May 1, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (05/01) - CA Assemblyman Carl DeMaio joins John to expose the shocking decision by California Democrats to block a bill that would've made buying sex from minors a felony—making California the ONLY state where it's essentially legal to traffic 16- and 17-year-old children for sex. Carl blasts radical leftists for weaponizing the LGBTQ community to shield sex predators, calling it the "Sex-Traffickers Empowerment Act." Then, KFI's Debra Mark shares a disturbing encounter with a homeless man abusing his dog, leading John into the harsh reality of California’s $1 Billion budget shortfall. Are Mayor Karen Bass's homeless initiatives about to implode, worsening the very problems they claim to solve?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
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no excuse not to ingest all three hours. Now, keep
listening because later this hour, Debra's got a story. She
started yelling at a homeless guy yesterday from her car.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay, who does that?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Me?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I don't know anyone else in my life? Who does that?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I know?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Okay, okay. But it was a good cost. There was
an animal in distress. So we'll explain all that coming
up later in the hour. But first, oh my goodness,
California Assembly Democrats's gutted a bill today. They removed provisions
that would make it a felony to buy a sixteen
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or a seventeen year old for sex. Seriously, I have
the names here. Carl DeMaio, the Republican assemblyman at of
San Diego, told us about this yesterday and We're going
to get him on now to explain what happened. Carl
you there.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I'm here, and I am stunned that Democrats. I guess
I shouldn't be so surprised with the craziness in this building.
They took a bill, Assembly Bill three seventy nine from
Maggie Crell that would have made it a felony to
purchase minor children for sex. Sex trafficking purchased minor children
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as young as sixteen and seventeen. The bill would have
made it a felony. Democrats don't want to make it
a felony, so they gutted the bill with an amendment
that basically made it completely irrelevant. I mean, someone is
not going to get prosecuted. It says that it's a misdemeanor,
and misdemeanors are not going to be prosecuted in the
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state of California. They as parking violations, were trying to
make it a felony. Why should it be that sixteen
and seventeen year olds somehow are perfectly fair game. And
that's what Democrats have done by by voting this simple
build down, They've made us once again the only state
in the Union that does not make it a crime
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to purchase people for sex.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Is that right? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yes, we're the only state, we're the only state union
that has this exemption because we're not talking.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
About having sex with a sixteen or seventeener.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
We're talking about buying a girl or a boy off
the street for sex.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Exactly exactly, this is buying. And of course the LGBT
Democrat caucus this is a LGBT vote. I'm offended by that.
As a gay Republican, I'm sick and tired of radical leftist,
extremist Democrat politicians using the gay community as window dressing
for their shameful, deviant policies, their dangerous policies. That's what
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happened here today, and we forced a recorded vote. They
tried killing this bill in the committee, and they did
that two days ago. Then we did a number of
parliamentary procedure motions today and we forced the hand of
Democrats to bring the book bill up and were going
to We brought the bill up in its original form,
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so then the Democrats quickly amended it to gut it again.
But we got a recorded vote and the Democrats overwhelming
with the exception of three Democrats, and I appreciate the
three that did break ranks, but they overwhelmingly voted to
again make it fair game for predators to go after
young minor children age sixteen and seventeen and five them
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for sex. This is the Sex Traffickers' Empowerment Act. That's
what California has, and it's shameful.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
That's just incredible. The legislator who filed this bill is
Maggie Krell. She's a woman and a Democrat and a
former prosecutor. And the Democrats turned on her.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yes, and I appreciate her leadership on this issue. She
was furious because you know, there's bill common sense. I
talked to Democrat voters. I talked to gay voters, and
they all believe that this bill should have been passed
as is. It should have been a felony. Instead, the
Democrats gutted it made it meaningless. Oh but you know
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what they're doing today. They're all wearing denim. It's called
Denham Day. And they say that they're wearing Denham to
stand in solidarity with victims of domestic violence and sexual violence. Well,
you know it's not that when your clothes virtue signaling
using clothes I'd rather have your damn vote to protect
these children. And today the Democrats supermajority once again showed
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that they are willing to prioritize criminals and sex traffickers
over victims of crime.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Is the claim that this is an anti gay bill?
Is that cover for something else? Are there other reasons
they have? Are are these men running around buying sixteen
and seventeen year old girls and boys late at night
and they don't want their fun to be messed with?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
That's that's the dirty little secret, the dirty little secret.
Because the media was asking questions like why why won't
they make this a felling? I mean, this is crazy.
You shouldn't be able to buy anyone for sex. It
should be a felony, particularly when it comes to minor
children sixteen and seventeen who are not even of age.
And the dirty little secret is the extreme LGBT caucus
of the Democratic Party demands this vote because unfortunately, they
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represent a deviant philosophy. They believe that it is normal.
They say it's normal for men, men adults to teach
young children. Again, I'm not homophobic, I'm a gay republic.
Let me just tell you what they are saying. They're
saying it's anti LGBT to make this a felony, which
means that there's some sort of benefit in the LGBT
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community to be able to buy sixteen and seventeen year
old boys and girls. Ask those questions.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That's still a small contingent of the Democrats. Most of
the Democrats gonna fall in that category.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
No, but you can't cross the LGBT caucus because it's
like crossing the African American Black Caucus. You're not allowed
to do it. If one caucus demands it, then everyone
has to toe the line. And this is how really
how political these people are, is that they're more interested
in identity politics and cow telling the different extreme groups
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and factions rather than doing what's right for our kids.
And let me just say this. We forced the vote,
and we now have a recorded vote of the Democrats
who put their name behind not having it be a
felony for sixteen and seventeen year old children to be
purchased for sex. And I plan to use that weaponize
it in the next election. We need to punish the
Democrats who voted for this nonsense and throw them out
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of office. And now we have a list of people
that we can go after because we did our amendments.
