1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 2: We're on every day between one and four o'clock. You 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 2: can listen on KFI. You can listen to the streaming. 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 2: You can listen to the podcast on the iHeart app. 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show on demand, which gets posted after four 7 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 2: o'clock same as the radio show. You've probably heard about 8 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom trying to look like the big tough man 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 2: to lead the Democratic Party, and so he's going to 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 2: engineer a redistricting scheme or scam. Right now, out of 11 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 2: the fifty two con Congress people coming from California, forty 12 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 2: three out of the fifty two are Democrats, only nine 13 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 2: are Republicans. So it's. 14 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: Forty three. 15 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,599 Speaker 2: It's forty two to nine. No, make that forty three 16 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 2: to nine. I had it right the first time, and 17 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom would like to make it forty nine to 18 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: three by redrawing the lines. Now to do that, because 19 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 2: it's usually only redrun every ten years after a census, 20 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 2: and in California it's supposed to be done by an 21 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 2: independent commission, say he wants to do it in the 22 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: middle of the census cycle, and he doesn't want the 23 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 2: Commission to do it. He wants to set up his 24 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 2: own thing. Now, he needs the constitutional Amendment to pass, 25 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 2: so he's trying to strut around, beating his chest, scream 26 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 2: about Trump, get people riled up, because he needs their 27 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 2: votes to put this Well, he needs the legislature votes, 28 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 2: I guess to put it on the ballot. Then he 29 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 2: needs the public's votes to get it passed. Let's get 30 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 2: Susan Shelley on from Well. She works with Howard Jarvis 31 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 2: Taxpayers Association. Also writes great columns for the LA Daily. 32 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 2: Who's an Orange County Register and all the other suburban 33 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 2: papers and the New York Post all that stuff. 34 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: Susan, how are you. 35 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 3: I'm good. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. 36 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 2: Well, I mean, this is really a racket here. Forty 37 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 2: three to nine enough, he needs forty nine to three. 38 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: He wants that. 39 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 2: He wants almost only Democrats representing California and Congress. 40 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 3: Well, he thinks he's fighting against Trump, but he's actually 41 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 3: in a war with the voters of California because the 42 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 3: voters use the initiative process to take this power to 43 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 3: draw these maps away from the Sacramento politicians. They did 44 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 3: this in two thousand and eight, and they did it 45 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 3: very narrowly and just for the state races, for a 46 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 3: citizen's redistricting committee. It just barely passed. But then two 47 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 3: years later, somebody put on the ballot, well, would you 48 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 3: like to repeal it? And the voters said, no, no, no, 49 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 3: we like it. By fifty nine percent, they voted down 50 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 3: the idea of repealing it to keep it. And on 51 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 3: that same ballot, sixty one percent of voters said, not 52 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 3: only do we like it, we want to extend it 53 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 3: to congressional races. So that was twenty ten, and here's 54 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 3: Governor Newsom saying, well, the voters don't know what they want. 55 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 3: We know what they want. We want to fight Trump. 56 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 3: And he thinks that he's going to ride this, I 57 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 3: guess to the nomination in twenty twenty eight. But I 58 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 3: think it's going to backfire on him. Why do you 59 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 3: think that, Well, because the voters. 60 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 4: For all that they're so blue in California, for all 61 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 4: of that. 62 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 3: Everybody thinks, oh, we only do whatever the Democrats tell 63 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 3: us to do. If you look at a number of 64 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 3: different initiatives the voters have said we can't stand you guys, 65 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 3: and they've said it a number of times, not only 66 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 3: with the citizen redistricting, but the top two primary. They 67 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 3: threw out. The idea of party primaries is that, thank 68 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 3: you very much, we will pick the candidates with this 69 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 3: top two system, where the people who get the most votes, 70 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 3: everybody's on the same ballot in the primary, and whoever 71 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 3: gets the most votes the top two go to the 72 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 3: general election. That was a direct hit on the power 73 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 3: structure in the political parties. And then there was another one. 74 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 3: There was the term limits thing in twenty twelve, where 75 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 3: there was already a fourteen year term limit, and the 76 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 3: voters said, we're throwing you out two years sooner. They 77 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 3: made it twelve years. So a number of times the 78 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 3: voters of California have said, we don't care what you think. 