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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Every day we are on one until four o'clock. You
can count on that after four o'clock John Cobbet Show
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whatever you missed. We opened the show by telling you
about Karen Bass now being targeted by the former fire
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chief Christian Crowley. Officially, it's it's a claim that Crowley
is making. This leads to a lawsuit and she's saying
Bass defameder when she got fired over the fire fiasco
in the Palisades when Bass was in Africa. Michael Munks
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has looked into this matter and he has more details.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I am holding the claim in my hands and it's
interesting to look at this thing because it's basically the
same document you would fill out if you fell down
the steps at city hall or if a city vehicle
might have run over your foot. In fact, they've got this.
You know, our listeners can't see it, but you can.
There's a diagram where you could basically indicate with an
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X which part of a street this crash might have
happened one. So it's a very simple city employee document
that she is filed. But as you know, this is
a legal claim that could be a precursor to a lawsuit.
So let's go back to earlier this year. Palisades catch
on fire in a very significant way, destroys this neighborhood,
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and Mayor Karen Bass is under public pressure, and she
crobably claims here that the mayor wanted to deflect some
of that pressure towards her when she made this announcement
back in February.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
As you know, I have called for a full investigation
of everything leading up to January seventh. A necessary step
to the investigation was the president of the Fire Commission,
link Chief Crowley, to do an after action report on
the fires.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
The fire chief refused.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
We all know that a thousand firefighters that could have
been on duty on the morning the fires broke were
instead sent home on Chief Crowley's watch. These actions required
her removal.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So that was the day that Chief Crowley was fired.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And you recall that shortly after that there was a
pretty dramatic hearing at LA City Hall. One of the
firefighters showed up to support the chief, but she did
not peel off enough support from city council members to
overturn Maherbas's decision. So today we learned this was not
the last we were hurt here, Chief.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Crowley, I'm sorry, I thought you were leading up to
a clip. She's looking for money ultimately here, right, she
wants to be made whole because she got.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
She does claimrailed. She claims that she lost wages.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
As I mentioned, this is a pretty typical city document,
and so it's like, is your claim under twenty five
thousand or more than twenty five?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
She checks more than twenty five. She's not fooling around there.
She's claiming that Bassi famed her. She said she only
got in trouble when she told the truth. Specifically when
she went on Fox eleven and she was asked repeatedly
that the city fail us, and she finally said yes,
and she said, we've been screaming for funding, we're underfunded
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the whole routine. It did seem like that was the
turning point in the relationship there where she decided enough
of this, I'm going to tell the truth.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And bass has defunded us to some extent. That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
And when you go back to that era, even to
the city council meeting where they decided they would not
overturn the mayor's decision. You saw people expressing sympathy for
the position she's probably found herself in, but saying that
this relationship between mayor and chief was clearly irrevocable at
this point, so it was for the best of the
city that the chief move on with her life. But
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in the longer claim filed in addition to this city document,
Chief Crowley spells out each date in whichh one in
twenty twenty four, she begged the city for more money
for the fire department to support her claim that she's
now making that the city cut her fire department budget
by more than seventeen million dollars. And then she goes
on the attack against Karen Bass, the mayor by early
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twenty twenty five, saying that the mayor knew well in
advance that wild fire potential was extremely serious, but she
went to Ghana anyway, And the reason the mayor fired
the fire chief is because she was derelict in her
own duty and needed a scapegoat.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's impossible to believe that Karen Bash didn't know that
the firestorm was coming. Maybe it's because we work in
the bubble of a radio station. But that was big
news for a number of days that it was coming,
because the warnings when as early as January second, I think,
And it was January seventh when this happened, and she
was here until the fourth or fifth. I just I'm
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astonished at she's sticking to the story that she had
no idea as possible.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
The timeline provided by the fire chief in this complaint.
