December 1, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (12/01) - California has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on a new 9-1-1 system that they have now delayed releasing. There is another scandal in the LADWP regarding one of Janisse Quiñones' assistants. Reminiscing on all of the ridiculous COVID restrictions we were under. There is a bear on the loose in Altadena.
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Show is oh yeah, you don't want to miss that.
I mean, who in the right mind would not want
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him while he shuffles his papers and he bangs on
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Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean, come on, you're all ready to go. I
was going to set this up for long. Sorry, all right,
let's just say it again.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I mean, you know, people tune in and out all
the time.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I don't know, it's a good warm up. You're particularly
wired up today, I don't. I know. I'm going to
move now.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
One thing I really can't stand is when there is
an act of government stupidity and the story breaks on
a Friday afternoon, Friday evening or right before holiday weekend,
and the people breaking the story hope he gets buried right.
And then in this case, oh, I don't know, it
was like a lot of people took Wednesday off right.
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So it's been five days. I don't let anything get away. No,
you don't, No, I don't. And the constant follow ups.
I'm like a dog, you know, it finds a bone.
I'm gonna keep digging and digging and digging.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
We depend on you, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And this one, this one makes me crazy. How long
do you think we've had a nine to one to
one system in America? The first one, first one was
in Alabama, of all places, in nineteen sixty eight, Haileyville, Alabama,
February sixteenth, nineteen sixty eight. In California, we have had
nine one one systems for over fifty years.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And we've had the.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Same statewide nine one one system ever since they've built it,
So it's over fifty years. In twenty nineteen, first week,
first week that old slickhead became governor, he he said,
we've we've got to we've got to build a new
nine to one one system. Okay, got you got to
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get with the more modern technology. Since then, that is
that is, believe it or not, seven years of work,
seven years of work, four hundred and fifty million dollars
your tax money for the new modernized nine to one
one system. Guess what happened when they turned it on.
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Didn't work, and they tried fixing it, tinkering with it,
doesn't work, doesn't work, They're going to have to scrap
the whole system. Four hundred and fifty million dollars, nearly
a half a billion down down the toilet shoot in
the garbage because they botched it all up. To get
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an overall view of this, We're going to play this
report from ABC ten Sacramento. The reporter Becca Habiger.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Now on an emergency, what are your putting.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Throughout the state? California has about four hundred and fifty
emergency dispatch center is also known as Public Safety Answering
Points or peace apps. California's overall system what connects all
these emergency services is more than fifty years old. That's why,
in his first week as governor in twenty nineteen, Gavin
Newsom vowed to modernize what he called the state's antiquated
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nine to one one system. Cal Oees led the charge,
choosing a unique regional approach with multiple vendors so an
outage in one area wouldn't become an outage statewide. From
twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four, cal Oes says the
state paid more than four hundred and fifty million dollars
upgrading to what it calls next Generation nine one one,
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but earlier this year cal Os paused the plan. A
newly released cal Os report sheds light on what happened.
The good news system upgrades are in place at every
dispatch center statewide, it says, allowing dispatchers to better pinpoint
a caller's location and receive text to nine to one one. However,
only twenty three of the peace apps have begun the
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migration for voice calls, and those twenty three centers ran
into significant operational disruptions. The report says cal OS found
dispatchers had to handle incoming calls from both the old
and new systems well transitioning over which is a time
consuming and risky process during emergencies. It found the regional
system creates interdependencies, delaying issue resolution, so cal OS paused
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the rollout and is scrapping the regional plan in favor
of a statewide approach. They'll seek just two contractors in
a process starting early next year, which means more money
and more time.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
How long have we been paying for the next gen system?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I believe it was in the twenty nineteen twenty twenty budget,
and that includes the installation of the infrastructure across the
four hundred and forty seven piece apps.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And how long did we say then it was going
to take.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
The Last time we were before this body, we assumed
that we would be completed by the end of this share.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
The new cal OS report says it now plans to
complete the transition to statewide Next Generation nine one one
by twenty thirty through a twenty thirty doesn't give a
cost estimate, but the Sacramento Be talked with the chief
operating officer of one of the vendors paid by the
state to build the now scrapped regional design, who said
the change will cost taxpayers even more money, estimating hundreds
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of millions more. The cal OS report says the expenditures
between twenty nineteen and fall twenty twenty five for Next
Generation nine one one in California were substantial, but not lost.
The intent will be to build upon a large component
of the infrastructure that already exists. I reached out to
cal OS and the Governor's office today for comment. A
cal OS did knock it backs me in my deadline,
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and the Governor's office directed me to cal OS.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Classic so newsom in this agency blew four hundred and
fifty billion dollars. You call up cal OS, that's the
Office of Emergency Services and answer the phone call. You
call the agency, it runs nine one one and they
don't pick up.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
How that that's fitting and then.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You called NEWSIM it's like, oh, well to talk to them,
talk to the agency that doesn't answer the phone.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
What a jackass he is? Huh, how do you spend
four hundred and fifty million dollars? Now?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I mean, I I see Elon Musk setting up rocket
ships every few days, a nine to one one system
that Alabama figured out in nineteen sixty eight, and so
we blew the four hundred and fifty million. Now we're
gonna need hundreds of millions more. It's gonna be they
say twenty thirty Yeah, it's gonna be probably twenty thirty five.
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I don't know if you noticed there, but there's four
hundred and about four hundred and fifty emergency dispatch centers.
