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But I forgot to mention this last hour 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: because Newsom was right out there about constitutional amendment in 21 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: California to protect the right to abortion. He called it 22 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: a firewall to a firewall. Fire We're gonna build a firewall. 23 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 1: Boil boy. He's he's got his panties all wadded up, 24 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: doesn't he. Well, he wants to position himself for twenty 25 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:29,919 Speaker 1: twenty four. Right, nobody cares. He's called Obama? I'm running? 26 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: What am I running for? Again? Am I? Well? We 27 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: got a good Biden clip, we got play that. Oh, 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: we got a real good one. But there are some 29 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: apparently inner circle of top Democrats saying, uh, he's not running. Uh, 30 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: he's stepping aside. I don't, I don't. I don't think 31 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: he'd he'd win, and I think he'll drop out. Yeah, 32 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: I don't think he's even gonna run now, well, because 33 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: I don't think anybody would challenge him in the primary. 34 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: Do you think somebody would? Yes, I was getting Democrat president, 35 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: as they because they'd win, and a one on one 36 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: they would win. And and most Democrats realize that his 37 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 1: mind is gone. Some of them wound admitted, but they know, 38 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: all right, Well, I know who should challenge him? Fine Stein, 39 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: he'd like that. There's a debate, there's no there's no 40 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: limit to your narshness. No, but they're a pompous, foolish 41 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: wind bags. Anybody with decency would would retire, They wouldn't 42 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: be running a country, and the debate would go, and 43 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: you are who are you? Why do you? Who am I? 44 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: Why am I here? Who are you? Why are you here? 45 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 1: Now we move over to their yoga pants. Who's running 46 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: the city still? Eric Garcetti his confirmation as ambassador to 47 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: India awaits a Senate vote. Garcetti was in Washington this 48 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: week from meetings related to his Senate confirmation. Like I said, 49 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: he's begging door to door, please please help it. Angelie. 50 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: You know nearly forty current and former mayors, including Chicago's 51 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: Lorie Lightfoot, San Francisco's London Breed, Washington, DC's Muriel Bowser, 52 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: and I should stop and say, murder rates and homelessness 53 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 1: big in those places. Yeah, Sacramentos, Darryl Steinberger, that's another one. 54 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: It's in. Miami's mayor have signed a letter supporting Garcetti's nomination. 55 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,399 Speaker 1: It's it's a list of all the most violent cities 56 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: or the cities with the most homeless people and garbage 57 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: and drug addicts and feces and needles. It's like a 58 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame of bad destructive mayors. Oh my god, 59 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: who else do you think would support him? But I'm 60 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: a bad destructive mayor, that's right. I mean Laurie Lightfoot. 61 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: There's more people getting shot to death in Laurie Lightfoot's 62 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: Chicago than anywhere. I mean, if London breed San Francisco, 63 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: San Francisco again a dumpster fire? Yeah what, I saved 64 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: that story that we were going to do a couple 65 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: of weeks ago, just called it that. Yeah, here we go. 66 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: He's been having a war back and forth with Newsom 67 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: on Twitter. Well, well, if you care, I don't follow that, 68 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: but I see news stories. Yeah, I know. They keep 69 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: insulting each other as they both think they're front runners 70 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: for twenty four Well, Santas positioning himself to run for president. 71 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: There's a gap there and definitely the Santas, Oh he's 72 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: probably gonna run, I mean, because it's wide open. The 73 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: Democrats don't have a candidate. They really don't if Biden 74 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: doesn't run. But here's the thing. London Breed made a 75 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 1: big deal that he was she was going to fix 76 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 1: the Tenderloin district, which has an incredible number of drag addicts. 77 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: It's what Michael Schellenberger describes as an open air drug market. 78 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: So she made a big deal and the Daily Mail 79 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: did a story a few weeks ago. San Francisco's nineteen 80 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: million dollar open air drug market has referred just eighteen 81 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: out of its twenty three thousand, three hundred and sixty 82 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: seven visitors for treatment. The site offers separate areas for 83 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: addicts to smoke or inject their drugs. It's called a 84 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: Tenderloin Linkage Center, and the idea was that you go 85 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: to this linkage center, do you shoot up your drugs, 86 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: but they also have a referral service to get you help. Well, 87 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,919 Speaker 1: they have treated just zero point zero seven percent of 88 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 1: the more than twenty three thousand drug users who pass 89 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: through it, zero point zero seven percent eighteen at a 90 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: twenty three thousand plus no. It was a ten million 91 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:39,239 Speaker 1: dollar emergency declaration by Mayor London Breed. It was opened 92 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: to January to clean up the Tenderloin by letting them 93 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: do the drugs and giving them treatment. This thing is 94 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: the Hindenburg of public policy disasters. Apparently they tried to 95 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: prohibit certain drug dealers from some blocks of the Tenderloin. 