told you this was going 109 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: to happen. It's happening. Your choice to stop it or not. 110 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: This is their dream. This is why they got into politics, 111 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: which also leads me to wonder, Wow, when they saw 112 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: the Palisades was burning, is that my Bass that didn't 113 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: send in the fire department when she got all those 114 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: warnings that the Palisades could burn? Is that why she said, Eh, 115 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: I'll go to Africa. Whatever happens happens. Is that why 116 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: when she landed, she didn't express any grief, shock, empathy. 117 00:08:51,880 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: She just expressed silence. That's why and do some can't 118 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: tell the truth either, But that's why he fumbles around 119 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: with his answers and makes no sense. They've always wanted 120 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: to do this, and they had the right set of circumstances. 121 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: They had the warnings and didn't respond. Makes me wonder. 122 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: My thoughts about this get darker and darker each day 123 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: because everything's fitting into place now too neatly. No insurance, 124 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: no permits. We got one bill for one hundred billion dollars, 125 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: a second bill that allows low income towers to be 126 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 1: built in every neighborhood. A third bill that would allow 127 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: the city to buy the empty lots and build low 128 00:09:53,440 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: income towers. One, two, three, all right, more come up. 129 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 130 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:05,959 Speaker 2: six forty. 131 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 1: Eric. He looks very concerned, But I said, I was 132 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: gonna sneeze you just well, I was getting ready to say, 133 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: bless you. You did it, so no, bless you, no 134 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: bless I don't know where that sneeze went. Something could 135 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: just come popping out of me soon. All right. I 136 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 1: saw I saw something today. I was driving into work 137 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: and I went to Philly's Best Cheese Steaks, which is 138 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: about three miles east down Olive Avenue, and I get 139 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: to a traffic light. A couple of blocks short and 140 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: there is a very old man eighty plus in a wheelchair, 141 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: very frail and thin and weak, and he's trying to 142 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 1: roll his wheelchair. No, he didn't even try to roll 143 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: the wheelchair. He's too weak to do that's in the 144 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: chair and he's using his feet to slowly push the 145 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: chair across. You imagine this, you're sitting in a chair 146 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,679 Speaker 1: and you're using your feet in the front trying to 147 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: get some leverage. 148 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 3: Did you help him? 149 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 1: I took forever for him to go across Olive Avenue 150 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: and then, you know, he tried to get across I 151 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: think it was Verdugo. I'm not real familiar with the area. 152 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: He then tried to go up a ramp, you know, 153 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: a sidewalk ramp, and he went a little bit and 154 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: then he rolled back into traffic. And I was at 155 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,719 Speaker 1: the light watching this, and then he tried again. He's 156 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: rolling back and I called nine to one one. 157 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 3: Oh, okay, so you kind of helped. 158 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: I kind of helped. I mean, me running out isn't 159 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,679 Speaker 1: going to do anything for him. 160 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 4: Well, you could have give him a little push, made 161 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 4: life a little easier. 162 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 3: You'd have another listener to your podcast. 163 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: Perhaps I don't think this guy's downloading podcasts. He might 164 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: have been one of the original KFI listeners. Here you go. 165 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 3: He would have been excited if you said, do you 166 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 3: know who I am? 167 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: He would He probably picked up the station. In nineteen 168 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: twenty two, I figured I'd call the police, and he 169 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: was still trying to make his way down Olive Avenue 170 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:26,959 Speaker 1: along the curb, and I'm thinking, how did it? First 171 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: of all, you know in LA nobody would have helped him. 172 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: I gotta say Burbank they I guess they said down 173 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 1: somebody right away, and they called me and asked me 174 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: had I seen him further because they were aware of 175 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: the guy they had stopped him earlier. And the guy said, 176 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,319 Speaker 1: it's all right, I'm getting a ride. I guess his 177 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:47,439 Speaker 1: ride didn't show up. 178 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 5: Now. 179 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:50,719 Speaker 1: After I called, they went around looking for him and 180 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 1: they couldn't find him. And I said, well, he can't 181 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: be too far away. He was moving at a sales base. 182 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: Maybe his ride show up. And I thought, how does 183 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: a guy, how do you live your whole life and 184 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: you end up like that? Like did? I guess everybody 185 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: died on him? Maybe maybe he didn't have kids. Yeah, 186 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: maybe the wife died and the friends died. They're all 187 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: back in the nursing home. And he was the one 188 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: who got loose. 