79 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 3: And then just last year, Governor Nusa was against Props 80 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 3: thirty six, this tougher on crime initiative. Sixty eight percent 81 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 3: of the voters said yes anyway, and everybody in Sacramento was, well, 82 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 3: we have to make it easier to pass bonds, borrow money, 83 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 3: raise property taxes. 84 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 4: That went down to defeat by ten points. 85 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 3: So here he is asking the voters in a special 86 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 3: election on November fourth. 87 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 4: Of this year, He's going to ask. 88 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 3: Them to amend the constitution to give this map drawing 89 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 3: power back to the Sacramento politicians to draw maps in 90 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 3: a back room to benefit the leftist Democrats in Sacramento 91 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 3: who are way left where even the Democrats are in 92 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 3: this stay the voters, and he wants it to do 93 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 3: that to give more power to leftist politicians in Washington 94 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,359 Speaker 3: to do what open the border again, get men and 95 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 3: women's sports. He thinks that this is going to sell. 96 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 3: I don't think so. 97 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 2: And he's already got a forty three to nine advantage. 98 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 2: Publicans vote for well, Californians vote for Republican candidates for 99 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 2: Congress at over a forty percent rate, and this would 100 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 2: give them about the six percent of congressional representation from California. 101 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: So's it's wildly and wildly at a sink. 102 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 2: And then it claims that Trump is anti democratic. 103 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 3: Well, he can say it, maybe he can sell it. 104 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 3: I don't think he can sell it. Trump got people 105 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 3: don't realize Trump got six million votes in California. You 106 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 3: would think to listen to the governor talk that everyone 107 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 3: was against Donald Trump, but he got six million votes. 108 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 3: That's a lot of people, and they are the people 109 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 3: more likely to turn out in a special election because 110 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 3: conservatives tend to do that. They're more civically oriented, and 111 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 3: they turn out in the off year elections at a 112 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 3: higher rate than the liberals do. It's just history in California. 113 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 3: So if that's the case, you've got thirty eight percent 114 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 3: of the voters in California who voted for Donald Trump 115 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 3: into twenty twenty four, six million people, and then Governor 116 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 3: Newsom is going to have to try to turn out 117 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 3: his liberal voters. 118 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 4: That's going to be very expensive, and it's going. 119 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 3: To take money away from all the fundraising they're doing 120 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 3: for their twenty twenty four races because it's expensive to 121 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 3: go to go knocking on doors and buying advertising and 122 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 3: all the rest of it. That takes money away from 123 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 3: everything else that they're doing. I think he got into 124 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 3: this without really thinking it through, and the consequences are 125 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 3: going to be pretty bad for him. 126 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 2: And they only have about five days in the legislature 127 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 2: next week to get everything done, to have it written 128 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 2: voted on, you know, the whole process. 129 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 3: That's right, because the ballots would go out October fourth, 130 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 3: So they got to they have to get moving to 131 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 3: make that November fourth date. 132 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 2: There's just something gross about this that he's unilatterally deciding 133 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 2: to ignore the the rhythm of the census, to ignore 134 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 2: all those propositions that were past, not that long ago, 135 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 2: We're only talking fifteen years ago, and you go ahead. 136 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 3: There's going to be a lot of opposition. Charles Munger Junior, 137 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 3: who paid twelve million dollars of his own money to 138 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 3: get that congressional redistricting measure passed in twenty ten, has 139 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 3: already said that he's going to fund a campaign against 140 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 3: what the governor's doing now. And candidate for governor Steve Hilton, who's. 141 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 4: Well known from Fox News, he is going to file 142 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 4: a lawsuit to stop it. 143 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 3: He says he can file a lawsuit in federal court 144 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 3: on equal protection grounds. And then you have Governor Schwarzenegger, 145 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 3: who reportedly is coming back to champion citizen redistricting again 146 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 3: because that was his issue in twenty ten. So this 147 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 3: is not going to happen without a fight, and I 148 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 3: think the governor loses. 