December 18, 2025 • 26 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (12/18) - Political writer and commentor John Fleishman joins the show to talk about the Capitol Annex Project in Sacramento that Gov. Newsom is using taxpayer funds for. More on all of California's problems that are Gov. Newsom's fault. What is worse in CA, a speeding ticket or running someone over with your car? Zohran Mamdani's administration is filled with extremist lunatics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are going to now
talk with John Fleischman. He's got a website, so does
Itmatter dot com. He's a political writer and a commentator.
And there is a story that has been bubbling in
the background. We've covered it some because there's only one
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reporter in the whole state trying to find out the truth,
and her name is Ashley Zavala for Channel three and
Sacramento KCRA. And this thing, like I said, for all
the people just beside themselves with anger and fury over
Trump using private money to build that ballroom. In Washington,
we got Newsome spending over a billion dollars on something
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called the State Capitol Annex project. It's a new large
section of the state Capitol over a billion dollars, but
nobody really knows how much it's going to cost or
when it's going to be built. There's a tremendous amount
of sea. Were seeing a lot of nondisclosure agreements and
it looks like a big, sticking boondoggle that nobody wants
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to acknowledge. So we'll talk to us talk with John
Fleischman about this, John, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I'm doing fine, John, And you're not kidding, you know.
Gavin Newsom was very quick that he went on X
to call the expansion of the White House the knockoff
Versailles and and and really let Donald Trump have it
while he's got his own crazy thing going on at
the Capitol. Uh, the ballroom expansion that the White House
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is estimated to cost around four hundred million dollars. And
as you pointed out, it's all coming from private money.
But here in California, they're they're like massively expanding the
state capitol like and the last the last budget was
one point one billion, but no one thinks that's even
going to come close to what it's actually going to cost.
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There's no one in charge. No one will say what
it actually costs. And this is my favorite part. There's
over two thousand people working on this project, and the
government has had every single person, from the lawyers down
to the construction workers signing legal nondescrollosure agreements so that
they cannot talk to the media or anyone else about
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what they're doing and how much it costs. It's completely nuts.
Newsom obviously has approved the funny because he signed the
budget bills that include the money. And as you said,
Ashley's of all of the reporter from KCRTV and Sacramento
has been on this thing, but she's been the only one.
And so there's been virtually no disclosure about this thing.
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And it's absolutely boggers. I mean, it's I mean, I
wish that I know this is radio, but you know,
if you go to I'm sure your website, if you
go to so doesntmatter dot com, my piece has photos.
It's just it's like they're building the taj Mahal's he's
building his own Versailles at the same time that he's
trying to criticize the president. And it's it's not some hypocrisy,
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and it's even better they it's leaked out that they
have built this niche structure of the building with secure
secret corridors that will allow the politicians to move all
around the Capitol without ever having to come out to
where the media or the public are. So it's like
they're literally creating this own little kind of like honeycombed
secret capital structure. At the cost. I mean, they're spending
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more on this than you would spend to build like
an NBA stadium.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And what's going to be what's going to be inside
this annex.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, supposedly it's just more office spaces, more rooms for
all these legislators to work out of it. It's literally
a physical manifestation of the grotesque enlargement of California state government.
You have to have a bigger capital because we're spending
more money and doing more stuff, and it's just and
again there's literally you know, it's not like the held
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at press conference and said, Hi, I'm the arc.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
We're building this up.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Here's the charts, Here's what it's going to be, or
here's what it's going to cost. Ashley wrote an entire
story of the millions and millions and millions of dollars
they're spending, importing granted from like Italy put into the capitol.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I mean we're paying for that, We're paying for that
Italian granted.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, but we don't know how much we're paying for it,
because anybody that could tell us is been locked down
with the non disclosure agreement and has been told del
w Sou that if they disclose anything, and I've never
even heard of such a thing. And you know, literally
after years of covering this, actually like a week ago,
got some of these legislators that are in charge of
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us to go on her program, where they proceeded to
tell everybody exactly nothing. And so the whole thing is crazy,
and so I think it's going to be one more
of those questions that people are like, Okay, you really
want this guy to be the president of the United States.
It's completely nuts. Although so you know, maybe you know,
(05:02):
the whole thing is just crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
He walks, He actually says out loud, it's a taxpayer,
I'd like to know what it costs.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, you know what it costs. You signed the bill
authorizing the budget.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Oh not only that, not only that, but he has
appointed his office has appointed there's a three member group
that oversees all of this somebody from the state Senate,
a senator, somebody from the state Assembly, and the governor's representative. So,
while he's telling us I liked it the hardings that spent,
his representative is in every meeting, making every decision. And
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so once again it's a complete pile of dog crap
right that he's literally we've seen this guy before. He's pathological.
He goes on talk radio shows. He goes on television
and he literally says whatever he wants. And because of
all of his friends in the media, this radio show accepted.
You know, nobody calls him on it well, and he
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just literally gets the way with saying whatever he wants.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Why so many friends in the media, the listeners and
the viewers and the readers of these media sites.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
They're the taxpayers paying for this.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The media's obligation should be to its audience, to the taxpayers.
