1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome. We're on the 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: air from one until four, and then after four o'clock 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: you can hear our podcast, Sean Cobelt Show, on demand, 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: also on the iHeart app. It's the same as the 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: radio show and it's just more condensed. We have Steve 7 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: Garvey coming on at three o'clock, the would be Senator 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: Dodger Great who's been doing better and better in the polling. 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: He's in second place in many polls, behind Adam Scheff, 10 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 1: ahead of two other Democrats who get all the attention 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: from the left wing progressive media. But Garvey has a 12 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: following there and at the moment he could sneak into 13 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 1: second place. And we will talk to him about his 14 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,319 Speaker 1: campaign because I think he's getting better and better at 15 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: campaigning as time goes on. Next hour, we're gonna have 16 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: Daniel Gus on. Daniel gus is the independent journalist, one 17 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: of the few here in Laws Angeles, and he covers 18 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: things that most of the left wing media will cover, 19 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: especially the el Segunder Times, and he's got some stuff 20 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: on the One Council. I was going through this morning 21 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: considering the voter guide, which we are going to put 22 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: out any minute, and there's a lot of races. And 23 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: there's a lot of races. Either it's not important to 24 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: the vast KFI listenership, or I don't really care about it, 25 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: or I don't know anything about it right, but I 26 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: do think that all the Democratic Socialists on the La 27 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: City Council ought to be removed as quickly as possible. 28 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: One of him is Nythia Rahmen. Democratic socialist is code 29 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: word for communist, and Nythia ramen Is represents parts of Hollywood, 30 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: the bad parts, as well as mid City Park. Librea 31 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: then goes up over the mountains into Studio City and 32 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks all the way to Recida and Sina. And 33 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: she's a disastrous and she's disastrous by design. She actually 34 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: believes in this crap. She thinks the homeless should have 35 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: a good run at things. She does not want to 36 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: get in the way of their lifestyle. And she's terrible 37 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: and arrogant, and I don't know, not very bright. Seems 38 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: to be educated, but doesn't seem to have any useful 39 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: intelligence anyway. Daniel Guss had quite a bit to write 40 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: about her in her in today's newsletter that he put out, 41 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: So we'll talk to him next Ericas she's definitely a 42 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: got to get rid of. There's going to be a 43 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: list of got to get rid of. And yeah, sometime 44 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: the next day, I'm going to talk about who I 45 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,959 Speaker 1: want to see as the next LA County District Attorney. 46 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 1: There are really a lot of good candidates and I've 47 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: given it a lot of thought, and there's a lot 48 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: of criteria I want to use before I say, you 49 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 1: know who I would be voting for. I mean, there 50 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: really is more than one candidate. I'd love to get 51 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: two candidates in there to fit in two, but you 52 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: can only vote for one at a time. So obviously 53 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: you don't want Gascon, and there's another guy who's just 54 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: like Gascon and you don't want him. But there's several 55 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: good ones and we'll talk about that as time goes on. Today, yeah, 56 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: maybe today, definitely, by themar see what else we've got. 57 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: I want to start out by talking about this measure HLA, 58 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: which a lot of people don't know about. It's a 59 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: City of Los Angeles measure, but it is something that 60 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: is spreading all over left wing cities and states, and 61 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: it's about well in LA. Specifically, it would be removing 62 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: a lane of traffic on most of the major boulevards. 63 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: So let's say you got three lanes on Wiltshire Boulevard 64 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: or two lanes. Everybody loses a lane going east, west, north, south, 65 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: one last lane and it'll be replaced with a bike 66 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: lane that virtually don't we'll use. They'll put up ballards 67 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: and barriers for the bike lane. The barriers could be curbing, 68 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: having a curb right in the middle of the street. 69 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: And by the way, I've seen this, it goes on 70 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: Santa Monica. I recommend everybody take a drive through Santa Monica. 71 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: Holy crap, I know somebody who lives up in San Francisco. 72 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,239 Speaker 1: They're doing this up there right now. That we're removing 73 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: lanes of traffic. It instantly creates terrible congestion. In seconds. 