WEBVTT - State Workers Make How Much?! (09/01) 0:00:00.670 --> 0:00:04.240 KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Kobelt podcast 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:10.539 on the iHeartRadio app. KFI AM 640. More stimulating talk radio. 0:00:10.619 --> 0:00:13.760 John Kobelt's show continues. And we are on every day 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.540 from 3 until 6. And if you miss anything, after 0:00:16.540 --> 0:00:20.060 6 o'clock, John Kobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. 0:00:20.140 --> 0:00:24.090 And people are donating. We have a GoFundMe that we're 0:00:24.110 --> 0:00:29.450 doing here for Ray Lopez. Well, actually, for his dog, Rocco. Rocco... 0:00:29.910 --> 0:00:33.550 hurt himself badly. He took a jump or a fall 0:00:33.590 --> 0:00:38.600 from a chair and wrecked his leg, needed expensive surgery 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.680 to put his leg back together again. Rocco's a really 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:45.199 cute Pomeranian. So we're asking you if you'd help out. 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.690 Like Ray said, he's been doing this for 26 years 0:00:47.700 --> 0:00:50.110 with us and he's never asked you for anything. So 0:00:50.270 --> 0:00:52.690 if you could just help Rocco out, it would be wonderful. 0:00:53.350 --> 0:00:57.240 And GoFundMe.com, There's links on all the social media pages. 0:00:58.140 --> 0:01:00.620 If you go right to the website, it's titled Help 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.580 Ray and Rocco with Surgery. Rocco is R-O-C-C-O. And just 0:01:04.620 --> 0:01:05.440 look at that cute guy. 0:01:05.620 --> 0:01:06.450 He is very cute. 0:01:06.550 --> 0:01:08.830 And he's wearing the cone of shame around his head. 0:01:08.890 --> 0:01:10.890 That's the worst when your dogs have to wear that. 0:01:11.050 --> 0:01:13.970 My dog got so depressed. Oh, yeah. He had an 0:01:13.990 --> 0:01:17.090 eye infection this year, and that cost a whopping amount 0:01:17.130 --> 0:01:19.990 of money. Let me tell you, veterinary care, that's another racket. 0:01:20.010 --> 0:01:24.170 My dog has had three lumps, and I just went 0:01:24.209 --> 0:01:28.090 to the vet. On Sunday, $ 600. Fortunately, it's not cancerous, 0:01:28.110 --> 0:01:33.069 so I'm very thankful. Three weeks before that, two of them, $ 1, 000. 0:01:31.910 --> 0:01:35.350 I don't have pet insurance, so I've just spent $ 1, 600 0:01:34.390 --> 0:01:40.820 on non-cancerous, which I'm not complaining, lumps. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.700 Some people get upset. I spent all that money, and 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:44.780 you're telling me it's not cancer? No, no, no, no. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.680 I mean, I know that sounds weird. I'm just saying 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.890 it's so expensive, but I'm so grateful that. 0:01:49.830 --> 0:01:55.130 My dog's okay. It can be... I remember a long 0:01:55.190 --> 0:01:58.640 time ago, we had a cat, and she lived 19 years. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:00.800 But the first time she had a health problem, nobody 0:02:00.820 --> 0:02:02.920 could figure it out. My wife and I had just 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.280 moved in together. We didn't have any money. And it's like, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.460 you know what? This is the last shot. If this 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.100 doesn't work, what's going to happen? 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:10.320 Sorry, cat. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:10.880 That's right. 0:02:11.930 --> 0:02:12.650 And what happened? 0:02:12.710 --> 0:02:18.049 We miraculously came back. It's a longer story. It actually 0:02:18.090 --> 0:02:21.370 was fascinating because I'd never owned a pet before, and 0:02:21.410 --> 0:02:23.859 I couldn't believe what this thing was costing me. And 0:02:23.940 --> 0:02:25.639 I remember telling my wife, why don't we just have 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:26.870 a kid? I mean, at least we.... 