March 21, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (03/21) - California Democrats voted down an idea that would defund high-speed rail with the intent to use that money to lower the gas tax in the state. CNN played a montage of Gov. Newsom using the term "Latinx" after he claimed on his new podcast that no one in his office has used that term. More on Los Angeles losing $65 million dollars on parking tickets. LADWP has announced they have fixed or replaced most of the broken fire hydrants.
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o'clock hour at around three twenty three fifty or thereabouts,
and also coming up in the next segment, I want
you wandering off. We have a clip CNN. CNN gave
roughed up Newsom a bit because you know, Newsom started
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that stupid podcast and invited right wing figures so he
could find common ground. And in the first episode he
met with a conservative activist named Charlie Kirk, and he
started agreeing with Kirk on all kinds of things. You know,
he started knocking some of the woke pillars that people
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have blindly believed in for the past few years. And
he started going after the language police it's about LATINX,
claiming that what is LATINX about? People started using it
in the office. I've never heard of this. Well CNN
found well, they put together a video montage of all
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the times Gavin Newsom used the term LATINX in public
and it shows you what a liar he is. I mean,
just that was what a phony he is. So we'll
play you that coming up in the next segment. Now,
a few months ago, I told you there was a
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sixty five cent gas tax coming, and it still is.
It's coming faster than that high speed rail is being built.
And the Senate leader Brian Jones, well, he's the Republican,
the ranking Republican in the Senate. He's actually not charge
of anything because of the two thirds majority. Brian Jones,
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he had a bill that would block the sixty five
cent gas tax increase. This gas tax increase is coming
from the California Air Resources Board. It's in the form
of something called low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. It's requiring
the oil and gas companies to remove carbon from the
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fuel in such a way that it would raise the
price of gas.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Sixty five cents. Climate nonsense, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You know, as the federal government retreats from all this
climate idiocy, California keeps going forward. They've had no effect
on the climate. It's done has cost us a tremendous
amount of money. As of yesterday, the price of gas
in California was a dollar and ninety nine cents higher
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than the price of gas.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
In uh I believe it was Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It was about four sixty nine here in California at
about two sixty nine in Mississippi. Two dollars difference, and
we're about a dollar fifty a dollars sixty higher than
the national average. There's twenty four states that sell gas
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below three bucks, there's forty two states that sell gas
below three and a quarter. And then there's California alone,
more expensive even than Hawaii. And now there's another sixty
five cent increase coming and based on today's prices, that's
going to take us to five dollars and thirty five
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cents minute them. And of course gas goes for a
lot higher in places. We had Katie grimes on from
California Globe and she said in Sacramento she pays by fifteen.
So if you believed that the Democrats would be shamed
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in any way after being spanked by the Prop thirty
six defeat, and that because of what's happening around the
country with Trump and Musk and the change that people
are finally waking up. It's not happening here because here
was a chance for them to block a sixty five
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cent per gallon increase and it wouldn't cost him anything.
It would just simply suspend the increase, block the law,
and they won't do it. And of course this is
going to to hurt poor, middle class people the most,
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but they don't care because the religious fanatics and we
are another day closer. I mean, this was November eighth,
a few days after the election that carb voted, and
it is now what five months later, December, January, February, March,
four and a half months later, and nothing's going to
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change now. I don't know what day the price starts
to kick in. I guess they have to reconfigure their
processing system and then start paying more money to manufacture it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Center Bill two had bipartisan support and on the committee
that the Senate committee, it lost three to two. You
had a Republican two Republican senators Suzette Valderis and Megan
Dolly vote for it. Melissa Hurtado also voted for it,
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and she's a Democrat at a Two state senators voted
against it, Lena Gonzalez of Long Beach, Stephen Padilla Dia
from Chula Vista. So it was three to two in
favor of blocking the gas tax increase. But there's seven
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members of the committee, which means you have to have
four voting to block it for it to work. Well,
we only had five people voting. We didn't have seven.
We had five. So even though it was three to
two in favor of blocking it, there was no fourth
vote because two of the voters, well three voters were
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they abstained, three Democrats from me from here in southern California.
They were so cowardly, so frightened. They didn't want to
go on the record as voting for a gas tax
increase of sixty five cents. But they also didn't want
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to block the gas tax increase, and so they just
abstained Caroline Menjivar of Burbank. I don't know if I'm
pronouncing that right, Menievar. Sasha Perez of Pasadena. You I'll
call these two ladies up, Caroline and Sasha. There was
another one, Catherine Blakespeare Vincinnetas, and their unwillingness to vote.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Has led to.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
This bill failing, and the sixty five cent gas tax
increase stands. So when the tax goes up sixty five cents,
it is directly the fault of Caroline Menjivar and Sasha Perez.
I would google this Menjavar is emy n j i
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Var Democrat from Burbank, maybe our district, I don't know.
And then Sasha Perez, Democrat from Pasadena, Sascha, Sasha's sa
s Ha Perez, and I would look them up and
I would start contacting them and just simple message like
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thanks for the sixty five cent gas tax increase, Caroline
and Sasha. And you didn't even have the courage to
vote for it, you abstained. That's doubly offensive. The gas
tax is bad enough, but not to vote. I mean,
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these are the kind of people who shouldn't be in
office anymore. I don't know who they are, I've never
seen their names before, but they shouldn't be in office.
This is a sign that they vote for a lot
of bad stuff. How could you inflict a sixty five
cent a gallon increase on everyone?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
How could you do that for what?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
For no purpose at all? And if people don't start
contacting these legislators. You know how much money you're gonna lose?
