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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We played
you at the end of last hour of Fox eleven
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story from Matthew Sedorf about chevy At Hills. There is
a seventy bed homeless shelter. It's I guess going to
provide permanent housing conservative services. So you have seventy mental
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patients and drug addicts being stuffed into a residential neighborhood.
How this thing came to be is literally a federal scandal.
Federal agents arrested the real estate executive, Stephen Taylor, accused
a bank fraud, identity theft, money launching, saying Taylor used
fake bank records, fogus lines of credit, purchased the property
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for eleven million dollars he used to be a senior
living center. Then he turns around ten days later and
sells it for twenty seven million, buys it for eleven million,
sells it for twenty seven million, a sixteen million dollar profit,
and nobody knows where the money went and why the
Line Guard Center would pay that price after Taylor used fake,
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fake documents and fake information to get the eleven million.
And this, of course is all our tax money originally
that went to Taylor. And on top of that, even
more importantly, the neighborhood doesn't want this place. They don't
want these kind of inhabitants for obvious reasons. Katy Rslovsky
doesn't give a crap at all, just kicks dirt on him,
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and of course Karen Bass thinks this is wonderful. They
want to bring all this kind of insanity into peaceful,
normal neighborhoods. That's the idea is to grow in neighborhoods,
make it more equitable, you see. Well, let's get Polly
Grossman on the line.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Polly, Hi, doing Hi? How are you.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Well? I'm worked up now that you've reminded me all
of the terrible you know, all of the terrible situations
we've been living through here in Chevy at Hills.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Chevy Hills is a very nice community, and years ago
my wife and I looked at a place there. We
even put a bit on one of the homes. Uh,
and I cannot believe. I find Chevy Hills to be
idyllic and I cannot believe that they're doing this to you.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
We are extremely upset. We have reached out to local government.
You know, Katie knew about this a year ago, and
they silenced us and they told us, you know, that
wasn't true. And it is true. It's all come to
light and evicting seniors while diverting funds intended for homeless
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is not acceptable public policy.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh, they evicted the seniors who were living there. Yes,
that's really and they're going to replace it with seventy
homeless people.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Exactly, that's this is exactly right. And they tried to
hide it, of course it was, you know, it was
kept suppress the information. And we had to ask for
city documents and we have six thousand pages and we've
been reading through them, and you would just be shocked
when you find out that Karen Bess didn't know exactly
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this was going to cost, you know, sixty million dollars
and that they were going to evict the seniors.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
The game they play is to keep the residents from
knowing anything until the last second. They almost pulled this
off in Santa Monica recently, and then word got out
and they were going to put homeless people into two
buildings on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, and there was
hell to pay when that finally leaked and they pulled
back that plan. But they're getting away with it in
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chevy At Hills up to now, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well, you know, Santa Monica has a mayor, and their
mayor stepped up, and this was going to happen in
Torrance and their mayor stepped up. But we don't have
a mayor.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
No, and you don't have a city council woman who
gives a crap about you either.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
We're feeling we're feeling like she doesn't care. And you
know she does have an election coming up in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well that's where you get rid of her. You've got
to get ridicated Roslotsky. If you vote for her, you
rewarded her for potentially ruining your neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yes, we want this project suspended until the federal investigation
is complete.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
This was tax money used that Taylor, Stephen Taylor got
a hold of and then he sells it in ten
days for a sixteen million dollar profit. Has anybody said
why this Wineguard center would pay a sixteen million dollar
premium on this property.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I don't understand that part.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Wineguard maintains that it was, you know, it was the
cost was satisfactory to them, the price, and the real
estate agents in our area were just laughing. They just
couldn't believe that somebody would be so stupid to pay
twenty seven million dollars for this building.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And the twenty seven million and then twenty seven million
went to Steven Taylor.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well, yes, and then there's sixteen million missing. Where is
the sixteen million dollars?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Well, I'm wondering if if anybody in government got kickbacks
for allowing these deals to go through.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And because they're the federal investigation, we are hoping that
more evidence will come to light.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
There has to be an endpoint for this money, and
it's not a good end point at least as far
as the residents are concerned. This must be money stolen
by people working in government. And this starts with Project
home Key, and that's that's a state plan, correct.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I think Home Key is fed and then we have
inside safe. This is the cities, yeah, or.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Home Key might be might be nuisance thing.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, and there's you know, they spent sixty million dollars
on this place to house seventy people. So think about this.