One final point, the Democrats said, it's become so controversial
in this chamber in the last one hundred days. And
you know what my response was, get used to it,
Get used to it. This is what an opposition party
looks like. This is what is required for us to
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take back our state from far left insanity. Is we
need to have an opposition party that's going to be aggressive.
I want to thank my fellow Republicans for staying alive
and forcing today's vote.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Gavin Newsome weighed in and he had no influence on this.
They released a statement and newsome statement was, the law
should treat all sex predators who so the solicit minor
the same as a felony, regardless of the intended victims.
Age full stop. Even threw in a full stop at
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the end. That's when he's really serious. So they ignored him.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
They did ignore him. But let's be clear here, he's
just focusing on his presidential ambitions. The truth is he's
the one that signed in the law SB one and
twenty twenty that allowed grown men to molest children as
young as fourteen and avoid mandatory sex Defender Registry. That
was Davin Newsom who signed SB four forty five. Then
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he signed SB ninety eight in twenty twenty two that
legalized loitering for the purpose of prostitution, which basically.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
In the powers as usual. He's a big phony.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
He's a phony. Yes, yes, so, I don't you know. Fine,
he released a statement, but he doesn't have a whole
lot of credibility and most Democrats know that he's a fraud.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That's great, all right, Carl, thanks for coming on with us.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Thank you so much. Sick.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's good that you're in Sacramento. Now we will we'll
discuss more on this. And what do you think one
thirty We could. I don't have anything else scheduled at
one thirty.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Right, whatever you want, Okay, all.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Right, Debra yells at a homeless person.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I had good reason too, there was.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
An animal in distress. But just my recommendation is you
do not yell at homeless people.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Because I know he was appalled when I text I
was appalled last night.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yes, I get appalled every day.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That weather bought ate up a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I did, mister excitement there all right, coming up after
Deber's news at one.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's more Deborah because.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
One thing, you can't get enough of me.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
You know, you're on all day, all afternoon, all night.
I know somewhere in the world, Debrah's voice is floating around. Yes,
and anyway, we'll talk about why you were yelling at
almless people yesterday. If you heard, I know this seems
like it happened an hour and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
But we had.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Carl Demio, the Republican assemblyman from San Diego, and he
engineered a vote and on the record vote. So we
know now that there are fifty five Democratic assembly people,
fifty five of them who thinks it's okay to buy
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sixteen and seventeen year olds on the street for sex.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You have a son or a daughter.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
With this crowd, it's cool if your kids are sold
for sex, no felony. There's fifty states in this country.
Forty nine of them say it's a felony to buy
a teenager for sex on the street. One state says no.
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Guess which state. Yes, you're living in it. Your son
or daughter can be bought on the street for sex.
And the person buying will not have committed a felony.
It would be a misdemeanor at best. Misdemeanor offenses are
not enforced and there is no real punishment for them,
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so it's basically a freebie, a free teenage girl, free
teenage boy. There you go. How about that? What a
bunch of perverts. I'm just gonna say it. They're a
bunch of perverts. How could they not be? Put yourself
in one of their seats. Say to yourself, Okay, I'm
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the assembly member representing my town. Let's say you're a Irvine,
you're in Long Beach, you're in Gstaic, you're in Burbank.
I'm representing the people here, and you're given a bill
that says we got to make this a felony to
buy teenagers on the street for sex. And you'd say, well,
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of course it should be that way already.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
It's a felony in forty nine other states, but not here.
And this is really bizarre. And I guess only Carl
Demya would be allowed to speak out about this because
he's a gay Republican and he said there's a gay
Democrat group who thinks it's perfectly normal for adult I
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guess in this case would be adult men to have
sex with teenage boys. He said that is the impetus
to keep this crime from being a felony. I wouldn't
know about these things, but he says that's what's going on.
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And the Democrats because everybody is so woke and so terrified.
I mean even the women, even the female Democrats not
bothered by girls. Because that's the other thing, not just
young gay men being sold on the streets, it's lots
of women. It's a lot of immigrant girls. What are
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you think's going on all these years, all these young
girls taking over the border, some of them against their will.
They're sold on the street for sex and the person
buying no crime. This is really one of the sickest things.
I never knew who could get this sick. I don't
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have a high opinion of all these bastards at all,
but this is really disgusting. Now, I just have a
list of who voted for and who voted against here.
But what I want to do, and maybe we'll do
this next week is is late. Maybe a few names
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each day Democratic Assembly people who serve here in Southern
California within the listening area, and I realized we have
a lot of listeners to the podcast up north. But
you know, one thing at a time, and we are
going to highlight these people who think it's okay to
buy teenage girls and boys for sex on the street.
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The vote today would have made it a felony crime
to buy sixteen and seven year old sixteen and seventeen
year old miners for sex, and they gutted the bill,
and a yes vote meant yes, I want to gut
the bill and remove that provision. So we've got the
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names here, but there's fifty five of them, and the
vote just happened a short time ago, so we will
continue on this. I think these people should be made miserable.
I think there are a bunch of perverts at deviates,
I really do. I could not in good conscience. I mean, seriously,
good lord, you you vote for really disgraceful human beings,
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really just disgraceful devian people. I don't know what's going
on out there. When we come back, Debri yells at
a homeless man, but.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It was for a good cause.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Thank you. You're making me out to be mean.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
No, no, you're not mean, I'm mean.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I'm kind of mean too.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Sixty run every day from one until four and after
four o'clock John cobelt Show on demand. It's the podcast,
and that's on the iHeartRadio app too. So last night,
I'm sitting quietly at home because my wife is away,
so I had absolute peace. And guess who breaks the peace?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Me?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yes, you text phone calls. Apparently you had some kind
of incident with a homeless guy. You're yelling at him.
