March 3, 2026 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (03/03) - Less than 0.2% of the homes in Pacific Palisades have been rebuilt. Gov. Newsom adding $291 million dollars into the failing CARE Court. CA Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton comes on the show to talk about Gov. Newsom adding $291 million dollars into the failing CARE Court. Previewing the new David Allen Funston parole information.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
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exactly the same as the radio show. All right, today,
in about a half an hour, we're going to have
Steve Hilton coming on. Steve Hilton is not only the
leading Republican candidate for governor, he's the leading candidate overall.
On June the second, there's about I think ten recognizable
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names that will be listed. It's called a jungle primary.
This was a Schwarzenegger idea, and rather than have a
separate Republican and a separate Democrat vote, these are it's
everybody together with the top two going on to November.
And because the Democrats have so many candidates, their support
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is splintered. And right now we've got two Republicans at
the at the top and that's that Steve Hilton, who's
number one, Chad Bianco as well, and the Democratic the
head of the Democrat, the head of the state Democratic
Party is trying to get other candidates to withdraw who
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are not competitive right now, and they don't want to.
And there's a fear that the Democrats will split the
vote so many different ways. It's a fear among them
that you'll end up with two Republicans. It's the very top.
But that that's a separate story. Steve Hilton's going to
come on and we're gonna discuss, well, the care court.
You remember a few years ago, I think there's twenty
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twenty three that Gavin Newsom announced with his usual press
conference and fanfare and to bregadocio and hype that he
has a care court. And with care court, you could
bring your mental patient relative in and this care court
will force them to go into mental health treatment and
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you'll be able to lock them up and get them
off the street. And this is going to be an
answer to the worst homeless cases out there. Turned out
to be a non answer. They have already spent four
hundred and twenty four million dollars. You know how many people.
The court ordered put away forage of twenty four million
Don't Get Sick twenty two, twenty two, and now News
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has announced another two hundred and ninety one million dollars
he's going to spend. We'll get into that detail coming
up in the next segment. And also Steve Hilton will
come on to talk about that issue, because you know,
he has his own California Doze project running and he
has found a tremendous amount of fraud. And boy, oh boy,
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is the homeless industry rich in fraud. You if everybody
knew what was really going on, this would be like
the French Revolution. Really we'd have heads on sticks. But
most people just don't know or they don't want to
believe it. Now here's here's something that's tough to swallow.
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According to Newt Gingrich, of all people, he put this
former Speaker of the House, he put this online. A
report from an organization called Unleash Prosperity. Unleashed Prosperity has
analyzed the rebuilding process in the Palisades after fourteen months,
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and you know, specifically in the Palisades, there was about
sixty about sixty five hundred plus houses were destroyed and
another sixty five hundred houses destroyed in unincorporated La County,
not only in the Malibu and the surrounding county jurisdiction
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next to Palisades, but Altadena as well. And so you
have over thirteen thousand homes that have been destroyed and
less than zero point two percent have been rebuilt. Less
than zero point two percent. In other words, ninety nine
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point eight percent plus of the homes destroyed in the
fires have not been rebuilt. And Karen Bass has an
even worse record than the county. In fact, in the Palisades,
I think the number of homes rebuilt is exactly one,
because I looked at the charts myself. But Bass has
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a new public supporter, a famous supporter, who has issued
his endorsement. And you are now going to hear a
clip of a podcast hosted by Peter Hamby. It's called
good Luck America. See if you could recognize this voice.
Here's an LA question.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Our Mayor Karen Bass has some challengers for reelection. She
opposed one of your homeless disorders. She was absent during
the fires, of course, she opposed one of your housing
bills that you signed. Do you support her re election
in Los Angeles' mayor.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I do broadly.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I've known her for years. We have a great collaborative relationship.
You know, she's she's a remarkable career, She's got a
remarkable capacity to do good things, and so I believe
in her. We can get into some of the merits
to merits of where she was on some housing bills
and some homeless issues, and we'll continue to kick the
caire at tires on a daily, not just weekly basis.
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He writes to Permitting UH and fire recovery. But those
are areas where you know, we'll work those things out.
But I broadly do.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
We could we can kick the tires on a daily,
if not weekly based. She went to Africa, ninety nine
point nine percent of the homes haven't been rebuilt. Everybody
knows I broadly support her. Yeah, wait there, I guess
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there are some things we could talk. He actually thinks
she ought to be re elected, maybe because it takes
a heat off of him. The more, the more the
more incoming that she takes over this massive botch of
the fire and massive botch of the rebuild, the less
responsibility he has to face. So I guess I kind
of understand why he'd want her there. She's like a
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heat shield. You believe he endorsed her. But again, perfect
candidate for the ninety three IQ crowd, which I looked
up today. I wondered, how many people have a better
have better than an IQ of ninety three, which is
Gavin Newsom's IQ according to his SAT scores. And do
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you know how much two thirds of the public has
a higher IQ than ninety three. We actually have a
governor who scored bottom one third on an IQ test.
It's all about his looks. That's proof. It's not about
his brains. I mean, it's conclusive. He doesn't have much
going on there. And so, of course Karen Bass is
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the perfect candidate because you know, when you have ninety
three and below, you still have the right to vote.
I mean, you never lose the right to vote, no
matter how low your IQ is. And you you could
round those people up and get him and get him
to vote. Of course, Karen Bass is going to look attractive.