149 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 2: Did he just want the publicity to look like he's 150 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 2: the fighting leader of the Democratic Party, and he doesn't 151 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 2: care if he wins or loses. 152 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: This is just showmanship on his part. 153 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 3: Well, I think that was the plan originally, but maybe 154 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 3: it didn't go as he thought because he's written a 155 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 3: letter to President Trump saying please call off the Republican 156 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 3: redistricting in Texas. He didn't say please, he said, if 157 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 3: you call off the Republican redistricting in Texas, we'll call 158 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 3: off what we're doing in California. But otherwise we're gonna fight. 159 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 3: This is this is silly. For one thing, Texas is 160 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 3: doing this because they got a letter from the Justice 161 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 3: Department from Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dylon, 162 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 3: who is from California. They got a Texas got a 163 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 3: letter saying your districts are in violation of the Voting 164 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 3: Rights Acting. You have to redistrict, and that's why they're 165 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 3: doing it. 166 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: Wow. 167 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 2: Very good, Susan, Thank thank you very much. I always 168 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,839 Speaker 2: enjoy having you come on the show. Excellent column this week, 169 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 2: and we'll we'll see if it blows up on Newsom, 170 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 2: and if. 171 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: It does, I'm really going to enjoy it. 172 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 2: He's got all the self control of like a teenage boy. 173 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 2: Really's Scott. 174 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 3: Yeah right, Susan, thank you so much. 175 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 2: Susan Shelley, Columnists, Southern California News Group, Post, Howard Jarvis, 176 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,079 Speaker 2: Texpayers Association. 177 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 178 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 5: six forty. 179 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 6: Oh. 180 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: That reminds me. 181 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 2: Later this hour, I got to tell you the story 182 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 2: how the inmates in that maximum security prison in Idaho 183 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 2: are torturing Brian Coberger through the air vents. I even 184 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 2: the the violet felons in this Idaho prison hate Brian 185 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 2: Coberger and he's he's he's obviously psychotic, and he has 186 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 2: these obsessive compulsive disorders and other psychological issues, and they're 187 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 2: making him literally go insane because well, I'll explain it 188 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 2: to you coming up after probably after two fifty here. 189 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 2: First thing though, just to follow up, we just had 190 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 2: Susan Shelley on the Communist from New York Post, Ellie 191 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 2: Daily News, Orange County Register. She wrote a piece on 192 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 2: how this whole thing may blow up in Gavin Newsom's face, 193 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 2: the idea that he's going to rig the systems so 194 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 2: that there's almost only Democrats representing California and Congress. Because 195 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 2: again forty three to nine is not enough. He wants 196 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 2: it forty nine to three and this, and he's got 197 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 2: all kinds of obstacles here because there's constitutional amendments and 198 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 2: weren't passed that we're passed not long ago. It's supposed 199 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 2: to be an outside an outside commission for exactly this reason. Okay, look, 200 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 2: we had an outside commission and it still ended up 201 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 2: being lopsided in the Democrats favor forty three to nine. 202 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: He wants to make it. 203 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 2: Forty nine to three and just scrap everything that was 204 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,439 Speaker 2: agreed on. I mean, the last time there was a 205 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 2: vote on this, it was over sixty percent. Not that 206 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 2: he cares because sixty eight percent voted for Prop. Thirty 207 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 2: six and he won't fund it. You know, the big 208 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 2: majorities had voted for the death penalty and he won't 209 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 2: do that either. And of course I'll tell you Trump 210 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 2: is the dick dam But there is a one guy, 211 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 2: Carl Demyo, who fights the most fiercely for the Republicans. 212 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 2: He's the assemblyman from San Diego. He's always on with us, 213 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 2: and he went to the Legislative Council Karen Jenkins to 214 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 2: get an official state legal opinion, and what Newsom is doing. 215 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 2: Let's have CACRA Channel three and Sacramento. 