They tried out this system on twenty three of them
for starters. All twenty three didn't work, so they were
zero for twenty three. And they still have another about
four hundred and twenty five or so left that they
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didn't even try with.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
How could you screw this up? How could you seven
freaking years?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And then after the money's gone, do you have a
comment on no comment?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I call him, you know, here, here's a number. Call
somebody just unbelievable incompetence.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Newsom is at the center of the absolute most incompetent,
wasteful government that I've ever seen in my life. Have
you ever seen another state this bad again? Alabama figured
it out in nineteen sixty eight. That's just well, so
that's one we're gonna keep on top of. We're not
gonna be we may get stonewalled with no comments. But
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the nine to one one, that's that's like the bedrock
of safety, right, absolutely need nine one one, and they
screwed it up.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
The one of the most important conduits in safety.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Right, that's where you call the police who don't show up,
and that's where you call the fire department that doesn't
show up. I mean, what would have the Palisades done
with a working nine to one one system back in January?
Got to have that nine to one one system so
that the police and the fire know where they're not
going to show up, Like when you call about that
homeless person banging on your door holding a machete. Need
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that nine to one one so they could say there's
nothing we can do about it. All right, we got
more coming up.
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Okay, how.
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Would you like to sit in the studio at KFI
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Apparently you're right because the top bid right now is
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And that's not all.
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Oh yeah, what does that mean? Oh yeah, let's just
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I had the right to turn this down.
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Speaker 1 (12:23):
You're really scaring me, all right, that's tomorrow. Then I
don't have to think about it. I started. I started
dreading this like months in advance.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You thought we forgot.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I thought maybe there's a chance you did. I was
kind of hoping nobody had brought anything up. But we'll
we'll see what it is tomorrow. One of our favorites
is Genie, you know, the uh general manager, the head
of the DWP. She's the one who makes seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year and did not fill
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the reservoir for a year and it was needed for
the Palisades fire. Well, guess what, there's another scandal in
her office. She has an executive assistant named Rennette Anderson.
And Rennette Anderson apparently was forcing her forcing her staffers
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to run personal errands for her. All right, so Cononia
is busy not filling up the reservoir, taking in a
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars salary, her executive assistant
makes other people buy tickets to things like a Snoop
Dogg concert. She would ask them to book a plane
ticket for her personal travel, make physical therapy appointments for her,
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buy party supplies for a party at her home, not
a work party, and make a service appointment at a
Mercedes Benz dealership because she's making a lot of money too.
This is the according to the Enforcement Director Kenneth Hardy. Apparently,
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Renette Anderson would boss around two other employees, Brian Johnson
and Jane Regattas, and all the employees used city resources
to fulfill the requests, so we were paying for Rennette
Anderson's good time. According to this report, she has been
accused by the Enforcement director seven counts of misusing her
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city position to create a personal benefit for herself. Now,
this is not like a crime, This is an ethics violation,
and each count comes with a potential five thousand dollars fine.
And Rennette Anderson serves as director of the Equal Employment
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Opportunity Services. So this is one of these DEI jobs,
and she's decided to monetize her position. You know how
much she gets? What do you think a regular pay is?
What do you think a regular pay is for.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Being an executive assistant in charge of all the DEI stuff?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
To seventy five?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Well, well no, it's much more than that when you
add up the benefits. The base salary is two hundred
and thirty two thousand, Then there's something called other pay,
which is fifteen thousand. Then there's all the benefits, healthcare,
pension benefits. God knows what total pay and benefit packages
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for Renette Anderson three hundred seventy two thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
What does she do?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
She is an executive assistant to Genie Kinoniez.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But she's an assistant, but she has people doing everything
for her. So what does she do to get that salary?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Well, she bosses around these other people to take care
of her private business.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
She wanted to go.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
She snooped dogg, wanted a plane ticket to fly somewhere.
She wanted physical therapy appointments and party supplies, and she
needed her Mercedes Bend, Mercedes Benz fixed Mercedes Bend. So
three hundred seventy two thousand, one hundred and twenty nine
dollars and twelve cents that was her haul.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
And this is from a few years ago, this sheet.
You know, they don't update these sheets.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Oh, I'm sure she's gotten some raises and bonuses, especially
after the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
She's probably cracking four hundred thousand now so between her
and her Ditsie boss, that's over one point one million
dollars for what for? For an empty reservoir in the
Palisades during the fire.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
And I want some credits to my DWP bill, thank
you very much, because I feel like we get screwed
left and right all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh well, here's where it goes. Seven fifty to Ganie
and then we've got another four hundred thousand dollars Tonette Anderson.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And it's not it. That's the thing is. It wasn't
enough for her. It wasn't enough.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
How much is a Snoop Dogg ticket when you're making
almost four hundred grand a year? Well, how much is
a physical therapy appointment party supplies? It's an expensive helium time?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
What if for balloons, streamers.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I'm sure the party favors or something.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, no, yeah, we're probably paying for expensive party fans. Yes,
And there's no water in the reservoir and I had
no power for a week during that, and I can.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Be gone for weeks and my DWP bill is even
higher than.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
That's fascinating, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It's amazing going along vacation, you end up spending more money.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
All right, you're listening you John Cobels on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
This is almost funny.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You know that that dufus governor of Minnesota, Tim Walls,
who is Kamala's vice presidential candidate, and actually made her
seem like a mensa candidate. She he's involved Tim Walls
and a massive scandal because he allowed a billion dollars
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of tax money in Minnesota to disappear through hundreds of
fake nonprofits all servicing the Somalian community. There has now
been dozens and dozens of Somalian immigrants who have been
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arrested and convicted. A billion dollars in tax money has
disappeared stolen, and this basically was was COVID welfare money.
