November 18, 2025 • 28 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (11/18) - Polly Grossman comes on the show to talk about the latest going on with the Cheviot Hills homeless shelter that residents in the area are against. TIME magazine published an article by LA Mayor Karen Bass on the future of the Democratic Party. More on the award that Janisse Quiñones received from the LA Times. A federal court has blocked Texas from using their new Republican favored district maps are unconstitutional racist gerrymandering.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Before we go any further,
back to Deborah. Breaking news.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We have breaking news. This just into the KFI newsroom.
TMZ is reporting that you know that singer David He
has been viewed as a suspect in the death of
Celeste Reeves. That's the teenager whose body, her decomposing body
was found in his tesla. So right now, TMZ is
saying there's no paperwork classifying David as a suspect, but
(00:30):
one of their sources did say that investigators are looking
at David as a suspect.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That story broke weeks ago, right, they found her body.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, but now David has not been listed as a suspect.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Why would that be. It's his car, there's a dead
woman in your trunk, right, you're a suspect.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, you know what, John, I don't get paid too.
I don't get paid to analyze things like that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I know that. I just find that in music. Yeah,
for weeks, since he's not a suspect, we mean, he's
not a suspected's his car?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Well, now he is apparently reported.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Reportedly allegedly suspect.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You ever ended up with a dead girl in the
trunk of your car, you're a suspect.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I hope that never happened.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You would, you know, you just don't put her in there.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, I mean maybe he didn't. We don't know. He
may not have put her.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
He was framed by someone else. Well, we'll see. Thank
you for that for that. Now, let's uh, 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 Katie or Aslavsky. I
(01:45):
don't know how a council person can force a homeless
shelter in a neighborhood when no one wants it. And plus,
this particular building was purchased by uh one guy who's
been and dieted. 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
(02:07):
twenty seven million dollars, a sixteen million dollar profit in
ten days. And then the second company two of their
executives have been put on leave. So the whole thing
is a sewer. 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
(02:29):
and Polly Grossband from Chevy Hills, who was on with
us a few weeks ago. Has the latest, Polly, how are.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You hi, John. It's nice to hear your boys.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, it's good to have fine, it's good to have
you on again. Tell me you apparently pursued Katie Roslovsky
over this issue.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
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 Katie to delay the shelters plans opening
in twenty twenty six, and on November thirteenth we were
(03:16):
able to give her a formal letter. So she now
has been served in a way.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
And you actually went to a meeting where she was speaking.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
We did. We a group of us neighbors. We all
met early underground in 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
(03:52):
way to tell us all about it, we started throwing
the questions right.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Now and Senate Bill's seventy nine is the one that
allows these these apartment buildings to be built in residential neighborhoods.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
But yes, and at least at least she's standing against it.
Is she's opposing SB seventy nine, and she says, we're
going to find some ways to work around.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It, but she's for this homeless shelter coming into your neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
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,
(04:46):
I'll have you removed from this meeting.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Well what happened next, Well.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
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.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
To come back. What was Katie uncomfortable with the line
of questioning.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yes, she is getting flustered, she's getting her faces turning red.
She understands this is not going away.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It's indefens to do it. 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 4 (05:42):
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,
(06:08):
and we kept asking her for a meeting. We 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.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right, say good work. That's what it takes, and
most people don't want to do it, but you and
your fellow warriors pulled it off.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
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 points.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's the gall they have. 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 created in their neighborhood. That that is unconscionable.