I mean, I mean sixty five cents. Let me see
on a twenty gallon tank. That's that's about thirteen bucks,
isn't it? And that's what four weeks and a month.
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You're talking about fifty two dollars times twelve months, that's
probably about six hundred and fifty dollars a year you've
just lost because of Caroline men Javar and the n
ji Var and Sasha Perez, two Democrats. Menjivar from Burbank,
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Perez from Pasadena. I'm sorry if I'm screwing up their
names in any way, but these two should be uh,
they should be told how you feel about just by
them sitting there, just by them sitting on their rear
ends they're gonna cost you six seven hundred dollars a year,
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just like that, and suddenly gases five point thirty five
a gallon, and suddenly life is that much more difficult.
And that's the way it goes. Two people decide to
sit there and watch us get screwed. I'm sure they've
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given many speeches to many of their constituents about how
much they care about inflation, how much they care about prices,
how hard it is to make ends meet in California,
how it's such a high cost state. I'm sure they
just spill over with fake empathy. But they're frauds. They
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are complete frauds.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Now you know who is responsible for this sixty five
cent gas tex increase, and I'm sure it'll happen within
a few months.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
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we've been over the last couple of weeks playing clips
from Gavin Newsom's podcast, which they did a poll a
few days ago and found out that ninety nine and
a half percent of Californians had not listened to the podcast,
and a lot of people that listened to it didn't
like it. In fact, twice as many people thought less
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of Newsom after hearing it than thought more of him.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I wish I was in that ninety nine and a
half percent.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I was thinking, considering how low his ratings are on
that you may be one of the few people who
waded through most of these podcasts, right, I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I've had to go through three of them. Three of them. Yeah,
and how long are they? Some a little under an hour,
some a little over an hour. Say you get three
hours of Gavin Newsom in your head? Yeah, unfortunately, Yeah,
that's tough.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So anyway, he on one of these podcasts, he claimed
that he'd never even heard of the phrase latinx. He
went on this whole riff about he doesn't understand all
the political correctness, he doesn't understand the language, police stuff,
you know, trying to to find common ground. Well, he's
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full of it, and CNN called him out on it.
Aaron Burnett hosts a show at night on CNN and
she has a senior editor, Andrew Kazinski, and they played
the Newsom clip where he denied knowing what latinx was
about where did this come from? And then they put
together a montage of all the times Newsom used LATINX
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in his speeches.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
So let's talk about the word LATINX. Just two weeks ago.
Here's what he said about it.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
By the way, now, one person ever in my office
has ever used the word LATINX.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So can we finally put that to bout?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Yeah, but where did that even know?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
More LATINX?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Everybody well just didn't even know where it came from.
And like, what are people talking about? But there was
a person who used LATINX was actually a really important person,
is him right?
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Yeah, that's right. And look, these aren't minor shifts. These
are progressive issues that Gavin Newsom used to champion until
fairly recently. And now he's not just walking away from them,
he's sort of acting like they were never legitimate with
that clip talking about LATINX in the first place. But
let's just let's take latin X. We did find somebody
who used it repeatedly in his office. Let's take a
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listen to this.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I hope we can really paint a picture in terms
of our consciousness of how impactful this has been on
the LATINX community.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
LATINX community, the LATINX and.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Black communities got politicians that are banning, not assault rifles,
but the word latin X, they're.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Not even serious.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
And look, Aaron, those aren't the only times that we
found that he used that. He also used it a
lot on social media. Look at a few of these
right here. You see there that is a lot of
use of latin x by him for somebody who said
that nobody in his office has ever used that phrase.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Right right, So that was put upon him.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
So he's a liar, a fake, a phony, a fraud. Wow,
CNN finally discovered something that we've known for what twenty years.
He's a liar of fake, a phony, and a fraud.
So that was four clips of him using the term
LATINX and at least six tweets. Probably there's more, but
you know, they made the point ten examples and the
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way he says it, the way he delivers the line. See, now,
he's really fascinating me, how he effortlessly delivers something that
he knows is a total lot.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
He's fascinating you.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh, yes, he's fascinating me, because a verb to fascinate somebody,
well it.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Is now it is now? Well because he goes, oh,
I mean, do you have the clip of him.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Talking about LATINX in that podcast. Yeah, play again. Just
listen to his tone of voice, because there may be
a tell he has. There might be a tone of
voice kind of the way he delivers a line when
he's lying, and we can start looking for that pattern.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
By the way, no one person ever in my office
has ever used the word latinx.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So can we finally put that to bad? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
But where did that even?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Know? More?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Everybody well just didn't even know where it came from.
And like, what are people talking about? Like like the
the the exasperation, the outrage. Where did this even come from?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
So he calculates in his head that if he if
he gets really performative right and really looks like he's
he's flustered, he's exasperated, It's like, where did this come from?
Nobody in my office uses this? I mean, who says
these sort of things? I mean, what like maybe the
because he normally doesn't talk like that. Normally he has
that drone technobabble that he used, but suddenly he got animated.
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It's like would you believe this? Like he's a guy
at the bar, right, would you believe this? I mean,
where this come from? A vapol these days? So when
he's overacting. That maybe a sign that he's lying, and
he's very aware that he's lying. Oh God, all right,
we've got Oh I want to talk about this. I
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mentioned this yesterday, but it's it's it's the more I
thought about it, the more it it drove me nuts.
And I have some charts now. I found a website
that put these charts together. It is it is impossible
to believe. And this may be the only time in
history I've ever heard that a major city, Los Angeles,
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has lost tens of millions of dollars on parking tickets.
I honestly don't think that's ever been done in history.