We're going to talk to rich McHugh from News Nation
about this scandal which even got Trump wound up and
he started smacking Walls around a billion dollars. And the
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only reason they didn't stop it five years ago was
because there were some millions and Tim Walls didn't want
to be called a racist.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
There were there's any thousands of millions that live in Minnesota.
Apparently they all vote Democratic, and the community leaders started
accusing Walls of being a racist, so they backed down
from any investigation. It is an amazing story, and you know,
I'm saying that, it just reminded me just how many
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nutty things went on during COVID. The government was dumping
out enormous sums of money. Fraud was everywhere, you know,
here in California, over thirty billion dollars was stolen by
fraudsters around the world because Gavin Newsom just shoveled the
money out and it didn't care if our tax money
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was stolen. Tim Walt didn't care if the tax money
was stolen. And then Katie Grimes over the California Globe
actually had a Thanksgiving remembrance story which made me nostalgic.
Actually it made you'll you'll probably remember this. Do you
remember the Thanksgiving of twenty twenty, I don't. That's when
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Governor Newsom locked up ninety four percent of the people
in the state put him in. Remember the colored tiars
had to look on a map and what tier was
your county in. That's right, So ninety four percent of
us were in the most restrictive tiers. And he issued
a set of rules. And you may have blocked all
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this out. I have, or you may think I'm kidding,
but this is all true. He did this with the
Health and Human Services Secretary, doctor Mark Gaily. And if
you remember that guy, he was like, had the big,
oversized bald, shiny head and ears and he looked like
a martian from a nineteen sixties children's cartoon. He did mean,
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you wouldn't be laughing if it wasn't true.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
So doctor Mark Gaily issued these orders. We were all
to stay home.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
No singing, oh God, no shouting, well that's not Thanksgiving dinner,
no shouting, no music because.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I remember I heard that and I didn't understand why.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And then they had to explain, well, if you play music,
then people are going to start singing. Right, it's like, oh,
I get it now, no parties. You have to eat
outside and keep a mask on while you're eating outside
in silence.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Wasn't that where bites and zips came from?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yes, that's right. This was an official order from this blockhead.
Now this was at the same time what happened in conjunction.
He was found at the French laundry, you see. And
when he got caught, he claimed that NAPA was in
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the less restrictive Orange tier.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I can't believe we lived through all that.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And we allowed him to stay on as governor for
another five years. Then he claimed he was caught off guard. Well,
I accidentally ran into this party. It was with healthcare lobbyists,
by the way. And then he claimed the party was
outside until somebody snapped the photo and he was sitting
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inside with all the internal doors were closed around him,
and everybody at the table was all clustered real close together,
and nobody wore a mask. And still people voted for
him two more times after that.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
What a stupido A what a stupido?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Oh okay, I thought.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Now that's a foreign word for stupid. The only one
who pushed back, according to Katie Crimes was the Sacramento
County Sheriff, Scott Jones, and he issued a statement at
the time saying, the Sheriff's office will not be determining
compliance with, or enforcing compliance of any health or emergency
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orders related to curfews staying at home, Thanksgiving or other
gatherings outside the home mask mandates maximum occupancy, and we
will not send officers for these purposes. Because neighbors started
rating out other neighbors saying, hey, there's twelve people in
the backyard and they're all singing.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
They're singing there and they're not wearing masks.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
So the sheriff is saying, look, you don't bother us,
because we are not coming to break up these parties.
Gaily and Newsom also issued orders saying that and this
is again Thanksgiving back then prohibited between ten pm and
five am. Non essential business and personal gatherings are prohibited
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between ten pm and five am. I don't understand why
that would be on the overnights. There was some kind
of curfew on the overnight.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
There was a curfew.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Why would you pay I mean, the virus is the
virus thy four hours a day? Why was there, but
there was.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
There was a curfew.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I can't believe I blocked all this out.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, I know. That's what struck me is I'd forgotten
all this. Wasn't there something about restrictions about having like
no more than three different households and oh, yeah, that's right. Pods, pods,
that's right. And because because the kids couldn't go to school,
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so neighbors or friends would make pods for their children.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
To And those are the only people that you could
be around. Because you're around those people, so you presumably
are all vaccinated and you know you're vetted.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I don't know. And I'm sorry, I'm not inviting you
to my pod. We just don't know each other. That well, okay, fine,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Want you in my pot. I don't want you, that says,
let me see. Oh, there was a travel advisory. People
entering the state or returning home from travel outside California
you had to self quarantine.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Oh the self Oh the quarantine, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
For fourteen days.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
So if you left California, knew some wanting dude be
locked up in a room for fourteen days.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Why, well, I understand why people block this out, but.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
This this This should be the reason that anybody who
is in office at the time never be allowed in
office again and be kicked out immediately. Right now, nothing's
gotten better. Well, look around at what's going on. I
was just shocked. I mean, I gotta I got a
good laugh out of it. You know, I was nostalgic.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I have PTSD, thank you very much. I didn't even
get a COVID shot this year.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, I haven't gotten one the last three years. I
don't know I took. I took five of them, I.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Think I did, and before I don't know. I don't
even remember that.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I only got three. Well you're you're at risk. No,
you're putting us at risk. Oh no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Well, you know, they sold it like it was it
was gonna work, and it didn't really stop the spread.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
But look, to be fair, we really what I do.