96 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: Did you see that story? And a judge just turned 97 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: it aside, you can't do that. Another one of the 98 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: efforts to trying to keep the drug dealings out of 99 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 1: the neighborhood, and a judge said he can't do that. Good, 100 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: you can't do But they used to do that here 101 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: in LA with gang members, right restrict them. Well, you 102 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: know what, if you have twenty three thousand people injecting 103 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: drugs in public, you've you've got to start arresting them 104 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: for that crime repeatedly, over and over again, and you 105 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: offer them service, and then you keep arresting him until 106 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: they get tired and they leave San Francisco. But can 107 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: you imagine? Can you imagine? I mean, who lives in 108 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: the neighborhood with twenty three thousand drug addicts? You know? Also, 109 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: of course, London Breed supports Eric Garcetti. It's like, hey, 110 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: I'm a failure. He's a failure. We have a lot 111 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: in common, Laurie Lightfoot, more deaths I think than any 112 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: big city. I'm a failure. He's a failure. Darrell Steinberg, 113 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 1: Good lord, Darrel Steinberg's got both going on. He's got 114 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: the homeless and the mass shootings. Yeah. The two page 115 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 1: letter to Senate leaders called Garsetti an exceptional public service servant, 116 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: an outline work that he done with mayor's on climate change. 117 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: Oh good lord. The letter does not mention the sexual 118 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: harassment case. So you know what the new the new 119 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: armor that these public officials are putting up, because you 120 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: saw this in the debate and we talked about yesterday 121 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: with Karen Bass and the rest of them, and you 122 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: hear this in this mayor's statement. We're public servants. Don't 123 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: you understand? We're public servants. We're giving up our lives. 124 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: We're sacrificing our lives were the good of the public. 125 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: How dare you criticize me? How dare you how dare 126 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: you say bad things about we weren't public servants, with 127 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: the implication being I would have made millions if I 128 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: was in the private stay exact, I'd be like a 129 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: tech whiz. Do you know what we've given up to 130 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: be public servants? No? Really, what did you give up? 131 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: What corporation wants Eric Garcetti in a key role, or 132 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: London Breed or Laurie lightfoot. Oh look who signed this 133 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: letter to the mayor of Riverside. And the mayor of 134 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: Santa Anna signed on to this letter, of course, the 135 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: Mayor of Oakland, Libby schaff of course another disaster. Oh 136 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: my god. Yeah, it's what Vieneueva said, you know, the 137 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: architects of failure, the mayor of Detroit. This is the 138 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: National Union for the Architects of failure. All right, let 139 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: me come back. Speaking of the architects of failure, we'll 140 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: take another look at Mayor Yoga Pants's twenty fifteen program 141 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: called Vision Zero, which was designed to eliminate all traffic 142 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: deaths by the year twenty twenty five. In La it's 143 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: gone the opposite way. And now there's calls for an audit. 144 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: And I took a look at how much money has 145 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 1: been budgeted. You won't believe it. Coming up, John and Ken. 146 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: The announcement was made recently that the City of la 147 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: is going to conduct an audit. It's described in this 148 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:49,599 Speaker 1: article as its flagship street safety program. This is Garcetti's 149 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: Vision Zero program, which was announced seven years ago. The 150 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: goal to eliminate traffic debths on city streets by the 151 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: year twenty twenty five. That's not even three years away. 152 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: And as we have told you in updates on this before, 153 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: the numbers actually are going in the opposite direction. That 154 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: includes the early years where they tried road diets and 155 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: other measures to close to calm traffic. In twenty fifteen, 156 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty six people were killed in crashes. 