You think they'd understand an intelligent candidate. No, intelligent candidates
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don't do well. You have to be a stupido in
order to succeed.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
With a nice smile, with a nice mile.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yes, you have to be attractive looking. So Gavin Newsom
supports Karen Bass. Does she want his she want his endorsement.
I'm sure she would take any endorseance. When we come back,
I'm going to tell you about how much money Gavin
Newsom has blown on his care court. And this was
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the court set up to so make it easy for
you to commit your your crazy relative into mental health
treatment and get him off the streets. And now he's
going to spend even more money. After Deborah's news at
one thirty, we're going to have Steve Hilton, the leading
candidate for governor in California, expound on that issue. We'll
talk more.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
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Speaker 1 (08:50):
Coming up just after Debor's one thirty news. Steve Hilton,
the leading candidate for governor. He's a Republican, and of
course we have a jungle primary where all the Democrats
and Republicans all are together on a list June second,
and you choose top two go on to November, and
right now Steve Hilton is number one, and we'll talk
to Steve and we're going to talk to him. Specifically.
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We're going to start out at least talking specifically about
Gavin Newsom's Care Court, and he about three years ago
made a huge media splash that he was going to
get some of the most seriously mentally ill homeless people
off the street once and for all. And with the
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care Court, you or law enforcement can bring the crazy
person in off the street before the court and eventually
the judge will decide to send him for treatment indoors
locked up. That's the way it was presented to us.
And he started spending money, and over the years since
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twenty twenty two, so we're talking not even four full years,
they have spent four hundred and twenty four million dollars
four hundred twenty four million dollars. Let this sink in.
Do you know how many people were actually ordered by
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the court to go to a mental health center twenty
two twenty two for four hundred and twenty four million dollars?
And then yesterday Newsom announced that they're going to spend
another two hundred and ninety one million, four twenty four
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plus two ninety one. What does that get you? That
gets you seven hundred and fifteen million dollars, seven hundred
and fifteen million dollars spent twenty two. There were six
hundred and eighty four treatment agreements, but those are voluntary
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promises to seek care. They're not enforceable, and nobody has
any data on how many of the six hundred and
eighty four who agreed to go and get mental health
treatment ever went through the front door once, and how
many of them stayed, and how many they're shoveling out
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almost three quarters of a billion dollars on a program
that's mostly voluntary with no public follow up. And then
at a press briefing yesterday he was blaming counties like
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San Francisco and Santa Clara for screwing up the program.
In fact, he had a list of ten counties he's
putting on an improvement list. This is after four years
of blowing. See, what he's trying to do is trying
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to preempt all the criticism that he deserves and that
he's gonna get when he runs, when he continues to
run for president. Right now, he's running for president mostly
in his own head, but eventually he's going to be
touring the country actively saying I want to be president.
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Now he's you know, it's hidden behind his book tour,
and it's hidden behind these press conferences where he's trying
to look at the most incendiary issues and say, Okay,
how do I tamp this one down? Because when he
gets asked by reporters in other states who don't know
any better, he's going to say, well, you know, I
just I just had a press briefing where we talked
about how the counties are are are are misappropriating the money,
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and they've been put on notice, they put on a
list that we're not going to tolerate about. Shut up,
just shut up. Well, here's what you have to know.
Four hundred and twenty four million spent plus two hundred
and ninety one million that will be spent the number
of court ordered mental patients forced to go into treatment
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twenty two. Hold on, let me get a calculator. Here,
where's my calculator on my phone?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Here? Ah?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Here it is, okay, seven hundred and fifteen million. You
know I can't even type on a calculator. Seven hundred
and fifteen million divided by twenty two. So we are
spending thirty two and a half million dollars for every
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court ordered mental patient to go into treatment. Leave this
and he's running on this. Steve Hilton's gonna come on
next to talk about it. And after four o'clock David
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Allen Funston. He benefited from Newston signing a law which
allows serial child rapists to be set free at the
age of fifty and Funston got parole from Newsom's parole Board.
We'll give you all the details coming up.
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All right, We've got Steve Hilton. Steve Hilton is the
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leading candidate for governor in California. The primary is January second.
Actually it's not even really a primary. It's the top
two that survive will move on to November.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's what they call a jungle primary. I guess where
all the Democrats and all the Republicans are all listed together.
And right now, Steve Hilton's at the top, not just
among Republicans, but overall, he's the number one choice. And
Gavin Newsom came up with this, and you know, he
did his usual splashy press conference several years ago twenty
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twenty three for Care Court, and it was going to
use the courts to force people into mental health treatment.
And he ladled out a lot of money for all this.
And now three years later, you know how many people
actually were forced into treatment by the court. Three years
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twenty two. I mean, I can't tell you how many
millions of dollars has already been spent to get just
twenty two people off the streets and into treatment. This
was supposed to be a way to deal with the
insane people who are homeless out there. Let's get Steve
Hilton on, Steve, how are you.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I'm very well. Gavin's obviously done a really great job
just in the last hour or so, because when I
was looking into this story, I thought the number was nineteen,
So he's gone up to twenty two. What a success.
This guy's really showing us how it's done. Oh my goodness,
just an number the actual.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, yeah, I just mentioned book yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Two hundred and ninety one million dollars. Nearly three hundred
million dollars. That's the actual number.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
That's how much he's going to add to this homeless program.