So what I mean, I know it was for a
good reason. We'll just carrying on here.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
But before that happened, I needed gas. So I go
down this street on the way to my local gas
station in the West San Fernando Valley, and there's a
new homeless camp and a new one one that I've
never seen before. Lots of people, and to be honest,
they all looked like they were on drugs and had
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some issues.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
That's why they're there.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
And so then I pull into the gas station and
this one homeless woman who I see all the time,
she starts walking from that homeless camp to the gas
station and I'm just hoping she's not going to come
to me, because she comes and she asks people for
any She's there all the time, so now I know
where she originates from. So anyway, she leaves me alone.
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I get in the car and I'm going on the
Turrible of Art and I see this guy that looked homeless,
wasn't wearing a shirt, and he has wear and he
well it was a little warm yesterday in the valley,
and he has a dog looked like some kind of
lab mix on a leash. He's in front, he's he's
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not abusing the dog. I want to make that clear.
I wasn't abusing the dog. But he was walking rather fast,
and the poor dog was limping. The hind leg was up,
not even like hopping. And I'm watching this and I
could see the dog is clearly in pain. This guy's
not looking at the dog. I don't know if he
has any clue.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Was he dragging the dog.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
He wasn't dragging the dog.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I was trying to hop along.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Yes, but when because you know that we have recently
reported stories on dog abuse. So this guy wasn't flipping
the dog over his shoulder anything like that. But clearly
the dog was not happy, and the dog's tongue was
hanging out. So I did roll down my window as
I was driving by, and I yelled, I said.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Your dog is in pain, just like that.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Just like I sounded like a lunatic.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I know.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I didn't even think about it. It just happened. Which
is why I get myself in so much trouble all
the time, because I have a big mouth, and he
looks at me. And so I did call my local
city council office. I told him about the homeless camp
and I also told them about the dog, and so
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they gave me a phone number to a police officer
who does outreach in that area. Yeah, and this officer,
I have to say, was amazing. I left a message
and she was off and she called me right back
and said, I'm really sorry mister call I'm not working today.
But she knew the guy that I was talking about,
of course.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And because he's been around there for years.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yes, And she told me that he does have a
girlfriend who is in some transitional household. He has a girlfriend,
and that she was going to check on him to
day when she was working and check on the dog.
And uh. And she did tell me, look and I'm
not saying this person's name, but she did mention that
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things are probably going to get a lot worse with
the homeless situation because of the budget that's going on, yeah,
or lack of budget or whatever you want to say.
The billion dollars in the word.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
There's short a billion dollars, right.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I spend a lot of money on the homeless, so
there's going to be cuts there.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Yeah. And then she did send me a text this
morning saying that they did go talk to the guy.
He did say that the dog has been taken to
a vet, animal resources or regulations. Someone's going to be
coming out and looking at the dog. So that's really
what I cared about the most.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So somebody's looking at the dog to see what's going on, Okay,
to see the extent of the injury. Yes, no, that's
that was a wonderful thing he did for the for
the sake of the dog.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Well, I felt I felt so hopeless. And what was
so funny is when I did call and talk to
the police officer and the city council office, they said, well,
you know, if if the dog is being abused, don't
call the police. I said, the dog's not being abused.
But if the dog was abused, call animal REGs. That's
what they said, animal REGs. Okay, really, I've been down
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that road before, you.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Know, but they don't show up.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
First of all, it's almost impossible to get somebody. Maybe
things have changed. I haven't called in a very long time,
but this was almost five o'clock. Yeah right, no, no,
nobody's nobody's going to come. But I did feel very helpless.
I really didn't know what. I mean, what am I
going to do? Pull over and take the dog?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
I thought about it, but I.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Thought you would jump out and wrench the leash away
from him.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I throw the dog in your car.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I seriously thought, what can I do?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Well?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I can't. Just again, the dog wasn't being abused. If
the dog, if he was kicking, that would have.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Been borderline, though it is if it has a bad
leg and he be forced to chase his owner.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I know, but I'm only me, right, and me up
against this guy and.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh no, no, no, I know, because they have weapons.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
But I'm sure there's gonna be a listener that's gonna
send me an email and saying, oh my god, I
can't believe you did I did what I did. I
called the council office, and I called the police officer,
and they went and checked on the dog. So please
don't email me and tell me that.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I didn't do that. Somebody's gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I'm gonna ignore them. So don't waste your breath. You
don't waste your your typing skills or what have you.
I'm ignoring it.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
But these people are really dangerous. They're unbalanced. If if
if if he's out on the street for years, right,
I don't know, you know, dog, if the cop knows
who the guy is.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Yes, but I'm gonna be fair and I'm gonna say
yes because as a newsperson. Why but this woman did say,
uh that a lot of the homeless people in my
neck of the woods do want to be in a
house they want because I said to her, I know,
I did say full disclosure. I didn't stay where I worked,
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but I said, look, I am the news anchor. We
do stories on the homeless all the time, and I
understand that a lot of people that are living on
the streets they don't want they don't want the inside
safe program. They don't they don't want, they don't want
to be housed, and she said, well, actually, here I
have to say a lot of them do, but there
just isn't enough housing.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Well they could, they could go get a job.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
I'm telling you this, this homeless camp that I drove
by the job candidates there, I don't not at the
moment I.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Should say yeah, So that's that's the problem. There's no
way to build housing for all these people.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It's and the way the city builds housing it costs
over a million dollars.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Well, and now how's that going to happen? We have
no money even though.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
We're out of money.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, because the whole thing is because it's not set
up to help.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
All but John, the voters voted for Measure AIM.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
They don't care about the voters.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
But what but what about our sales tax money? Isn't
that is not going to help? Is that helping the homeless?
