November 3, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (11/03) - California Post opinion editor Joel Pollack calls the show to highlight the incompetence in California. John talks about Prop 36, which passed last year in 2024, and how it did not have a funding mechanism, as well as how Gov Newsom does not want drug treatment enforced.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can'f I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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as the radio show. All right, let's get right into this.
We're gonna talk with Joel Pollock. Now Joe Pollock formerly
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with Breitbart, He's now the California Post opinion editor. Maybe
he's still with both. I don't know. The California Post
is going to be online soon. It's a as sister
publication of the New York Post. I'm assuming this means
California New York Post style journalism, going after what's afflicting
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all of us here in California, from LA, from San
Diego to LA to San Francisco and Sacramento. Boy, does
this state and this town need a different flavor of
journalism than what we've got. Let's get Joel on. Joel,
how are you great? How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Thanks for having me on?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Are you moving from bright Bart to the California Post?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, i am. Yesterday was my last day at brightbart
and today was my first day at the Post.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And when is the California Post coming online?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You know, we're getting it started up and we're going
to launch officially in the new year, but you're going
to see bits and pieces of coverage as we get
ready to go.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And I'm assuming this is going to be in the
New York Post style, a similar type.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Of the Yes, Sir Yes, with the page six and
the celebrities and the sports and the flavor, but it
will have a unique California style to it. And it's
just super exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I mean, it's interesting to start this job.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
On the day that the Dodgers are having their parade
in LA. It shows you that California still knows how
to win, and we're still a place that attracts incredible talent.
We are placed with incredible resources, but unfortunately, all of
that talent and all those resources often run up against
the incompetence of our leaders, in the complacency of our
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political culture. And so the New York Posts decided, you know,
there's a news vacuum out there in California, so you're
launching the California Post. And that's why I'm here.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So you're going to be covering la in California, all
the issues in the politics at Sacramento, I should say
as well, all of.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That, we're going to try to hold up a mirror statewide.
It's going to have to be a big mirror, right
because it's a big state, most populous state in America.
But we really want to create a consciousness of what
the state is facing as a whole. You know, we
have big local media markets, some small local media markets
in California. But the reason Gavin Newsom is able to
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get people to vote on something like Proposition fifty, which
actually disenfranchises Californians, is because he makes everything into a
national issue. So we have this vacuum between local and national,
and we go out to vote as Democrats and Republicans
rallying around these national candidates and national issues. We don't
think of our interests as Californians. We don't think of
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what's best for our state, and we aim to change
that at the California Post.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's really good to hear because we've often talked about
it on this show that people get all swept up
about Trump one way or the other, and Trump's got
nothing to do with the high gas prices, the high
electricity prices, the homelessness all over the streets, the crime here,
and I go on and on and on. But that's
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none of that has anything to do with Washington, or
very little to do with it. But nobody discusses state
and local politics and politicians and all their bad policies. Here.
Everything is Washington, DC oriented. Trump oriented.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, and you know that's partly because of the Trump era,
where he's such a charismatic figure that it's hard to
avoid talking about him or looking at what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But yes, that's true.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
We know more about what's going on on a national
level than we do in our own backyard, and so
we get motivated by things that have nothing to do
with what might actually be good for us in our
every day our lives. It's actually quite extraordinary. I mean,
I'm seeing a change in my community and Pacific policy
since the fire, and people are much more open to
looking at solutions, to looking at what works rather than
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what party is suggesting it. But there are still people
for whom the national political issues organize their thinking about politics,
and the rest of the country looks at us and says,
why do you keep voting for the same people over
and over again. And it's partly because we just don't
think about what they're doing and we don't think about
holding them accountable because we don't have a media environment
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in which that's easily doable. And we need to develop that.
We need to develop an idea of what's happening in
the state and how we can actually change it, because ultimately,
unless people start holding politicians accountable at the ballot box,
we're not going to see anything change.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
People don't notice the quality of life that has deteriorated
dramatically over the last ten years. I mean, you must
be right. I don't have another explanation for it.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I lo example, right, let me give you an exampt So,
we had massive theft from cargo trains a few years ago.
I don't know if you remember this news story. It's
probably still going on, but it was just in the
news for a few weeks and Gavin Newsom had to
respond and he said, this is embarrassing. It's like third
world okay, and he was right, it was third world behavior,
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raiding cargo trains as they rounded a slow band into
Los Angeles. But are we addressing that infrastructure no, we're
throwing tens of billions, even hundreds of billions of dollars
into high speed rail instead of addressing the fundamental infrastructure
problems securing our existing rail networks, making a better passenger
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rail network. I mean, this is crazy. When I came
to California fifteen years ago, I used to enjoy riding
the Amtrak that had a line called the Pacific surf Liner.
It still exists sort of between LA and San Diego,
and then they had some problems with cliff erosion and
you couldn't really go straight from Lates and Diego anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And we don't even have.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The existing passenger infrastructure on routes that people want to travel,
and we're talking about this massive project on high speed rail.
So that's what I'm talking about, where basically you have
local problems that can be addressed if we think about
our limitations and resources and think about what consumers actually
need and want, rather than going through these massive utopian
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schemes that have all kinds of special interests attached to them,
where you have one group trying to get a contract
for this, and another group trying to get some benefits
for that, and pretty soon these projects develop a political
momentum that has nothing to do with whether they're actually
good for people in the state or not. What would
be good is if cargo can get to its destination.