157 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: Last year, the death toll was two hundred and ninety four. 158 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: Whoa well, you talk about failure. He was trying to 159 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: go from one eighty six to zero, and instead it's 160 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 1: up to two ninety four. Pedestrians the largest share one 161 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two people killed by drivers. Yep, that's 162 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: up fifty percent. Okay from twenty fifteen. What else is 163 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: way up? Homeless people? That's what's way up. Do you 164 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: think homeless people are getting run over? Yes? I think 165 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: almost seen an analysis of that. I don't know drunk people, 166 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: drug addicts. Very high percentage of people involved in accidents, 167 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:01,359 Speaker 1: especially pedestrian accidents. EI either the dry or the pedestrian 168 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: is impaired in some way because most of us, at 169 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 1: least there usually happened at one or two in the morning. 170 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: Most yeah, most of us are are around on the 171 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: planet for seventy five eighty eighty five years. Right, we 172 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: don't get run over. I don't know anybody who's been 173 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: run over by a car, never in my life, so 174 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 1: I did. I knew one person that got hit. They 175 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: didn't die, and they got seriously hurt. Ye, and they 176 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: admit it was their fault. Yeah, it's it's hard. It 177 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,079 Speaker 1: was people that made like their own little crossing over 178 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,719 Speaker 1: a busy street and she was running with the other 179 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: people and got nailed. Yeah, oh it happens, but it's 180 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: extremely rare. I mean, you think here, there's there's four 181 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 1: million people in the city of Los Angeles, and you 182 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: only have two hundred ninety four people killed either in 183 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 1: car crashes or only one hundred and thirty two pedestrians. 184 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: That's an extremely tiny number, and most of it does 185 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: happen late at night in the dark. That's why I 186 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: call a lot of this people for a perfect world, because, yeah, 187 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: you're right, with all of the people out there driving 188 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:09,839 Speaker 1: and on bicycles and walking, it's amazing that this few 189 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: number are killed in a busy city. I mean, I 190 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: don't know, probably could look it up, but how many 191 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: millions of cars do you think are on the road 192 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 1: in a given year in the city of Los Angeles, 193 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: many millions, that's right, probably hundreds of millions of cars, 194 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: maybe billions. I don't know, but I remember when Mike 195 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: Bonden tried to do his stupid road diet. He was 196 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: constantly pushing examples of people who'd been run over, and 197 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: he tried to turn them into you know, the poster 198 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: examples for his cause. Oh yeah, twenty seventeen road diet 199 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: down in Coal from Boulevard and implied mister Delmar. And 200 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 1: one of the examples he had was somebody who crossed 201 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 1: a two million road near the beach at two o'clock 202 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: in the morning, in the dark, after they've been drinking 203 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: it are that person got run over and was killed. 204 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: He used that example to try to slow down traffic 205 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: during rush hour in un Vista del Mar. Why there 206 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: was a revolution against it, and he gets through. You know, 207 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: in traffic, in slow traffic, nobody gets run over, right, 208 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: You can't get run over and slow traffic in the daytime. 209 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: Most of these things happen at night when there's a 210 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: car speeding off and a drunk guy and somebody crossing 211 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: the street in the dark off and a drunk guy. 212 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: That's how these things happen. Or they're homeless and they're 213 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: they're crazy that they're they're whacked out on drugs. I mean, 214 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: it's difficult to do if you're sane and conscious and 215 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: you're in daylight, right, And so I found this to 216 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: be a cover story. It was a cover story. It's like, 217 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: we're gonna make life perfect, every life matters vision zero 218 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: zero deaths. Now nobody was asking for that, all right, 219 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: but zero deaths. And this was part of the cabal 220 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: with the bike lobby, you know, the bus lobby, all 221 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:10,319 Speaker 1: these people who hate cars, obsessed with global warming, they're 222 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: suffering eco anxiety, so they kind of all pulled together 223 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: their their energy. Right, It's like, how about we declare 224 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: this a pedestrian emergency, a death emergency on the streets, 225 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 1: and we start cutting down the lanes and then people 226 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: can't drive, and then they'll take buses and we'll make 227 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: bus lanes, and they'll take bikes and we'll make bike lanes. 228 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: And you see how it's all a great synergy there, 229 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: but it's all based on horsecrap. You know, I just 230 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: found a story from twenty twenty how much they've been 231 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: spending on Vision zero. I don't have all the numbers, 232 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: but it was the inception of the program is twenty fifteen. 