That's that's what it's supposed to.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
It's going to be stolen by the nonprofits and all
the other bureaucrats.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Impossible. This whole situation is a nightmare every way, every
which way you look at it.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, this is Karen Bass's Los Angeles. This is what
the people vote for.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
They vote for corruption and incompetence and just just idiocy.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I mean, you can't, you can't let you have.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You must you must outlaw people living in public, which
goes on in ninety nine percent of the cities in
this country. It's just against the law. You can't do.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
But one other thing I want to say, I asked her.
I said, you know, is anything being done about these
people coming? I said, when I pump my guess, I said, admittedly,
I'm a little nervous because these homeless people are coming
and they're constantly asking for money. And and she said, well,
the owner of the gas station doesn't want to do anything.
And I said why because they could be arrested. And
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I said, well, but why not and she said, well
because they have to appear in court and they don't
want to. So she said unless the owner of the
gas station calls and says, please take these people, arrest them,
take them off, and.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Then that guy has to go into it.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
He has to go into course. So he's like, forget that.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
No, that's that's outrageous. Well, what a ridiculous, stupid system.
And it's all it's all biased against normal working people.
There's there we have no rights, We have no avenue
to change things, to make things better because there's nobody
in Karen Bass's government who cares, well, you did, you
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did the right thing. Well, we got to see if
that dog said.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
I know, I felt so bad. I really did. But
at least at least I mean, look the dog. Can
you imagine the dog. It's either going to be with
this guy that hopefully really did get the dog some
kind of attention.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
You can't take care earth the dog.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Yeah, but is it going to be in a shelter
and then it's just going to be euthanized?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Right?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
I mean that's also what I was weighing.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
That dog's at a dead end here. Yeah, all right,
more coming up.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
As long as we're talking about animals. That was just
telling the story of driving by a homeless guy who
was pulling an animal behind her behind him and the
animal had a bad leg. The animal was hopping trying
to keep up, and Deble went into action, got the
police involved. But that story hasn't been resolved yet.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
LA.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
You mentioned LA animal shelters, right, Yeah, talked about them
all week because you could report the dog being in trouble,
and then the dog goes to a shelter, and then
Karen Vassi's crowd kills the dog. She got a lot
of crap because in her original budget she was cutting
millions of dollars five million almost to Animal Services. And
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this was going to mean three out of the six
shelters would close, which means there would be a big
backlog of pets and those pets would be killed. And
there was so much blowback that they took five million
dollars from somewhere and put it in another section of
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the budget. It's got one of these bureaucratic names, unappropriated balance,
and that's La Time says. That's a holding tank for
funds that have not yet been finalized. So she did
do the cut. She lies about this stuff. She cut
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the fire department last year too, and then when the
protest is too strong, they have like a little piggy
bank that they can break into just to shut people
up and refund Animal Services. If people hadn't responded the
way they did, then they would have closed.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
The three shelters.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
When Bess rolled out her budget, there's short of billion
dollars and the Mayor's staff didn't think there'd be enough
money to prevent layoffs at animal services. But then they
found the five million, but it was too late to
put it into the official animal services budget. If you
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went to page one thousand and thirteen of the budget,
you would find the category of Animal Services Operations and
that's the extra that's where the extra five million is.
Can you imagine a page one than and thirteen And
then she goes around and say, this is exactly the
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fire department story. I mean, otherwise you'd have that five
million in the original budget. That's not a place you
should be cutting. I'm reading today another story we're going
to get to later. You know they're cutting the police department.
It's all all because of the excessive money wasted on
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the homeless. Been telling you about this for years. You
cannot do this. The homeless take a disproportionate share of
our public tax money and they're not worth it. They're
simply not worth it. Not when you've been cutting the
fire department in half. The police department is way short
of the personnel they need, both uniformed cops and support staff.
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The animal shelters, half of them nearly closed. You have
to start saying, wait a second, we can't subsidize vagrants,
mental patience, and drug in the streets anymore. We can't
do this. It's not sustainable. Now what I'm hearing did
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a little, a little digging this, Karen Bess. Inside Safe
program very expensive and they don't have the money for
it anymore. So it could be going bye bye. And
you know, the county pulled out of financing LASA Homeless
Services Authority, and it looks as if they might have
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be pulling money out of Inside Safe as well. Little murky,
but funding for inside Safe is not there.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
They're short.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I don't think it did very much. They could claim
a slight statistical drop, but the drop is so small
that nobody notices. And uh, if you, if you, most
cities say it's illegal to be here. You can't sleep
in the streets, sidewalks, parks, whatever it is, you can't,
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and you get arrested and you get forced into treatment.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
That's what you should do.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And harassed the people enough so they go elsewhere where
they go doesn't matter. You've got to get out of
this business. But there's such an industry now of all
these criminal nonprofits that it's entrenched it's like the mafia.
They're shaking us down and claiming that they're more compassionate
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and more loving than we are. No, it's it's their racket,
and this has got to be busted up.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
This racket.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
It can't go on because what's suffering animals? Fire departments cut,
police departments cut. I mean, that's insanity to finance a
corrupt mob like industry, the homeless industry.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
All right.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Right after Deborah's news, Dan Dawe he's the San Louis
Obispo County District Attorney, and the Born of Parole is
voted to release a guy who now claims he's a woman,
But when he was a guy, he murdered his daughter
twenty two months old, killed her and he only spent
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twelve years in prison, and the Border Parole is letting
him out, and Dan Daal wants the governor to do something.
