1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 2: Yesterday we talked extensively about Santa Monica. And you may 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 2: not live anywhere near Santa Monica, you may not even 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 2: visit it, but it is really a symbol of what's 6 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 2: gone haywire in the entire state. Because the politicians are 7 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 2: so extremely progressive. They have an absurd homeless situation and 8 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 2: I see it every day. And they allowed with George 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 2: Floyd Riot, they allowed the writers to destroy a lot 10 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 2: of buildings, and now that and other things has led 11 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 2: the Third Street Promenade to be just left almost for dead, 12 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 2: and the Santa Monica Place, the big shopping mall there 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: is seventy percent empty. The revenues in town are way down, 14 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 2: and now they've run out of money. They've got some 15 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 2: kind of physical emergency. And you read Los Angeles Times 16 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 2: and it was sorry was much of it was about, 17 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 2: you know, one pedophile who somehow was able to abuse 18 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 2: hundreds of people he worked. He volunteered at the Police 19 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 2: Activities League, Eric Uhler, which its own separate bizarre scandal 20 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 2: mentioned in the story In the twenty third paragraph, Phil Brock. 21 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 2: It was not even a direct quote, but an allusion 22 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 2: to homelessness being an issue in Santa Monica. 23 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: Twenty third paragraph. 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 2: Took him twenty paragraphs before they mentioned Phil Brock's comment 25 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 2: on the tax revenue being down sharply the retailing tourism revenues. 26 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 2: Phil used to be the Santa Monica mayor up until 27 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 2: last year and also was a city councilman. Did not 28 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: make it through the last election. Let's get phill on. 29 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 2: He's been with us a few times on the show. 30 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: Phil. How are you. 31 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm good. I wish my city was better, 32 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 3: but I'm great. 33 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: What why is it? I mean, I'm sure you read 34 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,399 Speaker 1: the La Times article. You were in it. Were you surprised? 35 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: Were you shocked that that wasn't the thrust of the story. 36 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 2: How the homelessness and the perceived crime that the homelessness 37 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 2: brings has kept tourists out of their daily visitors out 38 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 2: of there and has helped ruin you know, the retail, 39 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 2: the retail businesses, the restaurant businesses, the promenade, the Santa 40 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 2: Monica Place, maw. 41 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: I mean they barely glanced at that in the article. 42 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 3: Well, I spoke to the La Times reporters one of 43 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 3: the reporters for almost thirty minutes. An emphasis of mine 44 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 3: was on homelessness, the lack of reaction in the homelessness, 45 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 3: the fear factor that residents feel real or perceived in 46 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 3: downtown Santa Monica and throughout the city. And also lastly, 47 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 3: I talked about the fact that we knew there was 48 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 3: a problem with the budget. We've known this for a 49 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 3: long time. And last year, for instance, and budget deliberations, 50 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 3: I asked that every department reduced expenditures by four percent. 51 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 3: That would have given us about sixteen million, which would 52 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 3: have taken care of this year's deficit, plus given US 53 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 3: four million for more police officers, which we desperately need. 54 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 3: The city council rejected that. So, look at this is 55 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 3: a long time coming. The Euler issues have been going 56 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 3: since twenty seventeen, the voting rights lawsuit's been going since 57 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 3: twenty fifteen. So the fact that the city hasn't really 58 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:01,119 Speaker 3: dealt with his problems, he's pushing him down, and then 59 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 3: on top of that, looks at the expenditures for the 60 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 3: city and feels that the cash cow will come in forever. 61 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 3: My view has always been the cash cow is people's 62 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 3: hard earned money that they're paying in taxes. It's our 63 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 3: obligation to keep the city safe. It's our obligation to 64 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 3: make sure as much as we can that the city 65 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 3: is prosperous. We're not succeeding in either. And Santa Monica. 66 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 3: You alluded to the fact that, look at, Santa Monica 67 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 3: has a great worldwide reputation that's being tarnished, and that's unfortunate. 