233 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 1: In the year twenty twenty Vision zero, we see fifty 234 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: one million dollars. Yes, yes, again, that's what we call 235 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: the Vision zero industrial complex. Where did that money go? Yeah, well, 236 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,119 Speaker 1: you know where it went. Like a a bike organization 237 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: would get a grant from the city and part of 238 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,439 Speaker 1: the deal was is they would show up at council 239 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 1: meetings or those neighborhoods favor of road diets, favorite road diets, 240 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: favorite of bike lanes, favor of restricting cars. And this 241 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: is what they did. And so local businesses would show 242 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: up at these meetings and go, wait, you can't do this. 243 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: You can't get rid of the parking. You're going to 244 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: ruin our business, You're gonna create traffic. Blah blah blah 245 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: blah blah. They get outshouted by these bike looted ticks 246 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: in their weirdo spandex outfits. And those people were paid 247 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: with tax money. The recular citizens paid the tax money 248 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: for they spendex wackos to scream bloody murder at the meetings. 249 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: By the way, they cut the budget the next year 250 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: to forty eight million. I'll never forget gilts to deal 251 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: the city councilman, saying that these bicycle people have too 252 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: much influence, and he's not a guy we ever liked. 253 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: He's too Bill gill in favor of driver's licenses for 254 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants, but even he had enough of the spandex crowd. 255 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: He said, they have too much influence. They do, they do. 256 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: They're out of proportion to their percentage of the population, 257 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: way out of proportion. I do not I do not 258 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: get them. I mean, we have covered every activist group imaginable. 259 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: The bike groups are such a bunch of weirdos. You're 260 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: just riding a bike. You're not saving the world. You're 261 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: not doing anything moral, you're not helping like sick children 262 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: in Ukraine. You're not doing anything. You're just riding a bike. 263 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: What is with this passion and intensity, and you know 264 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: it's all tied to this global warming fanaticism. It's some 265 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 1: ugly spawn. Now this story we're reading about the audit 266 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: and it's probably not what you think my thought would be. 267 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: Holy crap, you're spending like fifty million dollars and the 268 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: pedestrian deaths have gone up, who's sucking up that money? 269 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: What kind of corruption's going on instead? According to John Yee, 270 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: he's executive director of a pedestrian advocacy group. It's called 271 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Walks. We need an advocacy group for people 272 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: that walk, He says, Oh no, it's not going to 273 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: focus on the program. It's going to focus on the 274 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: political hurdles which have led to Vision zero's shortfalls. In 275 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: other words, and I've heard this from some of the 276 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: advocates for road diets that then the mayor and council 277 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: people have not been strong enough to overcome the objections 278 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: that we need somebody in there that will fight for 279 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: road diets and not listen to any objections of the 280 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: Bonden caved, Darcetti caves, and they can't have that. They 281 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: did because of the city didn't want these. Yeah, because 282 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: the city drives. Yeah, we drive and we that what 283 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 1: what what purpose is an advocacy group for walking? Well? 284 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: What is that? You tell me? There is a small 285 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: percentage of people that probably don't use a car much, 286 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: But who But why would they care whether I walk 287 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 1: or not? You want to walk? Go ahead? What do 288 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: you care if I walk? Why would you be part 289 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: of an advocacy group trying to lecture and bully me 290 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 1: into walking. They think that you're gonna they run them over. 291 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: Or are they getting money from the city or all 292 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: these bike and walk groups part of this industrial complex. 293 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: They just get grant money and life is better. Life 294 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: is better because they have access to the money. God 295 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 1: knows what they do with it. But who the hell, 296 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: who the hell wants to listen to a bike lecturer, 297 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,679 Speaker 1: a walking lecturer? Were you telling me what to do? No, 298 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:30,880 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna walk and I'm not gonna bike. I'm 299 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: taking my car around. Shut up and stop screwing up, wife. 300 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: Traffic is bad enough. You're stupid road diets and your 301 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: bike lanes and your bust lanes. God, you people are 302 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: such pains in the ass. Then we could shut up 303 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 1: the one we couldn't save though. Remember on the West 304 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: side there was that in the Marvista neighborhood on Venice Boulevard. 