March 2, 2026 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/02) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio comes on the show with the latest on the voter ID initiative he has been promoting. David Allen Funston was re-arrested on new charges. More on David Allen Funston and the parole hearing that ultimately granted his release before being re-arrested on new charges.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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on whatever you missed. All right, let's got so much
to do. I'm gonna keep rolling here. Carl Demio's coming on.
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He is a Republican assembly member from San Diego. He
is the chairman of Reform California, which is an activist
group which looks like is going to be able to
get on the ballot an initiative requiring you to show
ID when you vote. They needed eight hundred plus thousand
signatures and they now have one point three million signatures
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and it seems like they're well over the mark. Let's
talk to Carl Demayo and see what this means. Carl,
how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I'm doing well, John, and we're just so grateful that
people signed this initiative and volunteers stepped up to collect signatures.
This was a real team effort and it is a
citizen's uprising because the politicians had a chance to enact
common sense voter ID requirements. A year ago, the politicians
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in Washington in the Senate had a chance, or still
have a chance, but they don't do it. The politicians
won't do it. This is despite the fact that voter
ID is a bipartisan issue. There's a seventy eighty percent
support in every poll that you see, including a majority
of Democrats. And of the one point three five million
signatures that we collected, nearly half of them came from
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Independence and Democrats. So this is a consensus measure, and
yet the politicians are trying to stop it at every turn.
The citizens are just going to have to impose it
on our broken political system this November in the election.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I explain because plenty of people may not have heard
about this or only slightly familiar. Should this past pass
in November the next election day, what will people have
to do? How will the process work this voter IDEA
good question.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
There are two sections to this state constitutional amendment. The
first section deals with cleaning up our voter lists to
make sure that only eligible people are on the voter
list and receive ballots, and the second section is about
making sure we check the identity and verify the identity
of someone who returns the ballot. So, for the first section,
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California has abysmally outdated, poorly maintained voter lists, and a
lot of people are getting ballots that are no longer
living here in California or they're not citizens. And so
what we require is that every county registrar will now
have the legal responsibility and the authority to maintain accurate
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voter lists. You might think that that's already in law,
it's not. The Secretary of State bans a lot of
the counties from doing proper list maintenance. It also requires
as part of that that government agencies that have databases
would have to cooperate with the registrar voters as they
verify citizenship. And so we also require as part of
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this an outside audit every two years before mail and
ballots are mailed out. The independent state Auditor would have
to randomly audit every county's voter file and publish the
results to the public. And if the voter file isn't
properly maintained, then that becomes something that the court can
order changes and fixes on. So the first part of
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this is all about holding government accountable for doing citizenship
verification and eligibility and residency review.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
We have a lot of yeah, go ahead, sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But the second part is super simple, and that is,
once we verify who's on the list, then any one
with the current government ID, driver's license, passport, uh, social
security card, all they have to do is show that
when they vote. It doesn't really have any burdens or
requirements on the voters. What it really is about is
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holding government officials accountable for doing their damn job to
maintain accurate voter lists. It's so simple, and that's why
Democrats even are very supportive of this. It's just good government.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, normal people, normal Democrats, citizens are But the activists
and the whack jobs who serve as our representatives, they've
got all kinds of nonsense reasons because they want they
want to protect their their their cheating machine. They want
to keep the cheating machine fully operational. That's the only
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reason to be against voter ID is because you and
your party are cheating and profiting and benefiting from it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
There's no other there's no other reason or or or.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You know, I mean, I do believe that there's all
sorts of problems and cheating. But even worse, public perception
is that your vote doesn't count when you don't do
voter ID, when it's not done properly. When we have
lucy goosey systems where there's ballots sitting on the ground
at postal centers because they're being mailed to boxes of
people who've long since fled the state, it sends the
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message to other voters that your vote really is going
to get canceled out because it's such a sloppy system,
and that's why public trust and confidence plummets and participation plummets.
You know what's interesting, John, They say that this is
about suppressing the vote, it's a lie. What's odd about
it is that when voter ID systems are implemented in
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other states, voting participation actually increases, and it particularly increases
amongst minority voters because people realize, we'll wait a minute,
since the election is being done properly and it's being
done with safeguards, then nobody can out my vote. My
vote matters. And so this is an idea that's so simple.