68 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 3: We're still a wonderful city with great people. However, we 69 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 3: have to deal with the issues at hand and deal 70 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 3: with them promptly and with common sense. And in Santa Monica, 71 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 3: common sense is almost a forgotten luxury rather than a necessity. 72 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 2: These writers, Saldor Hernandez, Richard Winton. You talked with him 73 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 2: for a half an hour. You told him everything that 74 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 2: you just told me, and almost none of it got 75 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 2: into the news article. What little did came twenty paragraphs in, 76 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 2: when most people have given up. I mean, how's the 77 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 2: public supposed to know what's really going on here? If 78 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 2: the largest newspaper in the city, Prince really garbage. This 79 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 2: was absurd. Who were they protecting here? 80 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 4: Well? 81 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 3: I don't think they know. They're protecting people. Those report 82 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 3: two reporters are not Santa Monica area residents. James Rainey 83 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 3: is the only reporter there who really has a connection 84 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 3: to Santa Monica. Have it graduated from Samohai doing stories 85 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 3: in the area that usually have more truth to them. 86 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,679 Speaker 3: This lost over the real issues. And that's unfortunate because 87 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 3: you're right. Unless we have a real, transparent government and 88 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 3: a transparent press, then nothing gets accomplished because people aren't 89 00:05:58,400 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 3: alerted to the problems. 90 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 2: Why didn't you survive the last election for city councilor. 91 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 3: Well, very simple, I guess I was. Even though I'm 92 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 3: a lifelong Democrat, I was too conservative for the city. 93 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 3: The Santamnica dem Club and smur came out against me 94 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 3: and said I wasn't democratic enough, even though, for instance, 95 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 3: last August I had opened Kamala Harris's office in Henderson, Nevada, 96 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 3: helped open an office for in Reno. But they decided 97 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 3: that I wasn't I wasn't part of their cabal. 98 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,799 Speaker 2: Well, it's not because being democrat isn't isn't good enough anymore. 99 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 1: You have to be this whack job progressive and well. 100 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 3: And that's a problem. You see that in LA. You 101 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 3: see what four or five council members in LA who 102 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 3: are socialist ebs. You see four, five, six of the 103 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 3: Santa Monica council members who are progressive gbs. They snowed 104 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 3: the residents because whether you're a renter or an owner, 105 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 3: you need you must. You want public safety. You want 106 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 3: to feel safe walking out of your apartment, even more 107 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 3: than a person is in a house who has a 108 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 3: fence around them, who has some protection. And we haven't 109 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 3: done that in Santa Monica. It's up to the voters 110 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 3: to wake up. 111 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: But how do they not see it? 112 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 2: I just drive there once or twice a day, and 113 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 2: it's glaringly obvious. I tried. 114 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: I go there for a bagel every morning. 115 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 2: I couldn't get into the bagel shop the other day 116 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 2: because there was a weird guy who looked like he 117 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 2: had washed it about six years who was talking to 118 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 2: himself and waving his arms in the air right at 119 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 2: the entrance, and I parked the car in front of 120 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 2: the shop, and it's like, all right, how am I 121 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 2: going to get around this lunatic? 122 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 3: Well, this happens. Look at I see it every day, 123 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 3: and this is something I told you on your show. 124 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 3: A year ago and a year and a half ago 125 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 3: is very simple. It's the city can't do it all 126 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 3: on their own. The homeless issue is a federal, state 127 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 3: and county problem, and we need the mental health facilities, 128 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 3: we need the support, and look at Santamica does not 129 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 3: have enough police officers to be at every person's house 130 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 3: to chase away a homeless person who may be in 131 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 3: whether their house or on their property. 132 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: Did you hear me? 133 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 2: Did you hear me talking about my other experience this 134 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 2: morning if someone told me about it? 135 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was. I drove into Santa Monica. 