74 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 1: You can be driving a work down a three lane boulevard, 75 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: You'll come back on a two lane boulevard and it'll 76 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 1: be jammed up for a mile and a half. Not 77 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 1: exaggerating here. And this passes. If measure HLA passes, we're 78 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: in for hell. And they're doing this on purpose to 79 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: drive us out of our cars. They're claiming it's for 80 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: safety purposes. But now that I it's a lie. But 81 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: I'll tell you how I know for sure it's a lie. 82 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: I got an email from the homeowners' association in my 83 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 1: section of the city, and it's a homeowners association. I 84 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: don't live in a development. It's just that for this 85 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: general area, people pay some dues and this organization is 86 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: like a lobbying group looking out for matters like this. 87 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: And they sent an email the other day and said, 88 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 1: do not vote for this measure HLA. Vote no on 89 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: it because here's what it's going to do. And specifically 90 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: in Brentwood where I am, there is a main boulevard, 91 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: San Vicente Boulevard, and that's where most of the businesses are. 92 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: It has a big median in the center of the 93 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: strip with coral trees. It's kind of pretty. You have 94 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: two lanes of traffic going each way, you have a 95 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: bike lane going each way, and then you have a 96 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: parking lane on the far right, so you got big 97 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: median in the know. It's a really wide street, two 98 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 1: traffic lanes, bike lane, parking lane. The traffic during rush 99 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: hour and during the middle of the day is abominable, overwhelming, horrible, whoa, 100 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: it's you cannot move. Last night, my wife wanted to 101 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: go out somewhere, and I said, well, why don't we 102 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: wait a little bit because the traffic was inching along 103 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 1: at two to three miles an hour. You know, you 104 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: look on the on the Ways app and it'll tell 105 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: you how quickly the traffic is moving two three miles 106 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: an hour, and that's every day. So you have three 107 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: mile an hour traffic during a rush hour. And these lunatics, 108 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: and these are bicycle organizations who are heavily financed by 109 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: wealthy millionaires. I guess aw, millionaires are wealthy. But and 110 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: what they they have a climate change agenda. Their cover 111 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: story is a safety agenda. They want to get us 112 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: out of our cars no matter what. So they're going 113 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: after Samacenti Boulevard, which again has terrible traffic problems already 114 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: and already has a bike line, and their cover story 115 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: is safety issues. You know, there's pedestrian deaths. Let me 116 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: tell you something. Where I'm living, there's no pedestrian deaths, okay, 117 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: there is it, Or there's nobody dying on Sam Decenti 118 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: Boulevard where there's pedestrian deaths are in the neighborhoods where 119 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: you have a lot of criminals and a lot of 120 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: homeless people, where you have a lot of riff raft 121 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: people driving their cars fast and they're whacked out on 122 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: booze and drugs. And there's homeless people also whacked out, 123 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: stumbling around in the dark or at dusk, and that's 124 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: when they get run over. And I've said this a 125 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: million times. You look at the maps of the pedestrian 126 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: deaths and then do some further research about the time 127 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: of it, and that's what's going on. And that's how 128 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: I know they're lying, because the surgeon deaths are just 129 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: in certain neighborhoods at certain times of the day, caused 130 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: by certain people, those who drink and drive or take 131 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: drugs and drive. And then the people getting run over 132 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: is their own special class of people too, and they're 133 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: drunk and on drugs and stumbling around in the dark. 134 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: And because we have so many more homeless people and 135 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: so many more drug addicts and so many more mental patients, 136 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: that's why the pedestrian death rate is going up. Because 137 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: crazy people like to wander into the street, walk through traffic, 138 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: dance in the street. Take the claws off in the street. 139 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: Talk more about this when we come back. 140 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI Am 141 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: six forty. 142 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:44,319 Speaker 1: We've got Moistline coming up on Friday. We need Moistline 143 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: calls or it'll just be very quiet in the three 144 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: o'clock hour on Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty six, 145 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: eight seven seven Moist eighty six. You ought to be 146 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: complaining and bitching about this measure, HLA. Maybe you don't 147 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: know about it. I'm trying to explain to you. I mean, 148 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: you were on Sama Say Boulevard all the time. You 149 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about? Brown All right? Have you 150 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: ever been in real bad traffic there? I don't go 151 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: there that often. I mean, look, I live in the 152 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: San Fernando Valley and there's horrendous traffic there Ventura boulevards, right, Well, yeah, 153 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: they do a rown diet there. Can you imagine taking 154 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: away your lane in both directions? Well, that's what they 155 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: want to do, and they want to do it on 156 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: all the major boulevards and you have to vote no 157 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: unmeasured h l A. These are weird. It's it's pushed 158 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: by the weird bike fanatic crowd. These are the grown 159 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: men who bike during the day wearing tight yellow SPANX. 