What would be good is if they are a viable
public transportation options to get from city to city or
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within a city. But instead we have this fixation on
the big project, the expensive budget item. We have healthcare
for all that Kevin Newsom inaugurates last year, and then
he has to reverse himself because, as predicted, it went insolvent.
I mean, why are we aiming for the moon.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
When we can't even handle the basics?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And the basics aren't hard to do if you have
an accountable government, And that's an example.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
All right, Can you hang on for another segment? Yes, sir,
Joel Pollock. He's with the California Post. This is a
new online publication that is by early next year you
will be able to read it every day. And he's
written in a piece. Actually, I want to get into
the next segment about the two hundred and fifty million
dollars that Newsom spent to create the climate so Prop
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fifty will pass. All the advertising that he's done that
has just overwhelmed the airwaves for the last few weeks
and ruins the football games and the baseball games, by
the way. So we'll talk more with Joel Pollock, formerly
of Breitbart. Coming up, I'll be on CNN tonight at
nine o'clock. Alex Michaelson has a new show on CNN.
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He's moved from Fox eleven. It's called The Story Is.
It's on at nine o'clock and I'll be on with
Lisa Bloom and we'll be talking about some of this
stuff as well. So we've go to now to Debora Mark,
who's appearing in her home tonight. I think, yeah, in
my pajama.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
In your pajama, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
We'll continue with Joel Pollock. Very excited about this new
publication online, the California Post, sister publication of the New
York Post. It's going to be very similar to the
New York version, accept California California News and Politics and
California Page six Celebrities and California Sports. And Joel's going
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to be the opinion editor formerly at Breitbart, And he
wrote a piece today that was in the New York Post.
Joel you there, I didn't realize the number gotten, This
big two hundred and fifty million dollars Newsome spent to
put on this, to put on this special election. This
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is not I thought of the first time. Was the
marketing money for the advertising. This is what he spent
just to finance the infrastructure of an election here, right.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And the funny thing is that when Carl Demio, the
assemblyment from San Diego, said that it would cost two
hundred and fifty million, people thought he was nuts, and
it turns out to have been dead on. I think
the official figure is two hundred and fifty one million.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So that's what it's costing in public money.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Then you added the private donors who are kicking in
a similar amount of money on either side of the issue,
mostly on the pro Newsome side of it, and you're
talking about spending half a billion dollars that could have
been spent toward rebuilding Pacific Palisades and doing other things
that the state needs. But instead we're having this political
exercise that only benefits Douse him and his party.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know, I start wondering if we people in California,
the majority suffer from some version of like battered voter
syndrome because he has done a number on people's personal
lives with his policies, and yet he concocts this prop
fifty and everybody salutes, and he's probably going to get
sixty percent of the vote, and he blew two hundred
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and fifty million dollars of tax money. I just don't understand.
It's like people's emotional obsession with Trump has really derailed
a lot of rational thinking in this state.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It really has.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And what's interesting is that Newsom has changed in his
attitude toward Trump. In the pandemic, knew some of that
great pains to talk about how he was working with
Trump to get the resources the state needed from the
federal government, whether it was respirators, personal protective equipment money,
whatever it was. Now where the state really needs the money,
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and when you have tens of thousands of displaced people
because of wildfires, Newsom asked for forty billion dollars in aid, and.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Instead of playing nice with the.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
President and working with the president, he calls him names,
he sues him, and he redistricts California so that Democrats
can win the House and maybe im pizza president. Of course,
Newsom says that's not what he wants. He just wants oversight.
But Newsom is not the one making that call. It's
going to be the squad. It's going to be Hakeem Jeffries,
and it's going to be people like Scott Wiener if
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he wins Pelosi se which he's going for now.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
The Democrats are getting.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
More and more left wing, more and more radical, not less,
not more pragmatic. You know, they're becoming just absolutely extreme,
and they're going to try to impizza president.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
They'll make something up like end last time.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And it'll be even more ridiculous. So Newsom is doing
all that instead of working with the President. And I
know for people in the White House sources who've told
me that Newsom has destroyed the relationships between the Trump
administration and the state government in California. If there were
good working relationships, he is destroying them because he is
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beating up Trump to try to advance his political career.
His presidential profect in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know, he's turned out in twenty twenty six. He's
got to find something else to do with himself.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
And he's always been very ambitious.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
He wants to be president, but it seems that he's.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Gambling on the idea that Democrats prefer someone who calls
Trump names to someone who actually does a good job
for his state. So he's not out there in the
trenches with.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The people of Pacific Palisades. There was a story at
The New York Post last month that he had.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Pulled himself up in a captain somewhere with a bottle
of tequila. He was shell shocked because people were blaming
him for the fire.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I don't know if that's accurate. It could be, but
I certainly think this post had good sources.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And even if it's not the full picture of what
Newson was doing, because hes certainly active on social media,
even if it seemed to be down about his own performance.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
He could have turned this into his finest hour. He
could have been with the residents of the Palastape. He
could have been helping fight.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
For people to get their building permits. He could have
been helping to fight the insurance companies.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
To get the payoffs. Inst he just on social media
calling Trump names. He's let his interns or his.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Staffers run his official government Press office account as a
kind of parody of Trump. It's not a very good
power to him, by the way, because it lacks Trump's
wit and his way with words. It's just all caps abuse,
very adolescent stuff, and it doesn't help the people of California.