216 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 7: Ashley Savala explained California's Office of Legislative Council says that 217 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 7: it provides nonpartisan legal services when it comes to the 218 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 7: processes of the state capitol, the activity of the governor 219 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 7: and state lawmakers. Republican Assemblyman Karl Demayo is asking the 220 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 7: office to provide a public legal opinion on the Democratic 221 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 7: led redistricting push in California. Demayo, in a letter to 222 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 7: the Office of Legislative Council, pointed to several sections of 223 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 7: the California Constitution and state law that prohibit California lawmakers 224 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 7: from taking the steps there preparing to take next week. 225 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 7: That's finalizing the cong resstional maps, drawing them themselves, voting 226 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 7: on it, and putting it on the ballot. Politicians in 227 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 7: California are not allowed to draw these maps. An independent 228 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 7: redistrict and commission has had this responsibility for the last 229 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 7: two decades. This all comes as Democrats in California push 230 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 7: ahead with an effort to redraw congressional maps to try 231 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 7: to remove five Republicans from California's representation in the US 232 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 7: House of Representatives. But we should note Legislative Council is 233 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 7: appointed by Democrats. Here's what Demayo had to say about 234 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 7: that this is. 235 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 8: A corrupt system. But I always believe you give the 236 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 8: corrupt system the chance to do it right first time, 237 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 8: and when they don't, you expose their corruption and you 238 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 8: hold them accountable. And I think voters will hold these 239 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 8: people accountable by rejecting this at the ballot box, and ultimately, 240 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 8: if necessary, I believe the federal courts will hold them 241 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 8: accountable for the absolutely illegal process that they're using here. 242 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 7: In a statement, Legislative Council Kara Jenkins told me she 243 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 7: cannot comment on any request for legal services from a lawmaker, 244 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 7: pointing to confidentiality related laws. She also said her office 245 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 7: is not authorized to provide interpretations of the law to 246 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 7: the public. 247 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 2: So are there any interests in the past where this 248 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,319 Speaker 2: office has been involved like this. 249 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 9: Yeah, Gulston. 250 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 7: I mean, technically we could look at all the activity 251 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 7: at the state capitol and say, so we know. The 252 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 7: Office of Legislative Council was part of the Democratic led 253 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 7: effort to have broad non disclosure agreements that continue to 254 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 7: keep details secret on how exactly taxpayer funds are being 255 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 7: used on the California Capital Annex project. We also know 256 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 7: from our own observations and our own reporting over the 257 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 7: last year that the office has stood by as lawmakers 258 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 7: in the state Senate have violated legislative open meetings laws 259 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 7: in the Senate Rules Committee, and as the Assembly Rules 260 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,719 Speaker 7: Committee has violated legislative open records laws. 261 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 2: All right, at least he's going to war and proud 262 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 2: the buyer's right. The whole system is corrupt, the watchdogs 263 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,719 Speaker 2: are corrupt. It's nearly one hundred percent Democrat run, and 264 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 2: it's it's not enough. 265 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: We don't have a two party system. 266 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 2: Other countries have several parties, they have four or five 267 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 2: six parties that are active and viable. Some countries have 268 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 2: dozens of parties. Here in California, it's one, and it's 269 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 2: run by the far left, extreme that most of the 270 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 2: general public doesn't agree with. Prop thirty six was a 271 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 2: great example. Sixty eight percent said, no, we're going to 272 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 2: make We're gonna make shoplifting illegal again. Theft is going 273 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 2: to be illegal again, public drug use illegal again. Fentadelt 274 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 2: dealing illegal. 275 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: Sixty eight thirty two. 276 00:14:54,120 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 2: That one, and Newsom tried every underhanded trick, every bit 277 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 2: of black magic. He was capable of to derail it, 278 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 2: to stop it, he couldn't. But now he's not funding it. 279 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 2: And this is the guy in charge. Sixty eight point 280 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 2: thirty two. Would just want money to get the drug 281 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 2: addicts off the streets, to get the thieves off the streets, 282 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 2: to get the fentanyl dealers. That's what we want the 283 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 2: money for. To treat them, to treat their drug problems, 284 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 2: to treat mental health. 285 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: He won't do. 286 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 2: It because there's those three groups. They're the Holy Trinity. 