That's next. Deborah Mark Live the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
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and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Every day we're on from one until four o'clock, and
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no excuse not to ingest all three hours. Now, keep
listening because later this hour, Debra's got a story. She
started yelling at a homeless guy yesterday from her car.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay, who does that?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Me?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I don't know anyone else in my life? Who does that?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I know?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Okay, okay. But it was a good cost. There was
an animal in distress. So we'll explain all that coming
up later in the hour. But first, oh my goodness,
California Assembly Democrats's gutted a bill today. They removed provisions
that would make it a felony to buy a sixteen
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or a seventeen year old for sex. Seriously, I have
the names here. Carl DeMaio, the Republican assemblyman at of
San Diego, told us about this yesterday and We're going
to get him on now to explain what happened. Carl
you there.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I'm here, and I am stunned that Democrats. I guess
I shouldn't be so surprised with the craziness in this building.
They took a bill, Assembly Bill three seventy nine from
Maggie Crell that would have made it a felony to
purchase minor children for sex. Sex trafficking purchased minor children
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as young as sixteen and seventeen. The bill would have
made it a felony. Democrats don't want to make it
a felony, so they gutted the bill with an amendment
that basically made it completely irrelevant. I mean, someone is
not going to get prosecuted. It says that it's a misdemeanor,
and misdemeanors are not going to be prosecuted in the
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state of California. They as parking violations, were trying to
make it a felony. Why should it be that sixteen
and seventeen year olds somehow are perfectly fair game. And
that's what Democrats have done by by voting this simple
build down, They've made us once again the only state
in the Union that does not make it a crime
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to purchase people for sex.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Is that right? Is that true?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yes, we're the only state, we're the only state union
that has this exemption because we're not talking.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
About having sex with a sixteen or seventeener.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
We're talking about buying a girl or a boy off
the street for sex.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Exactly exactly, this is buying. And of course the LGBT
Democrat caucus this is a LGBT vote. I'm offended by that.
As a gay Republican, I'm sick and tired of radical leftist,
extremist Democrat politicians using the gay community as window dressing
for their shameful, deviant policies, their dangerous policies. That's what
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happened here today, and we forced a recorded vote. They
tried killing this bill in the committee, and they did
that two days ago. Then we did a number of
parliamentary procedure motions today and we forced the hand of
Democrats to bring the book bill up and were going
to We brought the bill up in its original form,
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so then the Democrats quickly amended it to gut it again.
But we got a recorded vote and the Democrats overwhelming
with the exception of three Democrats, and I appreciate the
three that did break ranks, but they overwhelmingly voted to
again make it fair game for predators to go after
young minor children age sixteen and seventeen and five them
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for sex. This is the Sex Traffickers' Empowerment Act. That's
what California has, and it's shameful.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
That's just incredible. The legislator who filed this bill is
Maggie Krell. She's a woman and a Democrat and a
former prosecutor. And the Democrats turned on her.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yes, and I appreciate her leadership on this issue. She
was furious because you know, there's bill common sense. I
talked to Democrat voters. I talked to gay voters, and
they all believe that this bill should have been passed
as is. It should have been a felony. Instead, the
Democrats gutted it made it meaningless. Oh but you know
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what they're doing today. They're all wearing denim. It's called
Denham Day. And they say that they're wearing Denham to
stand in solidarity with victims of domestic violence and sexual violence. Well,
you know it's not that when your clothes virtue signaling
using clothes I'd rather have your damn vote to protect
these children. And today the Democrats supermajority once again showed
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that they are willing to prioritize criminals and sex traffickers
over victims of crime.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Is the claim that this is an anti gay bill?
Is that cover for something else? Are there other reasons
they have? Are are these men running around buying sixteen
and seventeen year old girls and boys late at night
and they don't want their fun to be messed with?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
That's that's the dirty little secret, the dirty little secret.
Because the media was asking questions like why why won't
they make this a felling? I mean, this is crazy.
You shouldn't be able to buy anyone for sex. It
should be a felony, particularly when it comes to minor
children sixteen and seventeen who are not even of age.
And the dirty little secret is the extreme LGBT caucus
of the Democratic Party demands this vote because unfortunately, they
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represent a deviant philosophy. They believe that it is normal.
They say it's normal for men, men adults to teach
young children. Again, I'm not homophobic, I'm a gay republic.
Let me just tell you what they are saying. They're
saying it's anti LGBT to make this a felony, which
means that there's some sort of benefit in the LGBT
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community to be able to buy sixteen and seventeen year
old boys and girls. Ask those questions.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That's still a small contingent of the Democrats. Most of
the Democrats gonna fall in that category.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
No, but you can't cross the LGBT caucus because it's
like crossing the African American Black Caucus. You're not allowed
to do it. If one caucus demands it, then everyone
has to toe the line. And this is how really
how political these people are, is that they're more interested
in identity politics and cow telling the different extreme groups
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and factions rather than doing what's right for our kids.
And let me just say this. We forced the vote,
and we now have a recorded vote of the Democrats
who put their name behind not having it be a
felony for sixteen and seventeen year old children to be
purchased for sex. And I plan to use that weaponize
it in the next election. We need to punish the
Democrats who voted for this nonsense and throw them out
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of office. And now we have a list of people
that we can go after because we did our amendments.
One final point, the Democrats said, it's become so controversial
in this chamber in the last one hundred days. And
you know what my response was, get used to it,
Get used to it. This is what an opposition party
looks like. This is what is required for us to
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take back our state from far left insanity. Is we
need to have an opposition party that's going to be aggressive.