And they do this sort of clown nose on, clown
nose off thing where it Oh, I'm just kidding, I'm
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just playing around.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
He didn't get the joke.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And then the next post on.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
X will be something that the government Press.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Office is supposed to put out there, some sort of
warning about weather or some policy detail or something like that,
and then they go right back to trolling Trump. But
the difference between Trump trolling people and new controlling that
Trump delivers results, even if you don't like them. Trump
delivers on what he says he's going to do.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Here's some doesn't. So he's promised forty billion dollars in
eight that.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
He's going to go to the administration to get instead
of getting it, it's just antagonizing the people who worked there.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It's not how you run a state.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Refresh my memory. What kind of loss did you suffer
in the panel stage fire? You your house.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Was Our house is still standing, but we had smoke damage.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
We have some other physical damage.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
My fence burned down, some of my trees burnt down.
The back wall of my house was blackened about the fire,
and we think there's internal damage as well, so we
have to have the back wall basically taken off and replaced,
and that's going to be expensive. But we fought for
a long time and we argued with our insurance company
and they finally came to the table.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So we're seeing some progress there, which is great.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
What did you think of very hard?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Great, No, I just got a minute. What did you
think of the story that came out last week that
the firefighters said, we have a hotspot here, the rocks,
the tree stum, the smoldering smoke, and LA Fire Department
the battalion commander said, everybody go home. And that was
apparently the hot spot that turned into the big blaze.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
There was a hotspot that was reignited on January seventh.
And the story I've heard is that these local firefighters
have what they call a great book, which is a
list of what everything costs, and when they work on
state land, they have to get reimbursed by the state,
but they also know the leadership does anyway they might
not get it reimbursed by the state, so instead of
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making sure that the fire was completely completely out.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
They did what they thought would be passable as a
good enough job.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
At least the fire wasn't visible to them, or maybe
it was, but it wasn't going to go anywhere. Whatever
decision they made was a budgetary decision. It wasn't a
decision to get the fire completely out.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
That's what I've heard, and.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
We might see evidence to that effect coming up. But yes,
the La Times published text messages from firefighters who were
upset that they were leaving. They felt they hadn't done
enough to r the scar from the January first fire,
which later became the January seventh Politods fire.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Joel, it's really good talking with you. Let's talk again,
Joel Pollock from the California Post. He's gonna be the
opinion editor and that will go online very soon. Thank you, Joel.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Thanks for the opportunity.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
All right, you're listening to John Cobels on Demand from
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Speaker 1 (16:23):
You are on every day from one until four o'clock.
John cobelt Show on Demand is the podcast and that
gets posted after four o'clock and you could hear whatever
you missed. We had quite a bit today. We went
through the Karen Bass interview on Alex Michaelson's program on
CNN in the first hour and analyzed all her infuriating
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customer service responses about the new fire story regarding the
firefighters who told their battalion commander Mario Garcia, we have
a hot spot here, we should stay and he didn't
want to stay. And I think Joel Polo explaining the
possible reason why they didn't stay. You can hear that
coming up on the first hour of the podcast. Second hour,
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we had Steve Hilton on who is the leading good
natorial candidates, Republican, former Fox News host, former advisor to
the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, and he's in first
place among all the candidates, got ahead of missus potato
head recently, so you want to hear him. He's got
a very compelling message. And then this area Jerrold Pollock
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from the soon to be California Post, which is a
major new media outlet coming to California and going to
be online very soon by the beginning of the year. Okay,
this is really infuriating. This story. Prop thirty six past
almost exactly a year ago, I guess a year ago
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this week. And it made theft a crime again, all
the shoplifting, It made drug use a crime again. It
created sentinel penalties for the first time. What it didn't
do was it didn't have a funding mechanism. Devin Newsom
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had to provide the funding. He had to direct the
legislature to provide the funding so that if somebody got arrested,
and somebody was convicted or pled guilty, then they'd be
forced to go to treatment. That was the whole deal.
I think it was on the third try, after three,
after three thefts, after three drug I should say yeah,
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after three drug arrests, then you have to go for treatment.
And because Newsom refuses to spend money, any money on
drug treatment, there's been very little drug treatment. There's been
a lot of people arrested. But he because he hates it,
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he hates Prop thirty six. He does not want the
law enforce, doesn't one drug laws, and Forest doesn't want
theft laws in Forest doesn't want any of it. So
there's no money. Democratic legislature putting no money. So here's
what's happening. Eighty five hundred cases have been filed in
Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside County in the past year.
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Most of them fall under the Treatment Mandated Felony Act.
If you go to treatment, then you end up with
the charges dismissed. Under the law of defendants with two
or more prior drug offense convictions must plead guilty or
no contest to the charges, and then you get to
go to treatment. Every county would draw up its own
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rules on how it worked. Well, now people are going
to jail. There's many more case loads there are. There's
hardly anybody getting though because of the lack of funding.
Public defenders are facing crushing workloads. Well, I really don't
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care if public defenders are under crushing workloads. See, what
they want is the law not to be enforced. If
it's not enforced, then they don't have a crushing workload.
But part of the deal was there should be funding
for drug treatment. It's really bizarre that Democrats will not
spend tax money on drug treatment, of all things, but
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the drug treatment, I guess would then give the would
mean that they were giving some kind of an approval
to the law, even though seventy percent of the public
was in favor of the law. Democrats in the legislature
hate it. News some hates it, most Democrat voters support it.
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So this is his sneaky way to try to kill
the Thingan Hakman said, Newsom needs to fully fund Prop
thirty six. Arch County Sheriff Don Barnes said, we need
state leaders to fund Prop thirty six treat treatment mandated
felony programs to help those struggling with addiction get the
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help they need. You know how bad it's been when
it comes to treatment, and again this is because Newsom
and the legislature refused to fund it. Illegal alien healthcare, Hey,
they've got twelve and a half billion dollars for that.
