March 4, 2026 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (03/04) - Janisse Quiñones has resigned as the head of the LADWP and is returning to Puerto Rico to lead the agency that is in charge of the electrical grid in the country.
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You don't want to miss Today. We start off with
the great news you heard it in Deborah's newscast. The
(00:50):
idiot Janie Kinoniez, the CEO and chief engineer of the LADWP,
the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, has finally
been tossed out, finally been gone. Caravas is running for
reelection and she is cleaning out the bar and she
got the shovel and she shoveled up Jennie Kiez and
(01:12):
dumped her, dumped her out into a field where I
had there are probably majority high high percentage of incompetent
bureaucrats in all layers of government. But I tell you
this lady, this lady is first ballot Hall of Fame material.
(01:33):
Janie Koniez never filled the one hundred and seventeen million
gallon reservoir, the Santienez Reservoir in the Pacific Palisades. So
when the fire broke out and the firefighters showed up,
few of them, they didn't have one hundred and seventeen
million gallons of water because Janie Konez drained the reservoir.
(02:01):
They needed a new what amounted to was a pool cover.
And they should have done that in a month, and
it took Genie Kinnonez over a year. Now, mind you,
it doesn't need a pool cover. They claim it was
to protect the drinking water. The Centiendez Reservoir was created
(02:24):
for fire purposes. There was a terrible fire, the bell
Air Fire, in nineteen sixty one, and according to the
Los Angeles Times, and this was from a nineteen sixty
four edition of the paper, they built a reservoir to
address the lack of water which they needed for the
bell Air fire. And they said, if we have another
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fire now we're gonna have reservoir. It was built. It
was built to put out fires. In addition, you could
use it for drinking water. But as we found out
in twenty twenty four, when the reservoir was empty for
a year, that did not impact drinking water supply in
the Palisades at all. It was completely unnecessary. Now, jenniese
(03:13):
Conunias was a diversity higher. Nobody rational, intelligent, reasonable would
ever look at Genese's Genie Canonia's resume for more than
thirty seconds without tossing it in the trash can. And
if you met her and heard her talk, you'd call
security and have her take it out. This is the
(03:34):
terminally stupid woman. Let me put it to you this way.
If there was a quiz to get the job right,
and the quiz had one question, fire season is approaching.
You have a one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir
sitting in a high fire danger region. Do you A
fill it up or B leave it empty? One question
(03:57):
you get the job. She would have picked be leave
it empty, which is what she did. But she not
only but she kept the job. Not only that they
found that there was thirteen hundred fire hydrants busted thirteen hundred.
(04:18):
Now she's got two jobs. It's DWP Department of Water
and Power. The W stands for water, So you had
to fill the reservoir with water, and then you need
the fire hydrants to help disperse the water.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That's your main job.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And if there's a problem, you have to have a
backup supply coming from somewhere else, which they've installed. Now
they're importing water from the other side of the mountain,
just in case. Because Genie Quinonyez, after stupidly emptying the
reservoir and shutting it down just a few weeks ago,
she emptied it again and shut it down. The thing
(05:06):
is empty right now, after costing nearly seven thousand homes
and businesses, after watching nearly seven thousand homes and businesses
burned down, the fire department ran out of water in
all I don't know, eighteen hours.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It was over. They had no water.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Firefighters were standing all over the palisades with their hands
in their pockets, going, sorry, we're out of water.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Out of water.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I know people, I've got friends, I've got acquaintances who
live in the palisades, and they told me, Yeah, the
guys were standing around and if you approached them, it's like, hey,
where's your hose? Why aren't you putting out the fire
of the water Because Denise Canonias emptied the reservoir and
the fire hydrants are broken, and she kept their job
(05:59):
because when some one is hired for diversity purposes, they
can never be fired, and they're not unless, of course,
you embarrassed Karen Bass, which is what Kristin Crowley did.
So even though she was diverse as well, she got
kicked out. Janie Cononas was making seven hundred and fifty
(06:22):
thousand dollars a year. She made probably two million dollars
since she was hired, two million dollars, and she couldn't
fill the reservoir and she couldn't fix the fire hydrants.
She never told anybody either. As far as I know,
(06:43):
Karen Bass and Kristin Crowley didn't even know the reservoir
was empty. They didn't know the fire hydrants were all broken.
Of course they should have made their business to find
that out. But today we're dancing on Genie's Deenise Kenona's
professional grave. What is she's actually getting another job, she's
(07:05):
taking over, She's taking over the in Puerto Rico, the
agency that provides electricity. She's going to take a leadership
role to help build Puerto Rico's electrical grid. Seriously, she's
(07:30):
going back to Puerto Rico, It's where she was born,
to support the modernization and transformation of the electric grid.
That's what off Vass's office set. Because you know, they
had a hurricane almost ten years ago. They've never been
able to get their electrical situation back together. They have
chronic power outages, they have a thirty three percent energy shortfall.