I want to thank my fellow Republicans for staying alive
and forcing today's vote.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Gavin Newsome weighed in and he had no influence on this.
They released a statement and newsome statement was, the law
should treat all sex predators who so the solicit minor
the same as a felony, regardless of the intended victims.
Age full stop. Even threw in a full stop at
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the end. That's when he's really serious. So they ignored him.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
They did ignore him. But let's be clear here, he's
just focusing on his presidential ambitions. The truth is he's
the one that signed in the law SB one and
twenty twenty that allowed grown men to molest children as
young as fourteen and avoid mandatory sex Defender Registry. That
was Davin Newsom who signed SB four forty five. Then
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he signed SB ninety eight in twenty twenty two that
legalized loitering for the purpose of prostitution, which basically.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
In the powers as usual. He's a big phony.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
He's a phony. Yes, yes, so, I don't you know. Fine,
he released a statement, but he doesn't have a whole
lot of credibility and most Democrats know that he's a fraud.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That's great, all right, Carl, thanks for coming on with us.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Thank you so much. Sick.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's good that you're in Sacramento. Now we will we'll
discuss more on this. And what do you think one
thirty We could. I don't have anything else scheduled at
one thirty.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Right, whatever you want, Okay, all.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Right, Debra yells at a homeless person.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I had good reason too, there was.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
An animal in distress. But just my recommendation is you
do not yell at homeless people.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Because I know he was appalled when I text I
was appalled last night.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yes, I get appalled every day.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That weather bought ate up a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I did, mister excitement there all right, coming up after
Deber's news at one.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's more Deborah because.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
One thing, you can't get enough of me.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
You know, you're on all day, all afternoon, all night.
I know somewhere in the world, Debrah's voice is floating around. Yes,
and anyway, we'll talk about why you were yelling at
almless people yesterday. If you heard, I know this seems
like it happened an hour and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
But we had.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Carl Demio, the Republican assemblyman from San Diego, and he
engineered a vote and on the record vote. So we
know now that there are fifty five Democratic assembly people,
fifty five of them who thinks it's okay to buy
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sixteen and seventeen year olds on the street for sex.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You have a son or a daughter.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
With this crowd, it's cool if your kids are sold
for sex, no felony. There's fifty states in this country.
Forty nine of them say it's a felony to buy
a teenager for sex on the street. One state says no.
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Guess which state. Yes, you're living in it. Your son
or daughter can be bought on the street for sex.
And the person buying will not have committed a felony.
It would be a misdemeanor at best. Misdemeanor offenses are
not enforced and there is no real punishment for them,
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so it's basically a freebie, a free teenage girl, free
teenage boy. There you go. How about that? What a
bunch of perverts. I'm just gonna say it. They're a
bunch of perverts. How could they not be? Put yourself
in one of their seats. Say to yourself, Okay, I'm
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the assembly member representing my town. Let's say you're a Irvine,
you're in Long Beach, you're in Gstaic, you're in Burbank.
I'm representing the people here, and you're given a bill
that says we got to make this a felony to
buy teenagers on the street for sex. And you'd say, well,
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of course it should be that way already.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
It's a felony in forty nine other states, but not here.
And this is really bizarre. And I guess only Carl
Demya would be allowed to speak out about this because
he's a gay Republican and he said there's a gay
Democrat group who thinks it's perfectly normal for adult I
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guess in this case would be adult men to have
sex with teenage boys. He said that is the impetus
to keep this crime from being a felony. I wouldn't
know about these things, but he says that's what's going on.
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And the Democrats because everybody is so woke and so terrified.
I mean even the women, even the female Democrats not
bothered by girls. Because that's the other thing, not just
young gay men being sold on the streets, it's lots
of women. It's a lot of immigrant girls. What are
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you think's going on all these years, all these young
girls taking over the border, some of them against their will.
They're sold on the street for sex and the person
buying no crime. This is really one of the sickest things.
I never knew who could get this sick. I don't
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have a high opinion of all these bastards at all,
but this is really disgusting. Now, I just have a
list of who voted for and who voted against here.
But what I want to do, and maybe we'll do
this next week is is late. Maybe a few names
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each day Democratic Assembly people who serve here in Southern
California within the listening area, and I realized we have
a lot of listeners to the podcast up north. But
you know, one thing at a time, and we are
going to highlight these people who think it's okay to
buy teenage girls and boys for sex on the street.
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The vote today would have made it a felony crime
to buy sixteen and seven year old sixteen and seventeen
year old miners for sex, and they gutted the bill,
and a yes vote meant yes, I want to gut
the bill and remove that provision. So we've got the
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names here, but there's fifty five of them, and the
vote just happened a short time ago, so we will
continue on this. I think these people should be made miserable.
I think there are a bunch of perverts at deviates,
I really do. I could not in good conscience. I mean, seriously,
good lord, you you vote for really disgraceful human beings,
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really just disgraceful devian people. I don't know what's going
on out there. When we come back, Debri yells at
a homeless man, but.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It was for a good cause.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Thank you. You're making me out to be mean.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
No, no, you're not mean, I'm mean.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I'm kind of mean too.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Sixty run every day from one until four and after
four o'clock John cobelt Show on demand. It's the podcast,
and that's on the iHeartRadio app too. So last night,
I'm sitting quietly at home because my wife is away,
so I had absolute peace. And guess who breaks the peace?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Me?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yes, you text phone calls. Apparently you had some kind
of incident with a homeless guy. You're yelling at him.
