1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,320 Speaker 1: Welcome. We are on from one n till four o'clock 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: and after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. That's 3 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: the podcast same as the radio show. If you can 4 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: follow us at John Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt Radio 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: on social media and the moistline is eight seven seven 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: Moist eighty six eight seven seven Moist eighty six, or 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: you can contact us with the talkback feature on the 8 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. The Los Angeles City Council actually did something right. 9 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: They voted eight to five to oppose a Senate bill. 10 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: Be familiar with this. If you live in this single 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: family house in California, they're coming to get you. Little 12 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: by little, they're coming to get you. They want to 13 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: ruin your neighborhood. Senate Bill seventy nine. It would allow 14 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: people well developers to buy homes and set up apartment buildings. 15 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: If you're within a half mile of a heavy rail 16 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: or a subway station, they could put six story apartment 17 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: buildings in your residential neighborhood. If you're near a rapid 18 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: bus line, they could put up a four story apartment building. 19 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: This affects thousands of lots. It'll be right across your 20 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: street right next door. Maybe on both sides. This is 21 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: from the bowels of Scott Wiener. He's a Democratic state 22 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: senator from San Francisco, an ultra progressive. Hates single family homes, 23 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: hates them, hates cars, hates pools. I'm not overstating this. 24 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: Hates everything about about suburban life. Hates your middle class 25 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: family existence. He hates your wife, he hates your husband, 26 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: he hates your children, he hates your lawn, he hates 27 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: your pets. I don't know why. I don't know what 28 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: happened in his childhood. But Tracy Park and John Lee 29 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: produced a resolution to oppose this, and I got an 30 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: eight to five vote. We were going to talk with. 31 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: Jamie Page has been covering this closely from the West 32 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: Side Current, which is a great news site. Even if 33 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: you don't live on the West Side of LA, you 34 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: ought to read it because they they jump on these 35 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: kind of stories which not only affect LA, but affect 36 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: the whole the whole state, because Wiener's bill would effect everywhere. Welcome. 37 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: How are you, Jamie, I'm good, John, how about you? 38 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: I'm good. 39 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 2: I was. 40 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised that this passed, that there 41 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: were at least eight eight city council people who opposed 42 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: it talk about how how this whole resolution debate went. Yeah, 43 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: it was it. 44 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 2: Was not going to be heard that we heard early 45 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 2: beyond that the council President, Harris Dawson was actually going 46 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 2: to hold the resolution, which means it would not have 47 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 2: gone for a vote, and it is supposed to go 48 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 2: through the Assembly, so that means that hold would have 49 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 2: stopped us from presenting our resolution to the Assembly. Nineteen councils, 50 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: our local councils opposed this. As you said, Council Member Lee, 51 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 2: it was a lot of back and forth and we were, 52 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 2: you know, it was unclear of what direction this was 53 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 2: going to take. But ultimately an eight to five vote 54 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 2: means that this resolution moves the Sacramento. 55 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: Right because eight is a majority, it's a bare majority 56 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: because there's fifteen members. Well, the way a councilwoman, Monica 57 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: Rodriguez writes, or what she said, is she said this 58 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: could allow up to seven story buildings in areas where 59 00:03:55,160 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: transit lines are still years away. So really, if somebody's 60 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: in a house and the neighbor sells and developer comes, 61 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: they could put up a seven story apartment building. With 62 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: how many units in it. 63 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 2: Good question about the units, but drew a really important 64 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 2: point before is there can be multiples of these as 65 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 2: well too, right, which can drastically change the makeup of 66 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: a neighborhood and enough high fire danger areas, which is 67 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 2: a large concern. Building these apartment buildings and looking for 68 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 2: an exit route can become a problem in areas like 69 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 2: Monica Rodriguez's Comes Flum and Tracy Park Pacific Palisades. These 70 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 2: are really key details that have not been flushed out, 71 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 2: where as they say baked out in the Assembly, I 72 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 2: think also worth pointing out, and it gets a little 73 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 2: bit too much into the details, but to vote in 74 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 2: the Assembly could have killed this bill if they don't 75 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 2: move it forward. So if the Assembly voted not to 76 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 2: move it out of where it is right now, it 77 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 2: wouldn't moved forward. And I think that's part of why 78 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 2: Harris Dawson wanted to stall the resolution coaches. 