Is another exactly two hundred and ninety one million dollars.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
We're looking at. We've got colds which I set up
a few weeks ago. We're already digging into the fraud
and the corruption, and we're unveiling we're revealing a whole
bunch stuff. And this is our next target, is all
of this mess of the homeless funding and the mental
health and the addict all this money that they've spent.
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Not this is on top of the twenty four billion
that is a famous number that we all know about.
This is on top of that. This is separate to that.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And after three years, it's nineteen or twenty two people
and they need more money. And I mean, they've done
lengthy articles on what's been going wrong, and it seems
like everything's gone wrong.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Exactly because yet again it's a total gimmick instead of
actually dealing with the problem, and let's wort to really
focus on There's another number that we all have to
be aware of, which is really important for people to
understand this number. I do know. This was the same
issue of getting homeless drug addaches and people with mental
health problems off the streets and into treatment, which of
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course we need to do. And that's my simple plan
for dealing with home for ending homelessness. Number One, enforce
the law. It's illegal to camp on the streets. All
these homeless encampments are illegal. They've always been illegal. We've
got to enforce the law and get people off the streets.
As governor, if local politicians won't do it, I will
use state law enforcement resources to do it. Number Two,
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you have to get people into drug and alcohol treatment.
Number three mental health treatment. That's what this is supposed
to be about. But there's another big number. In twenty
twenty four, in March of that year, he pushed his
ballot proposition. It was Proposition one. He cleared all these
other ballots off the ballot that march in order to
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get this through. He claimed it would be his flagship
legacy projects to deal with homelessness once and for all.
That was in March twenty twenty four, nearly two years ago.
That was six billion dollars with a B six billion
dollars to spend on all of this. That was nearly
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two years ago, and now he's coming back for more
money for another thing that didn't work. Why because that
original six billion dollars that actually went instead of actually building.
First of all, it cut funding that whole ballot initiative
with six billion dollars of new funding. It cut funding
from counties mental health budgets and diverted it into what
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they call permanent supportive housing, which is basically a scam
for the homeless industrial complex handouts to crony developers to
build units and build small local mental health units. There's
a very important thing everyone needs to understand. It's an
insane aspect of our system, which is that if you
want reimbursement from Medicaid for mental health treatment in California,
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and a huge part of this system is based on
that because it's low income people, and so half the
money comes from Medicaid from the federal centers for Medicare
and Medicaid to get reimbursement for mental health services. Ever
since Medicaid was set up in nineteen sixty five, there's
a rule that was put in place called the IMD rule.
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In institutions of mental disease. And this says that if
you want reinverse, if any state wants reimbursement, it can
only happen if the mental health facility has sixteen beds
or less. There's a limit of sixteen beds. And the
intent there was to stop these Well, at that time,
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people didn't want the big mental institutions that we're going
to move away from that. We need smaller local facilities.
The sixteen bed rule has been in place since nineteen
sixty five. The first try, it's insane. Obviously, how can
you possibly have efficient provision with a sixteen bed rule?
Imagine if hospitals, just general hospitals had only sixteen beds,
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how inefficient that would be. That's what we're dealing with
with mental health now. The first Trump administration created a waiver,
it's called the IMD waiver. The states can apply to
exempt themselves from this rule. Well, guess what California hasn't
done it. It's a simple why haven't they done it?
Because all of that money, the six billion and so on,
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there's a lobby for that money. All the people, the businesses,
the unions who build these small, little local mental health assils,
The sixteen beds here, sixteen beds. There is more money
for them, and so that's why California hasn't applied for
the waiver, and that's why that money is going into
this black hole and nothing ever gets better. It's a
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really important part of this whole mental health story.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
There's layers and layers and layers of corruption, and and
they've added morely. They've made this labyrinth of a system
where it's it's it's difficult to actually follow all the trails,
but it it's it's this is what corruption is about
to make it too confusing for journalists to cover, and
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the journalists are not interested in covering it at all.
I mean, this is not something you'll ever see a
television segment. Hi, this is not something you see in
the normal media outlets.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
And this is what they hide behind. And but this
is the explanation for that central question, which is how
is it possible that we spend billions and billions and
billions of dollars but the problem gets worse. This is why,
because it's all going off in this corruption and in
this dealing between and that's what we call the homeless
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industrial complex. The nonprofits that benefit from that because they
get contracts for services that never make any difference. And
the developers that get paid for building these units or
these small local mental health facilities or whatever that massively
inflated rates, union contracts, all of them, they call it
project labor agreements. So you got all these different bits
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of the system, the Democrat machine, because they're all donors
to news Them. That's the other part of the corruption,
all of this, it's donations to news them and the
other Democrat politicians, so they keep the scam going. And meanwhile,
it's our money and the problem gets worse. That's all
going to end when I'm governor because I have no
time for any of this. I'm not dependent on any
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of these people, the unions, all these all these donors.
That's that's not me, that's the Democrats, and so there's
going to be a whole new world.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Newsom has appropriated more than four hundred and twenty four
million dollars. Now add on top of that two hundred
and ninety one million, so we're talking about a total
spend of over six hundred million dollars in just four years.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
For twenty two people from twenty two big, absolute massive scandal.
Well like you and people hear these numbers and you think,
how is that possible that it's such an unbelievable scam. Well,
just look at the last Caldoze fraud report that we
put out. This is at the end of last week.
