April 29, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (04/29) - More on the LA County workers' strike and the LA City budget. More on Kristi Noem's purse being stolen by an illegal immigrants. Lancaster Mayor Rex Perris comes on the show to talk about his idea to give the homeless free fentanyl. More on the plan to close multiple animal shelters due to budget cuts in LA.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can if I am six forty, you're listening to the
John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on every
day from one until four, and then after four o'clock
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It's the podcast, it's the same as the radio show,
and so you could listen to what you missed. Rex
Paris is now coming on at two thirty, so mark
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that down in your program. Rex Paris the mayor of
Lancaster who his solution of homelessness is give them free
fentonel all they want. He said, yeah, I'll take care
of the problem. Wouldn't I have a stack of stories here?
We started talking last hour with Michael Monks from KFI
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News about the county workers, these lazy lard asses who
are taking two.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Days off, not working, not working to complain.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That they're not being offered more money. But LA counties
tapped out because they hired so many sexual perverts over
the years in the juvenile detention system that there's four
billion dollars that has to be paid out in sentiment claims.
Can you imagine, I mean, all these government workers engaging
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in illegal sex acts with young men and women who
were locked up in the detention center.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's what they did all these years.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Every once in a while I got an email, why
are you so hard on government workers? Hey, look, you're
the guys who were raping boys and girls. Cost me
and the rest of the taxpayer's four billion. Then I
got a story here about the La City budget sixteen
hundred and forty seven layoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
This is the city.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Apparently they got a huge They had a special hearing
yesterday and a huge uproar from city workers over the
budget cuts. It's like, again, do people do math? I
really hate to be so harsh? Am I being too harsh?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Not you, You're never too harsh.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
She's reading that off a card. There's just testing. No, seriously,
do math the City of La Maybe you don't know this.
They cannot print money. The federal government can print money,
and boy, do that right, thirty seven trillion in debt
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because they just in fact, it's not even printing. What
they do is somebody at the Federal Reserve just calls
up a program on a screen and just types in,
how about another trillion dollars we'll send into the system, right,
and they send it out to all the banks.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, the city can't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
They have this committee, the City Council Budget and Finance Committee,
and they held the hearing and everybody showed up and complained.
April twenty fifth, there was hundreds of unionized city workers
rallying outside than nice City Hall.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh I guess I was off that day. Huh?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, So the county had their big protest, and
on the twenty fifth, the city workers protested, what are
you people protesting?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
We're out of money. Do you know what high taxes
are on us? You live here too, you know what
the taxes are? Like, what's wrong with you? We can't
keep paying this. We got the highest taxes in the
whole effing country and you want more money. You know
who you should be pissed at. You should be pissed
at all the money that's stolen by the homeless people
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and the nonprofits. Of course, a lot of you are
working for the city and county homeless bureaucracy, so that's
why you speak out. That's where a lot of the
money is being wasted. That's why we have half a
fire department. We're paying billions of day to vagrants, We're
paying billions of dollars now to the victims of child rapists.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Look what we're blowing the money on.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
How many millions of dollars were we spending on illegal
alien services? Why it's costing us billions of dollars? And
all right, the stupid asses that run the government, they
don't want to help the Trump administration catch the criminal
illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It's wrong with you.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
There's no argument here, there's no other side to this.
This is not a political issue. This is like just
basic common sense. Stop hiring sex perverts in the detention center.
Stop giving away billions of dollars to criminal fake homeless nonprofits.
Stop allowing homeless people to live in the streets. Go
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ship them to another city or another state. I told
you I went on two trips this month.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But to other cities on the East Coast, they have
zero of this. Zero. Why there were warm weather cities.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Because we're idiots, Because we're run by destructive progressives. Destructive progressives.
After progressives get through a city, after they get through
governing a city, all that's left behind are feces and
needles and bodies laying on the ground. And who do
they enable? They enable the child, They enable the child rapists,
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they enable the uh, the criminals, they enable the drug
addicts and the mental patients.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And we're all supposed to work.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So we go to work every day and then and
then all we get is complaining. I mean, you got
one group of county employees over there bitching and complaining
they want more money. You got a group of city
employees over there, and they're bitching and complaining they want
more money. No amount of money.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Sorry. And these people don't even.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Shop for work, they don't even show up for work.
And here's the story about the state public employees. Okay,
it's the triple crown. Now we went through the county
of the city. I'll read this at out of californiaglobe
dot com Katie Grimes. Five years, five years after his
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original lockdown order, Gavin Newsom has issued a get back
to the office order.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But it does better late than never.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You and I have showed up every single day for
the last five years.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
He certainly did. And I came in a hazmat suit, John,
because I was afraid, just like everybody else, but I
had to show up.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But it was a fashionable of course, yes, and it
went with your fashionable purse.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And my shoes and your shoes. That's right. It's hard
to find shoes that go with a head.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Had really cute masks. Remember I had leopard.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You had leopard asks. A leather mask, Now that was
something else. Eric showed up every day. Ray showed up
every day. Ray bought brought COVID in with him.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
A couple of times.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, we all showed up. So you get the zero
empathy here, no sympathy at all. Complaining after five years,
good lord. So by July first, it will be five
years and three months. And even then Newsom is requiring
only four days a week. The order says all agencies
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and departments have to update their hybrid telework policies. That
is the bureaucratic name for go lay around in your
pajamas and slippers. No, I'm not lying around on pajamas.
