May 8, 2026 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (05/08) - A deep dive into Wednesday's mayoral debate between Mayor Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt, and LA City Councilwoman Nithya Raman.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Bill A. Saleon he's the first assistant US Attorney for
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the Central District here in California, and he was involved
in the big bust of twenty five drug dealers at
MacArthur Park. Yeah, the Trump Administration's going to clean up
MacArthur Park because Karen Dass would not, and LA's going
to be that much better. I'm just just enormous amounts
of fentonel they confiscated. Anyway, Bill talk to us about
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that just a half hour agoing you could hear it
on the podcast. We are live streaming on YouTube, Yes,
live streaming on YouTube, and we're going to do it
till five o'clock, first and second hour today on the
live stream. All right, let's get to this the debate.
And I know it's it's from Wednesday, but there's so
much to do. Yesterday I had plans to completely disembowel
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the entire debate. But Karen Well Spencer Pratt showed up
for an hour, and then doctor I show up for
half an hour, and those were just last minute things,
and so we decided to postpone the UH all the
analysis today. And I really want to do this because
I not everybody saw the debates or everybody has time
to see the clips necessarily, and it's really important to
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follow what everyone says closely so you could understand how
a compulsive, psychopathic liar, pathological liar like Karen Bass operates,
and the whole concept of lying caused a disturbance very
early in the debate. You may have heard I'm gonna
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play you. We're gonna play cup one here. This is
one of the UH the anchors Conan Nolan making a
statement right at the beginning play this.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And of course we're expecting a dignified debate.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
We can certainly no name calling.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Obviously, Well, it didn't take long for this to become
an issue. And I'm going to play this because I
got a lot to say, but I want you to
hear exactly what happened, and this would be cut number four.
Bass responding to Pratt about the winds in the Palisades
and then praed calling. Well, they say called BASSI name.
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So listen to this.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
He's saying several things that are completely inaccurate. First of all,
there was one reservoir that was out of commission.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
He is correct.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
A million years ago it was for wildfires, but over
the last thirty forty years it's been for drinking water.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
He talked about the winds.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That is just completely inaccurate. If that were accurate, then
the planes would have been able to fly. And so
the winds reached close to one hundred miles an hour
and the planes were unable to fly. So if there
were reservoirs, if that reservoir had been opened, it would
not have worked.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We had two other reservoirs.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
They have totally eight billion dollars, eight billion.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Gallons that were available. You could not fly.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yes, she she mentioned me, So this is she's an
incredible liar.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Everyone on their phones google it.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Forty weather stations in the Pacific Palistates.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It never went above storty.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Miss to interrupt you for I have to interrupt you.
No name calling though, yeah, but no name calling.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We should call me a liar.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I don't believe she did not make that up.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I did not. We're not going to debate the issue.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, that that that Colleen Williams did a horrible thing there.
She had no business getting in the way of that.
Spencer Pratt was telling the truth. What Bass was doing
is taking wind speeds that were way high up on
the mountain late in the day and pretending that those
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wind speeds were blowing through palisades during the morning and
afternoon hours when the fire went crazy. There were not
one hundred mile an hour winds in the palisades where
the homes were. There were never one hundred mile an
hour winds anywhere. She exaggerated it, and Colleen Williams had
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no business interfering. You know, she stepped on Spencer Pratt's
line there when he was going on about how there
were nothing more than forty mile an hour winds at
thirty stations in the Palisades. That's really important because that
undercuts Bass's claim. See, if somebody actually does lie, you
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could say they're lying. Lying is not being inaccurate. Being
an accurate means you made a mistake, you misremembered, you
didn't quite write down the proper statistic. No no, no lying.
Lying implies intention and they always get away with this,
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And I mean, I mean Karen Bass is incredibly corrupt,
incredibly dishonest, and Colleen Williams her job and the job
of the Channel four News department is to be investigating
this every day, every day of the year, all day
at night. They should be investigating all the massive corruption
that goes on. Why is there two billion dollars in
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almeless money disappearing and why did we spend even more
money millions hiring fifteen lawyers so Bass wouldn't have to
testify about it. That's what Colleen Williams ought to be doing,
not acting like some kind of school marm scolding Spencer
Pratt like he was a middle schooler. And this is
how they get away with it because they always know
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there's members of the media who are in the tank.
What's the point of having a debate if one of
the debaters can't highlight someone who's obviously deceiving the public
and has been by god, her history, her history just
on the fire alone, claiming that she never knew there
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was there were bad winds coming, that there was a
fire danger. Nobody told her. That's okay, according to Channel four.
She could actually she actually say this nonsense, unbelievable. Let
people talk. We all got Google. If Pratt made it up,
we'd all figure it out. And Basses every right to
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challenge him. She's but you know, thrails the conversation steps
on a very important fact he was trying to deliver.
And this is the first couple of minutes of debate.
We're to try to undermind his credibility. She's the one
who went to Africa, not him. She burned down his house,
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not the other way around. He should get that. If
there's gonna be difference, he should get the difference, not her.
She We're gonna play cut three here. This is Pratt
calling on Bass, and Kenonia is calling them out for
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all their mistakes.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
So the Mary Karen Basses the thousand firefighters that were available,
but there was no engines for them because of the
seventeen million dollars that Chief Crowley had asked the mayor
for nine weeks before, and Mayor Karen Bass denied it.
