1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 2: We are on every. 5 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: Day from one until four o'clock, and every day after 6 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: four o'clock you can listen to the podcast John Cobot 7 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: Show on demand pick up whatever you missed. We are 8 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: celebrating today throughout the show the end of federal money 9 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: for high speed rail. The Trump administration pulled the plug. 10 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: Four billion dollars that was to come to high speed 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: rail is not coming. And if Congressman Kevin Kylie has 12 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: his way, he's going to pass a law that forever 13 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: bans any federal money going to high speed rail, so 14 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: that a Democratic administration down the road that can't revive 15 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: the pipeline. It's in the history of the United States. 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: There's no analogy to this project. Seventeen years, seventeen billion dollars, 17 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: nothing to show for it, and I mean literally nothing 18 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 1: to show for it. No tracks, no trains, and it 19 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: was supposed to be Los Angeles to San Francisco at 20 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty miles an hour, and it was 21 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: supposed to be done five years ago. And now after 22 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: seventeen years of nothing, let's get to Alexandra Mersdo, Republican 23 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: from Tulare, and talk to her about this event. Alexandra, 24 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: how are you. 25 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 3: I'm doing well, It's good to be back again. 26 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: Newsom, is you represent the Central Valley, which is where 27 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: this thing, this imaginary railroad is supposed to appear one day. 28 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: And Newsom is always claiming, well, this is bringing so 29 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: many jobs to the Central Valley? 30 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 2: Is that true? 31 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: And isn't there anything else that we can we can 32 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: build that the Central Valley needs. 33 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 2: That these workers can get strugged right out of my mouth, Well, let's. 34 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 3: Tell us we have shovel ready projects. We're ready to 35 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 3: get to work. I want to keep people working in 36 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 3: the valley, and I want to make sure they can 37 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 3: go home to their families at night and have dinner 38 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 3: with them. We are critically underfunded when it comes to infrastructure, 39 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 3: when it comes to our roads, when it comes to 40 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 3: our water systems, on so many fronts. And I'm getting 41 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 3: really tired of Gavin Newsom, who is nowhere near this 42 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: high speed rail, trying to convince us that he's giving 43 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 3: the Central Valley a gift. This is not a gift. 44 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 3: This is an eyesore and a slap in the face 45 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 3: to hard working people in the Central Valley who are 46 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 3: struggling right now, so that. 47 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: That is the only defense he uses is he's bringing jobs. 48 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 2: And I. 49 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: Mean I drive around California like everyone else, and the 50 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 1: roads and bridges or in horrific condition we have Periodically 51 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: we have these water shortages, so we need water storage 52 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: built among so many things here in California. The state 53 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: is crumbling. So I couldn't believe that an imaginary railroad 54 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: is required to employ people. 55 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 2: It's not. 56 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 3: It's a false narrative that has been pushed by the 57 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 3: news of the administration and many of my Democrat colleagues 58 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 3: for years. What this comes down to is it's a 59 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 3: bunch of people that don't live where we are, don't 60 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 3: work the way that we work because we are an 61 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 3: ag driven economy in the Central Valley. That if they 62 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 3: really want to help us out and they want to 63 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 3: keep people working, give us our dang water. We live 64 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 3: in the fourth largest economy in the world, and communities 65 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 3: in my district don't have access to clean drinking water. 66 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 3: So if we're going to brag about how great we are, 67 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 3: why don't we find basic infrastructure that makes people's lives 68 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 3: better rather than these privileged projects that want to put 69 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 3: us into the future, and all they're doing is putting. 70 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 2: Us into debt. 71 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: How can there be one person in the state that 72 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: doesn't have consistent access to drinking water? 73 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 2: That seems to be a possible Let. 74 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 3: Me know, I can't imagine. It seems to be impossible, 75 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 3: but it's very real. And if we continue down this path, 76 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 3: that we don't start putting shovels in the ground for 77 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 3: water infrastructure projects, now we're going to have large portions 78 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 3: of California that are uninhabitable, plain and simple. 79 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 2: What do you think the money's gone. 80 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 3: That's a great question. I do know that a lot 81 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 3: of money's gone to fancy consultants. I know a lot 82 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 3: of money has gone to removing graffiti off of these structures. 