So what I mean, I know it was for a
good reason. We'll just carrying on here.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
But before that happened, I needed gas. So I go
down this street on the way to my local gas
station in the West San Fernando Valley, and there's a
new homeless camp and a new one one that I've
never seen before. Lots of people, and to be honest,
they all looked like they were on drugs and had
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some issues.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
That's why they're there.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
And so then I pull into the gas station and
this one homeless woman who I see all the time,
she starts walking from that homeless camp to the gas
station and I'm just hoping she's not going to come
to me, because she comes and she asks people for
any She's there all the time, so now I know
where she originates from. So anyway, she leaves me alone.
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I get in the car and I'm going on the
Turrible of Art and I see this guy that looked homeless,
wasn't wearing a shirt, and he has wear and he
well it was a little warm yesterday in the valley,
and he has a dog looked like some kind of
lab mix on a leash. He's in front, he's he's
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not abusing the dog. I want to make that clear.
I wasn't abusing the dog. But he was walking rather fast,
and the poor dog was limping. The hind leg was up,
not even like hopping. And I'm watching this and I
could see the dog is clearly in pain. This guy's
not looking at the dog. I don't know if he
has any clue.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Was he dragging the dog.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
He wasn't dragging the dog.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I was trying to hop along.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Yes, but when because you know that we have recently
reported stories on dog abuse. So this guy wasn't flipping
the dog over his shoulder anything like that. But clearly
the dog was not happy, and the dog's tongue was
hanging out. So I did roll down my window as
I was driving by, and I yelled, I said.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Your dog is in pain, just like that.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Just like I sounded like a lunatic.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I know.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I didn't even think about it. It just happened. Which
is why I get myself in so much trouble all
the time, because I have a big mouth, and he
looks at me. And so I did call my local
city council office. I told him about the homeless camp
and I also told them about the dog, and so
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they gave me a phone number to a police officer
who does outreach in that area. Yeah, and this officer,
I have to say, was amazing. I left a message
and she was off and she called me right back
and said, I'm really sorry mister call I'm not working today.
But she knew the guy that I was talking about,
of course.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And because he's been around there for years.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yes, And she told me that he does have a
girlfriend who is in some transitional household. He has a girlfriend,
and that she was going to check on him to
day when she was working and check on the dog.
And uh. And she did tell me, look and I'm
not saying this person's name, but she did mention that
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things are probably going to get a lot worse with
the homeless situation because of the budget that's going on, yeah,
or lack of budget or whatever you want to say.
The billion dollars in the word.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
There's short a billion dollars, right.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I spend a lot of money on the homeless, so
there's going to be cuts there.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Yeah. And then she did send me a text this
morning saying that they did go talk to the guy.
He did say that the dog has been taken to
a vet, animal resources or regulations. Someone's going to be
coming out and looking at the dog. So that's really
what I cared about the most.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So somebody's looking at the dog to see what's going on, Okay,
to see the extent of the injury. Yes, no, that's
that was a wonderful thing he did for the for
the sake of the dog.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Well, I felt I felt so hopeless. And what was
so funny is when I did call and talk to
the police officer and the city council office, they said, well,
you know, if if the dog is being abused, don't
call the police. I said, the dog's not being abused.
But if the dog was abused, call animal REGs. That's
what they said, animal REGs. Okay, really, I've been down
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that road before, you.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Know, but they don't show up.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
First of all, it's almost impossible to get somebody. Maybe
things have changed. I haven't called in a very long time,
but this was almost five o'clock. Yeah right, no, no,
nobody's nobody's going to come. But I did feel very helpless.
I really didn't know what. I mean, what am I
going to do? Pull over and take the dog?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
I thought about it, but I.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Thought you would jump out and wrench the leash away
from him.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I throw the dog in your car.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I seriously thought, what can I do?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Well?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I can't. Just again, the dog wasn't being abused. If
the dog, if he was kicking, that would have.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Been borderline, though it is if it has a bad
leg and he be forced to chase his owner.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I know, but I'm only me, right, and me up
against this guy and.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh no, no, no, I know, because they have weapons.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
But I'm sure there's gonna be a listener that's gonna
send me an email and saying, oh my god, I
can't believe you did I did what I did. I
called the council office, and I called the police officer,
and they went and checked on the dog. So please
don't email me and tell me that.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I didn't do that. Somebody's gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I'm gonna ignore them. So don't waste your breath. You
don't waste your your typing skills or what have you.
I'm ignoring it.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
But these people are really dangerous. They're unbalanced. If if
if if he's out on the street for years, right,
I don't know, you know, dog, if the cop knows
who the guy is.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Yes, but I'm gonna be fair and I'm gonna say
yes because as a newsperson. Why but this woman did say,
uh that a lot of the homeless people in my
neck of the woods do want to be in a
house they want because I said to her, I know,
I did say full disclosure. I didn't stay where I worked,
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but I said, look, I am the news anchor. We
do stories on the homeless all the time, and I
understand that a lot of people that are living on
the streets they don't want they don't want the inside
safe program. They don't they don't want, they don't want
to be housed, and she said, well, actually, here I
have to say a lot of them do, but there
just isn't enough housing.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Well they could, they could go get a job.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
I'm telling you this, this homeless camp that I drove
by the job candidates there, I don't not at the
moment I.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Should say yeah, So that's that's the problem. There's no
way to build housing for all these people.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It's and the way the city builds housing it costs
over a million dollars.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Well, and now how's that going to happen? We have
no money even though.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
We're out of money.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, because the whole thing is because it's not set
up to help.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
All but John, the voters voted for Measure AIM.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
They don't care about the voters.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
But what but what about our sales tax money? Isn't
that is not going to help? Is that helping the homeless?