So they may have been available, but they didn't have
the equipment they needed. Not to mention Janice quinnonas who
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Mayor Karen Bass put into a position of power at
the LADWP. She drained both of these reservoirs that these
firefighters needed to put out these fires. A lot of
people will talk about climate change and hurricane force wins,
and the policies never reached higher than forty miles per
hour for those first six hours, that didn't go above
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twenty seven miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
So without those two reservoirs.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Filled with one hundred and seventeen million gallons and five
million gallons, these firefighters had to fly all the way
to Malibu and Nsino to get water. So that to
me is the most dangerous thing that the mayor put
us up against.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Mister proud of follow up here though, what would you
do moving forward that would make this better two years
from now if we face the same situation.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Well, first off, as mayor, I will never drain the
reservoirs that.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
We need for wildfire protection.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
How simple can you get? People?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Go?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, I don't know if he has an agenda. There's
an agenda. You never drain the reservoirs, no matter what ever,
for any reason, you do not drain the reservoirs. How
about that one? You hire more firefighters, you fix all
the fire trucks, you buy more fire trucks. How about that?
Are you gonna get the money? I don't know. How
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about out of the billions of dollars you're waste on
the homeless. That huge pot of corruption there, that's where
you get the money. Good lord, I gotta take a break.
We got more coming up.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And we continue going through the debate from Wednesday because
we couldn't do it yesterday, and I want to now.
I want to play the clip where Spencer Pratt is
talking about hiring more LAPD officers and goes after Nithia
Rahman cut five.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
You know it's more expensive than hiring them is overtime,
because that's what these salaries for the fire department that
everyone's complaining about. These everyone's understaffed. So first off, I'm
going to bring hiring back.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
To the LAPD.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Right now, the LAPD is hired by the same people
that hire Sanity, and we need to bring it back
like it was twenty plus years ago, so that police
hire police.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And we need a ten year plan. It's going to
take ten years to get.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
To the twelve thousand, five hundred officers that we need
and that needs.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
To be a priority.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Our sheriff's partner, they're the same size. They have a
billion dollar more budget for the same size. So this
idea that Council of Morama keeps saying that the police
department is overfunded. Public safety should be our number one priority.
And we're going to find all this money when we
stop her useless open bed plans that actually doesn't put
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drug addicts in these housing that we're spending billions of dollars,
and we're going to actually start checking where this money
is going. Not to mention, when you get rid of
all the drug addicts of the street, the police won't
be responding to the drug addicts all day long.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Misthy Raman is member of the Democratic Socialists of America DSA.
Learn about this group. It's acting like a political party.
It is subversive and destructive, and it's getting a foothold
in big cities. Zorn Mom. Donnie as a DSA member,
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so is Nthania Rahman. And when you run for office
and you want to get a DSA endorsement, you have
to agree to co govern with the DSA. Can you
imagine this co govern and that's why all the DSA
members who are on the city Council, including Ramen, they
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vote down all increases to the police budget. They want
to shrink the police, they want to defund the police.
This is all left over from the twenty twenty hysteria,
except they really believe it because it's an anarchist group
and Ramen is a member of it. This is what
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she wants. She hates the police. She also loves homeless encampments.
She gets angry when people talk about getting them off
the street. She gets angry and exasperated if people talk
about moving them from in front of schools. And here
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you'll hear the candidates being asked if they support encampments
being moved from schools.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
That restricts encampments in front of schools or daycare centers.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Mayor bass, I'm going to start with you. Yes no,
it is Raman, yes or no.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
I you know I support keeping our streets safe. I
did vote against the structure of this particular ordinance, and
it is because at its best yes or no, it
does not the way this ordinance was structured, it does
it does not keep our children safe.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Doster for our children safe.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
No, doesn't keep our children safe enough.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
It's a simple yes or no question, mister Pratt.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
What I was saying is she's fighting because she doesn't
think there's a difference with between one foot or five hundred.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Feet for kids safety, with drug addicts with machete Yes
or no.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Of course, we do not want encampments in front of schools, parks,
daycare veh.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Uh. It's stunning. Ramin does get visibly upset, and she
actually said she doesn't think your kids are any safer
if the encampment is ten feet away or five hundred
feet away. That's a quote. And when people were complaining
about encampments and this particular ordinance at a town hall meeting,
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and I've seen the video a number of times, she
gets exasperated and rolls her eyes and gives out a
big sigh like she can't believe she has to represent
these peasants who don't want dirty, disgusting, homeless drug addicts
and mental patients living in front of the kid's school.
She really is that far. That's what the DSA is.
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Go look at the website, look at their national website,
the LA chapter. It is toxic, it is cancer. The
Democratic Socialists of America, and they're one of the reasons
that the city has gone downhill so fast is the
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influence of that group. We come back a good exchange
here a little longer. One crack going after Ramen for
acting like she has nothing to do with this disastrous
homeless situation when she's been chair of the homeless committee
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for a while. Now. That clip is next, as we
continue going through the debate.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
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through the Wednesday debate. Since we didn't get a chance
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to yesterday, Spencer Pratt came in for a whole hour,
So today I want to go through the stuff that's
really important. Here Pratt in this cut, Oh backup, we're
going to do cut seven, right, Okay, I jumped ahead.