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.820 But we debate about the pet insurance because we pay 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.540 all this money every month and. 0:02:33.419 --> 0:02:33.680 I know. 0:02:33.700 --> 0:02:34.600 Then, I don't know. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:34.940 Anyway. 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:41.210 Let's get Megan Barth on. Megan is with CaliforniaGlobe.com. And 0:02:41.260 --> 0:02:43.630 she had a story, which just the headline is enough 0:02:43.669 --> 0:02:46.650 to boil your blood. California paid 250 state workers more 0:02:46.669 --> 0:02:46.870 than $ 600, 000 each. 0:02:51.490 --> 0:02:59.440 Last year, one of them took home $ 2. 3 million. Megan, welcome. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:02:59.919 How are you? 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:02.639 Well, I'm kind of sick to my stomach. 0:03:03.980 --> 0:03:06.760 You know, I wrote this a few days ago, and 0:03:06.820 --> 0:03:09.119 I just honestly couldn't believe every time I look into 0:03:09.180 --> 0:03:12.609 California and how you guys just basically take fire to money. 0:03:13.010 --> 0:03:18.750 But then the abuse of these civil servants, that they 0:03:18.810 --> 0:03:24.350 have just basically it's codified. The abuse that they inflict 0:03:24.389 --> 0:03:27.549 on the taxpayer is evident in this report. 0:03:28.290 --> 0:03:30.530 And I'm going to give you just one guy, okay? 0:03:31.290 --> 0:03:34.890 And what your listeners should understand is that these salaries 0:03:35.610 --> 0:03:40.230 are forever until these people die because this becomes part 0:03:40.250 --> 0:03:44.560 of their pensions. So this is why you are basically 0:03:44.740 --> 0:03:47.960 underwater by hundreds of millions of dollars in your pensions 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.600 because of, and you know, I love cops. My grandfather 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.960 was a cop, okay? I got nothing against cops. I 0:03:53.980 --> 0:03:58.880 think cops should be well-paid, right? But a CHP sergeant 0:03:59.500 --> 0:04:04.460 by the name of Leonard Kambuk, maybe he's listening, he 0:04:04.540 --> 0:04:08.040 booked in overtime in the last three years of his 0:04:08.150 --> 0:04:14.620 service nearly $ 900, 000 So guess what that did to his 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:19.700 pension pay? His regular salary on average for years, from 0:04:19.700 --> 0:04:21.870 2017 to about 2024, he ranged. 0:04:21.270 --> 0:04:22.729 From about $ 150, 000 to $ 190, 000. Now, you know, that kind 0:04:22.750 --> 0:04:23.310 of makes sense. 0:04:23.330 --> 0:04:25.150 It's a price of living increase, the CCI, okay? 0:04:25.170 --> 0:04:25.650 But his overtime. 0:04:35.980 --> 0:04:37.980 Is where the goods are. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.719 Because in 2017 through like 2021, he was booking about 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.080 $ 30, 000 to $ 40, 000 of overtime. 0:04:43.100 --> 0:04:43.900 He had one outlier of like 63. 0:04:43.900 --> 0:04:45.020 But you go up to 2022, 2023. 0:04:45.020 --> 0:04:59.020 And 2024 for Leonard, And let's just remind the audience. 0:04:59.180 --> 0:05:03.120 Leonard retired in 2025. So these last three years were 0:05:03.180 --> 0:05:06.150 really important to Leonard, especially when it came to overtime. 0:05:06.490 --> 0:05:08.390 Because he went from booking like. 0:05:08.310 --> 0:05:08.710 $ 37, 000 in 2022, $ 162, 000. 0:05:08.570 --> 0:05:09.089 In 2023, $ 294, 000 in overtime. 0:05:09.110 --> 0:05:09.530 In 2024, $ 436, 423 in overtime. 0:05:09.550 --> 0:05:11.330 Giving Leonard Tombaugh. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.380 A CHP sergeant, a total pay and benefit package on 0:05:29.420 --> 0:05:30.860 his way out the door of $ 813, 500. 0:05:30.740 --> 0:05:31.300 Yes! 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:40.730 And you guys got to pay Leonard, I think 90% 0:05:40.730 --> 0:05:44.050 of that, for the rest of Leonard's life. 0:05:44.470 --> 0:05:48.779 Yeah, that could go on. He's probably not that old already, right? 