August 7, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (08/07) - The aftermath of the ICE raid at a Home Depot in Downtown LA yesterday. Pres. Trump wants to not count illegal immigrants in the census. US Congressman Kevin Kiley comes on the show to talk about his bill to address all of the redistricting drama.
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iHeart app. After four o'clock, we have Kevin Kylie coming
up after one p thirty. Kevin Kylie has a bill
to stop all the redistricting madness. Texas wants to redraw
their congressional districts and squeeze out Democrats, and California wants
to rejaw its districts, or at least Newsom does, I'm
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not sure the state does. Newsom does, and to squeeze
out Republicans. He'd like to squeeze nearly all of them out.
And he's got a big because it's a constitutional amendment.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Talk about that later.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Have Kevin Kayliod because his federal bill would say you
can't do redistricting in between censuses. And speaking of census,
these census, we'll have another story on that, because Trump
wants to eliminate illegal aliens from the census count, which
you may not know this, but they're part of the census.
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And you know, the more population you have in a state,
the more congression, the more congress people you get, and
the more electoral votes you get, which is why Newsom
and the legislature wants more illegal aliens. It can potentially
increase their power, give them more congressmen and women and
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give them more electoral votes. And right now California, even
with all the illegal immigration, the population is shrinking. The
number of congress people is going to shrink after twenty thirty,
the number of electoral votes will shrink as well. So
I'll get all into that after one point thirty. Here
on KF five. Now there's a there's a really entertaining
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aftermath to the raid yesterday. The Border Patrol agents who
were hiding in a in a rented penske van and
they rolled up to the home depot in Wesley. Now
this is the same home depot they already did a
raid on and so they rolled up and you know,
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from the outside you couldn't tell what it is. No
activists were warned in advance, no rapid response network was activated,
and you just had workers because the driver motioned some
of the workers over as if to say, hey, you know,
I need some bodies here, I need some strong men.
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So so the the immigrants gathered around the truck and
suddenly the back of the truck rolled up and out
jumped all these masked immigrant agents ICE agents, and they
ended up arresting and taking away sixteen sixteen.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The legal immigrants. And you know, there was a.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
There was a judicial ruling District court federal judge said, well,
you know, you can't round up people without reasonable suspicion,
and reasonable suspicion is not the language they speak, and
it's not their skin color, it's not their ethnicity, it's
not if they hang out at a particular place like
home depot or a car wash. In other words, all
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the factors that might tip off agents that they have
possible deportation prospects can't be used, even though it's the
immigrants that are here illegally, right, Okay, So you know,
in this upside down, inside out world, it is law
enforcement that is doing the wrong thing, not the illegal alments.
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So every everybody, all the all the activists after this
Penske truck trick are are are speaking out their varying
and I was thinking, it's like, all right, is Trump
just flat out going to ignore the judge's order, which
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you know he has before, or are they going to
come up with like some novel legal interpretation.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And so I wondered, is it all right?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Is the argument they're going to be, Well, we didn't
round anybody up. They ran to us, They ran to
the to the to the back of the truck. We
rolled up the door and jumped out and grabbed them.
But it was a trick. Yeah, But is it is
that wrong? You know, they set a trap and these
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immigrants fell into the trap, but they weren't.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I don't think they were rounded up.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm just saying that's you know, I see what you're saying.
You know how technical these arguments. And it's like, hey,
if a bunch of illegal immigrants like run around our truck,
our job is to pick them up. I mean, they
came to us, might not fly. But what's funny is
how aggravated and I don't think whether it flies or not,
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the Trump administration cares. I think they're just going to
keep barreling on here until maybe somebody in ICE is
actually thrown in jail. Maybe they may take the hit
on that too. They may allow some of their ICE
bureaucrats to sit in jail while they continue rolling through
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and doing roundups. Here is a quote from Jorge Mario Cabrera.
Now he is a spokes hoole for the Los Angeles
Rapid Response Network, described in the San Francisco Chronicle as
a community group that supports immigrants. Actually, they were one
of the groups that were inciting and facilitating the riots.
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That's the truth. And this is the group that TURLA
has created. And TURLA is an illegal alien activist group.
This is the group that took has taken thirty four
million dollars of our tax money. Thirty four million dollars.
It's true. I've seen the actual paperwork. Carl DeMaio put
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it online and he said the federal agents targeted the
home depot. Cabrera said, a man in plaine clothes told
the day laborers he was looking to hire them, and
that's when they went to the van and the border
patrol agents jumped out. He says, having armed federal agents
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jumping out of a Penske truck is something you don't
see every day. It's right out of a horror movie. Now,
I've never seen that in horror movie. I don't think
nothing law enforcement agents jumping out of a truck is
out of a horror movie. That's what you see in
a crime movie when law enforcement is trying to get
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the people breaking the law. But it's not a horror movie.
And how much telegraphing of this has there been. We
had Trump running for well, Trump has been either running
for president or been president for my god, it's ten
and a half years now, and he I think he's
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spoken extensively on the immigration matter.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I don't think it's a big surprise. That was his
one of two.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Main things he ran on, and then he became president
a day one the border was shut down. They just
passed that huge funding bill. ICE is now going to
get thirteen times the amount of money that they got
last year, thirteen times as much, like one hundred and
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thirty billion dollars. So you know, in the first place
they went to here in LA that caused a splash
was the same home depot. Now, if you're still dumb
enough to stand in front of a home depot looking
for work when you're here illegally, and you just randomly
run up to a truck and you don't know what's
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inside that truck, and you don't know who the driver is,
you end up getting arrested and deported. I think that's
on you. How much warning do you need? We've had
over ten years. That was the first place ICE hit
was that same home depot in Westlake near MacArthur Park.