You may have not seen. It came out on Friday,
so different area, but the same scale of theft of
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our money you've had. This is. We uncovered this just
in the last few weeks. So there's a there's a
program which was taking money from the cap and trade
system in California, so that is the gas tax and
surcharges for our electric bills. That's where that's where the
money's coming from. It was a billion dollars over ten years,
one hundred million every year for ten years starting in
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twenty fifteen, and it was intended to pay for solar
panels to be put on apartment bills low income apartment buildings.
One hundred million for ten years every year, one billion total.
They just published their report. We found it in twenty
twenty four. The total amount spent on actual solar panels
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on roots seventy two million million, nine hundred and twenty
eight million siphoned off into Democrat front organizations doing political activism,
voter registration and all the usual nonsense. I mean, the
scale of this is just unbelievable. We're just scratching the surface.
That's why the beginning of the year when I said
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our estimate of the total fraud in California two hundred
and fifty billion dollars, and everyone say, well, that's a
huge number. How can it be that big. This is
how they've just been running away with this. They've been
stealing from us with total impunity for years.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
With one party rule. That's always that always is what happens.
That's human nature and uh. And they have set up
these these elaborate mechanisms. And the reason they came up
with this, all this climate change, this this this what
it's called cap and trade, the taxes, the regulations, is
to create a huge supply of money that they can
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divvy up. All the same thing with the homeless, and
they know how to emotionally. It's always emotionally manipulative issues
like climate change. We're all killing the planet, We're all
going to die. Homeless people where you're gonna let them
die in the street, how inhumane you are. It's always
the same thing, and people feel bad and people feel scared,
and they start shuttling tax money into the machine. And
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these guys are professionals. They know how to build the
infrastructure in order to spend to steal billions of dollars,
and that was the part. But they don't care about
the climate, and they don't care about almost people either.
They just want a huge amount of cash.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Exactly. That is the business model of the one party rule,
the Democrat machine, is to create these slush funds that
then they can put into building their political machine. That's
exactly the business model. And you see in every where
you look you find I mean you saw it with
fire Aid. That was one hundred million that was supposed
to go for fire victims, and we people were tracking
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that that was going to vote a registration and all
this nonsense. The same with our first fraud report the
cannabis tax, three hundred and seventy million dollars that were
supposed to be spent on substance abuse prevention actually going
to all these front organizations. I mean, that is what
they do. That is the central business model. Take something,
give it a noble sounding purpose, and siphon the money
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off into a slush fund that builds our political power.
That's actually what's been going on for all these years
with hundreds of billions of dollars of our money is
an obscene scandal, and we are going to not just
stop it, but hold these people accountable for what they've done.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
All right, Steve, I got to run. We got to
get the news in. I want you to come in
person so we can spend even longer to talk.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
All right, Yeah, we got to do that. I'm looking
forward to John.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
All Right, Steve Hilton, leading candidate running for governor as
a Republican here in California. Thanks for all your time.
We got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
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Speaker 1 (27:31):
We just had Steve Hilton on, who's the leading candidate
for California governor, And we were talking about Davin Newsom
wasting over four hundred million dollars on his care court
to put mental patience in mental health care, to be
ordered into mental health care by judge. And after four
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years and over four hundred million dollars, twenty two twenty
two crazy people were ordered by the courts indoors and
now names Newston is spending another three hundred million dollars.
Everything seems to be corrupt, the system is breaking down,
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and we're gonna next hour in just a few minutes.
I only got a minute here because we talked a
long time with Steve. I'm going to tell you the
story of how David Allen Funston actually got released by
the parole board even after getting convicted of kidnapping eight children.
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He raped most of them little children ages three to seven,
and he went before a parole board at the age
of sixty three because he was old enough to retire
as a prisoner. Yeah, they have this concept in California.
It's called elderly parole. They retire you from the prison.
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You're eligible at the age of fifty fifty. You got
to serve at least twenty years of your sins. The
thing is, he was sentenced sixty eight years to life,
and he got out after thirty I think less than that.
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He committed the crimes thirty years ago, so he's sixty three,
he's supposed to serve life, right, I mean, he kidnapped
eight kids and he raped most of them. Horrible, horrible stories.
So the other day the par board announced, yes, we're
letting him go Newsome signed this law, and it's like
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who voted for this, who voted for this? We have
three names. We have three names on the parle Board
that we know. We have our spies and investigators working.
I also have the complete transcript of the Parole Board hearing.
Now I want a little combat day, one hundred and
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thirty pages. I'm reading this morning. I'm sitting in bed
late one hundred and thirty pages in front of me,
and I'm going through this, and there is a lot
of graphic stuff in here. It was one hundred and
thirty pages of David Funston's sexual fantasies about children, which
he was admitting to and describing, and which the Parole
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Board was aware of because they were describing. And then
they came to the conclusion that he should be set free.
Now they the thing is, he's been arrested again because
there were other charges against children that he was never
prosecuted for, going back to nineteen ninety six, sexually assaulting
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a child in Roseville. So now he's back in jail
and he's up for another trial, supposedly, but he's still
has been paroled for all the other crimes. I'll tell
you how this happens when we come back. Deborah Mark
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in about a half an hour, we're going to have
Steve Hilton coming on. Steve Hilton is not only the
leading Republican candidate for governor, he's the leading candidate overall.
On June the second, there's about I think ten recognizable
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names that will be listed. It's called a jungle primary.