Pratt is calling out Nthia Ramen for pretending that she's
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got nothing to do with the homeless disaster.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
White cut seven, you advocate for what some have called
get help or get out of the way.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What is that and how do you do it? I
don't know who made up that name. First off, let's
I just want to say, counsel.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Woman Robin acts like she doesn't have any authority with
this homelessness. She was the third most powerful person in
city council, she runs the homeless housing thing.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
She acts like this is just Mayor Bass.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
First off, inside safe, I like to say, inside and
safe makes all of us outside unsafe. The reality is,
no matter how many beds you give these people, they
are on super meth.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
They are on fentanyl.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
The Dea Statistics says ninety three percent of this is
a drug addiction problem. Nitya counsel woman Robin's plan for treatment. First,
I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her
and we can find some of these people she's gonna
offer treatment for.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
She's gonna get stabbed in the neck.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
These people do not want a bed, They want fenanyl
or super meth. These ideas cost US over four hundred
million dollars to house for six seventy What do you say,
three thousand people for four hundred million is absolute failure
for both of them.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
They're a team.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
So, council Member Raman, you have thirty seconds.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Stores I just I want to just say to everybody
who's watching today, you're going to watch today as Mayor
Bass and Spencer Pratt attack me because they want to
run against each other in the general election. Each of
them thinks that running against each other is what's going
to help them win, and they don't want to run
against me because my ideas, which are based on real
results in my district, which are based on real data,
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a real analysis of the system, and a focus on
accountability and using every dollar as effectively as possible, which.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
We have done in my district.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I want to take the city wide.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
This is why this is happening today.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Customers, Roman, you were out of time. I'm going to
give each of you thirty seconds to as want of
this can I. I'm going to start with you, and
then I'm going to go to Mayor Beak.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
First off, Mayor Bass and I are definitely not working together.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I blamed this versus for birding my house and my parents' house,
and my town and all my neighbors down. I am
not working with Mayor Bass.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Second off, if I want to run against anybody, it
would be the council member who is terrible. Mayor Bass
has at least been a mayor for almost four years,
and as she talked about earlier, the unions, all the
unions endorsed Mayor Bass. You think it's easier to run
against the incumbent mayor with all the unions or a
random city council member who's been a failure for six years.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I would much rather run against councilwoman Ramen, Thank you
very much.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
That was that was one of my favorite parts there, because,
first of all, Ramen is nuts. Yeah, Pratt and Bass
have a conspiracy working together and they're ganging up on
poor Nitthia Rahmen. How the hell did she even think
of it? And and she actually said that out loud?
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Why is she crazy? But presid is right. You want
to take the no name city council person who has
been awful. She wants to defund the police, and she
will not even move homeless encampments from in front of
elementary schools. That's a much easier candidate to take out
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than somebody who's been part of the machine like Karen
Bass for decades and has all the union support, which
is money for nonsense television commercials. I mean that that
was one of the craziest things I ever heard, and it.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Shows you she's that's stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I know she's supposed to be highly educated, but years
ago I heard this phrase highly educated fool, and that's
what Nythia Rahman is. She's got degrees, but she's a fool, right,
I mean Bass Bass and Spencer Pratt they're up late
at night whispering to each other. This is how we're
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going to gang up on Nythia. Ron won't even gang
up on Nythia Rahmen. She said nothing. She only has
a following among the far far left Democratic Socialists of America.
Most people don't know who she is, and believe me,
all they got to see is, hopefully somebody will put
it in a campaign commercial, her rolling her eyes at
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the idea of moving a homeless encampment away from a school,
and that'll say, what, what mother is going to vote
for a woman who doesn't want to move a homeless
encampment away from their children's elementary school. Why would anybody
vote for that? I don't know what's going on in
her district because they used to have relatively normal representatives.
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But she is freaking nuts, and she was nervous in
over her head and she was just a bumbling fool
the entire debate. That's why only five percent thought she won.
I don't know who those five percent were. They probably
ought to be locked up in the mental institution too.
Here's cut number eight, Conan Nolan asking, oh, bess about
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the fact that we don't know where all the homeless
money is going.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
There's a lot of money, billions that are spent on
the homeless events. A lot of that money goes to
five one C three's and nonprofits.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Now we're hearing the.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Department of Justice has a lawsuit against the director of
Abundant Blessings twenty three million dollars. They allege that was
siphoned project home Key, I believe, not a statewide project.
To real estate developers accused of siphoning. Siphoning our forty million.
There's a perception that we don't know where the money's going,
and that we have the legislative analysts and Sacramento said,
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they're twenty six billion dollars in state funds.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
We're not sure if that did any good.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So how can we have confidence that the investment we
are making in the future is not going into the
pocket of some director will end up in federal court.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
First of all, I don't think it's shocking that you
do find corruption in big programs like this, and I
think it is to stop there.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The question was, how do we know that this corruption's
not going to continue? And she goes, well, it's not shocking,
there's corruption. Well, well that's not an answer. No, it's
not shocking, there's corruption. How do we stop this stuff?
Why haven't you stopped this stuff? What she does, and
a lot of her answers is just to assert whatever
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was in the question, Yes, this is going on. Well,
your job was to stop it. It got much much worse.
And it's your friends. I think that are getting some
of the goodies here. In fact, her friend that she
hired to run LASSA, Delicia Adams Kellum, sent two million
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dollars over to her husband's nonprofit, Velicie Adams Callum, sent
two million dollars to Velicia's husband to her own husband.