I really wanted that COVID shot.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Remember, Oh, I know you didn't get that COVID shot.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Ezy crazy God?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Who was that? Oh you were whipped up? You were
your leopard mask every day?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yes I did.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
That was a whole fashion thing.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
That's I don't want to think about that anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Okay, all right, coming up after two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
All the money wasted in Minnesota during COVID a billion
dollars on Somalian immigrants, Dozens and dozens set up fake nonprofits.
Exactly what goes on here in Los Angeles with the
homeless industry went on in Minnesota. You're gonna hear how
it's done, and I'm telling you it was.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's what has taken over like not only Minnesota, but California,
the whole country. We are a wash in billions and
billions of tax dollars getting wasted into this cancerous nonprofit system.
We'll talk more about it coming up after two with
Rich McHugh from News Nation.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Probably one of the dumbest men I've ever seen in
public life is Tim Walls, the Minnesota governor who was
Kamala Harris's vice presidential nominee. Was that the dumbest team.
Do you think they even cracked like one hundred and
twenty on the IQ scale combined?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Well, this.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Dufus let Somalian immigrants loot over a billion tax dollars
out of Minnesota, over a billion dollars They set up
fake nonprofits claiming they were feeding children during COVID. Nobody
was getting fed. All the money was stolen and spent
on the luxury items. There's now fifty nine convictions, fifty
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nine of them eighty six have been indicted, fifty.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Nine are going to prison.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Tim Walls is running for a third term, and we're
going to talk with rich Mhugh. He's with NewsNation, great reporter,
and he'll be reporting on this story for us coming
up after Deborah's news. Have you seen the bear that's
been on the loose in Alta Dina. Yes, Okay, you've
probably seen the video by now if you haven't, it's
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in the home of Kenneth Johnson. There's a crawl space
under his house and this guy has been living there
apparently for months. Johnson saw bricks were torn out back
in April and that a wooden frame was broken, and
then he finally put in a camera, but it took
months before this bear showed up on camera. And he
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he leaves every day looking for food probably and then
returns at night.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And you know, there's a lot of wildlife in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I mean, Johnson says he's seen a bobcat walking by
a skunk once sprayed him an eight foot Boa constrictor.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's the worst of all.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
He was. They're in the garage and his dad kicked
something and it turned out to be a Boa constrictor,
which you don't want to do because that gets the
boa very angry. So anyway, he finally finally discovers a
bear on the video camera and he's living in the
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cross space. So he calls the California Department of Fish
and Wildlife. Nothing, they're on Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Well, they deserve a vacation too.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
All weekend. There's nobody who calls back. Kenneth Johnson, this
is your tax dollars at work. I think a bear
in your cross base is an emergency and there ought
to be you know, time and a half. I mean
Eric worked all weekend, right I did. Yeah, got time
and a half from the company. That's what you do.
You pay a premium, you know, double time. Whatever it
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takes to get a guy in Thanksgiving day to come
and catch the bear. Imagine if we had a working
nine to one one system.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
So Kenneth Johnson is stuck.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
After he reports this the California Fish and Wildlife all
weekend Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Just stay inside, shelter in place, right.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
There wasn't even anyone there to tell him that. They
just don't answer the phone. You think there'd be an
emergency number. And the uh the La Times called Fish
and Wildlife on Sunday. They didn't respond. But this is
the way the news of administration runs now. It doesn't
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matter how ridiculous story is, they do not respond. There
is there is no comment. He s last saw the
bear at six a m. Saturday. What what really really
got to him is is the bear roared at him
one day.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I cannot, but you'd be a quick bite.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I have enough to deal with with all the coyotes
in our neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Oh bear, Yeah that's a big bear. Yeah, I know
it's a it's a good sized bear. And he's.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Come here, sweetie.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
It's okay, there you go. He's calling you, sweetie too.
Are we come back? Richard McHugh from News Nation, Yes,
over a billion dollars of tax money. Governor Tim Wall
shoveled at these Somali immigrants who were happy to set
(32:59):
up fake nonprofits, claiming, oh oh, it was for federal
child nutrition programs during the pandemic. Deborah Mark live in
the CAFI twenty four hour news Room. Hey, you've been
listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
hear the show live on KFI AM six forty from
one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course,
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anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're back, how are you? We're on every day from
one until four o'clock, and after four o'clock you can
always get the podcast John Cobel's Show on demand on
the iHeart app. Tomorrow is Pastathon Day. We're going to
be broadcasting live the whole station from five am to
(00:23):
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to four as usual. And let me tell you, if
you live outside the area or you know, in another state,
you have to donate to Pastathon or we are going
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's it all right? You don't pay anything for the app.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You don't pay anything for the show cause so all
we're asking is a donation so that the kids can eat. Yeah,
I will tell you more about that coming up in
a few minutes. Oh, including your chance to co host the.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Show is oh yeah, you don't want to miss that.