Why is there obligation to protecting newsome I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah. And by the way, the Los Angeles Times, the
San Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento all of these newspapers have
standing to go sue the government over these non disclosure
agreements and get the truth out. Do you think any
of them have taken the time to sue the government
over this?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, that's what I want to ask.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I want to ask, how can it be legal for
them to force two thousand people to sign non disclosure
agreements over a project that's costing over a billion dollars
of tax money and the purpose of the building is
going to be making law in California for the public.
How can we not have access to every detail and
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understand where every penny went.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well, understand what they do in California is and this
is really it tells you something about the legislature. Most
of these invasive laws that they passed that put restrictions
on us or open up the books. In almost every
one of these laws, they put boilerplate language at the
end it says this public disclosure law shall not apply
to the legislature or the governor. And so they exempt
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themselves from all these disclosure laws. But I don't think
what they're doing is legal. Hence I was saying somebody
ought to sue them and get this information. But you know,
the media is more interested in covering his hair than
they are covering his versides. His verside.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So you know, you mentioned those major newspapers make it up.
We got to have about twenty five major television stations,
not to mention all the television networks and the cable
news channels, and nobody nobody wants to take him on.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Well apparently not, you know. So, I mean I've now
written about it today and Ashley's of all of the
local Sacramento reporter has been writing about it. But it
has been virtually cricket from the statewide media, and it's
just a reminder that they do not exist to be
watchdogs on the left. You could be sure if there
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was a Republican governor right now or a Republican legislature,
they would be all over it. But they're too excited, frankly,
as biased media people for what the policies are that
are coming out of Sacramento, and they don't want to
provide a distraction, right because Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Is spending a fraction with private money on that ballroom,
and look at all the hysteria that goes on.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, like we said, Gavin Newsom himself, while he is
overseeing this boondoggle, has the nerve to go on X
and accuse Donald Trump of building his own private Versailles.
Those are his words, those are the governor's words, and
so really lay really stupid, and you know, hopefully you.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Know, yeah, I don't know, you know what does it
keep talking.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
To America deserves Maybe America deserves this guy, and we'll
get a new governor, although frankly, the batch of people
running behind him don't seem to be the brightest light
bulbs in California either.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I mean, no there's nobody home.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
At least not on the not on the Democrat side.
All right, John, our attorney general may run. He'll save us.
All right, Thanks John, Thanks for having me on, and
I'd encourage people to come visit sodaes itmatter dot com?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So does it matter dot com? John Fleischman, he's got
a two part series on this, on this scandal.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Uh, coming up, we're gonna talk.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We had Katie Grimes on the show yesterday from californiaglobe
dot com. She's writing about this situation. She also put
together the Top fifty California issues, like the Top fifty
Gavin Newsom disasters. I'm not going to read all fifty,
touch on a few of them again. All the feeding
back to what I discussed last hour. There are going
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to be many Democratic candidates running for president against Newsom,
and they are collecting a tremendous amount.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Of opposition research on all this.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
He is going to get pilloried like you won't believe
we actually has competition for the nomination.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (10:25):
Last call for the moistline eight seven seven Moist staty
six eight seven seven mois staty six. A lot to
unburden yourself with that happened this week in the news
and in the States. It's the last one of the year,
so we take a Christmas break eight seven seven mois
staty six or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
All right, well, we just had John Fleischmann on from
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sodesitmatter dot com. One of her other favorite reporters, Katie
Grimes from California Globe. She was on with us yesterday
and this week she wrote a p about the top
fifty disasters. The top fifty disasters Governor Gavin Newsom has
ushered into California. We should do it. We should do
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a countdown. We could probably fill four hours of a countdown. Well,
here we go. I'm not going to read all fifty,
but the ones that some of them are old, some
of them are newly discovered or newly rediscovered because they're
a few years old and probably everybody's forgotten. How about
this one. Just found this out a few days ago.
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Under Gavin Newsom, Well, eight hundred and seventeen thousand Californians
left California in twenty twenty two. Eight one hundred and
seventeen thousand people left the state in twenty twenty two.
More than two hundred thousand of them were ages twenty
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five or older, most of them with four year or
two year college degrees, and they went to Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida,
and the Carolinas. Joel Kotkin, the demographicker, scholar, researcher, he
went through the numbers and you could track how many
people leave the state, how many moved to other states,
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and what their socio income status is, and so what
you had here is a huge percentage of the two
hundred thousand net migrants lost were college educated. EDI had Nevada, Arizona, Texas,
and Florida. Thousands of businesses have fled to other states.
That's just one.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I talk about this all the time, and I'll never
stop talking about it. Highest taxes in the nation. California
ranks among the worst for high taxes, the bottom two
for worst for individual taxes, worst gas tax, highest business tax.
And he's looking for more tax He's trying to pass
a retroactive billionaire's tax. He's going after two hundred and
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twenty billionaires who live in CALIFORNRNIA. And it's going to
make him pay for the past in case they leave,
and this is going to drive some of them out.