That's Beast's best friend. There the hell she taught? All right? Continue?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
First of all, I don't think it's shocking that you
do find corruption in big programs like this, and I
think it is extremely important to hold them completely accountable.
But I will just say that for the first time,
we've had a reduction of homelessness two years in a
row because of policies that I have put in place.
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I also believe we need to have an overhaul of
the system.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Okay, her claims are false, fake, phony, bull crap. Ran
Corporation did a run through of some of her numbers,
had professionals who were paid to do the homeless counts.
They picked three districts found serious undercounting. In fact, I
believe she did Hollywood, They did Hollywood, Venice, and one
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another one of the districts. Rand said they undercounted the
homeless by forty percent. There was forty percent more homeless,
so her numbers are nonsense. She pulled them at us
her backside, and she just repeats them over and noticed
how she sweat. The question was are you gonna stop
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the corruption? And her answer is, oh, well, no surprise,
there is corruption, and yes, we should have accountability. That's
this new. They always use the word accountability transparency. No,
stop your friends from stealing the money. How about that.
I have an idea, quit and you and your friends
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get deported out of the state. There's enough money locked
up in account somewhere you can all live for a
long time. When we come back, a couple of more cuts,
krat talking about the drug addicts and Nitthia Ramin sputtering confused.
Actually she came to a halt, she got so flustered.
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And then a really good clip of Pratt talking about
downtown LA being unsafe. That's next.
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All right, few more clips here of the debate between
Bass and Raman and Pratt Nolan. All right, Pratt is
talking about clearing all the drug addicts and he takes
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on Nithiya Raman on this play cut number nine.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Well, the good news is when I enforce the law
and clear the street of the drug addicts that have
taken over forty blocks of downtown LA, abandoned buildings that
have drug addicts just lighting them on fire every other day,
I will have potentially twenty thousand.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Units available to build.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
And thankfully I spent a lot of time in a
town that has a lot of builders, and I see
all the new three D printing and the potential of
how fast we can do it. And with this eighty
one that Mayor vasstargram. I met with the developer this week, Carlos,
and he said, yes, she did an initiative where she
fast tracked.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
It six months.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
It's been two and a half years and he hasn't
been able to get his permits. The best part is
some of these developers that are taking off our tax
money are charging seven hundred and fifty dollars a square
foot for stuff that should be costing two one hundred
and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And counsel woman ramin.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
This plan that she's going to build all these use
guess what She's going to sue all the people that
actually rents to the tenants, and then they're not going
to even want to rent anybody because she wants people
to swat in there for a year.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
And not pay stop there. Let me tell you he's
so right on about this. I mean, there's so much
housing space that we could have if all the homeless
people were cleared out, a lot of them from out
of state. It's too many buildings taking up with this
low income housing and homeless treatment nonsense. And the neighborhoods
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have been have gone to hell like the one in
Venice we were talking about last hour. And then think
about it. If the more deportations that go on, that's
more space to rebuild real apartment complexes for American citizens.
How much square footage square mileage just taking it up
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by either the homeless mental patients and all the housing
we provide for them, and all the illegal aliens and
the housing that they live in. Now, listen to this.
This is where Ramen like just just dissolves.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Because she wants people to squat in there for a
year and not pay. So I don't know how her
plan is.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Going to work.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Councilmember Ramen, you have thirty seconds to respond, and then
Conan has a question that.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Coincides with all of this.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Please great, I mean I don't I'm not sure how
to respond to that vision of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
This is a.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Maga Republican's idea of what Los Angeles looks like. This,
This is really not this is really not the city
that I love so much. We need to we need
to make we need to make so, we.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Need to make this city so much better.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
We have to work so hard to ensure that this
city works for everyone who lives in it. And crucial
to that, crucial to that is actually ensuring I'm sorry,
I was still speaking.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Can continue, counsel.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Hey, it's tough when you don't have a brain, it
really is. You tried doing that, all right? You try
speaking in front of hundreds of thousands of people on
television when you don't have a brain. Uh, all right,
one more cut, last one? Uh. Pratt talking about l
Downtown being so unsafe.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I was just talking to my friend Rachel, who works
in downtown La. Downtown is so unsafe now that they
have to serve the food. All the employees have to
eat inside. They can't risk going out. That's why all
these beautiful restaurants are closing because it's so unsafe. So
before we were require city workers to go back into
Eddie Billies.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
We need to enforce the laws of the street council.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Where Ramen is talking about safety, yet when animal rescue
activists Rebecca Corey came in and said the dogs are
being torturing abuse on the streets of down.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
She walked out of the hearing. She doesn't care about safety.
She doesn't care about any of theingse she's talking about.
At least bay or bask pretends to care.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
You know, Ramen rolled her eyes when people at a
town hall meeting wanted the encampments moved from the schools,
and when animal protectors were trying to explain to Ramen
how the dogs are being abused, she walked down. And
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she has a lot of female fans. From what I understand,
women really like her. And I want to expand on
this because I am baffled by this. Women usually voked,
in my experience, in my life, safety for themselves and
their children. Karen Bass got sixty percent of the women's vote.