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:54.060 Because police retire relatively young, usually in their 50s. So 0:05:54.330 --> 0:05:58.120 we could have 40 more years of paying Leonard big 0:05:58.180 --> 0:06:00.960 fat pension checks. Yep. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:06.930 And Leonard's just one of thousands. So the guy that 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:13.330 made the $ 2. 3 million, he's the head, the CIO of CalPERS, 0:06:14.290 --> 0:06:17.870 your pension fund. 0:06:17.990 --> 0:06:22.760 This is fascinating because this is the State Union Workers 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:27.729 Pension Fund. And yeah, Stephen Gilmore is the chief investment officer, 0:06:27.730 --> 0:06:36.390 2.3 million. But I noticed that the top 10, I 0:06:36.410 --> 0:06:38.630 think it's the top 10 earners in the state, all 0:06:38.650 --> 0:06:42.219 from CalPERS or these CalPERS top 10 earners. All right. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.360 So the top 10. 0:06:45.820 --> 0:06:50.100 The top 10 in CalPERS, they all made over a 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.820 million dollars a year. Up to $ 2 million. 0:06:54.180 --> 0:07:02.610 Arnold Phillips, 1.7 is in second place. You go ahead. Yeah. 0:07:02.930 --> 0:07:04.710 You want to think about the wolves of Wall Street? 0:07:06.529 --> 0:07:09.430 These are the wolves of the West Coast. But these 0:07:09.470 --> 0:07:11.090 are the wolves of taxpayers. 0:07:11.170 --> 0:07:16.640 I mean, taxpayers are responsible for each of these 10-person salaries. 0:07:16.700 --> 0:07:23.110 Stephen Gilmore, CIO, 2.3 million. Arnold Phillips. Managing Investment Director, 0:07:23.110 --> 0:07:29.890 $ 1. 73 million. Daniel Bienvenu, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, because you 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:31.080 need a deputy, I guess. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:32.320 That's $ 1. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:32.580 6 million. 0:07:33.220 --> 0:07:34.380 And it just keeps going on. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:40.420 The CEO of CalPERS, Marcy Frost, she made $ 1. 0:07:39.140 --> 0:07:40.080 6 million. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:47.030 There's 15 CalPERS officers and executives cleared $ 1 million last year. 0:07:48.970 --> 0:07:50.650 Hang on the line. I want to talk about some 0:07:50.670 --> 0:07:55.570 of the other categories here. These prison psychiatrists. This is 0:07:55.590 --> 0:07:57.170 going to make you bang your head against the wall. 0:07:57.210 --> 0:08:01.110 When we come back, more with Megan Barth from CaliforniaGlobe.com. 0:08:01.110 --> 0:08:09.090 250 state workers made more than $ 600, 000 last year. $ 2. 3 0:08:06.130 --> 0:08:07.950 million went to the top earner. 0:08:08.690 --> 0:08:12.960 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM640. 0:08:18.350 --> 0:08:22.450 KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. John Cobell Show. 0:08:23.010 --> 0:08:29.950 And we're live on YouTube, live on X. And we're 0:08:29.970 --> 0:08:33.010 going to be talking with Carl DeMaio after 5 o'clock, 0:08:33.030 --> 0:08:37.010 the Republican Assemblyman, about Newsom getting dealt a defeat by 0:08:37.090 --> 0:08:40.270 his own party. He was trying to put a cap 0:08:40.450 --> 0:08:44.370 on how much money power companies would have to pay 0:08:44.450 --> 0:08:47.160 out for all the wildfires they caused. We'll talk about 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:52.480 that coming up. Megan Barth is continuing with us from CaliforniaGlobe.com. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:58.700 She has discovered that there's $ 600, 000 of your tax money 0:08:58.740 --> 0:09:04.210 going to 250 state workers. One of them, who runs 0:09:04.260 --> 0:09:09.790 the pension fund, is getting $ 2. 3 million. Megan, let's talk 0:09:09.850 --> 0:09:12.730 about these prison psychiatrists. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.900 You know, honestly, I didn't even know there was such 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:18.860 a thing that was part of the state government. 0:09:18.900 --> 0:09:22.000 But here we are. I live in Nevada. I'm sure 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:22.740 we have them, too. 