83 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 3: I know that there's a lot of questions as far 84 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 3: as why has it taken this long? Why has it 85 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 3: cost us much? I actually wrote a letter to President 86 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 3: Trump all the way back in a gleef February, asking him, 87 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 3: let's figure out where this money is going, because it's 88 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 3: not going towards progress. The high speed rail will tell 89 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 3: you that this is going to you know, all of 90 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 3: the environmental and legal objections that have happened. And let 91 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 3: me also make sure that if you have spare time, 92 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 3: you go and check out the fancy marketing videos that 93 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 3: they've spent millions of dollars to make sure they're selling 94 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 3: on you, selling you on this pipe dream that is 95 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 3: the high speed Rail. This is literally the epitome of 96 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 3: a failure of a project. And I'm really kind of 97 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 3: tired of them trying to convince us that there's progress 98 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 3: being made. If they count progress as eleven concrete structures 99 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 3: and twenty two miles of raised dirt with no track 100 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 3: being laid, we might need to check our metric of 101 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 3: what progress looks like in the state of California. 102 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: I was just going to ask you, if I drive 103 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: through the Central Valley, what evidence would I see of 104 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 1: this high speed rail project. 105 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 3: Well, like I told you, that's about all you would see. 106 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 3: But to add insult to injury, I had the CEO 107 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 3: of the High Seed Rail in front of me on 108 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 3: a hearing not too long ago, and I asked them 109 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 3: a series of questions, one of which was, if the 110 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 3: federal money stops, what's your plan financially? Because California's been 111 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 3: a twelve billion dollar deficit. We don't have extra money 112 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 3: just laying around. His answer was, this money is not 113 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 3: going to be taken away. You know, we're going to 114 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 3: have this money. And if President Trump does to take 115 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 3: it away, ag Bonte is going to drag them into 116 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 3: court and get it back, which we all know how 117 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 3: much they love to do that. But then my next 118 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 3: question was, is, okay, you get this built, how many 119 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 3: have you done any surveys or any studies of who's 120 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 3: going to ride it? No, we haven't done that, okay, 121 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 3: seventeen years. Didn't think that was important. My next question 122 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 3: was and then my next question was, okay, how much 123 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,479 Speaker 3: is a ticket going to cost? The average income in 124 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 3: my district is thirty one thousand dollars a year, so 125 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 3: it's not like we have a bunch of money laying 126 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 3: around to take a joy ride on the high speed rail. 127 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 3: That's never going to happen. They didn't have that information either, 128 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 3: So you don't know who's going to ride it, you 129 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 3: don't know how much they're going to pay. So what's 130 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 3: your plan to maintain this project? And that's what's so frustrating. 131 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 3: It's a bunch of miss deadlines. It's a bunch of 132 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 3: false promises, and it's let's just keep spending money but 133 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 3: not actually get the job done. 134 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: That's why I'm thinking this almost sounds like organized crime, 135 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: that they set up this mechanism so that all of 136 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: them can make six figure salaries every year and not 137 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: actually produce even even five feet a rail line. I mean, 138 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,359 Speaker 1: it's it's it's almost like ads, like some sort of 139 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: bizarre novel, you know, a group of. 140 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 2: Bureaucrats highway robbery. Yeah, I know. 141 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. And what what's 142 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: the market for people to travel from Bakersfield to Mercelle. 143 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 3: That I'm so glad you asked that. That is what 144 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 3: is so frustrating to me, because they did this statewide 145 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 3: poll saying that people still support the high speed rail. 146 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 3: You want to know what they support. They support San 147 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 3: Francisco to Los Angeles that their own inspector General said 148 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 3: was never going to happen. The Central Valley is not 149 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 3: a commuter town. Nobody is going to travel from Reside 150 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 3: to Bakersfield going two hundred and twenty miles per hour. 151 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 3: My mask might be off, but I think you might 152 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 3: have to even like slingshot backwards to go forwards. It's 153 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty five miles right now. With what 154 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 3: their project they're projected at track is so to go 155 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,239 Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty miles per hour. Think about that, 156 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 3: but it doesn't necessarily map out. But anyway, I digress 157 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 3: in that nobody's going to use this. They can continue 158 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 3: to try to convince the Central Valley that we need this. 159 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 3: Why don't you ask people from the central Valley and 160 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 3: the representatives from the Central Valley have made it very 161 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 3: clear we've got ideas. Maybe you should start listening to us. 162 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: All right, Alexandra Mescido from Tallara, thank you for coming 163 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: on with us. She's the assemblyman. 