May 1, 2025 • 27 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (05/01) - John is joined by ABC’s Alex Stone to break down the looming Real ID requirements, explaining why it's taken so long and what you'll need to do to ensure your ID meets the new federal standards. Then, John questions the effectiveness of today's disruptive May Day rallies and a bizarre 'die-in' protest at LA City Hall against transportation cuts, noting how ironically the city has even managed to lose money issuing parking tickets. He revisits the baffling story of California Democrats blocking a bill that would have made buying teenagers for sex a felony, and speaks with Assemblywoman Alexandria Macedo about how this important legislation fell apart. Finally, John dives into LA's critical budget crisis—revealing how Mayor Bass has blown through the city’s funds on failed homeless programs, leaving fire and police departments facing dangerous cutbacks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can I am six forty you're listening to the John
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from one until four o'clock and then after four o'clock
John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart appens the
podcast and you could listen to what you missed. And
one of the big interviews we did today was with
Dan Dowe. He's the DA for San Luis Obispo County
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and the Bord of Parole is releasing a guy who
in a meth fueled rage killed his little twenty two
month old daughter, smashed her head, killed her a baby,
his own daughter, and he's only served twelve years, and
the parole boards releasing the guy and Dow's asking Gavin
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Newsom to reverse the situation keep him in prison. So
I want you to hear that interview. It's our number
two on the podcast. If you only have one thing
to listen to, pick that. Okay now, Alex Stone form
MAYBC News. This story has literally been around twenty years
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twenty years ago. All the hysteria after nine to eleven,
they came up with this real id concept federal law
and you had to get an upgraded license that's much
more secure, and it's taken California twenty years to implement it.
Now there's a deadline and now a lot of people
in the state don't have it. So what's going to happen?
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Will they let you on a plane next week? That's
what Alex Stone is here for to explain maybe maybe
not that they will. And it's not only California. It's
taken the whole country at twenty some years to do it.
So this has been delayed over and over again many
times because people nationally would freak out and say, well,
they weren't ready yet, and the numbers showed not enough
people had gotten real ideas. But this time the TSA
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and the White House are saying it's happening. It's moving forward.
So beginning next week, if you use like most of
us do a driver's license at a TSA checkpoint or
to go into a federal building, it's gonna have to
be a real ID and that's where you go into
the DMV. You bring a bunch of documents to prove
you are who you say you are, and then you
get it. And if you don't have it, you're gonna
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have to use some other form of idea passport a
military ID. We talked to day to Adam Stall, Deputy
Administrator of the TSA, saying it's time that Trump administration
believes we got to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
This administration, the Secretary, we're really focused and we believe
the identity and document integrity is really key to ensuring
the safety and the security of our skies.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So real ID is a federal standard of what states
have to ask for to issue an ID, because until
now some states were super secure others you could walk
in and say, hello, I'm you know, John Smith, and
I just arrived and I live here, and they would say,
all right, here you go. Your ID, says John Smith.
It's got the address you tell us you're living at.
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So theoretically a terrorist could come in and say that
they were any name and any address and get around
the no fly list and get on a plane and
do something bad. So now you got to go in.
She'll multi pieces proof of address, name, social security number,
birth certificate, marriage license, if your name has changed. It's
meant to cut down on counterfeiting and insider fraud and
people using false IDs. But there is John a certain
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segment of the population very angry about the government demanding
to see all of this, but most of it it's
their government documents anyway that they're saying, put it together
and present it to the DMV and they look at
it and say, okay, you're good. But still did say
today this is in response to nine to eleven. It
is a direct response. It's just taken a really long
time to get here.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
This was a law passed twenty years ago and it
was critical vulnerability that was identified during nine eleven.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And if you don't have a real ID, you can
use military idea or passport. But if you show up
at Lax or the Burbank Airport or John Wayne with
your regular old ID, come next Wednesday, and then after that,
it's going to get really interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
There is a possibility if you arrive to the airport
without a sufficient or compliant real ID or an alternative
like a passport, that you may be experiencing a way
times and extremely rare circumstances.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You maybe did I travel and people are talking John
about showing up with like their old ID and a
gas bill. Can you imagine how TSA officers are going
to love that you're up there and you're like, no,
here's my ID, and I can prove that I live there,
so well, they ought to create a moronline for people
who didn't get it done in twenty years. No matter
how many times we say it, there's going to be
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people there next Wednesday going, what do you mean you
won't take my ID? But this is my driver's license? Yea.
And so it seems to be a little murky because
I heard the clip you played, and that official didn't
say definitively what's going to happen? Right Like, if I
show up with a regular driver's license, am I getting
on the plane or not? Let's assume I don't have
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my gas bill on me. I think it's gonna be
a little bit iffy for a while where they're gonna
have a little bit of wiggle room because they can't
turn you know, seventy percent of people away that they're
going to be working with you a little bit. But
that's not going to go on for very long. That
in a couple of weeks are not going to be like, hey,
we want to work with you. It's going to be
you don't have a real ID. You got to turn
around and bring me some other kind of ID. So,
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by the way, you know, you have one if in California,
they all have stars on him. But in California, in
the upper right hand corner, it is a bear with
a star on its booty. If you just have the bear,
that's not a real id. If you've got a star
on its on its rear end. I didn't notice the star.