In twenty twenty, here's another one. Twenty twenty, he planned
to close two state prisons. He's closed five. Remember after
we've passed Prop thirty six over his objections, which made
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stealing illegal again and drug use illegal again and created
a set of fentinel laws. While he was so pissed
that it passed against his objections that he hasn't funded it.
He refuses to funder the treatment programs for the drug addicts.
Gavin Newsom is the first governor to make homelessness a
way of life. The number of mentally ill drug addicted
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people littering the streets with feces and drug needles, tent
encampments and filth has grown dramatically. I think it's about
one hundred and eighty seven thousand in the state. He
has spent thirty seven billion dollars on homelessness in the
last six years, and homelessness has exploded in the state.
These were all from Katie Grimes and I'm just getting
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a fraction of them. You should go to californiaglobe dot com.
You could read the whole list. Eight to twelve dollars
gas coming. We used to have forty three refineries, We're
down to seven. Our oil production has declined by sixty
five percent. Our foreign imports have increased by seventy percent
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or increased two seventy percent. Let's not forget the COVID lockdowns,
which destroyed thousands of businesses and destroyed the childhoods and
the learning capabilities of hundreds of thousands of children. He
spent four and a half million dollars on free immigration,
legal services, and of course the big whopper, he passed
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a bill that guaranteed free healthcare to every illegal immigrant
in the state. It's costing US thirteen billion dollars now
thirteen billion. The medical program is insolvent, it's broke. What
do you do with a broke plan like that. Well,
he's going to cut medical to any poor or disabled,
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elderly person who has two thousand dollars in assets. So
if your parents or grandparents are down to their last
two thousand dollars, Newsome wants that two grand or they
don't get medical because he blew thirteen billion on illegal aliens.
That's enough for now. I'm holding on to this Katie
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Grimes in the Californiaglobe dot com. You have to read
that because there's plenty more and it it just makes
you sick. All right, when we come back, what do
you think is worse in this state? Do you think
getting a speeding ticket or is worse? Or running someone
over with your car and killing them? What do you
think is worse? Tell you about it we come back.
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slash at John cobelt Show. All right, the question I
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left you with is what is worse in California? A
speeding ticket or you run over someone with your car
and kill them. Well, in some cases, the speeding ticket
is worse. You could speed, no accident, no casualties, You're
just caught going too fast. In the other case, you
do something and you kill another motorist, a pedestrian, a
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bicyclist and you've done something wrong and they charge you
with a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, which can be either a
felony or a misdemeanor. So you're guilty of the hicular manslaughter,
but you will get less well, you'll get nothing on
your public record, potentially. We explain Cowmatters, which is another
good news website on California. Since most of the regular
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media has abandoned coverage, including just about all the media
here in Los Angeles, cal Matters has found that there's
something called a misdemeanor diversion program. This was passed in
twenty twenty by the legislature, So a judge can erase
a misdemeanor case from existence what they call low level crimes,
so you don't have a stigma.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Because having a stigma, you have a conviction on your record.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, sometimes you can't get work, Sometimes you can't get
an apartment because nobody wants a criminal in the workplace.
Nobody wants to rent to a criminal, can't trust them.
So they extended this so that you could kill somebody
while driving, go to a diversion program and you have
that vehicular manslaughter charge wiped off the books as if
it ever happened again, you've actually killed someone. Here's an example.
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Alison Lyman, she had a son named Connor twenty three.
He's riding his motorcycle. An oncoming car made left turn,
collided with him, and Connor Lopez, a piano teacher, died
in the roadway. Very sad story. The DA's office charged
the driver, Harjeet's Cower, with misdemeanor of vehicular manslaughter because
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she did not yield to oncoming traffic and that caused
the fatal crash, killing Connor. And then a prosecutor broke
the news to Alison Lyman, the mun the mother the
case could be wiped off Kwer's record and sealed if
Kaur asks for a diversion program and a judge grants it.
And Lyman said, I'm forty three. I'll have to live
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the rest of my life without my son, but there'll
be no record of it for her. One of the
officers kept telling her that it's a low level case,
and Lyman said, she took my son's life. But that's
how they're seeing low level again. It wasn't declared an accident.