I mean that's where they had the huge, the huge
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display of force. Remember all the ICE agents used that
as a staging area some weeks ago. That's when Karen
Bass started screaming at the agents.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That day.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
They didn't even deport anybody, They didn't capture anybody that day.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
They were just showing off.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
So you've been warned, Like, if there is a guy
still looking for work at the home depot in Westlake,
how much sympathy you're going to have them for the guy?
Get the message you can't do this anymore. You know,
it doesn't matter, and it doesn't matter how many SOB
stories the LA Times and the Chronicle runs, maybe years ago,
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you had administrations that worried about press coverage. Have you
noticed the Trump crowd doesn't care about the press coverage.
In fact, they think it's funny and they immediately start
posting snarky responses on social media. So the Times the
Chronicle is having no effect at all. Nothing's going to stop,
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not but one hundred and thirty five billion dollars. The
other funny thing, Oh here's Carl Schusterman, an immigration attorney
based in LA says, it's hard to tell from the
videos whether authorities are violating the court order by targeting
people based on their race. Well, see, that's what That's
what I'm wondering. It's like if you just roll a
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truck up and say I'm looking for workers, and all
these guys run to you. I mean, are there are?
There are many legal residents looking for day labor, and
Customer says he hopes the executive branch will abide with
what the judicial branch says. And if they do not,
do we still have a democracy left? Do we still
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have a democracy? Well? Yeah, because Trump ran on shutting
down the border and deporting everybody, and he got elected.
He got more popular votes, he got way more electoral votes,
and so that's what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
That's the democracy.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
The side that wanted illegal aliens deported and the border closed,
they won. That's the democracy. But this crowd every time,
every time something happens that violates their their political beliefs.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Oh, we don't have a democracy anymore. Oh, we're losing
our toocracy. You know, we're not.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That was voted on. Trump's crowd won. Your crowd lost,
So you have to stuff it. Got more coming up.
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on the iHeartRadio app. We are going to talk to
Congressman Kevin Kylie coming up after Devers one thirty news,
and he has a bill to end the nonsense on
both sides with this sudden redistricting idea. You're supposed to
draw those district lines for Congress f every census, you know,
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twenty twenty, twenty thirty, and Texas wants to do it
in the middle of the decade, and now California does too.
And Newsom's got a hair brain scheme, which we've talked
about over the last couple of days. Kylie wants to
stop it entirely. Speaking of the sense, Trump issued a
directive today he wants the old census thrown out and
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replaced with a new one. Now, according to law, it's
supposed to be done every ten years, and so you
may be asking, can he declare a new census. Well,
he can have you know, his administration to another census,
but it still is would not be the official one,
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the one that is lawful. Again, I don't know if
law matters anymore on either side, but you know, the
census leads to formulas for tax money being apportioned to
the states and to the districts. So he wants to
redo this because he you know, he said there was
a lot of fraud in the presidential election of twenty
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twenty four and in twenty twenty and he says illegal
aliens should not be counted in the census.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Now, if you look at what the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Says, it says, you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That it's the state's How do I explain this?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
House districts are apportioned according to the state's respective numbers.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
All right, Just numbers.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It doesn't differentiate in the constitution whether it's legal citizens,
illegal citizens, or anybody in between. So Trump wants to
arbitrarily say no illegal aliens counted. Now, if they had
done that in the twenty twenty census, California, Florida, Texas
would have each lost a congressional seat. Alabama, Minnesota, and
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Ohio would have gotten an extra seat that they otherwise
would have lost or retained a seat they would have lost.
And you know, there's a good argument that why are
we divvying up federal tax money based on how many
illegal aliens some of these rogue states pack into their populations.
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I mean, California declares itself a sanctuary state. It's offering
free health care from birth to death, so they get
all these extra bodies. We have several million illegal aliens
in the state, and so that's probably millions and millions
of dollars a federal tax money that gets, well, that's
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five is in any other state, I'd say.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well, that's not fair, that's wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It's wrong to bulk up your numbers with non citizens
illegal non citizens. Of course, you know, it's nearly impossible
to change something in the constitution, So Trump just likes
to make these declarations. He did this in twenty twenty,
and then Biden reversed it. But nobody knows for sure
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how this would work. The thing Trump is doing is
he's pulling on levers and he's making declarations that have
never been done before, never been tested in court. And
because a lot of the laws, especially laws written back
in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds, use a lot of vague,
archaic language, you could make more than one interpretation of
what it's saying. They started the census in seventeen ninety
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and the count has always reflected the total population, including
non citizens legal aliens, and so nobody knows for sure
whether you can exclude the illegal aliens without the approval
of Congress. Article one, Section two of the Constitution empowers
the Congress to determine when and how the censuses are conducted.
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Trump has argued that the executive branch has the discretionary
power to determine who qualifies as a US resident for
apportionment purposes, and he pulled that maneuver in twenty There
were lawsuits, and then Joe Biden reversed it. I guess
before it could come to a Supreme Court decision. But
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because the House is so tight, I think the Republicans
have a six vote margin, which means it's three people
three people either switch side, three people switch sides. The
Republican advantage disappears. Trump is it's trying to try to
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pull every trick possible. That's why Newsom is doing his
nonsense as well. All right, when we come back speaking
of that, speaking of Newsom's nonsense, Kevin Kyleie is he
could be redistricted out of a job if Gavin Newsom
gets his way. Newsom wants to violate the Constitution in
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his own special way. It's funny how Newsom is acting
more and more like Trump this time goes on. He's
just decided, well, I don't like this constitutional amendment that
says there's an independent redistricting commission, So let's overturn the commission.
