1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: day from one until four o'clock and after four o'clock. 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: If you missed any or all of the show, go 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: to the iHeart app for the John Cobelt Podcast John 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: Cobelt on demand and it's got the whole radio show 7 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: there and you can access that and scroll around and 8 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: listen to anything you missed. And lots of people do this. 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands of people do this. Millions actually millions. Wow, 10 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: that's right, You're so popular. We cover the stuff that 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: matters to people in their lives and one of the 12 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: well I would say the biggest story of the year 13 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: was the fire in the Palisades, and there has been 14 00:00:54,720 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: several hanging questions. Number one is what started the fire? 15 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 1: Now coming up in the two o'clock hour, and I'm 16 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: going to get into that in just a minute. But 17 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: I originally we were just going to start this at 18 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: two o'clock with the attorney Roger Bailey has been on 19 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: our show before, and Roger is representing many Palisades residents 20 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: who are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the city, and 21 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 1: I have the legal filing that Roger and his partners 22 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: have produced. And while this doesn't directly answer what started 23 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: the Palisades fire at the beginning, they do have some 24 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: stunning news in here about a second source of ignition 25 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: at ten thirty that night, which may have bolstered the 26 00:01:53,560 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: fire considerably. It was caused by downed power lines from 27 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: a broken power pole created a second source of ignition 28 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: at ten thirty above the ladwp's Temescal water tank on 29 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: the Tamescal Canyon trail, and that quickly consumed the homes 30 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 1: in the Summit neighborhood and spread quickly through the Palisades 31 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 1: in Malibu. Remember that's when the winds were We're blowing 32 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: extremely high. And what Roger Bailey is saying on behalf 33 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: of his clients, the law LEDWP lied and covered up 34 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: this story for quite some time. 35 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 2: Cover up. 36 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: Doesn't this break your heart? Now? Remind you, Genie Kinonez 37 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: is the one that runs LADWP. This is the same 38 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: agency that didn't fill the reservoirs, and this lawsuit addresses 39 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: that in great detail. So just sit down. There's a 40 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: lot to do here. And like I said, Roger Bailey's 41 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: going to come on next hour, but I wanted to 42 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: start right with this because I was reading this for 43 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: the last half hour and I couldn't believe what I 44 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: was reading. According to the lawsuit, when asked if the 45 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: downed power lines from the broken power pole above the 46 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: ladwps to Mescal water tank were energized on the day 47 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: of the fire, LADWP told a reporter from The Washington 48 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: Post that those lines had been abandoned and deenergized for 49 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: the past five years and were not energized at the 50 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: time of the fire, And according to the plaintiffs, the 51 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: LADWP stood by this false statement for months until their 52 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: attorney finally admitted on March twentieth, just a few days ago. 53 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: It was buried in a footnote on the last page 54 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: of a letter the following stunning admission. According to the 55 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: LEDWP attorney, you also asked about a statement in the 56 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: Washington Post that the sub transmission line in the area 57 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: was not energized. That statement was the result of a misunderstanding. 58 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 1: The line had been de energized for several years before 59 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: the fire, but as we said in prior correspondence, it 60 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: was energized at the time the fire ignited. There were 61 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: no faults on the line around the time that the 62 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: fire ignited, so they told the Washington Post one thing, 63 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: and that statement stood for quite a while. But Bailey 64 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: says there is no misunderstanding. He says this is a 65 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: massive cover up by the LEDWP to conceal from the 66 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: public that its electrical equipment was the source of several 67 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 1: several additional ignitions of the fire. And they have photos 68 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: from LADWP surveillance camera to capture the start of the 69 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: second ignition above the Summit neighborhood at ten thirty PM. Remember, 70 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: the original fire started at ten thirty AM. And Les 71 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: Lassiard claims that the LADWP statement that there were no 72 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 1: faults around the time the fire ignited was a despicable 73 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: attempt to conceal its knowledge that there was a fault 74 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: at ten thirty when an h frame poll snapped in 75 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 1: half and that sent energized power lines crashing to the ground. 