I'm engaging in a hybrid telework policy. July first, labor
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unions complained almost immediately they do you know? They filed
an unfair labor practice charge with the California Public Employment
Relations Board.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Ted Toppin he's the example. Am I reading this right?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Ted Toppen is the executive director of the professional engineers
in California government union, Well engineers, that's like a higher
level of worker than you know, the people who's just
just fill up their cubicles with their useless bulk. Ted
Toppin described the change as inexplicable and unnecessary. Oh he
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represents Department of Transportation employees. Oh okay, you mean the
people who don't pay the roads, the people who don't
clear the homeless encampments off the uh off state property
around the freeways.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I'll fix the sidewalks, don't fix the side.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It's really it really is trying to end a win
win situation. M hm, who's on the what side of
the win?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Are we on?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Not the winning side?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Uh, he has two sides, two of the sides winning,
But I'm not on either side.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Uh. See, everything I say is true.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Every once in a while, I get a I get
an email, or and my wife runs into a government worker.
Tell John not to be so hard on us. It's like,
I'm not hard enough. I can't tell you what I
really think. They'd carry me out of here. But we're
spending billions and billions of dollars and you people are
never satisfied, and you don't show up for work for
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five years and then you go lay in the streets
and block traffic. I mean what, Go watch the news tonight,
go see these government workers, these big blobs laying down
in the streets.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
What stop this Jesus?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And to do it in l A. Come on, people
with the traffic already as bad as it is.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I know, it's just you know what, they're there, they're
one day something bad is gonna happen. You stop laying
down in traffic. And why doesn't the police, Well, the
police can't do anything because Karen Basto wo let him.
You know, if we had a real mayor who just
said zero tolerance on protests and shut down traffic. You
want to protest, go get your permit and you get
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to do it early morning on a Sunday. That's it.
That's the total protest time. You don't have a First
Amendment right to screw up everybody's day. All right, Rex
Paris coming on the Lancaster Mail Mayor just after two
thirty he will be here.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Rex Paris, the Lancaster may are coming up just after
two thirty to talk about his idea of giving up
free fentinyl to all the homeless people, which I think
is a terrific idea. In fact, you know, I'll help
them hand out the free fentinel. That's what that's what
the public wants. You give them what they want, because
that's basically what San Francisco and.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
LA are doing anyway by allowing it to go on.
So you might as well just you.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Know, skip the middleman, skip the the Sonola Sineloa cartel
and all the rest of the cartels because they're just
taking a cut of the money and making profits and
just open up a drug stand, an open air drug market.
Remember they tried that in San Francisco. And what was
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the story on that they had this open air drug
market and they got thousands and thousands of people coming
to safely inject and ingest their drugs. But their claim was, well,
you know, we're going to offer them drug treatment, and
I think it was it was like like ten people
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took them up on. They just came to get the
to get the freedom to do their drugs in public,
and to get the free paraphernalia. I mean, San Francisco
did everything short of handing out free fentonel and fantanel
is really cheap. Anyway, giving it out free doesn't make
that much of a difference. But you know, they nobody,
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nobody's been nobody's been arresting anybody. Uh the city and
both here and in La they just they just watched
the people dye and they clean up the bodies, except
we have to step over the bodies and deal with
their their outbursts. Now, we have been closely following the
Christine Noom situation department, normally security because she was out
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at Easter dinner with her family, uh at a burger
joint and my mom never took us out for burgers
on Eastern and she put her Gucci purse underneath her seat,
sat down with the family. There were four kids at
the at the table, and somehow this turns out he's
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from Chile. He's an illegal alien from Chile. Mario Bousta
monte Lieva, not Cruiz's brother. I hope Mario Busta monty Lieva.
He stole the purse and it had three thousand dollars
in cash, and the.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Purse was at least three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I was just gonna ask you. So she had three
thousand in cash inside a purse worth three thousand. It
could be more, her passport, her wallet, her government ID.
He then gets on a bus and shows up at
the bar of Angolo Restaurante Attaliano. That sounds high end,
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and he was drinking until midnight.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
We had a lot of money to spend.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And he rang up a two hundred and five dollars
bill on her American Express card. They released photos of
bousta Monte hyphen Lieva wearing a white face mask and
a baseball cap.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
We do have a price on the bagh. Four thousand dollars. Right,
Look at that, she got one of the better.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Why, I said, at least at least, right, that's for
the low end Gucci bag, small one, the cheap small
Gucci bag.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Now this is four thousand dollars and.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
At least not fifty for a burken Then he shows
up at Angolo restaurante.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
He's chatting on a cell phone. It was the fourth
theft he pulled off in eight days. He had no
idea who she was. This really was because at first
I thought, well, this must have been a targeted attack, right,
this was an f U from an illegal alien activist
or something so iron I mean, there's three hundred and
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forty million people in the country. One of them is
running a department of Homeland security. And he found her and.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
She's all over TV. I know you've seen her.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, and I would never be with her. I mean,
remember she shot her own dog. Okay, now she's a
tough chance. Yeah, that's right. I'm not getting into a battle,
all right. Here's his rap sheet. He was arrested for
shoplifting in Utah in twenty twenty one. He was arrested
in twenty fifteen in London because he'd gone on a
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stealing spree for a month. For several months, he stole
twenty eight thousand dollars worth of phones, wallets, and computers.
So he's stolen in Utah. He's stolen New York. Oh yeah,
he was in New York on March second. He uh,
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he took a fanny pack from a Times Square shop
and racked up twelve hundred dollars in credit card charges
in twenty minutes. The victim who was in the shop
was an international student from India. He forgot his bag
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at this restaurant for just a few minutes and it
was gone when he came back, and but witnesses pointed
out the thief and he was wearing a COVID mask
there as well. See, these COVID masks have been repurposed
now as a way for a criminal to hide his identity.