Let's get a new constitutional amendment on the ballot to
get rid of the old constitutional amendment. And we're going
to vote on it real soon. And he's only got
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a few days to pull this off. Kevin Kylie has
a federal bill that would stop the nonsense on Newsom
side and on the Texas side, as well, we'll have
Kevin Kylie on the Northern California Republican.
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so this week story blew up at of nowhere in Texas,
Governor Greg Abbott in the Republican Legislature decided that we're
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going to redraw the congressional districts to add well to
flip five districts from Democrat to Republican potentially in the
next election cycle. And the Democrats decided to flee, denying
the legislature at quorum, and they went off to Chicago
and beyond, and that still has it resolved itself. Meantime,
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in California, Gavin Newsom sprung to life because all he
cares about is his presidential run. And he thought, well,
if I look tough and I come up with some
redistricting plan, then I'll be the leader of the Democratic
Party and all will worship me, and he has to
rush that through because it's a constitucial amendment. I've explained
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this a few times, but you've got to do that
in about five days time, towards the end of the month.
Let's get Kevin Kyleion. He's the Republican congressman from northern
California who I believe his district might end up being
relocated if Newsom gets his way.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Kevin, how are you.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I'm doing well. How are you, John?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
If news gets his way, we're lucky he wants to
get I saw one estimate, maybe forty nine Democrats three
Republican congress people in the state.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yeah. Does that seem like a fair ratio to you?
Forty nine to three?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, especially since forty percent voted for Republican congressional candidates
in the last round. So yeah, that sounds real fair.
So what you want? You want to stop all this
nonsense on both sides?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I do. I mean, clearly, I care of the most
about our state of California, which is under attack from
Gavin Newsom as a one of the most corrupt schemes
that we've ever seen in our state, props, our country's
political history where he's trying to overthrow our citizen Redistricting commission,
override the will of voters, and seize the power to
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draw district lines for himself into supermajority. So they going
to pose a hyperpartisan map to give us the forty
nine to three split that you just referred to. So
I think that this absolutely needs to be stopped. We
needed everything we can to make sure that it doesn't happen,
and I frankly think that we shouldn't be going through
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this exercise really anywhere in the country except when it's
supposed to happen right after the census every ten years.
So my bill will stop Newsom's plan, and it will
also mean that we don't do this sort of mid
cycle redistricting anywhere else in the country.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Can the federal government.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Draw up the rules for elections in a specific state, No.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I don't think that would that would fly. I mean,
we have the power to regulate the times and manner
of federal elections, but generally, I mean, I guess there's
some exception with the Voting Rights Act based upon the
history of individuals, So generally.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Were how's your going to build how's your bill going
to accom complish it.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Then.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Oh, so it's just saying that, you know, it's exercising
our authority under the Elections Clause, and so it would
apply to all fifty states. That's all I'm saying is
you couldn't hone in on one specific state.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Oh, I see, so you could just set the standards
for all fifty And I guess that's because these are
federal congress people that are getting elected here exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
So we couldn't say it for like, you know, state
legislative districts, we don't have jurisdiction over that. But for
federal elections, elections to the House of Representatives, we have
pretty broad authority to regulate the time, place, and manner
of elections under the Elections Clause and Article one of Constitution.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
How much interest are you going to get from other congressmen,
because it seems like there's a lot of hyper partisan
people now on both sides and everybody wants to stick
it to the other side.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
You know, we've actually gotten quite a bit of interest
already just from a couple of day introduces on both
sides of the aisle. Because you know, jerrymandering is one thing,
it's a problem. But to simply uphend ettrict lines, to
shuffle or move these lines around on a map in
an unscheduled lay for a decade, it's extremely disruptive for
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people in representing their districts. Suddenly there's communities that you've
represented for a while, you've gotten to know the people,
you've gotten to know the issues, and then just out
of the blue, those communities that are tossed into someone
else's district, and for the voters, they suddenly have someone
new that they've never heard of. So, you know, we
go through the process of redistricting every ten years after
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the census because of population changes, and you have to
recalibrate the size of each district. But to kind of
just do it right now, like Gavin Newsom is trying
to do, it's because he wants to grab more seats
for his party. Is it's a very bad thing, a
very unhealthy thing for representative government.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
He wants to annihilate Republican influence in this state entirely.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
He does, and by the way, he's doing it at
a time when Republicans are really ascendant in California. We've
seen our share of registered voters grow for straight cycles
we just passed Prop. Thirty six over Newsome's strident opposition
down there in LA with you guys, you got rid
of Gascone and other rogue district attorneys throughout the state.
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And so there's been a lot of electoral sets sets
showing that kind of the winds of political change our
gathering steam in California. So yeah, I think that's probably
part of the governor's motivation. I mean, obviously his primary
motivation is to put itself on the spotlight and try
to fuel his residential delusions. But you know, we also
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perhaps trying to, you know, try to stop the Republican
cause from gaining more momentum in California, making our state
more balanced.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Look, I think objectively he's doing an atrocious job as governor.
I just objectively objectively, Yeah, But I honestly, I can't
see how his act plays east of Berkeley. I just
I just don't understand where he would be appealing once
you get out of the northern California Bay area bubble.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Hell. Yeah, I agree, and I think that's why, Like
from the very moment he became governor, he has gone
from one stunt to another, and in an attempt to
try to get himself some sort of issues, some sort
of following, and so you know, that's exactly what this is.