That was twenty seven million dollars for the purchase, twenty
million to fix it up. And I'd just like to
mention the building had been updated two years prior and
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they could have just moved the homeless in immediately, and
instead they spent another twenty million and then it's going
to be another eleven million to run it is.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
This is crime. This is like organized crime and corruption.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I just looked it up. This is state money project.
Home Key is a newsome project.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, so this is state money being spent here. I
don't know if there's local money involved, but usually it's
like combined funds.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Right exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I mean, how long how.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Long was this in the works before anyone in the
public found out?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Well, probably at least a year wow, maybe less, because
when west Side Current first broke the story about the
price that was paid, I'm not sure how long after
that actually happened, But after it did happen enough people
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didn't say anything and didn't do anything. Everybody thinks somebody
else is going to do something, and no one does.
And that's why we are really trying hard to bring
this to the public. And we have a what's app.
It's called the Integrity Project, and you're welcome to go
there and we have pre populated letters and prepopulated emails
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and all you need to do is copy and paste
and they'll be sent to Katie, to Karen to Newse,
them to his wife, to everybody.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
With local governments, everybody who's involved in the in the
corruption here. So you go to what's app and what's
the name of that.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
It's called the Integrity Project.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Okay, and then and then people can can cut and
paste the letters that you could send out to care
Bass and k Roslavsky and Gavin Newsom. All right, uh yeah,
you got you got it. This is good.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I mean we're covering it here. Fox eleven covered it. Uh,
you got the West Side Current cover covering it. So
I mean, you gotta you got to create a big,
a big storm here. There's no other way. You just
gotta go. You gotta go a little crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
What's that la Time put out two articles and so
that is how everybody knew about the arrests. And wine
Guard Kevin Murray, they took him off the board as
the CEO. He's had to step down. There is he's
in trouble. This is this is, this is getting larger
by the day.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yes, I got that story here too. So there's a
tremendous amount of corruption that's going on here. Yeah, yeah,
Here it is the Homeless Service Providers CEO Kevin Murray
uh placed on leave and uh Kevin Murray President CEO,
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former state senator. And Ben Rosen, the director of real
estate development from Wineguard, also placed on leaves. So you've
got You've got Steven Taylor and his company. You got
Kevin Murray and this company. And so this this is
two layers of corruption here with with Bass and Newsom
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and Yaroslavsky providing the money. All right, Well, thank you
very much for coming on, Polly, and please keep in
touch with us.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I will, John, it's great to talk to you. I
just I think you're awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh, thank you very much. All right, we'll keep on it.
All right, we'll keep on it. You let us know
about the next chapter.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I'm happy to provide any updates.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
All right, we'll do you're listening to John Coebelt on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
A couple of weeks ago we had on Polly Grossman
from Chevy At Hills. Their neighborhood is dealing with they
have it just an absolute of a city council person
in La Kady Raslavsky who's been trying to stuff a
almost housing in their neighborhood. And this was the homeless
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housing that the building was bought by one guy who's
been indicted by the federal government because he fraudulently obtained
eleven million dollars in government money and then he sold
it ten days later to another homeless company for twenty
seven million. So he bought it for eleven million with
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tax money, sold it for twenty seven million. The tax
money was gotten through fraudulent means, according to the government.
And now two executives for the second company have been
put on leave. So more dirty stuff going on, but
these people are still stuck with this, with this homeless residence.
It's like a homeless apartment building and it's quite a story.
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We're gonna have poly gross been on again to talk
about this this shelter. Now Thomas cruks boy this story
considering how monumental it was in a way, it came
and went so fast. I mean, do people really remember
the name of the guy who shot Trump and got
him in the ear?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Thomas Crook's twenty years old? You remember that kid? Goackey kid?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well, Miranda Divine for The New York Post and other
reporters have accessed his Internet history and account, and it
turned out that this guy was involved in the furry community. Now,
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these are people who dress up in animal, furry animal outfits.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Don't laugh. This is real. It's deviant.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
I know, well not everybody thinks it's sick. I mean,
I know you do, and maybe I do.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But maybe you do.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I'm trying to be a little objective here.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Your son came home dressed like bugs bunny Halloween.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No, it's not Halloween. It's Christmas dinner.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yeah, that would be odd.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah. And he's got a girlfriend or actually it's a
guy dressed like Roger rad I be alarmed.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Deviant Art is an account that Krook's had a.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Had accessed, and it's becoming notorious for its community at furries.