I mean, who in the right mind would not want
to co host John Cobell in the same studio with
him while he shuffles his papers and he bangs on
the desk.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I mean, come on, you're all ready to go. I
was going to set this up for long. Sorry, all right,
let's just say it again.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I mean, you know, people tune in and out all
the time.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I don't know, it's a good warm up. You're particularly
wired up today, I don't. I know. I'm going to
move now.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
One thing I really can't stand is when there is
an act of government stupidity and the story breaks on
a Friday afternoon, Friday evening or right before holiday weekend,
and the people breaking the story hope he gets buried right.
And then in this case, oh, I don't know, it
was like a lot of people took Wednesday off right.
(01:58):
So it's been five days. I don't let anything get away. No,
you don't, No, I don't. And the constant follow ups.
I'm like a dog, you know, it finds a bone.
I'm gonna keep digging and digging and digging.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
We depend on you, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And this one, this one makes me crazy. How long
do you think we've had a nine to one to
one system in America? The first one, first one was
in Alabama, of all places, in nineteen sixty eight, Haileyville, Alabama,
February sixteenth, nineteen sixty eight. In California, we have had
nine one one systems for over fifty years.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And we've had the.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Same statewide nine one one system ever since they've built it,
So it's over fifty years. In twenty nineteen, first week,
first week that old slickhead became governor, he he said,
we've we've got to we've got to build a new
nine to one one system. Okay, got you got to
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get with the more modern technology. Since then, that is
that is, believe it or not, seven years of work,
seven years of work, four hundred and fifty million dollars
your tax money for the new modernized nine to one
one system. Guess what happened when they turned it on.
(03:22):
Didn't work, and they tried fixing it, tinkering with it,
doesn't work, doesn't work, They're going to have to scrap
the whole system. Four hundred and fifty million dollars, nearly
a half a billion down down the toilet shoot in
the garbage because they botched it all up. To get
(03:46):
an overall view of this, We're going to play this
report from ABC ten Sacramento. The reporter Becca Habiger.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Now on an emergency, what are your putting.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Throughout the state? California has about four hundred and fifty
emergency dispatch center is also known as Public Safety Answering
Points or peace apps. California's overall system what connects all
these emergency services is more than fifty years old. That's why,
in his first week as governor in twenty nineteen, Gavin
Newsom vowed to modernize what he called the state's antiquated
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nine to one one system. Cal Oees led the charge,
choosing a unique regional approach with multiple vendors so an
outage in one area wouldn't become an outage statewide. From
twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four, cal Oes says the
state paid more than four hundred and fifty million dollars
upgrading to what it calls next Generation nine one one,
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but earlier this year cal Os paused the plan. A
newly released cal Os report sheds light on what happened.
The good news system upgrades are in place at every
dispatch center statewide, it says, allowing dispatchers to better pinpoint
a caller's location and receive text to nine to one one. However,
only twenty three of the peace apps have begun the
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migration for voice calls, and those twenty three centers ran
into significant operational disruptions. The report says cal OS found
dispatchers had to handle incoming calls from both the old
and new systems well transitioning over which is a time
consuming and risky process during emergencies. It found the regional
system creates interdependencies, delaying issue resolution, so cal OS paused
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the rollout and is scrapping the regional plan in favor
of a statewide approach. They'll seek just two contractors in
a process starting early next year, which means more money
and more time.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
How long have we been paying for the next gen system?
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I believe it was in the twenty nineteen twenty twenty budget,
and that includes the installation of the infrastructure across the
four hundred and forty seven piece apps.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And how long did we say then it was going
to take.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
The Last time we were before this body, we assumed
that we would be completed by the end of this share.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
The new cal OS report says it now plans to
complete the transition to statewide Next Generation nine one one
by twenty thirty through a twenty thirty doesn't give a
cost estimate, but the Sacramento Be talked with the chief
operating officer of one of the vendors paid by the
state to build the now scrapped regional design, who said
the change will cost taxpayers even more money, estimating hundreds
(06:19):
of millions more. The cal OS report says the expenditures
between twenty nineteen and fall twenty twenty five for Next
Generation nine one one in California were substantial, but not lost.
The intent will be to build upon a large component
of the infrastructure that already exists. I reached out to
cal OS and the Governor's office today for comment. A
cal OS did knock it backs me in my deadline,
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and the Governor's office directed me to cal OS.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Classic so newsom in this agency blew four hundred and
fifty billion dollars. You call up cal OS, that's the
Office of Emergency Services and answer the phone call. You
call the agency, it runs nine one one and they
don't pick up.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
How that that's fitting and then.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You called NEWSIM it's like, oh, well to talk to them,
talk to the agency that doesn't answer the phone.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
What a jackass he is? Huh, how do you spend
four hundred and fifty million dollars? Now?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I mean, I I see Elon Musk setting up rocket
ships every few days, a nine to one one system
that Alabama figured out in nineteen sixty eight, and so
we blew the four hundred and fifty million. Now we're
gonna need hundreds of millions more. It's gonna be they
say twenty thirty Yeah, it's gonna be probably twenty thirty five.
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I don't know if you noticed there, but there's four
hundred and about four hundred and fifty emergency dispatch centers.