In this claim, she spells out where Bass was basically
minute by minute on January seventh with her public statements,
saying not only was the mayor talking about the danger
that the area was facing, she was praising the very
fire department that Chief Crowley was leading for the positions that.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It was a public statements about the ifending fire possibility.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
By by almost noon on January seventh, after Chief Crowley
again this is a quote I'm reading from the claim,
Crowley again updated Bass's office on the Palisades fire. Bass
posted a message on x accurately advising the public that
in preparation for high winds, LAFD pre deployed strike teams
in and near areas prow to wildfire. Firefighters now actively
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and aggressively responding.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Nobody saw those strike teams in the Palisades. I have
a lot of friends who lived there. Nobody was there
well in the morning. In fact, nobody was there even
to sunset.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Nobody showed up.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And the questions that you're raising are related to the
job that was done by the LA Fire Department. I
don't think we've seen a full picture on what the
plan was, and we are still waiting on that after
action report, which was just delayed again this week, so
we don't know everything.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It should have been out by now.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's right now, it's been delayed because they're claimbing the
Feds and gotten involved.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
It was a very strange position for just bystanders, especially
Palisades residents, to find themselves in in this Karen Bass
versus Kristen Crowley battle, because there were apparent deficiencies in
both of their performances leading up to the fires and
in the aftermath of the fires. So a lot of
people felt weird perhaps having to take a side in
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this battle, because it does seem that it might be
fair to say that each of them made mistakes.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh, A lot of the charges came from LA Times reporting,
for example, claiming that Crowley sent home a thousand firefighters,
that there was forty engines sitting idle and could have
been used. The Times reported that, and Bass is it
taken that information to bolster her argument that Crowley had
to be fired. Crowley is outright denying those cors, completely
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denying them. And you notice in the clip that we
played of the mayor when she announced the removal of
Kristin Crowley as fire chief, she only named two things.
She did not say. Kristin Crowley went on Fox eleven
and said, we didn't give them enough money, even though
we knew that that was where the relationship started to
break down. She cited two things. One, we've asked the
fire Commission to do an after action report and the
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chief allegedly refused to participate in that.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And two, there were a thousand firefighters who should have
been made available who were sent home instead on the
fire chief's watch.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's what the mayor said. That's why Kristin Crowley had
to go.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, and that came from the Times reporting. That's nothing
that Bass would know independently, and also something that Crowley
very adamantly denies.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, I don't know how they're going to sort this out.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well, again a precursor to a lawsuit. We shall see
another lawsuit that the city might have to pay with
what we're never going to dig out of this hole.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
All right, Michael Monk's very good CAFI News on the case.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Coming up after two thirty, we're going to have Kevin
Kylie on the Northern California Congressman and two things to
talk to him about. One is he is trying to
get a bill passed in Congress to get rid of
these middle of the decade redistricting ideas, which is what
Newsom wants to pull off here in California, and also
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stop it in Texas as well.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
None of this ought to be going on. And this
is wrong in Texas.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
This is wrong here, and it's especially wrong here because
Newsom is only doing it because they what's going on
in Texas and that's not our business. And he's taken
away Californians choices. When it comes to voting, we're only
going to have Democrats win forty eight out of fifty
two congressional seats. Well, there's a lot of independent voters,
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a huge number of independent voters in the state. I
think more than a third or a dependent, a quarter
or Republican and suddenly they're in districts where they can
only vote for Democrats, even.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
More Democrats, even more districts.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
That's just wrong. That's this, you know. And then he's
blustering around of authoritarianism. What a fraud, what a fake,
what a phony. We're going to talk to Kevin Kyleie
about Newsom's big plan here. Also about the fire aid money,
because Kevin and another congressman have said they wanted accounting
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some kind of investigation one hundred million dollars in fire
aid money for the Palisades and Altadena, and it went
to ultimately to a bunch of nonprofits. Nobody can seem
to figure out if it went to any of the
people who lost their homes. So we'll talk about that
coming up. One more thing about the Palisades fire. We
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just said Michael monks in because fire chief Christian Crowley
has filed a precursor to a lawsuit claiming that she
was unfairly fired and defamed by Karen Bass, who lied
about what Crowley did during the fire. And there's supposed
to be an after Action Report that the state law
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requires the report to examine the city's response to the fire,
but Bass says that the US Attorney's Office the FEDS
this would be Bill of Saley's office, reached out to
La city leaders to postpone its release. Federal government, specifically
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the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco on Firearms, is still investigating
what started the fire on January seventh. This is such
a peculiar case, and the longer it goes on, the
longer I think there's some something bad here that nobody
wants publicized, or some big lie was told. Don't I
don't only get it. You may may know that The
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story is teenagers started a fire early New Year's Eve morning,
two three in the morning, and it burned a number
of acres. Fire department put it out, but the big
wins a week later may have stirred it up again,
which is possible, not likely, but it's possible. And if
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it is possible, why didn't the fire department have a
crew right there on the spot. It did start near
where the old fire happened, and I don't know how
seven months later they don't seem to have a handle
on this yet, at least nothing they want to admit to.