305 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: Member and save them and drove out businesses, and I 306 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: think that's still there. That's the one they've built out, 307 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,439 Speaker 1: that special bike lane where you have actually you have 308 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: to park inside or up to park like in the middle. 309 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: That was part of Bonnen's district too. I know it 310 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: was tough to fight too at once. I know, I know, 311 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: at least we got rid of the one of the Yeah, 312 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: I don't know, and maybe that's what a you know, 313 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: the new council person who replaces Bonn and Auto work 314 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: on restoring that traffic lane. Drew got that block. We 315 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: got more coming up. Bunch of eight Holds, John and 316 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: Ken show. Eric has photographic evidence that Garcetti is back 317 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: from his begging on his knees tour of Washington, d C. 318 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: He showed up at Dodger Stadium today posting with the 319 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 1: Dodgers promoting the All Star Game. That's important work. Yeah, 320 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 1: I'm glad he's back for that. Please send him to India? 321 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,679 Speaker 1: Why not? Although we want him to be hanging his 322 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: head in displace, not getting the appointment. I've gone back 323 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: and forth in this and finally I'm landing on I 324 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: want to see him publicly humiliated, because he's only going 325 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: to be mayor a few more months, right way. Yeah, 326 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: he's done all the damage he can do. He can't 327 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: make the place worse. Yeah, and so I just I 328 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: want to see him dangling. And I'm also fascinated by 329 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: like who's going to blink? Here, is like the Senate 330 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 1: leader finally going to say, look, he's never getting approved, 331 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: so stop it. I don't have the votes. We're never 332 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: going to get the votes. Or is Biden going to 333 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 1: do it? Or or is Garsetti gonna finally quietly withdraw. 334 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: You know though, these appointments are often hung up for 335 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: long periods, so I don't think anybody's particularly they're willing 336 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 1: to wait this out just to see what happens. Maybe 337 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: the opposition will melt away. I think that's what the 338 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: Biden people want to do. Well, clock is dicking because 339 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: there's a new election coming. So yeah, I think some 340 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 1: of Trump's appointments lingered the whole four years he was president. 341 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: And they do need an ambassador to India. Yeah, we 342 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: need one point, especially one with a lot of knowledge 343 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 1: on a climate change because India a lot of go ahead, Yeah, 344 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: go lecture, the go lecture the Indians and they should 345 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: remain poor and not to burn coal, get a road 346 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: diet going in Mumbai. The El Segundo Times is weighed 347 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: in with another story on our wonderful district Attorney George 348 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: Gascone recall Da George gascone dot com is the website. 349 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: Please sign the petition if you're an Ela County registered voter. 350 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: They have until I think it's early July to get 351 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,199 Speaker 1: all the signatures in, so we're already, you know, in 352 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 1: the middle of May here at the beginning of May anyway, 353 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 1: so they're running up against it, but please participate sign 354 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: that petition. This one is about how does any work 355 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: get done when like ninety eight percent of the deputy 356 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: DA's are in favor of the recall. Yeah, they're against 357 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: their own boss. How does the work get done in 358 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 1: a place that's got like a thousand cases a year 359 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: to consider? And the article kind of goes back and forth. 360 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: I wouldn't use the word even handed. It starts out 361 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: with a story of a prosecutor who said a convicted 362 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: sex offender wanted leniency, wanted the judge to reconsider his 363 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: seventy three year sentence, and the prosecutors said, I can't 364 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: object because, according to George Gascone, the most time he 365 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,439 Speaker 1: should serve as fifteen years. But the Gascon response to 366 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: that was that that's misrepresenting Gascon's policies, and they punished 367 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,719 Speaker 1: this deputy DA who was demoted to a lowly position 368 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: at a remote Torrens courthouse, and this person has now 369 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: suited this Deputy DA and it goes on from there 370 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: to sort of go back and forth. Gascone is now 371 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: claiming at the beginning, there was lots of dissension, there 372 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: are lots of people speaking out against my policies. But 373 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: now that I've been doing this for a year and 374 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: some months, people are coming around. That's what the prosecutors 375 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,120 Speaker 1: are coming around. That's