This was a Schwarzenegger idea, and rather than have a
separate Republican and a separate Democrat vote, these are it's
everybody together with the top two going on to November.
And because the Democrats have so many candidates, their support
(01:10):
is splintered. And right now we've got two Republicans at
the at the top and that's that Steve Hilton, who's
number one, Chad Bianco as well, and the Democratic the
head of the Democrat, the head of the state Democratic
Party is trying to get other candidates to withdraw who
(01:31):
are not competitive right now, and they don't want to.
And there's a fear that the Democrats will split the
vote so many different ways. It's a fear among them
that you'll end up with two Republicans. It's the very top.
But that that's a separate story. Steve Hilton's going to
come on and we're gonna discuss, well, the care court.
You remember a few years ago, I think there's twenty
(01:53):
twenty three that Gavin Newsom announced with his usual press
conference and fanfare and to bregadocio and hype that he
has a care court. And with care court, you could
bring your mental patient relative in and this care court
will force them to go into mental health treatment and
(02:13):
you'll be able to lock them up and get them
off the street. And this is going to be an
answer to the worst homeless cases out there. Turned out
to be a non answer. They have already spent four
hundred and twenty four million dollars. You know how many people.
The court ordered put away forage of twenty four million
Don't Get Sick twenty two, twenty two, and now News
(02:41):
has announced another two hundred and ninety one million dollars
he's going to spend. We'll get into that detail coming
up in the next segment. And also Steve Hilton will
come on to talk about that issue, because you know,
he has his own California Doze project running and he
has found a tremendous amount of fraud. And boy, oh boy,
(03:01):
is the homeless industry rich in fraud. You if everybody
knew what was really going on, this would be like
the French Revolution. Really we'd have heads on sticks. But
most people just don't know or they don't want to
believe it. Now here's here's something that's tough to swallow.
(03:29):
According to Newt Gingrich, of all people, he put this
former Speaker of the House, he put this online. A
report from an organization called Unleash Prosperity. Unleashed Prosperity has
analyzed the rebuilding process in the Palisades after fourteen months,
(03:51):
and you know, specifically in the Palisades, there was about
sixty about sixty five hundred plus houses were destroyed and
another sixty five hundred houses destroyed in unincorporated La County,
not only in the Malibu and the surrounding county jurisdiction
(04:15):
next to Palisades, but Altadena as well. And so you
have over thirteen thousand homes that have been destroyed and
less than zero point two percent have been rebuilt. Less
than zero point two percent. In other words, ninety nine
(04:36):
point eight percent plus of the homes destroyed in the
fires have not been rebuilt. And Karen Bass has an
even worse record than the county. In fact, in the Palisades,
I think the number of homes rebuilt is exactly one,
because I looked at the charts myself. But Bass has
(05:04):
a new public supporter, a famous supporter, who has issued
his endorsement. And you are now going to hear a
clip of a podcast hosted by Peter Hamby. It's called
good Luck America. See if you could recognize this voice.
Here's an LA question.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Our Mayor Karen Bass has some challengers for reelection. She
opposed one of your homeless disorders. She was absent during
the fires, of course, she opposed one of your housing
bills that you signed. Do you support her re election
in Los Angeles' mayor.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I do broadly.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I've known her for years. We have a great collaborative relationship.
You know, she's she's a remarkable career, She's got a
remarkable capacity to do good things, and so I believe
in her. We can get into some of the merits
to merits of where she was on some housing bills
and some homeless issues, and we'll continue to kick the
caire at tires on a daily, not just weekly basis.
(05:58):
He writes to Permitting UH and fire recovery. But those
are areas where you know, we'll work those things out.
But I broadly do.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
We could we can kick the tires on a daily,
if not weekly based. She went to Africa, ninety nine
point nine percent of the homes haven't been rebuilt. Everybody
knows I broadly support her. Yeah, wait there, I guess
(06:27):
there are some things we could talk. He actually thinks
she ought to be re elected, maybe because it takes
a heat off of him. The more, the more the
more incoming that she takes over this massive botch of
the fire and massive botch of the rebuild, the less
responsibility he has to face. So I guess I kind
of understand why he'd want her there. She's like a
(06:50):
heat shield. You believe he endorsed her. But again, perfect
candidate for the ninety three IQ crowd, which I looked
up today. I wondered, how many people have a better
have better than an IQ of ninety three, which is
Gavin Newsom's IQ according to his SAT scores. And do
(07:13):
you know how much two thirds of the public has
a higher IQ than ninety three. We actually have a
governor who scored bottom one third on an IQ test.
It's all about his looks. That's proof. It's not about
his brains. I mean, it's conclusive. He doesn't have much
going on there. And so, of course Karen Bass is
(07:36):
the perfect candidate because you know, when you have ninety
three and below, you still have the right to vote.
I mean, you never lose the right to vote, no
matter how low your IQ is. And you you could
round those people up and get him and get him
to vote. Of course, Karen Bass is going to look attractive.
You think they'd understand an intelligent candidate. No, intelligent candidates
(07:56):
don't do well. You have to be a stupido in
order to succeed.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
With a nice smile, with a nice mile.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yes, you have to be attractive looking. So Gavin Newsom
supports Karen Bass. Does she want his she want his endorsement.