Hold on, I got, I got the real id. Okay, Well,
when we have a star on the bear's rear end,
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there is a star in the bear's rear end, Well,
then you're good. You're good to go. And there's a
cowboy on mine. You have a cowboy. I want to
look at it. Yeah. Yeah, he's got a cowboy hat
and a beard, and it looks like he's angling. So
I think it's a it's a gold prospector oh, a
gold prospect. He's prospecting for gold rerun. I couldn't tell
the Oh, you're right, you're right. He has a pen
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that he's holding. Yeah, I thought maybe he had he
was holding the reins on a horse or something. The
other problem. And I was just talking to colleague here
in our bureau that she's dealing with right now here
in the LA area, that women who no longer have
their maiden name, that they come in with documents that
don't match their birth certificate, that she hasn't been able
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to get a real ID because I keep saying they
need a true copy, an original copy of her marriage license,
which she doesn't have, And yeah, she was rejected with
a certified copy. So it's there are hiccups in this
whole thing. But a lot of women have been saying
that they've been having problems. You know, I have a
really stupid look on my face in my driver's license photo.
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I just noticed this. I only got it a few
weeks ago. I look like I've been hitting the head.
Well that's perfect, just all right. So I just want
to know what they're going to do if they really
mean it, because they're going to end up with all
kinds of angry incidents at the airport there, and people
are going to be backed up in the line because
you know, somebody's gonna lose it. Yeah, there's so many
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crazy people that's willing to say it. But I think
that maybe on day one, two three, they may say,
all right, you've got an idea, you're gonna just go
and you know, figure it out. But they're not gonna
be able to do that forever. Yeah, all right, Alex Stone,
thank you, all right, you got to live Jo Alex Stone,
ABC News for KFI when we come back. Uh, there's
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stupid protests almost every day in Los Angeles, tying up
downtown LA. There was a stupid one today May Day
for workers. I thought May Day was some communist holiday
in the Soviet Union, wasn't it. That's what That's what
I remember. I they have Labor Day in September. Why
do they have another day? And why are they allowed
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to tie up downtown LA in the middle of the afternoon.
Was this another deal where they couldn't possibly have gotten
a permit to do that? Who cares about these unions
shouting and yelling in the streets. These are the most
annoying people imaginable. And I don't know why the police
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doesn't just, you know, get the rubber bullets out and
then clear them all out. Well, I'll talk about that.
And also there's there's protesters yesterday had a die in
in front of Los Angeles City Hall, a die in,
except they didn't die.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
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Speaker 1 (08:21):
Now. They so they had they had some kind of
union protests today. How much time do these people get
off to protest? They tied up downtown LA for hours,
didn't they?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
They did?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And and they get to do this, and we don't
send in tanks to steam all these people. I don't
understand this. What was it the other day they tied
up the downtown area? Who was protesting there?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Well, it wasn't it the striking La County world?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That's right. That's all union people do is they go
on strike and they whine and complain. And these people
today though weren't even on strike, they were just cheering
for themselves. What's wrong with you? Most of these jobs
are perfectly ordinary jobs. They're respectable jobs. They're necessary jobs,
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well some of them are. We're talking government work here.
But what is this We got to have a parade
for ourselves? What is this We have to block traffic
for everyone else who has to go to work, who
doesn't get union mandated off days to go on a parade?
I don't I don't get this. Why are they constantly
in the streets in our face shouting if you're gonna
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do that, I go to the go to the beach,
go to Griffith Park. Go somewhere far away, go out
in the desert.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
They're not going to have an impact that way, John, What,
there's no impact.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The only impact they're having is is they're delaying everybody's
normal will progress throughout their day. You get stuck in
traffic for an hour and a half because a bunch
of unwashed people are standing in the streets, sweating and
shouting Jesus like that that crew from that that those
those county workers that were blocking traffic the other day.
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One woman was blocking two lanes all by herself. I
saw her.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
That's not nice.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I know what I saw. Now here's another one. Get
this crowd one hundred demonstrators at La City Hall yesterday.
They had a die in. They laid down and pretended
they were dead, and they were protesting budget cuts to
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the Department of Transportation. Oh my god, they're going to
cut a quarter of the Department of Transportation's workforce, a
quarter of the workforce, seven million dollars in expenses. Oh,
here's the tragedy. This could impact everything from parking enforcement.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Oh no, we won't get tickets.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Well, what was the story we did a couple of
weeks ago. They were losing sixty five million dollars a
year on parking tickets. This is not a joke. It's
not an exaggeration. Sixty five million dollars lost. Imagine all
the parking tickets in Los Angeles and all the ones
that get paid at the end of the year when
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they tallied everything up, they were down by sixty five million.
Because the parking enforcement weasels make exorbitant salaries and benefits,
and so I'm glad to see that they're getting cut.
And I don't care if they have a diet. They
should be cut. How the hell can I've never heard
of a city losing money handing out parking tickets. That
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doesn't seem possible, because the parking tickets are expensive around here.
They're like sixty three dollars or seventy two dollars something
like that, depending on the on the offense, and it's
going to affect traffic and safety improvements. So there they
laid down on the front steps of city Hall. They
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claim this was a funeral procession because they think hundreds
more will be at risk from the budget cuts. I
really don't understand. It is really difficult to get run
over on the street really you you if you look
both ways? What else do you need to do? Just
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look around, you make sure nobody's making a left turn
from the side street or a right turn or whatever
it is. Just look around. There's three hundred and forty
million people in the country, and ninety nine point nine
nine nine percent of them do not get run over
in the street. You know, he gets run over of
the drunks and the drug addicts and the mental patients
almost people. I'm so sick of this crowd. I don't
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know who finances them. Who's an activist? Who is? Maybe
maybe it's it's union funded, because I'm sure they're the
parking enforcement agents. I mean, are theyre unionized? I don't know.