I mean, just that's just awful. What is this is
why she got into politics in order to ruin the
(07:14):
neighborhoods for peaceful people? Is that that's why she decided
to get into it.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well, it is 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
(07:41):
and we are looking into it to see if we
overpaid for the property.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
All right, very good, Polly, Thank you for coming on
with us, and stay.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
In content for having me on. And yes, and also
did you see what did you get a chance to
look at the Instagram post that I sent to you
from Susan Collins.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yes, it is a very complicated drawing, I guess, following
the money and like a timeline of events. Right, there's way.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
One was the timeline. The other one is the Instagram
post from Susan Collins which has the footage from the medium.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
That we took. Oh, the footage. Okay, I haven't seen
the footage, so I'll look at that.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I'll send it to you.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Okay, we'll do. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Again, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right. 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 Katie Rslavsky wants to
put it there against their will. This this these are
the people who got into office. They serve homeless people,
and they serve the criminals who are using tax money
(08:59):
to these homeless shelters or convert these homeless shelters. The
criminals and the homeless, that's who People like Katie Rooslovsky serve.
Regular citizens just trying to live their life, minding their
own business. Don't care about you, all right. Karen Bess
wrote an article that they printed in Time magazine about
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the future of the Democratic Party. You got to hear this.
That's next.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
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We have a photo today that shows California State California
Parks Department employee State Park State Parks talking with LA
(09:58):
Fire Department fighters telling them what to do. And this
was on January second, the day after the fire. And
shortly there after the LA Fire Department rolled up their
hoses and left, even though things were still smoldering and
still hot. And she was telling them what to do,
(10:19):
and she was trying to protect plants, endangered plants, and
that may have had something to do with why the
LA Fire Department left because the state Parks employee wanted
them to. Except then the News administration lied in court
(10:39):
claiming they didn't even know the fire had happened. On
January first, we covered this a lot in the two
o'clock hour with Roger Bailey and the attorney for all
the many of the homeowners who lost their their houses.
So go listen to that on the podcast later on
(11:00):
give you a Minute here. Time Magazine actually published something
under Karen Bass's name. I doubt she wrote it, probably
one of her flunky lackeys. The future of the Democratic
Party is local when president, of course, it starts out
with an attack on Trump. When President Donald Trump speaks
(11:21):
about America's blue cities, he paints a bleak picture, one
of chaos, decline, in despair. He talks about cities like
Los Angeles as if it's a lost cause, a place
people have given up on. But those of us who
actually live in cities like Los Angeles can tell you
the image that the President is painting could not be
further from the truth. Jackley wrote this this is pure propaganda,
(11:47):
and Time Magazine prints the propaganda unquestioningly. This is not
like a reporter doing an interview. There is no analysis here.
It's just like Karen, give us a propaganda public relations
piece on how great LA is and she has somebody
right it up or its AI. Yeah, well she's getting
(12:08):
indistinguishable from AI. Los Angeles is not broken. Los Angeles
is not a drift. Los Angeles is not a healthscape.
Los Angeles is an economic engine, a bastion of diverse
cultures and storytellers. Oh yeah, it's diverse cultures. You've got
the you've got the illegal aliens neighborhoods, you've got the
(12:31):
criminal neighborhoods and the gangs, and you have the homeless neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well, that's diverse.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
That is diverse. She's right on that. And then she
goes and claims that homelessness, Yeah, street homelessness is down
by ten percent. We're finally turning a corner, second straight
year of decline. And on inside safe is great. I'm
going to remind you of the truth. This first came
(12:58):
out on October fifty. I think we're going to have
to read this periodically. The RAND Corporation Research Corporation issued
a report in October fifteenth and said an official homeless
count in Los Angeles only captured about two thirds of
the street homeless. Santa Monica based think tank conducts its
(13:23):
own professional count that looked at three locations, skid Row, Venice,
and Hollywood. Loss's official count showed that on skid Row,
the city count was sixty one percent accurate. The city
(13:44):
missed thirty nine percent of the homeless people living in
the streets on skid Row. RAND found out that in
Venice the city missed twenty four percent of the homeless,
and in Hollywood, RAND found out that Basses operation missed
nineteen percent of the homeless. This is Karen Bass's homeless
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counting operation missed nineteen percent of them in Hollywood, thirty
nine percent of them in skid Row, twenty four percent
in Venice. And she writes an article a column in
the Time in Time magazine saying, Wow, look how good
we're doing with homelessness. Donald Trump is wrong, It's a lie.