79 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: Right before the opposition gets too organized here because this 80 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: will produce a lot of negative stories and most people 81 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: don't know this thing even exists. I mean, we've talked 82 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: about it a number of times. But and there's also 83 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: no requirement for parking so if you get a seven 84 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: story apartment building, and I know people just don't believe this, 85 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: they can't imagine it. 86 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 3: Right. 87 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: You might have been living on in your neighborhood for 88 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: fifty years and you can't imagine suddenly a big apartment 89 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: building next to you without adequate parking. But yeah, that's 90 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: exactly what will happen, and there could be another one 91 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: across the street from you. Is there a limit on 92 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: how many can be built on a block? 93 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 2: No, there's not a limit, And that's part of what 94 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 2: part of the problem with this is there's not a 95 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 2: lot of thinking through how high, how many units that 96 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 2: they're going to put on, and there's actually not only 97 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 2: is there not a limit that's in there right now, 98 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 2: there's a lot of incentives for developers to build. The 99 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 2: closer to the to where it is, the more money 100 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 2: you get for a project. But so we could see 101 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 2: some really neighborhoods that will identify if the state build passes. 102 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: And this is their thinking. You may wonder, what do 103 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: these single family neighborhoods, why do they Why are they 104 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 1: going to be victims just because there's a bus line 105 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: within a half mile. I'll give you an example where 106 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: I live, I'm within a half a mile of Sunset Boulevard. 107 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: Now I can't see Sunset Boulevard. I can't hear it. 108 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: It might as well be on the Moon. I'm far 109 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: enough away where Sunset Boulevard does not impact my life, 110 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: but there's there's bus routes on it. And because I 111 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 1: likely fall within that half mile zone just because there's 112 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 1: a rapid bus line on Sunset Boulevard, then yeah, many 113 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: of my neighbors could build these apartment buildings. God knows 114 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: what the developers will pay them for the right to 115 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: use the lot, if they're going to make that kind 116 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: of money back. And suddenly I'm looking and a certain 117 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: amount is going to be I'm sure a certain number 118 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: of the units will be forced to be low income housing. 119 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: And who doesn't want that in their middle class neighborhood? 120 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 2: Right? 121 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: Well, almost housing. 122 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 3: That's already baked into parts of state laws already where 123 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 3: you have to have a certain amount of units or 124 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 3: else you pay a fee or fine if you don't. 125 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 2: So, yeah, we've already crossed that bridge. 126 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: Right I know. So it's going to if they allow 127 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: this in residential areas, you will get low income housing 128 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: people in your neighborhood, and the idea is that the 129 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: idea is you have all this this high density housing 130 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: and there's a bus line down the block, and then 131 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: you use the bus line to take you to work. 132 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: You see, they pack you in the apartment buildings and 133 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: then they pack you in the buses because they hate 134 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: your single family home and they hate your single family car. 135 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: And so you just follow the communist way dense housing, 136 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: bus lines, and you live the way they want you 137 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: to live. 138 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 2: And think this passes, it also takes away any of 139 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 2: this of the local voice, so our city council won't 140 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 2: be able to weigh in on these projects. 141 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: Is that right? So the city council would be stripped 142 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: of any power. 143 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 2: Yes, that's yes. That's the biggest part of today's vote 144 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 2: was that this would be a state wide bill. So 145 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 2: if it passes, it essentially eliminates any local power that 146 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 2: we have. 147 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is horrific. And it actually got 148 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,079 Speaker 1: five votes. And next segment, I'm going to tell everybody 149 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,839 Speaker 1: who the five are. You can guess if you follow 150 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: these things. It's the socialist contingent, all right, Jamie. So 151 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 1: now the votes in the Assembly, well, there's way. 152 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 2: It's a procedural process us. But what it happens is 153 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 2: it goes through. It's on like our consent sort of 154 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 2: like our consent calendar. 