76 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: Such a failure would have produced a ground fault on 77 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: the monitoring system. LADWP never disclosed the true facts nor 78 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: corrected its false statement that the downed power lines were 79 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: de energized. They were energized. Also in the lawsuit about 80 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: the Centienez reservoir. It was empty, one hundred and seventeen 81 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: million gallons empty, which meant that the Palisades only had 82 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: two and a half percent of its total water storage 83 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: capacity available. Ninety seven and a half percent of its 84 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: normal available water storage was unavailable, and fire hydrants started 85 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: losing water pressure. The water level in its trailer tank 86 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: began dropping at two twenty just four hours after the fire. 87 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: Six hours later, it was entirely empty. Two of the 88 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: three water storage tanks had run dry. Then that h 89 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: frame of two wood power poles collapsed. They broke because 90 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: of the wind, and those energized power lines fell into 91 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: the heavy vegetation below, igniting a fire. So there was 92 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: a secondary fire that happened that night. Those power lines 93 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: were Can you believe the power lines were not turned 94 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: off even though the fire was raging for twelve hours, 95 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: so they were in turned off. The canyons were completely dry. 96 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: I'm sorry the reservoirs were completely dry and that the 97 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: LADWP lied about it. And to this day, nobody's addressed 98 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: any of these issues in public. They have plenty of 99 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: LEDWP meetings. 100 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 2: Well, the only thing we have heard is Kenyonias has 101 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 2: said that a bunch of those fire hydrants that were 102 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 2: not working are fixed. 103 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: But they don't work without water exactly, and that's the 104 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: reason a lot of these a lot of these fire 105 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: hydrants were failing. In the lawsuit, they believe that the 106 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: LADWP water reservoirs failed during the fire. Their failure was 107 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: the result of the LADWP decision to four go proper 108 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: maintenance and repair the cover of the reservoir. It was 109 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: a cost savings decision, a cost savings decision. They didn't 110 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: want to spend one hundred and thirty thousand dollars on 111 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: a water cover, a reservoir cover that you don't even need. 112 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: You don't need that to operate the system. The Centienaz 113 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 1: Reservoir and the neighboring Chautakar Reservoir were both empty at 114 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: the time the Palisades fire erupted, so fire crews had 115 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 1: little to know water to fight the fire. This Centienaz 116 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: Reservoir was built to provide a critical public use fire protection. 117 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: That's true, built in nineteen sixty four after the nineteen 118 00:08:55,679 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: sixty one Bell Air fire that burned five hundred homes, 119 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: and according to the LEDWP, then chief water engineer Gerald 120 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: Jones told the LA times in nineteen seventy two that 121 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 1: the sant Inez Reservoir and a pumping station was to 122 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: increase fire protection, and it's still empty, and here comes 123 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: a fire season, here comes extreme fire warnings. They started 124 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,839 Speaker 1: warning us on January twod and nothing was done. They 125 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: had nothing to fight the fire with. And for the 126 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,959 Speaker 1: people in the Palisades who've told me personally, and I've 127 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: seen a lot of stories and testimony about it on 128 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: various sites on the internet, the reason the firefighters didn't 129 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: show up in your neighborhood is they didn't have any weapons, 130 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: they didn't have any water. Within a span of twelve hours, 131 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: hydrants and the Palisades failed. The three million gallon tanks 132 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: went dry. First tank went dried four forty five. Second 133 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: tank ran empty at eight thirty third was dry by 134 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: three am the next morning. Back in April of twenty 135 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: twenty four, LADWP saw bids to repair the Santiadez Reservoir 136 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: at a cost of eighty nine thousand, but it wasn't 137 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: until November that they entered into a contract to repair 138 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: it for one hundred and thirty thousand. But nobody repaired 139 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: it and nobody filled up the nobody filled up the 140 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: reservoir and the La Fire Department Captain Eric Scott acknowledged 141 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: that lack of water impacted the ability to fight the fire, 142 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: saying there were challenges with water pressure while battling the 143 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: Palisades fire. The water pressure wasn't quite what we needed. 