He is pandering to the sort of you know, the
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sort of people who are influential and in Democratic presidential primaries,
and he's doing so in a way that violates the
democratic norms, that overrides our own voters, and that is
going to have very negative consequences for our state for
a long time to come if he's successful.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Well, Kevin, thank you for coming on with us, and
thank you for trying to do something to stop this
this insanity. He's going to have a tough road to
pull this off. I think he's got five days when
the new legislative lative session starts to try to get
this thing written and voted on and approved for the ballot.
So we'll find out in a couple of weeks. Thank you, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Got absolutely all right.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
We got more coming up.
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Correct. Huh, how happened to this week? Went by quick?
I thought it was Tuesday, it's Thursday.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Oh well.
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Coming up after Devers two o'clock news, Michael Monk's coming
in because the rise the return of Genie Keinonias the
world's most idiotic bureaucrack. She's the woman who didn't fill
the reservoir in Pacific Palisades and now they have. They
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have a big water issue in Granada Hills and Porter Ranch.
Ninety two hundred customers without water service because the DAPE
workers were supposed to fix something. Instead they busted something.
And there's ninety two hundred people and no water service
at all. And what they have to fix is twenty
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feet underground and the people are screwed at least through
the weekend. But Janie Kinonia, speaking publicly hadn't heard her
voice in months. She's been in hiding. I think they've
been holding her twenty feet below the ground. Now, just
to follow up on having Kevin Kylie on a few
minutes ago, Republican Congressman. He's trying to get a bill
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passed by Congress to stop all this redistricting that's going on.
Texas wants to do it. And now Newsom has got
this plan. Listen to this bag of wind. Five days
the legislature has to make this work. They are not
returning to Sacramento till August eighteenth. They have to declare
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a special election by August twenty second, So they have
five days to draw the new congressional maps, to write
the ballot initiative, and then to write the law.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And it's a two thirds vote.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Now, normally they'd never get a two thirds vote passed
for something like this, But remember Republicans have virtually no
power in the legislature because they have the Democrats had
like seventy percent of the seats, and so the Republicans
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have no vita on anything. For example, normally you can't
pass taxes unless you have a two thirds majority, and
that's why for years the legislature couldn't pass a tax
and to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot, you
need a two thirds majority. But the Democrats have all
these two thirds majorities, both in the Senate and in
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the Assembly. And so they are going to whip everyone
up emotionally about Trump. And listen to this that you
know they're going to botch this up right five days
So CACRA Channel three Ashley Zavalla, of course, the only
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reporter in the state of California who covers the California government.
Ashley Zavala asked him about the tight timeline and listen
to this new some nonsense. The ultimate test of train
is what's in the voting pamphlet. The ultimate test of
transparency is what voters will decide on full light of day,
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completely public. They'll have the opportunity to review those maps.
They'll have ample opportunity to do just that, and it
will be in their ballot box and they'll make that determination.
He knows nobody's going to review congressional districting maps. He
knows that all he's going to do is whip up
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crazy emotions about Trump. He's deceitful, he's such a manipulator. Oh,
my god. Yes, the public is going to read the maps.
Legislators themselves aren't going to read the maps. Also, Ashley
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Zavalla was asking the head of the Assembly in the
state Senate whether they're gonna come back from Sacramento early
in order to do this right, But they'd have to
cut their summer vacation short. They can't do this in
five days. I mean, I'm sure they've got staff members
working on it, but it's not gonna be aired out.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
And it's not gonna be covered.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
See, they know that nobody in the media is gonna
cover this, Nobody in the media is gonna explain this.
And then somehow magically, in twenty twenty six, we're gonna
wake up with forty nine Democrats in Congress from California,
three Republicans, and everybody's gonna.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Go, well, how did this happen?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Well, this happened because they're gonna do it in a
very short amount of time in the middle of August,
when a lot of people are on vacation. They're certainly
not paying attention to stories like this. This is all
by design. And you know, if it's not a car
chase or a fire, local television doesn't cover it in
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most of these markets, just a couple of exceptions, so
they could ram they don't have to consider opposing votes.
They have better than a two thirds majority. And suddenly,
unless you're a partisan Democrat, you're not gonna get a
choice of representatives. You're about forty percent of the state
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voted for Republican congressman, not only Republicans, but a lot
of independence.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But you're not You're gonna get very few.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
They are gonna draw the districts, so there's all kinds
of wiggles and waggles, and you're gonna have people from
wide areas across the state connected by these strange shapes
on the map, and it's it's and then they're gonna
tell you that democracy.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Is in peril.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
He is a steaming load, he is the most He's
a liar, he's deceptive, he's a manipulator. We'll see what
happens there. We come back, Michael Monks. We can't by
news and all. We've got the DWP ninety two hundred
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customers in Granada Hills and port A Ranch no water.
Genie Kinona has actually stuck her head out of her
bunker to try to explain what's going on because they
were supposed to be fixing something. Instead, something important got busted.
That's next ever Mark Live in the KFI twenty four
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iHeart app. After four o'clock, we have Kevin Kylie coming
up after one p thirty. Kevin Kylie has a bill
to stop all the redistricting madness. Texas wants to redraw
their congressional districts and squeeze out Democrats, and California wants
to rejaw its districts, or at least Newsom does, I'm
(00:51):
not sure the state does. Newsom does, and to squeeze
out Republicans. He'd like to squeeze nearly all of them out.
