1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: In about fifteen minutes. The final keyword of the day 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: here on kfive for your chance. That's some money. We 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: call it the inflation botus. So standby for the word 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: and the instructions right here on the John and Ken Show. Fascinating. 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: The homeless are all over the place, and there's no 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: place that's safe, no park, no school, not even a 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: senior center, a library, Places that we thought of as sacred, right, 8 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: sacred public spaces, all getting destroyed by crazed homeless people, 9 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: and Mike Bonnen allows it, encourages it. The Westchester Senior 10 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: Center is the latest victim. We had. That library and 11 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: Long Beach we talked about a few days ago, closed 12 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: temporarily for security reasons. They're calling it. We're gonna talk 13 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: with a woman who lives in the Westchester area on 14 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: the west side, near the airport. It's part of Bonnen's district. Paula, Hi, 15 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: good afternoon. Do you want to use your last name 16 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: or sure? All right? So, Paula Grez, is that how 17 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: you're saying, well, welcome to the show? Yeah, well, what 18 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: all right? Tell us? The condition of the Senior Center 19 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: in Western seems to be the parking lot is the problem. Right, 20 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: So the parking lot is the problem. We've had mobile 21 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: our motor homes that are taking a handicapped area. They've 22 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 1: got their belongings, you know, strown throughout four or five 23 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: six stalls. Um, there's not a way to safely go 24 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: through the ramp to get up to the Senior center. 25 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: We've had this problem for well over a year UM 26 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: during the actually as it's been longer than that because 27 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: the primary and the prior voting time we had seniors 28 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: that couldn't travel to get in to vote. So we 29 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: have probably twenty RVs that we're in there just for 30 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:02,559 Speaker 1: you silly. Last week twenty they did a uel. They 31 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: we did comprehensive cleaning. Thank you LAPD. They've done a 32 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: tremendous job working with serial of Sanitation, but it hasn't 33 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: been If the neighbors would to have done all the 34 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: work that they've done, writing letters, public record acts, requests 35 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: to get information and to keep the pressure on, we 36 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't have the success that we're seeing today. But every 37 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: day we see more RVs that are getting towed in. 38 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: They're not even drivable, they're trailers that somebody is towing 39 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: in and dropping off. Who do you think is towing 40 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: them in? Is this one of these activist groups. That's 41 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: the only thing I can think. We saw a truck 42 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: that was rented by United, and I've seen a truck 43 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: rented by Hurts that has been in there and would 44 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 1: definitely be capable of towing. These are trailers in there, 45 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: but it used to be illegal to leave a trailer 46 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 1: and attached to a vehicle, and we've got them coming 47 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: into the parking lot and sting up camps. There's any 48 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,679 Speaker 1: posted signs that says no overnight parking in the parking lot. 49 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: That's that's common a lot of a lot of public 50 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: spaces like parks and schools and whatnot to keep exactly 51 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: this from happening. A perfect example of our city bureaucracy 52 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: is there are signs that have been posted as long 53 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: as I've lived in Westchester, and those signs are not 54 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: valid signs. We've been told instead, we need to remove 55 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: those signs that were installed in properly by a recreation 56 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: and parks and get the new approved signs that have 57 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: been um I guess newly approved that are the correct signs. However, 58 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: we're having trouble getting them from our councilmen, we've been 59 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: told that YO can't get new signs to have the 60 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: proper signage. No, and if we do not have the 61 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: proper signage, LAPD is not allowed to enforce because the 62 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: shrinage is not up. Well, this sounds like to fix 63 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: us in there sitting on the new signs to prevent 64 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: you from getting the enforcement. That's done on purpose. That's 65 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 1: not an action. I agree. I agree, that's definitely the 66 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 1: way that it feels. And we are pushing through and persevering. 