(16:26):
I mean they caught him in thirty minutes, the cops
for this New York City theft, but he still had
tons of unauthorized charges on his card. This guy went
crazy and obviously nobody puts him in jail for any
length of time.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Oh, he's gonna be in big trouble by you know,
stealing Christy Nomes four thousand dollars Gucci and all her stuff. Oh,
he's going down.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I heard they have a long list of federal crimes. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Well in New York after he stole the uh what
did he the Fannie pack? Right, okay, and he ran
up the big credit card bill, he cops gave him
a desk appearance ticket. They give him a ticket and
told him to show up in court one day. Fourth
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degree felony grand larceny charges. That's a light that is
probably the lightest felony you can be charged with. And
they released him right away. He didn't show up for
the court date. Everyone went looking for him, but they
never found him. And because of New York sanctuary laws,
the NYPD was not allowed to report him to federal
immigration authorities. God what a but our whole system is busted.
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The progressives have really done a lot of damage. They
have really busted the system. Bousta monte Leva is claiming
he's an alcoholic and he has memory problems. All right,
we gotta get we come back. Rex Paris from Lancaster.
He's the mayor there. He wants fentanyl, hand it out
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to all the homeless. Take care of that problem.
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is Rex Ready? We have Rex Paris, the mayor of Lancaster,
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made headlines last week. Let's play a short clip of
what he said. It sounds like you want to kind
of close all these homeless people in one type territory,
and I don't know what I want.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
To do is and I don't think, I mean, that's
what I want. I want to give them free.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I can't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
You wanted to get with them what.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I want to give them all the fentanyl they want, That's.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
What I want.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
That was not kind.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Who said that. The ladies speaking to him at the meeting.
All right, let's get wrecks on.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Thank you for taking some time to come on the
show with us. That was a very funny moment there.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Uh, people disagree, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Agree with you.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
If you ever set up a fentinel stand, I'll help
hand it out. I mean, basically, that's what the big cities,
you know here in La and in San Francisco, that's
what they're doing. They allow people to take it in
the streets and then they die in the streets. It's
not really much different. You just have the have the
wherewithal to say it bluntly.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Well, it's a little worse than that. I mean, we're
the average citizen is paying for it when they bust
into your house and steal your stuff and do their robberies.
Where do you think that money goes we really would
be better off just giving it away.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Well why, I mean, I talk about this every day,
but I'd love to hear your opinion. To me. The
reason that this problem goes on perpetually is there's a
huge racket going on between the government agencies and these nonprofits.
They everybody's making a lot of money. There's billions of
dollars of tax money flowing in, so they're not doing
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anything to solve the problem.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It doesn't matter to them. They're all getting rich off it.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I think that's accurate. I mean, La County lost a
billion dollars they cannot even account for. They don't know
where it went. How does a billion dollars disappear? And
that's in the homeless for their homeless programs. You know,
you give me a billion dollars, we wouldn't have a
homeless program. We wouldn't need it. Yeah, there is no
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no government program with greater waste than this. And then
you know the problem we have is we categorize them
all together. You know, there are a lot of people
that have fallen on hard times that need help and
we should help them, but there's also a lot of
just crooks that do not want to work that hurt people.
They rob people, they murder people. I mean in the desert,
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I don't even think the women are reporting the rapes.
They happen so frequently. It's the wild West out there,
and I'm fed up with it. That's why I said
we need to purge. But I didn't say we needed
to purge for people who wanted help. I want to
purge for people who hurt people.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
You know.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I mean, at some point, we have to start prioritizing
what's important to us. To me, what's important to us
is the hard working families in our city, and we
should be doing whatever we need to do to protect
them from the people we let out of prison. I mean,
because that's what happened. We let thousands of people out
of prison without any regard to where they were going
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to live. And I mean, California has become increasingly dangerous
to live in and I want to do something about it.
And it's going to be brutal, it's going to be
painful to watch, but what else do we do?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
You know, it's a good reminder of where a lot
of these guys are coming from, and it is they
emptied out the prisons over the last ten years, and
they went to live in the streets and they picked
up a nasty drug addiction, and then they act out
their nature. There's a reason they were in prison. They
didn't get rehabilitated. You add all the drugs now that
they can get cheaply, if not free, And of course
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we have the mess we do, and there's nobody serious
in government trying to fix it. Everyone's profiting from it.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I think that's accurate. I think that's absolutely accurate. You know,
you wanted to get rid of the homeless situation, it'd
be really easy. Change the workers' compensation laws. You know,
you want to eat that day, I'll give you a sack.
You can go clean up the city, bring it back full.
We'll give you the money to eat the But you
can't do that. You know, if we did that, five
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minutes later, they have a workers comp claim. Oh right,
I just it's a simple solution.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It really is, I know, And most of the rest
of the country doesn't have this issue. I took a
couple of trips this month to see family in Charlotte,
North Carolina, zero homeless problem, Sarasota, Florida, zero homeless problem,
and it's stunning to walk the streets and not do
a hopscotch over poop or needles or dodge the insane.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It's just it's so shocking to see.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
How other people do at Los Angeles. Look what we
have done to Los Angeles that used to be a
good city. Yeah, now it's I mean it. We recently
had a joltation from Japan and they were horrified what
they saw.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Okay, imagine it.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
I mean I've been to Japan because we're doing a
lot of business with them.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Now, yeah, I've been there too. I was shocked how
clean everything was.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh oh, I mean we could be that way. We
just we just have to enforce the rules and we
have to be a little draconian about it. You know,
when you hurt somebody, expect to get hurt. In Lancaster,
you can expect to get hurt. I mean, we were
doing everything we tend to make that happen.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
What are you doing, Lancaster? I mean I haven't been
up there in a while. What's going on? How bad
is the homeless station? What are you doing to treat it?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Our homeless problem is really nonexistent because everybody we offer
services to the ones that are out there don't want them,
So how do I call them homeless? They do not
want services. We've got the we've got the best homeless
facility in the country. You know. We accommodate five hundred people.