In fact, they have thirty five billion dollars for illegal
alien everything care.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The Judicial Counsel of California had a report in October
and in the first six months of this year, there
were almost eighty nine hundred treatment mandated felonies across the state.
Fifteen percent elected to participate in treatment, seven hundred and
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seventy one actually repaced placed into treatment. Only twenty five
successfully completed the program and had their cases dismissed. So,
as far as drug treatment is concerned, twenty five people
got it. Everybody else either failed at it didn't get it.
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Nearly a third of the drug related Prop thirty six
cases came from Orange County. The number of cases filed
in Orange County doubled almost five thousand, and then another
one thousand theft cases. Seventy five percent of Orange County
voted for Prop thirty six, three quarters of Orange County,
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which is pretty close to a fifty to fifty Democratic
Republican breakout, three quarters no money from the state. Cases
are prosecuted, they're going to jail. And now the usual
suspects are saying, well, now that's too many people are
in jail. Yeah, we're gonna get jail over crowding here,
there's too much incarceration' you're not helping people. Well, new
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Sum doesn't want to get people off the drugs. He
wants this to fail. The legislature hates this, so they're
not they're not providing any funding because there's not enough
treatment beds for the program, and non existing state funding
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Orange County is paying for it. County has a three
to six week waiting list for treatment programs. He says
everyone is overwhelmed by the cases, but what's the alternative.
This is the only way to get people's attention is
to hold them and have jail time hanging over their
heads to get treatment. If they're not self motivated to
fix their own problems, there's going to be accountability. But
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so far they got enough room in the jails. There's
just criticism for throwing them in jail. Well, you see
how clever and slippery progressives are. They don't want people
going to jail. Well, the way to keep them out
of jail is to is to put them in treatment.
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But forcing people into treatment is also against their ideology.
Can't force them into treatment, can't throw them in jail.
But boy, isn't it terrible? We have all these people
using drugs in the street. This is insanity. And even
when the public rebels, even when they vote seventy thirty
for Prop. Thirty six, still new some of the legislature
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fights this. It's just awesome. By the way, what's the
deal at the airport today? The lax Well, there were
light delays yesterday.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I don't know if there were too many today, but
yesterday it was on average about an hour hour and
a half.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Look, they got to get their their their craft together
because I got the whole family trying to land in
the same sense that the end of the week, because
there's a family wedding going on.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And I.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Do not understand why they don't fund the air traffic controllers.
I don't get it. This is both parties, this is
Trump and everybody else. You gotta fund the FAA, that's right.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
You've got to just take their pay away and give
it to the air traffic controllers and the TSA workers.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, I know, why are we paying Congress, but we're
not paying air traffic and it makes no sense. And
then Thanksgiving right in three weeks, that's right now that
I mean, both parties and the White House have got
to stop this. When it comes to the air traffic controllers.
You should not be scoring around with our our safety,
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our safety, thank you. The whole system. The whole system
could collapse. It's something dangerous could happen.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
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John Cobelt's show I'll be on CNN tonight CNN Tonight
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The Story Is and I'll be on his panel with
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and we'll talk a lot about the things we've discussed
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all show. Our podcast comes out in a little bit
after four o'clock. John Cobelt Show on demand. It's the
whole radio show, all right. So you're gonna hear an
enormous amount about Prop fifty tomorrow and then the day
after that. And you know what it's about, the redrawing
the district lines. It's winning big in the polls. I'm
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just gonna say this, this proposition is just wrong. It's
just wrong, and what the Republicans did in Texas is wrong.
The Republicans are now going to do this in a
number of other states to account for whatever losses they
suffer here in California. So ultimately, Newsom's gambit here is
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going to backfire. If he's doing this to try to
give the Democrats a good chance to get a majority,
the Republicans probably are going to get ten extra seats
after they finish redistricting a half a dozen other states.
That's the projections. Now, it looks like there's many states
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involved in this, and in the end there is more
room to redraw more Republican seats than there are Democrat seats,
so it's not even going to work. But again, that's
not what Newsom cares about. He just wants to position
himself as the great fighter against Trump. It's completely for
his ego. But this is doing the voters in this
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state is terrible. You have of the state votes Republican
for their congress man or woman forty percent. They're going
to end up with maybe four percent of the congressional seats.
There'll be forty eight Democrats and four Republicans potentially by
time the voting happens next year. And that's wrong. You've
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got people in northern California and rural areas who've had
Republican congressmen for decades and decades. Now I know one
of the districts has actually drawn to go from the
east end of the state all the way to the
west end to Marin County in the Bay Area, to
where it's rich in extra Democrats that they can pilfer
and suck into that district so that the people in
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the rural areas in the east will now have to
deal with some Bay Area Democrat representing them. That's just wrong.
It's wrong that Trump did this. It's wrong that the
Republicans do it. It's wrong that the Democrats are doing
it here. People really should be entitled when they live
in a particular area and you have people with a
particular point of view on life, to have a congressman
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or a congresswoman represent that point of view, and to
arbitrarily take it away from them, just to inflate the
ambitions of this narcissistic psychopath we have as governor is
just wrong. I have no other word for it. And
for people to carry on about threats to democracy, well,
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that's a pretty good size threat when you have the
congressman you've voted for for decades wrenched away from you
because they need to find Democratic voters in Marin County.
I mean, that's just that's abominable. Really, Well, talk about
this tonight on Alex Michaelson's show on CNN. We'll be
back tomorrow on election Day. Hey, you've been listening to
(29:49):
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as the radio show. All right, let's get right into this.