155 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 3: But what happens in this process is it can be 156 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 3: pulled much like it did and then talked about, or 157 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 3: it can move forward. If it doesn't get pulled and 158 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 3: it gets killed, as I understand it, then it's no 159 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 3: longer moving forward. This bill has been it's. 160 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: Tightly gone through. It went through the Senate, I believe, 161 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 2: on the twenty. 162 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 3: One votes that it needed or the last committee. 163 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 2: Sorry, so it's barely squeaking through. If it doesn't, it 164 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 2: could be done or else. If not, it goes to 165 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 2: vote on I believe that's what I've been told. 166 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: The processes, yeah, yeah, and everything could change at the 167 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: moment's notice. All right, thank you very much, Jamie Page. 168 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: Of course, all right, Westside Current, Westside Current dot com. 169 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: I'll give you the names of these idiot council people, 170 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: I mean, these destructive buffoons, same people over and over 171 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: again when we come back. 172 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 173 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 4: M six voting. 174 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: If you can follow us at John Cobelt Radio at 175 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Radio on social media and the moistline is 176 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven Moist 177 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: eighty six, or you can contact us with the talkback 178 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: feature on the iHeartRadio app. We have never had so 179 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: many council people in Los Angeles who absolutely hate the 180 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: American way of life, despise it. They are so they're 181 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: not even democrats, they're democratic socialists. This is the fringe 182 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: progressive element that has won a number of seats here 183 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and in other cities as well. The 184 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: things you hear about are going on in Chicago and 185 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: New York, Washington, d C. It's very similar. It's it's 186 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: it's extreme progressiveness. It's insanity, really. And this particular vote 187 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,199 Speaker 1: was about a resolution so that the City Council Los 188 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: Angeles formerly opposes a Senate bill coming out of Sacramento 189 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: known as Senate Bill seventy nine, excreted from deep within 190 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: the bowels of Scott Wiener, and it means that somebody 191 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: could sell their their single family home in a normal 192 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: residential neighborhood and it can be replaced by up to 193 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: a seven story apartment building with no provisions for parking, 194 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: no provisions for how that's going to affect escape routes 195 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: in fire areas. Part of the apartment building will be 196 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: low income housing, and you could see what this would 197 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 1: do to ordinary, quot middle class, upper middle class neighborhoods. 198 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: And there's no living on how many And if you're 199 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: inside a half mile zone where there's a rail line 200 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:16,719 Speaker 1: or a bus line, even if it's just a proposed 201 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: rail or bus line, that'll happen. And of course it'll 202 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,719 Speaker 1: destroy your property value, which is what they want. They 203 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: want you to panic and sell your homes. And so 204 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: they could put up one hundred of these in your 205 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: neighborhood and turn it from a nice middle class neighborhood 206 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 1: into some chaos zone with all the low income bet 207 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: because they think our system is corrupt, hateful, racist, the 208 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 1: whole thing. No, we have no right to own property, 209 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: no right to profit from our property, no right to 210 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: a peaceful life, no right to be enjoying things like 211 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: our car, water, no pools, no lawns. I'm serious about this. 212 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: So the idea is to cram you into this housing project, 213 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: these apartment buildings, and then force you to walk down 214 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: the street and take a bus to work. These progressives 215 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: always want to load you on a bus or a train, 216 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: and they want you to live in a little tiny box. 217 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: Here are the people who support this, Nitia Ramen, who 218 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 1: is one of the great illegal alien homeless enablers. She 219 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: really loves homeless people. She wouldn't even put a stop 220 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: to people selling guns and drugs from tents in front 221 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: of elementary schools. Nit the Aramen Hugo soda. Martinez constantly 222 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: agreeming about illegal aliens and homeless people. Current price. I 223 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 1: believe he has eight to ten fell any charges against 224 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: him for corruption. And then Unices Hernandez, who has a 225 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: lot of intellectual challenges. She's another democratic socialist. And then 226 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: one more dunnest man on the planet, Marquise Harris Dawson. 