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When the politicians say it's racist, or when they say
it suppresses the votes of women or whatnot, the voters
are smart enough to say, you guys are insane. It's
a lie. This is common sense. Let's just get this up.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, it's so stupid.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I mean, if they're going to object to something, have
a more intelligent response, something based in reality. Most everybody
has an idea of some kind, so there's no such
thing as it being racism or this anti woman thing
is something new. I mean, they're just making up nonsense
and lies. It makes me crazy because you can't even
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have a reasonable discussion. There's nothing to discuss. Everybody's got
ID and all of us use it all day and night.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
They want to make this a part of an issue
because they thrive on division, and that's how they stop
public consensus when you have a seventy percent issues. They lie,
they cheat, they represent, they divide, they call it racist.
The good news is what we're seeing in the polling
and from what we saw during the signature drive, John,
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is that people are overwhelmingly already at a consensus point
and they're just they're going to ignore these Democrat politicians
who are making up these excuses as to why this
is a bad thing. The public wants it, it's going
to get them.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, well we got we have a lot of dead
people on the voter rolls. People have moved away illegal aliens,
so all that's going to be cleared out and those
names can't be used anymore for any any kind of
fake votes.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
All right, very good, Carl Deamaiel, thank you for coming
on the Republican Assemblymen. Excellent work. I know this isn't
easy to do this. This is really exhausted.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We're exhausted. We're gonna take a couple of days off
to just rest up. But the election in November is
coming around, so we got to, you know, get back
out there and hustle and pass it in November.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Okay, the Voter Idea Initiative, Thanks Carl, we'll talk again soon.
It's going to be on the ballot, and obviously that's
something you vote yes for. There is absolutely no intelligent
objection to having a voter ID law, not zero. It
means whoever whoever says otherwise is lying and trying to
intimidate you and scare you into thinking that you're a racist,
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or you hate women or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
The new cause du jour is we when we come back.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Fundston, the guy who killed no the guy who raped
eight little children. We talked about him last week. He's
been rearrested already. We'll tell you about it when we
come back, and we're going to tell you about something
pretty explosive that we plan to unveil tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
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Speaker 2 (08:48):
Last week we told you about David Funston. David Funston
was a serial child rapist. There is no euphemism that
you can use to softly and gently explain what he
was doing to these children. It was eight children, seven girls,
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one boy. They were ages three to seven. We talked
about it quite a bit last Thursday, and David Funston
got parole from the state prison. Gavin Newsom has twenty
one people on the Board of Parole and he has
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appointed or reappointed all twenty one, so they represent Gavin
Newsom's thinking on what you do with someone who repeatedly
rapes little children. One of them was a five year
old girl who is raped, beaten up and thrown on
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the side of the road, on the side of a highway.
And still the commissioners at the parole hearing. And by
the way, I have the transcript of the parole hearing
and I will get to what we're going to do
with this transcript in a moment. Funston, though, has been rearrested.
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He has been transferred to Placer County Jail and held
without bail. He's got new charges from nineteen ninety five,
sexual assaults on a five year old girl from nineteen
ninety five, and he was one of the prosecutors. She
was one of the prosecution witnesses at his nineteen ninety
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nine trial. Now, if you're just getting up to speed
on this, we have an elderly parole law which allows
inmates as young as fifty years old to get out
of prison early as long as they've served twenty years.
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Exceptions made for somebody who raped eight little children and
not talking little ages three to seven. This was passed
by the sex perverts in our legislature, and that's what
they are. It got most Democrats voted for this. One
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Democrat Assembly Member Maggie Crow is so disgusted. I never
imagine someone like him would get released. It's an insult
to justice and completely traumatic to children and their families.