189 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 3: That's so sad. 190 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 1: Maybe he's got demanchia. Maybe he was a jackass his 191 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: whole life and he has no friends and family. Nobody 192 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: likes him. Yeah, it's like, oh, and I was thinking, 193 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 1: because you and I always talk about this, It's like, 194 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: that's why there's time limit on how long you want 195 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: to stay here. Yeah, you know because when somebody said, oh, 196 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: you know you're going to live an extra three years, Well, 197 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:32,959 Speaker 1: if that's the three. 198 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 3: Years, it's quality, not quantity. 199 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: Give me another cheeseburger and another shot, give me a 200 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: cigarette in fact time time to speed up this process. 201 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, that's so lonely and it's hot out. 202 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's in the hot sun. I was like, wow, 203 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: So I don't know where the guy is, right. 204 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 4: I think you should have had I think you should 205 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 4: have talked to him, had a discussion with him. 206 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 3: Obviously needed a friend. He might have. You might have 207 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 3: made his whole day, But instead you just called nine 208 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 3: one one. 209 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: I called nine and he was calling La nine one one. 210 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: Then he really have no chance. 211 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 3: Poor guy. 212 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, what would you would have done. 213 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 3: I would have helped him, I would have tried. 214 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: I think I'll call you next time. Okay, uh okay. 215 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: Angela McGregor writes for the West Side Current, and she 216 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: wrote a great piece on the homeless numbers that Karen 217 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: Bass unveiled and all the uh self congratulations that followed, 218 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: and Angela has the same reaction I do. I'll tell you, 219 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: I don't believe any of their numbers. I think they 220 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: are liars and they're full of crap. I don't believe 221 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: in their census counts, the way they're walking the streets, 222 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: having people put what they see into an app and 223 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: then it takes some nine months to count the numbers. 224 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: And it's been well reported that there were certain employees 225 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: with LASA that did not want to deliver bad news 226 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: to the bosses, and so it's full of crap. All 227 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: they want is the tax money, and then the tax 228 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: money disappears. Please understand still that federal Judge David Carter, 229 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: he had an audit done. There's over two billion dollars 230 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: on accounted for. He can't figure out where it went. 231 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: And that case still stands. In that same situation, nobody 232 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 1: knows where the money went and now they're coming out 233 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 1: claiming three or four percent reduction and giving themselves huge congratulations. 234 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: And at the center of this is once again our 235 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: favorite psychopath in Bass. She said that the point in 236 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: time count makes one thing clear that change is possible. 237 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: Bass thanked and congratulated Felicia adams Kellum, who's the uh 238 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: head of LASA. But she's on her way out. The 239 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: County's pulled out a LASSA. They cut off adams kellum 240 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: microphone at a meeting while she was babbling nonsense. And 241 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: adams Kellum is the one who gave away two million 242 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 1: dollars of homeless money to her husband's nonprofit. But not 243 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: only did Bass thank and congratulate adams Kellum, who lost 244 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: track of the two billion dollars. Do you believe that 245 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: she loses two billion dollars? And Bass publicly thanks and 246 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: congratulates her because that's one of her hires, like Genie Kinonyez. 247 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: Then Bass asks the assembled media and lost of employees 248 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: to stand and give her a round of applause, A 249 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: round of applause. Now did anybody in the media stand 250 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:10,479 Speaker 1: up and do that? 251 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:10,919 Speaker 5: Oh? 252 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: I bet what? I bet you? The LA Times writers 253 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:18,719 Speaker 1: did if they even bothered to cover it the assembled press. 254 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 1: I don't know who the press would have been. I 255 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 1: can't find many stories on this. She lost two billion dollars, 256 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: she gave two million dollars to her husband's nonprofit. The 257 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: county pulled out. Then nobody believes the numbers. In fact, 258 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: you know Adam's Callum resigned. Now Angela McGregor and the 259 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: Westside Current points out that we have three council members, 260 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: led by Tracy Park, that voted against the city budget 261 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: which included hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for LASA, 262 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 1: and the reason Park voted against it, she says, is 263 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: a free for all where no one is able to 264 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 1: account for the billions we flushed down the toilet. Tracy 265 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 1: is an intelligent, rational person, and she is correct. We 266 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 1: have flushed billions down the toilet. And now they give 267 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 1: us this half