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Gavin Newsom got sixty five percent. So why are women,
especially here in LA, voting for candidates who have made
this place a violent hellhole? Talk about it, and we
come back and Michael Kurzer live in the KFI twenty
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Bill A. Saleon he's the first assistant US Attorney for
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the Central District here in California, and he was involved
in the big bust of twenty five drug dealers at
MacArthur Park. Yeah, the Trump Administration's going to clean up
MacArthur Park because Karen Dass would not, and LA's going
to be that much better. I'm just just enormous amounts
of fentonel they confiscated. Anyway, Bill talk to us about
(00:44):
that just a half hour agoing you could hear it
on the podcast. We are live streaming on YouTube, Yes,
live streaming on YouTube, and we're going to do it
till five o'clock, first and second hour today on the
live stream. All right, let's get to this the debate.
And I know it's it's from Wednesday, but there's so
much to do. Yesterday I had plans to completely disembowel
(01:08):
the entire debate. But Karen Well Spencer Pratt showed up
for an hour, and then doctor I show up for
half an hour, and those were just last minute things,
and so we decided to postpone the UH all the
analysis today. And I really want to do this because
I not everybody saw the debates or everybody has time
to see the clips necessarily, and it's really important to
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follow what everyone says closely so you could understand how
a compulsive, psychopathic liar, pathological liar like Karen Bass operates,
and the whole concept of lying caused a disturbance very
early in the debate. You may have heard I'm gonna
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play you. We're gonna play cup one here. This is
one of the UH the anchors Conan Nolan making a
statement right at the beginning play this.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And of course we're expecting a dignified debate.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
We can certainly no name calling.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Obviously, Well, it didn't take long for this to become
an issue. And I'm going to play this because I
got a lot to say, but I want you to
hear exactly what happened, and this would be cut number four.
Bass responding to Pratt about the winds in the Palisades
and then praed calling. Well, they say called BASSI name.
(02:36):
So listen to this.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
He's saying several things that are completely inaccurate. First of all,
there was one reservoir that was out of commission.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
He is correct.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
A million years ago it was for wildfires, but over
the last thirty forty years it's been for drinking water.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
He talked about the winds.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That is just completely inaccurate. If that were accurate, then
the planes would have been able to fly. And so
the winds reached close to one hundred miles an hour
and the planes were unable to fly. So if there
were reservoirs, if that reservoir had been opened, it would
not have worked.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
We had two other reservoirs.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
They have totally eight billion dollars, eight billion.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Gallons that were available. You could not fly.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yes, she she mentioned me, So this is she's an
incredible liar.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Everyone on their phones google it.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Forty weather stations in the Pacific Palistates.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It never went above storty.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Miss to interrupt you for I have to interrupt you.
No name calling though, yeah, but no name calling.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We should call me a liar.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
I don't believe she did not make that up.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I did not. We're not going to debate the issue.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, that that that Colleen Williams did a horrible thing there.
She had no business getting in the way of that.
Spencer Pratt was telling the truth. What Bass was doing
is taking wind speeds that were way high up on
the mountain late in the day and pretending that those
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wind speeds were blowing through palisades during the morning and
afternoon hours when the fire went crazy. There were not
one hundred mile an hour winds in the palisades where
the homes were. There were never one hundred mile an
hour winds anywhere. She exaggerated it, and Colleen Williams had
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no business interfering. You know, she stepped on Spencer Pratt's
line there when he was going on about how there
were nothing more than forty mile an hour winds at
thirty stations in the Palisades. That's really important because that
undercuts Bass's claim. See, if somebody actually does lie, you
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could say they're lying. Lying is not being inaccurate. Being
an accurate means you made a mistake, you misremembered, you
didn't quite write down the proper statistic. No no, no lying.
Lying implies intention and they always get away with this,
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And I mean, I mean Karen Bass is incredibly corrupt,
incredibly dishonest, and Colleen Williams her job and the job
of the Channel four News department is to be investigating
this every day, every day of the year, all day
at night. They should be investigating all the massive corruption
that goes on. Why is there two billion dollars in
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almeless money disappearing and why did we spend even more
money millions hiring fifteen lawyers so Bass wouldn't have to
testify about it. That's what Colleen Williams ought to be doing,
not acting like some kind of school marm scolding Spencer
Pratt like he was a middle schooler. And this is
how they get away with it because they always know
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there's members of the media who are in the tank.
What's the point of having a debate if one of
the debaters can't highlight someone who's obviously deceiving the public
and has been by god, her history, her history just
on the fire alone, claiming that she never knew there
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was there were bad winds coming, that there was a
fire danger. Nobody told her. That's okay, according to Channel four.
She could actually she actually say this nonsense, unbelievable. Let
people talk. We all got Google. If Pratt made it up,
we'd all figure it out. And Basses every right to
(06:38):
challenge him. She's but you know, thrails the conversation steps
on a very important fact he was trying to deliver.
And this is the first couple of minutes of debate.
We're to try to undermind his credibility. She's the one
who went to Africa, not him. She burned down his house,
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not the other way around. He should get that. If
there's gonna be difference, he should get the difference, not her.
She We're gonna play cut three here. This is Pratt
calling on Bass, and Kenonia is calling them out for
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all their mistakes.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
So the Mary Karen Basses the thousand firefighters that were available,
but there was no engines for them because of the
seventeen million dollars that Chief Crowley had asked the mayor
for nine weeks before, and Mayor Karen Bass denied it.