She was at fault and charged with vehicular manslaughter and
then it gets wiped away.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You know, you have to do community service. That kind
of nonsense.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
In twenty twenty, the far left wing let all the criminals,
Let all the criminals free. State legislature created diversion for
almost all misdemeanors, with few requirements that defendants have to
fulfill even if the prosecutor objects. So defense attorneys are
requesting diversion all the time. That's how shoplifting and drug
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possession got legalized, and now it extends to cases where
somebody's died. In fact, Heal Matters identified three dozen drivers
who avoided a vehicular manslaughter conviction by going conviction by
going to a diversion program. So suddenly those three vehicular
those excuse me, those thirty six vehicular deaths weren't crimes anymore.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's as if they never happened.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I'm the people are still dead, the victims, but none
of the thirty six drivers are at fault. You could
get a misdemeanor charge if you weren't drunk or driving
extremely dangerous. However, if you get a traffic tickets, the
traffic ticket stays on your record. There was a young
man in Los Angeles who felt asleep at the wheel
and ran over a bicyclist.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
He got a red light ticket.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
A few months after the judge granted diversion, and then
he got a speeding ticket. Oh, the speeding ticket, the
red light ticket or on his record. But the incident
where he fell asleep and ran a bicyclist over and
killed him, not on the record. Here's a story about
a driver involved in a fatal twenty twenty crash. He
got two tickets last year, then a drudge grant some diversion,
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and he got a speeding ticket. Well, all those tickets,
they're permanently on the record, not the accident where he
killed somebody. You know. I read the other day too
that California has some of the weakest DUI law, and
I think we talked about it on the air, some
of the weakest DUI laws.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
In the country.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
And it's just startling because this is such an oppressive
nanny state. And yet when it comes to drunk driving,
when it comes to killing somebody, because you drove so
badly not so much, you don't go to jail and
your record is wiped clean.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
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Six forty last call of the year for Moistline. Yes,
is the last Moistline tomorrow three twenty and three fifty
eight seven seven moist eighty six, eight seven seven moist
eighty six.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Last chance to.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Scream and yell in twenty twenty five about the state
of the world eight seven seven moist eighty six. So
you usually talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app zoron mum.
Donnie is just a couple of weeks away from becoming
the Mayor of New York. Famously, he does not like
Jews at all. He used to be fond of the
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phrase globalize the infittada, which, if you're not failure, if
you're not familiar with it, it means killed Jews all
over the world. But he got elected the mayor to
be mayor of New York anyway, even though that has
I think the largest Jewish population outside of his in
one single city.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It's all run Mom.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Donnie tried to distance himself from some of the horrible
things he has said in the past, but then again,
you always judge people by their actions, not by their words.
He has hired a new director of appointments, and this
woman's in charge of bringing top talent into the administration.
(22:23):
Her name's Catherine Almonte da Costa, and they dug up
her posts on Twitter going back fifteen years, and it
turns out she hates Jews just as much as Mom Donnie.
This Tacosta woman back in twenty eleven tweeted money hungry
Jews shaking my head whoo promoted to the upstairs office
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today working alongside these rich Jewish peeps.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
She also posted.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Far Rockaway which is a town, Far Rockaway train is
the jew train and these posts were up until Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Hates the police.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
One of her posts simply said f the police, but
she spelled out the word. Another had a pig emoji
after hashtag NYPD. She wrote, I'm going to need a
couple of piggy banks to pay these off, but no,
I was referring to the NYPD piggies. She also back
to defund the police movement during the George Floyd in
sanity defund NYPD by a billion dollars in fiscal year
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twenty twenty one. Get cops out of our schools and subways,
invest in our communities. Well, now these all these posts
have been brought to her attention. And by the way,
she had no problem that these posts were up for
fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Then she gets a position.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Of course, moom Donni would hire her right because this
is what they believe. They just don't want to talk
about it publicly anymore. She goes, She writes, now she
apologized as the mother of two Jewish children.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, how that happen? What did she married a Jewish
guy or she convert or what? I don't know?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
As the mother of two Jewish children, I deeply regret
apologize for these tweets from well over a decade ago.
But she likes them now and police are not piggies.
She doesn't wanted to fund them anymore. These comments do
not in any way, shape or form reflect who I
am or my views and beliefs today. Well was she
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sent to a re education camp?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I bye bye?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Mom? Donnie's administration is filled with these extremist lunatics. It's
going to be a horrible, horrible error In New York City.
We have all kinds of lunatics on our city council,
which is why this is a horrible, horrible era. In
LA It's astonishing how so many big cities in California
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have completely disintegrated under this left wing progressive rule, and
so many just stand by and stare and watch, including
the media. Everybody would just rather scream about Trump all day.
All right, tomorrow, we're gonna have Steve Hilton on, who's
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running for governor as a Republican, one of the top candidates,
and he makes perfect sense. It's kind of shocking to
talk to him and have a conversation where he makes
complete sense. You just compare that to what you hear from,
you know, like Newsom or Kamala Harris or Karen Bass.
And he listened to Steve Al Hilton and it's like, Yeah,
this is the way people used to talk. This is
(25:27):
the way political leaders used to speak. They So we'll
have mon tomorrow and we'll also explain in detail how
Ford lost this.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You're not gonna leave this. Ford lost thirty.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Five billion dollars over the last three years pushing electric vehicles,
thirty five billion since twenty twenty two. You know what
their net income was over the same three year period,
eleven billion. They made eleven billion dollars on selling cars.
They lost thirty five billion dollars manufacturing and not selling
electric vehicles. Unbelievable disaster, this electric car fiasco.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
We'll talk about it tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
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Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are going to now
talk with John Fleischman. He's got a website, so does
Itmatter dot com. He's a political writer and a commentator.