That's that's what it's supposed to.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
It's going to be stolen by the nonprofits and all
the other bureaucrats.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Impossible. This whole situation is a nightmare every way, every
which way you look at it.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, this is Karen Bass's Los Angeles. This is what
the people vote for.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
They vote for corruption and incompetence and just just idiocy.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I mean, you can't, you can't let you have.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You must you must outlaw people living in public, which
goes on in ninety nine percent of the cities in
this country. It's just against the law. You can't do.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
But one other thing I want to say, I asked her.
I said, you know, is anything being done about these
people coming? I said, when I pump my guess, I said, admittedly,
I'm a little nervous because these homeless people are coming
and they're constantly asking for money. And and she said, well,
the owner of the gas station doesn't want to do anything.
And I said why because they could be arrested. And
(24:04):
I said, well, but why not and she said, well
because they have to appear in court and they don't
want to. So she said unless the owner of the
gas station calls and says, please take these people, arrest them,
take them off, and.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Then that guy has to go into it.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
He has to go into course. So he's like, forget that.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
No, that's that's outrageous. Well, what a ridiculous, stupid system.
And it's all it's all biased against normal working people.
There's there we have no rights, We have no avenue
to change things, to make things better because there's nobody
in Karen Bass's government who cares, well, you did, you
(24:44):
did the right thing. Well, we got to see if
that dog said.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
I know, I felt so bad. I really did. But
at least at least I mean, look the dog. Can
you imagine the dog. It's either going to be with
this guy that hopefully really did get the dog some
kind of attention.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
You can't take care earth the dog.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Yeah, but is it going to be in a shelter
and then it's just going to be euthanized?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Right?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
I mean that's also what I was weighing.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
That dog's at a dead end here. Yeah, all right,
more coming up.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
As long as we're talking about animals. That was just
telling the story of driving by a homeless guy who
was pulling an animal behind her behind him and the
animal had a bad leg. The animal was hopping trying
to keep up, and Deble went into action, got the
police involved. But that story hasn't been resolved yet.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
LA.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
You mentioned LA animal shelters, right, Yeah, talked about them
all week because you could report the dog being in trouble,
and then the dog goes to a shelter, and then
Karen Vassi's crowd kills the dog. She got a lot
of crap because in her original budget she was cutting
millions of dollars five million almost to Animal Services. And
(26:05):
this was going to mean three out of the six
shelters would close, which means there would be a big
backlog of pets and those pets would be killed. And
there was so much blowback that they took five million
dollars from somewhere and put it in another section of
(26:26):
the budget. It's got one of these bureaucratic names, unappropriated balance,
and that's La Time says. That's a holding tank for
funds that have not yet been finalized. So she did
do the cut. She lies about this stuff. She cut
(26:46):
the fire department last year too, and then when the
protest is too strong, they have like a little piggy
bank that they can break into just to shut people
up and refund Animal Services. If people hadn't responded the
way they did, then they would have closed.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
The three shelters.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
When Bess rolled out her budget, there's short of billion
dollars and the Mayor's staff didn't think there'd be enough
money to prevent layoffs at animal services. But then they
found the five million, but it was too late to
put it into the official animal services budget. If you
(27:37):
went to page one thousand and thirteen of the budget,
you would find the category of Animal Services Operations and
that's the extra that's where the extra five million is.
Can you imagine a page one than and thirteen And
then she goes around and say, this is exactly the
(28:00):
fire department story. I mean, otherwise you'd have that five
million in the original budget. That's not a place you
should be cutting. I'm reading today another story we're going
to get to later. You know they're cutting the police department.
It's all all because of the excessive money wasted on
(28:22):
the homeless. Been telling you about this for years. You
cannot do this. The homeless take a disproportionate share of
our public tax money and they're not worth it. They're
simply not worth it. Not when you've been cutting the
fire department in half. The police department is way short
of the personnel they need, both uniformed cops and support staff.
(28:46):
The animal shelters, half of them nearly closed. You have
to start saying, wait a second, we can't subsidize vagrants,
mental patience, and drug in the streets anymore. We can't
do this. It's not sustainable. Now what I'm hearing did
(29:08):
a little, a little digging this, Karen Bess. Inside Safe
program very expensive and they don't have the money for
it anymore. So it could be going bye bye. And
you know, the county pulled out of financing LASA Homeless
Services Authority, and it looks as if they might have
(29:30):
be pulling money out of Inside Safe as well. Little murky,
but funding for inside Safe is not there.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
They're short.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I don't think it did very much. They could claim
a slight statistical drop, but the drop is so small
that nobody notices. And uh, if you, if you, most
cities say it's illegal to be here. You can't sleep
in the streets, sidewalks, parks, whatever it is, you can't,
(30:04):
and you get arrested and you get forced into treatment.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
That's what you should do.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
And harassed the people enough so they go elsewhere where
they go doesn't matter. You've got to get out of
this business. But there's such an industry now of all
these criminal nonprofits that it's entrenched it's like the mafia.
They're shaking us down and claiming that they're more compassionate
(30:34):
and more loving than we are. No, it's it's their racket,
and this has got to be busted up.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
This racket.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
It can't go on because what's suffering animals? Fire departments cut,
police departments cut. I mean, that's insanity to finance a
corrupt mob like industry, the homeless industry.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
All right.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Right after Deborah's news, Dan Dawe he's the San Louis
Obispo County District Attorney, and the Born of Parole is
voted to release a guy who now claims he's a woman,
But when he was a guy, he murdered his daughter
twenty two months old, killed her and he only spent
(31:25):
twelve years in prison, and the Border Parole is letting
him out, and Dan Daal wants the governor to do something.
That's next. Deborah Mark Live the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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