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They have they all have a private cubicle they do.
We even have a kennel for their dogs, because a
lot of people won't come off the street if they
can't their dog. We have medical cares. I mean, we
did it for three hundred and fifty thousand a unit,
not the million two that LA is paying million two.
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You know. You take the latest homeless initiative, they did
a proposition A you could give every counted homeless person
one hundred thousand dollars. Oh my god, that's true. That's
the stats. That's how much money is being stolen.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I mean, and they can't account for it, and then
nobody forces them to account for it. We have had
all these audits and investigations. Every one of them says
the same thing, and then the next day life just
goes on and they keep stealing the money.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
It's you know, it's laughable simply because there is no
saying society that would tolerate what we're tolerating. This is
our money they're stealing. It's it's beyond belief. And what
I'm what amazes me is the people that want to
give more money away are the ones who get elected.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
What do you think is wrong with a majority of
the voters, Because ultimately it comes to the people listening
now and voting. And I thought LA and Southern California
was a wonderful place, you know, for first twenty plus
years I was here, and especially especially like in the
last I don't know, six seventy eight years, it's gone
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to hell, and everybody complains about it. Everybody's unhappy that.
I know, nobody votes differently. Why look what happened.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Look what happens when we say something. I mean, I
used to get elected with eighty percent of the vote,
it's you know now it was less than fifty. Yeah,
it's there's this tendency to want to please everybody and
say whatever you need to say so that you don't
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make any enemies. You know, we need listen. I like Trump.
I think we need more Trumps. We need people that
are not afraid to make decisions that will improve the
well being of the families that live here. It makes
them unpopular for all, even if it makes them unpopular
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for a while. I don't know. It's very frustrating it.
You know, we had we had dropped our homicide rate
to zero the third year after I was elected. Zero,
And then they started pulling the sheriff's deputies from us
because La County can't afford to hire deputies. You know,
I'm seventy deputies down, seventy deputies down. There are times
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they cannot call back up because there's no backup to call.
It's reached, it's reached crisis proportions. That's why we started
our own police department to help the sheriff's department. We're
going really full boar and AI and technology. Last year,
we were the only city in America of over one
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hundred thousand people that had one hundred percent solve rate
on every homicide. Can we do it with technology? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I wish, I wish I heard of Marral Los Angeles
talk the way you do. I got a run. It
was good having you on, Rex, Come on again soon.
Thanks all right, Rex, Paris Maril Lancaster.
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This is what he wrote today at six point thirty
five last night. Bass put on her Twitter accounts the
following there has been some confusion regarding funding for animal services.
My budget contains funding in two different areas in the
departmental budget, but another five million in the unappropriated balance.
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Why did they have some stupid confusing terms unappropriated balance.
So this means all six shelters will be able to
stay open, blah blah blah. But what Gus writes, well,
what he wrote is confusion my ass in the past
few weeks, the city council, bass's chief of staff, her
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top legal advisor, her deputies, her five animal service commissioners,
it's interim general manager, and hundreds of employees and their unions,
and the humane foundations and the rescue groups and the
volunteers and the deputy city attorney and the neighborhood council
budget advocates, who have all been complaining about the budget cuts.
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He says, everyone got it wrong. No, everyone didn't get
it wrong. She cut the budget, got caught and fixed it,
and came up with some kakamami unappropriated balance provision in
the budget. You don't screw with animal people, that's right,
And so she got her head blown off here. And
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so now she's scrambling around and saying, oh, no, no, you're
all confused. In fact, he says, many people spoke at
the start of a five hour City Council committee meeting
yesterday complaining about this publicly. So everyone, it's what he's
saying is almost everyone interested in the issue had the
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same impression that she was cutting the budget and closing
three of the six shelters. And now it's six thirty five.
This is the condescending arrogance, you know, the dismissive Oh
oh no, no, no oh, you unwatched noisy people.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
You're all confused.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I would never do such a thing, of course she would.
She caught the fire department and then lied about it.
She cut the fire department, and then there was a
lot of blowback, and it's like, well, I guess we
have we can get one of those supplemental unappropriated balance transfers.
So yeah, I didn't cut it. Well, she's really got
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her act down. Pat Nobody, Nobody publicly disputed that half
the shelters were going to be and cut until six
thirty five last night when Bass put it on Twitter.
Nobody and Gus also points out that ninety three percent
of the budget goes to salaries, and it steals donated
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funds and uses them for everything for pizza parties to travel.
They abandoned animals on the street, they kill indiscriminately, they
have no thriving spay and neuter function or animal crueltine enforcement,
and the shelters are closed too often when it should
be open twenty four to seven. And the whole thing
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needs a comprehensive restructuring and that's a point, because we're
talking about the cuts. We spend any time on just
what a huge disaster the animal shelter system in LA is.
To begin with, Will.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
We new blood there?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Oh my god, No, it needs a bulldoze and a
complete rebuild. It needs a doging, definitely, all right. When
we come back after Debor does the news, the Santa
Inez reservoir back center stage because the company then installed
or tried to fix the new cover. It's got tears
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and holes in it, and they refilled the reservoir to
twenty five percent level. It has to be drained again.
The cover has to be fixed again. It's at of
service till at least June. Say Ed Kashani. He's an
attorney who lost his house and he's been fighting almost
all by himself LEDWP. He's on next with us and
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Deborah Mark is live in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
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and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
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It's the podcast, it's the same as the radio show,
and so you could listen to what you missed. Rex
Paris is now coming on at two thirty, so mark
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that down in your program. Rex Paris the mayor of
Lancaster who his solution of homelessness is give them free
fentonel all they want. He said, yeah, I'll take care
of the problem. Wouldn't I have a stack of stories here?