160 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:40,199 Speaker 1: Don't you do that when you ride on weekends? No, 161 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: I just wear spandis at home. I never go out 162 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: in publish. It's bright orange. That's that's my favorite color. Imagine. 163 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: You probably have bright leopard span Dex, don't you. Yes see, 164 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: and you keep that at home too, don't you actually 165 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,599 Speaker 1: that you wear that to work? You're whar is it 166 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: to work? So I Uh, nobody, nobody likes this measure 167 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: hla if they know about it. Uh. And you know 168 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: when you look at it on the ballot, it'll be 169 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: deceptive wording and you might think, oh, well, this looks 170 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 1: like a good idea. No, it's not. We want to 171 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: reduce pedestrian deaths. No, pedestrian deaths are not happening on 172 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: these boulevards where they're going to do road diets. Pedestrian 173 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: deaths happen, like I said, because there's so many homeless 174 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: people in the streets now, And it's not because of speeding. 175 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: It's not. First, there's an inherent contradiction. You know, they 176 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: claim this is going to they have to slow traffic 177 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: down because the speeding leads to pedestrian deaths. The traffic 178 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: is already exceedingly slow, Like I said, it's two to 179 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: three five miles an hour on some of these boulevards. 180 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: Try to try to go down Wilshire Boulevard on the 181 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 1: west side. I'm most familiar with the west side, obviously, 182 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: but try to get under the four h five at 183 00:10:56,160 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 1: five o'clock. The problem is not speed. The problem is 184 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: a lack of speed. You can't kill anybody in wilts 185 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: Or Boulevard at five in the afternoon. You can't get 186 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: your car going fast enough to do that. You can't 187 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: even mildly injure them. So what they've done is they've 188 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: oh my, go right. Everybody is speeding, you know, because 189 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: we all have these weird biases on our head. Yeah, 190 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: you have people drive too fast for these days. No, 191 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: they don't. Everybody drives too slow because they can't get 192 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: anywhere because of the traffic. And if you take out 193 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: another lane on all the boulevards, you're gonna have even 194 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: more congestion, even slower driving. Actually, there have been times 195 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: on sanma Sente in the late afternoon where it's stopped 196 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: dead and it's stopped dead for like two three light cycles. 197 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: You're going zero miles an hour, So you take away 198 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: a lane, you're just gonna get traffic backed up to 199 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean. That's what will happen. The Los Angeles Times, 200 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 1: of course, endorses Measure HLA, which is well, that's all 201 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: you need to know. You have to vote no. This 202 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: is one of these weird progressive wet dreams. People wrote letters, 203 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: and the Times, I guess, could not find anybody who 204 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 1: would support Measure HLA because they printed three letters and 205 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: they were all against it. I thought was interesting. Here's 206 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: one of them says, take a drive down Venice Boulevard 207 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 1: in West LA from Culver to Englewood Boulevard. There's bike 208 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: and bus only lanes that have been opened. You will 209 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: see heavier traffic, angry drivers, empty bus lanes, empty bike lanes, 210 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: and failure, yes, empty bike lanes because hardly anybody rides 211 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 1: a bike during the day on city streets. You talk 212 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,319 Speaker 1: about dangerous, that's what's dangerous. Of course, they want to 213 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: take up even more space and put up a wall 214 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: of bollards to protect the three or four bike riders 215 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: that'll pass through the same rider says, we don't live 216 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: in a city where clean and safe buses come reliably 217 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: every five minutes to wish you where you want to go. 218 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: We live in a city where buses come when they come, 219 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: if they come at all, and transfers are often clunky 220 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: and poorly timed. Nobody with a real job relies on 221 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: the buses to get to work. Here's another Uh. Here's 222 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: another one. Um the part of the same letter and 223 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: to local government does something significant about offering plentiful public 224 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: transportation that has cost effective, that is fast, and goes 225 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: where people want to go. These unfeasible street plans will 226 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 1: not work. All Measure HLA will do is make Los 227 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 