But who's an activist for this sort of thing? Who?
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Where are there are one hundred people ready to show
up and lay on the ground like a bunch of
fools because parking enforcement agents are losing their jobs. Parking
meter maids they used to call them. Can't stand those people,
you know what, They're not cutting enough. They should cut
one hundred percent of the of the meter.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Maans we can park wherever we want.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yes, that's right in my world. When I'm the Emperor
park wherever you want, although it's freedom all right. We
come back after Debra's news. We started off the show
with Carl de Myo the Republican Assembly because he forced vote,
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he got the Democrats to vote. I'm the record in
the Assembly that they think buying teenagers for sex on
the streets should not be a felony. Yeah, fifty five
Democrats voted to make sure buying teenagers for sex not
a felony. We have an assembly Woman Alexandra Messito, who
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wants to speak out on this. It's crazy. They're perverts
and deviants. They should all do a dying.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
We're going to have assembly Woman Alexandra Messito come on
in just a minute or two about the legislature. The
Democrats in the Assembly voting to keep it, to keep
buying sixteen and seventeen year olds for sex, to keep
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that a misdemeanor not a felony. They're blocking a law
that would make buying teenagers for sex a felony. Not
making this up. We had Carl Demayo on earlier. That's
another thing you got to listened to on the podcast.
In the first hour, I was just mentioning how there's
a group of whack monkeys who were having a die
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in on the steps of City Hall protesting budget cuts
in the Department of Transportation. We're talking the parking enforcement agents.
By the way, I heard the traffic report. Apparently there's
multiple demonstrations.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
There's demonstrations all over the country for.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
This Mayday thing, which is not even they're not even complaining.
They're just tying up traffic to say, hey, we're in
a union. So and I was mentioning how I wish
they could get rid of all the parking enforcement agents.
And I think eventually they're going to and maybe this
is a way to make money on parking tickets because
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La Times is a story that there are artificial intelligence
cameras now on La Metro buses. And you know, on
many of the boulevards, the right lane, especially during rush hour,
is meant for buses, and people park in those lanes
all the time. I do what you do. And now
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with these with these AI cameras on the bus, they
have generated ten thousand tickets, ten thousand tickets. They first
installed them on metro buses last year. First tickets were
in mid February. They started on the Hollywood and Vine
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bus route, and then there was one Santa Monica, Downtown
La down Wiltshire Boulevard and a few others. So the
AI powered cameras scanned for illegally parked cards cars and
they pile of video of each violation, photo of the
license plate, the time location. You're screwed. They have your
license plate, they have your car.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Unless they lose those Yeah, how are they gonna lose
money on this?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And look at two hundred and ninety three dollars per ticket.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Two hundred and ninety three dollars. In the second half
of March, two week period the program gave out over
three thousand tickets.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I wonder how many people actually paid those tickets?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
How many way?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
How many people actually paid?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I don't know. I don't think anybody should. What's say,
have you seen who's on the bus? Have you? Yes,
it's a homeless express much of the time. That's what
it is. A lot of those guys live on the
bus all day and night and they just ride up
and down Wilshire. Because I'm on Wiltshire Bolevard every morning.
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That's where a bagel shop is. And so I watched
the buses go by. It's all homeless people. It's like
a roll wing shelter. Now, if I park in the
way of that bus, I get charged three hundred dollars.
All right, let's get let's get to Alexandra Mossito on.
She's an assembly woman up in the Tilai Fresno area.
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And if you didn't hear the Democrats today gout it
a bill that would have made it a felony to
buy sixteen and seventeen year old kids for sex. Fifty
five Democrats voted to gut the bill and get rid
of the provision that made it a felony. It's unbelievable,
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and we have Assembly movement. Alexandra Messito on, Alexandra, welcome
to the show. How are you?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 5 (18:43):
We'll be here after a crazy day. Yeah, I knew
I was walking into something chaotic. There was Satan worshiper's
on the Capitol steps, and I knew that it was
doomed to be a bad day.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
But serious, wait, wait, wait, hold on, all on, seriously,
there were Satanic worshipers.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yes, they were celebrating National Day of Prayer. They were
just praying to somebody very different than you would expect
on National Day of Prayer. But these are the crazy
people that come to Sacramento. So you know what to
sign up for when you put your name on a ballot.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Let me tell you, all right, we'll talk about this
bill here. It would I mean, the point of the
bill originally was to make it a felony to buy
teenagers for sex, and the Democrats voted to strip those
provisions out of the bill.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
So here's let me give you a little bit of
backstory on how this whole thing came to be. Earlier
this week, the Public Safety Committee had the Democrat author
in their committee and they said, we don't want it
to be a felony to purchase a sixteen or seventeen
year old for sex. They had all of these crazy
amendments that would water this bill down that it doesn't
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actually do anything. The author is legendary prosecutor who took
down Backpage, which was notorious for prostitution. Now when I
tell you she's an expert on this area, this woman
has prosecuted the highest level of child sex traffickers. This
state has probably ever seen. So once again we're being
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accused that we're playing partisan politics. But let's go back
to the point that this is a Democrat who is
running this bill. We had Republican co authors on this bill,
and we were all very excited to support this bill.