Bass had a statement saying, according to state regulation, cities
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required to complete an after action report. Last week, US
Attorney's office requested the report be held to avoid interference
with the ongoing federal investigation. Don't know what that's about.
I don't know if you saw this today. I like
Times had a story. You know that downtown skyscraper that
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has graffiti all over it. It's the most disgusting iesore imaginable.
You see it whenever they kind of a sporting event
in La Now if they have an aerial shot from
a helicopter or a blimp. This is one of the
towers that sticks up into the sky and it has
all this primitive looking graffiti all over it.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Just nonsense.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And because you have all these local street thugs climbing
over the fence, climbing up the stairs, and they painted
all this graffiti on three unfinished high rises. You can
see it on the one, ten, you can see it
on the ten, and it's right across the street at
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from the Crypto Arena, and it's still there and no
actions being taken to get rid of this. It's so embarrassing.
I've never seen anything like this. This is almost like
a sign of LA's just total decay, total collapse.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
They want to get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Before the World Cup comes next year and certainly by
the Olympics. The towers, one of them is forty nine
stories high and it's really depressing. Casey Horton is co
founder of the Downtown La Residents Association and said the
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graffiti towers have worldwide infamy. It's like this beacon that
shines and says, come create mischief down here and you
won't get into trouble.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
This is the spot to do it. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I don't understand where the sea can't go in and
clean it up, just so it doesn't look so gross.
They're waiting on a new owner. They're going to auction
the property off September seventeenth. Actually they auctioned it off
September seventeenth, but the winner couldn't come up with the money,
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so I the real estate broker handling the case said
there are two companies that are competing as bidders, but
it might be the end of the year before it closes.
There's a lot of debts to pay and it's obviously
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very expensive to continue to rebuild. I should be covering
it up, or they should send a team up there
and scrub that away, and they should build impenetrable security,
you know, kind of like the border wall. Speaking of
the border wall, I don't know if you saw, but
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Trump is having the border wall painted black, so it's
always really really hot, and it'll make it difficult to climb,
especially in the summertime, because it'll be hot steel. So
that border wall, because they still are going to build
I think about seven hundred miles worth, and because Biden
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stopped the construction, but it's going to be so hot
and it kind of also they're also drilling the wall
spikes deep into the ground. So those spikes are going
to be deep in the ground, and there's going to
be spikes on the top. And it's one hundred and
twenty degrees in the desert there, so god knows what
the temperature is on the steel itself. And this is
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the answer to I remember hearing this for years. It's like, oh,
you build a wool, they'll figure a way over it.
They'll go under it. It's like, well, no, they won't.
You build the spikes deep enough they can't go under it.
You build it high enough, painted black. If they touch it,
they'll they'll they'll burn their hands off. Say you do it.
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You can always make something impenetrable. Our prisons are all impenetrable.