And she has legislation that would allow state officials to
classify people like Funston as sexually violent predators. And then
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you go to a state hospital and they could do
all their hocus pocus fake treatment there, and it is
hocus pocus fake treatment. I'm telling you this. I'll tell
you this one hundred times. If whatever your sexual orientation is,
and you tell me if I'm you tell somebody tell
me I'm I'm wrong. Whatever you're attracted to when you're
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a young teenager, whenever you know, puberty hits and you
notice girls for the first time, or you notice boys
for the first time, whether you're a girl or a boy,
whether you're interested in the opposite sex or the same sex,
or maybe some small farm animals or little children, that
stays with you forever. There is no changing that. That
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is hard wired, hard coded in your brain and in
your DNA, absolutely hard coded. And what is shocking is
the people who will tell you up and down that
gay people were born that way and you can't you
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can't change their sexual orientation with any kind of therapy. Well,
they think you can. If you happen to be attracted
to little boys or girls somehow, then you can go
through some kind of therapy be and you no longer
get aroused by little boys and girls. No, it's true
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across the board. Whatever you're attracted to, you're attracted for
life and there is no changing it. And they're so
full of crap, and they are dangerous, and they are sick,
and they're twisted. And I'm telling you, I suspect anybody
who would vote to release a compulsive rapist who did
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it eight times. I got a question, what's going on
in your personal life? I got to wonder what you're
thinking about late at night, or what you're doing, or
what you're watching, because my god.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Can you imagine this guy does it eight times? Now.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
We'll get to this when I come back, and I
think tomorrow we're going to go into it fully because
I want to spend some time reading it. We have
a source that got us the transcript of the parole hearing,
and we've got games of some of the members of
the parole board who voted to let him out. And
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these people need to be exposed. They're getting government salaries
to let violent, compulsive rapists out on the street. And
what's really shocking is some of these people are women,
which I can't get my head around. But for the moment,
Funston is back in prison because he had other sex
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offenses that they never prosecuted way back because they thought,
oh good, he's was sentenced to life in prison. We
don't have to waste our time and money. Well, looks
like they're going to have to go back and try
him all over again. That's more on that.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
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Speaker 1 (15:51):
Now we have. Let me just hear that.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
This is the parole suitability hearing that occurred on September
twenty fourth. This was the hearing where they determined that
David Funston could be released out of state prison given parole,
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even though he raped eight little children aged seven and under.
One is youngest three. Okay, so you have an eight
time child rapist. And I have this big thick print
out here from the hearing, and I've got some names
of a few of the few members of the pro
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board who voted to release him. I was just handed
this right before the show. I want to read through
it and then we'll do a little presentation tomorrow and
we'll name the names. So you want to be listening tomorrow.
What I will tell you is Bill Mlusion got to
look at this earlier in the day and he started
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posting on Twitter some of the stuff he found. So
I'll tell you what he found. And this is an
actual back and forth between the Deputy District Attorney Dean Archibald,
who was making the case that we should keep this
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guy in prison, and he is talking to the Commissioner
Patricia Cassidy, and Cassidy was asking questions of David Funston. Okay,
so I'm going to start with this testimony. First of all,
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the question from Deputy DA Dean Archibald. Perhaps I missed this.
Commissioner Cassidy had asked mister Funston early on, are you
you're still attracted to female children? And mister Funston gave
a very lengthy answer which, at least to me, I
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never heard him say yes or no. So my question
is he still attracted to female children? So Patricia Cassidy,
the presiding Commissioner, looks at Funston and repeats, are you
still attracted to female children? And Funston says quote yes
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I am, And Commissioner Cassidy, Patricia Cassidy wants a little clarification.
She says, do you want to say yes or no? Okay,
Funston says yes. Cassidy repeats yes, and he reiterates yes, ma'am,
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Yes he's still attracted to children. Now that moment is
actually in the transcript I'm looking looking at it. Bill
Mlusion posted it online and I am looking at the copy. Now,
if you're on a parole board and you hear a
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guy who's raped eight children tell you on his own
he's still attracted to children, I think it's an easy.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Answer here about parole.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Instead, he got a majority of those voting to let
him go. Now we don't have the full list of
who supported him, because normally that's kept confidential, but we
have a few names and we'll delve into those names tomorrow.
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Mallusion also posted this fox who's obtained the September twenty
five hearing for serial child rapist David Funston, and he
said as recently as twenty twenty one. Now forgive me here,
I gotta be blunt because this is actually in the transcripts,
and I think people should know just how severely sick
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this is, and how severely sick the parole board is
for letting him go. And by the way, Gavin Newsom
signed the law to allow a guy like David Funston
to be released, and Gavin Newsom appointed all twenty one.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Of these.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Parole board members. Some illusion says they have the transcript.
Fundstead admits he was masturbating to children in prison, including
fantasies he was having about an eight year old girl
who used to live across the street from him. He
admits this to the commissioners and Illusion rights to California
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Parole Board found him suitable for early release during the
same hearing. The transcript reveals that Funstan admits he raped
a little boy because he was quote vulnerable and available,
and he targeted children because he enjoyed the power he
had over them. Funston goes on to acknowledge that his
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pedophilia is a lifelong disorder and that he still has
quote urges, but he has an urge control plan that's
an exact quote an urge control plan, and says he
would never be around children again as it would be
a high risk situation. The parole Board credits him for
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this urge control plan. I'm going to repeat that the
parole board credits him for the urge control plan as
part of the reason they approved his early release. Here
is an exact quote from the parole board. According to Milusion,
you have a really good developed urge control plan. You
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have steps that you take, You practice it every day
so that it'll be second nature. To you if the
high risk situation develops. Those are the words of one
of the parole board members. It's like, good work on
this self invented.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Urge control plan. You just keep rehearsing it and you
know a little kick in. There's no such thing.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I don't know who the parole board member is, but
we're gonna find out this because these people have to
be removed. This parole board needs to be broken up.