(07:55):
Their plants are really old, they run on oil, they
have nine billion in debt. In fact, people endure more
blackouts in Puerto Rico than anywhere in the United States.
And now they're putting her in charge of this. What's
she gonna do? Just too dumb to fill the reservoir.
(08:16):
She was too dumb to fix the hydrods. Oh, second
part of the fire catastrophe in the Palisades and everybody
forgets this, and this is on video. She never shut
off the electricity to parts of the Palisades that hadn't
burned yet. And then the power poles. There's something called
(08:41):
I think an h pole. It's two upright poles connected
by a cross beam and it has electrical wires attached
to it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Well on video you could see.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
The poles, the cross beam, the whole h fall down,
crashed to the ground, brings down the electrical wires which
were still alive, and it set the brush on fire,
and that started another subfire and completely wiped out a neighborhood.
(09:16):
This was twelve hours after the fire started. This was
the night of January seventh. She never turned off the
electrical power, after not filling the reservoir, after not fixing
the hydrants, after not telling anybody. I don't think there's
ever been an executive in a position of a utility
(09:39):
that has ever done more damage, more quickly, with more
stupid decisions in the history of the United States. And
then after it happened, she never spoke about it. She
never made any public statements, never answered any questions, never apologized,
(10:00):
never explained.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
She just went on collected her two billion dollars. We
have more coming up.
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we got a couple of Genie Quonia's clips, not that
they're particularly important in and of themselves, but just to
give you an idea what she sounded like. She sounds
like an idiot, So play whatever you have there.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Cut number one.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
You call it powered by equity, and I know that
it's been really important for the DWP to put an
equity lens on everything.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yes, yeah, and that's the number one thing that attracted
me to this role, coming from the communities that I
seeing what I've seen through my career and utilities and
through the military. I've been in the costcard nineteen and
a half years now, so I got six more months
to qualify for my twenty years, which was my original goal.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
WO congratulation, Thank.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
You for your service, Thank you, thank you. It's important
to me that everything we do it's with an equivalents
and social justice and making sure that we right the
wrongs that we've done in the past from an infrastructure
perspective and that we involved the community in that process,
and this utility is serious about it, is authentic about it,
(11:38):
and so I'm just super excited to be part of
that movement.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Do you hear that.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What attracted her to the job was that everything they
did at the LADWP was through the equity lens, and
that she was very proud of the ledwp's involvement in
social justice. She didn't mention anything about making sure, oh
(12:12):
I don't know, reservoirs are filled, hydrants are fixed, electric
lines are functioning properly. She was there for the equity
and diversity and the social justice. She had no business
running the DWP none, And she wasn't hired to run
of water and power utility. Karen Pass hired her because
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they would get all aroused over social justice and equity
and diversity and inclusion and all that other rot well. So,
of course the palisades burned down. Of course, the reservoir
was empty. Of course, the electric poles and the wires
came tumbling down. Of course, the hydrants were all busted.
They were in meetings all day talking about equity and
(12:58):
diversity and inclusion and social They weren't running Utilita, they
were running some kind of bizarre social project. Ay yy God,
I forgot about that. What's uh, what's the other clip
you have? That's a bear in I thought.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
My intent is to continue to that, continue to execute
on the things that we do well, and improve on
the things that we need to make improvements on. To
serve our customers in an equitable way.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Equitable that was after the fire, right, that clip that
was after serve our customers in an equitable ray way. Well,
they were like religious zealots. Where does equity have to
do with anything? Keep the water flowing, keep the electricity flowing.
What's what's what's what's this equity? That is a word
(13:49):
I didn't even hear of five years ago. It just
suddenly popped up, and you know for in the media,
the progressive movement, and then everything was equity all and away.
You know, it was very equitable. She wiped out just
about the whole town. I'm she wiped out men, women, white, black, Hispanic,
you name it. The fire wiped everybody out. There's very
equitable fire. Like I said, I think she's below the
(14:16):
Newsom line IQ wise, that is sub ninety three, that
is below the Newsom line for IQ It's actually scary
listening to her because you realize that she really was
in charge. And I think la is the U is
the largest utility in the whole country, and she was
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the largest municipal utility in the United States. What are
an electricity to four million people six hundred and eighty
one thousand water customers, that's households one and a half
million dollar electric customers. And that lady was in charge,
miss diversity, aity, social justice. That's why she was attracted
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to the job. So she was interested in fixing fire hydrants,
or filling the reservoir, or making sure electricity was turned
off to power lines in the middle of the most
devastating fire for a city in US history?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Is everybody diverse? Is everybody feeling equitable?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Today? Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year? This
is Karen bass is higher obviously on Karen Bass higher diversity,
equity and incompetence.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Do you want one more?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That's what the I in DEI stands for, diversity, equity
and competence. Yes, play one more?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Well, I'd like to start by highlighting the Commons Commissioner
Cat says and wishing everybody a happy Earth. They we
have as of April ten, and you exhibit in the
lobby at the museum space call sustainability at lee WP
A Greener Tomorrow, this new multipanel. It was creating a
(16:03):
celebration of Earth Month.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That was after the fire too.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
That was one of the few times she spoke publicly
to carry about carry on about Earth Day and Earth Month.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
This can't be true.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I mean, I remember these clips when we played them
the first it's one more small one.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
You got a small one, another one to move.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Water into the power of our system that has been impacted.