136 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 2: I was usually a cut through street to get onto 137 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 2: twenty sixth. I'm looking at a house right in front 138 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 2: of me as I'm at the stop sign, and there's 139 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 2: a guy living on the front on the front wall. 140 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 2: They have a low front stone wall, and he's got 141 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 2: a billion possessions and bags and things. He's talking to himself. 142 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 2: He's all animated and upset about something. You know, his 143 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 2: imaginary friend said, I call nine to one one. I 144 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 2: got an interrogation from the nine to one one operator 145 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 2: who seemed suspicious about what my motivation was. 146 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 3: Right, and that's unfortunate. Look at as the bottom line 147 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 3: is we should have enough police officers and mental health 148 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 3: support personnel in the city that we can dispatch someone 149 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 3: within five minutes to that location, talk to that person, 150 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,319 Speaker 3: moved them off someone's private property, et cetera. We don't, 151 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 3: and that's the issue. So they stacked the calls in 152 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 3: a one to five ratio, and your call, since he 153 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 3: didn't have a bayonet autumn, that wasn't breaking the window 154 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 3: of the house, may have become a low priority call. 155 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 2: Well, yes, because the police showed up two and a 156 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 2: half hours later and sent me a message that there 157 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 2: was nobody there anymore. 158 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 3: Well, of course there wasn't at that point. That's ludicrous, 159 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 3: But that really comes down to the state not doing 160 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 3: their job, the county not doing their job, and the 161 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 3: city not reacting in a fourth right manner to the 162 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 3: homelessness we see on the streets. The only person who 163 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 3: is really reacting and trying to do her job in 164 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 3: that city Council and I want to get for props 165 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 3: is Mayor Lana Negrete, and you should have her on sometimes. 166 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:21,959 Speaker 3: All right, Lana's fourth right, She's honest, she's talking to 167 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 3: residents sucinkly, and she wants to deal with the issues. 168 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 3: She is not someone who wants to push him down 169 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 3: the road. 170 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 2: We will get her on Laana Negrete Phil Brock, I 171 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 2: got to run. Thank you for coming on with us. 172 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 3: Good it's good to talk to you. 173 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 4: But you're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI 174 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 4: A six for. 175 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 2: I have to take a minute too. Even though we're 176 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 2: sick of these stupid bastards, the Menendez brothers, we gotta 177 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 2: take a minute and give a lot of credit to 178 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 2: the district Attorney Nathan Hawkman, because Nathan Hakman has not 179 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 2: only through his his abilities to argue a case and 180 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 2: to do the research to bolster to bring the facts 181 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 2: of the case into the courtroom, he was able to 182 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 2: successfully get a judge to reject Eric and Lyle's Menendez 183 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 2: Eric Lylem Menendez's position they wanted a new trial, and 184 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 2: they were arguing that they had new evidence that they 185 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 2: suffered sexual abuse at their father's hands, and Nathan Hockman 186 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 2: put together a very effective argument along with his staff 187 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 2: that Eric and Lyle Menendez would have been found guilty 188 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 2: whether this sexual abuse evidence had been entered into the 189 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 2: case thirty five years ago or not. That evidence of 190 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 2: sexual abuse in no way explains or excuses this double murder. 191 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 2: And not only has their petition for parole been denied 192 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 2: both of them, they lost their parole hearing, which is 193 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 2: not easy to do in California, but now they both 194 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 2: lost their bid for a new trial. They had three 195 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 2: paths to get out get out of jail, and two 196 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 2: of them are closed for the moment. They're not going 197 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 2: to see parole again for three years. I have no idea. 198 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 2: I'm sure they'll come back and demand another trial for 199 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 2: other reasons, but this sexual abuse reasons not flying, not 200 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 2: with this La County Superior Courts Judge William C. 201 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: Ryan. 202 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 2: Now the only thing left is Gavin Newsom giving him clemency. 