I'm sure she would take any endorseance. When we come back,
I'm going to tell you about how much money Gavin
Newsom has blown on his care court. And this was
(08:23):
the court set up to so make it easy for
you to commit your your crazy relative into mental health
treatment and get him off the streets. And now he's
going to spend even more money. After Deborah's news at
one thirty, we're going to have Steve Hilton, the leading
candidate for governor in California, expound on that issue. We'll
talk more.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Coming up just after Debor's one thirty news. Steve Hilton,
the leading candidate for governor. He's a Republican, and of
course we have a jungle primary where all the Democrats
and Republicans all are together on a list June second,
and you choose top two go on to November, and
right now Steve Hilton is number one, and we'll talk
to Steve and we're going to talk to him. Specifically.
(09:12):
We're going to start out at least talking specifically about
Gavin Newsom's Care Court, and he about three years ago
made a huge media splash that he was going to
get some of the most seriously mentally ill homeless people
off the street once and for all. And with the
(09:33):
care Court, you or law enforcement can bring the crazy
person in off the street before the court and eventually
the judge will decide to send him for treatment indoors
locked up. That's the way it was presented to us.
And he started spending money, and over the years since
(09:55):
twenty twenty two, so we're talking not even four full years,
they have spent four hundred and twenty four million dollars
four hundred twenty four million dollars. Let this sink in.
Do you know how many people were actually ordered by
(10:15):
the court to go to a mental health center twenty
two twenty two for four hundred and twenty four million dollars?
And then yesterday Newsom announced that they're going to spend
another two hundred and ninety one million, four twenty four
(10:39):
plus two ninety one. What does that get you? That
gets you seven hundred and fifteen million dollars, seven hundred
and fifteen million dollars spent twenty two. There were six
hundred and eighty four treatment agreements, but those are voluntary
(11:05):
promises to seek care. They're not enforceable, and nobody has
any data on how many of the six hundred and
eighty four who agreed to go and get mental health
treatment ever went through the front door once, and how
many of them stayed, and how many they're shoveling out
(11:29):
almost three quarters of a billion dollars on a program
that's mostly voluntary with no public follow up. And then
at a press briefing yesterday he was blaming counties like
(11:49):
San Francisco and Santa Clara for screwing up the program.
In fact, he had a list of ten counties he's
putting on an improvement list. This is after four years
of blowing. See, what he's trying to do is trying
(12:10):
to preempt all the criticism that he deserves and that
he's gonna get when he runs, when he continues to
run for president. Right now, he's running for president mostly
in his own head, but eventually he's going to be
touring the country actively saying I want to be president.
(12:30):
Now he's you know, it's hidden behind his book tour,
and it's hidden behind these press conferences where he's trying
to look at the most incendiary issues and say, Okay,
how do I tamp this one down? Because when he
gets asked by reporters in other states who don't know
any better, he's going to say, well, you know, I
just I just had a press briefing where we talked
about how the counties are are are are misappropriating the money,
(12:54):
and they've been put on notice, they put on a
list that we're not going to tolerate about. Shut up,
just shut up. Well, here's what you have to know.
Four hundred and twenty four million spent plus two hundred
and ninety one million that will be spent the number
of court ordered mental patients forced to go into treatment
(13:16):
twenty two. Hold on, let me get a calculator. Here,
where's my calculator on my phone?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Here? Ah?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Here it is, okay, seven hundred and fifteen million. You
know I can't even type on a calculator. Seven hundred
and fifteen million divided by twenty two. So we are
spending thirty two and a half million dollars for every
(13:48):
court ordered mental patient to go into treatment. Leave this
and he's running on this. Steve Hilton's gonna come on
next to talk about it. And after four o'clock David
(14:11):
Allen Funston. He benefited from Newston signing a law which
allows serial child rapists to be set free at the
age of fifty and Funston got parole from Newsom's parole Board.
We'll give you all the details coming up.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
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All right, We've got Steve Hilton. Steve Hilton is the
(15:01):
leading candidate for governor in California. The primary is January second.
Actually it's not even really a primary. It's the top
two that survive will move on to November.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's what they call a jungle primary. I guess where
all the Democrats and all the Republicans are all listed together.
And right now, Steve Hilton's at the top, not just
among Republicans, but overall, he's the number one choice. And
Gavin Newsom came up with this, and you know, he
did his usual splashy press conference several years ago twenty
(15:34):
twenty three for Care Court, and it was going to
use the courts to force people into mental health treatment.
And he ladled out a lot of money for all this.
And now three years later, you know how many people
actually were forced into treatment by the court. Three years
(15:56):
twenty two. I mean, I can't tell you how many
millions of dollars has already been spent to get just
twenty two people off the streets and into treatment. This
was supposed to be a way to deal with the
insane people who are homeless out there. Let's get Steve
Hilton on, Steve, how are you.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I'm very well. Gavin's obviously done a really great job
just in the last hour or so, because when I
was looking into this story, I thought the number was nineteen,
So he's gone up to twenty two. What a success.
This guy's really showing us how it's done. Oh my goodness,
just an number the actual.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, yeah, I just mentioned book yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Two hundred and ninety one million dollars. Nearly three hundred
million dollars. That's the actual number.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
That's how much he's going to add to this homeless program.
Is another exactly two hundred and ninety one million dollars.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
We're looking at. We've got colds which I set up
a few weeks ago. We're already digging into the fraud
and the corruption, and we're unveiling we're revealing a whole
bunch stuff. And this is our next target, is all
of this mess of the homeless funding and the mental
health and the addict all this money that they've spent.
