August 13, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (08/13) - Susan Shelley comes on the show to talk about why Gov. Newsom's redistricting plan could backfire. More on Gov. Newsom's plan for redistricting CA. LA has been ordered to pay over $3 million dollars to a man who tripped over a busted sidewalk in Woodland Hills. Bryan Kohberger is being tortured by other inmates through the air vents.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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o'clock same as the radio show. You've probably heard about
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Gavin Newsom trying to look like the big tough man
to lead the Democratic Party, and so he's going to
engineer a redistricting scheme or scam. Right now, out of
the fifty two con Congress people coming from California, forty
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three out of the fifty two are Democrats, only nine
are Republicans. So it's.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Forty three.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's forty two to nine. No, make that forty three
to nine. I had it right the first time, and
Gavin Newsom would like to make it forty nine to
three by redrawing the lines. Now to do that, because
it's usually only redrun every ten years after a census,
and in California it's supposed to be done by an
independent commission, say he wants to do it in the
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middle of the census cycle, and he doesn't want the
Commission to do it. He wants to set up his
own thing. Now, he needs the constitutional Amendment to pass,
so he's trying to strut around, beating his chest, scream
about Trump, get people riled up, because he needs their
votes to put this Well, he needs the legislature votes,
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I guess to put it on the ballot. Then he
needs the public's votes to get it passed. Let's get
Susan Shelley on from Well. She works with Howard Jarvis
Taxpayers Association. Also writes great columns for the LA Daily.
Who's an Orange County Register and all the other suburban
papers and the New York Post all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Susan, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm good. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, I mean, this is really a racket here. Forty
three to nine enough, he needs forty nine to three.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
He wants that.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He wants almost only Democrats representing California and Congress.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Well, he thinks he's fighting against Trump, but he's actually
in a war with the voters of California because the
voters use the initiative process to take this power to
draw these maps away from the Sacramento politicians. They did
this in two thousand and eight, and they did it
very narrowly and just for the state races, for a
citizen's redistricting committee. It just barely passed. But then two
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years later, somebody put on the ballot, well, would you
like to repeal it? And the voters said, no, no, no,
we like it. By fifty nine percent, they voted down
the idea of repealing it to keep it. And on
that same ballot, sixty one percent of voters said, not
only do we like it, we want to extend it
to congressional races. So that was twenty ten, and here's
Governor Newsom saying, well, the voters don't know what they want.
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We know what they want. We want to fight Trump.
And he thinks that he's going to ride this, I
guess to the nomination in twenty twenty eight. But I
think it's going to backfire on him. Why do you
think that, Well, because the voters.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
For all that they're so blue in California, for all
of that.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Everybody thinks, oh, we only do whatever the Democrats tell
us to do. If you look at a number of
different initiatives the voters have said we can't stand you guys,
and they've said it a number of times, not only
with the citizen redistricting, but the top two primary. They
threw out. The idea of party primaries is that, thank
you very much, we will pick the candidates with this
top two system, where the people who get the most votes,
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everybody's on the same ballot in the primary, and whoever
gets the most votes the top two go to the
general election. That was a direct hit on the power
structure in the political parties. And then there was another one.
There was the term limits thing in twenty twelve, where
there was already a fourteen year term limit, and the
voters said, we're throwing you out two years sooner. They
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made it twelve years. So a number of times the
voters of California have said, we don't care what you think.
And then just last year, Governor Nusa was against Props
thirty six, this tougher on crime initiative. Sixty eight percent
of the voters said yes anyway, and everybody in Sacramento was, well,
we have to make it easier to pass bonds, borrow money,
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raise property taxes.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
That went down to defeat by ten points.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So here he is asking the voters in a special
election on November fourth.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Of this year, He's going to ask.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Them to amend the constitution to give this map drawing
power back to the Sacramento politicians to draw maps in
a back room to benefit the leftist Democrats in Sacramento
who are way left where even the Democrats are in
this stay the voters, and he wants it to do
that to give more power to leftist politicians in Washington
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to do what open the border again, get men and
women's sports. He thinks that this is going to sell.