144 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,559 Speaker 1: It affected some fire hydrants. Wasn't quite what we needed. 145 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 1: They didn't have any pressure. It affected a lot of 146 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: the fire hydrant. I'll tell you more because they've got 147 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: a quote from Mark Pistrella, the director of the La 148 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: County Public Works Department, who's trying to claim, well, the 149 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: system was never built to fight fires. Well, why not 150 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: tell you about that when we come back. That's not 151 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: a defense, that's an admission of extreme stupidity and incompetence. 152 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: Explain more when we come back. This is from a 153 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: lawsuit that's been filed on behalf of Palisades residents, and 154 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: we're going to talk to the attorney, Roger Bailey coming 155 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: up after two o'clock. 156 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 157 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 3: six forty. 158 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: Later on at two o'clock, we're going to have Roger 159 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: Bailey on. He's an attorney whose firm is representing Pacific 160 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: Palisades residents over the fire, and they have a filed lawsuit, 161 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: and I have some of the legal documents here that 162 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: I and reading on the air because there's a there's 163 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: some stunning news in this lawsuit. The la ed WP 164 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: apparently had power lines that were energized up in the 165 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: hills north of the Summit neighborhood, and these power lines 166 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: they did not turn off the energy. Twelve hours after 167 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: the fire broke out, there was a second ignition site 168 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: just above the Summit neighborhoods, and you had two wooden 169 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: fire poles it's called an H pole that snapped, brought 170 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: down these power lines and started a new fire. Basically, 171 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: I can't believe that that the power line were not 172 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: turned off, but they weren't. The LEDWP lied to the 173 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: Washington Post claiming that those lines were abandoned and de 174 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: energized five years ago, and then five days ago they 175 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: admitted in a footnote on the last page of a 176 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: letter to the plaintiff's attorneys that well, there was a misunderstanding. 177 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: It was energized, and so you had this this H 178 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: pole snapping bringing the power lines down. It's called an 179 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 1: H frame pole. Stepped in half. Now we told you 180 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: that it went to detail about how the reservoir wasn't 181 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: filled even though the reservoir was designed to fight fires, 182 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: that was its purpose, and with the lack of water. 183 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: Ninety seven percent of the stored water didn't exist at 184 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: the time of the fire because Santinez Reservoir was empty, 185 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: and so is another reservoir, the Chatakar Reservoir that also 186 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: was empty. Mark Pistrella Is, the director of the La 187 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: County Public Works, said the fire hydrant system was not 188 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: designed to fight wildfires well. In the lawsuit, the attorney's 189 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: point out that the LEDWP deliberately designed and maintained this 190 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: water supply system for ninety years, despite it being located 191 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: in a fire prone area. In the last ninety years, 192 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: there's been more than thirty wildfires that have burned parts 193 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 1: of Malibu, which is next door. The most recent the 194 00:14:54,160 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: Franklin Fire from December the ninth, a month before the 195 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: Palisades Fire. Was the Franklin Fire. The Woolsey Fire, which 196 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: is November twenty eighteen, burned almost ninety seven thousand acres, 197 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: and other government officials have acknowledged the deficiencies of the 198 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: water supply system knowing that the state, noting that the 199 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: storage tanks that hold water up in the highlands and 200 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: the pumping systems that feed them could not keep pace 201 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: with the demand. They talked to a man named Amano Laal, 202 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: director of the Water Institute of Arizona State, and said 203 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: the lack of water availability in water pressure was because 204 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: of these said to z reservoir being empty. Without water 205 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: from the reservoir, the firefighters had to rely primarily on 206 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: water tanks, which