All of them get removed unless we have a clear indication,
clear indication that they voted against this guy being released.
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This is a Gavin Newsom signed law. These are Gavin
Newsome appointed Parole board members, all twenty one of them.
And one of them said, you have developed a urge
control plan. You practice it every day, so it'll be
second nature to you if a high risk situation develops.
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As recently as five years ago, he admitted that he
was still pleasuring himself to an eight year old who
used to live across the street from him way back
in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And this is now twenty.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Five, thirty years later, and he's still thinking about her
in prison. This is five years before this hearing, and
they still let him go.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
We will have more tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Like I said, we got this whole transcript here, We've
got some names, we're aware of a few of the votes.
They're keeping everything out secret, and this is something I'm
not going to let up on. So many sick people
in government. And it's a lot of six six sexual perversion,
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and it's among the state senators, it's among the Assembly members.
It's Gavin Newsom. Well, what do we find out in
his book? Actually not in his book, but in his
book and elsewhere. Gavin Newsom was thirty nine. You know,
he dated a nineteen year old while he was mayor
of San Francisco. He was dating a nineteen year old.
And they even have a photo of her with a
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glass of wine at some dinner, which of course she
was under age. And Newsom's response was, oh, I didn't notice.
So there's a lot of sexual perversion going on among
the legislators in Sacramento, and that's why they vote for
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this stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
They think it's okay. We'll talk more when we come back.
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think she was last seen on a video. She was
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of all these all these people are at just like
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way over sext. You know, whether whether it's uh Clinton
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Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's just just some kind of power. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well Hillary had a close deposition and Lauren Bobert took
a photo of her and put it out on social media.
When she found out about it, Hillary got upset. Play
this clip.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Can I interrupt?
Speaker 6 (27:29):
I have another photos that are being released of the
secretary as she is testifying from inside this room. Can
you please advise me as to whether or not that's
permissible and consistent with the rules ticularly given that we
have asked for public hearing. If there are photos that
are being released of the secretary she is testifying, Can
you please explain how we've done with this.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
If you guys are doing that, I am done. You
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understand how that's promissible for the hearing was It doesn't matter.
We all are abiding by the same rules.
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I will take that down.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Yeah, well, I would like to take a break at this.
Mon I'd like to have.
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Gone for now, go off the record, verser.
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She slammed the desk twice. Little glimpse of what Bill
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What do you think what it's like? But he had
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would you blame her?
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I just like when the mask finally comes down. All right,
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on every day from three to six, and
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Cobelt Show on demand and that's how you catch up
on whatever you missed. All right, let's got so much
to do. I'm gonna keep rolling here. Carl Demio's coming on.
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He is a Republican assembly member from San Diego. He
is the chairman of Reform California, which is an activist
group which looks like is going to be able to
get on the ballot an initiative requiring you to show
ID when you vote. They needed eight hundred plus thousand
signatures and they now have one point three million signatures
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and it seems like they're well over the mark. Let's
talk to Carl Demayo and see what this means. Carl,
how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I'm doing well, John, and we're just so grateful that
people signed this initiative and volunteers stepped up to collect signatures.
This was a real team effort and it is a
citizen's uprising because the politicians had a chance to enact
common sense voter ID requirements. A year ago, the politicians
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in Washington in the Senate had a chance, or still
have a chance, but they don't do it. The politicians
won't do it. This is despite the fact that voter
ID is a bipartisan issue. There's a seventy eighty percent
support in every poll that you see, including a majority
of Democrats. And of the one point three five million
signatures that we collected, nearly half of them came from
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Independence and Democrats. So this is a consensus measure, and
yet the politicians are trying to stop it at every turn.