It just can't be if anybody's ever heard of this
or is aware of this. But somehow Karen Bass lost
about sixty five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
On parking tickets.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Because it costs that much more to run the Parking
Enforcement Bureau than they got back in revenue.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Talk about it. We come back.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
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Speaker 1 (18:04):
Coming up after two o'clock, We're going to have Richie
Greenberg gone. He's our kind of like our San Francisco correspondent.
He's a writer and commentator on San Francisco politics. And
you may not know this, but there's a California law
about putting up speeding cameras. These are going to be
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passive speeding cameras that will snap you speeding and then
send you a ticket. They're up in San Francisco thirty
three cameras around the city. And by the way, if
you don't make much money, you get a discount on
the fine. If you're speeding but you're poor, you don't
have to pay as much. Another penalty for being successful.
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Unsuccessful people can drive faster than successful people.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
They will get fined the same.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
All right, now, talking abouts do you know Los Angeles
gives out close to two million parking tickets every year.
It's infuriating. I can't stand parking enforcement officers. I get livid.
Is that irrational? I just see them and I get
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red in the face.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I know you told us at least she told me. No,
you said on the air your Starbuck.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Story, right from a few weeks ago. Yeah, this this
this parking attendant.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
This woman was across the street talking to someone and
she stops her conversation and starts motioning to me to
move my car up in a parking space a few
more inches and I go, what are you doing? And
she goes, well, I don't want to have to give
you a ticket, Like if I didn't move up a
few inches, she was going to give me a ticket.
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And it's like it just made me crazy and I
started screaming at her. It was during the fire. I
told her, why don't you go in and help put
out the fire.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah, but she's not a firefighter.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
No, no, she ses a she hands out tickets if
you're a few inches off the space. I mean, what
a useless profession who ends up being a parking enforcement agent?
Like how many bad decisions do you make in your life?
Will you end up doing that? Although I'm thinking it
must be way more lucrative than I realized. Of course
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it is, because the city of Los Angeles loses sixty
five million dollars just in the past year on parking tickets.
Sixty five million dollars. And you may say, well, how
could that be, Well, I'm going to tell you the
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cost for salaries, equipment, equipment, that little handheld, the device
they have, processing and other expenses total eighty eight million.
But then add in pension obligations and other liabilities insurance.
I suppose it jumps to one hundred and seventy six
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million dollars a year in expenses. The city only collects
one hundred and ten million. The city collects one hundred
and ten million, and it costs him one hundred and
seventy six million. Now we've got this billion dollar budget deficit.
The thing is, if if a mayor or if Elon
Musk came and said, you know what, I'm closing down
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the parking Enforcement Agency, everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Go, oh my god, can you believe this?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
This is terrible. No, I'm firing everybody. No more parking
enforcement agents.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh this is awful. I'm gonna go and burn a tesla.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Actually he'd be saving the city sixty five million dollars
a year.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
So I think they should close the whole thing down.
Why not?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And I didn't know this because I found a longer story.
I also, we got to give credit to Crosstown LA.
It's a nonprofit newsroom based at USC. They broke this story. Increasingly,
we're finding stories like this in the from these small
news agencies or neighborhood newspapers, because the El Segundo Times
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doesn't do this stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
This to me should be a banner headline anyway. They
have been losing money since twenty sixteen. They've been losing money.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
For the last eight years handing out tickets. They're also
handing out fewer tickets than ever before. It's down over
twenty percent since twenty sixteen, and twenty sixteen was the
last year that revenue from parking exceeded the cost to
enforce the laws. So it's been twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
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twenty nineteen, twenty all the way up through twenty four
eight years of escalating losses for handing up parking tickets.
Gar Citi and Karen Bass are the two biggest losers
in political history. How do you f up parking tickets?
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Every parking ticket you hand out is supposed to be
like a free fifty sixties, seventy bucks whatever it is now,
but they actually lose money. And I guess it's the pensions.
Pensions you mean parking enforcement agents get pensions. My dad
worked in a factory for fifty years, sweated like a
dog for fifty years.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You never had a.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Pension because the unions kept the unions kept stealing the
pensions and the management would steal the pensions and they
go out of business and the jobs would go to Mexico.
But here you had these little twerps, these little weasel people.
They all have bad attitudes. Every time I see one,
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I have to restrain myself from rolling down the window
and just shouting incoherently. There's no other job I see
that gets me to do that. Just that.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I get triggered. I know you do.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I get triggered. I can't, I can't take it. It's
like it's like it's just a silly, pointless and it's
just theft of money. There's there's a little shopping center
in my neighborhood that I go to, and, like a
lot of places, they don't have enough parking right, But
they have a bakery, they have a coffee shop, and
people park their car along the curb or park it
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in a restricted zone just to run in and pick
up their their muffin or pick up their coffee order.
And there's always these little these parasites coming around with
their little devices and hitting you up for a sixty
three dollars ticket.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Why that's their job.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
It's bad job.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
They shouldn't exist since they got to do the doge
on the City of Los Angeles. They ought to do
the dough on the whole parking enforcement agency. I mean,
they're losing sixty five million a year and it's been
that way for eight years.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
That should be it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
They're issuing fewer tickets, and while they're issuing fewer tickets,
the cost of parking enforcement has increased forty percent.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Why what's going on?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And how many other stories like this exist within the
battels of government. It can't just be the parking enforcement agency.