right, That's why he got ninety 376 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 1: eight percent of him to support the recall. But I 377 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: like what you've had him on the show, and maybe 378 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: it's worth getting him on again. Deputy District Attorney Richards 379 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 1: Sabalos is a hate crimes prosecutor who once supported Gascon 380 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 1: but has since become critical of them. He said prosecutors 381 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: are intentionally withholding case information from their bosses in order 382 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: to avoid interference from Gascon and his leadership team. Here's 383 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: what he said, Oh, he's not aware of what's going on. 384 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 1: The people he surrounds him himself with don't really know 385 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: what's going on with the day to day operations of 386 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 1: the office. And part of it is because we're not 387 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: telling them, they're only on a need to know basis. Well, 388 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: it's an interesting theory. But he made this public, which 389 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: is fascinating he did. Now you think Gascon would be 390 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: digging to see what are they not telling me? He 391 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: thinks so little of Gascon that he's willing to go public. 392 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: In the LA Times they had gun enhancements and gang 393 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: enhancements without my permission. Well, yeah, I mean, Gascon really 394 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 1: can't keep track of everything. And a lot of the 395 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: people he's only got so many top aids around. A 396 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: lot of them have no experience in law enforcement. They're 397 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 1: they're public defenders. They're not part of the prosecutor's office. 398 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: They probably don't know exactly how the whole system works. 399 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: And maybe they've set up these workaround channels and maybe 400 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: that's why gas Go and things said no, no, they're 401 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: all coming around. It's like, yeah, because because you're not 402 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: hearing about how they're not coming around, they're not telling you. 403 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: Now they're still doing business as you as you want 404 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: to psyche you some ballasts tell the LA Times about it. 405 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: You know, I worked in companies back when I was 406 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,679 Speaker 1: an accountant. Sometimes when you had like a nutty manager 407 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: or boss, you did kind of just close the door 408 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: and just ignored them, pretended they didn't exist, and just 409 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: did your work. Yeah. I hope they didn't notice and 410 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,719 Speaker 1: just stayed out of your business because they're idiots. I 411 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 1: have been surprised about certain people I've worked for over 412 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 1: the years, how little they knew about what was really 413 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: going on. Right, you know that they really were in 414 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: a bubble and they thought they were plugged in. It's like, no, 415 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: I don't think you are. Here's another good story from 416 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: the article last week. A defense attorney has filed a 417 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: him a complaint to the Chief Deputy DA. Her name 418 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 1: is Sharon Woo. This is a Gascone operative. A prosecutor 419 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 1: asked the attorney to sign a recall petition as they 420 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: were discussing a case in court. I love that one. 421 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,679 Speaker 1: That was my favorite. By the way, while we're here, well, 422 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: might happen to have some recall petitions against Gascone, wouldn't 423 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: you recall? My boss? I gotto the mail? Did you 424 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: sign it? Yeah? I'm about to send it in tomorrow 425 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: before I leave. Yeah, well good, and I signed somewhere 426 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: in front of a grocery store. Why don't know you're 427 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: registered to vote Eric. Oh, yeah, he's old enough. I've 428 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: voted in every election since two thy twelve. Here you go, 429 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: there we go. Wait, he couldn't put up listening to 430 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: this show unless he was. I think he's got secrets 431 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,479 Speaker 1: he's keeping from us. Sure he does. Um, Well, one 432 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty prosecutors have left since Gascone took office. 433 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: I don't know whether or not that's high or low 434 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 1: compared to other DA's, but that sounds like a lot. 435 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 1: That seems like yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right in a 436 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: year and a half. Yeah, well, look at this, it's 437 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 1: led case lugs to balloon, one prosecutor said, as colleagues 438 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: say their case lugs have tripled or quadrupled, So that 439 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: would indicate yeah, it's a lot. Yeah. And who haven't 440 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: heard of lawsuits? I mean the deputy das are filing 441 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 1: lawsuits against the DA. That's unheard of. We've talked about 442 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: one last week. It's all about the retaliation where they 443 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: get devoted because they're not they don't want to follow 444 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: his directness. Right. You know John Hatami who's been on 445 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: our show many times. Deputy DA says there's active warfare 446 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: going on, right, So right, That's another theme of the 447 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: article is there's a lot of confusion. Some people aren't 448 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 1: sure how prosecutors are expected to carry out Gascon's policies. 