assed point in time count claiming a 268 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 1: three percent drop in homelessness. So instead of seventy five 269 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: thousand people in the county, there's seventy two thousand homeless people, 270 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: which would account for the number that die every year. 271 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,719 Speaker 1: If you add up the death total with the current total, 272 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: you get last year's total in the city. That number 273 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: declined from forty five thousand to forty three thousand, about 274 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 1: three and a half percent. The one thing they're hanging 275 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 1: on is their claim that with inside Safe, bringing homeless 276 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: people inside. And she kept using this phrase over and 277 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: over again, bringing people inside. That the percentage of homeless 278 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 1: persons in shelters and motel rooms grew by nine and 279 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: a half percent. But that particular program is busted now, 280 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: it's out of money. It's remembering, it's worth remembering that 281 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: lossa's data from last year was severely questioned. The RAND 282 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: Corporation noted that Lasas count in twenty twenty four severely 283 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: undercounted the number of homeless in Venice, and then Public 284 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: Radio did an investigation and found that nine areas inside 285 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 1: Los Angeles had more than one hundred observations of homelessness 286 00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: removed from losa's totals by the time the count was finalized. 287 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: Save two independent outside organizations that looked at the twenty 288 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: twenty four count and said, wait, wait, wait a second, 289 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:20,719 Speaker 1: it's a severe undercount, homeless observations disappeared from the data. 290 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: The LA Alliance filed a lawsuit saying Loss's data system 291 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 1: is smoking mirrors. A whistle blower, a whistleblower against LARSA, 292 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:42,959 Speaker 1: Emily Vaughan Harry contended that Adams Kellum requested that requested 293 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: that the date on Karen Bass's signature. I'm sorry that 294 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: the data on the inside Safe program was manipulated because 295 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: Kellum did not want mayor Bass to look bad. I'm 296 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 1: going to repeat that this whistle blower, Emily Vaughn had 297 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: She says at Loss's data system is smoking mirrors, and 298 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: Adams Kellem requested that data on the inside Safe program 299 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: be manipulated because Kellem did not want Mayor Bass to 300 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 1: look bad. So you have NPR the RAND Corporation. A 301 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: whistleblower by name who works inside LASA, Tracy park All, 302 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: contending that these data accounts of homeless people are just 303 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: a load of crap. Really, if you want to summarize it. 304 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 1: But Karen Bass was applauding herself at a press conference 305 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: and asked the press and lost employees to stand and applaud. 306 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: She feels so comfortable that the local media here will 307 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: report whatever she says, that she's not embarrassed to ask 308 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: them to applaud. And I guess nobody in the media 309 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: took any unbridge up on that. Huh, No, nobody said, 310 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: what the hell are you talking about. We're not here 311 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: to applaud you and your staff members. Very very Soviet 312 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: union like you want the state media to applaud the 313 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: leader as they hand out manipulated false data on an 314 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: issue that they have stolen a lot of money on 315 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: and they have failed at. 316 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 5: All. 317 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 1: Right, we come back. 318 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 4: Well, John, even yesterday, you know how the Pentagon announced 319 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 4: that two thousand National Guards were leaving. Yeah, right, yeah, 320 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 4: Well Karen Bass was basically saying, we did it right. 321 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,199 Speaker 4: This this is something that you know, Dianngelino should be 322 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 4: proud of because we forced them to leave. 323 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, they retreated, right, Yes, they're in retreat. Newsom has 324 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: been talking like that too. In fact, one of the 325 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,120 Speaker 1: things we got coming up at two point fifteen is 326 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: Newsom is going to be holding some kind of press 327 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 1: event communities affected by the immigration rates. So we'll see 328 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: next hour. But yeah, we got to talk more about that. 329 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM 330 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 2: six forty. 331 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four and after 332 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:32,400 Speaker 1: four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That's the podcast, 333 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: so you listen to what you missed. In a few minutes, 334 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: about one fifty or so, we're going to have Carl 335 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: Lamayo on. Carl's the Republican Assemblyman, and he and State 336 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: Senator Tony Strickland are announcing that they were filing the 337 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 1: California voter ID initiative, and that would require that all 338 00:23:55,480 --> 00:24:00,959 Speaker 1: voters prove who they are voter idea requirement. And for 339 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: some reason, even though ninety percent of the country in 340 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: all demographics approve of these high types of laws, the 341 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: far left wing progressives hate them because this makes it 342 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: much more difficult to run fraudulent elections. That's the only reason. 