So they may have been available, but they didn't have
the equipment they needed. Not to mention Janice quinnonas who
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Mayor Karen Bass put into a position of power at
the LADWP. She drained both of these reservoirs that these
firefighters needed to put out these fires. A lot of
people will talk about climate change and hurricane force wins,
and the policies never reached higher than forty miles per
hour for those first six hours, that didn't go above
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twenty seven miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
So without those two reservoirs.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Filled with one hundred and seventeen million gallons and five
million gallons, these firefighters had to fly all the way
to Malibu and Nsino to get water. So that to
me is the most dangerous thing that the mayor put
us up against.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Mister proud of follow up here though, what would you
do moving forward that would make this better two years
from now if we face the same situation.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Well, first off, as mayor, I will never drain the
reservoirs that.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
We need for wildfire protection.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
How simple can you get? People?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Go?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, I don't know if he has an agenda. There's
an agenda. You never drain the reservoirs, no matter what ever,
for any reason, you do not drain the reservoirs. How
about that one? You hire more firefighters, you fix all
the fire trucks, you buy more fire trucks. How about that?
Are you gonna get the money? I don't know. How
(09:03):
about out of the billions of dollars you're waste on
the homeless. That huge pot of corruption there, that's where
you get the money. Good lord, I gotta take a break.
We got more coming up.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And we continue going through the debate from Wednesday because
we couldn't do it yesterday, and I want to now.
I want to play the clip where Spencer Pratt is
talking about hiring more LAPD officers and goes after Nithia
Rahman cut five.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
You know it's more expensive than hiring them is overtime,
because that's what these salaries for the fire department that
everyone's complaining about. These everyone's understaffed. So first off, I'm
going to bring hiring back.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
To the LAPD.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Right now, the LAPD is hired by the same people
that hire Sanity, and we need to bring it back
like it was twenty plus years ago, so that police
hire police.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And we need a ten year plan. It's going to
take ten years to get.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
To the twelve thousand, five hundred officers that we need
and that needs.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
To be a priority.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Our sheriff's partner, they're the same size. They have a
billion dollar more budget for the same size. So this
idea that Council of Morama keeps saying that the police
department is overfunded. Public safety should be our number one priority.
And we're going to find all this money when we
stop her useless open bed plans that actually doesn't put
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drug addicts in these housing that we're spending billions of dollars,
and we're going to actually start checking where this money
is going. Not to mention, when you get rid of
all the drug addicts of the street, the police won't
be responding to the drug addicts all day long.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Misthy Raman is member of the Democratic Socialists of America DSA.
Learn about this group. It's acting like a political party.
It is subversive and destructive, and it's getting a foothold
in big cities. Zorn Mom. Donnie as a DSA member,
(11:08):
so is Nthania Rahman. And when you run for office
and you want to get a DSA endorsement, you have
to agree to co govern with the DSA. Can you
imagine this co govern and that's why all the DSA
members who are on the city Council, including Ramen, they
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vote down all increases to the police budget. They want
to shrink the police, they want to defund the police.
This is all left over from the twenty twenty hysteria,
except they really believe it because it's an anarchist group
and Ramen is a member of it. This is what
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she wants. She hates the police. She also loves homeless encampments.
She gets angry when people talk about getting them off
the street. She gets angry and exasperated if people talk
about moving them from in front of schools. And here
(12:16):
you'll hear the candidates being asked if they support encampments
being moved from schools.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
That restricts encampments in front of schools or daycare centers.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Mayor bass, I'm going to start with you. Yes no,
it is Raman, yes or no.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
I you know I support keeping our streets safe. I
did vote against the structure of this particular ordinance, and
it is because at its best yes or no, it
does not the way this ordinance was structured, it does
it does not keep our children safe.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Doster for our children safe.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
No, doesn't keep our children safe enough.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
It's a simple yes or no question, mister Pratt.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
What I was saying is she's fighting because she doesn't
think there's a difference with between one foot or five hundred.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Feet for kids safety, with drug addicts with machete Yes
or no.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Of course, we do not want encampments in front of schools, parks,
daycare veh.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Uh. It's stunning. Ramin does get visibly upset, and she
actually said she doesn't think your kids are any safer
if the encampment is ten feet away or five hundred
feet away. That's a quote. And when people were complaining
about encampments and this particular ordinance at a town hall meeting,
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and I've seen the video a number of times, she
gets exasperated and rolls her eyes and gives out a
big sigh like she can't believe she has to represent
these peasants who don't want dirty, disgusting, homeless drug addicts
and mental patients living in front of the kid's school.
She really is that far. That's what the DSA is.
(13:58):
Go look at the website, look at their national website,
the LA chapter. It is toxic, it is cancer. The
Democratic Socialists of America, and they're one of the reasons
that the city has gone downhill so fast is the
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influence of that group. We come back a good exchange
here a little longer. One crack going after Ramen for
acting like she has nothing to do with this disastrous
homeless situation when she's been chair of the homeless committee
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for a while. Now. That clip is next, as we
continue going through the debate.
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through the Wednesday debate. Since we didn't get a chance
(15:37):
to yesterday, Spencer Pratt came in for a whole hour,
So today I want to go through the stuff that's
really important. Here Pratt in this cut, Oh backup, we're
going to do cut seven, right, Okay, I jumped ahead.