And he's got a big because it's a constitutional amendment.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Talk about that later.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Have Kevin Kayliod because his federal bill would say you
can't do redistricting in between censuses. And speaking of census,
these census, we'll have another story on that, because Trump
wants to eliminate illegal aliens from the census count, which
you may not know this, but they're part of the census.
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And you know, the more population you have in a state,
the more congression, the more congress people you get, and
the more electoral votes you get, which is why Newsom
and the legislature wants more illegal aliens. It can potentially
increase their power, give them more congressmen and women and
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give them more electoral votes. And right now California, even
with all the illegal immigration, the population is shrinking. The
number of congress people is going to shrink after twenty thirty,
the number of electoral votes will shrink as well. So
I'll get all into that after one point thirty. Here
on KF five. Now there's a there's a really entertaining
(02:06):
aftermath to the raid yesterday. The Border Patrol agents who
were hiding in a in a rented penske van and
they rolled up to the home depot in Wesley. Now
this is the same home depot they already did a
raid on and so they rolled up and you know,
(02:27):
from the outside you couldn't tell what it is. No
activists were warned in advance, no rapid response network was activated,
and you just had workers because the driver motioned some
of the workers over as if to say, hey, you know,
I need some bodies here, I need some strong men.
(02:48):
So so the the immigrants gathered around the truck and
suddenly the back of the truck rolled up and out
jumped all these masked immigrant agents ICE agents, and they
ended up arresting and taking away sixteen sixteen.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The legal immigrants. And you know, there was a.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
There was a judicial ruling District court federal judge said, well,
you know, you can't round up people without reasonable suspicion,
and reasonable suspicion is not the language they speak, and
it's not their skin color, it's not their ethnicity, it's
not if they hang out at a particular place like
home depot or a car wash. In other words, all
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the factors that might tip off agents that they have
possible deportation prospects can't be used, even though it's the
immigrants that are here illegally, right, Okay, So you know,
in this upside down, inside out world, it is law
enforcement that is doing the wrong thing, not the illegal alments.
(03:59):
So every everybody, all the all the activists after this
Penske truck trick are are are speaking out their varying
and I was thinking, it's like, all right, is Trump
just flat out going to ignore the judge's order, which
(04:19):
you know he has before, or are they going to
come up with like some novel legal interpretation.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And so I wondered, is it all right?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Is the argument they're going to be, Well, we didn't
round anybody up. They ran to us, They ran to
the to the to the back of the truck. We
rolled up the door and jumped out and grabbed them.
But it was a trick. Yeah, But is it is
that wrong? You know, they set a trap and these
(04:49):
immigrants fell into the trap, but they weren't.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I don't think they were rounded up.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm just saying that's you know, I see what you're saying.
You know how technical these arguments. And it's like, hey,
if a bunch of illegal immigrants like run around our truck,
our job is to pick them up. I mean, they
came to us, might not fly. But what's funny is
how aggravated and I don't think whether it flies or not,
(05:15):
the Trump administration cares. I think they're just going to
keep barreling on here until maybe somebody in ICE is
actually thrown in jail. Maybe they may take the hit
on that too. They may allow some of their ICE
bureaucrats to sit in jail while they continue rolling through
(05:35):
and doing roundups. Here is a quote from Jorge Mario Cabrera.
Now he is a spokes hoole for the Los Angeles
Rapid Response Network, described in the San Francisco Chronicle as
a community group that supports immigrants. Actually, they were one
of the groups that were inciting and facilitating the riots.
(05:58):
That's the truth. And this is the group that TURLA
has created. And TURLA is an illegal alien activist group.
This is the group that took has taken thirty four
million dollars of our tax money. Thirty four million dollars.
It's true. I've seen the actual paperwork. Carl DeMaio put
(06:20):
it online and he said the federal agents targeted the
home depot. Cabrera said, a man in plaine clothes told
the day laborers he was looking to hire them, and
that's when they went to the van and the border
patrol agents jumped out. He says, having armed federal agents
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jumping out of a Penske truck is something you don't
see every day. It's right out of a horror movie. Now,
I've never seen that in horror movie. I don't think
nothing law enforcement agents jumping out of a truck is
out of a horror movie. That's what you see in
a crime movie when law enforcement is trying to get
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the people breaking the law. But it's not a horror movie.
And how much telegraphing of this has there been. We
had Trump running for well, Trump has been either running
for president or been president for my god, it's ten
and a half years now, and he I think he's
(07:27):
spoken extensively on the immigration matter.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I don't think it's a big surprise. That was his
one of two.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Main things he ran on, and then he became president
a day one the border was shut down. They just
passed that huge funding bill. ICE is now going to
get thirteen times the amount of money that they got
last year, thirteen times as much, like one hundred and
(07:53):
thirty billion dollars. So you know, in the first place
they went to here in LA that caused a splash
was the same home depot. Now, if you're still dumb
enough to stand in front of a home depot looking
for work when you're here illegally, and you just randomly
run up to a truck and you don't know what's
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inside that truck, and you don't know who the driver is,
you end up getting arrested and deported. I think that's
on you. How much warning do you need? We've had
over ten years. That was the first place ICE hit
was that same home depot in Westlake near MacArthur Park.
I mean that's where they had the huge, the huge
(08:36):
display of force. Remember all the ICE agents used that
as a staging area some weeks ago. That's when Karen
Bass started screaming at the agents.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That day.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
They didn't even deport anybody, They didn't capture anybody that day.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
They were just showing off.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
So you've been warned, Like, if there is a guy
still looking for work at the home depot in Westlake,
how much sympathy you're going to have them for the guy?