164 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. You have a great day in. 165 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: That Central Valley region. We'll continue with this. It's it's 166 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: a party day. Trumpez out foxed Newsom again the way 167 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: he out fox Newsom on the electric car mandate. Right, 168 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: that's two huge wins. And Newsom's only response to anything 169 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: is ihi gonn sue. And he gets his little mini 170 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: me bonta, his little toady to file a bunch of paperwork. 171 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 2: And you know that that's we'll talk more. We come back. 172 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 4: You're listening to John cobelt On Tom from KFI AM 173 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 4: six forty. 174 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:11,719 Speaker 1: Now, so Trump is pulling four billion dollars from a 175 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 1: high speed rail funding. And remember the current version of 176 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: high speed rail is supposed to be just Bakersfield to Mercette. 177 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: And I hope you heard our last guest on Alexandra Mercido, 178 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: she's the assembly woman from that area, and. 179 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 2: She just laughed and scoffed. 180 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: It's like, of course, there is no market to travel 181 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: from Bakersfield to Mercet. It's not a commuter area. It's 182 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: like one hundred and sixty five miles. There's nobody who's 183 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: ever going to take this train. Seventeen billion dollars in 184 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: seventeen years. Gavin Newsom has awakened every morning since he 185 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,199 Speaker 1: became governor. Right he became governor in January twenty nineteen, 186 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: it is six and a half years. Every morning he's 187 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: awakened knowing that this high speed rail was a massive, 188 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 1: gigantic waste of money that taxpayers on the state and 189 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: on the federal level had been looted. And there was 190 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: a brief time in twenty nineteen where he was honest 191 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: and said that we got to pull the plug on 192 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: this and then I don't know, maybe sob i'dy left 193 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: a horse's head on his pillow. But this whole why, 194 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: which Alexandra Messido pointed out that, well, this is jobs 195 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: for the Central Valley. Build some roads, build water infrastructure. 196 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: Farmers have a really tough time up there because the 197 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: water supply, because we have such an ancient, antiquated water 198 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:46,319 Speaker 1: system in this state. 199 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 2: So let's see. 200 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: The Federal Railroad Administration is the exact agency that pulled 201 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:00,839 Speaker 1: the four billion dollar funding. They announced an investigation a 202 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: few months ago. The Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy 203 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: asked for the review, and Duffy just let Newsom have it, 204 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: he said, Governor Newsom and the complicit Democrats have enabled 205 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: this waste for years. Federal dollars are not a blank 206 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 1: check that come with a promise to deliver results. 207 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 2: Anybody disagree with that. 208 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,439 Speaker 1: Because Newson is saying, I'm gonna sue, Rob BoNT is 209 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: gonna sue. What's your case to sue? You produce nothing? 210 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: He knows every day that he produces nothing. For high 211 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: speed rail, you think they would have laid down some 212 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: fake rail or some toy rail, but literally zero Duffy said, 213 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: after over a decade of failures, high speed rail authorities 214 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 1: mismanagement and incompetence has proven it cannot build its train 215 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: to nowhere on time or on budget. 216 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 2: It's time for this boondoggle to die. 217 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: Duffy said that newsoman California are the definition of government 218 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: and competence and possibly corruption. How can you disagree with that? 219 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: How is that not true? I mean, I'm on to 220 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: see tomorrow. Maybe they already have it up today. Well, yeah, 221 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: they do have a story up today. I don't see 222 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,719 Speaker 1: anybody at the El Segundo Times writing one of their 223 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 1: stupid progressive opinion pieces saying well, that's not true and 224 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: that's not fair, and really, you know, it's a very selective, 225 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: cherry picking argument. It's distorted, it's slanted. No, there's actually 226 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: no railroad track and there's no railroad trains. Now, who's 227 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: going to justify that after seventeen freaking years. Seventeen years 228 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: people who were in the womb back when this thing 229 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: passed to be graduating high school soon. And if you 230 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: took an aerial shot of the central Valley aside from 231 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: some lumps of dirt, it would look the same. No 232 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: track no trains. Now, how long is this supposed to 233 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: go on? And they say, well, it's a legal agreement. 