Things went to hell in twenty twenty during that stupid lockdown,
they lifted parking restrictions, and so they had the officers
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shift to other responsibilities, including COVID nineteen testing, working at
vaccination sites. Some of them managed traffic. Oh, those are
the people that foul up the traffic.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Ugh.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh, these people are headaches. Do you ever see them?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Sometimes we'll have a traffic light out, or there's some
event going on and and and you could always tell
the traffic. Yeah, they're all doing the hand signals. They're waving,
and they really get into their jobs, like they wave
furiously and they thrust their hand out very strongly to
show that they're in charge. They're in command, they always
back up traffic. Those parking enforcement people are really among
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these most useless government workers. This is why it's such
a hostility towards government workers. In case you're wondering, it's
because the ones I see all the time are the
parking enforcement agents, and they're either filing up the traffic
or they're they're writing out tickets trying to steal money
from me.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Well, but you could obey and just not park in
those places where you're not supposed to, then you don't
have to have any run ins with them. I'm just
looking out for your mental health.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I don't think they should be policing that stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I know.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I don't think it's their business.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
I get it. It's going to change anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well, I want to put them out of business. I
want to stir up a movement here. You do that.
Don't patronize me. Let me indulge in my mental illness.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Okay, Anyway, the deficit last year actually was I said
sixty five is actually sixty six million, to be exact,
and the forecast for this year is sixty five forty
forty nine officers traffic officers retired or moved to different positions,
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they retired, They retired from what and now they're on
a pension. Now I'm working and paying taxes so they
can live at home on a pension.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, this place needs a doging so badly.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
You're listening to Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Coming up after two o'clock, We're you talk with Richie Greenberg.
There is a new virus loose in San Francisco. Speed cameras,
speed cameras. It's part of California law. It's more harassment,
it's more another invasionary tactic, more of the nanny state.
(28:25):
It's a it's a state law. But there's already thirty
three cameras up in San Francisco because people in San
Francisco just love this stuff. The more government interference in
their lives, the more monitoring they have, the better. We're
going to talk with Richie Greenberg, the writer and the commentator,
about what's just hit San Francisco. Now here in La
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the Los Angeles, well, the Department of Order and Power.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
You believe.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Another person who still has a job is Janie Kinonies,
the idiot who didn't fill up the the reservoir in
Pacific Palisades what is called Santa Inez Reservoir. Not only
I mean the parking enforcement agents have jobs. Denise Kinez
has a job. I'm I hope we're gonna get the
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big clean out here. Every day I'm going to pray
it for this. Now Bass is going to be forced
to do exactly what Elon Musk is doing. She's gonna
have to lay off thousands of people because she so
badly mismanaged the finances that now she is going to, uh,
maybe she's gonna put on a baseball cap and she's
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going to start dodging things. That's gonna be rich. The
Los Angeles Department of Order and Power has announced that
they have fixed or replaced most of the fire hydrants
that they discovered were broken after the fire.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Isn't that a me?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
After the fire, they found out that thirteen hundred and
fifty hydrants were broken, and they said, well, nobody told
us until the firefighters. Well, Debora and I were talking
to somebody here at the station yesterday. He lost his
home and late in the day the fires were coming
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and people were asking the firefighters, aren't you gonna like
pluging a hose here? Aren't you like the fed against them,
and they go, well, we don't have any water. The
firefighters were telling the residents we don't have any water
hours into the fire. And part of the reason, in
addition to the reservoir that was dry, were these thirteen
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hundred and fifty hydrants broken. Now they fixed them, and
now they're talking to the media. Now they're standing up
at meetings saying, look at the good work we've done.
You know what I hate is when public officials or
public employees want applause for something that's their basic job.
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It's like a grocery cash here wanting applause every time
she rings up a mellet.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Look at that, I ring up a melon.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Ay, well, here's a set of bananas. Ey, just stupid
job that we're paying you for. Of course, you fixed
the hydrants, except you didn't before the fire.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I hope they put something on these hydrants so that
when they do go down, there's you know, there's some
kind of a signal.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
You're still you're right, there should be a censor. Yeah,
but we have the same system that we had in
the nineteen forties. I suspect a lot of these neighborhoods
on the West Side were developed.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
In the nineteen forties. Mine was.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
In fact, I looked at the deed for the original
deed for my house in my neighborhood and was developed
in nineteen forty three. You know what it even had
it had a restriction clause in it that it couldn't
be sold to any any black residents. Oh wow, Yeah,
that's what That's what LA was like in the nineteen forties.
And we have the same fire hydrant system from that era.
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There were let's see, they replaced one hundred and forty
eight hydrants. They did repairs on eight hundred and five
other hydrants.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Oh listen to this.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Six hydrants were functioning but needed water to be turned
on at a nearby valve.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
So they didn't know that. I mean, that's what I mean,
the need. I really hope they've they've changed this system.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
That you're right to modernize it. And if the slightest
thing is wrong, I mean, you know, you know people
with ring cameras, right, I haven't you haven't, Okay, doesn't
your little to your your phone go off anytime somebody
approaches the entrance of your property?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah. So if the gardener.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Shows up, I know, you know, the postman shows up
cleaning lady, you know whoever it shows up, and then
you can turn on the camera and see how come
they don't have something like that with the hydrants, where
if something goes haywire, one hundred and eighty six hydrants
turned out did not require repairs, even though they were
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tagged as damaged. Now, who made that mistake? One hundred
and eighty six times, Oh, it's broken, Well, no it's not.
It's broken. Well, it's either either water is flowing or
it's not flowing. How do you get that wrong? One
hundred and eighty six times. Are there any intelligence tests
for any jobs in government? Now they have a new system.
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The fire inspectors are going to send a new list
of hydrants needing repair every week or two, and they
already found another three hundred hydrants in need of repairs.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
What have they been doing?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
We come back Richie Greenberg Up in San Francisco. They're
installing speed cameras up there to irritate the public further.