Get the message you can't do this anymore. You know,
it doesn't matter, and it doesn't matter how many SOB
stories the LA Times and the Chronicle runs, maybe years ago,
(09:11):
you had administrations that worried about press coverage. Have you
noticed the Trump crowd doesn't care about the press coverage.
In fact, they think it's funny and they immediately start
posting snarky responses on social media. So the Times the
Chronicle is having no effect at all. Nothing's going to stop,
(09:32):
not but one hundred and thirty five billion dollars. The
other funny thing, Oh here's Carl Schusterman, an immigration attorney
based in LA says, it's hard to tell from the
videos whether authorities are violating the court order by targeting
people based on their race. Well, see, that's what That's
what I'm wondering. It's like if you just roll a
(09:54):
truck up and say I'm looking for workers, and all
these guys run to you. I mean, are there are?
There are many legal residents looking for day labor, and
Customer says he hopes the executive branch will abide with
what the judicial branch says. And if they do not,
do we still have a democracy left? Do we still
(10:17):
have a democracy? Well? Yeah, because Trump ran on shutting
down the border and deporting everybody, and he got elected.
He got more popular votes, he got way more electoral votes,
and so that's what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
That's the democracy.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
The side that wanted illegal aliens deported and the border closed,
they won. That's the democracy. But this crowd every time,
every time something happens that violates their their political beliefs.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Oh, we don't have a democracy anymore. Oh, we're losing
our toocracy. You know, we're not.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That was voted on. Trump's crowd won. Your crowd lost,
So you have to stuff it. Got more coming up.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
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Oh moistline is eight seven seven Moist Steady six eight
seven seven Moist st eighty six, or usually talkback feature
on the iHeartRadio app. We are going to talk to
Congressman Kevin Kylie coming up after Devers one thirty news,
and he has a bill to end the nonsense on
both sides with this sudden redistricting idea. You're supposed to
draw those district lines for Congress f every census, you know,
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twenty twenty, twenty thirty, and Texas wants to do it
in the middle of the decade, and now California does too.
And Newsom's got a hair brain scheme, which we've talked
about over the last couple of days. Kylie wants to
stop it entirely. Speaking of the sense, Trump issued a
directive today he wants the old census thrown out and
(12:08):
replaced with a new one. Now, according to law, it's
supposed to be done every ten years, and so you
may be asking, can he declare a new census. Well,
he can have you know, his administration to another census,
but it still is would not be the official one,
(12:31):
the one that is lawful. Again, I don't know if
law matters anymore on either side, but you know, the
census leads to formulas for tax money being apportioned to
the states and to the districts. So he wants to
redo this because he you know, he said there was
a lot of fraud in the presidential election of twenty
(12:53):
twenty four and in twenty twenty and he says illegal
aliens should not be counted in the census.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Now, if you look at what the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Says, it says, you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That it's the state's How do I explain this?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
House districts are apportioned according to the state's respective numbers.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
All right, Just numbers.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It doesn't differentiate in the constitution whether it's legal citizens,
illegal citizens, or anybody in between. So Trump wants to
arbitrarily say no illegal aliens counted. Now, if they had
done that in the twenty twenty census, California, Florida, Texas
would have each lost a congressional seat. Alabama, Minnesota, and
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Ohio would have gotten an extra seat that they otherwise
would have lost or retained a seat they would have lost.
And you know, there's a good argument that why are
we divvying up federal tax money based on how many
illegal aliens some of these rogue states pack into their populations.
(14:07):
I mean, California declares itself a sanctuary state. It's offering
free health care from birth to death, so they get
all these extra bodies. We have several million illegal aliens
in the state, and so that's probably millions and millions
of dollars a federal tax money that gets, well, that's
(14:28):
five is in any other state, I'd say.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Well, that's not fair, that's wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
It's wrong to bulk up your numbers with non citizens
illegal non citizens. Of course, you know, it's nearly impossible
to change something in the constitution, So Trump just likes
to make these declarations. He did this in twenty twenty,
and then Biden reversed it. But nobody knows for sure
(14:58):
how this would work. The thing Trump is doing is
he's pulling on levers and he's making declarations that have
never been done before, never been tested in court. And
because a lot of the laws, especially laws written back
in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds, use a lot of vague,
archaic language, you could make more than one interpretation of
what it's saying. They started the census in seventeen ninety
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and the count has always reflected the total population, including
non citizens legal aliens, and so nobody knows for sure
whether you can exclude the illegal aliens without the approval
of Congress. Article one, Section two of the Constitution empowers
the Congress to determine when and how the censuses are conducted.
(15:47):
Trump has argued that the executive branch has the discretionary
power to determine who qualifies as a US resident for
apportionment purposes, and he pulled that maneuver in twenty There
were lawsuits, and then Joe Biden reversed it. I guess
before it could come to a Supreme Court decision. But
(16:11):
because the House is so tight, I think the Republicans
have a six vote margin, which means it's three people
three people either switch side, three people switch sides. The
Republican advantage disappears. Trump is it's trying to try to
(16:33):
pull every trick possible. That's why Newsom is doing his
nonsense as well. All right, when we come back speaking
of that, speaking of Newsom's nonsense, Kevin Kyleie is he
could be redistricted out of a job if Gavin Newsom
gets his way. Newsom wants to violate the Constitution in
(16:55):
his own special way. It's funny how Newsom is acting
more and more like Trump this time goes on. He's
just decided, well, I don't like this constitutional amendment that
says there's an independent redistricting commission, So let's overturn the commission.