234 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: They've got to give us some money. It's a legal 235 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: agreement means you actually have to produce something. I'm just 236 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: astonished at this. And they just keep blundering on and 237 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: they're all full of bravado, all full of outrage and 238 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: self righteous anger. And they've had I don't know how 239 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: many different executives, and they always appear at these at 240 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: these hearings or hold these meetings, and they're always doing 241 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: raw rah, We're great, We're fine, this is gonna be 242 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 1: and they're just I don't where do they go to 243 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 1: school for this? This is what they teach in business school? 244 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 2: What is this? 245 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:04,440 Speaker 1: It's like they're mobsters? What are And the public has 246 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 1: been sitting like these inert little blobs for seventeen years 247 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: and nobody's ever gotten together to get like a proposition 248 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: on the ballot, something to force the end of the waste. 249 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: How could this not have been stopped over the first 250 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: seventeen years. And people who don't understand Trump's appeal, this 251 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: is what it is. We spent years listening about how 252 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: we're going to have an electric car mandate without electrical 253 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: chargers or an electric grid to support it, and the 254 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: cars run out of juice pretty quickly, and on and 255 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: on and on, and he just says, this is stupid. 256 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: Let's let's end the mandate, and they end it. And 257 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: then at high speed rail seventeen years, it's seventeen billion dollars. 258 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: Now it's bakersfielder said, and he just says, let's end this. 259 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: Let's end this. Those three words so much power, so 260 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: much effectiveness. And what's the response, Trump sucks? Uh, Well, 261 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: he's ending seventeen years of waste. He's ending this disastrous 262 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: electric car mandate that they had no electricity for. What 263 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: are you insane? You're insane. I don't get anything. We 264 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: come back the other insanity. And I think people are 265 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: starting to finally realize in the Palisades that there's a 266 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: lot of politicians up to no good. They don't want 267 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: the Palisades to rebuild, they don't want it to be 268 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: like it wise. 269 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 2: They want to. 270 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: Turn it into a high speed rail, high speed rail, 271 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: a low income housing paradise. High speed rail low income housing. 272 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: These are the two big wet dreams of progressives, and 273 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: they're both are taking bullets this week. 274 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 4: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI A 275 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 4: six forty. 276 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: You should follow us at John Cobelt Radio and social media. 277 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: Follow us at John Cobelt Radio. We're less than five 278 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: hundred followers away from thirty thousand, so get to it. 279 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: That is at John Cobelt Radio. Two big wins temporary wins, 280 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: they're never permanent. One of them was Trump polling four 281 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: billion from high speed rail and you could hear you 282 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: could hear Newsom running around with his pants down, squealing 283 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: all the way from Sacramento. 284 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 2: Now. 285 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: The second win was this weirdo Santa Monica State Senator 286 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: Ben Allen, without any publicity at all, any notification at all, 287 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: he quietly had a bill that they were going to 288 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: quickly vote on this week in the legislature so that 289 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 1: the city of Los Angeles would have the power to 290 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: buy burned out lots. 291 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 2: And then it seemed that it would allow them. 292 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: To have a fast track to build low income housing. Well, 293 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 1: this we talked about extensively this week. Just found out 294 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: about it a couple of days ago. A lot of 295 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:35,160 Speaker 1: people online. Everybody's angry, everybody is angry, insulted, frustrated, and 296 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: of course the brain stems at the La Times. Do 297 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: they do a scan on your brain before you get 298 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: a job at the La Times? And if you have 299 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,479 Speaker 1: just a little tiny stem, just a little little tiny 300 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: wiggle of electricity, then they say, hey, y, you want 301 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: to be an editor. 302 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 2: You want to be managing editor. 