We're gonna talk with Joel Pollock. Now Joe Pollock formerly
(00:21):
with Breitbart, He's now the California Post opinion editor. Maybe
he's still with both. I don't know. The California Post
is going to be online soon. It's a as sister
publication of the New York Post. I'm assuming this means
California New York Post style journalism, going after what's afflicting
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all of us here in California, from LA, from San
Diego to LA to San Francisco and Sacramento. Boy, does
this state and this town need a different flavor of
journalism than what we've got. Let's get Joel on. Joel,
how are you great? How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Thanks for having me on?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Are you moving from bright Bart to the California Post?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, i am. Yesterday was my last day at brightbart
and today was my first day at the Post.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And when is the California Post coming online?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You know, we're getting it started up and we're going
to launch officially in the new year, but you're going
to see bits and pieces of coverage as we get
ready to go.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And I'm assuming this is going to be in the
New York Post style, a similar type.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Of the Yes, Sir Yes, with the page six and
the celebrities and the sports and the flavor, but it
will have a unique California style to it. And it's
just super exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I mean, it's interesting to start this job.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
On the day that the Dodgers are having their parade
in LA. It shows you that California still knows how
to win, and we're still a place that attracts incredible talent.
We are placed with incredible resources, but unfortunately, all of
that talent and all those resources often run up against
the incompetence of our leaders, in the complacency of our
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political culture. And so the New York Posts decided, you know,
there's a news vacuum out there in California, so you're
launching the California Post. And that's why I'm here.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So you're going to be covering la in California, all
the issues in the politics at Sacramento, I should say
as well, all of.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That, we're going to try to hold up a mirror statewide.
It's going to have to be a big mirror, right
because it's a big state, most populous state in America.
But we really want to create a consciousness of what
the state is facing as a whole. You know, we
have big local media markets, some small local media markets
in California. But the reason Gavin Newsom is able to
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get people to vote on something like Proposition fifty, which
actually disenfranchises Californians, is because he makes everything into a
national issue. So we have this vacuum between local and national,
and we go out to vote as Democrats and Republicans
rallying around these national candidates and national issues. We don't
think of our interests as Californians. We don't think of
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what's best for our state, and we aim to change
that at the California Post.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's really good to hear because we've often talked about
it on this show that people get all swept up
about Trump one way or the other, and Trump's got
nothing to do with the high gas prices, the high
electricity prices, the homelessness all over the streets, the crime here,
and I go on and on and on. But that's
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none of that has anything to do with Washington, or
very little to do with it. But nobody discusses state
and local politics and politicians and all their bad policies. Here.
Everything is Washington, DC oriented. Trump oriented.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, and you know that's partly because of the Trump era,
where he's such a charismatic figure that it's hard to
avoid talking about him or looking at what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But yes, that's true.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
We know more about what's going on on a national
level than we do in our own backyard, and so
we get motivated by things that have nothing to do
with what might actually be good for us in our
every day our lives. It's actually quite extraordinary. I mean,
I'm seeing a change in my community and Pacific policy
since the fire, and people are much more open to
looking at solutions, to looking at what works rather than
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what party is suggesting it. But there are still people
for whom the national political issues organize their thinking about politics,
and the rest of the country looks at us and says,
why do you keep voting for the same people over
and over again. And it's partly because we just don't
think about what they're doing and we don't think about
holding them accountable because we don't have a media environment
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in which that's easily doable. And we need to develop that.
We need to develop an idea of what's happening in
the state and how we can actually change it, because ultimately,
unless people start holding politicians accountable at the ballot box,
we're not going to see anything change.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
People don't notice the quality of life that has deteriorated
dramatically over the last ten years. I mean, you must
be right. I don't have another explanation for it.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I lo example, right, let me give you an exampt So,
we had massive theft from cargo trains a few years ago.
I don't know if you remember this news story. It's
probably still going on, but it was just in the
news for a few weeks and Gavin Newsom had to
respond and he said, this is embarrassing. It's like third
world okay, and he was right, it was third world behavior,
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raiding cargo trains as they rounded a slow band into
Los Angeles. But are we addressing that infrastructure no, we're
throwing tens of billions, even hundreds of billions of dollars
into high speed rail instead of addressing the fundamental infrastructure
problems securing our existing rail networks, making a better passenger
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rail network. I mean, this is crazy. When I came
to California fifteen years ago, I used to enjoy riding
the Amtrak that had a line called the Pacific surf Liner.
It still exists sort of between LA and San Diego,
and then they had some problems with cliff erosion and
you couldn't really go straight from Lates and Diego anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
And we don't even have.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The existing passenger infrastructure on routes that people want to travel,
and we're talking about this massive project on high speed rail.
So that's what I'm talking about, where basically you have
local problems that can be addressed if we think about
our limitations and resources and think about what consumers actually
need and want, rather than going through these massive utopian
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schemes that have all kinds of special interests attached to them,
where you have one group trying to get a contract
for this, and another group trying to get some benefits
for that, and pretty soon these projects develop a political
momentum that has nothing to do with whether they're actually
good for people in the state or not. What would
be good is if cargo can get to its destination.
What would be good is if they are a viable
public transportation options to get from city to city or
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within a city. But instead we have this fixation on
the big project, the expensive budget item. We have healthcare
for all that Kevin Newsom inaugurates last year, and then
he has to reverse himself because, as predicted, it went insolvent.