He also used the pronouns they then remember when people
did that.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You don't see that much anymore.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
No, not really, although a little.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
While back an email came my way and the guy
had put his pronouns.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
On Some people on LinkedIn also still stop that.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Stop that socide of mental that's nuttier than being a furry.
Your pronouns, and they're doing the pronouns even if it's
not like an alternative set of pronouns, Like if you're
a grown man, you do not have to identify yourself
as a he him, I mean stop that be a
law against it.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well, you know what else this would be Assassin was
involved in. He had a muscle mommy fetish. What muscle mommy?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
A muscle mommy?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
He had an obsession with female bodybuilders and muscular women.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Oh he uh.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
On his deviant Art account, he shared one post of
a towering, muscular female bodybuilder, and as they went through
his internet history, it was also another photo of a
slight man in his underwear. Multiple searches for muscular women
and female bodybuilders were found on his YouTube search history.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Do they have to be moms? That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I don't know this, This like the furries uncharted territory
for me, I get it.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I don't even want to look this up because somebody
that might track it to my account.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Yeah management here, they might think that that's what you
do on.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Your off time, and then these furries will come over
my house. Oh yes, no, the muscle mommies. Yeah, I
really want a woman who could beat me up.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's so.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
As they were going through Crooks's Internet history, it showed
an increasing obsession with violence, radical comments, and COVID really
sent him.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Over the edge.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
He used to be a huge Trump fan and then
he turned. He turned because of COVID.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Did he get COVID and that screwed up his brain?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
No, he couldn't stand the lockdowns. Here's some of the
crazy stuff he wrote. I always believe being patriotic was
lining up with a bunch of socialist Jews, like the
ones that booed Trump. All these guys are angry with Jews.
That's whether it's left wing or right wing nuts. That
thread connects them all and I want to blast their
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useless brains out with an ar Okay, every one of
the Trump hating Democrats deserve to have their heads chopped
off and put on stakes for the world to see
what happens when you f with America and then I
hope a quick, painful death to all the deplorable immigrants
an anti Trump congresswoman who don't deserve anything this country
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has given them. But in the middle of COVID, he
made a one to eighty degree turn on. Trump got
very angry with him because of social distancing, a ban
of public gatherings, And next thing you know, he's on
the roof and the Secret Service doesn't notice them, and
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he fired the bullet that hit Trump in the air,
where secret Service then slaughtered the guy on the roof.
One day and we might be dead, but everyone will
realized the Internet was the worst invention ever to infect humanity.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
There are some positives, John, to the Internet.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Humanity's demise eventually will be corrected connected directly the Internet.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
John, You stock people on Facebook, so you do use it?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I stalk people?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Yeah, you do stalk. You go on and you look,
you never comment, you never like, but you you do
go on.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Don't stalk?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
I think you do.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And who would I be stocking?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I don't know, but people? Oh maybe furries. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You're not going to find me looking up furries once,
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well, maybe once everybody has a moment. All right, we
come back, Polly Grossman. Chevy At Hills. They're having this,
this homeless housing forced into their neighborhood. Very scandalous set
of business transactions.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
She'll be on with us next.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Now let's talk about Chevy At Hills where they're being
forced to take a homeless shelter. Nobody wants it in
the neighborhood. This is engineered by the incredibly empty Katy Roslavsky.
I don't know how a council person can force a
homeless shelter in a neighborhood when no one wants it.
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And plus, this particular building was purchased by one guy
who's been indicted. They say he'sed eleven million dollars and
got the money fraudulently to buy the building. And then
ten days later he sold it to another company for
twenty seven million dollars sixteen million dollar profit in ten days.
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And then the second company, two of their executives have
been put on leave.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
So the whole thing is a sewer.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
In the meantime, however, this thing was financed whatever the
business dealings were the neighborhood still doesn't want the homeless shelter,
and so they went after Katie Arslovsky and Polly Gresband
from Chevy Hills, who was on with us a few
weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Has the latest. Polly, how are you.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Hi, John, It's nice to hear your voice.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well, it's good to have fine, it's good to have
you on again.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Tell me you apparently pursued Katie Roslovsky over this issue.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
We did, you know, we are still expressing our deep
concerns regarding the federal criminal investigation, you know, with the
owner of Shelby property and the executives of Wine Guards.