287 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 2: They're sacred to progressives, including Newsom, and the three groups 288 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 2: are the legal aliens, the criminals, and the homeless. So 289 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 2: anything that infringes on any member of those three groups, 290 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 2: all the stop signs come out. 291 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: No, No, can't do that. We won't do that. We 292 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: just won't fund it. 293 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 2: Most of the public is against it, and most of 294 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 2: the public keeps voting for these people. Are we come back. 295 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 2: We told you that city of Los Angeles, which could 296 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 2: not possibly be managed worse by Karen Bass. Massive amount 297 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 2: of overspending. They're broke, and one of the big drivers 298 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 2: is lawsuit settlements. It's gone up from thirty five million 299 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 2: twenty years ago to two hundred and eighty six million. 300 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 2: This year, two hundred and eighty six million dollars we 301 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 2: pay out to people that sued the city, and there's 302 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 2: a big chunk of that it's giving out to people 303 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 2: who trip over sidewalks. We're gonna tell you a story 304 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 2: about a guy who won three million dollars from the 305 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 2: City of Los Angeles tripping over a sidewalk because the 306 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 2: sidewalk was busted up, but also he was stared at 307 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 2: his stupid phone. 308 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: We'll explain all that. 309 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 2: We got a report from Channel seven to enhance the 310 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 2: whole story. We'll get to that in minutes. 311 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A 312 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 5: six forty. 313 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After 314 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 2: four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand that's on the 315 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 2: iHeart app and it's same as the radio show. You 316 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 2: can hear what you missed so yesterday. We've been talking 317 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 2: to us periodically for months. The city of la is 318 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 2: badly mismanaged because we have an idiot as mayor, and 319 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 2: we have majority idiots on the city council, super majority, 320 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 2: and they can't they can't do math, and they don't 321 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 2: want to do math properly, and so the city's busted. 322 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: It's broke. 323 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 2: And there are certain services that are necessary, such as 324 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 2: paved roads and paid sidewalks. Right need that to walk on, 325 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 2: to drive on. They won't do it. Roads in my 326 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 2: neighborhood are a disaster. They're the quality of what you 327 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 2: would find in Syria or Iran after a bombing raid. 328 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:32,959 Speaker 2: It's really it's really shocking how bad the roads are. 329 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 2: And you know, I live in a good neighborhood. Nobody cares. 330 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 2: This also leads to a lot of lawsuits, you know, 331 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 2: lots of broken street pavement, lots of broken sidewalks, and 332 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 2: all the dufices who don't look where they're walking anymore. 333 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 2: Happened in this case, we'll see what it is. They 334 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 2: end up tripping and falling and they sue and the 335 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 2: city twenty years ago would pay thirty five million dollars 336 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 2: in lawsuits in a year. Now it's paying two hundred 337 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 2: and eighty six million this year, two hundred eighty six million. 338 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 2: Part of the reason why la is broke and you've 339 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 2: got a idiot city city attorney Heidi Soto Feldstein. Yeah, 340 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 2: I think that's her name, and they're just settling left 341 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 2: and right for gargantuan amounts of money because it's not 342 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 2: their money. 343 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: They don't care. That's the whole bottom mind all this. 344 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 1: They don't care. 345 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:35,679 Speaker 2: Well, listen to this story from KBC Channel seven. This 346 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 2: is Kevin o Zebek Cut number six. Some guy here 347 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 2: tripped on a sidewalk in Woodland Hills and he's getting 348 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 2: a three million dollar reward. 349 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 10: Last week, as we told you about an eighty five 350 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,199 Speaker 10: year old woman's fight to fix the sidewalk right in 351 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 10: front of her home, we've reported on this number as well. 352 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 10: In roughly the past five years, the city has paid 353 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 10: out more than eighty six million dollars all because of 354 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 10: lawsuits for relating two broken and uneven sidewalks. Well, now 355 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 10: you can take that number and tack on another three million, 356 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 10: all because of one lawsuit connected to one sidewalk. And 357 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 10: now the LA Controller has launched an audit to see 358 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 10: if the city is doing all in its power to 359 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 10: make repairs and reduce its risk of lawsuits. 360 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 2: Was the city in Los Angeles's property and cap his 361 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 2: condition at the time. 362 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: Of the incidents? 363 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 9: With those words payment Harabi just became three million dollars richer. 