449 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 1: This is why it's led to retaliation and punishment because 450 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: it's not exactly clear. And this is in the La Times, 451 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: which of course has promoted and defended guests go on 452 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 1: at every turn. Oh, they believe he's a big reformer. Right, 453 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: but isn't the fact that the audit that the office 454 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: is in huge disarray at war one hundred and twenty 455 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: left ninety eight percent want Gascone removed. Isn't that a 456 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:08,400 Speaker 1: definition of a colossal failure. If Gascone wasn't behind all 457 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: these absurd progressive justice reform ideas, the LA Times would 458 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: say that this guy's a disaster, a terrible leader. Everybody 459 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: hates him. He's ruined them, arale works not getting done, 460 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: rules are being violated. That's what they would do anybody else. 461 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: They would say this guy is a total disaster. But 462 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 1: because Gascone is on the right side of history, well, 463 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,239 Speaker 1: look at how Gascone snuck in another story here he 464 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: pointed to prosecutors from the office as West Covina Branch 465 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 1: who he said, misinterpreted his policy limiting when certain misdemeanor 466 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: crimes can be prosecuted. As a result, several suspects who 467 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 1: should have been charged with crimes were let off. Oh right, 468 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: it's the prosecutors, he said. He does he doesn't know 469 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: whether the mistake was intentional, but one of his advisers 470 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: insisted in an interview that some prosecutors are willing to 471 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 1: sacrifice public safety to push the narrative about these policies. 472 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: So you can see what this is. They're trying to 473 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: feed the conspiracy that some deputy das are purposely not 474 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: charging so they can look like Gascone's doing this, right, 475 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:15,959 Speaker 1: Blame it on Gascone. Gascone saying, God's not not my policy. 476 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: They should have prosecuted those I suppose that's possible any way, 477 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 1: Thinking that's great. It's chaos though if one of them 478 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: goes and murder somebody, I feel like, maybe you shouldn't 479 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 1: have done that or signed the petition, recalled DA George 480 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 1: Gascone dot com. Yeah, be like Eric, you like to 481 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: the party, but at least he's joining it. You get 482 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,159 Speaker 1: scolded for doing the right thing. He hasn't signed the petition. 483 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,120 Speaker 1: Yet I just got it in the mail. All right, 484 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,399 Speaker 1: you took your time. They've been out for months and 485 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 1: Debra Ken doesn't even want to hear from you, doesn't 486 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,640 Speaker 1: even here. I'm the newest person. I can't say anything anyway. 487 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 1: We try to limit her time. Oh that's what it is. 488 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: I thought you were being respectful of my ins into 489 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: the momentum of the show. I'm an intrusion. Now he's 490 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 1: be mean, now mean he Ken? John? No, No know 491 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:11,719 Speaker 1: what mean is? Did you not get any sleep last night? 492 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 1: Can you're extra mean today? I don't have to be 493 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: to pick on you. And for sides, he's become too 494 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: favorable to you. Somebody has to pick on you. You 495 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: can come back his little best buddy. Because there's only 496 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 1: two of you left at the station. I'd become too 497 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: favor I'd become too favor, become way too soft on you. 498 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: The veganism is fading, and now he's just too soft. 499 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: All right, more coming out, Johnny Ken camend to die, 500 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: Jury of Peers. Electricity should not have passed through your 501 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: body until you undid now. An update from the John 502 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: and Ken execution disk. Here's John and Ken. John come 503 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: out and Ken Shampoo's Camp. I Am six forty live 504 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Well, it's one of our 505 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: oldest desks, but it hasn't gotten a lot of use recently. 506 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: You know, just four people have been executed this year 507 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: in the entire country, just four, two in Oklahoma, one 508 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: in Alabama, and then last month there was a Texas execution. 509 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: All four convicted killers were put to death by injection. 