They tried out this system on twenty three of them
for starters. All twenty three didn't work, so they were
zero for twenty three. And they still have another about
four hundred and twenty five or so left that they
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didn't even try with.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
How could you screw this up? How could you seven
freaking years?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And then after the money's gone, do you have a
comment on no comment?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I call him, you know, here, here's a number. Call
somebody just unbelievable incompetence.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Newsom is at the center of the absolute most incompetent,
wasteful government that I've ever seen in my life. Have
you ever seen another state this bad again? Alabama figured
it out in nineteen sixty eight. That's just well, so
that's one we're gonna keep on top of. We're not
gonna be we may get stonewalled with no comments. But
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the nine to one one, that's that's like the bedrock
of safety, right, absolutely need nine one one, and they
screwed it up.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
The one of the most important conduits in safety.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Right, that's where you call the police who don't show up,
and that's where you call the fire department that doesn't
show up. I mean, what would have the Palisades done
with a working nine to one one system back in January?
Got to have that nine to one one system so
that the police and the fire know where they're not
going to show up, Like when you call about that
homeless person banging on your door holding a machete. Need
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that nine to one one so they could say there's
nothing we can do about it. All right, we got
more coming up.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
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Speaker 2 (09:36):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock.
Then after four o'clock John Cobilt's show on demand on
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got a minute. The pastathon is tomorrow. It's giving Tuesday
five to eight o'clock, five am to eight pm. I
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Speaker 1 (10:45):
Okay, how.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Would you like to sit in the studio at KFI
right across from the one and only John Cobelt. You
get to watch him in action, shuffling his papers, doing
all the thing things, losing his glasses, losing his key card,
his phone falls on the floor, but yet he won't
miss a beat, and you get to be there live.
(11:09):
I mean that is worth thousands and thousands of dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Apparently you're right because the top bid right now is
three six hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
And that's not all.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
We have a little surprise for John, as we do
every year, tomorrow at the actual postathon event. So I'm
giving you a heads up. If you're gonna come to
the live show, which we really hope you do, bring
some cash, bring your credit card because we need you
to contribute money to Pastathon to see John. Oh yeah,
(11:45):
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Oh yeah, what does that mean? Oh yeah, let's just
say perform. Oh no, yes, it is worth it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
You're gonna want to come to see John.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Polias feel like a stripper at a cheap club every year.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I think this could be the best yet.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I had the right to turn this down.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
But you're not going to because it's for the children, right.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Eric, It's for the we're raising money, So please.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Come tomorrow and bring money to donate to pastathon. And
also again you want to you definitely want to be
a co host with John Forth every penny.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You're really scaring me, all right, that's tomorrow. Then I
don't have to think about it. I started. I started
dreading this like months in advance.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You thought we forgot.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I thought maybe there's a chance you did. I was
kind of hoping nobody had brought anything up. But we'll
we'll see what it is tomorrow. One of our favorites
is Genie, you know, the uh general manager, the head
of the DWP. She's the one who makes seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year and did not fill
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the reservoir for a year and it was needed for
the Palisades fire. Well, guess what, there's another scandal in
her office. She has an executive assistant named Rennette Anderson.
And Rennette Anderson apparently was forcing her forcing her staffers
(13:16):
to run personal errands for her. All right, so Cononia
is busy not filling up the reservoir, taking in a
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars salary, her executive assistant
makes other people buy tickets to things like a Snoop
Dogg concert. She would ask them to book a plane
ticket for her personal travel, make physical therapy appointments for her,
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buy party supplies for a party at her home, not
a work party, and make a service appointment at a
Mercedes Benz dealership because she's making a lot of money too.
This is the according to the Enforcement Director Kenneth Hardy. Apparently,
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Renette Anderson would boss around two other employees, Brian Johnson
and Jane Regattas, and all the employees used city resources
to fulfill the requests, so we were paying for Rennette
Anderson's good time. According to this report, she has been
accused by the Enforcement director seven counts of misusing her
(14:28):
city position to create a personal benefit for herself. Now,
this is not like a crime, This is an ethics violation,
and each count comes with a potential five thousand dollars fine.
And Rennette Anderson serves as director of the Equal Employment
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Opportunity Services. So this is one of these DEI jobs,
and she's decided to monetize her position. You know how
much she gets? What do you think a regular pay is?
What do you think a regular pay is for.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Being an executive assistant in charge of all the DEI stuff?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
To seventy five?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Well, well no, it's much more than that when you
add up the benefits. The base salary is two hundred
and thirty two thousand, Then there's something called other pay,
which is fifteen thousand. Then there's all the benefits, healthcare,
pension benefits. God knows what total pay and benefit packages
(15:35):
for Renette Anderson three hundred seventy two thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
What does she do?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
She is an executive assistant to Genie Kinoniez.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But she's an assistant, but she has people doing everything
for her. So what does she do to get that salary?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Well, she bosses around these other people to take care
of her private business.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
She wanted to go.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
She snooped dogg, wanted a plane ticket to fly somewhere.
She wanted physical therapy appointments and party supplies, and she
needed her Mercedes Bend, Mercedes Benz fixed Mercedes Bend. So
three hundred seventy two thousand, one hundred and twenty nine
dollars and twelve cents that was her haul.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
And this is from a few years ago, this sheet.