But because our process includes that, it has to make
it out of committee to get us to be able
to vote that bill. Essentially, the watered down version of
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it was going to make its way to the floor eventually,
but we said that's not enough. We want there to
be true accountability for pedophiles who buy children for sex.
So we pulled out our rulebook. We figured out how
can we get the Democrats on the record voting on this,
and so we pulled out every trick that we could,
and let me tell you there's still some more tricks
up our fleets, so stay tuned for that, and we
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forced it to the floor. The Democrats then offered these amendments,
and let me just tell you what these amendments included.
The first one was striking the original author, the legendary
prosecutor's name off of the bill as the author and
replacing it with the Chair of Public Safety's name, which
is the least offensive in my opinion of the amendments.
The second one was that they crossed out any language
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that would provide any prosecutor the tief to charge somebody
who buys a child for sex and replaced it with
the language that said, it is the intent of this
state body to create the strongest laws to protect sixteen
and seventeen year olds. I don't know about you, but
I don't really know how much weight that would carry
in a courtroom when you're trying to prosecute a pedophile.
And then to add insult to injury, they made it
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the worre today you've served no time if you're caught
doing this. That even if you're caught doing this and
we pass this bill with the amendments that the Democrats
forced today, you would only spend a couple days in jail.
I don't know about you, but I think you could
come with a pretty excuse, a fit excuse of what
to tell your wife for a couple of days if
you weren't home. So I don't really know how much
of a scare that is. So when I tell you
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that we want this bill we wanted in its original
form on the record in law, we are going to
make that happen. We need justice for these victims. And
we are so tired of the lip service and the
nonsense that our Democrat colleagues tell their constituents. We're making
every effort to make change. We have full the intention
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to make change. That is ridiculous. You have the full
power to do something, and do something now, and you're
choosing not to.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
What motivates them to block a bill that would make
it a felony to buy teenagers for sex.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Where's where I am going to put my tinfoil hat
on for a minute. But this is the exact words
that were used by the chair. He said there was
a backroom deal made with a bill similar to this
that was ran last year, and he is honoring that deal.
I don't know about you, but I don't really like
the words backroom deal with dealing with our children.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We're talking about teenagers being sold for sex on the street.
Who cares what his background deal is?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Correct, you would think. And my message to every Democrat
that tried to kill our efforts to get this bill
in its original form where it needs to go, is
you have the opportunity to do the right thing. You
did this morning but you continue to have the opportunity.
So whoever is listening, if you are a constituent of
a Democrat that voted down our ability to get this
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bill in the original form, pick up the phone and
call them and ask them how they can justify to
you that they don't want to protect sixteen and seventeen
year olds.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Is this what these guys are doing on the weekends?
Do they want to avoid getting the question? I'm really
wondering if it's a bunch of perverts and deviants and
they don't want their particular kink to be interfered with.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
All I'm going to tell you is this is really
crazy to me. When even Gavin Newsom, who I don't
tend to have particularly kind things to say about, came
out out this week and said, yeah, guys, we need
to make sure that we're protecting sixteen and seventeen year olds.
This is not a seventy thirty issue. This is like
a ninety nine to one issue and the one percent,
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if you want my opinion, we need to lock them
up and throw away the key. But it's absolute insanity.
And when you hear the arguments, the arguments on the
floor were okay, well, what if there's an eighteen year
old man who has a seventeen year old girlfriend and
they're engaged in a sexual relationship. I don't know about you,
but I don't know any high school sweethearts that there
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was an exchange of gifts or money for a sexual relationship.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Eighteen year old girl. Eighteen year old guys are not
buying their girlfriend on the street.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Correct. And then there was arguments made about the racism
associated with this. There was arguments made about the impacts
of the LGBTQ community. The arguments that were made was
the hypocrisy that shows that they don't even care about
their own communities and they're actually saying derogatory things about
the own their own communities that they're trying to represent
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and stand up for. The hypocrisy in this whole thing
is beyond reason.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Alexandra, I gotta go. Thank you for coming on, and
we'll keep in touch with you, because I don't think
we've heard the last of this bill.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
No, we have not. We're here to go to war
and we will fight for justice.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
All right. Alexandra Messdo And she's a Republican assembly woman
in the Fresno Tallai County area.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
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Speaker 1 (25:31):
Because Karen Bess wastes so much money on homeless people
and all the criminals who run the homeless industry. We
don't have money for a fire department, as you know,
it's only half funded, and we don't have enough money
to fund the police department. Sheriff Jim McDonald is looking
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at budget cuts and they're going to have to cut
four hundred civilian workers. Perhaps they're gonna have to lay
them off because the money is all spent on homeless
people who start all those fires and foul up all
the neighborhoods. In fact, she spends so much money on
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the homeless, she doesn't have much money anymore for the homeless.
It's possible that her beloved Inside Safe program, wildly overhyped
and exaggerated, is out of money as well, and something's
going to have to be uh, well, they're just going
to be cutting funds and I don't thing is I
don't know what they're doing. I don't understand what it
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is they're doing. I don't believe their numbers. And they're
even the most wildly optimistic interpretation of their numbers is
a drop in the bucket. So they don't care about
any of this stuff. They don't care if the police
department's underfunded. They don't care, if the fire department's underfunded,
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half funded. They don't care if the Palisades burns down.
They don't care about it, any of this stuff. They
just want to make sure who the hell is coughing?