We started talking last hour with Michael Monks from KFI
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News about the county workers, these lazy lard asses who
are taking two.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Days off, not working, not working to complain.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That they're not being offered more money. But LA counties
tapped out because they hired so many sexual perverts over
the years in the juvenile detention system that there's four
billion dollars that has to be paid out in sentiment claims.
Can you imagine, I mean, all these government workers engaging
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in illegal sex acts with young men and women who
were locked up in the detention center.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's what they did all these years.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Every once in a while I got an email, why
are you so hard on government workers? Hey, look, you're
the guys who were raping boys and girls. Cost me
and the rest of the taxpayer's four billion. Then I
got a story here about the La City budget sixteen
hundred and forty seven layoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
This is the city.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Apparently they got a huge They had a special hearing
yesterday and a huge uproar from city workers over the
budget cuts. It's like, again, do people do math? I
really hate to be so harsh? Am I being too harsh?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Not you, You're never too harsh.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
She's reading that off a card. There's just testing. No, seriously,
do math the City of La Maybe you don't know this.
They cannot print money. The federal government can print money,
and boy, do that right, thirty seven trillion in debt
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because they just in fact, it's not even printing. What
they do is somebody at the Federal Reserve just calls
up a program on a screen and just types in,
how about another trillion dollars we'll send into the system, right,
and they send it out to all the banks.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, the city can't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
They have this committee, the City Council Budget and Finance Committee,
and they held the hearing and everybody showed up and complained.
April twenty fifth, there was hundreds of unionized city workers
rallying outside than nice City Hall.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh I guess I was off that day. Huh?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, So the county had their big protest, and
on the twenty fifth, the city workers protested, what are
you people protesting?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
We're out of money. Do you know what high taxes
are on us? You live here too, you know what
the taxes are? Like, what's wrong with you? We can't
keep paying this. We got the highest taxes in the
whole effing country and you want more money. You know
who you should be pissed at. You should be pissed
at all the money that's stolen by the homeless people
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and the nonprofits. Of course, a lot of you are
working for the city and county homeless bureaucracy, so that's
why you speak out. That's where a lot of the
money is being wasted. That's why we have half a
fire department. We're paying billions of day to vagrants, We're
paying billions of dollars now to the victims of child rapists.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Look what we're blowing the money on.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
How many millions of dollars were we spending on illegal
alien services? Why it's costing us billions of dollars? And
all right, the stupid asses that run the government, they
don't want to help the Trump administration catch the criminal
illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It's wrong with you.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
There's no argument here, there's no other side to this.
This is not a political issue. This is like just
basic common sense. Stop hiring sex perverts in the detention center.
Stop giving away billions of dollars to criminal fake homeless nonprofits.
Stop allowing homeless people to live in the streets. Go
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ship them to another city or another state. I told
you I went on two trips this month.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But to other cities on the East Coast, they have
zero of this. Zero. Why there were warm weather cities.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Because we're idiots, Because we're run by destructive progressives. Destructive progressives.
After progressives get through a city, after they get through
governing a city, all that's left behind are feces and
needles and bodies laying on the ground. And who do
they enable? They enable the child, They enable the child rapists,
(05:27):
they enable the uh, the criminals, they enable the drug
addicts and the mental patients.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And we're all supposed to work.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So we go to work every day and then and
then all we get is complaining. I mean, you got
one group of county employees over there bitching and complaining
they want more money. You got a group of city
employees over there, and they're bitching and complaining they want
more money. No amount of money.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Sorry. And these people don't even.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Shop for work, they don't even show up for work.
And here's the story about the state public employees. Okay,
it's the triple crown. Now we went through the county
of the city. I'll read this at out of californiaglobe
dot com Katie Grimes. Five years, five years after his
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original lockdown order, Gavin Newsom has issued a get back
to the office order.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But it does better late than never.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You and I have showed up every single day for
the last five years.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
He certainly did. And I came in a hazmat suit, John,
because I was afraid, just like everybody else, but I
had to show up.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But it was a fashionable of course, yes, and it
went with your fashionable purse.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And my shoes and your shoes. That's right. It's hard
to find shoes that go with a head.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Had really cute masks. Remember I had leopard.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You had leopard asks. A leather mask, Now that was
something else. Eric showed up every day. Ray showed up
every day. Ray bought brought COVID in with him.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
A couple of times.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, we all showed up. So you get the zero
empathy here, no sympathy at all. Complaining after five years,
good lord. So by July first, it will be five
years and three months. And even then Newsom is requiring
only four days a week. The order says all agencies
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and departments have to update their hybrid telework policies. That
is the bureaucratic name for go lay around in your
pajamas and slippers. No, I'm not lying around on pajamas.
I'm engaging in a hybrid telework policy. July first, labor
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unions complained almost immediately they do you know? They filed
an unfair labor practice charge with the California Public Employment
Relations Board.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Ted Toppin he's the example. Am I reading this right?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Ted Toppen is the executive director of the professional engineers
in California government union, Well engineers, that's like a higher
level of worker than you know, the people who's just
just fill up their cubicles with their useless bulk. Ted
Toppin described the change as inexplicable and unnecessary. Oh he
(08:41):
represents Department of Transportation employees. Oh okay, you mean the
people who don't pay the roads, the people who don't
clear the homeless encampments off the uh off state property
around the freeways.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I'll fix the sidewalks, don't fix the side.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It's really it really is trying to end a win
win situation. M hm, who's on the what side of
the win?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Are we on?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Not the winning side?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Uh, he has two sides, two of the sides winning,
But I'm not on either side.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Uh. See, everything I say is true.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Every once in a while, I get a I get
an email, or and my wife runs into a government worker.