67 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: And we've been told the signs are coming, but that's 68 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: been a month. I'd say signs are coming. You can 69 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: throw them on a flatbed truck and drive them over 70 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: in an hour. The signs are coming. Um, the signs 71 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: have been provided to a parking lot in Venice, and 72 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: then I believe it's in a councilman or Lose area. 73 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: He has signs that he's been able to get up 74 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: and posted for his community, but we still haven't been 75 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: able to get the signs up. Now now, Councilman Bonnen's 76 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: office is claiming in this article we're looking at that 77 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: they have moved over one hundred people from the park 78 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: into housing. Do you think and they just come back, 79 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: I guess, or I don't know what happens here. I 80 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: know we had the sheriff, the Sheriff's host team out 81 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: when we had tents in the park, and they went 82 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 1: around a couple of times to every single tent. And 83 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: then after that we started noticing that they were moving 84 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: people out of the park, but those were the people 85 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: camping in the park. And after that they closed off 86 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: the ball field and Wreckin Park had to spend I 87 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: don't know how much money cleaning the park so that 88 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 1: they could reopen the park. We just recently fought bond 89 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 1: into office on taking a twenty five person safe camping 90 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: and moving it to another location in the park to 91 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: twenty four hours safe camping. Wreck and Parks saw to 92 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: it that that did not happen, but it was again 93 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: a lot of work from a lot of neighbors. You know, 94 00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: I'm just livid looking through these stories, because there's a 95 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,799 Speaker 1: story here from the west side current um Bonnen has 96 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: barbed wire fencing around his office building. He hired armed 97 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,119 Speaker 1: security guards contracted through LAPD to protect his building. Jason 98 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: to the Senior Center, it says here, yeah, right across 99 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: from the Senior Center, and it's actually they finally took 100 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: the barbed wire down. Councilman er Bonnen's staff told us 101 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: that once he learned of the barbed wire, he asked 102 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: for it to be removed. It was up there for 103 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 1: months before. He didn't know there's barbed wire around his 104 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: own office. Really really yeah, really, well, he probably doesn't 105 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: go there and has employees there. Wanted to be protected. 106 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: They probably put it up and they had security guards. 107 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: You're still there. The security guard is still there. He 108 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: is armed. We don't know why we can't get either, 109 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: you know, roaming patrols so that there's safety and the 110 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: senior center and the library even with a guard. Though 111 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,720 Speaker 1: there's some of vehicles in the parking lot. They take 112 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: up the handicap parking. And the place was supposed to 113 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,239 Speaker 1: be a cooling center. This summer, oh here the cooling 114 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: center and the elderly people couldn't get in there. And 115 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: there's rats and cockroaches all over the places. It's really 116 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: a sad state. What has happened to the municipal building 117 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: and to the surrounding area. Years ago, and not too 118 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: many years ago, the neighbors pitched in and with the 119 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: neighborhood council and fixed up the Senior Center. The architecture 120 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: on the municipal building is amazing. It's a local African 121 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: American artists that designed that building. And you've got rusting 122 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: and paint peeling. As a landlord, if my units look 123 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,679 Speaker 1: like that, I would be shut down and find Listen, 124 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: listen to this. This makes me furious. I mean, he's 125 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: just such an awful Bonnen has been approached for more 126 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: than two years on the scene the issues. He has 127 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: refused to respond to hundreds of pleas for help, the 128 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: plaints involving homeless people harassing seniors and children. These homeless 129 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: people are exposing themselves to the seniors and children. It's endless. 130 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: According to another woman in your area, you probably know 131 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: where Deborah Houston. Those are her quotes. They're doing more 132 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 1: than exposing themselves. There's been attacks on people at the 133 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: tennis court. There's been you know, people have been followed 134 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: and made to feel very uncomfortable, saying, what are you 135 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,839 Speaker 1: doing and this is my property. It's like they take 136 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 1: a claim to their parking stall and how dare you 137 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 1: come into their area? You're not welcome and we're trying 138 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: to make sure that the park is open for everybody. 139 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: It shouldn't be shut down as you've got twenty to 140 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: thirty homeless people camping there, and it's not safe for 141 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: our children, and it's not safe for our seniors. This 142 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 1: is this is really a low point, you know, when 143 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 1: you can't provide a senior center and keep it safe 144 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 1: and clean from from crazed homeless people and and and 145 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: cockroaches and rats and mobile homes or whatever trailers whatever's 146 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: parked out there in the lot. I mean, this is 147 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: just a low point in the city. And it really is. 148 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: And you know, when we're fighting for our children's safety 149 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: from physical violence and emotional damage. By having to explain 150 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: adult things way too early to children, they're losing their innocence. 