364 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 9: But these don't appear to be tears of joy. Paymon 365 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 9: tells us his left arm isn't fully functional all because 366 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 9: of this severely uneven La City sidewalk. 367 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 6: Right now, pain is a lot right now, I can't 368 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 6: use it. 369 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 9: My shoulder all the way back in December of twenty nineteen, 370 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 9: Paymont says he was walking down Ventura Boulevard in Woodland 371 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 9: Hills and as he checked a text on his phone, 372 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 9: he tripped on this seven inch uplift to the sidewalk. 373 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 6: I didn't see that. 374 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: Ultimately, you get to decide. 375 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 9: In the courtroom. His attorneys successfully argued that city employees 376 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 9: saw the sidewalk. 377 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: Look like this but didn't repair it, and. 378 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 3: That should be fixed in a reasonable manner. 379 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 10: If that happened in this case, miss a Rove would 380 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,719 Speaker 10: still be able to do what he loves and not 381 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 10: be in constant pain every day. 382 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 9: Three surgeries in years a physical therapy later, Paymon says 383 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 9: he still cannot return to making a living as a 384 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 9: wedding photographer. As a result, the jury awarded Peymon just 385 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 9: over three million dollars as for the sidewalk. It's still 386 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 9: has not been fixed. 387 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 10: It's now been about four and a half years since 388 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 10: Peymon has. 389 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 1: Fallen in this spot. And just look at the state 390 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: of the sidewalk today. 391 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 10: I mean, right here, there is this huge chunk of 392 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 10: sidewalk that is just sitting here loose. 393 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,199 Speaker 6: It is a very big deal because number one, people 394 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 6: get hurt, injured, or even killed at the hands of 395 00:21:59,160 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 6: the city. 396 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 9: Controller. Kenneth Mahea has been sounding the alarm about the 397 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 9: huge amount of tax dollars Los Angeles now spends on 398 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 9: liability lawsuits. In the fiscal year that just recently wrapped, 399 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 9: it's estimated the city spent a record two hundred and 400 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 9: eighty six million in liability payouts. For some context, here, 401 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 9: twenty years ago, the city paid out just thirty five million. 402 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 9: Mahia's office has launched an audit to see if the 403 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 9: city is most effectively reducing its risk of lawsuits. 404 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 10: Do you think these liability payouts are skyrocketing because people 405 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 10: are just more litigious and they're suing more? Or is 406 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 10: it because the city is not taking care of its infrastructure. 407 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 6: And that's why we are trying to do this audit 408 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 6: to figure that out. But what we do know is 409 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 6: that these liabilities we're seeing, they're increasing every year. 410 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 9: Not surprising considering even in man saying he fell and 411 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 9: fractured his shoulder here, not to mention a three million 412 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 9: dollars payout. Still has it led the city to level 413 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 9: out this sidewalk. 414 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 6: I don't understand why they don't want to feace it. 415 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: I don't get it. 416 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 10: So the city did start its new fiscal year on 417 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 10: July first, and the Controller's office as in just that 418 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 10: first month of this new fiscal year, more than nine 419 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 10: million of your tax dollars went to liability claims. 420 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 9: Now, Mihia says, this is. 421 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 10: Less than the first month of the previous fiscal year. 422 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 10: So we will see as the year goes on if 423 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 10: this city has finally been able to reverse what has 424 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 10: been a really expensive trend. 425 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 1: David and Givonni. 426 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 5: Yeah, we've seen so many places where sidewalks are just 427 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 5: a mess, But in this one in particular, are they 428 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 5: going to ever fix that one? 429 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: In Woodland Hills and we could have it again? So 430 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 1: we've been asking, David, and we do not know. 431 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 10: We've been repeatedly asking the city's Bureau of Engineering. 432 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 1: That question, and we've not gotten response. 433 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 10: We also do want to let you know we've been 434 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 10: repeatedly asking the city's law office if they're going to 435 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 10: try to appeal that three million dollar decision. 436 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: Crickets from them as well. 437 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 2: Euro of Engineering can't fix the sidewalk, even after it 438 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 2: costs to the city. Excuse me, us taxpayers three million dollars? 