The citizens are just going to have to impose it
on our broken political system this November in the election.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I explain because plenty of people may not have heard
about this or only slightly familiar. Should this past pass
in November the next election day, what will people have
to do? How will the process work this voter IDEA
good question.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
There are two sections to this state constitutional amendment. The
first section deals with cleaning up our voter lists to
make sure that only eligible people are on the voter
list and receive ballots, and the second section is about
making sure we check the identity and verify the identity
of someone who returns the ballot. So, for the first section,
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California has abysmally outdated, poorly maintained voter lists, and a
lot of people are getting ballots that are no longer
living here in California or they're not citizens. And so
what we require is that every county registrar will now
have the legal responsibility and the authority to maintain accurate
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voter lists. You might think that that's already in law,
it's not. The Secretary of State bans a lot of
the counties from doing proper list maintenance. It also requires
as part of that that government agencies that have databases
would have to cooperate with the registrar voters as they
verify citizenship. And so we also require as part of
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this an outside audit every two years before mail and
ballots are mailed out. The independent state Auditor would have
to randomly audit every county's voter file and publish the
results to the public. And if the voter file isn't
properly maintained, then that becomes something that the court can
order changes and fixes on. So the first part of
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this is all about holding government accountable for doing citizenship
verification and eligibility and residency review.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
We have a lot of yeah, go ahead, sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But the second part is super simple, and that is,
once we verify who's on the list, then any one
with the current government ID, driver's license, passport, uh, social
security card, all they have to do is show that
when they vote. It doesn't really have any burdens or
requirements on the voters. What it really is about is
(04:17):
holding government officials accountable for doing their damn job to
maintain accurate voter lists. It's so simple, and that's why
Democrats even are very supportive of this. It's just good government.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, normal people, normal Democrats, citizens are But the activists
and the whack jobs who serve as our representatives, they've
got all kinds of nonsense reasons because they want they
want to protect their their their cheating machine. They want
to keep the cheating machine fully operational. That's the only
(04:48):
reason to be against voter ID is because you and
your party are cheating and profiting and benefiting from it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
There's no other there's no other reason or or or.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You know, I mean, I do believe that there's all
sorts of problems and cheating. But even worse, public perception
is that your vote doesn't count when you don't do
voter ID, when it's not done properly. When we have
lucy goosey systems where there's ballots sitting on the ground
at postal centers because they're being mailed to boxes of
people who've long since fled the state, it sends the
(05:21):
message to other voters that your vote really is going
to get canceled out because it's such a sloppy system,
and that's why public trust and confidence plummets and participation plummets.
You know what's interesting, John, They say that this is
about suppressing the vote, it's a lie. What's odd about
it is that when voter ID systems are implemented in
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other states, voting participation actually increases, and it particularly increases
amongst minority voters because people realize, we'll wait a minute,
since the election is being done properly and it's being
done with safeguards, then nobody can out my vote. My
vote matters. And so this is an idea that's so simple.
(06:05):
When the politicians say it's racist, or when they say
it suppresses the votes of women or whatnot, the voters
are smart enough to say, you guys are insane. It's
a lie. This is common sense. Let's just get this up.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, it's so stupid.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I mean, if they're going to object to something, have
a more intelligent response, something based in reality. Most everybody
has an idea of some kind, so there's no such
thing as it being racism or this anti woman thing
is something new. I mean, they're just making up nonsense
and lies. It makes me crazy because you can't even
(06:42):
have a reasonable discussion. There's nothing to discuss. Everybody's got
ID and all of us use it all day and night.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
They want to make this a part of an issue
because they thrive on division, and that's how they stop
public consensus when you have a seventy percent issues. They lie,
they cheat, they represent, they divide, they call it racist.
The good news is what we're seeing in the polling
and from what we saw during the signature drive, John,
(07:08):
is that people are overwhelmingly already at a consensus point
and they're just they're going to ignore these Democrat politicians
who are making up these excuses as to why this
is a bad thing. The public wants it, it's going
to get them.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, well we got we have a lot of dead
people on the voter rolls. People have moved away illegal aliens,
so all that's going to be cleared out and those
names can't be used anymore for any any kind of
fake votes.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
All right, very good, Carl Deamaiel, thank you for coming
on the Republican Assemblymen. Excellent work. I know this isn't
easy to do this. This is really exhausted.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We're exhausted. We're gonna take a couple of days off
to just rest up. But the election in November is
coming around, so we got to, you know, get back
out there and hustle and pass it in November.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Okay, the Voter Idea Initiative, Thanks Carl, we'll talk again soon.