343 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: You got another reason I feel free, but that's the 344 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,439 Speaker 1: only one I could think of. Now, I want to 345 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 1: go back to what Debra brought up here. We were 346 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: talking about all her her Soviet style news conference yesterday 347 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 1: where she laid out a bunch of phony statistics and 348 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 1: self congratulated for her performance on reducing homelessness. And of 349 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: course the statistics and the Westside Current has a good 350 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: story on this had been repeatedly cooked. The book. The 351 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,679 Speaker 1: books have been cooked over and over again. You have 352 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: everyone from the Rand Corporation, which is an independent think 353 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: tank NPR to a federal judge David Carter's audit, they've 354 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: all looked at the numbers over the last couple of 355 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: years and said, well, these are completely bogus. In fact, 356 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 1: you have a whistleblower employee by name who worked for 357 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: Losses saying no, we were under pressure to falsify the 358 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 1: numbers to not make Karen Bass look bad. So how 359 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: anybody out, anybody in this city, and I'm looking at 360 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: all the TV stations and the radio stations and the 361 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: newspapers could report these numbers as fact and broadcasting any 362 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: way right about in any way Karen Bass's self congratulations 363 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: is just so abhorrent and obnoxious. I don't know why 364 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: you people are in the business. But again, it's exactly 365 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: what state run media does back in the Old Country 366 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: if you go to Cuba. I'm sure Bass has studied 367 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 1: how cashtro pulled it off with the Cuban media, or 368 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: how the Russians the Soviets pulled it off with with Pravda. 369 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: This is what you do. You cook up a bunch 370 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: of phony numbers, and then and did she asked the 371 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 1: media to applaud She asked the press to applaud if 372 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: we could get that on tape, so they never brought 373 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: up the latest dance she did. Today, Trump announced, well, 374 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: the administration announced they're moving two thousand out of the 375 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: four thousand National Guard troops out, So there's two thousand 376 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: National Guard troops left in LA and seven hundred Marines. 377 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 1: And she presented this as a great win for the resistance. 378 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: We drove them out of town. And NEWSSIB was also 379 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 1: speaking in those terms, and I was like, are you 380 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: out of your minds? You think you intimidated the Trump 381 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:59,919 Speaker 1: administration into pulling out the National Guard. The writers stopped right. 382 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 1: The riots have been over for several weeks, and eventually 383 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 1: the National Guard moves on to other things. But if 384 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,439 Speaker 1: the rioters start up again, those men and women are 385 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,719 Speaker 1: going to be back real fast, and the Marines will 386 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,880 Speaker 1: be back, and there'll be more Marines and more National 387 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: Guard if the locals get out of line. You actually 388 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: tried to sell it that you pushed the National Guard 389 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 1: out of LA and then of course the media repeats 390 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 1: all this insanity. A mayor cannot push the National Guard 391 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 1: out of a city. She has no rights, she has 392 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 1: no jurisdiction. We found out now that even the governor 393 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 1: can be overruled by the president on these batters. It 394 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: was clearly a presidential decision because everything had calmed down. 395 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: They're not going to do ice raids every day, every hour. 396 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: They got fifty states to do the raids in, and 397 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: they've only got so much manpower. But I can't believe. 398 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 1: I can't believe how she shovels this bull crap and 399 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: the media just swarps it up and regurgitates it and 400 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: spews it out of us. Yeah, Karen Bass drove out 401 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,880 Speaker 1: the National Guard, right. I believe that as much as 402 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 1: her phony, baloney, homeless numbers what you're dealing with with 403 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: her and Newsome, these are malignant, sociopaths, narcissists. They just 404 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 1: want the power. They just want the thrill. You imagine 405 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: the thrill of spending billions of dollars any way you 406 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: want and blowing it and there's no accountability. You imagine 407 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 1: what that must feel like. That's what the two of 408 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 1: them do. They blow billions of dollars, nobody calls. 409 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 4: Them out, but it also it feels you know, Karen 410 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 4: Bass is going to be running for reelection, so we 411 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 4: don't really talk about the fires anymore. We still don't 412 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 4: know the exact cause of the fire in the Palisades. 413 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 4: So of course she's going to tout that the homeless crisis, 414 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 4: that there's two years in a row that the numbers 415 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 4: have gone down, and look look what we did. 416 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 3: We drove the National Guard out of Los Angeles. 