And there is a story that has been bubbling in
the background. We've covered it some because there's only one
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reporter in the whole state trying to find out the truth,
and her name is Ashley Zavala for Channel three and
Sacramento KCRA. And this thing, like I said, for all
the people just beside themselves with anger and fury over
Trump using private money to build that ballroom. In Washington,
we got Newsome spending over a billion dollars on something
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called the State Capitol Annex project. It's a new large
section of the state Capitol over a billion dollars, but
nobody really knows how much it's going to cost or
when it's going to be built. There's a tremendous amount
of sea. Were seeing a lot of nondisclosure agreements and
it looks like a big, sticking boondoggle that nobody wants
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to acknowledge. So we'll talk to us talk with John
Fleischman about this, John, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I'm doing fine, John, And you're not kidding, you know.
Gavin Newsom was very quick that he went on X
to call the expansion of the White House the knockoff
Versailles and and and really let Donald Trump have it
while he's got his own crazy thing going on at
the Capitol. Uh, the ballroom expansion that the White House
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is estimated to cost around four hundred million dollars. And
as you pointed out, it's all coming from private money.
But here in California, they're they're like massively expanding the
state capitol like and the last the last budget was
one point one billion, but no one thinks that's even
going to come close to what it's actually going to cost.
(01:55):
There's no one in charge. No one will say what
it actually costs. And this is my favorite part. There's
over two thousand people working on this project, and the
government has had every single person, from the lawyers down
to the construction workers signing legal nondescrollosure agreements so that
they cannot talk to the media or anyone else about
(02:16):
what they're doing and how much it costs. It's completely nuts.
Newsom obviously has approved the funny because he signed the
budget bills that include the money. And as you said,
Ashley's of all of the reporter from KCRTV and Sacramento
has been on this thing, but she's been the only one.
And so there's been virtually no disclosure about this thing.
(02:37):
And it's absolutely boggers. I mean, it's I mean, I
wish that I know this is radio, but you know,
if you go to I'm sure your website, if you
go to so doesntmatter dot com, my piece has photos.
It's just it's like they're building the taj Mahal's he's
building his own Versailles at the same time that he's
trying to criticize the president. And it's it's not some hypocrisy,
(03:04):
and it's even better they it's leaked out that they
have built this niche structure of the building with secure
secret corridors that will allow the politicians to move all
around the Capitol without ever having to come out to
where the media or the public are. So it's like
they're literally creating this own little kind of like honeycombed
secret capital structure. At the cost. I mean, they're spending
(03:27):
more on this than you would spend to build like
an NBA stadium.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And what's going to be what's going to be inside
this annex.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, supposedly it's just more office spaces, more rooms for
all these legislators to work out of it. It's literally
a physical manifestation of the grotesque enlargement of California state government.
You have to have a bigger capital because we're spending
more money and doing more stuff, and it's just and
again there's literally you know, it's not like the held
(03:58):
at press conference and said, Hi, I'm the arc.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
We're building this up.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Here's the charts, Here's what it's going to be, or
here's what it's going to cost. Ashley wrote an entire
story of the millions and millions and millions of dollars
they're spending, importing granted from like Italy put into the capitol.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I mean we're paying for that, We're paying for that
Italian granted.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, but we don't know how much we're paying for it,
because anybody that could tell us is been locked down
with the non disclosure agreement and has been told del
w Sou that if they disclose anything, and I've never
even heard of such a thing. And you know, literally
after years of covering this, actually like a week ago,
got some of these legislators that are in charge of
(04:41):
us to go on her program, where they proceeded to
tell everybody exactly nothing. And so the whole thing is crazy,
and so I think it's going to be one more
of those questions that people are like, Okay, you really
want this guy to be the president of the United States.
It's completely nuts. Although so you know, maybe you know,
(05:02):
the whole thing is just crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
He walks, He actually says out loud, it's a taxpayer,
I'd like to know what it costs.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, you know what it costs. You signed the bill
authorizing the budget.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Oh not only that, not only that, but he has
appointed his office has appointed there's a three member group
that oversees all of this somebody from the state Senate,
a senator, somebody from the state Assembly, and the governor's representative. So,
while he's telling us I liked it the hardings that spent,
his representative is in every meeting, making every decision. And
(05:36):
so once again it's a complete pile of dog crap
right that he's literally we've seen this guy before. He's pathological.
He goes on talk radio shows. He goes on television
and he literally says whatever he wants. And because of
all of his friends in the media, this radio show accepted.
You know, nobody calls him on it well, and he
(05:59):
just literally gets the way with saying whatever he wants.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Why so many friends in the media, the listeners and
the viewers and the readers of these media sites.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
They're the taxpayers paying for this.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The media's obligation should be to its audience, to the taxpayers.
Why is there obligation to protecting newsome I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah. And by the way, the Los Angeles Times, the
San Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento all of these newspapers have
standing to go sue the government over these non disclosure
agreements and get the truth out. Do you think any
of them have taken the time to sue the government
over this?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, that's what I want to ask.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I want to ask, how can it be legal for
them to force two thousand people to sign non disclosure
agreements over a project that's costing over a billion dollars
of tax money and the purpose of the building is
going to be making law in California for the public.