151 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: We are berated as nimbies, and it's not that we're nimbies, 152 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,559 Speaker 1: it's we want safety for everybody. Listen, you should be 153 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 1: a nimbie about this. You should be. You shouldn't. You 154 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 1: shouldn't people exposing themselves and masturbating and duppic feces and 155 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: urine all of the place, and screaming and threatening little 156 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: kids and older people. Yeah, everybody ought to be a nimby. 157 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: About that. Not in my backyard, not anywhere in our backyard. Yeah, 158 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: nobody's backyard. That's the thing. There's so these activists wackos 159 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: are so aggressive. They've stigmatized everything with their cute little terms. 160 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: It's like, I'm gonna just start cursing here. All right, 161 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: go ahead, Paul, you have one more point. One more 162 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: point is we have been told that we are not 163 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: Park four because we're privileged to live on the West Side. 164 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: Oh that's one thing. Well, one thing people need to 165 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: understand is it's not just Westchester pliss PLI of l 166 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: Ray that use our parts. It's Hawthorne, it's Inglewood, it's 167 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: mid City, it's everybody uses our parts. And we even 168 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: have one lady who has a sports program that she 169 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,040 Speaker 1: runs year round, and she makes sure her kids and 170 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: get a good meal before they leave. She uses a 171 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 1: barbecue pit and she sends them home with a healthy 172 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 1: meal because she's not sure when they're going to get 173 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: another healthy meal. And she's not able to get her 174 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: permit at the park right now. So who's willing. Yeah, 175 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't matter if you're rich or you're poor. 176 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: Nobody deserves this in their park, no matter where you 177 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: live in the city. This should happen nowhere. Couldn't agree more. 178 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: All right, thank you for coming on, Thank you for 179 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: having me. I really appreciate it. Yeah, from a Westchester 180 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: community of Los Angeles, where again the story is they 181 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: had to close something because of the homeless. This is 182 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,959 Speaker 1: a senior center near a park in Westchester, and because 183 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: the parking lot is full of the homeless, it was 184 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: not safe for seniors. They were not it's comfortable going there. See, 185 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: but Bonnen is a sociopath, doesn't care, doesn't bother him, 186 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:55,079 Speaker 1: sits there in blubbers on TV on Tuesday, right. He 187 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: should he should be blubbering over this. He should show 188 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 1: so ashamed of himself. But he's incapable of feeling shame. Again, 189 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: it's like we talked about earlier in the show. It's 190 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: like their attitude as well, you're privileged, you should give 191 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: something up for the poor homeless who suffer from poverty. Nobody, 192 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: nobody should put up with this. I'm sick of their 193 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: stupid little phrases, Oh you're privileged. I mean, did you 194 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: ever hear that word being used? That that's used like 195 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: a thousand times a day. Everybody goes to work. Everybody 196 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: earns their living honestly, and you pay taxes and the 197 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: tax money goes to create a public space for people. 198 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: That's the end of it. Enough with your privileged nonsense, 199 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 1: all right, as soon as we come back, I want 200 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 1: everybody to live like the homeless. These crackpots. You need 201 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: to focus on the keyword that's coming your inflation bonus chance. 202 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: Next kf I AM six forty Live Everywhere on the 203 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Well, we were just talking about the homeless 204 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: situation and where else City Council District eleven, Mike Bonnen's 205 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: West Side district. This was a Westchester Senior Center at 206 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: Westchester Park which is closed temporarily because of security issues. 207 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: That's vagrants in the parking lot camped out. Apparently there 208 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: are buckets of feces and urine that they put there 209 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,079 Speaker 1: in the parking lotge whatever they're living in AARs or 210 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,959 Speaker 1: campers that have been detached from vehicles, or people's grandparents 211 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: are supposed to go. There's buckets of feces in the way. 212 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 1: We have a voter guide and on the voter guide 213 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: at KFI AM sixty dot com, the John and Kent 214 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: page is our recommendation to vote for Tracy Parks for 215 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: that position, because if Aaron Darling and that's a man 216 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:36,199 Speaker 1: E R I N he wins, He's Bonnen. Plus a 217 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 1: couple of stories came to our attention that pointed this out, 218 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: including this one from the same publication John just mentioned 219 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: Westside Current. According to publicly available court records, in twenty 220 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 1: sixteen and twenty seventeen, CD eleven City council candidate