It's going to be on the ballot, and obviously that's
something you vote yes for. There is absolutely no intelligent
objection to having a voter ID law, not zero. It
means whoever whoever says otherwise is lying and trying to
intimidate you and scare you into thinking that you're a racist,
(08:16):
or you hate women or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
The new cause du jour is we when we come back.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Fundston, the guy who killed no the guy who raped
eight little children. We talked about him last week. He's
been rearrested already. We'll tell you about it when we
come back, and we're going to tell you about something
pretty explosive that we plan to unveil tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Last week we told you about David Funston. David Funston
was a serial child rapist. There is no euphemism that
you can use to softly and gently explain what he
was doing to these children. It was eight children, seven girls,
(09:09):
one boy. They were ages three to seven. We talked
about it quite a bit last Thursday, and David Funston
got parole from the state prison. Gavin Newsom has twenty
one people on the Board of Parole and he has
(09:29):
appointed or reappointed all twenty one, so they represent Gavin
Newsom's thinking on what you do with someone who repeatedly
rapes little children. One of them was a five year
old girl who is raped, beaten up and thrown on
(09:51):
the side of the road, on the side of a highway.
And still the commissioners at the parole hearing. And by
the way, I have the transcript of the parole hearing
and I will get to what we're going to do
with this transcript in a moment. Funston, though, has been rearrested.
(10:17):
He has been transferred to Placer County Jail and held
without bail. He's got new charges from nineteen ninety five,
sexual assaults on a five year old girl from nineteen
ninety five, and he was one of the prosecutors. She
was one of the prosecution witnesses at his nineteen ninety
(10:38):
nine trial. Now, if you're just getting up to speed
on this, we have an elderly parole law which allows
inmates as young as fifty years old to get out
of prison early as long as they've served twenty years.
(11:00):
Exceptions made for somebody who raped eight little children and
not talking little ages three to seven. This was passed
by the sex perverts in our legislature, and that's what
they are. It got most Democrats voted for this. One
(11:21):
Democrat Assembly Member Maggie Crow is so disgusted. I never
imagine someone like him would get released. It's an insult
to justice and completely traumatic to children and their families.
And she has legislation that would allow state officials to
classify people like Funston as sexually violent predators. And then
(11:42):
you go to a state hospital and they could do
all their hocus pocus fake treatment there, and it is
hocus pocus fake treatment. I'm telling you this. I'll tell
you this one hundred times. If whatever your sexual orientation is,
and you tell me if I'm you tell somebody tell
me I'm I'm wrong. Whatever you're attracted to when you're
(12:03):
a young teenager, whenever you know, puberty hits and you
notice girls for the first time, or you notice boys
for the first time, whether you're a girl or a boy,
whether you're interested in the opposite sex or the same sex,
or maybe some small farm animals or little children, that
stays with you forever. There is no changing that. That
(12:23):
is hard wired, hard coded in your brain and in
your DNA, absolutely hard coded. And what is shocking is
the people who will tell you up and down that
gay people were born that way and you can't you
(12:44):
can't change their sexual orientation with any kind of therapy. Well,
they think you can. If you happen to be attracted
to little boys or girls somehow, then you can go
through some kind of therapy be and you no longer
get aroused by little boys and girls. No, it's true
(13:05):
across the board. Whatever you're attracted to, you're attracted for
life and there is no changing it. And they're so
full of crap, and they are dangerous, and they are sick,
and they're twisted. And I'm telling you, I suspect anybody
who would vote to release a compulsive rapist who did
(13:26):
it eight times. I got a question, what's going on
in your personal life? I got to wonder what you're
thinking about late at night, or what you're doing, or
what you're watching, because my god.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Can you imagine this guy does it eight times? Now.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
We'll get to this when I come back, and I
think tomorrow we're going to go into it fully because
I want to spend some time reading it. We have
a source that got us the transcript of the parole hearing,
and we've got games of some of the members of
the parole board who voted to let him out. And
(14:07):
these people need to be exposed. They're getting government salaries
to let violent, compulsive rapists out on the street. And
what's really shocking is some of these people are women,
which I can't get my head around. But for the moment,
Funston is back in prison because he had other sex
(14:30):
offenses that they never prosecuted way back because they thought,
oh good, he's was sentenced to life in prison. We
don't have to waste our time and money. Well, looks
like they're going to have to go back and try
him all over again. That's more on that.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Next, you're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI
A six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
We're on every day from three until six, and then
after six is the podcast John cobelt Show on demand
and that's where you listen to what you missed, and
you should listen to our first hour because we played
you several clips from Scott Pike. He was a LA
firefighter who was trying to tell his fire captain that
(15:12):
we've got a lot of hot spots here. It was
the day after the Lockman fire. It was January second,
twenty twenty five, and the captain wasn't interested. He was
telling people, roll up the hoses, let's get out of here,
and Pike is going, no, really, these rocks are really
hot and there's smoke and it's smoldering and it's crackling,
and captain didn't want to hear about it, and the
(15:33):
other firefighters did not join the Pike's team on that
they wanted to all go home because it was a
holiday weekend. It's really, really terrible. We've got more clips
to play on that in the five o'clock hour, but
you gotta hear first hour of the podcast.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Now we have. Let me just hear that.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
This is the parole suitability hearing that occurred on September
twenty fourth. This was the hearing where they determined that
David Funston could be released out of state prison given parole,
(16:21):
even though he raped eight little children aged seven and under.