(14:30):
It's been proven to be a lie. And Time magazine
prints Karen Bass's piece uncritically doesn't do a fact check.
No fact check on this easy to do. Call the
RAND corporation and you know what when they released When
RAND released those numbers, nobody disputed them. The new chief
(14:55):
executive of LASA Housing Agency, Ginda O'Neil, said she welcomes
more accounts by researchers and called the annual count that
the city does not the last word, an understanding almostness.
In fact, we would encourage RAND team members to assist
(15:16):
us with future counts. Excuse me, I'm coughing up my
lunch after reading that.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You know, you could hit your mic button.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's hard when I'm still talking.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I know what happens to me.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You want to start playing the game.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
We'll interrupt your broadcast every time there's any kind of
an omen I know.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Then then you'd never get to your stuff.
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(16:34):
Show First Hour. We spent a lot of time on
Jenise and if you didn't if you didn't hear it,
you just ought to know that this, I mean, the
Los Angeles Times has embarrassed and wet itself many times
over the years, but this is the most one of
the most embarrassing things I've ever seen, because Jennie Kes
(16:57):
is just not one of these de I hires who's
clearly not capable of her job. She was, my opinion,
criminally negligent in not filling up the reservoir in the Palisades.
Then the fire happened and there was virtually no water
to fight the fire, and twelve people died and thousands
(17:19):
of homes destroyed, And that was a one hundred and
seventeen million gallon reservoir and it should have been filled up.
And no excuses, no explanations, no nothing cover was torn.
Fixed the cover, fill up the reservoir, or don't fix
the cover and fill up the reservoir. But the overwhelming
responsibility she had as fire season was approaching, nine months
(17:43):
of dry weather, Santa Ana winds were gonna blow one
of those days. And now you know about the incompetence
of the LA Fire Department management and a bass being
in Africa, and now this park representative who is Boston
the LA Fire Department around because she was trying to
(18:05):
protect some plants and that might be why they rolled
up their hoses. There was so much incompetence and stupidity
trying to save plants. Well, you know, all the plants
are gone now whatever they're trying to save because they
don't want the fire department bulldozing the land to put
out the January first fire. All those plants are gone.
(18:27):
Now everything's gone, but it all. You know. One of
the big reasons was no water in the reservoir. So
the La Times they had their own streaming studio. It's
called La Times Studios. I don't know what they do,
you know, they're desperate to make more money. They had
(18:49):
an inspirational Women's Forum and Leadership Awards, and they gave
Genie Quinonius, who may have made the single worst decision
in Los Angeles history, they gave her an award. They
(19:10):
gave her an award, and they wrote up this exciting
summary of her life. Jenise Conunia is a distinguished executive
with over twenty five years of leadership experience. She makes
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. And she
couldn't fill up the reservoir the way you'd fill up
(19:32):
a swimming pool. It's the same, it's the same process.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Does she pay for this award? I mean, she makes
so much money.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I don't know. I don't know why they would pick her.
I mean it was the La Times that broke the
story that she was the idiot responsible for not filling
the reservoir, and now I don't know. Eight months after
doing the story, she gets an award. Since her appointment
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in May of twenty twenty four, she's led a workforce
of nearly twelve thousand employees in delivering safe, reliable water
and power to four million residents. There was no reliable
water in the Palisades. When they tried to put out
the fire, they were one hundred and seventeen million gallons short. Kenya,
get this has guided the LEDWP through a period of
(20:26):
exceptional progress. Oh no, she demonstrated critical crisis leadership during
the response and recovery efforts for the Pacific Palisades fire.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Okay, who is doing this? Who's writing this?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm going to read that again. She demonstrated critical crisis
leadership during the response and recovery efforts for the Pacific
Palisades fire.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
But everybody talked about how horrible that was. This this
makes no sense. Maybe this is a hoax.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
There was no order in two reservoirs, and she didn't
turn off the power, and those power lines fell down
and started more fires. She successfully restored service with record
efficiency while continuing to rebuild critical infrastructure. And then there's
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half a paragraph here about some solar power project she
was behind. This is something you ought to know. They right. Previously,
Kenonia served as senior vice president PG and E. She
(21:45):
fled that company after PG and E started a series
of massive fires up in northern California. Wherever she goes,
destructive fires follow her. Uh, there's some you know what,
(22:06):
this is mental illness. There can't be anything else. This
has got to be mental illness. Is anybody embarrassed at
the La Times, the people in the newsroom, those of
you that worked on the all the Palisades stories and
you did a great job. Did you know this? This other?