Let's get a new constitutional amendment on the ballot to
get rid of the old constitutional amendment. And we're going
to vote on it real soon. And he's only got
(17:17):
a few days to pull this off. Kevin Kylie has
a federal bill that would stop the nonsense on Newsom
side and on the Texas side, as well, we'll have
Kevin Kylie on the Northern California Republican.
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and that's on the iHeart app as well. All right,
so this week story blew up at of nowhere in Texas,
Governor Greg Abbott in the Republican Legislature decided that we're
(17:59):
going to redraw the congressional districts to add well to
flip five districts from Democrat to Republican potentially in the
next election cycle. And the Democrats decided to flee, denying
the legislature at quorum, and they went off to Chicago
and beyond, and that still has it resolved itself. Meantime,
(18:21):
in California, Gavin Newsom sprung to life because all he
cares about is his presidential run. And he thought, well,
if I look tough and I come up with some
redistricting plan, then I'll be the leader of the Democratic
Party and all will worship me, and he has to
rush that through because it's a constitucial amendment. I've explained
(18:43):
this a few times, but you've got to do that
in about five days time, towards the end of the month.
Let's get Kevin Kyleion. He's the Republican congressman from northern
California who I believe his district might end up being
relocated if Newsom gets his way.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Kevin, how are you.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I'm doing well. How are you, John?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
If news gets his way, we're lucky he wants to
get I saw one estimate, maybe forty nine Democrats three
Republican congress people in the state.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yeah. Does that seem like a fair ratio to you?
Forty nine to three?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, especially since forty percent voted for Republican congressional candidates
in the last round. So yeah, that sounds real fair.
So what you want? You want to stop all this
nonsense on both sides?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I do. I mean, clearly, I care of the most
about our state of California, which is under attack from
Gavin Newsom as a one of the most corrupt schemes
that we've ever seen in our state, props, our country's
political history where he's trying to overthrow our citizen Redistricting commission,
override the will of voters, and seize the power to
(19:57):
draw district lines for himself into supermajority. So they going
to pose a hyperpartisan map to give us the forty
nine to three split that you just referred to. So
I think that this absolutely needs to be stopped. We
needed everything we can to make sure that it doesn't happen,
and I frankly think that we shouldn't be going through
(20:17):
this exercise really anywhere in the country except when it's
supposed to happen right after the census every ten years.
So my bill will stop Newsom's plan, and it will
also mean that we don't do this sort of mid
cycle redistricting anywhere else in the country.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Can the federal government.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Draw up the rules for elections in a specific state, No.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I don't think that would that would fly. I mean,
we have the power to regulate the times and manner
of federal elections, but generally, I mean, I guess there's
some exception with the Voting Rights Act based upon the
history of individuals, So generally.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Were how's your going to build how's your bill going
to accom complish it.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Then.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Oh, so it's just saying that, you know, it's exercising
our authority under the Elections Clause, and so it would
apply to all fifty states. That's all I'm saying is
you couldn't hone in on one specific state.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Oh, I see, so you could just set the standards
for all fifty And I guess that's because these are
federal congress people that are getting elected here exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
So we couldn't say it for like, you know, state
legislative districts, we don't have jurisdiction over that. But for
federal elections, elections to the House of Representatives, we have
pretty broad authority to regulate the time, place, and manner
of elections under the Elections Clause and Article one of Constitution.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
How much interest are you going to get from other congressmen,
because it seems like there's a lot of hyper partisan
people now on both sides and everybody wants to stick
it to the other side.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
You know, we've actually gotten quite a bit of interest
already just from a couple of day introduces on both
sides of the aisle. Because you know, jerrymandering is one thing,
it's a problem. But to simply uphend ettrict lines, to
shuffle or move these lines around on a map in
an unscheduled lay for a decade, it's extremely disruptive for
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people in representing their districts. Suddenly there's communities that you've
represented for a while, you've gotten to know the people,
you've gotten to know the issues, and then just out
of the blue, those communities that are tossed into someone
else's district, and for the voters, they suddenly have someone
new that they've never heard of. So, you know, we
go through the process of redistricting every ten years after
(22:31):
the census because of population changes, and you have to
recalibrate the size of each district. But to kind of
just do it right now, like Gavin Newsom is trying
to do, it's because he wants to grab more seats
for his party. Is it's a very bad thing, a
very unhealthy thing for representative government.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
He wants to annihilate Republican influence in this state entirely.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
He does, and by the way, he's doing it at
a time when Republicans are really ascendant in California. We've
seen our share of registered voters grow for straight cycles
we just passed Prop. Thirty six over Newsome's strident opposition
down there in LA with you guys, you got rid
of Gascone and other rogue district attorneys throughout the state.
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And so there's been a lot of electoral sets sets
showing that kind of the winds of political change our
gathering steam in California. So yeah, I think that's probably
part of the governor's motivation. I mean, obviously his primary
motivation is to put itself on the spotlight and try
to fuel his residential delusions. But you know, we also
(23:38):
perhaps trying to, you know, try to stop the Republican
cause from gaining more momentum in California, making our state
more balanced.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Look, I think objectively he's doing an atrocious job as governor.
I just objectively objectively, Yeah, But I honestly, I can't
see how his act plays east of Berkeley. I just
I just don't understand where he would be appealing once
you get out of the northern California Bay area bubble.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Hell. Yeah, I agree, and I think that's why, Like
from the very moment he became governor, he has gone
from one stunt to another, and in an attempt to
try to get himself some sort of issues, some sort
of following, and so you know, that's exactly what this is.