(17:10):
Not this is on top of the twenty four billion
that is a famous number that we all know about.
This is on top of that. This is separate to that.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And after three years, it's nineteen or twenty two people
and they need more money. And I mean, they've done
lengthy articles on what's been going wrong, and it seems
like everything's gone wrong.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Exactly because yet again it's a total gimmick instead of
actually dealing with the problem, and let's wort to really
focus on There's another number that we all have to
be aware of, which is really important for people to
understand this number. I do know. This was the same
issue of getting homeless drug addaches and people with mental
health problems off the streets and into treatment, which of
(17:51):
course we need to do. And that's my simple plan
for dealing with home for ending homelessness. Number One, enforce
the law. It's illegal to camp on the streets. All
these homeless encampments are illegal. They've always been illegal. We've
got to enforce the law and get people off the streets.
As governor, if local politicians won't do it, I will
use state law enforcement resources to do it. Number Two,
(18:11):
you have to get people into drug and alcohol treatment.
Number three mental health treatment. That's what this is supposed
to be about. But there's another big number. In twenty
twenty four, in March of that year, he pushed his
ballot proposition. It was Proposition one. He cleared all these
other ballots off the ballot that march in order to
(18:31):
get this through. He claimed it would be his flagship
legacy projects to deal with homelessness once and for all.
That was in March twenty twenty four, nearly two years ago.
That was six billion dollars with a B six billion
dollars to spend on all of this. That was nearly
(18:51):
two years ago, and now he's coming back for more
money for another thing that didn't work. Why because that
original six billion dollars that actually went instead of actually building.
First of all, it cut funding that whole ballot initiative
with six billion dollars of new funding. It cut funding
from counties mental health budgets and diverted it into what
(19:15):
they call permanent supportive housing, which is basically a scam
for the homeless industrial complex handouts to crony developers to
build units and build small local mental health units. There's
a very important thing everyone needs to understand. It's an
insane aspect of our system, which is that if you
want reimbursement from Medicaid for mental health treatment in California,
(19:38):
and a huge part of this system is based on
that because it's low income people, and so half the
money comes from Medicaid from the federal centers for Medicare
and Medicaid to get reimbursement for mental health services. Ever
since Medicaid was set up in nineteen sixty five, there's
a rule that was put in place called the IMD rule.
(19:59):
In institutions of mental disease. And this says that if
you want reinverse, if any state wants reimbursement, it can
only happen if the mental health facility has sixteen beds
or less. There's a limit of sixteen beds. And the
intent there was to stop these Well, at that time,
(20:20):
people didn't want the big mental institutions that we're going
to move away from that. We need smaller local facilities.
The sixteen bed rule has been in place since nineteen
sixty five. The first try, it's insane. Obviously, how can
you possibly have efficient provision with a sixteen bed rule?
Imagine if hospitals, just general hospitals had only sixteen beds,
(20:41):
how inefficient that would be. That's what we're dealing with
with mental health now. The first Trump administration created a waiver,
it's called the IMD waiver. The states can apply to
exempt themselves from this rule. Well, guess what California hasn't
done it. It's a simple why haven't they done it?
Because all of that money, the six billion and so on,
(21:01):
there's a lobby for that money. All the people, the businesses,
the unions who build these small, little local mental health assils,
The sixteen beds here, sixteen beds. There is more money
for them, and so that's why California hasn't applied for
the waiver, and that's why that money is going into
this black hole and nothing ever gets better. It's a
(21:21):
really important part of this whole mental health story.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
There's layers and layers and layers of corruption, and and
they've added morely. They've made this labyrinth of a system
where it's it's it's difficult to actually follow all the trails,
but it it's it's this is what corruption is about
to make it too confusing for journalists to cover, and
(21:44):
the journalists are not interested in covering it at all.
I mean, this is not something you'll ever see a
television segment. Hi, this is not something you see in
the normal media outlets.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
And this is what they hide behind. And but this
is the explanation for that central question, which is how
is it possible that we spend billions and billions and
billions of dollars but the problem gets worse. This is why,
because it's all going off in this corruption and in
this dealing between and that's what we call the homeless
(22:18):
industrial complex. The nonprofits that benefit from that because they
get contracts for services that never make any difference. And
the developers that get paid for building these units or
these small local mental health facilities or whatever that massively
inflated rates, union contracts, all of them, they call it
project labor agreements. So you got all these different bits
(22:41):
of the system, the Democrat machine, because they're all donors
to news Them. That's the other part of the corruption,
all of this, it's donations to news them and the
other Democrat politicians, so they keep the scam going. And meanwhile,
it's our money and the problem gets worse. That's all
going to end when I'm governor because I have no
time for any of this. I'm not dependent on any
(23:02):
of these people, the unions, all these all these donors.
That's that's not me, that's the Democrats, and so there's
going to be a whole new world.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Newsom has appropriated more than four hundred and twenty four
million dollars. Now add on top of that two hundred
and ninety one million, so we're talking about a total
spend of over six hundred million dollars in just four years.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
For twenty two people from twenty two big, absolute massive scandal.
Well like you and people hear these numbers and you think,
how is that possible that it's such an unbelievable scam. Well,
just look at the last Caldoze fraud report that we
put out. This is at the end of last week.