439 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 2: Who runs that? I'm gonna go look it up during 440 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 2: the commercial break, Bureau of Engineering. 441 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: Why is this so hard to fix a sidewalk? 442 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 2: You just dig it up and flatten it out, smooth 443 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 2: it out, put in a new concrete slab. 444 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 1: Why is this difficult? What do they do all day? 445 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: Is it porn? Is it strippers? Is it booze? What 446 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: is it? 447 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 2: Three million dollars? Three million dollars? And they were warned repeatedly, 448 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 2: and now they just don't answer the phone. They just 449 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,679 Speaker 2: don't return questions. But I must say, and maybe this 450 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 2: is gonna make me sound like a jerk. The guy 451 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 2: who tripped and got the three million now his his 452 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 2: arm is still screwed up and he can't do his 453 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 2: job being a photographer. His name is Paymon Haravi, although 454 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 2: if you take away the accent, it's paymn Uh. 455 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: He tripped because he was he was reading a text. 456 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 1: He checked a text on his phone. 457 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,439 Speaker 2: So we couldn't see that the sidewalk was thrust up 458 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 2: in front of him. That often happens when the sidewalks 459 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 2: are near tree roots. So instead of you know what 460 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 2: we learned as kids, look where you're going. See, we 461 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 2: have eyes, and when we walk, we're supposed to look down, 462 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 2: look ahead, look down, look ahead, so you don't walk 463 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 2: in front of. 464 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 1: A bus, and so you don't trip over a broken sidewalk. 465 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 2: And then came this miraculous invention, the stupid cell phone, 466 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 2: and people read their idiotic messages. I mean, ninety nine 467 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 2: percent of messages are are are beyond worthless, it's nonsense. 468 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 1: So this guy Paymon. 469 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 2: Decides in instead of looking where he's going, which even 470 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 2: a three year old figures out. I mean, I go 471 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 2: to a park frequently to work out with my friend. 472 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 2: I look at little kids all the time. Most none 473 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 2: of them are on phones. All of them are looking 474 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 2: where they're going. I never see any little kid fall. 475 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 1: You know who falls? Grown adults who can't stop staring 476 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: at their stupid screen. Oh, I got a test message? 477 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: Do you hear that? Dang? I got text? Message. 478 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 2: And then and then the guy walks into traffic, it's 479 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 2: run over by a bus, walks into a tree in 480 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 2: this case, trips over the sidewalk. Why does he get 481 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 2: three million because he didn't do the basic thing that 482 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 2: a three year old learns. It's like basic survival. Look 483 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 2: where you're going or you might trip. Didn't you have 484 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 2: your mother ever yell at you to do look where 485 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,719 Speaker 2: you're going. You didn't do that, you'd end up tumbling 486 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:53,679 Speaker 2: down the stairs. I mean, three million dollars for a 487 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 2: guy who had to read a text instead of looking down. 488 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 2: Because you could see a bump like that or a 489 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 2: raised sidewalk like that from you know, a decent distance. 490 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 2: If you have your eyes open, there's enough warning. Why 491 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 2: does he get three million for that? I mean, I 492 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 2: feel sorry for the guy, but sometimes you got to 493 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 2: blame yourself. Why do I have to pay for it? 494 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 2: I have to pay for it because he can't stop 495 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 2: reading his texts and somebody at the Bureau of Engineering 496 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 2: is too stupid or lazy to get up in the 497 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 2: morning and fix the sidewalk. So it's three million dollars 498 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 2: awarded and we all have to pay. 499 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: Why I'm not working for this all right, More coming up. 500 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 501 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show, can't find Am six forty more stimulating 502 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 2: talk radio coming up after three o'clock, just two minutes 503 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 2: after Brigina's news, Crys Lagras is coming on the journalist 504 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 2: And you know what the government originally tried to do 505 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 2: the state and the city. They wanted to buy up 506 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,360 Speaker 2: lots in the Palisades and Alta Dina and start building 507 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 2: low income housing apartments on what was single family zoned land. 508 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 2: And there was such a blowback that Knews issued in 509 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 2: executive order which would stopped that nonsense. Well, now there 510 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 2: is a coalition of low income housing groups and attorneys parasites, 511 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 2: and these are these arrogant bastards who think that people 512 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 2: have no right to live in single family neighborhoods, that 513 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 2: everybody has to accept low income housing and all it 514 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 2: brings with it. And we're going to talk to Chris 515 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 2: Leagras because these low income housing advocates, right, these are troublemakers. 