1: Angeles even more unlivable. That's uh, Genie Damis. Here's another one. 228 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: In my opinion, Measure HLA alone is not a viable 229 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,959 Speaker 1: solution to reducing the number of crashes and deaths. Reducing 230 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: the number of lanes on certain roads and installing bike 231 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: lanes will only increase drivers stress and dump speeders onto 232 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: alternate routes not normally utilized by That's true people spilling 233 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: to cut through streets, I know, because sunset is backed 234 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: up and all the streets in my neighborhood become cut 235 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: through streets and people drive thirty forty miles an hour 236 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: to get around. The sunset backup. You're gonna get more 237 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: of this, and that's where you can get deaths because 238 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: little kids or moms pushing strollers will run over. And 239 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: that was written by Charles Singer of North Hills Measure. 240 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: HLA is preposterous and I mentioned this many times. I'm 241 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: not going to go through the story again, but we 242 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: saw it seven years ago when we did the shows 243 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: in Plia del Rey on the Vista del Mar Road 244 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: Diet and that was disastrous. Traffic backed up for over 245 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: a mile in all directions and no bike riders in 246 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: the bike lanes. I think there was a total of 247 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: five over a sixty minute period. So this is not 248 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: about bike lanes. This is not about safety. But he 249 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: was getting run over, and I remember Mike Bond and 250 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: was pushing it dead and he was claiming specifically about 251 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: one person who got run over, and we've got to 252 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: do something. And we found out that person had wandered 253 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: off from a bar at two in the morning, probably drunk, 254 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: and was walking down the middle of a dark road 255 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: and that's when they got hit because the driver didn't 256 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: see the drunk guy wandering down the dark road at 257 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: two am, and he used that as a reason to 258 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: cut a traffic lane during rush hour. We're in Plio 259 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: del ray. They lie, their deceptive and it's just going 260 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: to make life more impossible. And it's not going to 261 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: save the planet either. It's not going to reduce climate change. 262 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: So please, you got to vote no un Measure HLA. 263 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: All right, coming back the other big issue. The other 264 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: big issue is George Gascon on the ballot, and Child 265 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: seven did a report and interviewed Gascon a little bit. 266 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: We'll play it for you when we come back and 267 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: we'll talk about the race, because now's the time we 268 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: got to decide on who we're going to vote, who's 269 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: most likely to beat him, and we also have to 270 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: make sure that at least one, if not two, of 271 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 1: the good guys make the runoff, because there's not only 272 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: a bad guy in Gascon, there's another bad guy on 273 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: the ballot who could sneak in. So you have to 274 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: be warned and you have to pay attention. 275 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 276 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 2: six forty. 277 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: Ron from one until four and then after four o'clock 278 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: John Cobel Show on demand on the iHeart app and 279 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: you could listen to whatever you missed. Coming up after 280 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: two o'clock, our independent journalist friend Daniel Guss, he's got 281 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: a weekly column that he writes, a newsletter, and he 282 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: focused on the Nithia Rahman. She's the LA City council 283 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: member who's a district is sprawling. It runs from the 284 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: Valley and Sino Sherman Oaks and studios and all the 285 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 1: way over the hill into parts of Hollywood. And she 286 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: is as pro homeless as you can get. I mean, 287 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: she just won't do anything. And even when she does 288 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 1: occasionally clean up an encampment to get the photo op 289 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: and the press release, the camp is repopulated in short 290 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: order and we're back to square one. And she tried. 291 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: Karen Bass tries to give her cover, but Bass and 292 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: Ramen make claims that yeah, yeah, we've cleaned it up, 293 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: and then here they come rushing back. There's no follow up, 294 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: there's no patrol to keep them away. Anyway, Daniel Guss 295 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: says some interesting stuff about Nithia Rahman. She is completely 296 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:53,360 Speaker 1: owned by this radical anarchist group called Democratics Democratic Socialists 297 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: of America and they have three council members and they 298 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,439 Speaker 1: want the abolishment of the police department, among other things. 