We're performing our own trenching, excavation and repairs, and that
it's allowing us to move faster.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
That that is just the whole thing's unbelievable. And by
the way, this is why Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You have to vote No.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
One Karen Bass, and vote against Karen Bass, because she
thought was not only great and smart and talented and
diverse and inclusive and equitable and excited about social justice.
If you're just delivering water in power, what has that
(17:14):
got to do with social justice and equity? Why would
that get you excited and make you attracted to a job.
What you should be looking and seeing whether all the
water is getting to its destination and all the electricity
is and the bills are really high as we know.
How about making the whole system less expensive by getting
(17:36):
out of the green energy racket scam?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh my god. When we come back.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
The attorney for the guy who is charged with starting
the fire, the arsonist, the attorney now thinks all the
charges are to be dropped.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yes, let's continue the celebration. I am six forty more
stimulating talk radio, the John Covelt Show on from three
to six every day. Ah, the movez Ella's It signals
the end of Jeniez Kenonias as the head of the
DWP here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Again.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
We have a podcast after six o'clock John Cobelt Show
on demand, And in case you've been missing the celebration,
that's what you're gonna want to go to after six o'clock.
We're in the middle of it right now. Yes, Jeniez
Keez is leaving. She was an idiot among idiots, seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars salary annually to run the DWP,
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and she never filled the one hundred and seventeen million
gallon reservoir in the Pacific Palisades. It was bone dry,
empty right to the bottom when that fire hit on
January seventh to twenty twenty five. Never filled it up.
Took him a year to get a new cover, which
(19:08):
they didn't need because because the thing was built originally
for fire use. As we've been playing clips highlights, Jennie
Cononia has rarely spoken public in the last year and
a half. She never explained, defended, apologized, She never resigned.
(19:31):
Oh that that also is funny. The reason she's leaving.
According to Karen Bass, it's part of a quote planned
leadership transition.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yes, the plan was, you got to get out.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Of here before the election re election campaign starts because
because eventually Karen Bass has got to deal with debates,
right and I mean most of the media here has
had has had their genitals cut off, and they're afraid
to confront her. But at least one of the candidates
(20:08):
would probably say, hey, telling Karen, why didn't you fire
Jenis Quinonias since she had the reservoir left empty and
there was thirteen hundred fire hydrants broken and she left
the power running through the lines that night, which started
more fires. Why didn't you fire her? In fact, what
would it take to fire the head of the DWP?
(20:32):
Burning down the palisades wasn't enough for Bass to fire her.
But now, like I said before, they got to clean
out the barn, there's a reelection campaign. So now she's
going to be part of a planned leadership transition. And
she hasn't spoken much, and when she spoke, it was
(20:53):
usually about gobbledegook like diversity and equity and Earth Day.
Here is a little clip of Karen Bass defending why
she decided to pay her seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Let me just.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Say that the DWP is the nation's largest utility. And
if you compare our utility to Omaha, Nebraska, where the
salary was around the same a small town, I mean
in bigtown maybe in Nebraska, but small compared to Los Angeles.
And so to me, I want to get the best
(21:30):
talent around the around the nation, and we did a
national search and that's.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
What it took.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
She took a significant pay cut to come to work
for the Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I guess I'm in the wrong line of work. So
what all?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Right? Stop it there be Alex Michael said, a national search,
and she.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Took, oh my god, a significant ay cut to come
to Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
She was working for pg and E, which is the lead,
the world's leader in starting fires. PGED has killed more
people and burned more buildings than any other entity in
the United States. So of course she worked at PGNA.
Of course she would she would come to Los Angeles,
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by the way, thank you so much. She was making double.
Her predecessor was named Martin Adams, and he only made
half as much, and she made two and a half
times as much as Karen Bass. Karen Bass's salary is
three hundred thousand, and Kenunyas is getting seven hundred and
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fifty thousand and couldn't fill the reservoir. You know, I
was coming up with like a series of one question
job interviews. I mentioned before one question for Jenny's Canonians
when she was getting hired. You have an empty reservoir.
It could hold one hundred and seventeen million gallons. When
fire season comes, should we fill the reservoir or not?