were not designed to fight such a 207 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: large fire. So those of you in the Palisades, you 208 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: were left utterly defenseless by the LEDWP and the city 209 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles. And then you have this mark Forristrella saying, well, 210 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: the hydrant system was not designed to fight what Well, then, 211 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: why ninety years didn't you build one that does? What 212 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: did you do with all the tax money? What did 213 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: you do with all the ratepayer money if you didn't 214 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: design a water system to fight fires in a high 215 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: fire prone area, that the city allowed a massive amount 216 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: of housing development. God, this is crazy. Lawton also says 217 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: LEDWP failed to de energize its distribution and transmission electrical facilities, 218 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: its distribution equipment experience to arcing, exploding transformers, sending showers 219 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: of sparks and molten metal raining down into homes, businesses, 220 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 1: and vegetation, which started additional spot fires that accelerated the 221 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: red of the Palisades fire. And they have screenshots because 222 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 1: some of this stuff happened on live television. They just 223 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 1: took this off the TV. So the LEDWP destroyed the Palisades. 224 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: They destroyed thousands of homes, and they killed people. And 225 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: Jennie Kennionia still has a job. Nobody's been fired at LEDWP. 226 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: Nobody's been even questioned publicly. There's been no hearings, there's 227 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: been no explanations. Karen Bass hasn't mentioned them, Gavin Newsom 228 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: hasn't mentioned them. They all are just gonna go quiet 229 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: and know that maybe a few years down the road 230 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: some other mayor and some other governor are gonna pay 231 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: is gonna pay out the settlement. Well, they are disgusting people. 232 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 1: Let me tell you, this crowd is disgusting. They had 233 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: ninety years to build a water system of a firefighting 234 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: system and they chose not to right up to defunding 235 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 1: the fire department it's only half funded, and refusing to 236 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,919 Speaker 1: spend one hundred and thirty thousand dollars to fill the 237 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 1: reservoir with water while they're paying the DWP chief Kenonia's 238 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Do you know they 239 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,679 Speaker 1: spent an extra three hundred thousand on her compared to 240 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: the last chief, But they wouldn't spend one hundred and 241 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:37,479 Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars cost issues. So that's why they never 242 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: filled the water, never filled the reservoir and built a 243 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: new cover. All right, we're going to talk to Roger 244 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: Bailey Atturning that's leading this lawsuit coming up after two o'clock. 245 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,880 Speaker 1: This is so disgusting. I mean, this is sickening, sickening. 246 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 1: And every day Kenonias and Bass wake up and they 247 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: still jobs. Wow, and the city council not a word 248 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: uh oh. And later we're going to play what goes 249 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: on at city council. Right, they don't they don't discuss 250 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: the lack of water, and they don't discuss the uh, 251 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 1: the fact that nobody turned off the energy into the 252 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 1: power lines and all the rest of the sins. But 253 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,439 Speaker 1: here here's what go well, you know, when we'll come back, 254 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 1: I'll play you, I'll play a few clips. We played 255 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,159 Speaker 1: some of this last week, and you'll see what happens 256 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: at the La City council meetings. Crazy people line up 257 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: and start cursing at the councilmen who don't even pay attention. 258 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: This this is how the city's run. We'll tell you 259 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: about we covect. 260 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 261 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 3: six forty moist line. 262 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: We'll return on Friday eight seven seven moist eighty six. 263 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: You have anything to say, anything pointed, any analysis eight 264 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: seven seven moist eighty six or eight seven seven sixty 265 00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: six four seven eight eight six. You can use the 266 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: feature on the iHeartRadio app. I gave you a half 267 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: an hour. This lawsuit that the Palisades residents are filing. 