This is more from the nanny state legislators. All the
progressives up in Sacramento, thirty three speed cameras. That's next.
Debra Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
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We have two runs of the Moistline in the three
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o'clock hour at around three twenty three fifty or thereabouts,
and also coming up in the next segment, I want
you wandering off. We have a clip CNN. CNN gave
roughed up Newsom a bit because you know, Newsom started
(00:45):
that stupid podcast and invited right wing figures so he
could find common ground. And in the first episode he
met with a conservative activist named Charlie Kirk, and he
started agreeing with Kirk on all kinds of things. You know,
he started knocking some of the woke pillars that people
(01:09):
have blindly believed in for the past few years. And
he started going after the language police it's about LATINX,
claiming that what is LATINX about? People started using it
in the office. I've never heard of this. Well CNN
found well, they put together a video montage of all
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the times Gavin Newsom used the term LATINX in public
and it shows you what a liar he is. I mean,
just that was what a phony he is. So we'll
play you that coming up in the next segment. Now,
a few months ago, I told you there was a
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sixty five cent gas tax coming, and it still is.
It's coming faster than that high speed rail is being built.
And the Senate leader Brian Jones, well, he's the Republican,
the ranking Republican in the Senate. He's actually not charge
of anything because of the two thirds majority. Brian Jones,
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he had a bill that would block the sixty five
cent gas tax increase. This gas tax increase is coming
from the California Air Resources Board. It's in the form
of something called low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. It's requiring
the oil and gas companies to remove carbon from the
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fuel in such a way that it would raise the
price of gas.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Sixty five cents. Climate nonsense, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You know, as the federal government retreats from all this
climate idiocy, California keeps going forward. They've had no effect
on the climate. It's done has cost us a tremendous
amount of money. As of yesterday, the price of gas
in California was a dollar and ninety nine cents higher
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than the price of gas.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
In uh I believe it was Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It was about four sixty nine here in California at
about two sixty nine in Mississippi. Two dollars difference, and
we're about a dollar fifty a dollars sixty higher than
the national average. There's twenty four states that sell gas
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below three bucks, there's forty two states that sell gas
below three and a quarter. And then there's California alone,
more expensive even than Hawaii. And now there's another sixty
five cent increase coming and based on today's prices, that's
going to take us to five dollars and thirty five
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cents minute them. And of course gas goes for a
lot higher in places. We had Katie grimes on from
California Globe and she said in Sacramento she pays by fifteen.
So if you believed that the Democrats would be shamed
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in any way after being spanked by the Prop thirty
six defeat, and that because of what's happening around the
country with Trump and Musk and the change that people
are finally waking up. It's not happening here because here
was a chance for them to block a sixty five
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cent per gallon increase and it wouldn't cost him anything.
It would just simply suspend the increase, block the law,
and they won't do it. And of course this is
going to to hurt poor, middle class people the most,
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but they don't care because the religious fanatics and we
are another day closer. I mean, this was November eighth,
a few days after the election that carb voted, and
it is now what five months later, December, January, February, March,
four and a half months later, and nothing's going to
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change now. I don't know what day the price starts
to kick in. I guess they have to reconfigure their
processing system and then start paying more money to manufacture it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Center Bill two had bipartisan support and on the committee
that the Senate committee, it lost three to two. You
had a Republican two Republican senators Suzette Valderis and Megan
Dolly vote for it. Melissa Hurtado also voted for it,
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and she's a Democrat at a Two state senators voted
against it, Lena Gonzalez of Long Beach, Stephen Padilla Dia
from Chula Vista. So it was three to two in
favor of blocking the gas tax increase. But there's seven
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members of the committee, which means you have to have
four voting to block it for it to work. Well,
we only had five people voting. We didn't have seven.
We had five. So even though it was three to
two in favor of blocking it, there was no fourth
vote because two of the voters, well three voters were
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they abstained, three Democrats from me from here in southern California.
They were so cowardly, so frightened. They didn't want to
go on the record as voting for a gas tax
increase of sixty five cents. But they also didn't want
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to block the gas tax increase, and so they just
abstained Caroline Menjivar of Burbank. I don't know if I'm
pronouncing that right, Menievar. Sasha Perez of Pasadena. You I'll
call these two ladies up, Caroline and Sasha. There was
another one, Catherine Blakespeare Vincinnetas, and their unwillingness to vote.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Has led to.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
This bill failing, and the sixty five cent gas tax
increase stands. So when the tax goes up sixty five cents,
it is directly the fault of Caroline Menjivar and Sasha Perez.
I would google this Menjavar is emy n j i
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Var Democrat from Burbank, maybe our district, I don't know.
And then Sasha Perez, Democrat from Pasadena, Sascha, Sasha's sa
s Ha Perez, and I would look them up and
I would start contacting them and just simple message like
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thanks for the sixty five cent gas tax increase, Caroline
and Sasha. And you didn't even have the courage to
vote for it, you abstained. That's doubly offensive. The gas
tax is bad enough, but not to vote. I mean,
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these are the kind of people who shouldn't be in
office anymore. I don't know who they are, I've never
seen their names before, but they shouldn't be in office.
This is a sign that they vote for a lot
of bad stuff. How could you inflict a sixty five
cent a gallon increase on everyone?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
How could you do that for what?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
For no purpose at all? And if people don't start
contacting these legislators. You know how much money you're gonna lose?
I mean, I mean sixty five cents. Let me see
on a twenty gallon tank. That's that's about thirteen bucks,
isn't it? And that's what four weeks and a month.