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.679 The prison state psychiatrist, Samita Gandhi, $ 873, 872 a year for life. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.730 Olivia Del Pilar, $ 841, 878 a. 0:09:27.690 --> 0:09:47.800 Year for life. And Damon Walcott, $ 822, 971 a year for life. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.600 What do they do? Are they the ones who decide 0:09:49.620 --> 0:09:50.460 that some. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:50.579 Of these crazy? 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.780 Psychotics can be let out early? 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:07.080 Yeah, that's a great question. I was saying earlier that 0:10:07.179 --> 0:10:07.900 I'm going. 0:10:07.700 --> 0:10:10.540 To be digging more into this because honestly, you know, 0:10:10.660 --> 0:10:12.679 living in Nevada for as long as I have, I 0:10:12.740 --> 0:10:16.040 hadn't realized that the state has gotten completely, I was 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:21.020 in California for 20 years. There weren't these jumps. And 0:10:21.090 --> 0:10:23.910 I've been reporting on the news for 20 years, I think. 0:10:24.530 --> 0:10:26.510 And I don't remember these jumps. 0:10:28.130 --> 0:10:33.950 Clearly, there is an incentive for union employees to basically 0:10:34.110 --> 0:10:39.000 stack their overtime in the last two to three years 0:10:39.860 --> 0:10:45.390 of their employment before they retire. Because how does one sergeant, 0:10:45.450 --> 0:10:50.290 California Highway Patrol, Leonard Kahnbach, how does he book $ 436, 000 0:10:49.970 --> 0:10:53.010 in overtime in one year? 0:10:54.050 --> 0:10:55.030 Are there that many days? 0:10:55.830 --> 0:10:59.750 Are there that many hours? It doesn't seem mathematically possible, 0:11:00.230 --> 0:11:02.800 but I don't know what the formula is when they 0:11:02.820 --> 0:11:05.020 start getting a time and a half or double time 0:11:05.059 --> 0:11:05.400 for this. 0:11:06.340 --> 0:11:06.860 Correct. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.800 And so, but there is an incentive. 0:11:09.820 --> 0:11:14.640 There is a clear incentive to, for quote-unquote civil servants. 0:11:14.700 --> 0:11:16.760 When I think of servants, I don't think of servants 0:11:16.820 --> 0:11:20.120 making $ 2. 3 million a year. I don't think of servants 0:11:20.540 --> 0:11:25.800 booking $ 436, 000 in overtime and retiring at $ 813, 000. Servants and 0:11:27.580 --> 0:11:31.110 those salaries just don't equate. I just can't wrap my 0:11:31.140 --> 0:11:32.330 head around it, but here we are. 0:11:32.350 --> 0:11:38.430 About 15 years ago, the budget was $ 100 billion. It's 0:11:38.470 --> 0:11:41.189 now three and a half times that. The budget has 0:11:41.650 --> 0:11:44.210 grown three and a half times as much in 15 0:11:44.210 --> 0:11:47.850 years because of stuff like this. 0:11:49.270 --> 0:11:49.949 That's correct. 0:11:50.550 --> 0:11:53.260 And what you have now, when you look at Gavin's 0:11:53.540 --> 0:11:56.580 latest budget, he's got like $ 11. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.060 8 billion just in the next four years for extra pensions. 0:12:06.570 --> 0:12:12.229 CalPERS, the pension fund, is upside down by $ 153 million, 0:12:12.610 --> 0:12:15.490 and Stephen Gilmore, who got. 0:12:16.170 --> 0:12:17.610 A bonus. 0:12:19.170 --> 0:12:28.740 Because he, I guess, got 11.6% return. This is funny math. 0:12:28.900 --> 0:12:32.880 No, and the unions own the place, the public service unions. 0:12:32.900 --> 0:12:36.949 Thank you. They've got the deed to the Sacramento government. 0:12:38.830 --> 0:12:40.830 And there seems to be no way to stop them. 0:12:43.010 --> 0:12:46.800 You could throw out the politicians. Nobody does. But you'd 0:12:46.820 --> 0:12:51.260 still have the unions owning the next guy who becomes governor. 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:54.380 That's right. 0:12:55.020 --> 0:12:57.950 And then they complain that they have to show up 0:12:57.970 --> 0:12:58.429 for work. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.320 Let me give you this statistic that just popped out 0:13:03.340 --> 0:13:08.439 to me from my report. Civil service headcount, so this 0:13:08.500 --> 0:13:11.780 is the number of state employees, rose 23% between 2017 0:13:11.780 --> 0:13:12.640 and 18 and 2024 to 25. 0:13:12.620 --> 0:13:14.570 Last year, more than. 0:13:14.270 --> 0:13:17.510 1,700 state workers banked over $ 100, 000 in overtime alone. 0:13:33.450 --> 0:13:37.490 Well, there's no restraint on this at all. 0:13:37.870 --> 0:13:38.270 Correct. 0:13:38.650 --> 0:13:43.010 You have one party rule. The union sets the terms 0:13:43.050 --> 0:13:45.450 of the contract, and Newsom and the rest of them 0:13:45.470 --> 0:13:49.920 just say yes. You want more? And they go, yes, okay, 0:13:49.940 --> 0:13:52.679 we'll give you more. That's the extent of the negotiations. 0:13:54.300 --> 0:13:54.800 That's right. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:56.640 You got it. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.980 So until there is political change, you know, perhaps in California, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.599 nothing's going to change. But the unions are going to 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.140 have to be taken on by somebody because this is unsustainable. 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.650 You know, the left loves to talk about sustainability of this, that, 0:14:11.670 --> 0:14:13.110 and the other, and that's why we have to use 0:14:13.130 --> 0:14:15.170 paper straws that don't work and all this crap. 0:14:15.190 --> 0:14:18.870 This is not sustainable. 0:14:19.190 --> 0:14:22.350 This is fiscal Armageddon. Someone's going to have to pay 0:14:22.370 --> 0:14:26.220 for this. And at the rate that the businesses are 0:14:26.260 --> 0:14:27.660 leaving California. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:32.479 Someone has to fill the hole. Yeah, and this is 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.020 why the tax rates are where they are. People wonder 0:14:35.060 --> 0:14:37.300 why the tax is so high. Because you have the 0:14:37.450 --> 0:14:40.990 unions looting the place, among a hundred other things. Megan Barr, 0:14:41.030 --> 0:14:41.870 thank you for coming on. 0:14:43.090 --> 0:14:43.550 Anytime. 0:14:43.570 --> 0:14:44.390 Thanks for having me. 0:14:44.490 --> 0:14:52.010 CaliforniaGlobe.com. You should read this. Read this. Well... Don't read 0:14:52.030 --> 0:14:53.860 it after you eat dinner because it'll probably make you 0:14:53.900 --> 0:14:58.680 throw up. Carl DeMaio coming up after 5 o'clock. Gavin 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:04.020 Newsom lost on– it's very rare that he gets a loss. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.950 Usually everything gets rubber-stamped by the Democratic Assembly and State Senate, 0:15:07.990 --> 0:15:12.770 but Newsom's a lame duck, and he wanted to give 0:15:12.850 --> 0:15:16.530 protection on his way out the door to the power 0:15:16.590 --> 0:15:19.940 companies that started all the bad fires, because he wants 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:24.700 their campaign contributions for president, the corrupt bastard. And the 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.440 Assembly and the State Senate said no. Talk to Carl 0:15:28.460 --> 0:15:30.280 DeMaio about this when we come back. Deborah Mark is 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.710 live in the KFI, well, after 5 o'clock, I should say. 0:15:33.770 --> 0:15:37.729 You're listening to John Kobelt, On Demand, from KFI AM640. 0:15:46.340 --> 0:15:51.280 KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. John Cobelt's show. 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.220 We're on from 3 to 6 after 6. John Cobelt's 0:15:54.240 --> 0:16:00.280 show on demand on the iHeart app. Moist line is 877-MOIST-86. 877-MOIST-86. 0:16:02.290 --> 0:16:07.250 Or use the talkback feature on the iHeart radio app. 0:16:08.550 --> 0:16:10.990 Listen to this. I heard. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.860 Sean Duffy, who's the head of the Department of Transportation 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:21.400 in the Trump administration on Fox Business this morning. And 0:16:21.460 --> 0:16:24.940 he was explaining this big crackdown going on. And Megan 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.160 Barth has a story on this as well. A crackdown 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:35.140 on the trucker schools around the country who have been 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:41.230 allegedly training illegal aliens who don't speak English to drive 0:16:41.450 --> 0:16:45.670 all those huge trucks you see on the freeways. And 0:16:46.730 --> 0:16:51.130 those things are terrifying. Now, legitimate truckers who are trained 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:56.800 and somewhat educated and know English, that's hard work. They 0:16:56.820 --> 0:17:00.260 get paid really well, and they should. But a lot 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:05.010 of these trucks are driven by literally guys who crawled 0:17:05.050 --> 0:17:09.010 across the border off the street yesterday. Wait till you 0:17:09.050 --> 0:17:12.570 listen to this, because one of the worst states in 0:17:12.609 --> 0:17:21.650 the country for these fraudulent trucking schools, California, of course. Anyway, 0:17:21.690 --> 0:17:27.889 DOT issued an emergency order, shut down 110 trucker schools 0:17:28.070 --> 0:17:36.760 around the country. Fraudulently certifying drivers who later failed English tests. 0:17:37.740 --> 0:17:44.620 English language proficiency tests. California had 11 of these. Texas 0:17:44.660 --> 0:17:50.139 and Pennsylvania had 13. Florida had 10. And some of 0:17:50.180 --> 0:17:59.220 these schools were online with no physical location. Here's one 0:17:59.300 --> 0:18:05.290 California trucking school, Platinum Plus Truck Driving School in Fresno. 0:18:05.290 --> 0:18:12.129 36 drivers were certified there. Found out they couldn't speak English. 0:18:12.970 --> 0:18:17.230 Couldn't pass a test. One of the trainees was involved 0:18:17.270 --> 0:18:22.620 in a fatal crash in Oklahoma. These guys can't read 0:18:22.660 --> 0:18:26.900 the signs. They don't know what the signs mean. They 0:18:26.940 --> 0:18:28.830 perform all kinds of illegal maneuvers. 0:18:31.730 --> 0:18:31.850 And. 0:18:33.380 --> 0:18:39.770 They've killed people, including here in California. And Newsom allowed this, 0:18:40.050 --> 0:18:42.669 and he's fought the Trump administration on this. This is 0:18:42.710 --> 0:18:49.879 what's wacky. Illegal aliens can't speak English, get licenses from 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:55.060 these fraudulent truck schools. All of this should be under 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:59.590 state supervision. Newsom allowed it all. When he was exposed, 0:19:01.109 --> 0:19:04.350 went to court. When they brag about all the lawsuits 0:19:04.390 --> 0:19:06.950 against the Trump administration, this is the kind of crap 0:19:07.190 --> 0:19:13.390 we're talking about here. Officials said every one of these 0:19:13.390 --> 0:19:18.699 110 schools that were shut down across the country had 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:23.460 passed at least 10 drivers who were later pulled over 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:31.970 and cited for failing their English language proficiency requirement. So 0:19:32.010 --> 0:19:35.970 do the math on that. 110 schools, at least 10 drivers. 0:19:36.490 --> 0:19:41.830 That's over 1,100 drivers. See, the federal law is you 0:19:41.850 --> 0:19:44.570 have to be able to communicate and understand in English. 0:19:45.310 --> 0:19:50.880 And it's been like that forever. Only now. when Biden 0:19:50.910 --> 0:19:55.400 let in, everybody, literally everybody on the planet could come 0:19:55.500 --> 0:19:57.780 to this country. And next thing you know, they're driving 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:03.679 an 18-wheeler down Interstate 5. And they don't know what 0:20:03.700 --> 0:20:10.720 they're looking at. They don't know the laws. They don't 0:20:10.790 --> 0:20:16.369 know the language. They're just sitting in this big thing 0:20:17.210 --> 0:20:25.550 with a ton of goods in the back. Sean Duffy said, 0:20:25.710 --> 0:20:28.910 you have to speak English to operate a commercial motor vehicle. 