Nobody gets in, nobody gets out. El Salvador has got
that supermax prison. Yeah, the dig a hole. I heard
so many stupid excuses over the years. All right, we
come back Kevin Kylie. He's the Republican congressman in northern California,
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and he has bill out to try to stop the
redrawing of districts in the middle of a decade wait
to the census, and he's going to talk about Newsom's Shenanigans.
Newsom wants to get rid of Kevin Kylie. They've been
at each other for years and so they want to
redraw Kylie's district out of existence.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Also going to talk to him about the.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Fire aid situation, because that's one hundred million dollars and
nobody knows if it went to any homeowner in Palisades
or Outa, Diana. Went to a lot of nonprofits, but
you know what nonprofits are like when it comes to
the homeless and.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Green energy. So we'll talk to Kevin next.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
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Speaker 2 (17:43):
John Cobelt Show on every day from one until four,
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We have Congressman Kevin Kylie from Northern California, Republican coming
on with us. Two things. One, He and another congressman
have called for some kind of accounting investigation into what
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happened to the fire aid money that was supposed to
benefit the homeowners in the Palisades and in Alta Dina.
It was one hundred million dollars and there's been a
lot of questions, a lot of complaints saying, hey, we
don't know anybody who's seen the money. And also, obviously
we have to talk about the redistricting idea that Newsom
has because Kevin, they're trying to redistrict Kevin Kylie out
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of existence.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So let's get Kevin on.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
How are you so, I'm doing great? How are you?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Let's start with the redistricting thing, because that is the
hottest thing going in the moment, and then we'll talk
about fire aid It's like, so you're you're under threat
personally if his redraw goes through.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Well, you know what else is new Newsom has come
after me and never really we can. We've beat back
every attempt that he's made to house me from office.
He even sent his own staff member to run against
me last year. We won by forty six thousand votes. So,
one way or another, even if this Jerrymander map goes through,
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I'm confident that I can defeat Newsom again. But we're
going to make sure it doesn't go through. This is
absolutely outrageous. It's an affront to the voters of our state.
It is an attempt to blow up our state constitution.
And so we have a lot of ways to stop this.
I'm working on a bill in Congress. We've got lawsuits coming,
and we can beat them at the ballot box despite
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every attempt news We'll make to defraud voters.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Is there a federal angle to this legally that a
federal lawsuit can be filed to stop this nonsense?
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Well, there will be lawsuits, I expect under the Voting
Rights Act. Probably at some point. Most of the legal
avenues that are going to be in the state court, right.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And did this surprise you that?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I mean, it seemed to blow up out of nowhere
that he suddenly I mean, oh, is in response to
Texas still? I mean, we have a state constitution that's
pretty clear and it's an independent redistricting panel that does this.
It passed in twenty ten, like sixty one thirty nine.
I think it is still according to the poll last
week popular sixty four to thirty six. I mean, I mean,
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most people like having I know this is not a
perfect panel, but it's better than what he's proposing.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Are you surprised he's taking this one?
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Well, I guess I'm not surprised in that nothing that
Newsom does surprise me. There seems to be sort of
no limit to his corruption and what he will do
in terms of overturning the will of voters, in terms
of ignoring what is legally allowable in order to advance
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his own political self interest. But I guess to your point,
for a second, when you look at it, you're like,
even produce them? This seems to beyond the pail.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, all right, onto the fire aid money. So one
hundred million dollars they raise. I mean, our company did
a lot for publicizing the concert, and because the fire
was raging at the time, I was only dimly aware
of the details. If you could explain to people what
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was promised or what was implied as to where the
one hundred million dollars was going to end up.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Yeah, so you know, they did this massive concert and
yet a lot of celebrities who came and performed very generous,
and then you had Californians and people across America who
gave just in an amazingly generous way, raised over one
hundred million dollars for the fire victims. And that is
the claim that was made time and time again and
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connection with this concert is that these are funds that
are going to go to the victims. And so we
have now learned that actually the funds did not go
to the victims. None of the money went to the victims. Instead,
it was distributed to a whole host of nonprofit and
so that raises the question, all right, who are these
nonprofits and what exactly did they do with the money?