And this is the first thing that hits you in
the face. By the way, when you go to the
(22:27):
La Times, is this LA Studio's streaming project? And you
end up with video flashing in your face and then
you got to scroll down to get to the news.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
We have to find out who's in charge of that.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And I really need to find out.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Why they chose her. I want to know what they
were thinking.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, I think tomorrow we're gonna we're gonna find out
name names, because that is really and it's so insulting
and demoralizing to the families that lost their homes and
the families that lost people as well. People died and
if she if the reservoir is full, fire department would
have had a much better chance. Of course, there were
(23:04):
other issues at the fire department, but a lack of water.
I can't tell you how many people I know and
how many times. I've read interviews with residents who said
there's nobody there. Firefighters are standing around. We spoke with
them and they said, we have no water. We have
(23:25):
no water. I heard somebody talking the other day about
how their neighborhood was fine the first day of the fire.
It was the next afternoon because nobody was around to
stop the fire and just kept burning and burning and
burning until there was nothing left to burn. And if
they had water would not happen. We know now it
(23:46):
never should have. I mean, if they put out the
original fire on the first this never would have started.
But even after it started, it could have been stopped.
I cannot believe the incredible layer after layer after layer
incompetence and stupidity. Bass's office, Fire, the State Parks Department,
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and Janice Konias, she's a she Bass and the Kristin Crowley,
the fire chief. There's your diversity. Might want to try
brains next time as one of the hiring requirements.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I don't know if you saw, but a federal court
has blocked Texas from using its new redistricting map, claiming
that the Republicans engaged in racial gerrymandering. Yeah, that the
lines the Republicans drew in Texas were illegal, and that
(24:55):
they were I guess, trying to keep black voters from
electing black representatives. I'm assuming that's what that means, to
get more white representatives. California's redistricting plan remains an effect,
(25:20):
though they took out language that said it would only
kick in if Texas succeeded, and if this means that
Texas failed, Californias can go through anyway. So this is
this is what Newsom was hoping for, that there'd be
(25:43):
you know, five extra Democrats in the House, all representing California,
and that's why he justified ripping away Republican choices from
Republican voters in those five districts. Of course, California is
being sued in federal court by the Trump administration for
(26:06):
the same reason that they engaged in, like ethnic Jerry
manderin trying to create Hispanic districts that would elect Hispanic representatives.
This is just on both sides, a ridiculously stupid game,
just unbelievable. You know, if you're going to draw artificial lines,
(26:31):
why don't you just make it so that it's both
parties had more of an equal chance, and then they
could sell themselves to the voters and have that determine
who wins an election. Everything is rigged, and Texas are
trying to rig it against Democrats, and I guess black
(26:52):
residents and Republicans are being discriminated against here in California.
And the newsom was favoring Hispanic voters to get Hispanic
representatives here, not white or black ones. All of its garbage,
all of it's wrong. All right, Well, we'll be back tomorrow,
(27:16):
and you know, we're going to try to find out
who works for this La Times Studios operation that gave
the award to Genie Kenonias. And she's going to spend
another day with a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
salary and has taken no accountability for what she did,
not filling up the reservoir, no explanation, no nothing. They're
(27:38):
not getting away with this. We're going to keep on
this till the end of days. We've got Michael Krozer
coming up next with the news Conways after that, and
Michael's live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
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Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Before we go any further,
back to Deborah. Breaking news.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We have breaking news. This just into the KFI newsroom.