And I hear typewriter clacking and keyboard clacking. Somebody's got
an open channel in there. All right. I could deal
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with the keyboard clattering, but we'd start coughing all over me.
I can't take it. And we're going more on this tomorrow,
because yeah, I mean, enough is enough here, all right.
The only good thing about the cuts is maybe they're
going to cut all those parking enforcement agents. I'm in
favor of that. Conway is up next, and Michael Krozer
is live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
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one of the big interviews we did today was with
Dan Dowe. He's the DA for San Luis Obispo County
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and the Bord of Parole is releasing a guy who
in a meth fueled rage killed his little twenty two
month old daughter, smashed her head, killed her a baby,
his own daughter, and he's only served twelve years, and
the parole boards releasing the guy and Dow's asking Gavin
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Newsom to reverse the situation keep him in prison. So
I want you to hear that interview. It's our number
two on the podcast. If you only have one thing
to listen to, pick that. Okay now, Alex Stone form
MAYBC News. This story has literally been around twenty years
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twenty years ago. All the hysteria after nine to eleven,
they came up with this real id concept federal law
and you had to get an upgraded license that's much
more secure, and it's taken California twenty years to implement it.
Now there's a deadline and now a lot of people
in the state don't have it. So what's going to happen?
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Will they let you on a plane next week? That's
what Alex Stone is here for to explain maybe maybe
not that they will. And it's not only California. It's
taken the whole country at twenty some years to do it.
So this has been delayed over and over again many
times because people nationally would freak out and say, well,
they weren't ready yet, and the numbers showed not enough
people had gotten real ideas. But this time the TSA
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and the White House are saying it's happening. It's moving forward.
So beginning next week, if you use like most of
us do a driver's license at a TSA checkpoint or
to go into a federal building, it's gonna have to
be a real ID and that's where you go into
the DMV. You bring a bunch of documents to prove
you are who you say you are, and then you
get it. And if you don't have it, you're gonna
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have to use some other form of idea passport a
military ID. We talked to day to Adam Stall, Deputy
Administrator of the TSA, saying it's time that Trump administration
believes we got to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
This administration, the Secretary, we're really focused and we believe
the identity and document integrity is really key to ensuring
the safety and the security of our skies.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So real ID is a federal standard of what states
have to ask for to issue an ID, because until
now some states were super secure others you could walk
in and say, hello, I'm you know, John Smith, and
I just arrived and I live here, and they would say,
all right, here you go. Your ID, says John Smith.
It's got the address you tell us you're living at.
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So theoretically a terrorist could come in and say that
they were any name and any address and get around
the no fly list and get on a plane and
do something bad. So now you got to go in.
She'll multi pieces proof of address, name, social security number,
birth certificate, marriage license, if your name has changed. It's
meant to cut down on counterfeiting and insider fraud and
people using false IDs. But there is John a certain
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segment of the population very angry about the government demanding
to see all of this, but most of it it's
their government documents anyway that they're saying, put it together
and present it to the DMV and they look at
it and say, okay, you're good. But still did say
today this is in response to nine to eleven. It
is a direct response. It's just taken a really long
time to get here.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
This was a law passed twenty years ago and it
was critical vulnerability that was identified during nine eleven.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And if you don't have a real ID, you can
use military idea or passport. But if you show up
at Lax or the Burbank Airport or John Wayne with
your regular old ID, come next Wednesday, and then after that,
it's going to get really interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
There is a possibility if you arrive to the airport
without a sufficient or compliant real ID or an alternative
like a passport, that you may be experiencing a way
times and extremely rare circumstances.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You maybe did I travel and people are talking John
about showing up with like their old ID and a
gas bill. Can you imagine how TSA officers are going
to love that you're up there and you're like, no,
here's my ID, and I can prove that I live there,
so well, they ought to create a moronline for people
who didn't get it done in twenty years. No matter
how many times we say it, there's going to be
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people there next Wednesday going, what do you mean you
won't take my ID? But this is my driver's license? Yea.
And so it seems to be a little murky because
I heard the clip you played, and that official didn't
say definitively what's going to happen? Right Like, if I
show up with a regular driver's license, am I getting
on the plane or not? Let's assume I don't have
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my gas bill on me. I think it's gonna be
a little bit iffy for a while where they're gonna
have a little bit of wiggle room because they can't
turn you know, seventy percent of people away that they're
going to be working with you a little bit. But
that's not going to go on for very long. That
in a couple of weeks are not going to be like, hey,
we want to work with you. It's going to be
you don't have a real ID. You got to turn
around and bring me some other kind of ID. So,
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by the way, you know, you have one if in California,
they all have stars on him. But in California, in
the upper right hand corner, it is a bear with
a star on its booty. If you just have the bear,
that's not a real id. If you've got a star
on its on its rear end. I didn't notice the star.
Hold on, I got, I got the real id. Okay, Well,
when we have a star on the bear's rear end,
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there is a star in the bear's rear end, Well,
then you're good. You're good to go. And there's a
cowboy on mine. You have a cowboy. I want to
look at it. Yeah. Yeah, he's got a cowboy hat
and a beard, and it looks like he's angling. So
I think it's a it's a gold prospector oh, a
gold prospect. He's prospecting for gold rerun. I couldn't tell
the Oh, you're right, you're right. He has a pen
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that he's holding. Yeah, I thought maybe he had he
was holding the reins on a horse or something. The
other problem. And I was just talking to colleague here
in our bureau that she's dealing with right now here
in the LA area, that women who no longer have
their maiden name, that they come in with documents that
don't match their birth certificate, that she hasn't been able
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to get a real ID because I keep saying they
need a true copy, an original copy of her marriage license,
which she doesn't have, And yeah, she was rejected with
a certified copy. So it's there are hiccups in this
whole thing. But a lot of women have been saying
that they've been having problems. You know, I have a
really stupid look on my face in my driver's license photo.