I mean, why are we aiming for the moon.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
When we can't even handle the basics?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And the basics aren't hard to do if you have
an accountable government, And that's an example.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
All right, Can you hang on for another segment? Yes, sir,
Joel Pollock. He's with the California Post. This is a
new online publication that is by early next year you
will be able to read it every day. And he's
written in a piece. Actually, I want to get into
the next segment about the two hundred and fifty million
dollars that Newsom spent to create the climate so Prop
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fifty will pass. All the advertising that he's done that
has just overwhelmed the airwaves for the last few weeks
and ruins the football games and the baseball games, by
the way. So we'll talk more with Joel Pollock, formerly
of Breitbart. Coming up, I'll be on CNN tonight at
nine o'clock. Alex Michaelson has a new show on CNN.
(08:02):
He's moved from Fox eleven. It's called The Story Is.
It's on at nine o'clock and I'll be on with
Lisa Bloom and we'll be talking about some of this
stuff as well. So we've go to now to Debora Mark,
who's appearing in her home tonight. I think, yeah, in
my pajama.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
In your pajama, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
We'll continue with Joel Pollock. Very excited about this new
publication online, the California Post, sister publication of the New
York Post. It's going to be very similar to the
New York version, accept California California News and Politics and
California Page six Celebrities and California Sports. And Joel's going
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to be the opinion editor formerly at Breitbart, And he
wrote a piece today that was in the New York Post.
Joel you there, I didn't realize the number gotten, This
big two hundred and fifty million dollars Newsome spent to
put on this, to put on this special election. This
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is not I thought of the first time. Was the
marketing money for the advertising. This is what he spent
just to finance the infrastructure of an election here, right.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And the funny thing is that when Carl Demio, the
assemblyment from San Diego, said that it would cost two
hundred and fifty million, people thought he was nuts, and
it turns out to have been dead on. I think
the official figure is two hundred and fifty one million.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So that's what it's costing in public money.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Then you added the private donors who are kicking in
a similar amount of money on either side of the issue,
mostly on the pro Newsome side of it, and you're
talking about spending half a billion dollars that could have
been spent toward rebuilding Pacific Palisades and doing other things
that the state needs. But instead we're having this political
exercise that only benefits Douse him and his party.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know, I start wondering if we people in California,
the majority suffer from some version of like battered voter
syndrome because he has done a number on people's personal
lives with his policies, and yet he concocts this prop
fifty and everybody salutes, and he's probably going to get
sixty percent of the vote, and he blew two hundred
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and fifty million dollars of tax money. I just don't understand.
It's like people's emotional obsession with Trump has really derailed
a lot of rational thinking in this state.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It really has.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And what's interesting is that Newsom has changed in his
attitude toward Trump. In the pandemic, knew some of that
great pains to talk about how he was working with
Trump to get the resources the state needed from the
federal government, whether it was respirators, personal protective equipment money,
whatever it was. Now where the state really needs the money,
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and when you have tens of thousands of displaced people
because of wildfires, Newsom asked for forty billion dollars in aid, and.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Instead of playing nice with the.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
President and working with the president, he calls him names,
he sues him, and he redistricts California so that Democrats
can win the House and maybe im pizza president. Of course,
Newsom says that's not what he wants. He just wants oversight.
But Newsom is not the one making that call. It's
going to be the squad. It's going to be Hakeem Jeffries,
and it's going to be people like Scott Wiener if
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he wins Pelosi se which he's going for now.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
The Democrats are getting.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
More and more left wing, more and more radical, not less,
not more pragmatic. You know, they're becoming just absolutely extreme,
and they're going to try to impizza president.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
They'll make something up like end last time.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And it'll be even more ridiculous. So Newsom is doing
all that instead of working with the President. And I
know for people in the White House sources who've told
me that Newsom has destroyed the relationships between the Trump
administration and the state government in California. If there were
good working relationships, he is destroying them because he is
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beating up Trump to try to advance his political career.
His presidential profect in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know, he's turned out in twenty twenty six. He's
got to find something else to do with himself.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
And he's always been very ambitious.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
He wants to be president, but it seems that he's.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Gambling on the idea that Democrats prefer someone who calls
Trump names to someone who actually does a good job
for his state. So he's not out there in the
trenches with.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The people of Pacific Palisades. There was a story at
The New York Post last month that he had.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Pulled himself up in a captain somewhere with a bottle
of tequila. He was shell shocked because people were blaming
him for the fire.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I don't know if that's accurate. It could be, but
I certainly think this post had good sources.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And even if it's not the full picture of what
Newson was doing, because hes certainly active on social media,
even if it seemed to be down about his own performance.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
He could have turned this into his finest hour. He
could have been with the residents of the Palastape. He
could have been helping fight.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
For people to get their building permits. He could have
been helping to fight the insurance companies.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
To get the payoffs. Inst he just on social media
calling Trump names. He's let his interns or his.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Staffers run his official government Press office account as a
kind of parody of Trump. It's not a very good
power to him, by the way, because it lacks Trump's
wit and his way with words. It's just all caps abuse,
very adolescent stuff, and it doesn't help the people of California.
And they do this sort of clown nose on, clown
nose off thing where it Oh, I'm just kidding, I'm
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just playing around.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
He didn't get the joke.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And then the next post on.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
X will be something that the government Press.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Office is supposed to put out there, some sort of
warning about weather or some policy detail or something like that,
and then they go right back to trolling Trump. But
the difference between Trump trolling people and new controlling that
Trump delivers results, even if you don't like them. Trump
delivers on what he says he's going to do.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Here's some doesn't. So he's promised forty billion dollars in
eight that.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
He's going to go to the administration to get instead
of getting it, it's just antagonizing the people who worked there.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It's not how you run a state.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Refresh my memory. What kind of loss did you suffer
in the panel stage fire? You your house.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Was Our house is still standing, but we had smoke damage.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
We have some other physical damage.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
My fence burned down, some of my trees burnt down.