TMZ is reporting that you know that singer David He
has been viewed as a suspect in the death of
Celeste Reeves. That's the teenager whose body, her decomposing body
was found in his tesla. So right now, TMZ is
saying there's no paperwork classifying David as a suspect, but
(00:30):
one of their sources did say that investigators are looking
at David as a suspect.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That story broke weeks ago, right, they found her body.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, but now David has not been listed as a suspect.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Why would that be. It's his car, there's a dead
woman in your trunk, right, you're a suspect.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, you know what, John, I don't get paid too.
I don't get paid to analyze things like that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I know that. I just find that in music. Yeah,
for weeks, since he's not a suspect, we mean, he's
not a suspected's his car?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Well, now he is apparently reported.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Reportedly allegedly suspect.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You ever ended up with a dead girl in the
trunk of your car, you're a suspect.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I hope that never happened.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You would, you know, you just don't put her in there.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, I mean maybe he didn't. We don't know. He
may not have put her.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
He was framed by someone else. Well, we'll see. Thank
you for that for that. Now, let's uh, 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 Katie or Aslavsky. I
(01:45):
don't know how a council person can force a homeless
shelter in a neighborhood when no one wants it. And plus,
this particular building was purchased by uh one guy who's
been and dieted. 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
(02:07):
twenty seven million dollars, a sixteen million dollar profit in
ten days. And then the second company two of their
executives have been put on leave. So the whole thing
is a sewer. 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
(02:29):
and Polly Grossband from Chevy Hills, who was on with
us a few weeks ago. Has the latest, Polly, how are.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You hi, John. It's nice to hear your boys.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, it's good to have fine, it's good to have
you on again. Tell me you apparently pursued Katie Roslovsky
over this issue.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
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 Katie to delay the shelters plans opening
in twenty twenty six, and on November thirteenth we were
(03:16):
able to give her a formal letter. So she now
has been served in a way.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
And you actually went to a meeting where she was speaking.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
We did. We a group of us neighbors. We all
met early underground in 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
(03:52):
way to tell us all about it, we started throwing
the questions right.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Now and Senate Bill's seventy nine is the one that
allows these these apartment buildings to be built in residential neighborhoods.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
But yes, and at least at least she's standing against it.
Is she's opposing SB seventy nine, and she says, we're
going to find some ways to work around.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It, but she's for this homeless shelter coming into your neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
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,
(04:46):
I'll have you removed from this meeting.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Well what happened next, Well.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
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.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
To come back. What was Katie uncomfortable with the line
of questioning.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yes, she is getting flustered, she's getting her faces turning red.
She understands this is not going away.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It's indefens to do it. 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 4 (05:42):
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,
(06:08):
and we kept asking her for a meeting. We 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.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right, say good work. That's what it takes, and
most people don't want to do it, but you and
your fellow warriors pulled it off.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
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 points.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's the gall they have. 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 created in their neighborhood. That that is unconscionable.
I mean, just that's just awful. What is this is
why she got into politics in order to ruin the
(07:14):
neighborhoods for peaceful people? Is that that's why she decided
to get into it.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well, it is 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
(07:41):
and we are looking into it to see if we
overpaid for the property.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
All right, very good, Polly, Thank you for coming on
with us, and stay.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
In content for having me on. And yes, and also
did you see what did you get a chance to
look at the Instagram post that I sent to you
from Susan Collins.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yes, it is a very complicated drawing, I guess, following
the money and like a timeline of events. Right, there's way.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
One was the timeline. The other one is the Instagram
post from Susan Collins which has the footage from the medium.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
That we took. Oh, the footage. Okay, I haven't seen
the footage, so I'll look at that.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I'll send it to you.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Okay, we'll do. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Again, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right. 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 Katie Rslavsky wants to
put it there against their will. This this these are
the people who got into office. They serve homeless people,
and they serve the criminals who are using tax money
(08:59):
to these homeless shelters or convert these homeless shelters. The
criminals and the homeless, that's who People like Katie Rooslovsky serve.