0:20:29.450 --> 0:20:32.550 I didn't create that rule. Trump didn't create that rule. 0:20:32.830 --> 0:20:35.550 They're actually trying to defend and explain themselves when this 0:20:35.609 --> 0:20:38.560 was obvious all my life. So much of this stuff, 0:20:38.580 --> 0:20:41.600 did you ever question? Did you ever question in your 0:20:41.660 --> 0:20:46.239 life whether a guy driving an 18-wheeler, one of these 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.980 big tractor trailers, did you ever question whether he should 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:54.720 speak English or not? My dad came to this country 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.330 from Poland. I've talked about this many times. It took 0:20:58.369 --> 0:21:01.129 him five years to become a citizen. He had to 0:21:01.170 --> 0:21:05.450 go to classes to learn English. Now, he didn't speak 0:21:05.490 --> 0:21:11.330 it really well. could understand it. He didn't understand me, 0:21:11.410 --> 0:21:14.540 but he could understand English. That was a separate school 0:21:14.619 --> 0:21:21.160 to understand me. Nobody went to that school. Homeland Security 0:21:21.180 --> 0:21:27.210 Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, he said it's the sanctuary laws. Oh, yeah, 0:21:27.270 --> 0:21:31.109 that's another reason they're so proliferate. They have proliferated here 0:21:31.130 --> 0:21:34.959 in California, the stupid sanctuary laws. So you could be 0:21:34.980 --> 0:21:37.419 an illegal alien. You could be an illegal alien criminal. 0:21:37.590 --> 0:21:39.850 You could be an illegal alien criminal who can't speak English. 0:21:40.490 --> 0:21:44.550 You'll get a fraudulent driver's license from a corrupt illegal 0:21:44.830 --> 0:21:54.320 trucking company or this trucking school. They did a sweep 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:59.520 at more than 200 driving schools across 23 states. They 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:05.570 not only found this illegal driver problem, They found identity 0:22:05.630 --> 0:22:09.790 document fraud. These guys are driving around with fake IDs. 0:22:10.810 --> 0:22:17.970 Now they're probably voting too. Unauthorized employment, labor exploitation, money laundering, 0:22:18.030 --> 0:22:22.030 cartel activity. Oh my God, cartel activity. So these guys, 0:22:22.450 --> 0:22:26.030 they come from Mexico and they get a license to 0:22:26.070 --> 0:22:28.590 drive a truck. They're probably driving the drugs around, dropping 0:22:28.630 --> 0:22:33.109 off the meth and the fentanyl. drug and human smuggling networks. 0:22:33.150 --> 0:22:37.750 That's right. They've got a truckload of teenage girls in 0:22:37.770 --> 0:22:42.770 the back that they're going to sell in prostitution. Department 0:22:42.790 --> 0:22:50.870 of Transportation has already revoked tens of thousands of improperly 0:22:51.010 --> 0:22:59.230 issued licenses. Just here in California, tens of thousands. Newsom 0:22:59.270 --> 0:23:06.709 has run such a corrupt state. The feds have withheld 0:23:06.770 --> 0:23:11.250 transportation funding from the state. We're going to sue over that. 0:23:13.150 --> 0:23:20.780 And a significant share of these commercial driving licenses violated 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:25.800 federal standards. I'll give you an example of what the 0:23:25.859 --> 0:23:30.080 consequences of this case you forgot. There was a truck 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:36.470 driver named Jashanpreet Singh of Yuba City, 21-year-old illegal alien 0:23:38.430 --> 0:23:41.209 who broke the law when he came into the United States, 0:23:41.550 --> 0:23:46.500 but released by the Joe Biden crowd. He was driving 0:23:46.540 --> 0:23:50.639 a semi truck and plowed it into several vehicles, including 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:54.820 a van and the back of another semi, killed three people, 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:59.580 injured four. He never hit his brakes. He never tried 0:23:59.780 --> 0:24:03.200 to maneuver out of the way. He just kept rumbling 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:08.280 down the road and wiped out, killed three people, injured four. 