How can we not have access to every detail and
(07:01):
understand where every penny went.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well, understand what they do in California is and this
is really it tells you something about the legislature. Most
of these invasive laws that they passed that put restrictions
on us or open up the books. In almost every
one of these laws, they put boilerplate language at the
end it says this public disclosure law shall not apply
to the legislature or the governor. And so they exempt
(07:26):
themselves from all these disclosure laws. But I don't think
what they're doing is legal. Hence I was saying somebody
ought to sue them and get this information. But you know,
the media is more interested in covering his hair than
they are covering his versides. His verside.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So you know, you mentioned those major newspapers make it up.
We got to have about twenty five major television stations,
not to mention all the television networks and the cable
news channels, and nobody nobody wants to take him on.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Well apparently not, you know. So, I mean I've now
written about it today and Ashley's of all of the
local Sacramento reporter has been writing about it. But it
has been virtually cricket from the statewide media, and it's
just a reminder that they do not exist to be
watchdogs on the left. You could be sure if there
(08:23):
was a Republican governor right now or a Republican legislature,
they would be all over it. But they're too excited, frankly,
as biased media people for what the policies are that
are coming out of Sacramento, and they don't want to
provide a distraction, right because Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Is spending a fraction with private money on that ballroom,
and look at all the hysteria that goes on.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, like we said, Gavin Newsom himself, while he is
overseeing this boondoggle, has the nerve to go on X
and accuse Donald Trump of building his own private Versailles.
Those are his words, those are the governor's words, and
so really lay really stupid, and you know, hopefully you.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Know, yeah, I don't know, you know what does it
keep talking.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
To America deserves Maybe America deserves this guy, and we'll
get a new governor, although frankly, the batch of people
running behind him don't seem to be the brightest light
bulbs in California either.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I mean, no there's nobody home.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
At least not on the not on the Democrat side.
All right, John, our attorney general may run. He'll save us.
All right, Thanks John, Thanks for having me on, and
I'd encourage people to come visit sodaes itmatter dot com?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So does it matter dot com? John Fleischman, he's got
a two part series on this, on this scandal.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Uh, coming up, we're gonna talk.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We had Katie Grimes on the show yesterday from californiaglobe
dot com. She's writing about this situation. She also put
together the Top fifty California issues, like the Top fifty
Gavin Newsom disasters. I'm not going to read all fifty,
touch on a few of them again. All the feeding
back to what I discussed last hour. There are going
(10:04):
to be many Democratic candidates running for president against Newsom,
and they are collecting a tremendous amount.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Of opposition research on all this.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
He is going to get pilloried like you won't believe
we actually has competition for the nomination.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Last call for the moistline eight seven seven Moist staty
six eight seven seven mois staty six. A lot to
unburden yourself with that happened this week in the news
and in the States. It's the last one of the year,
so we take a Christmas break eight seven seven mois
staty six or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
All right, well, we just had John Fleischmann on from
(10:48):
sodesitmatter dot com. One of her other favorite reporters, Katie
Grimes from California Globe. She was on with us yesterday
and this week she wrote a p about the top
fifty disasters. The top fifty disasters Governor Gavin Newsom has
ushered into California. We should do it. We should do
(11:10):
a countdown. We could probably fill four hours of a countdown. Well,
here we go. I'm not going to read all fifty,
but the ones that some of them are old, some
of them are newly discovered or newly rediscovered because they're
a few years old and probably everybody's forgotten. How about
this one. Just found this out a few days ago.
(11:33):
Under Gavin Newsom, Well, eight hundred and seventeen thousand Californians
left California in twenty twenty two. Eight one hundred and
seventeen thousand people left the state in twenty twenty two.
More than two hundred thousand of them were ages twenty
(11:54):
five or older, most of them with four year or
two year college degrees, and they went to Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida,
and the Carolinas. Joel Kotkin, the demographicker, scholar, researcher, he
went through the numbers and you could track how many
people leave the state, how many moved to other states,
(12:15):
and what their socio income status is, and so what
you had here is a huge percentage of the two
hundred thousand net migrants lost were college educated. EDI had Nevada, Arizona, Texas,
and Florida. Thousands of businesses have fled to other states.
That's just one.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I talk about this all the time, and I'll never
stop talking about it. Highest taxes in the nation. California
ranks among the worst for high taxes, the bottom two
for worst for individual taxes, worst gas tax, highest business tax.
And he's looking for more tax He's trying to pass
a retroactive billionaire's tax. He's going after two hundred and
(12:58):
twenty billionaires who live in CALIFORNRNIA. And it's going to
make him pay for the past in case they leave,
and this is going to drive some of them out.
In twenty twenty, here's another one. Twenty twenty, he planned
to close two state prisons. He's closed five. Remember after
we've passed Prop thirty six over his objections, which made
(13:18):
stealing illegal again and drug use illegal again and created
a set of fentinel laws. While he was so pissed
that it passed against his objections that he hasn't funded it.