Regular citizens just trying to live their life, minding their
own business. Don't care about you, all right. Karen Bess
wrote an article that they printed in Time magazine about
(09:24):
the future of the Democratic Party. You got to hear this.
That's next.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
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Speaker 1 (09:35):
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We have a photo today that shows California State California
Parks Department employee State Park State Parks talking with LA
(09:58):
Fire Department fighters telling them what to do. And this
was on January second, the day after the fire. And
shortly there after the LA Fire Department rolled up their
hoses and left, even though things were still smoldering and
still hot. And she was telling them what to do,
(10:19):
and she was trying to protect plants, endangered plants, and
that may have had something to do with why the
LA Fire Department left because the state Parks employee wanted
them to. Except then the News administration lied in court
(10:39):
claiming they didn't even know the fire had happened. On
January first, we covered this a lot in the two
o'clock hour with Roger Bailey and the attorney for all
the many of the homeowners who lost their their houses.
So go listen to that on the podcast later on
(11:00):
give you a Minute here. Time Magazine actually published something
under Karen Bass's name. I doubt she wrote it, probably
one of her flunky lackeys. The future of the Democratic
Party is local when president, of course, it starts out
with an attack on Trump. When President Donald Trump speaks
(11:21):
about America's blue cities, he paints a bleak picture, one
of chaos, decline, in despair. He talks about cities like
Los Angeles as if it's a lost cause, a place
people have given up on. But those of us who
actually live in cities like Los Angeles can tell you
the image that the President is painting could not be
further from the truth. Jackley wrote this this is pure propaganda,
(11:47):
and Time Magazine prints the propaganda unquestioningly. This is not
like a reporter doing an interview. There is no analysis here.
It's just like Karen, give us a propaganda public relations
piece on how great LA is and she has somebody
right it up or its AI. Yeah, well she's getting
(12:08):
indistinguishable from AI. Los Angeles is not broken. Los Angeles
is not a drift. Los Angeles is not a healthscape.
Los Angeles is an economic engine, a bastion of diverse
cultures and storytellers. Oh yeah, it's diverse cultures. You've got
the you've got the illegal aliens neighborhoods, you've got the
(12:31):
criminal neighborhoods and the gangs, and you have the homeless neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well, that's diverse.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
That is diverse. She's right on that. And then she
goes and claims that homelessness, Yeah, street homelessness is down
by ten percent. We're finally turning a corner, second straight
year of decline. And on inside safe is great. I'm
going to remind you of the truth. This first came
(12:58):
out on October fifty. I think we're going to have
to read this periodically. The RAND Corporation Research Corporation issued
a report in October fifteenth and said an official homeless
count in Los Angeles only captured about two thirds of
the street homeless. Santa Monica based think tank conducts its
(13:23):
own professional count that looked at three locations, skid Row, Venice,
and Hollywood. Loss's official count showed that on skid Row,
the city count was sixty one percent accurate. The city
(13:44):
missed thirty nine percent of the homeless people living in
the streets on skid Row. RAND found out that in
Venice the city missed twenty four percent of the homeless,
and in Hollywood, RAND found out that Basses operation missed
nineteen percent of the homeless. This is Karen Bass's homeless
(14:07):
counting operation missed nineteen percent of them in Hollywood, thirty
nine percent of them in skid Row, twenty four percent
in Venice. And she writes an article a column in
the Time in Time magazine saying, Wow, look how good
we're doing with homelessness. Donald Trump is wrong, It's a lie.
(14:30):
It's been proven to be a lie. And Time magazine
prints Karen Bass's piece uncritically doesn't do a fact check.