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:16.610 California had given him a commercial driver's license. Now, also, 0:24:16.630 --> 0:24:21.830 the Department of Transportation is proposing to close another 160 schools. 0:24:21.869 --> 0:24:27.369 They closed 110. There's another 160 on the block. They found... 40% 0:24:31.810 --> 0:24:39.790 failed basic requirements. Unqualified instructors. No space to practice driving 0:24:39.810 --> 0:24:45.690 the truck. The trainees left unmonitored. One of the places 0:24:45.730 --> 0:24:48.680 had a classroom that was the back of a truck. 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:51.800 That's where they taught the class, inside the back of 0:24:51.840 --> 0:24:54.560 a truck. They didn't have a classroom for this. They 0:24:54.600 --> 0:24:57.479 didn't have a track to drive the trucks on. So 0:24:57.500 --> 0:25:01.379 you're getting people... And they're getting hired because there's a 0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:06.879 huge need for truck drivers. But guess who gets squeezed out? 0:25:07.140 --> 0:25:15.030 The legal truck drivers. And their wages are depressed. These 0:25:15.070 --> 0:25:22.190 trucks are 80,000 pounds. 80,000 pounds. They can't read the signs. 0:25:22.869 --> 0:25:26.420 They can't understand the dispatchers. They can't talk to a 0:25:26.440 --> 0:25:32.810 state trooper. Nusiv thought it was okay, and so did 0:25:32.869 --> 0:25:38.290 everybody in his bureaucracy. And people died, and our narcissistic 0:25:38.330 --> 0:25:42.130 sociopath doesn't care. It's just like, hey, your family dies 0:25:42.170 --> 0:25:44.990 in a fire? He doesn't care. In fact, he wants 0:25:45.050 --> 0:25:50.040 to protect the utility companies that started the fire. And here? 0:25:50.060 --> 0:25:54.980 Did your family get killed by an unlicensed illegal alien driver? 0:25:55.400 --> 0:26:01.760 He doesn't care. He wants to protect that guy. Coming up. 0:26:03.240 --> 0:26:09.070 You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:26:09.070 --> 0:26:14.010 KFI AM 640 live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Follow 0:26:14.050 --> 0:26:17.330 us at John Cobelt Radio on social media. At John 0:26:17.369 --> 0:26:21.109 Cobelt Radio. We're live on YouTube. Live on X. You 0:26:21.130 --> 0:26:24.740 can subscribe and become a member on YouTube. Go to 0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:30.180 YouTube.com slash at John Cobelt Show. This is a Deborah story. 0:26:34.310 --> 0:26:37.570 The PETA people are acting up again with stupid stuff. 0:26:38.869 --> 0:26:42.609 People for the ethical treatment of animals, who we talked 0:26:42.650 --> 0:26:47.960 to one of their spokesholes recently because they continue to 0:26:48.020 --> 0:26:51.240 do nothing to help Joey Tucci and all the suffering 0:26:51.300 --> 0:26:57.180 animals on Skid Row. Well, PETA paid money to set 0:26:57.280 --> 0:27:02.540 up a memorial at Pitzer College in Claremont in the 0:27:02.580 --> 0:27:09.690 dining hall. Get this. Honoring animals that are killed for food. Yeah, 0:27:09.730 --> 0:27:10.230 that's great. 0:27:10.310 --> 0:27:10.990 What's wrong with that? 0:27:11.090 --> 0:27:15.750 The memorial honors the cows, the pigs, the chickens, and 0:27:15.790 --> 0:27:19.679 all the other animals who've been served as food at 0:27:19.720 --> 0:27:20.260 the college. 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:20.980 Yeah. 0:27:21.960 --> 0:27:22.560 First memorial. 0:27:23.300 --> 0:27:24.020 In the nation. 0:27:24.980 --> 0:27:29.119 First memorial in the nation. Isn't eating them a way 0:27:29.160 --> 0:27:32.899 of memorializing them? It's a way of honoring them. 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:33.310 No, it's not. 0:27:33.320 --> 0:27:35.659 That's what I'm saying. No. Sure, they're so tasty and 0:27:35.680 --> 0:27:36.659 they're so nutritious. 0:27:36.720 --> 0:27:38.280 No, they would rather be pets. 0:27:40.460 --> 0:27:41.440 You want a pig as a pet? 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:44.139 If I had a big yard, I would love to 0:27:44.180 --> 0:27:45.240 have a little farm. 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:50.480 These animals wouldn't exist. At least they enjoy a short 0:27:50.570 --> 0:27:53.950