The back wall of my house was blackened about the fire,
and we think there's internal damage as well, so we
have to have the back wall basically taken off and replaced,
and that's going to be expensive. But we fought for
a long time and we argued with our insurance company
and they finally came to the table.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So we're seeing some progress there, which is great.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
What did you think of very hard?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Great, No, I just got a minute. What did you
think of the story that came out last week that
the firefighters said, we have a hotspot here, the rocks,
the tree stum, the smoldering smoke, and LA Fire Department
the battalion commander said, everybody go home. And that was
apparently the hot spot that turned into the big blaze.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
There was a hotspot that was reignited on January seventh.
And the story I've heard is that these local firefighters
have what they call a great book, which is a
list of what everything costs, and when they work on
state land, they have to get reimbursed by the state,
but they also know the leadership does anyway they might
not get it reimbursed by the state, so instead of
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making sure that the fire was completely completely out.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
They did what they thought would be passable as a
good enough job.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
At least the fire wasn't visible to them, or maybe
it was, but it wasn't going to go anywhere. Whatever
decision they made was a budgetary decision. It wasn't a
decision to get the fire completely out.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
That's what I've heard, and.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
We might see evidence to that effect coming up. But yes,
the La Times published text messages from firefighters who were
upset that they were leaving. They felt they hadn't done
enough to r the scar from the January first fire,
which later became the January seventh Politods fire.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Joel, it's really good talking with you. Let's talk again,
Joel Pollock from the California Post. He's gonna be the
opinion editor and that will go online very soon. Thank you, Joel.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Thanks for the opportunity.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
All right, you're listening to John Cobels on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You are on every day from one until four o'clock.
John cobelt Show on Demand is the podcast and that
gets posted after four o'clock and you could hear whatever
you missed. We had quite a bit today. We went
through the Karen Bass interview on Alex Michaelson's program on
CNN in the first hour and analyzed all her infuriating
(16:46):
customer service responses about the new fire story regarding the
firefighters who told their battalion commander Mario Garcia, we have
a hot spot here, we should stay and he didn't
want to stay. And I think Joel Polo explaining the
possible reason why they didn't stay. You can hear that
coming up on the first hour of the podcast. Second hour,
(17:06):
we had Steve Hilton on who is the leading good
natorial candidates, Republican, former Fox News host, former advisor to
the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, and he's in first
place among all the candidates, got ahead of missus potato
head recently, so you want to hear him. He's got
a very compelling message. And then this area Jerrold Pollock
(17:29):
from the soon to be California Post, which is a
major new media outlet coming to California and going to
be online very soon by the beginning of the year. Okay,
this is really infuriating. This story. Prop thirty six past
almost exactly a year ago, I guess a year ago
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this week. And it made theft a crime again, all
the shoplifting, It made drug use a crime again. It
created sentinel penalties for the first time. What it didn't
do was it didn't have a funding mechanism. Devin Newsom
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had to provide the funding. He had to direct the
legislature to provide the funding so that if somebody got arrested,
and somebody was convicted or pled guilty, then they'd be
forced to go to treatment. That was the whole deal.
I think it was on the third try, after three,
after three thefts, after three drug I should say yeah,
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after three drug arrests, then you have to go for treatment.
And because Newsom refuses to spend money, any money on
drug treatment, there's been very little drug treatment. There's been
a lot of people arrested. But he because he hates it,
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he hates Prop thirty six. He does not want the
law enforce, doesn't one drug laws, and Forest doesn't want
theft laws in Forest doesn't want any of it. So
there's no money. Democratic legislature putting no money. So here's
what's happening. Eighty five hundred cases have been filed in
Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside County in the past year.
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Most of them fall under the Treatment Mandated Felony Act.
If you go to treatment, then you end up with
the charges dismissed. Under the law of defendants with two
or more prior drug offense convictions must plead guilty or
no contest to the charges, and then you get to
go to treatment. Every county would draw up its own
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rules on how it worked. Well, now people are going
to jail. There's many more case loads there are. There's
hardly anybody getting though because of the lack of funding.
Public defenders are facing crushing workloads. Well, I really don't
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care if public defenders are under crushing workloads. See, what
they want is the law not to be enforced. If
it's not enforced, then they don't have a crushing workload.
But part of the deal was there should be funding
for drug treatment. It's really bizarre that Democrats will not
spend tax money on drug treatment, of all things, but
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the drug treatment, I guess would then give the would
mean that they were giving some kind of an approval
to the law, even though seventy percent of the public
was in favor of the law. Democrats in the legislature
hate it. News some hates it, most Democrat voters support it.
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So this is his sneaky way to try to kill
the Thingan Hakman said, Newsom needs to fully fund Prop
thirty six. Arch County Sheriff Don Barnes said, we need
state leaders to fund Prop thirty six treat treatment mandated
felony programs to help those struggling with addiction get the
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help they need. You know how bad it's been when
it comes to treatment, and again this is because Newsom
and the legislature refused to fund it. Illegal alien healthcare, Hey,
they've got twelve and a half billion dollars for that.
In fact, they have thirty five billion dollars for illegal
alien everything care.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The Judicial Counsel of California had a report in October
and in the first six months of this year, there
were almost eighty nine hundred treatment mandated felonies across the state.