516 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 2: Want to sue. They want to sue so they could 517 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 2: put their disgusting hellholes in the Palisades in Altadena, right, 518 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 2: speaking of a disgusting hell hole, how about how about 519 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 2: this Idaho prison, the Idaho Maximum Security Prison in Kuna, 520 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 2: And that's where Brian Coberger is going to rot for 521 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 2: the rest of his life. And he's in solitary confinement. 522 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 2: He did not get the death penalty, and you wanted 523 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 2: to suffer as much as he can, like the next 524 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 2: best thing to the death penalty. He's the guy who 525 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 2: killed four Idaho students, has stabbed him to death, really grazzily, 526 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 2: really disgusting. So the inmates and by the way, he's 527 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 2: with guys. There's only thirty two other prisoners, so he's 528 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 2: with Coberger's with guys who are as bad as he is. Okay, 529 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 2: so it's it's thirty three of the worst, most violent 530 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 2: mental patients and all of them should be killed, but 531 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 2: they're not, and they want to gang up to harass him. 532 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 2: I think it's the word that's been used in this story. 533 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 2: They knew he was coming, and according to a homicide 534 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 2: detective Chris McDonough, the inmates were waiting for him and 535 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 2: when he got there, they're making his life absolutely miserable. 536 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 2: And the guards weren't aware of it until it started happening. 537 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 2: They have a relentless taunting campaign against Coburger. They take 538 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 2: turns yelling through the vents into his cell around the block. 539 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: Oh that's not what I thought it was going to be. 540 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: What'd you want it to be? I thought they were 541 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: going to torture him with like meat smells through the 542 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: air vents because he's vegan. I thought that's why you 543 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: picked the story. 544 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 2: Now they're using the vent system, they're kicking the doors, 545 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 2: they're taunting him, and they're torturing him psychologically. And he's 546 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 2: complaining because he says he can't sleep at night. They 547 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 2: do all this yelling and banging all night long. 548 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 1: You think his victims could sleep at night. 549 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 2: Uh no, they can't, and neither in the families, and 550 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 2: neither kin the friends. But he's whining because you know 551 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 2: he was He was a a prissy boy, you know. 552 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 2: He he was just a geeky student guy. And he 553 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 2: can't withstand the brutality of real psychotics. Well he's a 554 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 2: real psychotic, but he's just kind of a weak, flimsy 555 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 2: version of that species. I mean, a PhD student. So 556 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 2: he's very annoyed and very frustrating. He's complaining all the time, 557 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 2: but the inmates have harassed him to the point, according 558 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 2: to Madonna, where he's just losing his mind and the 559 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 2: most the guards can do is write it down. They 560 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 2: tell him there's nothing we can do. You're not in 561 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 2: physical harm. And he only gets one one shower every 562 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 2: other day, and he has this obsessive compulsive disorder, so 563 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 2: he's kind of I guess he's like a compulsively clean 564 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 2: And now he's laying there in his own oil and 565 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 2: dirt and stink. He's kept in his cell for twenty 566 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 2: three hours a day. He only gets to go out 567 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 2: one hour a day for outdoor recreation, and he's in restraints. 568 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 1: And you know he played he. 569 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 2: Pled guilty last month and the police said said no 570 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 2: death penalty. But every night they're banging and howling and 571 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 2: driving them nuts when we come back. Chris Lagras, he's 572 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 2: a local journalist and he's got a story on how 573 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 2: these low income housing advocates are thinking about suing to 574 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 2: block Governor Knewsom's executive order, which said that we're not 575 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 2: going to do any low income housing in the burned 576 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 2: out neighborhoods of Alta, Dina and Palisades. And we have 577 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 2: Brigitta de Castina alive in the case twenty four hour News. Hey, 578 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 2: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You 579 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 580 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 581 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.