Aaron 221 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: Darling questioned the credibility of a rape victim mischaracterized statements 222 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,959 Speaker 1: made by a lead detective in the case. It's one 223 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: of several cases in federal and state courts, even the 224 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that raises questions about 225 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: Darling's legal tactics as a federal public defender. This is 226 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: what he does for a living, is an attorney, but 227 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: he specializes in defending the worst of the worst. Darling 228 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: made a choice in life. He could represent rape victims 229 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: who've been brutally assaulted, or he could represent gang members 230 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: who commit the brutal rapes. Yeah, this is Edward Alexander Lobos, 231 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: charged with assaulting a woman in Lincoln Heights. His record 232 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: already included multiple domestic violence and gun convictions dating back 233 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: to at least oh eight He had just been released 234 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: from prison early on previous gun possession charges. Within twelve hours, 235 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: public documents show that he allegedly kidnaped, assaulted, rape, and 236 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: forcibly sodomized a woman at gunpoint in a public bathroom 237 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: in Lincoln Park. Darling defended Lobos on the gun charges, 238 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: initially as a full time federal public defended with two colleagues, 239 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: and later as a private attorney under a federal law 240 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: that enables qualified lawyers to represent clients in federal criminal cases. 241 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: So I guess he liked this guy so much he 242 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: took on the criminal case. You can you imagine. Yeah, 243 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: that's why you're gonna you know, you hear from a 244 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: guy like him a lot of nonsense about empathy and caring, 245 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: But when it came to getting paid, he wanted to 246 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: get paid to defend the rapist, not to help out 247 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: a rape victim. So he's got a dark, dark hole 248 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: in his heart. Now. He spoke to the West Side 249 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: Current and he said, I represented my client in a 250 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: federal case, a feedine possession of a gun, nothing else. 251 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: I never saw this woman never questioned her, never attacked 252 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: or criticized her. Well publicly available court documents show that 253 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: Darling repeatedly attacked the plaintiffs credibility as a rape victim, 254 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: both in federal district court and before the Ninth Circuit. 255 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: Sounds like a liar too, right, He's a liar too. 256 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: Of course he gives this fiery statement when a reporter 257 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: calls him up, because that's what he wants in the article. 258 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if this man wins that council district race, John, 259 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: You're not going to see any change. Oh. I know 260 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: it's gonna get worse. It's gonna get a lot, but 261 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: absolutely get worse. This is nothing but an activist. This 262 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: is like one of these gascone the public defender Goofy's 263 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: that's trying to upend the criminal justice system. He's just 264 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: going to do it from his council seat, and which 265 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: Bonnen was already doing. He's going to take it even further. 266 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: Now on top of this, another listener, and this is 267 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: where I really cringe to got angry about this type 268 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: of person that Aaron Darling is. It's a story from 269 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: Harper's Bizarre, published back in twenty twenty of his marriage, 270 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: he married a woman named Avril Epps, a researcher, activist 271 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: and recording artist. And in this article, Aaron Darling's described 272 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: as a human rights lawyer. Oh my god. And the pictures. 273 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: Now again, these are two people, and especially that last 274 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: story we just did, he said he's proud of his 275 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: record of defending the indigent. These two the pictures. You 276 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: talk about Gavin Newsom earlier in the show, where he 277 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 1: would pose with Kimberly Gilfoy looking like the power couple. 278 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: Kennedy's yeah, same thing here. These two the pictures are 279 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: heard a beautiful dress. He's carrying a surfboard. There's even 280 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: a picture of their wedding rings. They're riding around in 281 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:25,880 Speaker 1: a Rolls Royce for their wedding. They got married in Malibu. 282 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: These are typical of coastal wealthy elites who lived their 283 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: beautiful life separated from the problems that most people face, 284 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: like those poor residents in Westchester. And apparently at the 285 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: wedding they wanted people to donate to human cause as 286 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: human rights causes around the world, listen to this sickening biography. 