You may have not seen. It came out on Friday,
so different area, but the same scale of theft of
(23:48):
our money you've had. This is. We uncovered this just
in the last few weeks. So there's a there's a
program which was taking money from the cap and trade
system in California, so that is the gas tax and
surcharges for our electric bills. That's where that's where the
money's coming from. It was a billion dollars over ten years,
one hundred million every year for ten years starting in
(24:10):
twenty fifteen, and it was intended to pay for solar
panels to be put on apartment bills low income apartment buildings.
One hundred million for ten years every year, one billion total.
They just published their report. We found it in twenty
twenty four. The total amount spent on actual solar panels
(24:33):
on roots seventy two million million, nine hundred and twenty
eight million siphoned off into Democrat front organizations doing political activism,
voter registration and all the usual nonsense. I mean, the
scale of this is just unbelievable. We're just scratching the surface.
That's why the beginning of the year when I said
(24:54):
our estimate of the total fraud in California two hundred
and fifty billion dollars, and everyone say, well, that's a
huge number. How can it be that big. This is
how they've just been running away with this. They've been
stealing from us with total impunity for years.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
With one party rule. That's always that always is what happens.
That's human nature and uh. And they have set up
these these elaborate mechanisms. And the reason they came up
with this, all this climate change, this this this what
it's called cap and trade, the taxes, the regulations, is
to create a huge supply of money that they can
(25:32):
divvy up. All the same thing with the homeless, and
they know how to emotionally. It's always emotionally manipulative issues
like climate change. We're all killing the planet, We're all
going to die. Homeless people where you're gonna let them
die in the street, how inhumane you are. It's always
the same thing, and people feel bad and people feel scared,
and they start shuttling tax money into the machine. And
(25:53):
these guys are professionals. They know how to build the
infrastructure in order to spend to steal billions of dollars,
and that was the part. But they don't care about
the climate, and they don't care about almost people either.
They just want a huge amount of cash.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Exactly. That is the business model of the one party rule,
the Democrat machine, is to create these slush funds that
then they can put into building their political machine. That's
exactly the business model. And you see in every where
you look you find I mean you saw it with
fire Aid. That was one hundred million that was supposed
to go for fire victims, and we people were tracking
(26:28):
that that was going to vote a registration and all
this nonsense. The same with our first fraud report the
cannabis tax, three hundred and seventy million dollars that were
supposed to be spent on substance abuse prevention actually going
to all these front organizations. I mean, that is what
they do. That is the central business model. Take something,
give it a noble sounding purpose, and siphon the money
(26:51):
off into a slush fund that builds our political power.
That's actually what's been going on for all these years
with hundreds of billions of dollars of our money is
an obscene scandal, and we are going to not just
stop it, but hold these people accountable for what they've done.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
All right, Steve, I got to run. We got to
get the news in. I want you to come in
person so we can spend even longer to talk.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
All right, Yeah, we got to do that. I'm looking
forward to John.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
All Right, Steve Hilton, leading candidate running for governor as
a Republican here in California. Thanks for all your time.
We got more coming up.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
We just had Steve Hilton on, who's the leading candidate
for California governor, And we were talking about Davin Newsom
wasting over four hundred million dollars on his care court
to put mental patience in mental health care, to be
ordered into mental health care by judge. And after four
(27:52):
years and over four hundred million dollars, twenty two twenty
two crazy people were ordered by the courts indoors and
now names Newston is spending another three hundred million dollars.
Everything seems to be corrupt, the system is breaking down,
(28:14):
and we're gonna next hour in just a few minutes.
I only got a minute here because we talked a
long time with Steve. I'm going to tell you the
story of how David Allen Funston actually got released by
the parole board even after getting convicted of kidnapping eight children.
(28:37):
He raped most of them little children ages three to seven,
and he went before a parole board at the age
of sixty three because he was old enough to retire
as a prisoner. Yeah, they have this concept in California.
It's called elderly parole. They retire you from the prison.
(28:58):
You're eligible at the age of fifty fifty. You got
to serve at least twenty years of your sins. The
thing is, he was sentenced sixty eight years to life,
and he got out after thirty I think less than that.
(29:21):
He committed the crimes thirty years ago, so he's sixty three,
he's supposed to serve life, right, I mean, he kidnapped
eight kids and he raped most of them. Horrible, horrible stories.
So the other day the par board announced, yes, we're
letting him go Newsome signed this law, and it's like
(29:42):
who voted for this, who voted for this? We have
three names. We have three names on the parle Board
that we know. We have our spies and investigators working.
I also have the complete transcript of the Parole Board hearing.
Now I want a little combat day, one hundred and
(30:05):
thirty pages. I'm reading this morning. I'm sitting in bed
late one hundred and thirty pages in front of me,
and I'm going through this, and there is a lot
of graphic stuff in here. It was one hundred and
thirty pages of David Funston's sexual fantasies about children, which
he was admitting to and describing, and which the Parole
(30:27):
Board was aware of because they were describing. And then
they came to the conclusion that he should be set free.
Now they the thing is, he's been arrested again because
there were other charges against children that he was never
prosecuted for, going back to nineteen ninety six, sexually assaulting
(30:51):
a child in Roseville. So now he's back in jail
and he's up for another trial, supposedly, but he's still
has been paroled for all the other crimes. I'll tell
you how this happens when we come back. Deborah Mark
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