Pratt is calling out Nthia Ramen for pretending that she's
(15:59):
got nothing to do with the homeless disaster.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
White cut seven, you advocate for what some have called
get help or get out of the way.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What is that and how do you do it? I
don't know who made up that name. First off, let's
I just want to say, counsel.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Woman Robin acts like she doesn't have any authority with
this homelessness. She was the third most powerful person in
city council, she runs the homeless housing thing.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
She acts like this is just Mayor Bass.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
First off, inside safe, I like to say, inside and
safe makes all of us outside unsafe. The reality is,
no matter how many beds you give these people, they
are on super meth.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
They are on fentanyl.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
The Dea Statistics says ninety three percent of this is
a drug addiction problem. Nitya counsel woman Robin's plan for treatment. First,
I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her
and we can find some of these people she's gonna
offer treatment for.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
She's gonna get stabbed in the neck.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
These people do not want a bed, They want fenanyl
or super meth. These ideas cost US over four hundred
million dollars to house for six seventy What do you say,
three thousand people for four hundred million is absolute failure
for both of them.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
They're a team.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
So, council Member Raman, you have thirty seconds.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Stores I just I want to just say to everybody
who's watching today, you're going to watch today as Mayor
Bass and Spencer Pratt attack me because they want to
run against each other in the general election. Each of
them thinks that running against each other is what's going
to help them win, and they don't want to run
against me because my ideas, which are based on real
results in my district, which are based on real data,
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a real analysis of the system, and a focus on
accountability and using every dollar as effectively as possible, which.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
We have done in my district.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I want to take the city wide.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
This is why this is happening today.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Customers, Roman, you were out of time. I'm going to
give each of you thirty seconds to as want of
this can I. I'm going to start with you, and
then I'm going to go to Mayor Beak.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
First off, Mayor Bass and I are definitely not working together.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I blamed this versus for birding my house and my parents' house,
and my town and all my neighbors down. I am
not working with Mayor Bass.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Second off, if I want to run against anybody, it
would be the council member who is terrible. Mayor Bass
has at least been a mayor for almost four years,
and as she talked about earlier, the unions, all the
unions endorsed Mayor Bass. You think it's easier to run
against the incumbent mayor with all the unions or a
random city council member who's been a failure for six years.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I would much rather run against councilwoman Ramen, Thank you
very much.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
That was that was one of my favorite parts there, because,
first of all, Ramen is nuts. Yeah, Pratt and Bass
have a conspiracy working together and they're ganging up on
poor Nitthia Rahmen. How the hell did she even think
of it? And and she actually said that out loud?
(18:57):
Why is she crazy? But presid is right. You want
to take the no name city council person who has
been awful. She wants to defund the police, and she
will not even move homeless encampments from in front of
elementary schools. That's a much easier candidate to take out
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than somebody who's been part of the machine like Karen
Bass for decades and has all the union support, which
is money for nonsense television commercials. I mean that that
was one of the craziest things I ever heard, and it.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Shows you she's that's stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I know she's supposed to be highly educated, but years
ago I heard this phrase highly educated fool, and that's
what Nythia Rahman is. She's got degrees, but she's a fool, right,
I mean Bass Bass and Spencer Pratt they're up late
at night whispering to each other. This is how we're
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going to gang up on Nythia. Ron won't even gang
up on Nythia Rahmen. She said nothing. She only has
a following among the far far left Democratic Socialists of America.
Most people don't know who she is, and believe me,
all they got to see is, hopefully somebody will put
it in a campaign commercial, her rolling her eyes at
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the idea of moving a homeless encampment away from a school,
and that'll say, what, what mother is going to vote
for a woman who doesn't want to move a homeless
encampment away from their children's elementary school. Why would anybody
vote for that? I don't know what's going on in
her district because they used to have relatively normal representatives.
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But she is freaking nuts, and she was nervous in
over her head and she was just a bumbling fool
the entire debate. That's why only five percent thought she won.
I don't know who those five percent were. They probably
ought to be locked up in the mental institution too.
Here's cut number eight, Conan Nolan asking, oh, bess about
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the fact that we don't know where all the homeless
money is going.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
There's a lot of money, billions that are spent on
the homeless events. A lot of that money goes to
five one C three's and nonprofits.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Now we're hearing the.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Department of Justice has a lawsuit against the director of
Abundant Blessings twenty three million dollars. They allege that was
siphoned project home Key, I believe, not a statewide project.
To real estate developers accused of siphoning. Siphoning our forty million.
There's a perception that we don't know where the money's going,
and that we have the legislative analysts and Sacramento said,
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they're twenty six billion dollars in state funds.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
We're not sure if that did any good.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So how can we have confidence that the investment we
are making in the future is not going into the
pocket of some director will end up in federal court.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
First of all, I don't think it's shocking that you
do find corruption in big programs like this, and I
think it is to stop there.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The question was, how do we know that this corruption's
not going to continue? And she goes, well, it's not shocking,
there's corruption. Well, well that's not an answer. No, it's
not shocking, there's corruption. How do we stop this stuff?
Why haven't you stopped this stuff? What she does, and
a lot of her answers is just to assert whatever
(22:31):
was in the question, Yes, this is going on. Well,
your job was to stop it. It got much much worse.
And it's your friends. I think that are getting some
of the goodies here. In fact, her friend that she
hired to run LASSA, Delicia Adams Kellum, sent two million
(22:54):
dollars over to her husband's nonprofit, Velicie Adams Callum, sent
two million dollars to Velicia's husband to her own husband.