He refuses to funder the treatment programs for the drug addicts.
Gavin Newsom is the first governor to make homelessness a
way of life. The number of mentally ill drug addicted
(13:41):
people littering the streets with feces and drug needles, tent
encampments and filth has grown dramatically. I think it's about
one hundred and eighty seven thousand in the state. He
has spent thirty seven billion dollars on homelessness in the
last six years, and homelessness has exploded in the state.
These were all from Katie Grimes and I'm just getting
(14:02):
a fraction of them. You should go to californiaglobe dot com.
You could read the whole list. Eight to twelve dollars
gas coming. We used to have forty three refineries, We're
down to seven. Our oil production has declined by sixty
five percent. Our foreign imports have increased by seventy percent
(14:23):
or increased two seventy percent. Let's not forget the COVID lockdowns,
which destroyed thousands of businesses and destroyed the childhoods and
the learning capabilities of hundreds of thousands of children. He
spent four and a half million dollars on free immigration,
legal services, and of course the big whopper, he passed
(14:50):
a bill that guaranteed free healthcare to every illegal immigrant
in the state. It's costing US thirteen billion dollars now
thirteen billion. The medical program is insolvent, it's broke. What
do you do with a broke plan like that. Well,
he's going to cut medical to any poor or disabled,
(15:11):
elderly person who has two thousand dollars in assets. So
if your parents or grandparents are down to their last
two thousand dollars, Newsome wants that two grand or they
don't get medical because he blew thirteen billion on illegal aliens.
That's enough for now. I'm holding on to this Katie
(15:31):
Grimes in the Californiaglobe dot com. You have to read
that because there's plenty more and it it just makes
you sick. All right, when we come back, what do
you think is worse in this state? Do you think
getting a speeding ticket or is worse? Or running someone
over with your car and killing them? What do you
think is worse? Tell you about it we come back.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Follow us at John Cobelt Radio and social media, and
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dot com, slash at John Coobelt's show YouTube dot com
slash at John cobelt Show. All right, the question I
(16:18):
left you with is what is worse in California? A
speeding ticket or you run over someone with your car
and kill them. Well, in some cases, the speeding ticket
is worse. You could speed, no accident, no casualties, You're
just caught going too fast. In the other case, you
do something and you kill another motorist, a pedestrian, a
(16:41):
bicyclist and you've done something wrong and they charge you
with a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, which can be either a
felony or a misdemeanor. So you're guilty of the hicular manslaughter,
but you will get less well, you'll get nothing on
your public record, potentially. We explain Cowmatters, which is another
good news website on California. Since most of the regular
(17:04):
media has abandoned coverage, including just about all the media
here in Los Angeles, cal Matters has found that there's
something called a misdemeanor diversion program. This was passed in
twenty twenty by the legislature, So a judge can erase
a misdemeanor case from existence what they call low level crimes,
so you don't have a stigma.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Because having a stigma, you have a conviction on your record.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, sometimes you can't get work, Sometimes you can't get
an apartment because nobody wants a criminal in the workplace.
Nobody wants to rent to a criminal, can't trust them.
So they extended this so that you could kill somebody
while driving, go to a diversion program and you have
that vehicular manslaughter charge wiped off the books as if
it ever happened again, you've actually killed someone. Here's an example.
(17:52):
Alison Lyman, she had a son named Connor twenty three.
He's riding his motorcycle. An oncoming car made left turn,
collided with him, and Connor Lopez, a piano teacher, died
in the roadway. Very sad story. The DA's office charged
the driver, Harjeet's Cower, with misdemeanor of vehicular manslaughter because
(18:12):
she did not yield to oncoming traffic and that caused
the fatal crash, killing Connor. And then a prosecutor broke
the news to Alison Lyman, the mun the mother the
case could be wiped off Kwer's record and sealed if
Kaur asks for a diversion program and a judge grants it.
And Lyman said, I'm forty three. I'll have to live
(18:32):
the rest of my life without my son, but there'll
be no record of it for her. One of the
officers kept telling her that it's a low level case,
and Lyman said, she took my son's life. But that's
how they're seeing low level again. It wasn't declared an accident.