He is pandering to the sort of you know, the
(24:33):
sort of people who are influential and in Democratic presidential primaries,
and he's doing so in a way that violates the
democratic norms, that overrides our own voters, and that is
going to have very negative consequences for our state for
a long time to come if he's successful.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Well, Kevin, thank you for coming on with us, and
thank you for trying to do something to stop this
this insanity. He's going to have a tough road to
pull this off. I think he's got five days when
the new legislative lative session starts to try to get
this thing written and voted on and approved for the ballot.
So we'll find out in a couple of weeks. Thank you, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Got absolutely all right.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
We got more coming up.
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Speaker 1 (25:35):
Correct. Huh, how happened to this week? Went by quick?
I thought it was Tuesday, it's Thursday.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Oh well.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
We's the vacancy rate on the moistline. I mean, there's
always room for more. It's just it's willing, good and
worthy enough of airing, right right. If you have an
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bump other people always.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah.
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Also you can use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
Coming up after Devers two o'clock news, Michael Monk's coming
in because the rise the return of Genie Keinonias the
world's most idiotic bureaucrack. She's the woman who didn't fill
the reservoir in Pacific Palisades and now they have. They
(26:21):
have a big water issue in Granada Hills and Porter Ranch.
Ninety two hundred customers without water service because the DAPE
workers were supposed to fix something. Instead they busted something.
And there's ninety two hundred people and no water service
at all. And what they have to fix is twenty
(26:42):
feet underground and the people are screwed at least through
the weekend. But Janie Kinonia, speaking publicly hadn't heard her
voice in months. She's been in hiding. I think they've
been holding her twenty feet below the ground. Now, just
to follow up on having Kevin Kylie on a few
minutes ago, Republican Congressman. He's trying to get a bill
(27:05):
passed by Congress to stop all this redistricting that's going on.
Texas wants to do it. And now Newsom has got
this plan. Listen to this bag of wind. Five days
the legislature has to make this work. They are not
returning to Sacramento till August eighteenth. They have to declare
(27:27):
a special election by August twenty second, So they have
five days to draw the new congressional maps, to write
the ballot initiative, and then to write the law.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And it's a two thirds vote.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Now, normally they'd never get a two thirds vote passed
for something like this, But remember Republicans have virtually no
power in the legislature because they have the Democrats had
like seventy percent of the seats, and so the Republicans
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have no vita on anything. For example, normally you can't
pass taxes unless you have a two thirds majority, and
that's why for years the legislature couldn't pass a tax
and to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot, you
need a two thirds majority. But the Democrats have all
these two thirds majorities, both in the Senate and in
(28:26):
the Assembly. And so they are going to whip everyone
up emotionally about Trump. And listen to this that you
know they're going to botch this up right five days
So CACRA Channel three Ashley Zavalla, of course, the only
(28:46):
reporter in the state of California who covers the California government.
Ashley Zavala asked him about the tight timeline and listen
to this new some nonsense. The ultimate test of train
is what's in the voting pamphlet. The ultimate test of
transparency is what voters will decide on full light of day,
(29:11):
completely public. They'll have the opportunity to review those maps.
They'll have ample opportunity to do just that, and it
will be in their ballot box and they'll make that determination.
He knows nobody's going to review congressional districting maps. He
knows that all he's going to do is whip up
(29:32):
crazy emotions about Trump. He's deceitful, he's such a manipulator. Oh,
my god. Yes, the public is going to read the maps.
Legislators themselves aren't going to read the maps. Also, Ashley
(29:57):
Zavalla was asking the head of the Assembly in the
state Senate whether they're gonna come back from Sacramento early
in order to do this right, But they'd have to
cut their summer vacation short. They can't do this in
five days. I mean, I'm sure they've got staff members
working on it, but it's not gonna be aired out.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
And it's not gonna be covered.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
See, they know that nobody in the media is gonna
cover this, Nobody in the media is gonna explain this.
And then somehow magically, in twenty twenty six, we're gonna
wake up with forty nine Democrats in Congress from California,
three Republicans, and everybody's gonna.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Go, well, how did this happen?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Well, this happened because they're gonna do it in a
very short amount of time in the middle of August,
when a lot of people are on vacation. They're certainly
not paying attention to stories like this. This is all
by design. And you know, if it's not a car
chase or a fire, local television doesn't cover it in
(30:57):
most of these markets, just a couple of exceptions, so
they could ram they don't have to consider opposing votes.
They have better than a two thirds majority. And suddenly,
unless you're a partisan Democrat, you're not gonna get a
choice of representatives. You're about forty percent of the state
(31:17):
voted for Republican congressman, not only Republicans, but a lot
of independence.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But you're not You're gonna get very few.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
They are gonna draw the districts, so there's all kinds
of wiggles and waggles, and you're gonna have people from
wide areas across the state connected by these strange shapes
on the map, and it's it's and then they're gonna
tell you that democracy.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Is in peril.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
He is a steaming load, he is the most He's
a liar, he's deceptive, he's a manipulator. We'll see what
happens there. We come back, Michael Monks. We can't by
news and all. We've got the DWP ninety two hundred
(32:06):
customers in Granada Hills and port A Ranch no water.
Genie Kinona has actually stuck her head out of her
bunker to try to explain what's going on because they
were supposed to be fixing something. Instead, something important got busted.
That's next ever Mark Live in the KFI twenty four
our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John Covelt
(32:28):
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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