510 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: Eleven people were executed last year, which was the country's 511 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: fewest execution since nineteen eighty eight. So where are we 512 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: looking today for this to happen? And I'm going to 513 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: say right now it is very likely to happen because 514 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,959 Speaker 1: besides that draft opinion on Roe v. Wade leaking from 515 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: the US Supreme Court, they made a decision yesterday to 516 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 1: bypass the appeal of Carmen Deck, fifty six years old. 517 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: And the state we go to for this one is Missouri, 518 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: which is rare. There is not a lot of Missouri executions, 519 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: but they turned aside his appeal. In fact, this man 520 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: had benefited from court decisions previously which throughout his death sentence, 521 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,239 Speaker 1: but they kept coming back to put him back up 522 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: there on trial in the penalty phase, and they gave 523 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: him the death sentence again in July nineteen ninety six. 524 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: Deck was from the Saint Louis area. He was a 525 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: friend of the grandson of a couple named James and Zelma. 526 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: There's a name, Zelma Long and knew that they kept 527 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: us safe in their home. That the home is in 528 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 1: a town called De Soto, about forty five miles southwest 529 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: of Saint Louis. So he and his sister stopped at 530 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: the home under the guise of asking for directions. So 531 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: I guess he didn't go there and say, oh, I'm 532 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 1: a friend of your grandson. We just stopped by. We 533 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: knew you. They just kind of knocked at the door 534 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: and said, do you know the way to wherever? Well, 535 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: he was invited inside by the couple. They were in 536 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: their late sixties. Deck said, oh, yeah, they were country folks. 537 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 1: They would always let people in. Once inside, he pulled 538 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,080 Speaker 1: the gun from his waistband, and at his command, the 539 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: wife Zelma opened the safe, removed jewelry two hundred dollars 540 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: from her purse. A little bit more money was hidden 541 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: in the old canister, like people, do you know the 542 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: cookie draw the canister? Then he ordered the couple to 543 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: lie on their stomachs on their bed. Supposedly he stood 544 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: there for ten minutes trying to figure out what to do. 545 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 1: Then he shot the husband twice in the head, and 546 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: then he shot the wife twice in the head. A 547 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: tip or alerted police to him, and he was arrested 548 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: that night outside his sister's apartment building. And by the way, 549 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 1: I guess she just waited in the car. She didn't. 550 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,480 Speaker 1: I don't know if she knew what was Anyway, they 551 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 1: found the tin canister from the long home. It was 552 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 1: in his car, so linking him clearly to thee to 553 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 1: the crime scene. And he later gave a full confession. 554 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: So he was sentenced to death in nineteen ninety eight, 555 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: but the Missouri Supreme Court tossed a sentence because they 556 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: were errors by one of the trial lawyers, and then 557 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: the US Supreme Court threw out his second death sentence 558 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: in two thousand and five. This was because he was 559 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: shackled in front of the jury, and I guess that 560 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: was considered prejudicial. That's stupid. Of course, he was a 561 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: double murderer. Of course you want to shackle him. He 562 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 1: could have killed the jurors so he was sentenced to 563 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: death for a third time in two thousand and eight, 564 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 1: but a district judge overturned that sentence nine years later. 565 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: Come up to she determined that substantial evidence arguing against 566 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: the death penalty was unavailable because witnesses had died or 567 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: couldn't be found, or wouldn't cooperate. In other words, she 568 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: wasn't questioning he was the murderer. She was questioning the 569 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: death sentence. Oh, this is all stupid stuff, right, But 570 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 1: then the three judge panel restored the death penalty in 571 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and there he sat until sometime today tonight. 572 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: He's going to get the big needle. Is that what 573 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 1: they're doing? A needle? Yeah? They should be a big 574 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 1: bang to end this. I mean, for many years Missouri 575 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: did hangings, but that stuff, I mean, he had he 576 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: had the death sentence thrown out three times. I mean, 577 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: I know, to go that long and fight that hard man, 578 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,480 Speaker 1: there ought to be firing squad material. Yeah, I know. 579 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 1: Now we're waiting to see if that's going to happen. 580 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 1: It was that in South or North Carolina. I think 581 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: as a guy is opted for possible execution by firing squad, 582 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: all right when we return. Speaking of crime, the drought 583 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 1: has resulted in you know, obviously a lot of discussion 584 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: about the water supply, but it looks like in Lake 585 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 1: Mead in Nevada, it's turned up a body in a barrel. 586 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: Could this be a mob hit? We'll be talking to 587 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 1: Alex Stone coming up. John and Kenn showed. Debra Mark 588 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: has the news kf I am six sporting. 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