That's Beast's best friend. There the hell she taught? All right? Continue?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
First of all, I don't think it's shocking that you
do find corruption in big programs like this, and I
think it is extremely important to hold them completely accountable.
But I will just say that for the first time,
we've had a reduction of homelessness two years in a
row because of policies that I have put in place.
(23:34):
I also believe we need to have an overhaul of
the system.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Okay, her claims are false, fake, phony, bull crap. Ran
Corporation did a run through of some of her numbers,
had professionals who were paid to do the homeless counts.
They picked three districts found serious undercounting. In fact, I
believe she did Hollywood, They did Hollywood, Venice, and one
(24:00):
another one of the districts. Rand said they undercounted the
homeless by forty percent. There was forty percent more homeless,
so her numbers are nonsense. She pulled them at us
her backside, and she just repeats them over and noticed
how she sweat. The question was are you gonna stop
(24:21):
the corruption? And her answer is, oh, well, no surprise,
there is corruption, and yes, we should have accountability. That's
this new. They always use the word accountability transparency. No,
stop your friends from stealing the money. How about that.
I have an idea, quit and you and your friends
(24:45):
get deported out of the state. There's enough money locked
up in account somewhere you can all live for a
long time. When we come back, a couple of more cuts,
krat talking about the drug addicts and Nitthia Ramin sputtering confused.
Actually she came to a halt, she got so flustered.
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And then a really good clip of Pratt talking about
downtown LA being unsafe. That's next.
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All right, few more clips here of the debate between
Bass and Raman and Pratt Nolan. All right, Pratt is
talking about clearing all the drug addicts and he takes
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on Nithiya Raman on this play cut number nine.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Well, the good news is when I enforce the law
and clear the street of the drug addicts that have
taken over forty blocks of downtown LA, abandoned buildings that
have drug addicts just lighting them on fire every other day,
I will have potentially twenty thousand.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Units available to build.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
And thankfully I spent a lot of time in a
town that has a lot of builders, and I see
all the new three D printing and the potential of
how fast we can do it. And with this eighty
one that Mayor vasstargram. I met with the developer this week, Carlos,
and he said, yes, she did an initiative where she
fast tracked.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
It six months.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
It's been two and a half years and he hasn't
been able to get his permits. The best part is
some of these developers that are taking off our tax
money are charging seven hundred and fifty dollars a square
foot for stuff that should be costing two one hundred
and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And counsel woman ramin.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
This plan that she's going to build all these use
guess what She's going to sue all the people that
actually rents to the tenants, and then they're not going
to even want to rent anybody because she wants people
to swat in there for a year.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
And not pay stop there. Let me tell you he's
so right on about this. I mean, there's so much
housing space that we could have if all the homeless
people were cleared out, a lot of them from out
of state. It's too many buildings taking up with this
low income housing and homeless treatment nonsense. And the neighborhoods
(27:52):
have been have gone to hell like the one in
Venice we were talking about last hour. And then think
about it. If the more deportations that go on, that's
more space to rebuild real apartment complexes for American citizens.
How much square footage square mileage just taking it up
(28:12):
by either the homeless mental patients and all the housing
we provide for them, and all the illegal aliens and
the housing that they live in. Now, listen to this.
This is where Ramen like just just dissolves.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Because she wants people to squat in there for a
year and not pay. So I don't know how her
plan is.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Going to work.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Councilmember Ramen, you have thirty seconds to respond, and then
Conan has a question that.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Coincides with all of this.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Please great, I mean I don't I'm not sure how
to respond to that vision of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
This is a.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Maga Republican's idea of what Los Angeles looks like. This,
This is really not this is really not the city
that I love so much. We need to we need
to make we need to make so, we.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Need to make this city so much better.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
We have to work so hard to ensure that this
city works for everyone who lives in it. And crucial
to that, crucial to that is actually ensuring I'm sorry,
I was still speaking.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Can continue, counsel.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Hey, it's tough when you don't have a brain, it
really is. You tried doing that, all right? You try
speaking in front of hundreds of thousands of people on
television when you don't have a brain. Uh, all right,
one more cut, last one? Uh. Pratt talking about l
Downtown being so unsafe.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I was just talking to my friend Rachel, who works
in downtown La. Downtown is so unsafe now that they
have to serve the food. All the employees have to
eat inside. They can't risk going out. That's why all
these beautiful restaurants are closing because it's so unsafe. So
before we were require city workers to go back into
Eddie Billies.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
We need to enforce the laws of the street council.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Where Ramen is talking about safety, yet when animal rescue
activists Rebecca Corey came in and said the dogs are
being torturing abuse on the streets of down.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
She walked out of the hearing. She doesn't care about safety.
She doesn't care about any of theingse she's talking about.
At least bay or bask pretends to care.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
You know, Ramen rolled her eyes when people at a
town hall meeting wanted the encampments moved from the schools,
and when animal protectors were trying to explain to Ramen
how the dogs are being abused, she walked down. And
(30:45):
she has a lot of female fans. From what I understand,
women really like her. And I want to expand on
this because I am baffled by this. Women usually voked,
in my experience, in my life, safety for themselves and
their children. Karen Bass got sixty percent of the women's vote.
(31:09):
Gavin Newsom got sixty five percent. So why are women,
especially here in LA, voting for candidates who have made
this place a violent hellhole? Talk about it, and we
come back and Michael Kurzer live in the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. You've been listening to the John Cobelt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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