She was at fault and charged with vehicular manslaughter and
then it gets wiped away.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You know, you have to do community service. That kind
of nonsense.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
In twenty twenty, the far left wing let all the criminals,
Let all the criminals free. State legislature created diversion for
almost all misdemeanors, with few requirements that defendants have to
fulfill even if the prosecutor objects. So defense attorneys are
requesting diversion all the time. That's how shoplifting and drug
(19:16):
possession got legalized, and now it extends to cases where
somebody's died. In fact, Heal Matters identified three dozen drivers
who avoided a vehicular manslaughter conviction by going conviction by
going to a diversion program. So suddenly those three vehicular
those excuse me, those thirty six vehicular deaths weren't crimes anymore.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It's as if they never happened.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I'm the people are still dead, the victims, but none
of the thirty six drivers are at fault. You could
get a misdemeanor charge if you weren't drunk or driving
extremely dangerous. However, if you get a traffic tickets, the
traffic ticket stays on your record. There was a young
man in Los Angeles who felt asleep at the wheel
and ran over a bicyclist.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
He got a red light ticket.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
A few months after the judge granted diversion, and then
he got a speeding ticket. Oh, the speeding ticket, the
red light ticket or on his record. But the incident
where he fell asleep and ran a bicyclist over and
killed him, not on the record. Here's a story about
a driver involved in a fatal twenty twenty crash. He
got two tickets last year, then a drudge grant some diversion,
(20:24):
and he got a speeding ticket. Well, all those tickets,
they're permanently on the record, not the accident where he
killed somebody. You know. I read the other day too
that California has some of the weakest DUI law, and
I think we talked about it on the air, some
of the weakest DUI laws.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
In the country.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
And it's just startling because this is such an oppressive
nanny state. And yet when it comes to drunk driving,
when it comes to killing somebody, because you drove so
badly not so much, you don't go to jail and
your record is wiped clean.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI am.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Six forty last call of the year for Moistline. Yes,
is the last Moistline tomorrow three twenty and three fifty
eight seven seven moist eighty six, eight seven seven moist
eighty six.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Last chance to.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Scream and yell in twenty twenty five about the state
of the world eight seven seven moist eighty six. So
you usually talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app zoron mum.
Donnie is just a couple of weeks away from becoming
the Mayor of New York. Famously, he does not like
Jews at all. He used to be fond of the
(21:43):
phrase globalize the infittada, which, if you're not failure, if
you're not familiar with it, it means killed Jews all
over the world. But he got elected the mayor to
be mayor of New York anyway, even though that has
I think the largest Jewish population outside of his in
one single city.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It's all run Mom.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Donnie tried to distance himself from some of the horrible
things he has said in the past, but then again,
you always judge people by their actions, not by their words.
He has hired a new director of appointments, and this
woman's in charge of bringing top talent into the administration.
(22:23):
Her name's Catherine Almonte da Costa, and they dug up
her posts on Twitter going back fifteen years, and it
turns out she hates Jews just as much as Mom Donnie.
This Tacosta woman back in twenty eleven tweeted money hungry
Jews shaking my head whoo promoted to the upstairs office
(22:46):
today working alongside these rich Jewish peeps.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
She also posted.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Far Rockaway which is a town, Far Rockaway train is
the jew train and these posts were up until Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Hates the police.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
One of her posts simply said f the police, but
she spelled out the word. Another had a pig emoji
after hashtag NYPD. She wrote, I'm going to need a
couple of piggy banks to pay these off, but no,
I was referring to the NYPD piggies. She also back
to defund the police movement during the George Floyd in
sanity defund NYPD by a billion dollars in fiscal year
(23:23):
twenty twenty one. Get cops out of our schools and subways,
invest in our communities. Well, now these all these posts
have been brought to her attention. And by the way,
she had no problem that these posts were up for
fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Then she gets a position.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Of course, moom Donni would hire her right because this
is what they believe. They just don't want to talk
about it publicly anymore. She goes, She writes, now she
apologized as the mother of two Jewish children.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, how that happen? What did she married a Jewish
guy or she convert or what? I don't know?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
As the mother of two Jewish children, I deeply regret
apologize for these tweets from well over a decade ago.
But she likes them now and police are not piggies.
She doesn't wanted to fund them anymore. These comments do
not in any way, shape or form reflect who I
am or my views and beliefs today. Well was she
(24:17):
sent to a re education camp?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I bye bye?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Mom? Donnie's administration is filled with these extremist lunatics. It's
going to be a horrible, horrible error In New York City.
We have all kinds of lunatics on our city council,
which is why this is a horrible, horrible era. In
LA It's astonishing how so many big cities in California
(24:45):
have completely disintegrated under this left wing progressive rule, and
so many just stand by and stare and watch, including
the media. Everybody would just rather scream about Trump all day.
All right, tomorrow, we're gonna have Steve Hilton on, who's
(25:06):
running for governor as a Republican, one of the top candidates,
and he makes perfect sense. It's kind of shocking to
talk to him and have a conversation where he makes
complete sense. You just compare that to what you hear from,
you know, like Newsom or Kamala Harris or Karen Bass.
And he listened to Steve Al Hilton and it's like, Yeah,
this is the way people used to talk. This is
(25:27):
the way political leaders used to speak. They So we'll
have mon tomorrow and we'll also explain in detail how
Ford lost this.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You're not gonna leave this. Ford lost thirty.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Five billion dollars over the last three years pushing electric vehicles,
thirty five billion since twenty twenty two. You know what
their net income was over the same three year period,
eleven billion. They made eleven billion dollars on selling cars.
They lost thirty five billion dollars manufacturing and not selling
electric vehicles. Unbelievable disaster, this electric car fiasco.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
We'll talk about it tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
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