No fact check on this easy to do. Call the
RAND corporation and you know what when they released When
RAND released those numbers, nobody disputed them. The new chief
(14:55):
executive of LASA Housing Agency, Ginda O'Neil, said she welcomes
more accounts by researchers and called the annual count that
the city does not the last word, an understanding almostness.
In fact, we would encourage RAND team members to assist
(15:16):
us with future counts. Excuse me, I'm coughing up my
lunch after reading that.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You know, you could hit your mic button.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's hard when I'm still talking.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I know what happens to me.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You want to start playing the game.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
We'll interrupt your broadcast every time there's any kind of
an omen I know.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Then then you'd never get to your stuff.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
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(16:34):
Show First Hour. We spent a lot of time on
Jenise and if you didn't if you didn't hear it,
you just ought to know that this, I mean, the
Los Angeles Times has embarrassed and wet itself many times
over the years, but this is the most one of
the most embarrassing things I've ever seen, because Jennie Kes
(16:57):
is just not one of these de I hires who's
clearly not capable of her job. She was, my opinion,
criminally negligent in not filling up the reservoir in the Palisades.
Then the fire happened and there was virtually no water
to fight the fire, and twelve people died and thousands
(17:19):
of homes destroyed, And that was a one hundred and
seventeen million gallon reservoir and it should have been filled up.
And no excuses, no explanations, no nothing cover was torn.
Fixed the cover, fill up the reservoir, or don't fix
the cover and fill up the reservoir. But the overwhelming
responsibility she had as fire season was approaching, nine months
(17:43):
of dry weather, Santa Ana winds were gonna blow one
of those days. And now you know about the incompetence
of the LA Fire Department management and a bass being
in Africa, and now this park representative who is Boston
the LA Fire Department around because she was trying to
(18:05):
protect some plants and that might be why they rolled
up their hoses. There was so much incompetence and stupidity
trying to save plants. Well, you know, all the plants
are gone now whatever they're trying to save because they
don't want the fire department bulldozing the land to put
out the January first fire. All those plants are gone.
(18:27):
Now everything's gone, but it all. You know. One of
the big reasons was no water in the reservoir. So
the La Times they had their own streaming studio. It's
called La Times Studios. I don't know what they do,
you know, they're desperate to make more money. They had
(18:49):
an inspirational Women's Forum and Leadership Awards, and they gave
Genie Quinonius, who may have made the single worst decision
in Los Angeles history, they gave her an award. They
(19:10):
gave her an award, and they wrote up this exciting
summary of her life. Jenise Conunia is a distinguished executive
with over twenty five years of leadership experience. She makes
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. And she
couldn't fill up the reservoir the way you'd fill up
(19:32):
a swimming pool. It's the same, it's the same process.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Does she pay for this award? I mean, she makes
so much money.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I don't know. I don't know why they would pick her.
I mean it was the La Times that broke the
story that she was the idiot responsible for not filling
the reservoir, and now I don't know. Eight months after
doing the story, she gets an award. Since her appointment
(20:02):
in May of twenty twenty four, she's led a workforce
of nearly twelve thousand employees in delivering safe, reliable water
and power to four million residents. There was no reliable
water in the Palisades. When they tried to put out
the fire, they were one hundred and seventeen million gallons short. Kenya,
get this has guided the LEDWP through a period of
(20:26):
exceptional progress. Oh no, she demonstrated critical crisis leadership during
the response and recovery efforts for the Pacific Palisades fire.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Okay, who is doing this? Who's writing this?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm going to read that again. She demonstrated critical crisis
leadership during the response and recovery efforts for the Pacific
Palisades fire.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
But everybody talked about how horrible that was. This this
makes no sense. Maybe this is a hoax.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
There was no order in two reservoirs, and she didn't
turn off the power, and those power lines fell down
and started more fires. She successfully restored service with record
efficiency while continuing to rebuild critical infrastructure. And then there's
(21:25):
half a paragraph here about some solar power project she
was behind. This is something you ought to know. They right. Previously,
Kenonia served as senior vice president PG and E. She
(21:45):
fled that company after PG and E started a series
of massive fires up in northern California. Wherever she goes,
destructive fires follow her. Uh, there's some you know what,
(22:06):
this is mental illness. There can't be anything else. This
has got to be mental illness. Is anybody embarrassed at
the La Times, the people in the newsroom, those of
you that worked on the all the Palisades stories and
you did a great job. Did you know this? This other?