Tell John not to be so hard on us. It's like,
I'm not hard enough. I can't tell you what I
really think. They'd carry me out of here. But we're
spending billions and billions of dollars and you people are
never satisfied, and you don't show up for work for
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five years and then you go lay in the streets
and block traffic. I mean what, Go watch the news tonight,
go see these government workers, these big blobs laying down
in the streets.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
What stop this Jesus?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And to do it in l A. Come on, people
with the traffic already as bad as it is.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I know, it's just you know what, they're there, they're
one day something bad is gonna happen. You stop laying
down in traffic. And why doesn't the police, Well, the
police can't do anything because Karen Basto wo let him.
You know, if we had a real mayor who just
said zero tolerance on protests and shut down traffic. You
want to protest, go get your permit and you get
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to do it early morning on a Sunday. That's it.
That's the total protest time. You don't have a First
Amendment right to screw up everybody's day. All right, Rex
Paris coming on the Lancaster Mail Mayor just after two
thirty he will be here.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Rex Paris, the Lancaster may are coming up just after
two thirty to talk about his idea of giving up
free fentinyl to all the homeless people, which I think
is a terrific idea. In fact, you know, I'll help
them hand out the free fentinel. That's what that's what
the public wants. You give them what they want, because
that's basically what San Francisco and.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
LA are doing anyway by allowing it to go on.
So you might as well just you.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Know, skip the middleman, skip the the Sonola Sineloa cartel
and all the rest of the cartels because they're just
taking a cut of the money and making profits and
just open up a drug stand, an open air drug market.
Remember they tried that in San Francisco. And what was
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the story on that they had this open air drug
market and they got thousands and thousands of people coming
to safely inject and ingest their drugs. But their claim was, well,
you know, we're going to offer them drug treatment, and
I think it was it was like like ten people
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took them up on. They just came to get the
to get the freedom to do their drugs in public,
and to get the free paraphernalia. I mean, San Francisco
did everything short of handing out free fentonel and fantanel
is really cheap. Anyway, giving it out free doesn't make
that much of a difference. But you know, they nobody,
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nobody's been nobody's been arresting anybody. Uh the city and
both here and in La they just they just watched
the people dye and they clean up the bodies, except
we have to step over the bodies and deal with
their their outbursts. Now, we have been closely following the
Christine Noom situation department, normally security because she was out
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at Easter dinner with her family, uh at a burger
joint and my mom never took us out for burgers
on Eastern and she put her Gucci purse underneath her seat,
sat down with the family. There were four kids at
the at the table, and somehow this turns out he's
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from Chile. He's an illegal alien from Chile. Mario Bousta
monte Lieva, not Cruiz's brother. I hope Mario Busta monty Lieva.
He stole the purse and it had three thousand dollars
in cash, and the.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Purse was at least three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I was just gonna ask you. So she had three
thousand in cash inside a purse worth three thousand. It
could be more, her passport, her wallet, her government ID.
He then gets on a bus and shows up at
the bar of Angolo Restaurante Attaliano. That sounds high end,
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and he was drinking until midnight.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
We had a lot of money to spend.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And he rang up a two hundred and five dollars
bill on her American Express card. They released photos of
bousta Monte hyphen Lieva wearing a white face mask and
a baseball cap.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
We do have a price on the bagh. Four thousand dollars. Right,
Look at that, she got one of the better.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Why, I said, at least at least, right, that's for
the low end Gucci bag, small one, the cheap small
Gucci bag.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Now this is four thousand dollars and.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
At least not fifty for a burken Then he shows
up at Angolo restaurante.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
He's chatting on a cell phone. It was the fourth
theft he pulled off in eight days. He had no
idea who she was. This really was because at first
I thought, well, this must have been a targeted attack, right,
this was an f U from an illegal alien activist
or something so iron I mean, there's three hundred and
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forty million people in the country. One of them is
running a department of Homeland security. And he found her and.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
She's all over TV. I know you've seen her.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, and I would never be with her. I mean,
remember she shot her own dog. Okay, now she's a
tough chance. Yeah, that's right. I'm not getting into a battle,
all right. Here's his rap sheet. He was arrested for
shoplifting in Utah in twenty twenty one. He was arrested
in twenty fifteen in London because he'd gone on a
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stealing spree for a month. For several months, he stole
twenty eight thousand dollars worth of phones, wallets, and computers.
So he's stolen in Utah. He's stolen New York. Oh yeah,
he was in New York on March second. He uh,
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he took a fanny pack from a Times Square shop
and racked up twelve hundred dollars in credit card charges
in twenty minutes. The victim who was in the shop
was an international student from India. He forgot his bag
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at this restaurant for just a few minutes and it
was gone when he came back, and but witnesses pointed
out the thief and he was wearing a COVID mask
there as well. See, these COVID masks have been repurposed
now as a way for a criminal to hide his identity.
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I mean they caught him in thirty minutes, the cops
for this New York City theft, but he still had
tons of unauthorized charges on his card. This guy went
crazy and obviously nobody puts him in jail for any
length of time.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Oh, he's gonna be in big trouble by you know,
stealing Christy Nomes four thousand dollars Gucci and all her stuff. Oh,
he's going down.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I heard they have a long list of federal crimes. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Well in New York after he stole the uh what
did he the Fannie pack? Right, okay, and he ran
up the big credit card bill, he cops gave him
a desk appearance ticket. They give him a ticket and
told him to show up in court one day. Fourth
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degree felony grand larceny charges. That's a light that is
probably the lightest felony you can be charged with. And
they released him right away. He didn't show up for
the court date. Everyone went looking for him, but they
never found him. And because of New York sanctuary laws,
the NYPD was not allowed to report him to federal
immigration authorities. God what a but our whole system is busted.