You know, they don't update these sheets.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Oh, I'm sure she's gotten some raises and bonuses, especially
after the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
She's probably cracking four hundred thousand now so between her
and her Ditsie boss, that's over one point one million
dollars for what for? For an empty reservoir in the
Palisades during the fire.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
And I want some credits to my DWP bill, thank
you very much, because I feel like we get screwed
left and right all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh well, here's where it goes. Seven fifty to Ganie
and then we've got another four hundred thousand dollars Tonette Anderson.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And it's not it. That's the thing is. It wasn't
enough for her. It wasn't enough.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
How much is a Snoop Dogg ticket when you're making
almost four hundred grand a year? Well, how much is
a physical therapy appointment party supplies? It's an expensive helium time?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
What if for balloons, streamers.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I'm sure the party favors or something.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, no, yeah, we're probably paying for expensive party fans. Yes,
And there's no water in the reservoir and I had
no power for a week during that, and I can.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Be gone for weeks and my DWP bill is even
higher than.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
That's fascinating, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It's amazing going along vacation, you end up spending more money.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
All right, you're listening you John Cobels on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
This is almost funny.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You know that that dufus governor of Minnesota, Tim Walls,
who is Kamala's vice presidential candidate, and actually made her
seem like a mensa candidate. She he's involved Tim Walls
and a massive scandal because he allowed a billion dollars
(18:29):
of tax money in Minnesota to disappear through hundreds of
fake nonprofits all servicing the Somalian community. There has now
been dozens and dozens of Somalian immigrants who have been
(18:49):
arrested and convicted. A billion dollars in tax money has
disappeared stolen, and this basically was was COVID welfare money.
We're going to talk to rich McHugh from News Nation
about this scandal which even got Trump wound up and
he started smacking Walls around a billion dollars. And the
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only reason they didn't stop it five years ago was
because there were some millions and Tim Walls didn't want
to be called a racist.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
There were there's any thousands of millions that live in Minnesota.
Apparently they all vote Democratic, and the community leaders started
accusing Walls of being a racist, so they backed down
from any investigation. It is an amazing story, and you know,
I'm saying that, it just reminded me just how many
(19:40):
nutty things went on during COVID. The government was dumping
out enormous sums of money. Fraud was everywhere, you know,
here in California, over thirty billion dollars was stolen by
fraudsters around the world because Gavin Newsom just shoveled the
money out and it didn't care if our tax money
(20:01):
was stolen. Tim Walt didn't care if the tax money
was stolen. And then Katie Grimes over the California Globe
actually had a Thanksgiving remembrance story which made me nostalgic.
Actually it made you'll you'll probably remember this. Do you
remember the Thanksgiving of twenty twenty, I don't. That's when
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Governor Newsom locked up ninety four percent of the people
in the state put him in. Remember the colored tiars
had to look on a map and what tier was
your county in. That's right, So ninety four percent of
us were in the most restrictive tiers. And he issued
a set of rules. And you may have blocked all
(20:43):
this out. I have, or you may think I'm kidding,
but this is all true. He did this with the
Health and Human Services Secretary, doctor Mark Gaily. And if
you remember that guy, he was like, had the big,
oversized bald, shiny head and ears and he looked like
a martian from a nineteen sixties children's cartoon. He did mean,
(21:09):
you wouldn't be laughing if it wasn't true.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
So doctor Mark Gaily issued these orders. We were all
to stay home.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
No singing, oh God, no shouting, well that's not Thanksgiving dinner,
no shouting, no music because.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I remember I heard that and I didn't understand why.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And then they had to explain, well, if you play music,
then people are going to start singing. Right, it's like, oh,
I get it now, no parties. You have to eat
outside and keep a mask on while you're eating outside
in silence.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Wasn't that where bites and zips came from?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yes, that's right. This was an official order from this blockhead.
Now this was at the same time what happened in conjunction.
He was found at the French laundry, you see. And
when he got caught, he claimed that NAPA was in
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the less restrictive Orange tier.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I can't believe we lived through all that.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And we allowed him to stay on as governor for
another five years. Then he claimed he was caught off guard. Well,
I accidentally ran into this party. It was with healthcare lobbyists,
by the way. And then he claimed the party was
outside until somebody snapped the photo and he was sitting
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inside with all the internal doors were closed around him,
and everybody at the table was all clustered real close together,
and nobody wore a mask. And still people voted for
him two more times after that.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
What a stupido A what a stupido?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Oh okay, I thought.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Now that's a foreign word for stupid. The only one
who pushed back, according to Katie Crimes was the Sacramento
County Sheriff, Scott Jones, and he issued a statement at
the time saying, the Sheriff's office will not be determining
compliance with, or enforcing compliance of any health or emergency
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orders related to curfews staying at home, Thanksgiving or other
gatherings outside the home mask mandates maximum occupancy, and we
will not send officers for these purposes. Because neighbors started
rating out other neighbors saying, hey, there's twelve people in
the backyard and they're all singing.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
They're singing there and they're not wearing masks.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
So the sheriff is saying, look, you don't bother us,
because we are not coming to break up these parties.