A yes, B no? Then I'm thinking, ah, here's something
(23:01):
for Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Here's one question.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You get warnings extreme wind warnings, extreme fire danger warnings.
Should you A go to Africa or B stay home? Well,
she chose Africa. And then Kristin Crowley, Hey, we've got
huge fire warnings, huge wind warnings. Should you A send
(23:25):
a thousand firefighters home that morning or B keep them
for a second shift?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
She chose A.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
She sent everybody home.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
But they were all diverse. Now I haven't heard these
next cliff clips, but they were posted online and this
is the council president, Marquise Harris Dawson, who, by the way,
was technically in charge the day of the fire because
Karen Bass was in Africa and the Deputy mayor in
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charge of police and fire was a guy named Brian Williams,
but he was on house arrest in his home because
he'd called in a fake bomb threat to city Hall
and they arrested him and told him to stay in
his house. So the next one on the list to
be in charge was Marquise Harris Dawson, but nobody heard
(24:19):
from him until three in the afternoon when he sent
an email saying, can I be of any help? By then,
Hack the Pali seeds had already burned down. Can I
be of help?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Well? Amazingly he's still in charge of the city council.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
And in the middle of the meeting, somebody informed that
Kenona is leaving.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And listen to the reaction.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Thank you so much, council Member Rodriguez. And we should
get busy because in the time we've been talking, the
leader of DWP's announced her resignation. Councilmember Gudato.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
IM a mistake.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I request to speak.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
That was a.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Mistake, Thank you. I can't remember, Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Is that serious a joke?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Serious?
Speaker 7 (25:10):
That's interesting news that we will have to deal with now. No,
but I just want to thank you so much for
being here and for giving this presentation, and for me,
I feel like I know some of this, Like.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Is that serious or is that a joke? Well, she
should have been fired on January eighth. She last another
fourteen months and made another like mid eight hundred and
fifty thousand dollars? Is that serious or that a joke?
And we got another clip, right, and this is Marquis Harris.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Stausin announcements members right right, yeah, seeing no announcements. My my,
the leader of my legislative team is smiling because it
looks like our DWP leader is going to Puerto Rico,
her homeland, his homeland, so she's really needed there. So
I'm excited that we admit that connection.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
She's really needed there, which is the island need to
be burned down.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You want to wipe that whole island out. She's needed there.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Ay ay, Oh, we can't forget this, our friend. Oh,
I'll read this when we come back. We're that far behind.
We're having too much fun today. This is like the
best celebration to dance on somebody's political grave we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
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Speaker 1 (26:35):
John Cobelt's show and coming up, Well, what do we
got coming up? After three o'clock. Oh, we've been celebrating
Genie Koniez, the the the idiot who ran d w
P and destroyed the palisades, didn't fill up the reservoir,
didn't turn off the electricity to the power lines when
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they came down later that night, had a thousand broken
hydrants that she never fin and now she's going to
Puerto Rico to destroy that island. They're putting her in
charge of the Puerto Rican Electrical grid, which never came
back from a hurricane.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Nine or ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
We were playing Eclipse when the La City Council found
out that Kenonia's was leaving. And you may have heard
there was one councilwoman, Unicus Hernandez says, is that serious
or is that a joke? I'm looking at video of
the moment and she's wearing a brightly colored flowery shirt.
Let me tell you this lady is seriously overfed. I
(27:32):
mean she can't even fit into the camera shot. She
looks like she ate East Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean she just whoa.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I don't know they made them like that anymore. Jennie
Keinonia's got an award the La Times Studios Inspirational Women Awards.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You remember this. I'd forgotten this.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Daniel Guss our friend sent us this under the Education,
Nonprofit and Government in category. Janie Kenona, CEO, Chief engineer
of LADWP, how do you like that? Chief Engineer? The
Inspirational Women Form and Leadership Awards now and it's fifth
year and the hallmark initiative of the La Times Studios.
(28:16):
They put out videos that nobody watches. Is dedicated to
spotlighting women who lead with integrity, vision and purpose degorty
vision and purpose. She burnt down the palisades. She couldn't
fill a hole with water. Hey, yea, yea. They had
all these panel discussions that created rich tapestry of perspectives
(28:36):
when she was at these Was she on a panel
did they ask her? Why didn't you fill up the reservoir?
Why don'd you fill up the whole? Why didn't you
fix the hydrants? Why didn't you turn off the power?
It says here they get these They get these awards
because of a shared vision of a future where women
lead with innovation, courage and purpose. Innovation, courage and purpose.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The La Time actually gave Janice QNONI is that award?
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
When we come back, there is another moron And I
thought this guy would be gone, but apparently he's coming back.
Another one involved in a couple in really one of
the biggest state scandals going and also a couple of
lesser scandals, and he's still coming back. Debora Mark live
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Let's hear it, Let's celebrate finally. Wow, it took fourteen months.