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I just noticed this. I only got it a few
weeks ago. I look like I've been hitting the head.
Well that's perfect, just all right. So I just want
to know what they're going to do if they really
mean it, because they're going to end up with all
kinds of angry incidents at the airport there, and people
are going to be backed up in the line because
you know, somebody's gonna lose it. Yeah, there's so many
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crazy people that's willing to say it. But I think
that maybe on day one, two three, they may say,
all right, you've got an idea, you're gonna just go
and you know, figure it out. But they're not gonna
be able to do that forever. Yeah, all right, Alex Stone,
thank you, all right, you got to live Jo Alex Stone,
ABC News for KFI when we come back. Uh, there's
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stupid protests almost every day in Los Angeles, tying up
downtown LA. There was a stupid one today May Day
for workers. I thought May Day was some communist holiday
in the Soviet Union, wasn't it. That's what That's what
I remember. I they have Labor Day in September. Why
do they have another day? And why are they allowed
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to tie up downtown LA in the middle of the afternoon.
Was this another deal where they couldn't possibly have gotten
a permit to do that? Who cares about these unions
shouting and yelling in the streets. These are the most
annoying people imaginable. And I don't know why the police
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doesn't just, you know, get the rubber bullets out and
then clear them all out. Well, I'll talk about that.
And also there's there's protesters yesterday had a die in
in front of Los Angeles City Hall, a die in,
except they didn't die.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Now. They so they had they had some kind of
union protests today. How much time do these people get
off to protest? They tied up downtown LA for hours,
didn't they?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
They did?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And and they get to do this, and we don't
send in tanks to steam all these people. I don't
understand this. What was it the other day they tied
up the downtown area? Who was protesting there?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Well, it wasn't it the striking La County world?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
That's right. That's all union people do is they go
on strike and they whine and complain. And these people
today though weren't even on strike, they were just cheering
for themselves. What's wrong with you? Most of these jobs
are perfectly ordinary jobs. They're respectable jobs. They're necessary jobs,
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well some of them are. We're talking government work here.
But what is this We got to have a parade
for ourselves? What is this We have to block traffic
for everyone else who has to go to work, who
doesn't get union mandated off days to go on a parade?
I don't I don't get this. Why are they constantly
in the streets in our face shouting if you're gonna
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do that, I go to the go to the beach,
go to Griffith Park. Go somewhere far away, go out
in the desert.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
They're not going to have an impact that way, John, What,
there's no impact.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The only impact they're having is is they're delaying everybody's
normal will progress throughout their day. You get stuck in
traffic for an hour and a half because a bunch
of unwashed people are standing in the streets, sweating and
shouting Jesus like that that crew from that that those
those county workers that were blocking traffic the other day.
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One woman was blocking two lanes all by herself. I
saw her.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
That's not nice.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I know what I saw. Now here's another one. Get
this crowd one hundred demonstrators at La City Hall yesterday.
They had a die in. They laid down and pretended
they were dead, and they were protesting budget cuts to
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the Department of Transportation. Oh my god, they're going to
cut a quarter of the Department of Transportation's workforce, a
quarter of the workforce, seven million dollars in expenses. Oh,
here's the tragedy. This could impact everything from parking enforcement.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Oh no, we won't get tickets.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Well, what was the story we did a couple of
weeks ago. They were losing sixty five million dollars a
year on parking tickets. This is not a joke. It's
not an exaggeration. Sixty five million dollars lost. Imagine all
the parking tickets in Los Angeles and all the ones
that get paid at the end of the year when
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they tallied everything up, they were down by sixty five million.
Because the parking enforcement weasels make exorbitant salaries and benefits,
and so I'm glad to see that they're getting cut.
And I don't care if they have a diet. They
should be cut. How the hell can I've never heard
of a city losing money handing out parking tickets. That
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doesn't seem possible, because the parking tickets are expensive around here.
They're like sixty three dollars or seventy two dollars something
like that, depending on the on the offense, and it's
going to affect traffic and safety improvements. So there they
laid down on the front steps of city Hall. They
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claim this was a funeral procession because they think hundreds
more will be at risk from the budget cuts. I
really don't understand. It is really difficult to get run
over on the street really you you if you look
both ways? What else do you need to do? Just
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look around, you make sure nobody's making a left turn
from the side street or a right turn or whatever
it is. Just look around. There's three hundred and forty
million people in the country, and ninety nine point nine
nine nine percent of them do not get run over
in the street. You know, he gets run over of
the drunks and the drug addicts and the mental patients
almost people. I'm so sick of this crowd. I don't
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know who finances them. Who's an activist? Who is? Maybe
maybe it's it's union funded, because I'm sure they're the
parking enforcement agents. I mean, are theyre unionized? I don't know.
But who's an activist for this sort of thing? Who?