227 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: He's somehow the city council president. I don't think he 228 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: could talk and ty his shoelace. At the same time, 229 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: he was the one who's supposedly in charge of the 230 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: city when Karen Bass ran off to Ghana. He was 231 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: supposed to be in charge. There is no record that 232 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: he said or did anything to prepare the city for 233 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: the winds and the fire. There is no record that 234 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: he responded in any meaningful way to the windstorm and 235 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: the fire. He is a complete dud. The only time 236 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: he's done anything that made the news is when he 237 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: banned people from cursing and hurling insults using bad language. 238 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: That's it, just suppressing speech. That's the only and uh, 239 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: here's some quotes. Hugo Soda. Martinez says that we have 240 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: not been responsible with our efforts to really spur housing growth. 241 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: So he wants your neighborhoods destroyed to put up seven 242 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: story apartment buildings. Uh, at least there's at least there 243 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: were eight. You know you need eight because there's fifteen. 244 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: There's fifteen council people, so at worst it would have 245 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: lost eight to seven. I guess two of the council 246 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: people didn't show up for work. I don't know, maybe 247 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: they were in jail. I can't keep track of all this, 248 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: but it's a third of the city council that would like, 249 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: really honestly, they would like to buildoze your homes, get 250 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: rid of your your stupid kids, your stupid pets, fill 251 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: your swimming pools, junk your cars, and just march you 252 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: into the nearest bus. That's the life that you'll have 253 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: if they ever get a majority on the city Council. 254 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: Believe me, Karen Dass probably three quarters of the way 255 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: they are herself. She just keeps quiet. More coming up. Oh, 256 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: we're going to talk to We're going to talk next 257 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: about Uh. I know what we're gonna do. I just 258 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: you'll have away. 259 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 260 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 4: six forty. 261 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,880 Speaker 1: We are on Monday through Friday from one until four 262 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: o'clock and then after four o'clock whatever you missed John 263 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: Cobelt's show on demand the podcast and so you can 264 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: pick up whatever segments you were not available to hear live. 265 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 1: And we are on social media at John Cobelt Radio, 266 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: and we're headed towards thirty five thousand followers. And the 267 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven 268 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 1: seven Moist eighty six, or you can contact us with 269 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 1: the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. All right, I 270 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 1: really admire there's a few writers I really hold on 271 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: the upper echelon of admiration, and one of them is 272 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: Joel Kotkin, and he is a Presidential Fellow in Urban 273 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: Studies at Chapman University. He's also does. He's a senior 274 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: research fellow at the University of Texas. Any writes in 275 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: a lot of publications, including Spiked online dot com. And 276 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: he's a he's been around a while, and he's a Democrat, 277 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 1: that's his nature. But he is so appalled by Gavin 278 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:19,400 Speaker 1: Newsom's existence. He wrote a column today entitled Gavin Newsom 279 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: the Chameleon who destroyed California. And I let me just 280 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: tell you that Joe Cockin does not write incendiary things. 281 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: He's restrained, analytical. He's a scholar. He's an academic. And 282 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: what he does here is he lays out what he's 283 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:46,959 Speaker 1: done to California and how very little of this is 284 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: covered by the day to day media for all the 285 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: old tired reasons we always talk about. And he's now trying, 286 00:18:55,359 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 1: you know, to do this this this this Twitter thing 287 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: where he's or his staff and I don't think he 288 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: can type by himself. His staff puts out these Trump 289 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: like announcements and all the syncopans, Oh that's really cool. 290 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 1: Look at that. He's mocking Trump and it's like a 291 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: bad imitation. It's what like a high school kid would do. 292 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 1: It's really pathetic. I don't know how They don't see 293 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,119 Speaker 1: how pathetic it comes across. But you know in that 294 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: little bubble, Oh, look at that, he's taking it to Trump. 295 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: He's fighting. And then they had their own when they're 296 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:34,199 Speaker 1: not imitating Trump Trump, they had their own peculiar nastiness. 