We're still urging Kadi to delay the shelters planned opening
in twenty twenty six. And on November thirteenth we were
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able to give her a formal letter, so she now
has been served in a way.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
And you actually went to a meeting where she was speaking.
We did.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
We a group of US neighbors. We all met early
underground the parking lot and we talked about our strategies
and we had our flyers and we passed those out
to people who were coming in. And then Katie arrived
and she was talking about SB seventy nine. And after
she was, you know, kind of making her way to
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tell us all about it, we started throwing the questions
right now and.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Senate Bill seventy nine is the one that allows these
these apartment buildings to be built in residential neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But yes, and at least at least she'd stand against it.
Is she's opposing SB seventy nine, and she says, we're
going to find some ways to work around it.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
But she's for this homeless shelter coming into your neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yes, So we kind of started with the shout outs,
you know, Katie, what about the homeless shelter? And then
someone else would say, Katie, where did you put the seniors?
And then the chairperson of the meeting would get up
and bang her gabble and say silence, you're interrupting. This
is your last chance, you know, if you can't be quiet,
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I'll have you removed from this meeting.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Well what happened next.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Well, one of the neighbors, Robin, she was removed and
she had to get up and she had to walk out,
and she'd never been happier. She said, she can't wait
to come back do it again.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So what was was Katie uncomfortable with the line of questioning.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yes, she is getting flustered, she's getting her faces turning red.
She understands this is not going away.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
It's indefensible to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
All they all you have to do is push back,
and a lot of these progressives fall apart because the
things that they're defending are indefensible. If you can't put
a homeless shelter in a residential neighborhood when everybody hates it.
So if everybody just keeps pushing back and pushing back,
you'll get somewhere.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And we did so. The unlucky part which happened was
Robin was kicked out of the meeting, but then when
Katie went to leave, they were both in the same area.
So Robin started to follow her down, and the rest
of us followed her down and out with the police
officer with her assistant, down the escalators into the parking garage,
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and we kept asking her for a meeting, would like
a meeting with you, and so we just browbeater to
get this meeting, and she finally said, okay, I'll have
a meeting with the neighborhood, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Say, good work.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That's what it takes, and most people don't want to
do it, but you and your your fellow warriors pulled
it off.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
It felt it felt like a relief to see her
acknowledge what we've been trying to tell her for a
year and a half that she, you know, has been
ignoring us on It was a moment where it was
a you know, it was an inflection point.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
It's it's the gall they have.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You pay their salaries, you pay for their staff and
their offices, and they won't even listen even when it's
obvious nobody should have a homeless shelter uh created in
their neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
That that is unconscionable. I mean, just that's just awful.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
That's why she got a politics in order to ruin
the neighborhoods for peaceful people.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Is that that's why she decided to get into it.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Well, it's what she actually is doing right now, and
it's our neighborhood and we are still raising the question
to her. This was the other question, where is the
sixteen million dollars, Katie? And this is you know, this
is one where she has to think a moment and
she says I've now spoken with the city attorney and
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we are looking into it to see if we overpaid
for the property.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
All right, very good, Polly, Thank you for coming on
with us, and stay in.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Content for having me on. And yes, and also did
you see what did you get a chance to look
at the Instagram posts that I sent to you from
Susan Collins.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yes, it is a very complicated.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Draw saying I guess following the money and like a
timeline of events.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Right, there's way.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
One was the timeline. The other one is the Instagram
post from Susan Collins which has the footage from the
medium that we took.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Oh, the footage. Okay, I haven't seen the footage, so
I'll look at that.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I'll send it to you.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Okay, we'll do. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Again, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
That's Polly Grossman Chevy at Hills. They are fighting to
keep a homeless shelter out of their neighborhood, even though
they're they're idiot. Representative Katy Arslavsky wants to put it
there against their will.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
This this, these are the people got into office.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
They serve homeless people and they serve the criminals who
are using tax money to buy these homeless shelters or
convert these homeless shelters. The criminals and the homeless, that's
who people like Katy Roslavsky serve. Regular citizens just trying
to live their life, minding their own business.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Don't care about you.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
All right, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
In Santa Monica. And this can only happen in Santa Monica.