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Where are there are one hundred people ready to show
up and lay on the ground like a bunch of
fools because parking enforcement agents are losing their jobs. Parking
meter maids they used to call them. Can't stand those people,
you know what, They're not cutting enough. They should cut
one hundred percent of the of the meter.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Maans we can park wherever we want.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yes, that's right in my world. When I'm the Emperor
park wherever you want, although it's freedom all right. We
come back after Debra's news. We started off the show
with Carl de Myo the Republican Assembly because he forced vote,
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he got the Democrats to vote. I'm the record in
the Assembly that they think buying teenagers for sex on
the streets should not be a felony. Yeah, fifty five
Democrats voted to make sure buying teenagers for sex not
a felony. We have an assembly Woman Alexandra Messito, who
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wants to speak out on this. It's crazy. They're perverts
and deviants. They should all do a dying.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
We're going to have assembly Woman Alexandra Messito come on
in just a minute or two about the legislature. The
Democrats in the Assembly voting to keep it, to keep
buying sixteen and seventeen year olds for sex, to keep
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that a misdemeanor not a felony. They're blocking a law
that would make buying teenagers for sex a felony. Not
making this up. We had Carl Demayo on earlier. That's
another thing you got to listened to on the podcast.
In the first hour, I was just mentioning how there's
a group of whack monkeys who were having a die
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in on the steps of City Hall protesting budget cuts
in the Department of Transportation. We're talking the parking enforcement agents.
By the way, I heard the traffic report. Apparently there's
multiple demonstrations.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
There's demonstrations all over the country for.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
This Mayday thing, which is not even they're not even complaining.
They're just tying up traffic to say, hey, we're in
a union. So and I was mentioning how I wish
they could get rid of all the parking enforcement agents.
And I think eventually they're going to and maybe this
is a way to make money on parking tickets because
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La Times is a story that there are artificial intelligence
cameras now on La Metro buses. And you know, on
many of the boulevards, the right lane, especially during rush hour,
is meant for buses, and people park in those lanes
all the time. I do what you do. And now
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with these with these AI cameras on the bus, they
have generated ten thousand tickets, ten thousand tickets. They first
installed them on metro buses last year. First tickets were
in mid February. They started on the Hollywood and Vine
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bus route, and then there was one Santa Monica, Downtown
La down Wiltshire Boulevard and a few others. So the
AI powered cameras scanned for illegally parked cards cars and
they pile of video of each violation, photo of the
license plate, the time location. You're screwed. They have your
license plate, they have your car.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Unless they lose those Yeah, how are they gonna lose
money on this?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And look at two hundred and ninety three dollars per ticket.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Two hundred and ninety three dollars. In the second half
of March, two week period the program gave out over
three thousand tickets.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I wonder how many people actually paid those tickets?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
How many way?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
How many people actually paid?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I don't know. I don't think anybody should. What's say,
have you seen who's on the bus? Have you? Yes,
it's a homeless express much of the time. That's what
it is. A lot of those guys live on the
bus all day and night and they just ride up
and down Wilshire. Because I'm on Wiltshire Bolevard every morning.
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That's where a bagel shop is. And so I watched
the buses go by. It's all homeless people. It's like
a roll wing shelter. Now, if I park in the
way of that bus, I get charged three hundred dollars.
All right, let's get let's get to Alexandra Mossito on.
She's an assembly woman up in the Tilai Fresno area.
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And if you didn't hear the Democrats today gout it
a bill that would have made it a felony to
buy sixteen and seventeen year old kids for sex. Fifty
five Democrats voted to gut the bill and get rid
of the provision that made it a felony. It's unbelievable,
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and we have Assembly movement. Alexandra Messito on, Alexandra, welcome
to the show. How are you?
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 5 (18:43):
We'll be here after a crazy day. Yeah, I knew
I was walking into something chaotic. There was Satan worshiper's
on the Capitol steps, and I knew that it was
doomed to be a bad day.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
But serious, wait, wait, wait, hold on, all on, seriously,
there were Satanic worshipers.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Yes, they were celebrating National Day of Prayer. They were
just praying to somebody very different than you would expect
on National Day of Prayer. But these are the crazy
people that come to Sacramento. So you know what to
sign up for when you put your name on a ballot.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Let me tell you, all right, we'll talk about this
bill here. It would I mean, the point of the
bill originally was to make it a felony to buy
teenagers for sex, and the Democrats voted to strip those
provisions out of the bill.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
So here's let me give you a little bit of
backstory on how this whole thing came to be. Earlier
this week, the Public Safety Committee had the Democrat author
in their committee and they said, we don't want it
to be a felony to purchase a sixteen or seventeen
year old for sex. They had all of these crazy
amendments that would water this bill down that it doesn't
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actually do anything. The author is legendary prosecutor who took
down Backpage, which was notorious for prostitution. Now when I
tell you she's an expert on this area, this woman
has prosecuted the highest level of child sex traffickers. This
state has probably ever seen. So once again we're being
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accused that we're playing partisan politics. But let's go back
to the point that this is a Democrat who is
running this bill. We had Republican co authors on this bill,
and we were all very excited to support this bill.
But because our process includes that, it has to make
it out of committee to get us to be able
to vote that bill. Essentially, the watered down version of
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it was going to make its way to the floor eventually,
but we said that's not enough. We want there to
be true accountability for pedophiles who buy children for sex.
So we pulled out our rulebook. We figured out how
can we get the Democrats on the record voting on this,
and so we pulled out every trick that we could,
and let me tell you there's still some more tricks
up our fleets, so stay tuned for that, and we
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forced it to the floor. The Democrats then offered these amendments,
and let me just tell you what these amendments included.