268 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,640 Speaker 1: We're going to talk to the attorney, Roger Bailey coming 269 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 1: up after two o'clock. Went through a lot of the 270 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 1: lawsuit centering around a second ignition of the fire up 271 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: in the north of the Summit neighborhood up up in 272 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:25,399 Speaker 1: the highlands there, and it looks like the DWP had 273 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: their electrical lines energized and an h frame pole snapped, 274 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: fell to the ground brought the power lines with it. 275 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: And started a second fire that blew up real fast 276 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: because that's when the winds were blowing at eighty miles 277 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:46,160 Speaker 1: an hour and there was a lot of arcing and 278 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: transmission explosions going on. They never turned off the power 279 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: and then they lied about it when reporters asked them. 280 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: The LEDWP lied about it and claimed that the lines 281 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: were de energized. Now all this is really discussed and 282 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: angering and damning, and you think the La City Council 283 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: would be holding public hearings and putting a Genie Quinonez 284 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 1: and all the rest of these characters and rust them right, 285 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: That's what a responsible council would do. Instead. Marquise Harris 286 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: Dawson is who's the council president and was acting mayor 287 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 1: the day of the fire. You know what his big 288 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: issue is is that crazy people show up at the 289 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 1: meeting and start cursing and calling him and the other 290 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 1: council members' names all kinds of vulgar profanity, including the 291 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,880 Speaker 1: N word, the C word, and he wants to try 292 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,160 Speaker 1: to find some way to stop it. Of course you can't. 293 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,159 Speaker 1: It's a public meeting, and there's they've had cases like 294 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: this before. In the First Amendment wins so, but by 295 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: going public to show how upset he is, these people 296 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 1: are now lining up and they're getting even wilder in 297 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: their language. But this is the battle, Marquise Harris Dawson 298 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: is fighting language, foul language by lunatics. There's no anger 299 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: about the DWP lying, keeping the reservoir empty, not turning 300 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,439 Speaker 1: off the electricity so the power lines could fall and 301 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: start even bigger fires along the way. But you can't 302 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: get it rend. You can't get around the lack of 303 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: water in the reservoir. I mean, I mean, I cannot 304 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: believe these people are going to survive that. How the hell? 305 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: That was ninety seven percent of the water supply used 306 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: for fires in the Palisades and it was bone dry, 307 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:43,199 Speaker 1: and there was a second reservoir dry. But here's what 308 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: goes on at a city council meeting, and this is 309 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,400 Speaker 1: thanks to the reporter Daniel Gus. We're going to play 310 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: you some clips. This is for real. I hope you 311 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 1: bleeped out everything that's supposed to be bleeped out. I 312 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: hope so too. Okay, so you may want to stick around. 313 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 1: Who knows what we're going to hear. We'll start with 314 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: some character named mister Herman, this is LA City Council 315 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: public comic got seven. 316 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 4: Now into my general public comment. 317 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: Now, I, a. 318 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 4: Disabled person, is having my rights a free speech censored 319 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:22,400 Speaker 4: or shut off and finding out that this motion declared 320 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 4: by monkey Dawson up there who finds it offensive of 321 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 4: these efficits. But again, ladies and gentlemen, I read into 322 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 4: the record my view about Los Angeles being dirty. I 323 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 4: talked about Los Angeles being dirty. I set it throughout 324 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 4: my life. HHH. 325 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 1: But forty five. 326 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 4: Of you don't understand that I got your attention. 327 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: Now I'm in. 328 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:52,439 Speaker 4: The news and I haven't used the N word or 329 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 4: the C word. 330 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: So brandon Burg versus Ohio USC. 331 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 4: Ninety five over four, nineteen sixty nine a dirty La. 332 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: He has a point about La being dirty. Maybe that's 333 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: the only way to get the get their attention is 334 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 1: to start screaming cursing at him. I don't know, maybe 335 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: he's onto something. 336 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 2: Maybe you need to go in there, John, and. 337 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: Uh, maybe I should just start to start start cursing, screaming. 338 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 1: Here's more public comment, LA City Council. And let's be clear. 339 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 5: On Friday, our city attorney taught me how to spell 340 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 5: two words. I wasn't sure bob is spelled and and 341 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 5: I didn't know this Bob is spelled c. 342 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 1: Now, how come Heather Hunt. 343 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 5: Didn't sign the motion? She's been called both me and 344 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 5: she didn't sign the motion. How come only seventy you 345 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 5: gang members signed the motion to ban these words? 