203 00:12:55,720 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 2: And the question is what's the more powerful source, what's 204 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 2: the more powerful impetus in Newsome's brain. He's capable of 205 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 2: being very stupid and doing very destructive things. He also 206 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 2: is extremely ambitious, and I'm sure he was so hoping 207 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 2: that the parole board would let him off the hook 208 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:24,199 Speaker 2: by releasing these two, or that at least there'd be 209 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 2: a new trial. That's why he never issued his decision 210 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 2: on clemency on releasing them outright immediately. And now he's 211 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 2: the only thing left. I cannot fathom with all the 212 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 2: baggage he's got that he's going to add while on 213 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 2: Eric Menendez being free to his resume. 214 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 1: He couldn't possibly let those two guys go, could he? 215 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 3: No? 216 00:13:52,240 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 2: Right, even he's not that stupid and self destructive the 217 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 2: h And by the way, where's Mark Garragos. This is 218 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 2: a total failure, a total wipeout. Garrigos was I was 219 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 2: even on our show. 220 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: He was in all. 221 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 2: The media constantly pontificating, made it sound like it was obvious. Well, 222 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 2: of course they're going to be released. Of course they 223 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 2: have to be released. And what Hawkman cleverly did is 224 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 2: he kept bringing everybody back to nineteen eighty nine, when 225 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 2: the crime was committed, and these two guys went out 226 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 2: of their way to go and reload their shotguns and 227 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 2: blast the mother a second time as she was trying 228 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 2: to crawl away. How they went out partying for months, 229 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 2: spending money for months, traveling for months. There was no remorse, 230 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 2: there was no regret. It was not an accident. It 231 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 2: was planned, it was premeditated. They felt it was necessary 232 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 2: and there was a lot of upside in their mind 233 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 2: to blowing these people away and then living off the money. 234 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 2: They just thought they would get away with it, and 235 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 2: then they pulled out their their, their sob story of 236 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 2: sex abuse. Well, we won't have to hear from them 237 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 2: for another three years unless Newsom does a most unthinkable 238 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 2: stupid thing and let him go. The Newsom wants to 239 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 2: be president, I don't think he's going to do that. 240 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 241 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 4: six forty. 242 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 2: We've discussed a couple of times, and yesterday the incredibly 243 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 2: stupid La Times article on why Sanmi is going broke, 244 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 2: giving almost no mention to the overwhelming homelessness, mental patients, 245 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:01,239 Speaker 2: drug addicts who have driven away business is and customers, 246 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 2: so that retail revenue, tourism revenue have dropped. 247 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: To a great degree. 248 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 2: I mean, it's just collapsed because everybody's afraid to go there, 249 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 2: and the word is out and nobody wants to travel 250 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 2: to Santa Monica and deal with all these mental patients 251 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 2: allowed to run around. They have an ultra progressive city 252 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 2: council who seems to be suffering from some kind of 253 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 2: mass hallucination. We had the former mayor Phil Brockon, who's 254 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 2: dealt with these people. 255 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: It is really bizarre. 256 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 2: Well, along those lines, the La Times coughed up another 257 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 2: one about the homeless encampment in Korea Town. First of all, 258 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 2: I play you this story from Fox eleven so you 259 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 2: get a more factual idea of what's going on. 260 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 5: Outreach workers trying to contact people living on a large 261 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 5: lot off Manhattan Place in Koreatown. A good view from 262 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 5: Skyfox of the sprawling encampment where you can see a 263 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 5: netted dirt court, residents and apartments overlooking all this, saying 264 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 5: off camera they see people playing pick a ball while 265 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 5: openly doing drugs. Hi, can I talk to anybody here? 266 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,959 Speaker 5: The tents are mostly empty at this time, except for 267 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:25,919 Speaker 5: one with a man who was not talking, although the 268 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 5: manager at the building next door is talking, saying, they've 269 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 5: been calling police and the city for over a year. 270 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 6: We caught a homeless in the laundry room doing some 271 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 6: sexual stuff. 272 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:37,919 Speaker 1: They're tapping into our power. 273 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 6: They're dugging their trash on our property. 274 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 1: It's been a headache. It's been a headache. 