287 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: They had a long distance relationship, Aaron. That's the guy. 288 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 1: His civil rights law practice kept him firmly rooted in 289 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, while Avriel was equally committed to her research 290 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: at Harvard focusing on bias in digital content recommendation algorithms 291 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: and their impact on racial identity development. The ceremony was 292 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,959 Speaker 1: the centerpiece of the event, included a diverse blend of Quaker, Jewish, 293 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: African American, and leftist humanist cultures, religions and traditions. Right, look, 294 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: how woke and diverse we are. Yet they had a 295 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: really rich, fancy, elitist wedding. Yeah, but they ask people 296 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: instead of giving us wedding gifts, here's a list of 297 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: causes you can donate. It's performance art. They are more righteous, 298 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: they're more to see what they put on the ground 299 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: in letters behind where people wereceded for the wedding. No wall, 300 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: no cages. It's like no border wall. Yeah. Yeah, that 301 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: was the political fat of the moment. I guess, oh 302 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,239 Speaker 1: my god. Yeah, but these were very wealthy people. If 303 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,919 Speaker 1: this guy wins, John, you may be making for Bonnan 304 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 1: to come back. Oh it's it's this guy's insufferable and 305 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 1: he's an insufferable phony. That's why the rape story is really, 306 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: because that's where that's where his heart is. He was 307 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: gonna get paid to represent some gangster who had raped 308 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:12,199 Speaker 1: and abused a woman. If you are in this council district, 309 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: Oh my god, do not vote for this guy. Tracy 310 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: Park is the one to vote for. This man is 311 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: awful coastal elite. Wow, and all these picks. This whole 312 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: article just puts it in your face, right, smug arrogant. 313 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: There they are smiling in the backseat of the Rolls Royce. Yeah, 314 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: I know this is We're both passionate about community activism 315 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: and justice, which makes our bonds so strong, said the bride. 316 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: I think even that we're an interracial couple. Oh here 317 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: we go, wow, identity politics. So they had this list 318 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: at the end an honor of our wedding day. Avril 319 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: and Aaron donated to the below organizations and their guest names. 320 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: Here's a brief description of each and how you can 321 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: donate too, And of course Black Lives Matters on. There 322 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: sure a whole bunch of the organization that's supposed to 323 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: be about justice. All right, we're coming up Johnny kenkf 324 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. 325 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: It's just like the La City Council. We invite your comment. Right. 326 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: You can use the moistline. You can use the iHeartRadio app. 327 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 1: The microphone icon is your way to connect to the 328 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: show called the toll free number one eight seven seven 329 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: Moist eighty six one eight seven seven six six four 330 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: seven eight eight six. By the way, speaking of you 331 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: know the way the show reaches all over the country 332 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 1: in the world. I forwarded to do that email from 333 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: a guy apparently is the historian for the Seaton Hall 334 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:43,680 Speaker 1: University radio station. Yes, did you appear on that station? 335 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: I don't even remember that, but oh yeah, I was 336 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: the assistant news director for a year. Oh. He wanted 337 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,640 Speaker 1: to get in touch with the part of the official record. Yeah, 338 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: apparently I'm not in his official roster. See, well, you 339 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: were there like two months, weren't you. No, it's a 340 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: year and a half you were there. I did three semesters. 341 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 1: Oh I thought you did like one. Don't know that 342 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: was your chance of college? Yeah, well no, I tried 343 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: two more colleges after that. Oh I didn't know that. Yeah, 344 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,159 Speaker 1: two state schools, and both times I withdrew and got 345 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 1: my money back. Like you took one class and said 346 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: this isn't for me. Yes, exactly. Well. The second college, 347 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: after Seaton Hall, I did a whole slate of courses 348 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: and then after just a few days, I can't do 349 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,880 Speaker 1: this days. Yeah right. And then I went to one 350 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 1: more state school and I think I just did one 351 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: course and I took something easy that a fourth grader 352 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: would be able to pass, that I that I liked. 353 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: I think it was like some kind of science course. 354 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: And I sat there and I said, that's it. I 355 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: can't do this. I'm two bored k walked away. Maybe 356 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: maybe crazy? Maybe Oh no, I have when I turned um, 357 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,719 Speaker 1: that was about fourteen, sophomore year. Halfway through. I got 358 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: good grades up to that point, and then I just rendered. 359 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: I just couldn't spend another minute going along with the charade, 360 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: paying attention, doing tests. I stopped doing homework. I stopped 361 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,639 Speaker 1: looking at my grades. You got your diploma though from 362 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,400 Speaker 1: high school? Yeah, they gave me a diploma. I'd walk out. 363 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: I'd walk out of class in the middle of class, 364 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: get out of here. I would have cared. Now the 365 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: teachers all liked me, Oh that's funny. Want you with 366 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: the what the brilliant he'll be fine students. I was 367 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: sticking to an old high school friend of mine the 368 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: other day. He goes, oh, yeah, I used to see 369 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: you charm your way out of class and just walk 370 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: out and never returned. Oh charm your ways, dude, Chevra. 