One is youngest three. Okay, so you have an eight
time child rapist. And I have this big thick print
out here from the hearing, and I've got some names
of a few of the few members of the pro
(16:41):
board who voted to release him. I was just handed
this right before the show. I want to read through
it and then we'll do a little presentation tomorrow and
we'll name the names. So you want to be listening tomorrow.
What I will tell you is Bill Mlusion got to
look at this earlier in the day and he started
(17:01):
posting on Twitter some of the stuff he found. So
I'll tell you what he found. And this is an
actual back and forth between the Deputy District Attorney Dean Archibald,
who was making the case that we should keep this
(17:25):
guy in prison, and he is talking to the Commissioner
Patricia Cassidy, and Cassidy was asking questions of David Funston. Okay,
so I'm going to start with this testimony. First of all,
(17:47):
the question from Deputy DA Dean Archibald. Perhaps I missed this.
Commissioner Cassidy had asked mister Funston early on, are you
you're still attracted to female children? And mister Funston gave
a very lengthy answer which, at least to me, I
(18:07):
never heard him say yes or no. So my question
is he still attracted to female children? So Patricia Cassidy,
the presiding Commissioner, looks at Funston and repeats, are you
still attracted to female children? And Funston says quote yes
(18:30):
I am, And Commissioner Cassidy, Patricia Cassidy wants a little clarification.
She says, do you want to say yes or no? Okay,
Funston says yes. Cassidy repeats yes, and he reiterates yes, ma'am,
(18:51):
Yes he's still attracted to children. Now that moment is
actually in the transcript I'm looking looking at it. Bill
Mlusion posted it online and I am looking at the copy. Now,
if you're on a parole board and you hear a
(19:12):
guy who's raped eight children tell you on his own
he's still attracted to children, I think it's an easy.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Answer here about parole.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Instead, he got a majority of those voting to let
him go. Now we don't have the full list of
who supported him, because normally that's kept confidential, but we
have a few names and we'll delve into those names tomorrow.
(19:46):
Mallusion also posted this fox who's obtained the September twenty
five hearing for serial child rapist David Funston, and he
said as recently as twenty twenty one. Now forgive me here,
I gotta be blunt because this is actually in the transcripts,
and I think people should know just how severely sick
(20:08):
this is, and how severely sick the parole board is
for letting him go. And by the way, Gavin Newsom
signed the law to allow a guy like David Funston
to be released, and Gavin Newsom appointed all twenty one.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Of these.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Parole board members. Some illusion says they have the transcript.
Fundstead admits he was masturbating to children in prison, including
fantasies he was having about an eight year old girl
who used to live across the street from him. He
admits this to the commissioners and Illusion rights to California
(20:54):
Parole Board found him suitable for early release during the
same hearing. The transcript reveals that Funstan admits he raped
a little boy because he was quote vulnerable and available,
and he targeted children because he enjoyed the power he
had over them. Funston goes on to acknowledge that his
(21:17):
pedophilia is a lifelong disorder and that he still has
quote urges, but he has an urge control plan that's
an exact quote an urge control plan, and says he
would never be around children again as it would be
a high risk situation. The parole Board credits him for
(21:39):
this urge control plan. I'm going to repeat that the
parole board credits him for the urge control plan as
part of the reason they approved his early release. Here
is an exact quote from the parole board. According to Milusion,
you have a really good developed urge control plan. You
(22:04):
have steps that you take, You practice it every day
so that it'll be second nature. To you if the
high risk situation develops. Those are the words of one
of the parole board members. It's like, good work on
this self invented.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Urge control plan. You just keep rehearsing it and you
know a little kick in. There's no such thing.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I don't know who the parole board member is, but
we're gonna find out this because these people have to
be removed. This parole board needs to be broken up.