275 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 6: You got major safety, health and environmental dangers and hazards 276 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:48,679 Speaker 6: with this. 277 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 5: The president of the LA Urban Policy Roundtable, after visiting 278 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 5: the encampment. 279 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 6: The city's gone after the private owner and saying you 280 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,400 Speaker 6: got to clean the shild last year. The city did 281 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 6: come and cleaned it up, but right after when the 282 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 6: last a month after that they came back. 283 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 5: There is a somewhat visible sign for a management company 284 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 5: which we reached out to. There are padlocks on the fans, 285 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 5: which doesn't seem to be stopping anyone, even the outreach workers. 286 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:17,640 Speaker 5: Oh are you guys with the city trying to help 287 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 5: them out? 288 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:18,200 Speaker 2: Good? 289 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,719 Speaker 5: Anybody? No, No, one's in, No, one's in. No, this 290 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:23,360 Speaker 5: is hard. 291 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: Do you think they'll move. 292 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 6: All right? 293 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: They just don't know now. 294 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 5: A statement from Mayor Bath saying in a part that quote, 295 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 5: private property owners cannot be allowed to let their logs 296 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 5: become a danger and a nuisance to the neighborhood. 297 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 1: We will work to hold the property. 298 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 5: Owner accountable for the related costs. No word on when 299 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 5: the next cleanup would be. No word from that management 300 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 5: company either. Will keep you updated. I've seen a Gonzales 301 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 5: live in Korea Town. 302 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 1: Back to you guys, all right, straight ahead. 303 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 2: Report you heard from a lot of the neighbors there 304 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 2: right up front on what's going on, the drugs, the 305 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 2: sex the fire danger. Now will take you to bizarre world, 306 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 2: and that would be The Los Angeles Times Andrew Corey 307 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:17,359 Speaker 2: kho u r. 308 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 1: I listen to this well. 309 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 2: First of all, they have three bullet paragraphs where they 310 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 2: printed an overview of the story. 311 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: Paragraph one. 312 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 2: A homeless encampment on a Korea town vacant lot features 313 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 2: unusual amenities, including a makeshift pickleball court and a small garden. 314 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 2: Unusual amenities like they're writing an ad for hot new 315 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 2: real estate available neighbors. Here's bullet point number two. Neighbors 316 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 2: complained about noise, safety concerns and drug activity, while residents 317 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 2: of the encampment say they've built a community. You see, 318 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 2: they summarized both sides in that bullet point. The neighbors 319 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 2: worried about the sex and the fire danger and the 320 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 2: drug activity and the but wait, we built a community, 321 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 2: says The La Times. 322 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 1: Okay, now here's the body of the story. 323 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 2: Forced from his residence in an old Victorian house to 324 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 2: make way for redevelopment, Tim Gilbert says he was wandering 325 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 2: Koreatown in November looking for a place to live when 326 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 2: he ducked through a hole in a fence into a 327 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 2: vacant lot and found himself alone, forced from his residence 328 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:49,679 Speaker 2: because of redevelopment. A lot of people I've known, a 329 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 2: few get forced out. Building gets sold, there's a new landlord. 330 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 2: Landlord wants to do renovations. Landlord is selling any number 331 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 2: of things. And you get noticed, and it's like it 332 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 2: looks like, you know, in a month, two months, you're 333 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 2: gonna have to pack up and go. 334 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: And then you go and you. 335 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 2: Find somewhere else, and you put down your deposit, you 336 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 2: put down your security, and you continue with your life. 337 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 2: When you rent, nothing's ever assured. But this is forced 338 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 2: from his residence. And now he's wandering around and he 339 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 2: decides to duck through a hole and live on a 340 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 2: vacant lot, and. 341 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: It's supposed to tug at your heartstrings. 342 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 3: There. 