The first one was striking the original author, the legendary
prosecutor's name off of the bill as the author and
replacing it with the Chair of Public Safety's name, which
is the least offensive in my opinion of the amendments.
The second one was that they crossed out any language
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that would provide any prosecutor the tief to charge somebody
who buys a child for sex and replaced it with
the language that said, it is the intent of this
state body to create the strongest laws to protect sixteen
and seventeen year olds. I don't know about you, but
I don't really know how much weight that would carry
in a courtroom when you're trying to prosecute a pedophile.
And then to add insult to injury, they made it
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the worre today you've served no time if you're caught
doing this. That even if you're caught doing this and
we pass this bill with the amendments that the Democrats
forced today, you would only spend a couple days in jail.
I don't know about you, but I think you could
come with a pretty excuse, a fit excuse of what
to tell your wife for a couple of days if
you weren't home. So I don't really know how much
of a scare that is. So when I tell you
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that we want this bill we wanted in its original
form on the record in law, we are going to
make that happen. We need justice for these victims. And
we are so tired of the lip service and the
nonsense that our Democrat colleagues tell their constituents. We're making
every effort to make change. We have full the intention
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to make change. That is ridiculous. You have the full
power to do something, and do something now, and you're
choosing not to.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
What motivates them to block a bill that would make
it a felony to buy teenagers for sex.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Where's where I am going to put my tinfoil hat
on for a minute. But this is the exact words
that were used by the chair. He said there was
a backroom deal made with a bill similar to this
that was ran last year, and he is honoring that deal.
I don't know about you, but I don't really like
the words backroom deal with dealing with our children.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We're talking about teenagers being sold for sex on the street.
Who cares what his background deal is?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Correct, you would think. And my message to every Democrat
that tried to kill our efforts to get this bill
in its original form where it needs to go, is
you have the opportunity to do the right thing. You
did this morning but you continue to have the opportunity.
So whoever is listening, if you are a constituent of
a Democrat that voted down our ability to get this
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bill in the original form, pick up the phone and
call them and ask them how they can justify to
you that they don't want to protect sixteen and seventeen
year olds.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Is this what these guys are doing on the weekends?
Do they want to avoid getting the question? I'm really
wondering if it's a bunch of perverts and deviants and
they don't want their particular kink to be interfered with.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
All I'm going to tell you is this is really
crazy to me. When even Gavin Newsom, who I don't
tend to have particularly kind things to say about, came
out out this week and said, yeah, guys, we need
to make sure that we're protecting sixteen and seventeen year olds.
This is not a seventy thirty issue. This is like
a ninety nine to one issue and the one percent,
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if you want my opinion, we need to lock them
up and throw away the key. But it's absolute insanity.
And when you hear the arguments, the arguments on the
floor were okay, well, what if there's an eighteen year
old man who has a seventeen year old girlfriend and
they're engaged in a sexual relationship. I don't know about you,
but I don't know any high school sweethearts that there
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was an exchange of gifts or money for a sexual relationship.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Eighteen year old girl. Eighteen year old guys are not
buying their girlfriend on the street.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Correct. And then there was arguments made about the racism
associated with this. There was arguments made about the impacts
of the LGBTQ community. The arguments that were made was
the hypocrisy that shows that they don't even care about
their own communities and they're actually saying derogatory things about
the own their own communities that they're trying to represent
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and stand up for. The hypocrisy in this whole thing
is beyond reason.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Alexandra, I gotta go. Thank you for coming on, and
we'll keep in touch with you, because I don't think
we've heard the last of this bill.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
No, we have not. We're here to go to war
and we will fight for justice.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
All right. Alexandra Messdo And she's a Republican assembly woman
in the Fresno Tallai County area.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
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Speaker 1 (25:31):
Because Karen Bess wastes so much money on homeless people
and all the criminals who run the homeless industry. We
don't have money for a fire department, as you know,
it's only half funded, and we don't have enough money
to fund the police department. Sheriff Jim McDonald is looking
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at budget cuts and they're going to have to cut
four hundred civilian workers. Perhaps they're gonna have to lay
them off because the money is all spent on homeless
people who start all those fires and foul up all
the neighborhoods. In fact, she spends so much money on
(26:12):
the homeless, she doesn't have much money anymore for the homeless.
It's possible that her beloved Inside Safe program, wildly overhyped
and exaggerated, is out of money as well, and something's
going to have to be uh, well, they're just going
to be cutting funds and I don't thing is I
don't know what they're doing. I don't understand what it
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is they're doing. I don't believe their numbers. And they're
even the most wildly optimistic interpretation of their numbers is
a drop in the bucket. So they don't care about
any of this stuff. They don't care if the police
department's underfunded. They don't care, if the fire department's underfunded,
(26:55):
half funded. They don't care if the Palisades burns down.
They don't care about it, any of this stuff. They
just want to make sure who the hell is coughing?
And I hear typewriter clacking and keyboard clacking. Somebody's got
an open channel in there. All right. I could deal
(27:15):
with the keyboard clattering, but we'd start coughing all over me.
I can't take it. And we're going more on this tomorrow,
because yeah, I mean, enough is enough here, all right.
The only good thing about the cuts is maybe they're
going to cut all those parking enforcement agents. I'm in
favor of that. Conway is up next, and Michael Krozer
is live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
(27:37):
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!