371 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 1: I can't see John charming anybody. You're a charmer, don't 372 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: I loosed charm? Did you give an excuse for something? 373 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 1: I would just get I was involved in a lot 374 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: of stuff, so they all thought I was, Oh, you 375 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: had to go off and work. I had to go off, 376 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 1: you know, a yearbook meeting or something with this with 377 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: the newspaper. And I would leave with my friend and 378 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: we would go pick up Hostess lemon cakes. Was a 379 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 1: hostess lemon cake shop in town, and then we would 380 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: go to my parents house. They were both working, and 381 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 1: we'd sit there and have the lemon cakes for about 382 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 1: an hour. And my parents never knew except one day 383 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: my mother said, it's like, you know, I came home 384 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: before and I smelled smoke. Was anybody in here smoking 385 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: because my friend smoked? Oh no, I didn't know anything 386 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: about that. Yeah no, I sophomore years, last time I 387 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: actually paid attention to anything. And were you were you 388 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: strict with your boys going to school. Yeah, did any 389 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: of them come home and say, I've had it right, 390 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,199 Speaker 1: I'm done, I quit and I want to be in 391 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: class anymore. It's boring everybody. Yeah, point, I don't think 392 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: any of them had the condition that I had. Yes, 393 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: And what was that condition? I don't know. It's been undiagnosed. 394 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: I don't think there's a medical term for it. But 395 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: it was. It was boredom to the point of physical pain. 396 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: Good thing this radio showed him. He'd walk out right 397 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: ending what we talking about because he does most of 398 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 1: the talking, so he's always happy, or he does most 399 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: I'm not bored. I talk. I like listening to myself. 400 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 1: I keep myself very entertained. And this is what you 401 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: do at home. I'm fascinated myself. No, yea, you know 402 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 1: I'm quiet at home. I don't. I don't do much. 403 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:20,679 Speaker 1: I'm not at dear home. How do I know that 404 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: I'm quiet at home? I'm a quiet, shy person. Shy, yes, Yeah, 405 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: he's actually kind of shy. Like company events. Whenever we 406 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: had radio station meetings or whatever, he doesn't really engage. 407 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: You know, you go to those meetings, there's always one 408 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,159 Speaker 1: guy with his hand constantly up or wants to make 409 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: a joke and be the center of attention and whole court. 410 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: John's not that person. I'm slinking in the back, waiting 411 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,120 Speaker 1: for it to be over. Maybe a snide comment, I'll 412 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: whisper to something. Yeah, I'm be kidding the back of 413 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: the classroom, mocking the the idiot teacher up front. The 414 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 1: Times did a story about these recordings of the LA 415 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: City Council's members that would be, of course, Sadio and 416 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: Martinez and Kevin Leone. And one of the questions they 417 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: got raised more than once is well, you know who 418 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: made the recordings and is this legal? And one of 419 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,479 Speaker 1: the interesting things in this is that the Los Angeles 420 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: Police Department it's not investigating the recordings because no one 421 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: filed a police report. M So these occurred at the 422 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,880 Speaker 1: offices of the La County Federation of Labor that's where 423 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 1: the recordings were made. They called the leak illegal, vowed 424 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: to go after those who were involved to get them prosecuted, 425 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: but they didn't. Nobody filed the police report. It's not 426 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: kind of weird. Yeah, they attempted the block By the way, 427 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: The Times from publishing details of the recording saying they 428 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: were obtained illegally because the Times wouldn't do that. And 429 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: I don't think they're going after the Times either, So 430 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: what do you think the decision behind closed doors was, 431 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: let's just try to make this go away and not 432 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 1: pursue any case because that Ron Harrera retired or resigned 433 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 1: after this, well, because it's probably other union people who 434 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: did the courtings, I think it is, that's what it is. 435 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,880 Speaker 1: They'd be investigating themselves. We think a lot of it 436 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: was about really trying to expose Herrera as much as 437 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: the city council. Yeah, I mean, I don't know that's 438 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,199 Speaker 1: what the person posted. Look at this, they're in Bedwood 439 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 1: City Hall, the labor people right, with no kidding. Now, 440 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 1: the labor unions have always owned city Hall, and they 441 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 1: owned Sacramento too. They really honestly own them. They pay 442 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 1: the money. It's all public. You can see how much 443 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 1: how much of their dues money from various unions. I mean, 444 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: this federation, I think it's it's eight hundred thousand union members. 