All of them get removed unless we have a clear indication,
clear indication that they voted against this guy being released.
(22:57):
This is a Gavin Newsom signed law. These are Gavin
Newsome appointed Parole board members, all twenty one of them.
And one of them said, you have developed a urge
control plan. You practice it every day, so it'll be
second nature to you if a high risk situation develops.
(23:17):
As recently as five years ago, he admitted that he
was still pleasuring himself to an eight year old who
used to live across the street from him way back
in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And this is now twenty.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Five, thirty years later, and he's still thinking about her
in prison. This is five years before this hearing, and
they still let him go.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
We will have more tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Like I said, we got this whole transcript here, We've
got some names, we're aware of a few of the votes.
They're keeping everything out secret, and this is something I'm
not going to let up on. So many sick people
in government. And it's a lot of six six sexual perversion,
(24:05):
and it's among the state senators, it's among the Assembly members.
It's Gavin Newsom. Well, what do we find out in
his book? Actually not in his book, but in his
book and elsewhere. Gavin Newsom was thirty nine. You know,
he dated a nineteen year old while he was mayor
of San Francisco. He was dating a nineteen year old.
And they even have a photo of her with a
(24:26):
glass of wine at some dinner, which of course she
was under age. And Newsom's response was, oh, I didn't notice.
So there's a lot of sexual perversion going on among
the legislators in Sacramento, and that's why they vote for
(24:47):
this stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
They think it's okay. We'll talk more when we come back.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
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com slash at John Cobelt Show. Coming up after five o'clock,
we're going to have Michael mcchee on the gas prices
are going to go up a bit because of the
war in Iran now, but the huge worry is that
they're going to shoot way up because of Newsom's policy
(25:31):
to destroy the oil and gas industry, which he's succeeding.
That he fails at a lot of things, but somehow he
succeeded at ruining the oil industry. We're going to talk
to Michael mcshevy, USC professor coming up after five o'clock.
We're also going to play more clips and give you
more information on who decided not to put out the
hotspots of the January first Lockman Fire, who is responsible
(25:55):
for the reignition of the Palace of the Lockman Fire
which became the Palace Let's say, Inspire might have some
more names to tell you about and play you some
more audio from the depositions. Speaking of depositions, now a
little comedy break. Hillary and Bill Clinton were called in
(26:17):
over the Jeffrey Epstein case. The House Overside Committee, which
is run by Republicans, decided they would order them subpoena them,
and they resisted for a while, and then they were
threatened with contempt and the begrudgingly came in. And one
of the nuttier members on the Republican side is Lauren
Bobert from Colorado, which you remember, you remember her? I
(26:39):
think she was last seen on a video. She was
sitting next to a date at a show and she
was giving him some serious massage techniques. Well, she snapped
of all these all these people are at just like
(27:01):
way over sext. You know, whether whether it's uh Clinton
and he's running around with Epstein, Lauren Bobert is power.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's just just some kind of power. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well Hillary had a close deposition and Lauren Bobert took
a photo of her and put it out on social media.
When she found out about it, Hillary got upset. Play
this clip.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Can I interrupt?
Speaker 6 (27:29):
I have another photos that are being released of the
secretary as she is testifying from inside this room. Can
you please advise me as to whether or not that's
permissible and consistent with the rules ticularly given that we
have asked for public hearing. If there are photos that
are being released of the secretary she is testifying, Can
you please explain how we've done with this.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
If you guys are doing that, I am done. You
can pull me a contempt from now until the cows
come home. This is just typical behavior all for heaven
understand how that's promissible for the hearing was It doesn't matter.
We all are abiding by the same rules.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I will take that down.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Yeah, well, I would like to take a break at this.
Mon I'd like to have.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Gone for now, go off the record, verser.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
She slammed the desk twice. Little glimpse of what Bill
comes home to you?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
What do you think what it's like? But he had
to admit that the Monica story was true. Okay, well
would you blame her?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I just like when the mask finally comes down. All right,
we come back Michael Lesche from USC on. How much
is the price gas gonna go up because of the
war in Iran? And what are we looking at for
all the other sins committed by Newsom. I'll tell you
that next and in the second half of next hour,
we are going to play more clips from the firefighter
(28:56):
depositions because it's clear what it's clear what went on,
and it's clear there was a massive cover up and
a lot of lies being told. Deborah Mark live in
the KFI twenty four our newsroom. You've been listening to
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