299 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: Anti American, anti capitalist, anti Western way of life, anti 300 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: everything that you're about. I don't care what your political 301 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: belief system is. There against it. They want to dismantle 302 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: the American way of life, whether it's the Democratic way 303 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: of life, the Republican way of life, anything into pain 304 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: in between. They want to get rid of it. So 305 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: we'll talk with Daniel Guss coming up. George Gascon good 306 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: friend of the Democratic Socialists of America as well, and 307 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: he is dismantling the justice system rapidly. He's up for reelection. 308 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: He's got eleven candidates against him, and boy, I wish 309 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: maybe he had three, but the eleven is going to 310 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: split the vote too many ways, and Gascon could sneak 311 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: into the top two, which he really doesn't deserve. Also, 312 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: there's another guy who's like Gascon, and he could sneak 313 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: into the top two, and then you'd have gas scone 314 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: versus many Gascon. I'm going to explain this coming up 315 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: in a moment, because you have to be aware that 316 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: this vote really matters and you have to vote for 317 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: the right guy. We can't spread the vote eleven different ways. 318 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: That's suicide. Listen to this report. It's also interesting to 319 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: see how other media outlets cover Gascon. ABC seven reporter 320 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: Josh Haskell talked with him. 321 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 3: We're in much better place today than we were four 322 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 3: years ago. 323 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 4: That's the message from Los Angeles County Desert attorney George Gascon, 324 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 4: who faces a record eleven challengers in the primary next 325 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 4: month as he seeks a second term. Gascon's challengers have 326 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 4: run campaigns against the incumbent rather than against each other, 327 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 4: and the large field could help Gascon. 328 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 1: Why so many candidates? 329 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 4: A USC Dornsife poll conducted last month found fifty one 330 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 4: percent of voters disapprove of the job Gascon is doing. 331 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 3: We're dealing with violence, and in five violence has come down. 332 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 3: Was clearly in the case of the work that we're 333 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 3: doing is not necessarily the and cost crime to go up. 334 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 3: But we're also addressing the issues overincarceration, and we're racing 335 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 3: issues of you know, the equity within the system, and 336 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 3: I think that that creates a certain level of anxiety 337 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 3: for some people and also for someone creates an opportunity 338 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 3: that they viewed us a you know, we want to 339 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,239 Speaker 3: go back to the tough on crime, whatever that look like. 340 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 4: Gascone tells Eyewitness News all his challengers want to take 341 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 4: us backwards, but believes the reforms he's brought to La 342 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 4: County will result in crime continuing to go down after 343 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 4: it went up during the pandemic. Gascone admits he got 344 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 4: off to a rough start. 345 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 3: A very difficult first year. We're not there anymore, you know, 346 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 3: and a lot of what you see right now is 347 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,399 Speaker 3: really you're still people thinking that, well, what happened in 348 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 3: twenty twenty one as opposed to what is happening in 349 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. 350 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 4: But property crime, smash and grab robberies, and the proliferation 351 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 4: of homeless encampments are some of the reasons why residents 352 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 4: of La County say they still don't feel safe, and 353 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 4: some believe Gascone favors criminals for victims. What is your 354 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 4: answer to addressing this perception that people aren't safe? 355 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, first of all, how is not the answer. Look, 356 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 3: it's that we're not prosecuting and sending people to prison, 357 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 3: right so people maybe going now for five, ten, fifteen, 358 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,679 Speaker 3: twenty years as opposed to thirty forty fifty right, But 359 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 3: they're in prison. So even if you were to believe 360 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 3: that I was wrong in the approach, you're going to 361 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 3: have to waste several years to see how. 362 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: That plays up. 363 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 3: Right now, all the signs that we know about the 364 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 3: impact of lengthy incarceration points out that we're probably heading 365 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:31,719 Speaker 3: in the right direction. 366 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 4: Gascone believes he gets blamed for many issues not under 367 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 4: his jurisdiction, saying he doesn't have a stack of misdemeanor 368 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 4: sitting on his desk, and he doesn't believe Prop forty 369 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 4: seven has made us less safe. He also maintains he's 370 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 4: not responsible for the homeless crisis. 371 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 3: Until we create we're housing, until we deal with facias 372 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,679 Speaker 3: of mental health right, neither the city attorney nor that 373 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 3: this you can turn are going to be able to 374 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 3: cure the problems. 