303 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: Because they actually run a headline conspiracy theories thwart rebuilding 304 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 1: plan after La County wildfires that this was a conspiracy 305 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: theory that they were planning to build low income housing 306 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: on the burned out empty lots. 307 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 2: And I saw that and it's like, oh wow. 308 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 1: That is a real smack in the face of normal citizens. 309 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: That is real smack in the face to tax payers. 310 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: You're a conspiracy theorist. Okay, this is Liam Dillon who 311 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: wrote this piece of garbage. So, Limb, I'm assuming you 312 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: speak English, you'll be able to understand this. 313 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 2: Limb. 314 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: You have a situation where you had the most extensive, 315 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 1: most frightening wind and fire warnings that anybody's ever seen, 316 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: and you had a mayor ignore them and then she 317 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: lies in said oh no, And then you had this 318 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: gigantic one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir, which was 319 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: built to fight fires, completely empty over something trivial like 320 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: a cover being torn. You had hundreds of fire hydrants, 321 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: I think over a thousand fire hydrants busted, not working. 322 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: You had a fire department that was fifty percent five 323 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: zero fifty percent defunded, and none of them were position 324 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: positioned the night before the day of the fire. The 325 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 1: response time was slowed to nonexistent. Twelve hours after the fire, 326 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 1: many neighborhoods still didn't have any firefighters show up. Water 327 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: ran out quickly. Thousands, seven thousand plus lost their homes, 328 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: some people died. You had the DWP running by that brainstem. 329 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,479 Speaker 1: Jenny's Kin not only didn't fill up the reservoir, they 330 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:08,400 Speaker 1: didn't get anybody to shut off the electricity, which caused 331 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: more fires. Okay, so the place burns. Pallas ages. Now 332 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: this vast wasteland. Karen Bass, after being embarrassed by Donald Trump, says, Oh, 333 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna be streamlining. We're gonna cut the red tape. 334 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: News them that oily, greasy parasite. Ah, We're gonna streamline, 335 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: cut the red tape. Okay, then they don't cut the 336 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: red tape. Months go by January February March April May, Jude, Liam, 337 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 1: He's still listening. July, handful of permits, nothing, people getting 338 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: angry and frustrated. Not to mention, they found out that 339 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: their insurance had been canceled on them. They were tossed 340 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: into the fair Plan, which wildly undersures under insures your 341 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: property because our government insurance commissioner, well, our government's corrupt. 342 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: The insurance commissioner doesn't show up for public meetings. He 343 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:21,920 Speaker 1: flies around the world, He goes to Pride Night Disco's 344 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: disco celebrations. 345 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 2: He doesn't. 346 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 1: He doesn't see that there's all these people who are 347 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:32,159 Speaker 1: now uninsured or underinsured. Gavin Newsom doesn't clear out the 348 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: brush on the state lands. Bass doesn't clear the brush 349 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,919 Speaker 1: out in the city lands. Still listening, Liam, because I 350 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: know you think this is all conspiracy, But everything I 351 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: just laid out to you really happened. Place gets burned out, 352 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: No permit's coming, and then suddenly within a week there 353 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: are four realizations. One is that well four stories. Karen 354 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 1: Bass did not cut the red tape. The permits aren't 355 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: coming very quickly, and she had refused to accept Rick 356 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: Crusoe's offer of AI software to dramatically expedite the process. Okay, 357 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: Story number one, Karen Bass will not use the AI 358 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: she would. Tracy Park said she does know why. Caruso said, 359 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: don't know what. 360 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 2: I know why. Let's see story number two. 361 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: Scott Wiener has a bill at something popped up out 362 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: of nowhere saying that any single family neighborhood can have 363 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: a developer come in and build a low income apartment tower. 364 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: The words, you have a neighbors selling a lot, low 365 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: income housing, developer could build an apartment towel, and suddenly 366 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: your neighborhood is crawling with low income people and all 367 00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 1: the pathologies that bring. 368 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 2: All right conspiracy theory right. 369 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 1: Third story is Gavin Newsom offering one hundred million dollars 370 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 1: to developers to build low income housing in the Palisades. 