Gaily and Newsom also issued orders saying that and this
is again Thanksgiving back then prohibited between ten pm and
five am. Non essential business and personal gatherings are prohibited
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between ten pm and five am. I don't understand why
that would be on the overnights. There was some kind
of curfew on the overnight.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
There was a curfew.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Why would you pay I mean, the virus is the
virus thy four hours a day? Why was there, but
there was.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
There was a curfew.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I can't believe I blocked all this out.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, I know. That's what struck me is I'd forgotten
all this. Wasn't there something about restrictions about having like
no more than three different households and oh, yeah, that's right. Pods, pods,
that's right. And because because the kids couldn't go to school,
(25:15):
so neighbors or friends would make pods for their children.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
To And those are the only people that you could
be around. Because you're around those people, so you presumably
are all vaccinated and you know you're vetted.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I don't know. And I'm sorry, I'm not inviting you
to my pod. We just don't know each other. That well, okay, fine,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Want you in my pot. I don't want you, that says,
let me see. Oh, there was a travel advisory. People
entering the state or returning home from travel outside California
you had to self quarantine.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Oh the self Oh the quarantine, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
For fourteen days.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
So if you left California, knew some wanting dude be
locked up in a room for fourteen days.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Why, well, I understand why people block this out, but.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
This this This should be the reason that anybody who
is in office at the time never be allowed in
office again and be kicked out immediately. Right now, nothing's
gotten better. Well, look around at what's going on. I
was just shocked. I mean, I gotta I got a
good laugh out of it. You know, I was nostalgic.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I have PTSD, thank you very much. I didn't even
get a COVID shot this year.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, I haven't gotten one the last three years. I
don't know I took. I took five of them, I.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Think I did, and before I don't know. I don't
even remember that.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I only got three. Well you're you're at risk. No,
you're putting us at risk. Oh no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Well, you know, they sold it like it was it
was gonna work, and it didn't really stop the spread.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
But look, to be fair, we really what I do.
I really wanted that COVID shot.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Remember, Oh, I know you didn't get that COVID shot.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Ezy crazy God?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Who was that? Oh you were whipped up? You were
your leopard mask every day?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yes I did.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
That was a whole fashion thing.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
That's I don't want to think about that anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Okay, all right, coming up after two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
All the money wasted in Minnesota during COVID a billion
dollars on Somalian immigrants, Dozens and dozens set up fake nonprofits.
Exactly what goes on here in Los Angeles with the
homeless industry went on in Minnesota. You're gonna hear how
it's done, and I'm telling you it was.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's what has taken over like not only Minnesota, but California,
the whole country. We are a wash in billions and
billions of tax dollars getting wasted into this cancerous nonprofit system.
We'll talk more about it coming up after two with
Rich McHugh from News Nation.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Probably one of the dumbest men I've ever seen in
public life is Tim Walls, the Minnesota governor who was
Kamala Harris's vice presidential nominee. Was that the dumbest team.
Do you think they even cracked like one hundred and
twenty on the IQ scale combined?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Well, this.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Dufus let Somalian immigrants loot over a billion tax dollars
out of Minnesota, over a billion dollars They set up
fake nonprofits claiming they were feeding children during COVID. Nobody
was getting fed. All the money was stolen and spent
on the luxury items. There's now fifty nine convictions, fifty
(29:06):
nine of them eighty six have been indicted, fifty.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Nine are going to prison.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Tim Walls is running for a third term, and we're
going to talk with rich Mhugh. He's with NewsNation, great reporter,
and he'll be reporting on this story for us coming
up after Deborah's news. Have you seen the bear that's
been on the loose in Alta Dina. Yes, Okay, you've
probably seen the video by now if you haven't, it's
(29:36):
in the home of Kenneth Johnson. There's a crawl space
under his house and this guy has been living there
apparently for months. Johnson saw bricks were torn out back
in April and that a wooden frame was broken, and
then he finally put in a camera, but it took
months before this bear showed up on camera. And he
(30:00):
he leaves every day looking for food probably and then
returns at night.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And you know, there's a lot of wildlife in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I mean, Johnson says he's seen a bobcat walking by
a skunk once sprayed him an eight foot Boa constrictor.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's the worst of all.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
He was. They're in the garage and his dad kicked
something and it turned out to be a Boa constrictor,
which you don't want to do because that gets the
boa very angry. So anyway, he finally finally discovers a
bear on the video camera and he's living in the
(30:42):
cross space. So he calls the California Department of Fish
and Wildlife. Nothing, they're on Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Well, they deserve a vacation too.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
All weekend. There's nobody who calls back. Kenneth Johnson, this
is your tax dollars at work. I think a bear
in your cross base is an emergency and there ought
to be you know, time and a half. I mean
Eric worked all weekend, right I did. Yeah, got time
and a half from the company. That's what you do.
You pay a premium, you know, double time. Whatever it
(31:16):
takes to get a guy in Thanksgiving day to come
and catch the bear. Imagine if we had a working
nine to one one system.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
So Kenneth Johnson is stuck.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
After he reports this the California Fish and Wildlife all
weekend Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Just stay inside, shelter in place, right.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
There wasn't even anyone there to tell him that. They
just don't answer the phone. You think there'd be an
emergency number. And the uh the La Times called Fish
and Wildlife on Sunday. They didn't respond. But this is
the way the news of administration runs now. It doesn't
(31:58):
matter how ridiculous story is, they do not respond. There
is there is no comment. He s last saw the
bear at six a m. Saturday. What what really really
got to him is is the bear roared at him
one day.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I cannot, but you'd be a quick bite.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I have enough to deal with with all the coyotes
in our neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Oh bear, Yeah that's a big bear. Yeah, I know
it's a it's a good sized bear. And he's.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Come here, sweetie.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
It's okay, there you go. He's calling you, sweetie too.
Are we come back? Richard McHugh from News Nation, Yes,
over a billion dollars of tax money. Governor Tim Wall
shoveled at these Somali immigrants who were happy to set
(32:59):
up fake nonprofits, claiming, oh oh, it was for federal
child nutrition programs during the pandemic. Deborah Mark live in
the CAFI twenty four hour news Room. Hey, you've been
listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
hear the show live on KFI AM six forty from
one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course,
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