375 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 4: If a candidate in the DA's race doesn't receive more 376 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 4: than fifty percent of the vote in the March with 377 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 4: the primary, there will be a runoff between the top 378 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 4: two finishers. It's highly unlikely that a candidate will receive 379 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,239 Speaker 4: more than fifty percent because of how large the field is. 380 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: Boy that is rich huh. He is really a stubborn goat, 381 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: and he'll never admit to the damage he did. That man, 382 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: George Gascon has done more damage to the quality of 383 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: life in Los Angeles County and across the state than 384 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 1: any other human being in our lifetimes. And he claims 385 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: that he's being blamed for things that are not his responsibility. 386 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: As a district attorney, he wrote Prop forty seven. Prop 387 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: forty seven led directly to all the homelesses you see 388 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: in the street. Much of that is caused by drugs, 389 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 1: and Prop forty seven eliminated drug possession and drug use 390 00:22:55,800 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 1: as being serious crimes. It took away the discretion that 391 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 1: prosecutors had to offer an arrested drug user or drug 392 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: seller a choice between jail or treatment. That used to 393 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 1: be the deal. You've been arrested for drug use, you 394 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: want jail or you want treatment. Now they didn't get 395 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: treatment and they didn't get jail, and George Gascone wrote 396 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: that Gascone is responsible for that change. George Gascone wrote 397 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: the bill which said, cry, there's not going to be 398 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 1: fell any a theft anymore. You could steal up to 399 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: nine hundred and fifty dollars turned everything into misdemeanor, and 400 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 1: in LA County and a lot of other places, misdemeanors 401 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: carry no jail time anymore because there's allegedly no room 402 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: in the jails because they moved a lot of prisoners 403 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: from state prison into the county jails, part of another 404 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: refeign plan. It's disastrous. And by the way, just came 405 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: out the other day retail threat theft is up eighty 406 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: one percent, eighty one percent in La So he's lying. 407 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 1: If most of the public doesn't feel safe, it's because 408 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: we're not safe. In Gasconne's world. We're all wrong and 409 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 1: he's right, and he's got science or I mean, he 410 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 1: might as well run around waving stage in the air 411 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: to ward off the evil spirits. He's such a colossal liar. 412 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: You know how you feel, and you know what you see. 413 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 1: Most of those people in the streets, the homeless people 414 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:39,439 Speaker 1: are committing crimes every day. Would do nobody arrest them? 415 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: They're not prosecuted. The thefts are out of control. Nobody 416 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: can dispute that. And I'm looking at a list of 417 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 1: candidates here and I see one guy who would agree 418 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: with and I've seen him debate, and he agrees with 419 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: most of Gascone's policies, and it's Jeff Schamerinsky and he's 420 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: another one. And the fear is is that Gascone would 421 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 1: finish first and Samerinsky would finish second, and then you'd 422 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: have two left wing fanatics in the finals. So your job, 423 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: our job is to get somebody else in as one 424 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: of the top two. Hopefully we'd get two good guys 425 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: as number one and number two. And I'm going to 426 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: talk about the good guys. I'm going to talk about 427 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 1: their funding because their funding has a lot to do 428 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,199 Speaker 1: with it. Their personalities have a lot to do with it, 429 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: whether they could take on Gascon with strength and really 430 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,880 Speaker 1: get under his skin. And there are several guys who 431 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: work as La County Deputy das who've had many public 432 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: and private run ins with Gascon. Gascone has disciplined some 433 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: of these people because they have fought back against his 434 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: bad policies. We'll talk about all this when we come back. 435 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI Am 436 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 2: six forty. 437 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: We're going through the race against George Gascone because Fox dicking. 438 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: It's seven days to the primary and likely there's going 439 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: to be two candidates left, because it's nearly impossible with 440 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: twelve candidates running for anybody to get fifty percent or 441 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: fifty percent plus one. Certainly Gascone's not going to get that. 442 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: More than half the public gives them a disapproval rating. 