There's a homeless guy. His name is well, I'll spell it.
You have the news person, you tell me j A,
I R.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Nothing. Hiro Hiro, that's my guess, Hiro Navaret. He got.
What he would do is he'd go into toilets.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And he would flush trash and all kinds of debris
down the toilets, clog them all up, and bust them.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Cost ten thousand dollars in damages in May in a
single month. Like this is a compulsion he's got.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
And I guess he's a person experiencing homelessness, some mental patient,
drug addict. So they arrested him, charged him with felony vandalism,
and they were trying to connect him with other vandalism
incidents except have Arrett, even though he was arrested for
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a felony, was then released without charges.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
So guess what he did.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
He went back to the same bathrooms that had been repaired,
had started trying to flush down garbage and all kinds
of debris, and busted up the toilets all over again.
What a city, What an increb What a bunch of
dumbasses that run Santa Monica. The police department claims they
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cannot arrest suspects without evidence of a crime, but they
arrested him the first time, and they must know it's
him because they suspect him in the second round. Well,
plus you have all these busted toilets. They don't even
evict him from the city. They let him live in
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the streets. Anyway, we're at the park wherever these toilets are.
They say officers are not equipped to analyze the plumbing
of the bathrooms.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I mean, they're not off.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
They're not equipped hire a plumber start unscrewing the pipes.
The public works department did not even report the crime
back to the police department. They're probably told not to.
That would stigmatize the person experiencing homelessness. Everybody says everything's
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under investigation, so they keep closing the toilets and fixing
them and spending thousands of dollars of thousands of dollars
of tax money that the idiots in Santa Monica keep paying.
And he'll go back next week and reckon. He's got
a weird compulsion. He's a psychop. He can't control himself.
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And here's more in Santa Monica. We got Matthew c
again from Fox eleven. These guys all over the place.
This is a Santa Monica restaurant, Blue Plate Oysteret. They're
closing because of homelessness.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Another major shakeoup in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
The Blue Plate Oysterret.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
A local favorite, now set to shut down.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
This is where you come to celebrate a birthday.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
It's a very special spot. For sixteen years, Blue Plate
Oysterret has added flavor to Santa Monica's Prime Ocean Avenue.
But in January their doors we'll close for good.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We are very sad.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
We're sad to be leaving the community.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Owner Jennifer Rush blames California laws. She feels favorite workers
instead of owners being changing need.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
To happen in California for small business owners.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Along with rising cost safety concerns, and nearby homelessness sit.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Out of the park across the street, and it's illegal
to have a glass of wine. Yet people are sitting
there doing drugs across the street in the park and
nothing seems to happen.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
This video after she says a homeless person slashed the
restaurant's patios greens with a knife.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
We've had break ins. Our staff doesn't feel safe, and
tourists see that and they don't want to come back.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The big reason.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Why there's not the foot traffic here is there's a
lot of laws here and there's been a lot of
crime and people don't feel.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
As safe now the vacant building.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
In recent minds, Fox eleven has reported on several businesses
closing in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Has have been broken into three times.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Many blaming the same struggles.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
But Eve and I will not wear my AirPods during
the day here.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
You gotta watch yourself, you gotta be ready.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
One needs to happen in Santa Monica.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
More of a police presence, and they are offering so
many resources that are out in the public needle exchange,
food that should be separated out and kept away from
the downtown area.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
The owner has two other businesses in the area. She
says that they're going to stay open for now, but
she hopes this environment changes soon.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
There you go, So Santa Monica, they do drugs out
in the open in the park.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
They just roy the toilets.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
They show up at local restaurants with knives and terrorize
the customers.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And Santa Monica does nothing about it. No police. It
would be too much of an authoritarian atmosphere here. We
can't have that. You must defund the police. What what?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So now businesses, more businesses, you're closing, more restaurants are
leaving the brain of a progressive politician in Santa Monica
must be smaller than the size of a p It's
got to be a tremendous lack of intelligence. It also
shows you the power of a cult. This cult is
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so powerful, the progressive cult that worships the homeless and
criminals and illegal aliens. I don't know what breaks this fever.
Maybe nothing, Maybe it'll just be ruins and rubble, and
you're gonna have Gary, Indiana or Detroit. Hey, you've been
listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
hear the show live on KFI AM six forty from
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