343 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 2: He set up camp because that's what normal people do, 344 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 2: that's what the sane do. He set up camp, and 345 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 2: others followed suit and began to build a little community 346 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 2: toward one corner of the lot. Gilbert erected at pickaball net. 347 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 2: He said he found near Wilship Boulevard. Behind the net, 348 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 2: where people volley from time to time, is a small 349 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 2: garden of tomatoes, cannabis. Ugradi's growing drugs and onions that 350 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: he tends to. That's a good meal. It's a good restaurant. Actually, tomato, 351 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 2: onions and cannabis. There are at least two barbecues, one propane, 352 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 2: one charcoal. Drugged out mental patients with two barbecues one 353 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 2: uses propane gas. 354 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: What could go wrong there? 355 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 2: The encampment is one of thousands in Los Angeles that 356 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 2: are both ephemeral refuges from the dangers of sleeping alone 357 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 2: and a constant frustration for the people nearby who pay 358 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 2: rent and mortgages and want their neighborhoods clean. Oh, that 359 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 2: is such a pesky crowd. 360 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 1: Those people who. 361 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 2: Pay mortgages, rent and want their neighborhoods clean. Don't they 362 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 2: understand this is an ephemeral refuge. 363 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: According to Andrew Corey, what the hell. 364 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 2: By the way, if you notice the only time story, 365 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 2: we haven't gotten to all the bad stuff yet. Then 366 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 2: they get to neighbors lodged complaints about the encampment. Complaints. Oh, 367 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:32,120 Speaker 2: those neighbors are so irritating. Concerns over fires. Yeah, they've 368 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 2: seen the palisades in the news. Encampment residents have appeared 369 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,199 Speaker 2: to appeared to have broken into a street light and 370 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 2: attached extension cords to receive power. Oh is that what 371 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 2: they're upset about, That there's an illegal electrical supply that 372 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 2: could cause some kind of charge to ignite a fire. 373 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 2: Uh al Deberto Aguire, seventy two, lives across the street, 374 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:06,360 Speaker 2: says residents of the encampment constantly yell and fight at night, 375 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,479 Speaker 2: making it difficult to sleep, because that's what mental patients 376 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 2: and drug addicts do. They're up all night fighting and 377 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 2: doing their drugs. Another neighbor, Oh, she must be a headache. 378 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 2: Christine Package, thirty, says there's constant broken glass on the 379 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 2: sidewalk in front of the encampment, so it's dangerous to 380 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 2: walk her dog. 381 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: Who do you think you are? You think you have 382 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 1: a right to walk a dog. 383 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 2: After the sun sets, she says. She said she sees 384 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 2: what looked like drug deals. Notice all qualifiers there. Well, 385 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 2: this is what she says, But she sees looks like 386 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 2: drug deals. People popping into the encampment for only a 387 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 2: few minutes before they leave. What else would they be doing? 388 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 2: Trash strewn between the tents and makeshift shelters, grass, brown 389 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 2: flies swarmed a piece of excrement, right because there are 390 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 2: no toilets in the encampment. 391 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: Maybe there'll be an outbreak of typhoid. 392 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 2: We come back, I'll tell you about their cancel women, 393 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 2: one of the stupidest women in politics. 394 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI A 395 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 4: six forty coming. 396 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: Up after three o'clock. The hits keep on coming. 397 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 2: Susan Shelley is from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. She 398 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 2: also writes columns for the Southern California news. 399 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: Group like the Orange County Register in LA. 400 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 2: Daily News, and she's coming on to warn us about 401 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 2: a new movement to damage Prop thirteen. You know, Prop 402 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:58,440 Speaker 2: thirteen keeps our property taxes stabilized, and so Howard Jarvis 403 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:04,880 Speaker 2: Taxpayers Association wants people to sign petitions to close some 404 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 2: loopholes that some I guess some judges have created in 405 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 2: Prop thirteen. This is important stuff. This is going to 406 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 2: mean a lot of money to you if you own 407 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 2: a home. So there's a website Saveprop thirteen dot com. 408 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 2: Saveprop thirteen dot com. Susan Shelley is going to explain more. 409 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:29,159 Speaker 2: Coming up after two o'clock. We were talking about that 410 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 2: homeless encampment in Koreatown which comes complete with a pickleball court, 411 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 2: and how the well we played Fox eleven, a straight 412 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 2: ahead story by Christina Gonzalez, and then we read you 413 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 2: the poetry from Andrew Corey at the La Times, who 414 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:51,120 Speaker 2: talked about how the encampment is actually ephemeral refuge from 415 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 2: the dangers of sleeping alone and constant frustration for the 416 00:26:55,440 --> 00:27:00,360 Speaker 2: people who pay rent and mortgages. Yes, those heathens, And 417 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 2: he talks about how the first guy there built a 418 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 2: little community found to pick a ball net and now 419 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 2: they have a garden. 