417 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 4: So these are two big issues out of three that 418 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 4: she's so she's ignoring one of the main things that 419 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 4: happened this year. 420 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: Right, She's got two talking points now progress on homelessness, 421 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: which is false, and that she drove the National Guard out, 422 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: which is false. 423 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 4: And I wonder how many voters w'll forget about the 424 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 4: fires and go, oh, look look what she did. 425 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 3: Look the homeless. You're homeless on the streets four percent 426 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 3: fewer than last year. And ICE is gone. 427 00:29:55,640 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 4: Well, we have two thousand fewer National Guards members because 428 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 4: of what our mayor has done. 429 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: That's right, because she because you know, she went to 430 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: MacArthur Park and she started yelling at them, and she 431 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: started yelling at the uh. I mean, she is she 432 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 1: you know what she wants. She wants to God and 433 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: Newsom wants this too. They want to go Trump into 434 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: firing back and somehow upping the ante, maybe send more 435 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: National Guard, or provide some financial punishment or some incendiary rhetoric, 436 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 1: because they need him to run against There are so 437 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: many truly deranged people in this state and in this 438 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: city who when they hear Trump's name or his voice, 439 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: any of his policies, they go insane. They're blind with rage, 440 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: and then they'll follow Bass and Newsom right over the 441 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: cliff and you won't have to worry about the details 442 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: of any of the disastrous issues that the two of 443 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: them are responsible for. They are going to repeat Trump's 444 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 1: name thousands of times over the next year and a half, 445 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: thousands of times to keep everybody from focusing on the fire. 446 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: How they've sold out the Palisades, and how they allowed 447 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: rioters to run am up and try to kill Ice agents, 448 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: and how they've allowed tens of thousands of zombies to 449 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: infiltrate Los Angeles whacked out on drugs, mentally ill. And 450 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: they get they take billions of dollars, squander the money, 451 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: congratulate themselves, and ask the media to applaud Why I 452 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: just really direct question to every reporter, editor, producer, writer, 453 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 1: anybody in the media at the Times and all the 454 00:31:55,800 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: television stations. Do you have any shame? Do you have 455 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 1: any embarrassment? Do you have any pride in your profession anymore? 456 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: Why do you consistently just regurgitate Bassi Newsom's lives? Why 457 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 1: do you do that? Do you get Do you get 458 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,479 Speaker 1: extra I don't know. Do you get extra money for this? 459 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: I doubt it, But I guess they're all these died 460 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: in the wool ideological progressives and they think they're doing 461 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: their part for the religion, for the church they belong in. 462 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 1: All right, we got we got Carl de Myle coming 463 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: up next about a voter idea initiative in California. 464 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 2: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI. 465 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: SI John Cobelt's show. We're going to talk now to 466 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 1: California Assembly Member Republican Carl de Myle from the San 467 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:55,480 Speaker 1: Diego area. Carl is going to explain how he and 468 00:32:55,560 --> 00:33:00,200 Speaker 1: his organization is getting a California voter id initiative on 469 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: the ballot. Carl, what's this about? 470 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 6: Well, this is about restoring public trust and confidence in 471 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 6: our elections, and this should not be a partisan issue. 472 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 6: The Democrat voters, I talked to Republican voters everyone in between. 473 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 6: They all want to know that when. 474 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 5: We have an election, whoever wins legitimately won. And California 475 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 5: has a very dysfunctional and messed up election system. We 476 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 5: have outdated voter roles, we don't check citizenship when people 477 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 5: are registered to vote, we don't check identification. There's a 478 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,040 Speaker 5: bunch of ballot harvesting going on, and so these are 479 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 5: all weak practices that undermine confidence. By having a voter 480 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 5: ID requirement and doing a requirement to verify citizenship for 481 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 5: all registered voters, and holding state state officials and account 482 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 5: and county officials accountable for accurate voter list maintenance, all 483 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 5: of these things are designed to prove confidence. That's why 484 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 5: the Citizen's Initiative is so important. 485 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 6: But here's the thing. 486 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 5: The politicians don't want it, but the voters do. Seventy 487 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 5: percent of California voters, according to the polling, want to 488 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 5: vote yes on the voter ID initiative that we filed today. 489 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:15,919 Speaker 5: But we've got to get a million signatures to put 490 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 5: this on the ballot so that people get a chance 491 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:19,880 Speaker 5: to vote on it. And I'm not going to be 492 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 5: able to do that without help. So if you want 493 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,839 Speaker 5: me to mail you the petition, I'm happy to do that. 494 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 5: I'll pay for the stamp. I just need you to 495 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 5: request it. Go to the website voter iepetition dot org. 496 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 5: That's voter id petition dot org. You put your your 497 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,800 Speaker 5: name on that list. I will send you the petition. 