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And you know, if you look at the list that
we to the extent that we have one now, there
are some that appear to be worthy groups like food
banks and that sort of thing. But then there are
others that don't seem to really have any connection to
fire release. There's one group that was focused on voter registration. Granted,
after I pointed this out, they have now given the
money back, or at least so I'm told, But we've
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asked for an investigation. I asked this of the Attorney General.
So the President Trump has referred to the Attorney General,
and then Sherman Jordan and I on the Judiciary Committee
have just directly asked fire Ate. We want a full
list of all the nonprofits when they got.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
The money, and then you're going to go to the
nonprofits and ask what did they do with the money
and prove where it was spent?
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Right, Well, the fire rate should happen. We're asking that
of them, and then yeah, there's any questions we can
always follow up.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Is there a sense in these communities that this wasn't right,
that something shady happened, Well, it would appure.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
So, I mean, even before this certain became a national
story over the last month or so, a few months ago,
the Pacific Palisades Community Council actually wrote a letter to
fire Aid asking about this very issue, saying, we actually
haven't seen any of this money that's been used and
distributed to local groups. So this is very much an
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issue that has arisen from those in the affected area.
And I think that, you know, it's it's vital that
when people give the causes like this, that the money
goes towards what it was intended for. Otherwise people will
be less likely to give the victims in the future.
So we want to make sure that we can restore
trust among the donors and the victims in terms of
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how this process as well.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You know, nonprofits is a pretty questionable culture. I mean,
there's been so many billions that have disappeared through nonprofits.
Was supposed to be homeless money here in California, as
I'm sure you know from Gavin Newsome, Mondana, Karen Dass,
and then I was just reading a story today about
the nonprofits connected to the climate change scandal, you know,
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the the Lee Zelden and the EPA trying to find
out where twenty billion dollars went, and everything's funneled through nonprofits.
So this whole system seems to be really corrupt.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Absolutely, And you know, we also want to make sure
that if there's going to be a relief measure coming
from Congress for the victims in LA, that we don't
then see this same thing repeat itself on a larger scale,
because we've seen you know that certainly nonprofits could have
benefited from government grants and.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
All of you saw this.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
The riots SHERLA was the recipient of a substantial amount
of state and even some federal funding.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Thirty four million they got from the state. I saw
the documentation thirty four million guide.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Exactly thirty four million, and then they helped to organize
that like the central player organizing these riots, these attacks
on law enforcement. I've introduced to Bill and Congress, by
the way, the No Tax Dollars for Riots Act, that
would make sure that's like that don't get any money
going forward. And President Trump is said it should be
passed immediately.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
This this is what we've come to. You have to
write a bill.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Shouldn't be necessary.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
All right, well, Kevin, thank you for coming on with us,
and this is going to be an exciting few months
and anytime anytime you want to come on, you're welcome here.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Thanks very much. We're gonna have to get the word
out of this, come to do.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
A most Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
All right, that's it's Kevin Kylie, the Republican congressman in
northern California. Him hates him for various reasons because Kylie
makes sense and Newsome is I mean, it's.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Really like a like a mob boss.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Now when we I also should point out that, you
know what, I Heart publicized the concert heavily. They didn't
have anything to do with the distribution, collection or distribution
of the money. That all happened after the fact outside
of iheart'sbur review.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
All right, more coming up.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
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Speaker 2 (26:20):
Coming up after three o'clock. I want to read you
something from one of my favorite writers, Joel Kotkin, and
he wrote this on a website called Spiked commentary website
Joel cockin As. We've had him on the show many times,
and I think I want to have him on again
soon just to talk about this. But I want to
read you some of his stuff in a column for Spiked.