420 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,880 Speaker 1: Of course they grow marijuana in the garden. 421 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 2: Other people said, well, there's people screaming all night. These 422 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 2: are residents in the building. They're having sex, there's broken glass, 423 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 2: there's drug deals, propane gas tanks for their barbecue grills. 424 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 2: So they go to katy Yarislavsky. Katy Arslavsky is really 425 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 2: a stupid person, and she married into the Araslovsky family 426 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 2: and Pilford her father in law's names. Erry Raslovsky was 427 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:48,479 Speaker 2: well known city councilman and supervisor. And so people are 428 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,159 Speaker 2: so dumb in Los Angeles that they probably thought he 429 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,439 Speaker 2: was still running No, it's the daughter in law. And 430 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 2: the daughter in law is a piece of work. She 431 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 2: was the one who wouldn't do anything when there was 432 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 2: a naked woman living on a sofa in the middle 433 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 2: of Sanva Sente Boulevard. 434 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: Remember that story from some years ago. 435 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 2: There was a naked and she wouldn't call the police 436 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 2: or the mental health people and have the naked woman 437 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 2: removed or the sofa. 438 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 1: Neither way. 439 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 3: They didn't. 440 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,199 Speaker 2: I mean, at least they could have moved the sofa 441 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 2: with the naked lady on it and put her in 442 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 2: an alleyway somewhere. No, she was right out there for 443 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 2: the whole world to see. 444 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: Well. 445 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 2: She tried to explain that their office has been working 446 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 2: to move the city bureaucracy to act on this for 447 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 2: several months. 448 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: Several months. How does that work? How far is. 449 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,959 Speaker 2: The city bureaucracy from Yaroslovsky's office? How far is it 450 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 2: from Bassar's office? Can't Katie call Karen and they can 451 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 2: call in the head of the Department of Building in 452 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 2: Safety and say get this encampment closed now. Now you 453 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 2: have till the end of the day or your fired. 454 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 2: And if you have some kind of civil service protection, 455 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 2: go to court direct order. What keeps Kenny Arooslovsky and 456 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 2: Karen Bass from doing that? Well, the Department of Building 457 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 2: and Safety is down touch with the property owner and 458 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 2: they're working to clear the lot. 459 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: And it's completely unacceptable. 460 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 2: Private property owners put entire communities at risk where they 461 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 2: let vacant properties spiral out of control, and the city 462 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 2: bureaucracy makes things worse by moving far too slowly. You 463 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 2: are the city bureaucracy, Katie. You look in the mirror, 464 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 2: that's the city of bureaucracy. It starts with you call 465 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 2: up your good girlfriend Karen Bass and say can we. 466 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:42,719 Speaker 1: Get rid of this? 467 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 2: They're having sex in the lot, they have pro paying 468 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 2: tanks in the lot. They're growing pot on the lot. 469 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 2: There's broken glass. They're shouting and they're screaming. Oh, and 470 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 2: they're playing pick a ball and having a sense of 471 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 2: community and they're tending to their garden growing marijuana. 472 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 3: Hell. 473 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 2: In fact, a story on Channel seven said reporters were 474 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 2: threatened when visiting the site. The reporters trying to cover 475 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 2: this are threatened. I don't understand. I don't understand anything. 476 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 2: We come back, Susan Shelley. Apparently, another assault on prop thirteen. 477 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 2: She's with the Howard Jarvis tax Payers Association. There's a 478 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 2: referendum they want to get on the ballot to save 479 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,520 Speaker 2: Prop thirteen. 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