I was waiting for the vooverzellas. It's not a celebration
without the voo bozellas.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
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what you missed, and I hope you're please stick with us.
You don't want to miss Today. We start off with
the great news you heard it in Deborah's newscast. The
(00:50):
idiot Janie Kinoniez, the CEO and chief engineer of the LADWP,
the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, has finally
been tossed out, finally been gone. Caravas is running for
reelection and she is cleaning out the bar and she
got the shovel and she shoveled up Jennie Kiez and
(01:12):
dumped her, dumped her out into a field where I
had there are probably majority high high percentage of incompetent
bureaucrats in all layers of government. But I tell you
this lady, this lady is first ballot Hall of Fame material.
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Janie Koniez never filled the one hundred and seventeen million
gallon reservoir, the Santienez Reservoir in the Pacific Palisades. So
when the fire broke out and the firefighters showed up,
few of them, they didn't have one hundred and seventeen
million gallons of water because Janie Konez drained the reservoir.
(02:01):
They needed a new what amounted to was a pool cover.
And they should have done that in a month, and
it took Genie Kinnonez over a year. Now, mind you,
it doesn't need a pool cover. They claim it was
to protect the drinking water. The Centiendez Reservoir was created
(02:24):
for fire purposes. There was a terrible fire, the bell
Air Fire, in nineteen sixty one, and according to the
Los Angeles Times, and this was from a nineteen sixty
four edition of the paper, they built a reservoir to
address the lack of water which they needed for the
bell Air fire. And they said, if we have another
(02:46):
fire now we're gonna have reservoir. It was built. It
was built to put out fires. In addition, you could
use it for drinking water. But as we found out
in twenty twenty four, when the reservoir was empty for
a year, that did not impact drinking water supply in
the Palisades at all. It was completely unnecessary. Now, jenniese
(03:13):
Conunias was a diversity higher. Nobody rational, intelligent, reasonable would
ever look at Genese's Genie Canonia's resume for more than
thirty seconds without tossing it in the trash can. And
if you met her and heard her talk, you'd call
security and have her take it out. This is the
(03:34):
terminally stupid woman. Let me put it to you this way.
If there was a quiz to get the job right,
and the quiz had one question, fire season is approaching.
You have a one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir
sitting in a high fire danger region. Do you A
fill it up or B leave it empty? One question
(03:57):
you get the job. She would have picked be leave
it empty, which is what she did. But she not
only but she kept the job. Not only that they
found that there was thirteen hundred fire hydrants busted thirteen hundred.
(04:18):
Now she's got two jobs. It's DWP Department of Water
and Power. The W stands for water, So you had
to fill the reservoir with water, and then you need
the fire hydrants to help disperse the water.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That's your main job.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
And if there's a problem, you have to have a
backup supply coming from somewhere else, which they've installed. Now
they're importing water from the other side of the mountain,
just in case. Because Genie Quinonyez, after stupidly emptying the
reservoir and shutting it down just a few weeks ago,
she emptied it again and shut it down. The thing
(05:06):
is empty right now, after costing nearly seven thousand homes
and businesses, after watching nearly seven thousand homes and businesses
burned down, the fire department ran out of water in
all I don't know, eighteen hours.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It was over. They had no water.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Firefighters were standing all over the palisades with their hands
in their pockets, going, sorry, we're out of water.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Out of water.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I know people, I've got friends, I've got acquaintances who
live in the palisades, and they told me, Yeah, the
guys were standing around and if you approached them, it's like, hey,
where's your hose? Why aren't you putting out the fire
of the water Because Denise Canonias emptied the reservoir and
the fire hydrants are broken, and she kept their job
(05:59):
because when some one is hired for diversity purposes, they
can never be fired, and they're not unless, of course,
you embarrassed Karen Bass, which is what Kristin Crowley did.
So even though she was diverse as well, she got
kicked out. Janie Cononas was making seven hundred and fifty
(06:22):
thousand dollars a year. She made probably two million dollars
since she was hired, two million dollars, and she couldn't
fill the reservoir and she couldn't fix the fire hydrants.
She never told anybody either. As far as I know,
(06:43):
Karen Bass and Kristin Crowley didn't even know the reservoir
was empty. They didn't know the fire hydrants were all broken.
Of course they should have made their business to find
that out. But today we're dancing on Genie's Deenise Kenona's
professional grave. What is she's actually getting another job, she's
(07:05):
taking over, She's taking over the in Puerto Rico, the
agency that provides electricity. She's going to take a leadership
role to help build Puerto Rico's electrical grid. Seriously, she's
(07:30):
going back to Puerto Rico, It's where she was born,
to support the modernization and transformation of the electric grid.
That's what off Vass's office set. Because you know, they
had a hurricane almost ten years ago. They've never been
able to get their electrical situation back together. They have
chronic power outages, they have a thirty three percent energy shortfall.