371 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: Oh my god, so Bass is exhausting people by not 372 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: issuing permits. These people have been wiped out because of 373 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: the corrupt insurance industry that the state enables. Wiener has 374 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: his bill saying, hey, you can build these towers in 375 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 1: any neighborhood. Newsom's offering one hundred million dollars to developers 376 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,400 Speaker 1: to build them in the Palisades. And here's the coup 377 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: de gras. The final story. Suddenly you have state center 378 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: to bill. Allen has created a bill an agency to 379 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 1: buy the burned out lots, the burned out lots that 380 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 1: you can't get insured. Oh are you tired and exhausted 381 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: by this process? Here the city of la is going 382 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: to buy it. And he attaches the language of that bill. Well, actually, 383 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: what he did is he inserted language of that bill 384 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 1: into another bill which called for significant spending on low 385 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: income housing. Oh, so the original bill called for spending 386 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 1: a lot of money on loan income housing. And then 387 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 1: your next paragraph is, hey, the city can buy the 388 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 1: Palisades lots that got burned out. But you're a conspiracy 389 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: theorist if you connected to it's in the same bill. 390 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 2: It's like adjacent paragraphs. 391 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 1: On top of the newsom thing, on top of the 392 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: Wiener bill, on top of bass and the pyramits. And 393 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 1: they actually say, oh, this is uh remember monitoring conspiracy theory, 394 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: right wing propaganda, internet memes, blah blah, bl. 395 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 2: It makes your head explode. 396 00:24:58,720 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: The heat. 397 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:05,400 Speaker 2: Us they hate you. 398 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 1: They didn't bother to put out the fire. They didn't 399 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 1: bother to prevent the damage from happening. They didn't have water, 400 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: they didn't have fire hydrants, they didn't have firefighters, they 401 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: didn't have fire trucks, they didn't clear the brush, they 402 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: didn't show up, and now all of a sudden, they've 403 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: got all this energy. It's like, well, here's an agency 404 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: to buy burned out land. Here's a bill that allows 405 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 1: low income housing apartments everywhere, every neighborhood. Here's another funding 406 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 1: bill from newsom. Here it's one hundred million dollars to 407 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 1: low income developer. 408 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 2: But hey, no, we. 409 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: Want the Palisades to be rebuilt exactly as it was. 410 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: They think you're not paying attention. Much of the media 411 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: is not covering this. We've stitched this together from various sources, 412 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: most of which you probably don't read every day because 413 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: you have a normal life. None of the television stations 414 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,640 Speaker 1: are covering this. La Times covers it, a little lot 415 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 1: of it doesn't. And of course, when they try to 416 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: draw it all together, Liam Dillon thinks it's a conspiracy theory, 417 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: like we're supposed to believe and trust the government. We 418 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: come back, you know what they are doing in the 419 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: Palisades to the remaining residents. They're chasing Palisades residents around 420 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: to hand out all kinds of traffic tickets. Yes, that's 421 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: what the government's doing in the Palisades, not releasing permits 422 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 1: and helping with construction, but flagging people and giving them 423 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 1: expensive tickets. You are not going to believe this. 424 00:26:59,280 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 2: This is what the. 425 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: Bass administration and the new administration does with LAPD and. 426 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 2: HP and the Sheriff's department as well. 427 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am. 428 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 1: Six and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand 429 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: on the iHeart app. 430 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 2: You listened to Kevin Kylie. 431 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: He was on in the one o'clock hour of the 432 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:29,679 Speaker 1: Northern California Congressman talking about Trump pulling four billion dollars 433 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: in federal money from high speed rail. And then the 434 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: three o'clock hour at Alexandra Messito, a Northern California assembly woman, 435 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: who also discussed why it's absurd that this project has 436 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 1: been going on in the Central Valley for seventeen years 437 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: and she represents the Central Valley. So that's that's among 438 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: other things on the podcast. And then we've been talking 439 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: about the Palisades and the big win there is State 440 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: Senator Bill Allen pulled his nutty bill back that was 441 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: going to give Los Angeles to right, the right to 442 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: the City of Los Angeles to buy burned out lots, 443 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,400 Speaker 1: and it was attached to a low income housing bill 444 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: low income housing spending. And Alan and the LA Times 445 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: are trying to claim, oh, no, no, no, it was 446 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 1: two unrelated issues. Well, jeez, they were both in the 447 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 1: same bill. Looks like they want to buy the lots 448 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: and then spend money on low income housing, same bill, 449 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 1: one paragraph after the other. 450 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 2: As the conspiracy. 