346 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: The laughing at you all over then laughing. 347 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,360 Speaker 5: But why am I dressed as Santa Claus? Why because 348 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 5: my first Amendment attorney already started racking up his eight 349 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 5: hundred and forty. 350 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: Four dollars an hour. 351 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 5: Face we're getting ready. 352 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: For the lawsuit. 353 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 5: I want my emotion today, Way about out a committee 354 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 5: so we could all start getting paid for being I 355 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 5: want to be paid. 356 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: Is it? He was really dressed as Santa Yeah, he 357 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: was wearing a Santa hat and a red shirt. And 358 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,160 Speaker 1: the council people they sit there or they wander away. 359 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 1: Uh So I was watching the lectern and while everybody's speaking, 360 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: the council people are just having conversations with themselves. They're 361 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,640 Speaker 1: not even paying attention to any of the public comment 362 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 1: that's going on, whether it's relevant or not, because they 363 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: don't care. But it's funny that Marquise Harrys Dawson has 364 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 1: now created a bigger problem because they're they're baiting him 365 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: to get dude, that's what they're doing. They're going to 366 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 1: pile on more vulgarity, more profanity, more obscenity, and come 367 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 1: up with every banned word possible to get a rise 368 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: out of him, to get a lawsuit going. All right, 369 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: got another clip another man during public comment. This is 370 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: about wanting to fund the LAPD and the budget shortfall. 371 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 6: Now I see in CD five, you guys want to 372 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:28,159 Speaker 6: increase police funding again again. Like I just said, you 373 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 6: increased police funding by one hundred and twenty six million 374 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,120 Speaker 6: dollars last year, while you cut the fire department by 375 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 6: eighteen and cut street services by twenty two and cut 376 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 6: sanitation by twenty and then you're going to ask for 377 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 6: additional funding for policing outside of what they already have, 378 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 6: outside of the fact that they've already overspent by one 379 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 6: hundred and something million, outside of the fact that their 380 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 6: liabilities are pushing between one hundred and two hundred million. 381 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 6: As a hugo over there who did vote for the 382 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 6: police budget two years ago using your priorities As far. 383 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 7: As public comment, I gotta tell you guys, you guys 384 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 7: really up the budget. We are one billion dollars in 385 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 7: the hole right because of you. It is not outside 386 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 7: forces that caused these problems. 387 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 8: You guys did it. 388 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 9: Kenneth Mahea warned every single one of you every step 389 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 9: of the way. 390 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,199 Speaker 8: Now you disregarded him, you said the mayor said that 391 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 8: it was theatrical exaggerations, his projections, and he was dead on. 392 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,440 Speaker 8: She's a shame on all of you who sat there 393 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 8: and voted for these budgets. 394 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 6: Three of you get to pass Unises, Nthia and that 395 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 6: piece of Hugo you gotta pass. 396 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 9: The rest of you voted for that, and now we 397 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 9: are in crisis. Eighteen months ago we had record general 398 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 9: fund reserves. Now we are in fiscal emergency eighteen months later. 399 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: Great job, all of you. 400 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 7: You guys have run the city into the ground. 401 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 2: I think he needs to come in one day. 402 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 4: You know what. 403 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: I'm going to take a week off and let those 404 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: three take over. We'll have more we come back. 405 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI. 406 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock, we're going to talk with 407 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: Roger Bailey, and he's the lead attorney in a lawsuit 408 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 1: representing Palisades owners against the city against over the fire. 409 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: And there he's got a lot of new stunning information 410 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: which I went through earlier last hour. If you missed it, 411 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: stick around Roger Bailey's coming on. It looks like there 412 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: was problems with the electrical transmission lines and there may 413 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: have been a major second ignition point at ten thirty 414 00:28:55,320 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: that night because they never turn the power off on 415 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: the lines, and eventually a paul snapped, the lines went 416 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: to the ground and there was a big blow up 417 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: of the fire twelve hours later when the winds were 418 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: at their height. So we'll get into that with Roger 419 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: Bailey coming up. Whenever the natural disaster happens and people say, 420 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: well how long is it going to take to rebuild? 