(07:55):
Their plants are really old, they run on oil, they
have nine billion in debt. In fact, people endure more
blackouts in Puerto Rico than anywhere in the United States.
And now they're putting her in charge of this. What's
she gonna do? Just too dumb to fill the reservoir.
(08:16):
She was too dumb to fix the hydrods. Oh, second
part of the fire catastrophe in the Palisades and everybody
forgets this, and this is on video. She never shut
off the electricity to parts of the Palisades that hadn't
burned yet. And then the power poles. There's something called
(08:41):
I think an h pole. It's two upright poles connected
by a cross beam and it has electrical wires attached
to it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Well on video you could see.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
The poles, the cross beam, the whole h fall down,
crashed to the ground, brings down the electrical wires which
were still alive, and it set the brush on fire,
and that started another subfire and completely wiped out a neighborhood.
(09:16):
This was twelve hours after the fire started. This was
the night of January seventh. She never turned off the
electrical power, after not filling the reservoir, after not fixing
the hydrants, after not telling anybody. I don't think there's
ever been an executive in a position of a utility
(09:39):
that has ever done more damage, more quickly, with more
stupid decisions in the history of the United States. And
then after it happened, she never spoke about it. She
never made any public statements, never answered any questions, never apologized,
(10:00):
never explained.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
She just went on collected her two billion dollars. We
have more coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
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(10:36):
we got a couple of Genie Quonia's clips, not that
they're particularly important in and of themselves, but just to
give you an idea what she sounded like. She sounds
like an idiot, So play whatever you have there.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Cut number one.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
You call it powered by equity, and I know that
it's been really important for the DWP to put an
equity lens on everything.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yes, yeah, and that's the number one thing that attracted
me to this role, coming from the communities that I
seeing what I've seen through my career and utilities and
through the military. I've been in the costcard nineteen and
a half years now, so I got six more months
to qualify for my twenty years, which was my original goal.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
WO congratulation, Thank.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
You for your service, Thank you, thank you. It's important
to me that everything we do it's with an equivalents
and social justice and making sure that we right the
wrongs that we've done in the past from an infrastructure
perspective and that we involved the community in that process,
and this utility is serious about it, is authentic about it,
(11:38):
and so I'm just super excited to be part of
that movement.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Do you hear that.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What attracted her to the job was that everything they
did at the LADWP was through the equity lens, and
that she was very proud of the ledwp's involvement in
social justice. She didn't mention anything about making sure, oh
(12:12):
I don't know, reservoirs are filled, hydrants are fixed, electric
lines are functioning properly. She was there for the equity
and diversity and the social justice. She had no business
running the DWP none, And she wasn't hired to run
of water and power utility. Karen Pass hired her because
(12:35):
they would get all aroused over social justice and equity
and diversity and inclusion and all that other rot well. So,
of course the palisades burned down. Of course, the reservoir
was empty. Of course, the electric poles and the wires
came tumbling down. Of course, the hydrants were all busted.
They were in meetings all day talking about equity and
(12:58):
diversity and inclusion and social They weren't running Utilita, they
were running some kind of bizarre social project. Ay yy God,
I forgot about that. What's uh, what's the other clip
you have? That's a bear in I thought.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
My intent is to continue to that, continue to execute
on the things that we do well, and improve on
the things that we need to make improvements on. To
serve our customers in an equitable way.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Equitable that was after the fire, right, that clip that
was after serve our customers in an equitable ray way. Well,
they were like religious zealots. Where does equity have to
do with anything? Keep the water flowing, keep the electricity flowing.
What's what's what's what's this equity? That is a word
(13:49):
I didn't even hear of five years ago. It just
suddenly popped up, and you know for in the media,
the progressive movement, and then everything was equity all and away.
You know, it was very equitable. She wiped out just
about the whole town. I'm she wiped out men, women, white, black, Hispanic,
you name it. The fire wiped everybody out. There's very
equitable fire. Like I said, I think she's below the
(14:16):
Newsom line IQ wise, that is sub ninety three, that
is below the Newsom line for IQ It's actually scary
listening to her because you realize that she really was
in charge. And I think la is the U is
the largest utility in the whole country, and she was
(14:42):
the largest municipal utility in the United States. What are
an electricity to four million people six hundred and eighty
one thousand water customers, that's households one and a half
million dollar electric customers. And that lady was in charge,
miss diversity, aity, social justice. That's why she was attracted
(15:03):
to the job. So she was interested in fixing fire hydrants,
or filling the reservoir, or making sure electricity was turned
off to power lines in the middle of the most
devastating fire for a city in US history?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Is everybody diverse? Is everybody feeling equitable?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Today? Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year? This
is Karen bass is higher obviously on Karen Bass higher diversity,
equity and incompetence.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Do you want one more?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That's what the I in DEI stands for, diversity, equity
and competence. Yes, play one more?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Well, I'd like to start by highlighting the Commons Commissioner
Cat says and wishing everybody a happy Earth. They we
have as of April ten, and you exhibit in the
lobby at the museum space call sustainability at lee WP
A Greener Tomorrow, this new multipanel. It was creating a
(16:03):
celebration of Earth Month.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That was after the fire too.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
That was one of the few times she spoke publicly
to carry about carry on about Earth Day and Earth Month.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
This can't be true.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I mean, I remember these clips when we played them
the first it's one more small one.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
You got a small one, another one to move.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Water into the power of our system that has been impacted.