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You're talking about fifty two dollars times twelve months, that's
probably about six hundred and fifty dollars a year you've
just lost because of Caroline men Javar and the n
ji Var and Sasha Perez, two Democrats. Menjivar from Burbank,
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Perez from Pasadena. I'm sorry if I'm screwing up their
names in any way, but these two should be uh,
they should be told how you feel about just by
them sitting there, just by them sitting on their rear
ends they're gonna cost you six seven hundred dollars a year,
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just like that, and suddenly gases five point thirty five
a gallon, and suddenly life is that much more difficult.
And that's the way it goes. Two people decide to
sit there and watch us get screwed. I'm sure they've
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given many speeches to many of their constituents about how
much they care about inflation, how much they care about prices,
how hard it is to make ends meet in California,
how it's such a high cost state. I'm sure they
just spill over with fake empathy. But they're frauds. They
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are complete frauds.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Now you know who is responsible for this sixty five
cent gas tex increase, and I'm sure it'll happen within
a few months.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
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we've been over the last couple of weeks playing clips
from Gavin Newsom's podcast, which they did a poll a
few days ago and found out that ninety nine and
a half percent of Californians had not listened to the podcast,
and a lot of people that listened to it didn't
like it. In fact, twice as many people thought less
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of Newsom after hearing it than thought more of him.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I wish I was in that ninety nine and a
half percent.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I was thinking, considering how low his ratings are on
that you may be one of the few people who
waded through most of these podcasts, right, I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I've had to go through three of them. Three of them. Yeah,
and how long are they? Some a little under an hour,
some a little over an hour. Say you get three
hours of Gavin Newsom in your head? Yeah, unfortunately, Yeah,
that's tough.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So anyway, he on one of these podcasts, he claimed
that he'd never even heard of the phrase latinx. He
went on this whole riff about he doesn't understand all
the political correctness, he doesn't understand the language, police stuff,
you know, trying to to find common ground. Well, he's
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full of it, and CNN called him out on it.
Aaron Burnett hosts a show at night on CNN and
she has a senior editor, Andrew Kazinski, and they played
the Newsom clip where he denied knowing what latinx was
about where did this come from? And then they put
together a montage of all the times Newsom used LATINX
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in his speeches.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
So let's talk about the word LATINX. Just two weeks ago.
Here's what he said about it.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
By the way, now, one person ever in my office
has ever used the word LATINX.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
So can we finally put that to bout?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Yeah, but where did that even know?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
More LATINX?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Everybody well just didn't even know where it came from.
And like, what are people talking about? But there was
a person who used LATINX was actually a really important person,
is him right?
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Yeah, that's right. And look, these aren't minor shifts. These
are progressive issues that Gavin Newsom used to champion until
fairly recently. And now he's not just walking away from them,
he's sort of acting like they were never legitimate with
that clip talking about LATINX in the first place. But
let's just let's take latin X. We did find somebody
who used it repeatedly in his office. Let's take a
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listen to this.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I hope we can really paint a picture in terms
of our consciousness of how impactful this has been on
the LATINX community.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
LATINX community, the LATINX and.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Black communities got politicians that are banning, not assault rifles,
but the word latin X, they're.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Not even serious.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
And look, Aaron, those aren't the only times that we
found that he used that. He also used it a
lot on social media. Look at a few of these
right here. You see there that is a lot of
use of latin x by him for somebody who said
that nobody in his office has ever used that phrase.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Right right, So that was put upon him.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
So he's a liar, a fake, a phony, a fraud. Wow,
CNN finally discovered something that we've known for what twenty years.
He's a liar of fake, a phony, and a fraud.
So that was four clips of him using the term
LATINX and at least six tweets. Probably there's more, but
you know, they made the point ten examples and the
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way he says it, the way he delivers the line. See, now,
he's really fascinating me, how he effortlessly delivers something that
he knows is a total lot.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
He's fascinating you.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh, yes, he's fascinating me, because a verb to fascinate somebody,
well it.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Is now it is now? Well because he goes, oh,
I mean, do you have the clip of him.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Talking about LATINX in that podcast. Yeah, play again. Just
listen to his tone of voice, because there may be
a tell he has. There might be a tone of
voice kind of the way he delivers a line when
he's lying, and we can start looking for that pattern.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
By the way, no one person ever in my office
has ever used the word latinx.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So can we finally put that to bad? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
But where did that even?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Know? More?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Everybody well just didn't even know where it came from.
And like, what are people talking about? Like like the
the the exasperation, the outrage. Where did this even come from?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
So he calculates in his head that if he if
he gets really performative right and really looks like he's
he's flustered, he's exasperated, It's like, where did this come from?
Nobody in my office uses this? I mean, who says
these sort of things? I mean, what like maybe the
because he normally doesn't talk like that. Normally he has
that drone technobabble that he used, but suddenly he got animated.
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It's like would you believe this? Like he's a guy
at the bar, right, would you believe this? I mean,
where this come from? A vapol these days? So when
he's overacting. That maybe a sign that he's lying, and
he's very aware that he's lying. Oh God, all right,
we've got Oh I want to talk about this. I
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mentioned this yesterday, but it's it's it's the more I
thought about it, the more it it drove me nuts.
And I have some charts now. I found a website
that put these charts together. It is it is impossible
to believe. And this may be the only time in
history I've ever heard that a major city, Los Angeles,
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has lost tens of millions of dollars on parking tickets.
I honestly don't think that's ever been done in history.
It just can't be if anybody's ever heard of this
or is aware of this. But somehow Karen Bass lost
about sixty five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
On parking tickets.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Because it costs that much more to run the Parking
Enforcement Bureau than they got back in revenue.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Talk about it. We come back.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Coming up after two o'clock, We're going to have Richie
Greenberg gone. He's our kind of like our San Francisco correspondent.