445 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: It is three hundred separate unions. I think it's like 446 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: the mother union unions right right, and so can you 447 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: imagine the amount of money they pour into politics, all 448 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 1: left wing Democrat, all progressive and U you know Herrera. 449 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,879 Speaker 1: I guess there was somebody upset with Herrera, maybe because 450 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,439 Speaker 1: somebody joked to meet today. That meeting was like the 451 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 1: five mob families in New York carving up territory. Yeah, 452 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: and it was. It was the same thing. I mean, 453 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 1: they have a map and they're going to redraw the 454 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 1: districts their way to get more Hispanic power. Oh yeah, 455 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 1: they called themselves to call Latino Caucus. That's right, that's 456 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,439 Speaker 1: what we're here to do. Now. Now now that I 457 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 1: don't understand, I don't know enough about the union. I 458 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: think about the union. So, um, did they think this 459 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: was wrong to get more Hispanic territory for the council members? 460 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: I don't understand. So the other part of the article 461 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: is whether or not this even if you did file 462 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 1: a case, it would go anywhere criminal or civil. I 463 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,360 Speaker 1: mean the up the upstart here is there not likely? 464 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 1: Criminal prosecutions are very rare according to this story, and 465 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: some of it deals with the fact that even though 466 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 1: the First Amendment there's some protections there. There's also the 467 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: idea that if you release recordings that regard a matter 468 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 1: of sufficient public concern. Let's see, then you might be 469 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: protected on the First Amendment. And since they we're talking 470 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: about redistricting, and anybody who heard these recording excerpts knows 471 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: that what they said was probably a public interest. That 472 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: might be a way out even if they charged somebody. See, 473 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 1: if the Los Angeles Times was not a dishonest, illegitimate operation, 474 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 1: they'd be doing sixteen articles on that kind of corruption 475 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 1: instead of literally six articles with the word racism in 476 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: the headline on Sunday, six of them, six racism articles 477 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 1: on Sunday, five days after the story broke. All right, 478 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: when we return the story we talked about last night, 479 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: the woman has found herself a victory. What woman? The 480 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: woman that wanted reparations for being stuck on a flight 481 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: between two fat people. She won. We'll tell you how 482 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: American Airlines. John and Ken caf I AM six forty 483 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio apps. But last night, at 484 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: this very time, we ended the show talking about an 485 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 1: Australian woman, oh American hyphen Australia. A political journalist, a 486 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: conservative commentator named Sidney Watson. She's a woman. She apparently 487 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: called out American airlines asking for reparations because she got 488 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: stuck on a flight between two fat people. She got 489 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: the middle seat, and she wrote, if you are if 490 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: you do need a seatbelt extender, you are too fat 491 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 1: to be on a plane. We had too fat even 492 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: be on the plane. That's that's a I think that's 493 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 1: a fair point of view. It was a three hour flight. 494 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: She felt like she was constantly touched by the person 495 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: on her right and her left because they didn't fit 496 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: very well, so their legs and fat was she said, 497 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: there were fat rolls. Oh. She provided pictures of and 498 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: these people are very large. Some said good luck. You're 499 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: probably not going to get anything from the airline. Ian 500 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: Southwest is the one that makes fat people pay for 501 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: two seats. I don't know if they actually do that, 502 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: but anyway, American Airline It's initially responded by saying, well, 503 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,959 Speaker 1: we just don't discriminate against body types. Our passengers come 504 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: in all different sizes and shapes. We're sorry you're uncomfortable 505 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: on your flight. That's fine. You gotta put them, you 506 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: gotta put them somewhere else on the plane. Well, they 507 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: did a reversal. A representative reached out to her said 508 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: we were sorry that you did not enjoy and have 509 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: comfort on your flight. They've given her one hundred and 510 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: fifty dollars trip credit, and they said, if this ever 511 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: happens again, you are entitled to move seats if there 512 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: is an option to do that. Well, yeah, but then 513 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: you have to have another open seat on them, you do. 514 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: I know flights are so full today because the airlines 515 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 1: squeeze the schedule, which is rare. I mean, you're not 516 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 1: going to trade with somebody to volunteer to ship between 517 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: between those and a lot of the time, especially its 518 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,479 Speaker 1: a guy. You know what. She said, there's a hygiene problem. 