We're performing our own trenching, excavation and repairs, and that
it's allowing us to move faster.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
That that is just the whole thing's unbelievable. And by
the way, this is why Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You have to vote No.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
One Karen Bass, and vote against Karen Bass, because she
thought was not only great and smart and talented and
diverse and inclusive and equitable and excited about social justice.
If you're just delivering water in power, what has that
(17:14):
got to do with social justice and equity? Why would
that get you excited and make you attracted to a job.
What you should be looking and seeing whether all the
water is getting to its destination and all the electricity
is and the bills are really high as we know.
How about making the whole system less expensive by getting
(17:36):
out of the green energy racket scam?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh my god. When we come back.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
The attorney for the guy who is charged with starting
the fire, the arsonist, the attorney now thinks all the
charges are to be dropped.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yes, let's continue the celebration. I am six forty more
stimulating talk radio, the John Covelt Show on from three
to six every day. Ah, the movez Ella's It signals
the end of Jeniez Kenonias as the head of the
DWP here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Again.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
We have a podcast after six o'clock John Cobelt Show
on demand, And in case you've been missing the celebration,
that's what you're gonna want to go to after six o'clock.
We're in the middle of it right now. Yes, Jeniez
Keez is leaving. She was an idiot among idiots, seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars salary annually to run the DWP,
(18:47):
and she never filled the one hundred and seventeen million
gallon reservoir in the Pacific Palisades. It was bone dry,
empty right to the bottom when that fire hit on
January seventh to twenty twenty five. Never filled it up.
Took him a year to get a new cover, which
(19:08):
they didn't need because because the thing was built originally
for fire use. As we've been playing clips highlights, Jennie
Cononia has rarely spoken public in the last year and
a half. She never explained, defended, apologized, She never resigned.
(19:31):
Oh that that also is funny. The reason she's leaving.
According to Karen Bass, it's part of a quote planned
leadership transition.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yes, the plan was, you got to get out.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Of here before the election re election campaign starts because
because eventually Karen Bass has got to deal with debates,
right and I mean most of the media here has
had has had their genitals cut off, and they're afraid
to confront her. But at least one of the candidates
(20:08):
would probably say, hey, telling Karen, why didn't you fire
Jenis Quinonias since she had the reservoir left empty and
there was thirteen hundred fire hydrants broken and she left
the power running through the lines that night, which started
more fires. Why didn't you fire her? In fact, what
would it take to fire the head of the DWP?
(20:32):
Burning down the palisades wasn't enough for Bass to fire her.
But now, like I said before, they got to clean
out the barn, there's a reelection campaign. So now she's
going to be part of a planned leadership transition. And
she hasn't spoken much, and when she spoke, it was
(20:53):
usually about gobbledegook like diversity and equity and Earth Day.
Here is a little clip of Karen Bass defending why
she decided to pay her seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Let me just.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Say that the DWP is the nation's largest utility. And
if you compare our utility to Omaha, Nebraska, where the
salary was around the same a small town, I mean
in bigtown maybe in Nebraska, but small compared to Los Angeles.
And so to me, I want to get the best
(21:30):
talent around the around the nation, and we did a
national search and that's.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
What it took.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
She took a significant pay cut to come to work
for the Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I guess I'm in the wrong line of work. So
what all?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Right? Stop it there be Alex Michael said, a national search,
and she.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Took, oh my god, a significant ay cut to come
to Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
She was working for pg and E, which is the lead,
the world's leader in starting fires. PGED has killed more
people and burned more buildings than any other entity in
the United States. So of course she worked at PGNA.
Of course she would she would come to Los Angeles,
(22:15):
by the way, thank you so much. She was making double.
Her predecessor was named Martin Adams, and he only made
half as much, and she made two and a half
times as much as Karen Bass. Karen Bass's salary is
three hundred thousand, and Kenunyas is getting seven hundred and
(22:37):
fifty thousand and couldn't fill the reservoir. You know, I
was coming up with like a series of one question
job interviews. I mentioned before one question for Jenny's Canonians
when she was getting hired. You have an empty reservoir.
It could hold one hundred and seventeen million gallons. When
fire season comes, should we fill the reservoir or not?