He's a writer and commentator on San Francisco politics. And
you may not know this, but there's a California law
about putting up speeding cameras. These are going to be
(18:25):
passive speeding cameras that will snap you speeding and then
send you a ticket. They're up in San Francisco thirty
three cameras around the city. And by the way, if
you don't make much money, you get a discount on
the fine. If you're speeding but you're poor, you don't
have to pay as much. Another penalty for being successful.
(18:50):
Unsuccessful people can drive faster than successful people.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
They will get fined the same.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
All right, now, talking abouts do you know Los Angeles
gives out close to two million parking tickets every year.
It's infuriating. I can't stand parking enforcement officers. I get livid.
Is that irrational? I just see them and I get
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red in the face.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I know you told us at least she told me. No,
you said on the air your Starbuck.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Story, right from a few weeks ago. Yeah, this this
this parking attendant.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
This woman was across the street talking to someone and
she stops her conversation and starts motioning to me to
move my car up in a parking space a few
more inches and I go, what are you doing? And
she goes, well, I don't want to have to give
you a ticket, Like if I didn't move up a
few inches, she was going to give me a ticket.
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And it's like it just made me crazy and I
started screaming at her. It was during the fire. I
told her, why don't you go in and help put
out the fire.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah, but she's not a firefighter.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
No, no, she ses a she hands out tickets if
you're a few inches off the space. I mean, what
a useless profession who ends up being a parking enforcement agent?
Like how many bad decisions do you make in your life?
Will you end up doing that? Although I'm thinking it
must be way more lucrative than I realized. Of course
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it is, because the city of Los Angeles loses sixty
five million dollars just in the past year on parking tickets.
Sixty five million dollars. And you may say, well, how
could that be, Well, I'm going to tell you the
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cost for salaries, equipment, equipment, that little handheld, the device
they have, processing and other expenses total eighty eight million.
But then add in pension obligations and other liabilities insurance.
I suppose it jumps to one hundred and seventy six
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million dollars a year in expenses. The city only collects
one hundred and ten million. The city collects one hundred
and ten million, and it costs him one hundred and
seventy six million. Now we've got this billion dollar budget deficit.
The thing is, if if a mayor or if Elon
Musk came and said, you know what, I'm closing down
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the parking Enforcement Agency, everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Go, oh my god, can you believe this?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
This is terrible. No, I'm firing everybody. No more parking
enforcement agents.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh this is awful. I'm gonna go and burn a tesla.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Actually he'd be saving the city sixty five million dollars
a year.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
So I think they should close the whole thing down.
Why not?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And I didn't know this because I found a longer story.
I also, we got to give credit to Crosstown LA.
It's a nonprofit newsroom based at USC. They broke this story. Increasingly,
we're finding stories like this in the from these small
news agencies or neighborhood newspapers, because the El Segundo Times
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doesn't do this stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
This to me should be a banner headline anyway. They
have been losing money since twenty sixteen. They've been losing money.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
For the last eight years handing out tickets. They're also
handing out fewer tickets than ever before. It's down over
twenty percent since twenty sixteen, and twenty sixteen was the
last year that revenue from parking exceeded the cost to
enforce the laws. So it's been twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
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twenty nineteen, twenty all the way up through twenty four
eight years of escalating losses for handing up parking tickets.
Gar Citi and Karen Bass are the two biggest losers
in political history. How do you f up parking tickets?
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Every parking ticket you hand out is supposed to be
like a free fifty sixties, seventy bucks whatever it is now,
but they actually lose money. And I guess it's the pensions.
Pensions you mean parking enforcement agents get pensions. My dad
worked in a factory for fifty years, sweated like a
dog for fifty years.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You never had a.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Pension because the unions kept the unions kept stealing the
pensions and the management would steal the pensions and they
go out of business and the jobs would go to Mexico.
But here you had these little twerps, these little weasel people.
They all have bad attitudes. Every time I see one,
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I have to restrain myself from rolling down the window
and just shouting incoherently. There's no other job I see
that gets me to do that. Just that.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I get triggered. I know you do.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I get triggered. I can't, I can't take it. It's
like it's like it's just a silly, pointless and it's
just theft of money. There's there's a little shopping center
in my neighborhood that I go to, and, like a
lot of places, they don't have enough parking right, But
they have a bakery, they have a coffee shop, and
people park their car along the curb or park it
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in a restricted zone just to run in and pick
up their their muffin or pick up their coffee order.
And there's always these little these parasites coming around with
their little devices and hitting you up for a sixty
three dollars ticket.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Why that's their job.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
It's bad job.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
They shouldn't exist since they got to do the doge
on the City of Los Angeles. They ought to do
the dough on the whole parking enforcement agency. I mean,
they're losing sixty five million a year and it's been
that way for eight years.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
That should be it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
They're issuing fewer tickets, and while they're issuing fewer tickets,
the cost of parking enforcement has increased forty percent.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Why what's going on?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And how many other stories like this exist within the
battels of government. It can't just be the parking enforcement agency.