498 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 5: Please sign it, date it, and send it back. We 499 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 5: need a million signatures in one hundred and eighty days 500 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:47,320 Speaker 5: to make this a reality. 501 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:49,320 Speaker 1: When does the clock start? 502 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 6: So we filed today and they. 503 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:58,319 Speaker 5: Have a thirty five day review period and then we 504 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,839 Speaker 5: are then going to be cleared to actually send these 505 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:06,319 Speaker 5: petitions out to people on or about October first. And 506 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,360 Speaker 5: that's why we need people to go to that website 507 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,279 Speaker 5: and let us know that they want to be the 508 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 5: first one to receive the petition in the mail. Again, 509 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 5: I'll pay for the postage and the printing. You just 510 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,759 Speaker 5: give me your name and your address and we will 511 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 5: send it to you. Go to the website voterdpetition dot org. 512 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,400 Speaker 5: And this is not going to happen. N most people 513 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,359 Speaker 5: get off the couch and into the puddy. If we 514 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,840 Speaker 5: want a better state, if we want to clean up 515 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,400 Speaker 5: the politics in this state, we want balance. We've got 516 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:37,520 Speaker 5: to get people citizens engaging in this sort of advocacy 517 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,400 Speaker 5: because the special interests don't want this. They like the 518 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 5: broken election system. We need to fix the problem one 519 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 5: person out of time, and it's gonna take all of 520 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:47,200 Speaker 5: us to do that, all right. 521 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,800 Speaker 1: Carl, And as we you know, over the next thirty 522 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,439 Speaker 1: five days before this officially kicks off, let's talk again 523 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:54,879 Speaker 1: and remind people about this, all right. 524 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 6: Oh yeah, we're going to have a bunch of signature rallies. 525 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,440 Speaker 6: And you know we've done this with you before, Jime. 526 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 6: We'd have a lot of fun with a really fun events. 527 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 6: But we will schedule those starting in mid October all 528 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,360 Speaker 6: the way to Christmas, where people. 529 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,240 Speaker 5: Can come and pick up petitions, turning petitions, find the petition. 530 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 5: It'll be a lot of fun. 531 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 1: Oh, we'll definitely do one. So let's keep talking. Let's 532 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 1: get that plan for the fall. Thank you, Carl, Good 533 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 1: luck with it. All right. It's Carl Demiyo and the 534 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,800 Speaker 1: Voter Idea Initiative. And again that's something seventy percent of 535 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:33,720 Speaker 1: the public supports. But the progressive cabal that runs California 536 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 1: and La County, they because they need, especially the ballad harvesting. 537 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:45,200 Speaker 1: They need fake people voting, or illegal aliens voting, or 538 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,120 Speaker 1: unregistered people. They need that. They thrive on that. That's 539 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,919 Speaker 1: how they got their super majorities. That's how we got 540 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,600 Speaker 1: such ironclad one party rule. Of course they'd be against it. 541 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: That would be a lot of trouble. When we come back, 542 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:04,239 Speaker 1: We're Oaks is coming on from ABC News to explain 543 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 1: this nineteen state lawsuit against the Trump administration. Trump administration 544 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:17,880 Speaker 1: canceled a certain FEMA program, a pre disaster mitigation program, 545 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 1: and also the Trump administration put new leadership at FEMA, 546 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,760 Speaker 1: and these nineteen states are suing, and Royal's gonna explain 547 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: why they're suing and whether they have a case, and 548 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,400 Speaker 1: why it's important to all of us. We are also 549 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:39,440 Speaker 1: going to maybe check in on Newsom inviting LA Fire 550 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:44,880 Speaker 1: survivors to some kind of press conference. They've come up 551 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 1: with this new platform online called Engaged California, and people 552 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 1: are urged to use their voice to help rebuild the community. 553 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,000 Speaker 1: This is another one of these load of crap distraction events, 554 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 1: and we're going to expose it for what it is. 555 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,160 Speaker 1: Because Governor Newsom is offering one hundred million dollars for 556 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:10,600 Speaker 1: low income housing. And today there's a bill coming through 557 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,759 Speaker 1: the Senate that would allow the City of Los Angeles 558 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,640 Speaker 1: to buy up burned out lots and put low income 559 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:22,040 Speaker 1: housing on them in Pacific Palisades. So it's a full bore, 560 00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:27,600 Speaker 1: multi pronged movement to block the old homeowners from moving 561 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 1: back into the Palisades and have low income housing towers everywhere. Meantime, 562 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,000 Speaker 1: Newsom will do some kind of vaudeville show to distract everybody. 563 00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 1: Oh well, I've got engaged California, So everybody couldn't use 564 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,640 Speaker 1: their voice to help to help shape the rebuild. 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