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He's a not only writer, he's a researcher. He's a
Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies at Chapman University. Also does
research at the University of Texas, and he has written
like the most eloquent indictment of Gavin Newsom just by
explaining what's really happening in people's lives here in southern California,
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in terms of how bad the economy is here and
the unemployment and the lack of wages. Because Newsom is
on a new kick where he's got those those strange
little political nerds and weirdos on his staff writing all
of these incendiary tweets, sometimes mimicking Trump style, sometimes just
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their own brand and nastiness, and they think it's really cool,
and there's political obsessives who think it's really cool. It's
got nothing to do with an ordinary person's life, and
it's kind of hijacked all the stories about Newsom about hell,
he's a fighter. Look at this, Look how clever this is.
Look at that he's making fun of Trump, you know,
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and it's behind all this redistricting nonsense too.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
None of it has.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Anything to do there's a lot of people struggling in
California more than any other state, not just in raw
numbers because we're the largest state, but in terms of
the percentages. And Joel Cockin puts this together so well
and I'll read you some of it and something you
absolutely have to listen to, because in this distracted, hyperactive
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media environment, you can only think of one thing at
a time, you can only read one thing at a time,
you can only discuss one thing at a time, and
everybody gets so far afield worrying about a Twitter feed
an xpet that they completely forget what it's like for
most people just getting up in the morning and trying
to make it to the end of the day or
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the end of the week. So I'll tell you about
that coming up. I mentioned in the last segment we
had Kevin Kyleie on and he wants well, the Hause
representatives has set out official legal letters and they want
to know what happened to the fire aid money that
was meant for the outbul to Dina and Palisades owners.
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And we were talking about nonprofits and a lot of
these a lot of these nonprofits are just I you know,
they're just fronts for criminal operations. Do you remember earlier
this year Lee Zelden, he's the head of the Environmental
Protection Agency, and he said there was twenty million, twenty
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billion dollars being that the Biden administration sent to nonprofits
that was being thrown out the door. Do you remember
that there was an interview undercover interview done with a
Biden bureaucrat who admitted it was like tossing gold bars
off the Titanic. After Biden lost the election, Trump was
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coming in and they knew all the green energy spending
was going to be blocked. Well, Zelden went on a
podcast that The New York Post has called Pod Forest one,
and he said they started investigating with great enthusiasm and eagerness,
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and every time we overturned a rock this is about
the twenty billion in green new deal spending, we found
something under it that was either filled with self dealing
and conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients, or reduced oversight.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
They listen. This is how they do it.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
The Biden administration decided to have it was a certain
bank that had about twenty billion dollars in an account.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
It was City Bank.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
So Biden's government put twenty billion dollars into City Bank,
and they decided to have that bank send the money
through eight pass through nonprofit entities they're called NGOs on
government organizations, eight of them, so that anybody on the
outside would quickly lose track of the money and get
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bored and not be able to follow it.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
There was corruption at all eight.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Stops, and it was it was executed by former Obama
and Biden officials, Democratic donors. And this was EPA climate
change money that was being rooted to the nonprofits and
stolen it called them slush funds. For an example, they
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found a slush fund called Power Forward Communities. That's a
whole coalition of nonprofits. It's layer after a layer after
a layer, and connected to a former Georgia coubernatorial candidate,
Stacy Abrams, you remember her. That nonprofit was worth about
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one hundred dollars. Literally, they had one hundred dollars. The
Biden EPA gave them, gave them two billion dollars two billion.
They had nothing to do with climate change, but they
got two billion dollars worth of funding. And Zelden and
his team have been working for the last eight months
to try to claw this money back. This is the
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nonprofit scam. It is certainly infested the entire homeless industry
here in California, not to mention the green energy industry.
And then Kevin Kylie suspects there is some chicanery going
on with the money that was supposed to help out
the fire victims in Altadena and Palisades. So we're gonna
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stay on top of that. When we come back, I'm
gonna read you from Joel Kackin. He's a Democrat and
he has wrote a great indictment of Gavin Newsom. If
you ignore all his public hysterics and his tweeting, and
you look just at what he's done, what he's done
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to the state, it's astonishing. It's sickening. Really, I got
sick reading it, and I knew much of this. We've
got Brigindia Diagristina live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
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