A yes, B no? Then I'm thinking, ah, here's something
(23:01):
for Karen Bass.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Here's one question.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You get warnings extreme wind warnings, extreme fire danger warnings.
Should you A go to Africa or B stay home? Well,
she chose Africa. And then Kristin Crowley, Hey, we've got
huge fire warnings, huge wind warnings. Should you A send
(23:25):
a thousand firefighters home that morning or B keep them
for a second shift?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
She chose A.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
She sent everybody home.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
But they were all diverse. Now I haven't heard these
next cliff clips, but they were posted online and this
is the council president, Marquise Harris Dawson, who, by the way,
was technically in charge the day of the fire because
Karen Bass was in Africa and the Deputy mayor in
(23:57):
charge of police and fire was a guy named Brian Williams,
but he was on house arrest in his home because
he'd called in a fake bomb threat to city Hall
and they arrested him and told him to stay in
his house. So the next one on the list to
be in charge was Marquise Harris Dawson, but nobody heard
(24:19):
from him until three in the afternoon when he sent
an email saying, can I be of any help? By then,
Hack the Pali seeds had already burned down. Can I
be of help?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Well? Amazingly he's still in charge of the city council.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
And in the middle of the meeting, somebody informed that
Kenona is leaving.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And listen to the reaction.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Thank you so much, council Member Rodriguez. And we should
get busy because in the time we've been talking, the
leader of DWP's announced her resignation. Councilmember Gudato.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
IM a mistake.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I request to speak.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
That was a.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Mistake, Thank you. I can't remember, Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Is that serious a joke?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Serious?
Speaker 7 (25:10):
That's interesting news that we will have to deal with now. No,
but I just want to thank you so much for
being here and for giving this presentation, and for me,
I feel like I know some of this, Like.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Is that serious or is that a joke? Well, she
should have been fired on January eighth. She last another
fourteen months and made another like mid eight hundred and
fifty thousand dollars? Is that serious or that a joke?
And we got another clip, right, and this is Marquis Harris.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Stausin announcements members right right, yeah, seeing no announcements. My my,
the leader of my legislative team is smiling because it
looks like our DWP leader is going to Puerto Rico,
her homeland, his homeland, so she's really needed there. So
I'm excited that we admit that connection.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
She's really needed there, which is the island need to
be burned down.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You want to wipe that whole island out. She's needed there.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Ay ay, Oh, we can't forget this, our friend. Oh,
I'll read this when we come back. We're that far behind.
We're having too much fun today. This is like the
best celebration to dance on somebody's political grave we've ever had.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
John Cobelt's show and coming up, Well, what do we
got coming up? After three o'clock. Oh, we've been celebrating
Genie Koniez, the the the idiot who ran d w
P and destroyed the palisades, didn't fill up the reservoir,
didn't turn off the electricity to the power lines when
(26:55):
they came down later that night, had a thousand broken
hydrants that she never fin and now she's going to
Puerto Rico to destroy that island. They're putting her in
charge of the Puerto Rican Electrical grid, which never came
back from a hurricane.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Nine or ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
We were playing Eclipse when the La City Council found
out that Kenonia's was leaving. And you may have heard
there was one councilwoman, Unicus Hernandez says, is that serious
or is that a joke? I'm looking at video of
the moment and she's wearing a brightly colored flowery shirt.
Let me tell you this lady is seriously overfed. I
(27:32):
mean she can't even fit into the camera shot. She
looks like she ate East Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean she just whoa.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I don't know they made them like that anymore. Jennie
Keinonia's got an award the La Times Studios Inspirational Women Awards.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You remember this. I'd forgotten this.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Daniel Guss our friend sent us this under the Education,
Nonprofit and Government in category. Janie Kenona, CEO, Chief engineer
of LADWP, how do you like that? Chief Engineer? The
Inspirational Women Form and Leadership Awards now and it's fifth
year and the hallmark initiative of the La Times Studios.
(28:16):
They put out videos that nobody watches. Is dedicated to
spotlighting women who lead with integrity, vision and purpose degorty
vision and purpose. She burnt down the palisades. She couldn't
fill a hole with water. Hey, yea, yea. They had
all these panel discussions that created rich tapestry of perspectives
(28:36):
when she was at these Was she on a panel
did they ask her? Why didn't you fill up the reservoir?
Why don'd you fill up the whole? Why didn't you
fix the hydrants? Why didn't you turn off the power?
It says here they get these They get these awards
because of a shared vision of a future where women
lead with innovation, courage and purpose. Innovation, courage and purpose.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
The La Time actually gave Janice QNONI is that award?
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
When we come back, there is another moron And I
thought this guy would be gone, but apparently he's coming back.
Another one involved in a couple in really one of
the biggest state scandals going and also a couple of
lesser scandals, and he's still coming back. Debora Mark live
(29:33):
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