519 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: I should take one hundred and fifty dollars offered me 520 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 1: as a refund and give it to someone who needs 521 00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: a personal trainer or a gym membership. It's not even 522 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 1: up on fat people. Well, it's rude. Can you imagine 523 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: being that big and then forcing your excess body your 524 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: excess body weight. The Rolls got mad at her because 525 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: she was fat shaming this idiot. I've been touched by 526 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: tall people, muscular people, just about anyone who was in 527 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: five foot four. It's just the way the seats are 528 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: not really. No, no, no, no, that's being too defensive 529 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: of the of the overweight. That's just that's woke people, 530 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: that is, and to comment everywhere they can. Yeah, they're 531 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 1: hard to ignore these days because they're always out there. 532 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 1: But the real thing is you got you paid for 533 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: a seat, you have the right to the whole seat, 534 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 1: and you've got the right to some arm rest room 535 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: there too, and you have the right to breathe clean air. 536 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,719 Speaker 1: Some of some of the guys, Yeah, they haven't showered 537 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: that morning. That's why you wear those masks. No. Actually, 538 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: there were situations where I didn't mind where and ask 539 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,959 Speaker 1: because they help with some of the yeah, yeah, out 540 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 1: some of the discussing smells on a plane orders. Yeah yeah, 541 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: well look at this. Uh it is not Tim Conway, 542 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: it's Tuesday though. It's Mark Thompson. He's down. I asked 543 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: the same questions you have COVID, and the answer is 544 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: we don't think so he know, he's just got a 545 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: little bug. So I mean, I can't press further than that. 546 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: I may have Steve Gregory on that case. I think 547 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 1: there should be an investigation. I think short on details, 548 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: a little short on details. I agree, all right, what 549 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: do you got tonight? Well, we've got We've got that 550 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: whole Ukricorian thing with Blake Trolley reporting on it. The 551 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: LA City Council trying to put all the pieces of 552 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty back together again. You're trying to heal. Are 553 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: you healing? I'm healing. I haven't started the healing yet. 554 00:32:55,120 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: No time. Yeah, But Blake will be here to kind 555 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: of update us on the future of the La City Council, 556 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: at least the short term future. Steve Gregory will be 557 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: here as well. He is um uh, he's working on 558 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: a big story. But I don't mean to eclipse what 559 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: we will do in the first hour. But at seven o'clock, 560 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 1: Josh Robert Thompson, who is this uh magnificently creative voice 561 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: of so much He does Morgan Freeman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and 562 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: he does them on in movies and commercials, and he's 563 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: the voice of the Kelly Clarkson Show. He's uh, he 564 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: was the voice of the LA He's quite an interesting 565 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: guy and he's very creative. So he's going to be 566 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 1: here at seven o'clock. Is he going to do you? Probably? Probably? 567 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: Conway does a great impression. Really, I wouldn't call it 568 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 1: a great impression. I didn't know what, I didn't know who. 569 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: It was, funniest things I ever heard. It just yelled 570 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 1: one day in the background arm Her. I thought it 571 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 1: was you. It is funny. I'll give you that. It's funny. UH. 572 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: And Vincent Patterson, who did all the choreography for Uh, 573 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 1: he did Madonna, he did to all the choreography for 574 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: Michael Jackson's videos. He's got a new book and icons 575 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: and instincts is what the book's called. He's got stories 576 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,279 Speaker 1: and they're not all flattering to everybody. They're pretty good. 577 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: Jackson and Madonna don't get showed up, but a couple 578 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: other people do get showed up in the book telling 579 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: the clock out. There's a lot going on. It's a 580 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:22,399 Speaker 1: big at least your leftover guests from KGO. How dare 581 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: you how to carry you? These guests still have a 582 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 1: new smell on them, that's no problem. Yeah, fresh shout 583 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 1: of the package, excited. That's right. I'm moving you to 584 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 1: a bigger market. So Mark, Mark, I still have some 585 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,120 Speaker 1: raw wounds. Ken about that. You'll hear you're healing. This 586 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,839 Speaker 1: is no place to heal. You should know that. 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