And this is the first thing that hits you in
the face. By the way, when you go to the
(22:27):
La Times, is this LA Studio's streaming project? And you
end up with video flashing in your face and then
you got to scroll down to get to the news.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
We have to find out who's in charge of that.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And I really need to find out.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Why they chose her. I want to know what they
were thinking.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, I think tomorrow we're gonna we're gonna find out
name names, because that is really and it's so insulting
and demoralizing to the families that lost their homes and
the families that lost people as well. People died and
if she if the reservoir is full, fire department would
have had a much better chance. Of course, there were
(23:04):
other issues at the fire department, but a lack of water.
I can't tell you how many people I know and
how many times. I've read interviews with residents who said
there's nobody there. Firefighters are standing around. We spoke with
them and they said, we have no water. We have
(23:25):
no water. I heard somebody talking the other day about
how their neighborhood was fine the first day of the fire.
It was the next afternoon because nobody was around to
stop the fire and just kept burning and burning and
burning until there was nothing left to burn. And if
they had water would not happen. We know now it
(23:46):
never should have. I mean, if they put out the
original fire on the first this never would have started.
But even after it started, it could have been stopped.
I cannot believe the incredible layer after layer after layer
incompetence and stupidity. Bass's office, Fire, the State Parks Department,
(24:12):
and Janice Konias, she's a she Bass and the Kristin Crowley,
the fire chief. There's your diversity. Might want to try
brains next time as one of the hiring requirements.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I don't know if you saw, but a federal court
has blocked Texas from using its new redistricting map, claiming
that the Republicans engaged in racial gerrymandering. Yeah, that the
lines the Republicans drew in Texas were illegal, and that
(24:55):
they were I guess, trying to keep black voters from
electing black representatives. I'm assuming that's what that means, to
get more white representatives. California's redistricting plan remains an effect,
(25:20):
though they took out language that said it would only
kick in if Texas succeeded, and if this means that
Texas failed, Californias can go through anyway. So this is
this is what Newsom was hoping for, that there'd be
(25:43):
you know, five extra Democrats in the House, all representing California,
and that's why he justified ripping away Republican choices from
Republican voters in those five districts. Of course, California is
being sued in federal court by the Trump administration for
(26:06):
the same reason that they engaged in, like ethnic Jerry
manderin trying to create Hispanic districts that would elect Hispanic representatives.
This is just on both sides, a ridiculously stupid game,
just unbelievable. You know, if you're going to draw artificial lines,
(26:31):
why don't you just make it so that it's both
parties had more of an equal chance, and then they
could sell themselves to the voters and have that determine
who wins an election. Everything is rigged, and Texas are
trying to rig it against Democrats, and I guess black
(26:52):
residents and Republicans are being discriminated against here in California.
And the newsom was favoring Hispanic voters to get Hispanic
representatives here, not white or black ones. All of its garbage,
all of it's wrong. All right, Well, we'll be back tomorrow,
(27:16):
and you know, we're going to try to find out
who works for this La Times Studios operation that gave
the award to Genie Kenonias. And she's going to spend
another day with a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
salary and has taken no accountability for what she did,
not filling up the reservoir, no explanation, no nothing. They're
(27:38):
not getting away with this. We're going to keep on
this till the end of days. We've got Michael Krozer
coming up next with the news Conways after that, and
Michael's live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
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