451 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: Here's what the government is doing to the poor people 452 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: in the Palisades, the ones who didn't get burned out, 453 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 1: the ones who didn't die. They had now sicked all 454 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: the law enforcement agencies to write up tickets. This is 455 00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: California Highway Patrol LAPD Sheriff's Department. They have sent units 456 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: that are normally stationed far outside the west side of LA. 457 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: Give you an example of the tickets. Jeremy Gordon was 458 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: pulled over for driving while going to his home in 459 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 1: the Pacific, the Palisades Islands. He wasn't racing down PCH PCH, 460 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: he wasn't going to a stop sign. He was going 461 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: forty five miles an hour. Normally that's the speed limit, 462 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: but they had reduced it temporarily to twenty five miles 463 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: an hour, so he got a ticket going forty five 464 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 1: and a twenty five zone, except there was no construction, 465 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: there was no workers. I was driving like everyone else 466 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: on the road. Gordon is not some teenage scoff law. 467 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: He's lived in the Highlands for years and he's president 468 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: of one of the homeowners associations. Dozens of us have 469 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: been pulled over for these kinds of tickets. It's disgraceful. 470 00:29:58,520 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 2: Yep. 471 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: They put in a lot of cops to keep the 472 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: looters out. Instead, the sheriff's deputies, LAPD and the highway 473 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: patrol officers have been ordered to turn on the local residents. 474 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: Not keep the looters out, but turn on the residents 475 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 1: and start handing out tickets like Jeremy Gordon's ticket. We're 476 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: driving fast in a construction zone where there was no 477 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: construction going on, and he was going the normal speed limit. 478 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 2: Gordon said. 479 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: Instead of patrolling our neighborhoods to prevent looting, they've been 480 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: victimizing already traumatized fire victims with their need to feed 481 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: their ticket revenue. 482 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 2: Coffers. 483 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: Another resident for the Pacific Highland says, I got pulled 484 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 1: over at six am on Sunset and Los Leones. The 485 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: CHP officer told me I didn't stop long enough. He 486 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: was hiding in the burned out driveway of the war 487 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: A Waldorf School. Ticket cost me four hundred and ninety 488 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: one dollars and one point in my record. 489 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 2: It was cruel. 490 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: Residents are being cited for rolling stops and blinking red 491 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: lights and for driving what they said were reasonable speeds 492 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 1: on pch and Sunset. There's often no roadwork or any 493 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 1: signs indicating hazards. Some officers appeared unfamiliar with the area, 494 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: unsympathetic to the fire related trauma. 495 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 2: Uh, there was a fire here. I didn't know. 496 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: I wonder why they set me here. Going back to 497 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 1: Michael Gordon, Jerry Gordon. Rather, there were no cones, no flaggers, 498 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: no cruise. I was pulled off by a I was 499 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: pulled over by a sheriff's deputy who didn't know the area. 500 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 1: When I asked where the construction was, he couldn't answer. 501 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: It's not about safety, it's about money. Another woman named 502 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: Sherry said, you got a five hundred dollars ticket trying 503 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: to help another residence returning to their home. They're giving 504 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: outrageous tickets to the contractors and day workers who are 505 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: trying to rebuild and they really can't afford. 506 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 2: They're giving it to the construction workers. 507 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 1: One woman got fined for failing to stop at a 508 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: flashing red light five hundred and fifty dollars, and she'd 509 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: have to contest it in Paca Denic because that's where 510 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: the officer was based. 511 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 2: Oh, this is a racket that it's not even just 512 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 2: the tickets. 513 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: Were being treated like criminals by the city, and they 514 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 1: still refuse to fully refill the scent in as reservoir. 515 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 1: There's no construction going on ninety five percent of the time, 516 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,479 Speaker 1: said Jeremy Gordon. If they really cared about safety, they 517 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: post visible warnings or slow zones. They're lying in wait. 518 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: This is outrageous the way the city of the county 519 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: and the state, the way they treat these people, absolutely 520 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 1: outrageous and cruel. I mean this has got to stop. 521 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 1: Enough is enough? Good lord, you're giving tickets to these people. 522 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 1: There's no construction going on, so they set up fake 523 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: speed limit zones, no construction going on, and they hand 524 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: out five hundred dollars tickets all right, Conways. Up next, 525 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: Michael Krazer Live the KFI twenty four Hour News. 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