Fifteen percent elected to participate in treatment, seven hundred and
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seventy one actually repaced placed into treatment. Only twenty five
successfully completed the program and had their cases dismissed. So,
as far as drug treatment is concerned, twenty five people
got it. Everybody else either failed at it didn't get it.
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Nearly a third of the drug related Prop thirty six
cases came from Orange County. The number of cases filed
in Orange County doubled almost five thousand, and then another
one thousand theft cases. Seventy five percent of Orange County
voted for Prop thirty six, three quarters of Orange County,
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which is pretty close to a fifty to fifty Democratic
Republican breakout, three quarters no money from the state. Cases
are prosecuted, they're going to jail. And now the usual
suspects are saying, well, now that's too many people are
in jail. Yeah, we're gonna get jail over crowding here,
there's too much incarceration' you're not helping people. Well, new
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Sum doesn't want to get people off the drugs. He
wants this to fail. The legislature hates this, so they're
not they're not providing any funding because there's not enough
treatment beds for the program, and non existing state funding
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Orange County is paying for it. County has a three
to six week waiting list for treatment programs. He says
everyone is overwhelmed by the cases, but what's the alternative.
This is the only way to get people's attention is
to hold them and have jail time hanging over their
heads to get treatment. If they're not self motivated to
fix their own problems, there's going to be accountability. But
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so far they got enough room in the jails. There's
just criticism for throwing them in jail. Well, you see
how clever and slippery progressives are. They don't want people
going to jail. Well, the way to keep them out
of jail is to is to put them in treatment.
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But forcing people into treatment is also against their ideology.
Can't force them into treatment, can't throw them in jail.
But boy, isn't it terrible? We have all these people
using drugs in the street. This is insanity. And even
when the public rebels, even when they vote seventy thirty
for Prop. Thirty six, still new some of the legislature
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fights this. It's just awesome. By the way, what's the
deal at the airport today? The lax Well, there were
light delays yesterday.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I don't know if there were too many today, but
yesterday it was on average about an hour hour and
a half.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Look, they got to get their their their craft together
because I got the whole family trying to land in
the same sense that the end of the week, because
there's a family wedding going on.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And I.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Do not understand why they don't fund the air traffic controllers.
I don't get it. This is both parties, this is
Trump and everybody else. You gotta fund the FAA, that's right.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
You've got to just take their pay away and give
it to the air traffic controllers and the TSA workers.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, I know, why are we paying Congress, but we're
not paying air traffic and it makes no sense. And
then Thanksgiving right in three weeks, that's right now that
I mean, both parties and the White House have got
to stop this. When it comes to the air traffic controllers.
You should not be scoring around with our our safety,
(25:57):
our safety, thank you. The whole system. The whole system
could collapse. It's something dangerous could happen.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
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Speaker 1 (26:11):
John Cobelt's show I'll be on CNN tonight CNN Tonight
nine o'clock. Alex Michaelson has a new show. He's moved
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The Story Is and I'll be on his panel with
Attorney Lisa Bloom. So watch CNN tonight at nine o'clock
and we'll talk a lot about the things we've discussed
(26:31):
all show. Our podcast comes out in a little bit
after four o'clock. John Cobelt Show on demand. It's the
whole radio show, all right. So you're gonna hear an
enormous amount about Prop fifty tomorrow and then the day
after that. And you know what it's about, the redrawing
the district lines. It's winning big in the polls. I'm
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just gonna say this, this proposition is just wrong. It's
just wrong, and what the Republicans did in Texas is wrong.
The Republicans are now going to do this in a
number of other states to account for whatever losses they
suffer here in California. So ultimately, Newsom's gambit here is
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going to backfire. If he's doing this to try to
give the Democrats a good chance to get a majority,
the Republicans probably are going to get ten extra seats
after they finish redistricting a half a dozen other states.
That's the projections. Now, it looks like there's many states
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involved in this, and in the end there is more
room to redraw more Republican seats than there are Democrat seats,
so it's not even going to work. But again, that's
not what Newsom cares about. He just wants to position
himself as the great fighter against Trump. It's completely for
his ego. But this is doing the voters in this
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state is terrible. You have of the state votes Republican
for their congress man or woman forty percent. They're going
to end up with maybe four percent of the congressional seats.
There'll be forty eight Democrats and four Republicans potentially by
time the voting happens next year. And that's wrong. You've
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got people in northern California and rural areas who've had
Republican congressmen for decades and decades. Now I know one
of the districts has actually drawn to go from the
east end of the state all the way to the
west end to Marin County in the Bay Area, to
where it's rich in extra Democrats that they can pilfer
and suck into that district so that the people in
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the rural areas in the east will now have to
deal with some Bay Area Democrat representing them. That's just wrong.
It's wrong that Trump did this. It's wrong that the
Republicans do it. It's wrong that the Democrats are doing
it here. People really should be entitled when they live
in a particular area and you have people with a
particular point of view on life, to have a congressman
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or a congresswoman represent that point of view, and to
arbitrarily take it away from them, just to inflate the
ambitions of this narcissistic psychopath we have as governor is
just wrong. I have no other word for it. And
for people to carry on about threats to democracy, well,
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that's a pretty good size threat when you have the
congressman you've voted for for decades wrenched away from you
because they need to find Democratic voters in Marin County.
I mean, that's just that's abominable. Really, Well, talk about
this tonight on Alex Michaelson's show on CNN. We'll be
back tomorrow on election Day. Hey, you've been listening to
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