Things went to hell in twenty twenty during that stupid lockdown,
they lifted parking restrictions, and so they had the officers
(25:44):
shift to other responsibilities, including COVID nineteen testing, working at
vaccination sites. Some of them managed traffic. Oh, those are
the people that foul up the traffic.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Ugh.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh, these people are headaches. Do you ever see them?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Sometimes we'll have a traffic light out, or there's some
event going on and and and you could always tell
the traffic. Yeah, they're all doing the hand signals. They're waving,
and they really get into their jobs, like they wave
furiously and they thrust their hand out very strongly to
show that they're in charge. They're in command, they always
back up traffic. Those parking enforcement people are really among
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these most useless government workers. This is why it's such
a hostility towards government workers. In case you're wondering, it's
because the ones I see all the time are the
parking enforcement agents, and they're either filing up the traffic
or they're they're writing out tickets trying to steal money
from me.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Well, but you could obey and just not park in
those places where you're not supposed to, then you don't
have to have any run ins with them. I'm just
looking out for your mental health.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I don't think they should be policing that stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I know.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I don't think it's their business.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
I get it. It's going to change anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well, I want to put them out of business. I
want to stir up a movement here. You do that.
Don't patronize me. Let me indulge in my mental illness.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Okay, Anyway, the deficit last year actually was I said
sixty five is actually sixty six million, to be exact,
and the forecast for this year is sixty five forty
forty nine officers traffic officers retired or moved to different positions,
(27:37):
they retired, They retired from what and now they're on
a pension. Now I'm working and paying taxes so they
can live at home on a pension.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, this place needs a doging so badly.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
You're listening to Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Coming up after two o'clock, We're you talk with Richie Greenberg.
There is a new virus loose in San Francisco. Speed cameras,
speed cameras. It's part of California law. It's more harassment,
it's more another invasionary tactic, more of the nanny state.
(28:25):
It's a it's a state law. But there's already thirty
three cameras up in San Francisco because people in San
Francisco just love this stuff. The more government interference in
their lives, the more monitoring they have, the better. We're
going to talk with Richie Greenberg, the writer and the commentator,
about what's just hit San Francisco. Now here in La
(28:49):
the Los Angeles, well, the Department of Order and Power.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
You believe.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Another person who still has a job is Janie Kinonies,
the idiot who didn't fill up the the reservoir in
Pacific Palisades what is called Santa Inez Reservoir. Not only
I mean the parking enforcement agents have jobs. Denise Kinez
has a job. I'm I hope we're gonna get the
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big clean out here. Every day I'm going to pray
it for this. Now Bass is going to be forced
to do exactly what Elon Musk is doing. She's gonna
have to lay off thousands of people because she so
badly mismanaged the finances that now she is going to, uh,
maybe she's gonna put on a baseball cap and she's
(29:41):
going to start dodging things. That's gonna be rich. The
Los Angeles Department of Order and Power has announced that
they have fixed or replaced most of the fire hydrants
that they discovered were broken after the fire.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Isn't that a me?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
After the fire, they found out that thirteen hundred and
fifty hydrants were broken, and they said, well, nobody told
us until the firefighters. Well, Debora and I were talking
to somebody here at the station yesterday. He lost his
home and late in the day the fires were coming
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and people were asking the firefighters, aren't you gonna like
pluging a hose here? Aren't you like the fed against them,
and they go, well, we don't have any water. The
firefighters were telling the residents we don't have any water
hours into the fire. And part of the reason, in
addition to the reservoir that was dry, were these thirteen
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hundred and fifty hydrants broken. Now they fixed them, and
now they're talking to the media. Now they're standing up
at meetings saying, look at the good work we've done.
You know what I hate is when public officials or
public employees want applause for something that's their basic job.
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It's like a grocery cash here wanting applause every time
she rings up a mellet.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Look at that, I ring up a melon.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Ay, well, here's a set of bananas. Ey, just stupid
job that we're paying you for. Of course, you fixed
the hydrants, except you didn't before the fire.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I hope they put something on these hydrants so that
when they do go down, there's you know, there's some
kind of a signal.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
You're still you're right, there should be a censor. Yeah,
but we have the same system that we had in
the nineteen forties. I suspect a lot of these neighborhoods
on the West Side were developed.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
In the nineteen forties. Mine was.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
In fact, I looked at the deed for the original
deed for my house in my neighborhood and was developed
in nineteen forty three. You know what it even had
it had a restriction clause in it that it couldn't
be sold to any any black residents. Oh wow, Yeah,
that's what That's what LA was like in the nineteen forties.
And we have the same fire hydrant system from that era.
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There were let's see, they replaced one hundred and forty
eight hydrants. They did repairs on eight hundred and five
other hydrants.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Oh listen to this.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Six hydrants were functioning but needed water to be turned
on at a nearby valve.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
So they didn't know that. I mean, that's what I mean,
the need. I really hope they've they've changed this system.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
That you're right to modernize it. And if the slightest
thing is wrong, I mean, you know, you know people
with ring cameras, right, I haven't you haven't, Okay, doesn't
your little to your your phone go off anytime somebody
approaches the entrance of your property?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah. So if the gardener.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Shows up, I know, you know, the postman shows up
cleaning lady, you know whoever it shows up, and then
you can turn on the camera and see how come
they don't have something like that with the hydrants, where
if something goes haywire, one hundred and eighty six hydrants
turned out did not require repairs, even though they were
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tagged as damaged. Now, who made that mistake? One hundred
and eighty six times, Oh, it's broken, Well, no it's not.
It's broken. Well, it's either either water is flowing or
it's not flowing. How do you get that wrong? One
hundred and eighty six times. Are there any intelligence tests
for any jobs in government? Now they have a new system.
(33:54):
The fire inspectors are going to send a new list
of hydrants needing repair every week or two, and they
already found another three hundred hydrants in need of repairs.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
What have they been doing?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
We come back Richie Greenberg Up in San Francisco. They're
installing speed cameras up there to irritate the public further.
This is more from the nanny state legislators. All the
progressives up in Sacramento, thirty three speed cameras. That's next.
Debra Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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