443 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 1: They disapprove of the job he's doing, so clearly he's 444 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: in trouble. But because he's got enough progressive support behind 445 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: him and his opposition is split eleven different ways, he 446 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 1: could end up in the number one or number two 447 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 1: position and be on the ballot in November against one 448 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:59,919 Speaker 1: other candidate. Now, ideally it'd be great if two of 449 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 1: his opponents would get in, but it may only be one, 450 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: and you have to be really careful who you vote for. 451 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: Now I'm looking at the eleven candidates running against him. 452 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 1: I'll tell you one is off the list right away, 453 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: and you should cross this out immediately and be aware 454 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: you do not want Jeff Schamerinsky. He's gascon. Okay, he 455 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: just has a more pleasant personality. But there's almost nothing 456 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: that Samerinsky disagrees with. So he's well funded. He's the 457 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: second best funded candidate, so there's a lot of I 458 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: noticed a lot of online ads in my feeds. So 459 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 1: you want no on guess going no one Shamerinsky? Now, 460 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 1: who's a yes? Well, I actually we have met. I 461 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,200 Speaker 1: have met or interviewed most of these candidates, and really 462 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,360 Speaker 1: they're all good people and they all make good DA's 463 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: except for a couple of losers at the bottom where 464 00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,879 Speaker 1: I haven't met, and they're not financed, and they're kind 465 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: of almost like gag candidates. But I'd say nine of 466 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: the eleven are the real thing. However, they're not well 467 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 1: financed and they're not well known, and I really don't 468 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: want to criticize them or downplay them, because they probably 469 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: do well if they could get in, if they could 470 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: get financed. There's simply too many. So who is well 471 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: financed and has the personality to actually take on Gascon? 472 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: Now this is not a final recommendation to some extent, 473 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: I'm thinking out loud here, but I think we've had 474 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 1: Jonathan Hatammi on a lot, and you know his background 475 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: with those high profile cases involving two separate children who 476 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: are killed by their mothers and boyfriends, and you have 477 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: seen him challenge Gascon right to his face and call 478 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: him a liar. One of the debates because I'm looking 479 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: at being well financed, having the right experience, and being 480 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: a Deputy DA. He knows what's going on from the inside. 481 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: He can critique Gascon in a way that maybe others can't. 482 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: Another good candidate is Nathan Hackman, and he's extremely well financed. 483 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: He's getting a lot of real estate money. He's got 484 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: two point six million. Uh. And Hawkman is a bit 485 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: of an outsider though. He's a US attorney and he's 486 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: he's a hard charging, no nonsense guy. And uh, I 487 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: worry just a little bit because we're in La County 488 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: here and La County goes left and La County votes 489 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: for Gascon types. Hawkman would be a great DA had 490 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 1: Tommy would be a great DA as well. Like John 491 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 1: McKinney a lot. He doesn't have a lot of money. 492 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: He's another Deputy DA who's gone up against Gascon and 493 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: has gotten his gotten devoted by Gascone. And Eric Saddle 494 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: is also very good. He's the vice president of the 495 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: Deputy DA's union. I mean those those, those are the 496 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: best candidates. And Hawkman's personality is very strong. Ha, Tommy's 497 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: personality is very strong. McKinney is the favorite of the 498 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: other deputy das, which is interesting. And Saddal has been very, 499 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: very public in his criticisms. He's been on our show 500 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: many times. Not as well financed as to Tommy, and 501 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: nobody is near Hawkman, so you got to look at 502 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:33,479 Speaker 1: what their personalities are like, whether the whether the voting 503 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 1: public is disposed to electing a guy like that. You 504 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 1: have to look at their financing as well. There's well 505 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: meaning people who are not financed, who are not known. 506 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: Hakman's got a name, ha, Tommy has got a name McKinney, 507 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 1: and Siddal less of a public name, but they're supported 508 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: by all the right people. They also both could use 509 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: more money. So we'll talk more about this tomorrow and 510 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: come up I think with maybe two recommendations, but Schemerinsky 511 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: definitely and no obviously guest going and know. But we've 512 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: got to consolidate our collective voting on one or two 513 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: guys here, because if it gets split twelve different ways, 514 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 1: something bad could happen, and it's a real threat. It's 515 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 1: a real threat. That's something you could end up with 516 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: two progressives in the top two, So you have to 517 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: get one non progressive in there. So everybody's got to 518 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: pay attention here. Everybody's got to read up on the candidates, 519 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: and we'll talk more about this Tomorrow. We'll officially announce 520 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: our Voter Guide recommendations on this race and other races 521 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: coming up. Debora Mark Live in the KFI twenty four 522 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,959 Speaker 1: hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt 523 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on 524 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 1: KFI Am six forty from one to four pm every 525 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand on 526 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app