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The progressives have really done a lot of damage. They
have really busted the system. Bousta monte Leva is claiming
he's an alcoholic and he has memory problems. All right,
we gotta get we come back. Rex Paris from Lancaster.
He's the mayor there. He wants fentanyl, hand it out
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to all the homeless. Take care of that problem.
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is Rex Ready? We have Rex Paris, the mayor of Lancaster,
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made headlines last week. Let's play a short clip of
what he said. It sounds like you want to kind
of close all these homeless people in one type territory,
and I don't know what I want.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
To do is and I don't think, I mean, that's
what I want. I want to give them free.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I can't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
You wanted to get with them what.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I want to give them all the fentanyl they want, That's.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
What I want.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
That was not kind.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Who said that. The ladies speaking to him at the meeting.
All right, let's get wrecks on.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Thank you for taking some time to come on the
show with us. That was a very funny moment there.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Uh, people disagree, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Agree with you.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
If you ever set up a fentinel stand, I'll help
hand it out. I mean, basically, that's what the big cities,
you know here in La and in San Francisco, that's
what they're doing. They allow people to take it in
the streets and then they die in the streets. It's
not really much different. You just have the have the
wherewithal to say it bluntly.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Well, it's a little worse than that. I mean, we're
the average citizen is paying for it when they bust
into your house and steal your stuff and do their robberies.
Where do you think that money goes we really would
be better off just giving it away.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Well why, I mean, I talk about this every day,
but I'd love to hear your opinion. To me. The
reason that this problem goes on perpetually is there's a
huge racket going on between the government agencies and these nonprofits.
They everybody's making a lot of money. There's billions of
dollars of tax money flowing in, so they're not doing
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anything to solve the problem.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It doesn't matter to them. They're all getting rich off it.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I think that's accurate. I mean, La County lost a
billion dollars they cannot even account for. They don't know
where it went. How does a billion dollars disappear? And
that's in the homeless for their homeless programs. You know,
you give me a billion dollars, we wouldn't have a
homeless program. We wouldn't need it. Yeah, there is no
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no government program with greater waste than this. And then
you know the problem we have is we categorize them
all together. You know, there are a lot of people
that have fallen on hard times that need help and
we should help them, but there's also a lot of
just crooks that do not want to work that hurt people.
They rob people, they murder people. I mean in the desert,
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I don't even think the women are reporting the rapes.
They happen so frequently. It's the wild West out there,
and I'm fed up with it. That's why I said
we need to purge. But I didn't say we needed
to purge for people who wanted help. I want to
purge for people who hurt people.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
You know.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I mean, at some point, we have to start prioritizing
what's important to us. To me, what's important to us
is the hard working families in our city, and we
should be doing whatever we need to do to protect
them from the people we let out of prison. I mean,
because that's what happened. We let thousands of people out
of prison without any regard to where they were going
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to live. And I mean, California has become increasingly dangerous
to live in and I want to do something about it.
And it's going to be brutal, it's going to be
painful to watch, but what else do we do?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
You know, it's a good reminder of where a lot
of these guys are coming from, and it is they
emptied out the prisons over the last ten years, and
they went to live in the streets and they picked
up a nasty drug addiction, and then they act out
their nature. There's a reason they were in prison. They
didn't get rehabilitated. You add all the drugs now that
they can get cheaply, if not free, And of course
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we have the mess we do, and there's nobody serious
in government trying to fix it. Everyone's profiting from it.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I think that's accurate. I think that's absolutely accurate. You know,
you wanted to get rid of the homeless situation, it'd
be really easy. Change the workers' compensation laws. You know,
you want to eat that day, I'll give you a sack.
You can go clean up the city, bring it back full.
We'll give you the money to eat the But you
can't do that. You know, if we did that, five
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minutes later, they have a workers comp claim. Oh right,
I just it's a simple solution.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
It really is, I know, And most of the rest
of the country doesn't have this issue. I took a
couple of trips this month to see family in Charlotte,
North Carolina, zero homeless problem, Sarasota, Florida, zero homeless problem,
and it's stunning to walk the streets and not do
a hopscotch over poop or needles or dodge the insane.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
It's just it's so shocking to see.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
How other people do at Los Angeles. Look what we
have done to Los Angeles that used to be a
good city. Yeah, now it's I mean it. We recently
had a joltation from Japan and they were horrified what
they saw.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Okay, imagine it.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
I mean I've been to Japan because we're doing a
lot of business with them.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Now, yeah, I've been there too. I was shocked how
clean everything was.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh oh, I mean we could be that way. We
just we just have to enforce the rules and we
have to be a little draconian about it. You know,
when you hurt somebody, expect to get hurt. In Lancaster,
you can expect to get hurt. I mean, we were
doing everything we tend to make that happen.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
What are you doing, Lancaster? I mean I haven't been
up there in a while. What's going on? How bad
is the homeless station? What are you doing to treat it?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Our homeless problem is really nonexistent because everybody we offer
services to the ones that are out there don't want them,
So how do I call them homeless? They do not
want services. We've got the we've got the best homeless
facility in the country. You know. We accommodate five hundred people.
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They have they all have a private cubicle they do.
We even have a kennel for their dogs, because a
lot of people won't come off the street if they
can't their dog. We have medical cares. I mean, we
did it for three hundred and fifty thousand a unit,
not the million two that LA is paying million two.