297 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: And it's just no way to run a state, no 298 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 1: way to communicate with with the voters. He's got this 299 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:48,959 Speaker 1: stupid redistricting idea. But here's what Katkin writes, Gavin Newsom 300 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 1: may be saddled with an awful record, but the California 301 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: governor is rapidly emerging as a leading bet in the 302 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: race for the presidential nomination in twenty twenty eight. How 303 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 1: is this possible? And he says the simple answer is 304 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: knew some might be the ultimate candidate for the attention 305 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: deficit generation. He's a political chameleon who changes positions compulsively, 306 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 1: not according to facts, but whatever best seems to fit 307 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,919 Speaker 1: the national mood. I'll give you one example. Here he 308 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 1: gives several. He was one of his core issues was 309 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: climate change, and as Cockkin writes, but in April, he 310 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 1: basically fell on his knees before big Oil after two 311 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: companies said they were shutting down the California oil refineries. 312 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: He does something insanely irresponsible and stupid and dangerous, taxing 313 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: and regulating oil refineries out of business. And then when 314 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: they say, fine, we're getting out of here, it's like, oh, 315 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:53,479 Speaker 1: what did I do? What did I do? What can 316 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: I do for you? We need oil, we need gas 317 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: like a child, he says, after trying to appeal to 318 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: MAGA voters. After Trump's victory, he's back to leading the resistance. 319 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: But here's what he's actually done to the state. Here's 320 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 1: the resume. This is what's really important, he says. The 321 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: state was once the envy of the world, but now 322 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 1: we have huge wealth concentrated in a few hands, and 323 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: we have half of America's homeless population. We have the 324 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: highest poverty rate in the US. We have the highest 325 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 1: unemployment rate in the US. And get this statistic, Almost 326 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: twenty percent of Californians live in poverty and another third 327 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: live near poverty. Add that up, that's fifty percent. Fifty 328 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:59,439 Speaker 1: percent of the state lives near or in poverty. Do 329 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: you ever see any of this discussed in any media form? 330 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: How do you have half the It's the biggest state 331 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: in the Union. It's almost forty million people. We have 332 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: twenty million near or in poverty. I saw it the 333 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 1: other day. Only fifteen percent of the public can afford 334 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: to buy a home. It is the single worst state 335 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: Cotkin rights for creating above average paying jobs, but it's 336 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: number one for producing below average and low paying jobs. 337 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: California hemorrhaged one point six million above average paying jobs 338 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 1: in the last decade, more than twice as many as 339 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: any other state. We lost a million six above average 340 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: paying jobs a million six and ten years since two 341 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: thousand and eight. It created five times as many low 342 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 1: wage jobs as high wage jobs. Few areas have exposed 343 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: the incompetence of Newsoan's economics than energy policy. California now 344 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:16,120 Speaker 1: has the highest energy prices in the continental United States, 345 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: thirty percent more than the national average because stupid green policies. 346 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: This has hugely increased day to day living costs for 347 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: poor and working families. Rising energy costs have led that 348 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 1: traditional blue collar jobs in construction, logistics, and manufacturing have disappeared. 349 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: Even there's no California metro area that ranks in the 350 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: US top ten for well paying blue collar jobs, but 351 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: four cities are in the bottom ten. Ventoria Los Angeles, 352 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: San Jose, and San Diego bottom ten for well paying 353 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: blue collar jobs. On his watch, African Americans and Latinos 354 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 1: in California perform far worse in terms of income and 355 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: homeownership than the rest of the country. Even immigrants because 356 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: there's a lack of good jobs and high housing costs, 357 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: are headed elsewhere. In the last decade, Los Angeles has 358 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: lost foreign born residents. They've been going to Houston, Dallas, 359 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: Wartworth in Miami. Migration to California adjusted for population is 360 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: lower than virtually any other state. I got more coming up. 361 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: This is his record, this is what he's done to us, 362 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 1: this is what he's done to you. And I'm reading 363 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: every day about a snarky tweet that some ahole and 364 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 1: his staff sent out, and that's cool. Look at this 365 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:02,439 Speaker 1: indictment here. It is comprehensive. There's nothing he's touched that 366 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: hasn't turned to crap. He's destroyed the economy with his policies. 