421 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 1: How long is it going to take to recover? And 422 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: you talk to a vegetable like Karen Bass and she'll 423 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 1: go la strong, We go forward, we keep fighting. Then 424 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: you check recent history and the last big fire was 425 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: in Maui. Remember Maui in the summer twenty twenty three. 426 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 2: How can we forget that one. 427 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: Two thousand homes burned. Take a guess you can play first, 428 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: how many homes do you think have been rebuilt in 429 00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 1: Mali since the fires were put out twenty two hundred, 430 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: two hundred. The answer is six. What six? 431 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 2: You know, I really was going to say five, and 432 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 2: I thought that's ridiculous. 433 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: Well it is. It is ridiculous. There are so many 434 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: zoning restrictions. What are your regulations, historical preservation requirements, environmental 435 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: preservation requirements. You have to have separate applications and schedules 436 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: for electrical plumbing, grading, and driveway work. They also have 437 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 1: very few people working in the permit office, so it 438 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: takes the county two hundred and six days to issue 439 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: a single building permit. Two hundred and six days. That's 440 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: about seven months. That's for one permit, and you need 441 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: several of them to build a house from scratch. They 442 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: tried to pass a bill to speed up the process 443 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: and it didn't work. They even opened a recovery permitting 444 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 1: center and they hired private contractors to process the permit. 445 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: It still took over fifty days, and if you have 446 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 1: a householder than five years, you had to apply for 447 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: a new permit. The governor issued an emergency exemption sparing 448 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: multifamily homes from special reviews involving the coastal environmental issues 449 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: because that would have been an extra year, so they 450 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: actually tried to streamline the process and it still took 451 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 1: seven months. So see, the kind of people who get 452 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: into government are about. They're about controlling and restricting. They're 453 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:56,560 Speaker 1: not about creating freedoms. Every restrictive control freak in a 454 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: population ends up in government where they spend all day 455 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: saying no, and they come up with all kinds of complicated, 456 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: nonsense rules because that's what they like doing. It makes 457 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 1: them feel powerful, and they are powerful, and now they 458 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 1: have control, they can tell people how to live. And 459 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: here you have two thousand homes burned and Maui and 460 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: one nine hundred and ninety four haven't been rebuilt yet 461 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: because of the power freak stupid vegetables that work in government. 462 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: You know what we have is we have almost like 463 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 1: two separate species. We have a species that works in 464 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 1: the private sector and creates wealth and innovation and progress. 465 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 1: And then we have the incompetent species that is attracted 466 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 1: to government, which creates rules, regulations, obstacles. 467 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 6: And. 468 00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 1: Anything that stops progress, anything that versus progress, any kind 469 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: of bureaucratic mechanism is created by the people in these bureaucracies. 470 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: People like to blame something generic. Well, that's government, that's 471 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: the bureaucracy. No, it's the people in the bureaucracy, the 472 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 1: people in the government who get taxpayer paid paychecks. They 473 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: created this this swap. We come back. Roger Bailey, he's 474 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: the attorney leading the lawsuit against the city over the 475 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 1: Palisades fire. He's got some stunning revelations in the lawsuit 476 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 1: in the paperwork. Read some of them last hour. If 477 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 1: you didn't hear it, you know, listen to Roger Bailey 478 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 1: coming up. It's going to make you crazy. Deborah Mark 479 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,960 Speaker 1: Live the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been 480 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 1: listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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