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You know. You take the latest homeless initiative, they did
a proposition A you could give every counted homeless person
one hundred thousand dollars. Oh my god, that's true. That's
the stats. That's how much money is being stolen.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I mean, and they can't account for it, and then
nobody forces them to account for it. We have had
all these audits and investigations. Every one of them says
the same thing, and then the next day life just
goes on and they keep stealing the money.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
It's you know, it's laughable simply because there is no
saying society that would tolerate what we're tolerating. This is
our money they're stealing. It's it's beyond belief. And what
I'm what amazes me is the people that want to
give more money away are the ones who get elected.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
What do you think is wrong with a majority of
the voters, Because ultimately it comes to the people listening
now and voting. And I thought LA and Southern California
was a wonderful place, you know, for first twenty plus
years I was here, and especially especially like in the
last I don't know, six seventy eight years, it's gone
(26:31):
to hell, and everybody complains about it. Everybody's unhappy that.
I know, nobody votes differently. Why look what happened.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Look what happens when we say something. I mean, I
used to get elected with eighty percent of the vote,
it's you know now it was less than fifty. Yeah,
it's there's this tendency to want to please everybody and
say whatever you need to say so that you don't
(27:01):
make any enemies. You know, we need listen. I like Trump.
I think we need more Trumps. We need people that
are not afraid to make decisions that will improve the
well being of the families that live here. It makes
them unpopular for all, even if it makes them unpopular
(27:24):
for a while. I don't know. It's very frustrating it.
You know, we had we had dropped our homicide rate
to zero the third year after I was elected. Zero,
And then they started pulling the sheriff's deputies from us
because La County can't afford to hire deputies. You know,
I'm seventy deputies down, seventy deputies down. There are times
(27:50):
they cannot call back up because there's no backup to call.
It's reached, it's reached crisis proportions. That's why we started
our own police department to help the sheriff's department. We're
going really full boar and AI and technology. Last year,
we were the only city in America of over one
(28:12):
hundred thousand people that had one hundred percent solve rate
on every homicide. Can we do it with technology? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I wish, I wish I heard of Marral Los Angeles
talk the way you do. I got a run. It
was good having you on, Rex, Come on again soon.
Thanks all right, Rex, Paris Maril Lancaster.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Six forty Moistline is Friday, eight seven seven Moist eighty six.
Eight seven seven Moist eighty six. There's plenty of issues
to be commenting on here, so you can fill up
the moistline with all your ranting and nonsense. You're used
a talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Eight seven seven
Moist eighty six. We spent some time yesterday on Karen
(28:57):
Bass's disastrous animal services department, which she was going to cut.
She was going to cut the number of animal shelters
by fifty percent from six to three. Now, Daniel Gus,
who we have on all the time, and he's got
a great substack news site, Danielgus dot substack dot com.
(29:20):
This is what he wrote today at six point thirty
five last night. Bass put on her Twitter accounts the
following there has been some confusion regarding funding for animal services.
My budget contains funding in two different areas in the
departmental budget, but another five million in the unappropriated balance.
(29:47):
Why did they have some stupid confusing terms unappropriated balance.
So this means all six shelters will be able to
stay open, blah blah blah. But what Gus writes, well,
what he wrote is confusion my ass in the past
few weeks, the city council, bass's chief of staff, her
(30:09):
top legal advisor, her deputies, her five animal service commissioners,
it's interim general manager, and hundreds of employees and their unions,
and the humane foundations and the rescue groups and the
volunteers and the deputy city attorney and the neighborhood council
budget advocates, who have all been complaining about the budget cuts.
(30:36):
He says, everyone got it wrong. No, everyone didn't get
it wrong. She cut the budget, got caught and fixed it,
and came up with some kakamami unappropriated balance provision in
the budget. You don't screw with animal people, that's right,
And so she got her head blown off here. And
(30:58):
so now she's scrambling around and saying, oh, no, no, you're
all confused. In fact, he says, many people spoke at
the start of a five hour City Council committee meeting
yesterday complaining about this publicly. So everyone, it's what he's
saying is almost everyone interested in the issue had the
(31:21):
same impression that she was cutting the budget and closing
three of the six shelters. And now it's six thirty five.
This is the condescending arrogance, you know, the dismissive Oh
oh no, no, no oh, you unwatched noisy people.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
You're all confused.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I would never do such a thing, of course she would.
She caught the fire department and then lied about it.
She cut the fire department, and then there was a
lot of blowback, and it's like, well, I guess we
have we can get one of those supplemental unappropriated balance transfers.
So yeah, I didn't cut it. Well, she's really got
(31:56):
her act down. Pat Nobody, Nobody publicly disputed that half
the shelters were going to be and cut until six
thirty five last night when Bass put it on Twitter.
Nobody and Gus also points out that ninety three percent
of the budget goes to salaries, and it steals donated
(32:18):
funds and uses them for everything for pizza parties to travel.
They abandoned animals on the street, they kill indiscriminately, they
have no thriving spay and neuter function or animal crueltine enforcement,
and the shelters are closed too often when it should
be open twenty four to seven. And the whole thing
(32:38):
needs a comprehensive restructuring and that's a point, because we're
talking about the cuts. We spend any time on just
what a huge disaster the animal shelter system in LA is.
To begin with, Will.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
We new blood there?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Oh my god, No, it needs a bulldoze and a
complete rebuild. It needs a doging, definitely, all right. When
we come back after Debor does the news, the Santa
Inez reservoir back center stage because the company then installed
or tried to fix the new cover. It's got tears
(33:15):
and holes in it, and they refilled the reservoir to
twenty five percent level. It has to be drained again.
The cover has to be fixed again. It's at of
service till at least June. Say Ed Kashani. He's an
attorney who lost his house and he's been fighting almost
all by himself LEDWP. He's on next with us and
(33:36):
Deborah Mark is live in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
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