367 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: We got more coming up. 368 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 369 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 4: six forty. 370 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: Round from one until four o'clock, with the podcast posted 371 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 1: after four o'clock. We were talking about a piece written 372 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: by Joel Cochin. He's a Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies 373 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: at Chapman University, among other things. And he wrote a 374 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: piece for Spiked online dot com Gavin Newsom the chameleon 375 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: who destroyed California, and this is all factual stuff. Either. 376 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 1: He puts his opinion in here. He's a Democrat, but 377 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: his opinion is based on the facts I gave you, 378 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: and I'll just briefly run through them again in case 379 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:54,360 Speaker 1: you're joining us. We have half of the homeless population 380 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: in the country. We have the highest poverty rate in 381 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: the US. We have the high unemployment rate in the US. 382 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: If you add up people in poverty and people near poverty, 383 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: that's fifty percent of the state. It is the worst 384 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: state for creating above average paying jobs. We've lost a 385 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: million six above average paying jobs, twice as many as 386 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: any other state. Highest energy prices in the continental US 387 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 1: thirty percent more in the national average. No California metro 388 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: area ranks at the top ten for well paying blue 389 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: collar jobs. Four are in the bottom ten. We're losing 390 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: even immigrants. We lost foreign born residents in the past decade. 391 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 1: They're going to Houston, Dallas, Worth in Miami, even with 392 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: the highest percentage of billionaires in the US. We've got 393 00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: these huge budget deficits. And the states that he criticizes, 394 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 1: Texas and Florida, have large budget surpluses, generate more jobs, 395 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 1: and have introduced tax cuts. Yeah, Florida and Texas budget surpluses, 396 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: more jobs, tax cuts. Comparing, he says, compare this to 397 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: Newsom's bullet train farce. He refuses to kill this disastrous 398 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,919 Speaker 1: high speed rail project, which devours billions of dollars of 399 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,640 Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars, billions of taxpayer dollars. Its chances of being 400 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 1: finished before he grows very old is increasingly remote, and 401 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: Copkin says more far more critical infrastructure needs such as 402 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: roads and water supply, have fallen behind the wayside. He 403 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,400 Speaker 1: quotes a venture capitalist Mark Andresen, who said three years 404 00:27:54,400 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: ago compared California to the late decaying Roman Empire, and 405 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: he says, the liberal media may ignore these issues like 406 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 1: they did with Joe Biden's mental deterioration, but the rest 407 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: of the country is not going to have the wool 408 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: pulled over its eyes so easily. And he says, people 409 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 1: here in California they know something is off. Most people 410 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 1: according to UC Berkeley poll say the state is headed 411 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 1: in the wrong direction by a two to one margin. 412 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: Californian see him c Newsom is more concerned with being 413 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 1: president than being a decent governor. Only one in three 414 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 1: residents than California is a good place to achieve the 415 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: American dream, and an ally Time survey found that only 416 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: fifteen percent thought California was a model other states should copy. 417 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: But he blusters on with his nonsense and lies and stupidity, 418 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: and now it's mimicking Trump's tweets. Now it's violating the 419 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: California constitution and redrawing the district lines because he wants 420 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: to fight Trump. I mean, he is a mental patient, 421 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: a narcissistic ego bag, a manipulative narcissistic psychopath, and he's 422 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: done real, real, deep damage to the state. And he's 423 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: like after Karen Dass didn't prepare for the Big fire, 424 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: ran off to Africa instead, is just enraging that he 425 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: is governor and that she is mayor for even another hour, 426 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: another minute, It's unbelievable. A massive incompetence, destructive in competence, 427 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 1: not this kind of laise faire. All well, it doesn't 428 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 1: really mean, no, this was aggressive incompetence and only can 429 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: do is have his the weirdos on his staff, right, 430 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: stupid snarky tweet, and we're supposed to go, oh wow, 431 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: look at that, Look how he fights. Oh that's so clever. Man, 432 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: you're eight years old. This is an embarrassment. You're all 433 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: gonna get in the car and you're gonna pump your 434 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: five dollars gas and not realize just how far the 435 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: place is gone. Huh. All right, more coming up temper 436 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 1: Mark Live in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. 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