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And he's already got a forty three to nine advantage.
Publicans vote for well, Californians vote for Republican candidates for
Congress at over a forty percent rate, and this would
give them about the six percent of congressional representation from California.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So's it's wildly and wildly at a sink.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And then it claims that Trump is anti democratic.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, he can say it, maybe he can sell it.
I don't think he can sell it. Trump got people
don't realize Trump got six million votes in California. You
would think to listen to the governor talk that everyone
was against Donald Trump, but he got six million votes.
That's a lot of people, and they are the people
more likely to turn out in a special election because
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conservatives tend to do that. They're more civically oriented, and
they turn out in the off year elections at a
higher rate than the liberals do. It's just history in California.
So if that's the case, you've got thirty eight percent
of the voters in California who voted for Donald Trump
into twenty twenty four, six million people, and then Governor
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Newsom is going to have to try to turn out
his liberal voters.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
That's going to be very expensive, and it's going.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
To take money away from all the fundraising they're doing
for their twenty twenty four races because it's expensive to
go to go knocking on doors and buying advertising and
all the rest of it. That takes money away from
everything else that they're doing. I think he got into
this without really thinking it through, and the consequences are
going to be pretty bad for him.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And they only have about five days in the legislature
next week to get everything done, to have it written
voted on, you know, the whole process.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
That's right, because the ballots would go out October fourth,
So they got to they have to get moving to
make that November fourth date.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
There's just something gross about this that he's unilatterally deciding
to ignore the the rhythm of the census, to ignore
all those propositions that were past, not that long ago,
We're only talking fifteen years ago, and you go ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
There's going to be a lot of opposition. Charles Munger Junior,
who paid twelve million dollars of his own money to
get that congressional redistricting measure passed in twenty ten, has
already said that he's going to fund a campaign against
what the governor's doing now. And candidate for governor Steve Hilton, who's.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Well known from Fox News, he is going to file
a lawsuit to stop it.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He says he can file a lawsuit in federal court
on equal protection grounds. And then you have Governor Schwarzenegger,
who reportedly is coming back to champion citizen redistricting again
because that was his issue in twenty ten. So this
is not going to happen without a fight, and I
think the governor loses.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Did he just want the publicity to look like he's
the fighting leader of the Democratic Party, and he doesn't
care if he wins or loses.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
This is just showmanship on his part.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, I think that was the plan originally, but maybe
it didn't go as he thought because he's written a
letter to President Trump saying please call off the Republican
redistricting in Texas. He didn't say please, he said, if
you call off the Republican redistricting in Texas, we'll call
off what we're doing in California. But otherwise we're gonna fight.
This is this is silly. For one thing, Texas is
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doing this because they got a letter from the Justice
Department from Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dylon,
who is from California. They got a Texas got a
letter saying your districts are in violation of the Voting
Rights Acting. You have to redistrict, and that's why they're
doing it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Very good, Susan, Thank thank you very much. I always
enjoy having you come on the show. Excellent column this week,
and we'll we'll see if it blows up on Newsom,
and if.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It does, I'm really going to enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
He's got all the self control of like a teenage boy.
Really's Scott.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah right, Susan, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Susan Shelley, Columnists, Southern California News Group, Post, Howard Jarvis,
Texpayers Association.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That reminds me.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Later this hour, I got to tell you the story
how the inmates in that maximum security prison in Idaho
are torturing Brian Coberger through the air vents. I even
the the violet felons in this Idaho prison hate Brian
Coberger and he's he's he's obviously psychotic, and he has
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these obsessive compulsive disorders and other psychological issues, and they're
making him literally go insane because well, I'll explain it
to you coming up after probably after two fifty here.
First thing though, just to follow up, we just had
Susan Shelley on the Communist from New York Post, Ellie
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Daily News, Orange County Register. She wrote a piece on
how this whole thing may blow up in Gavin Newsom's face,
the idea that he's going to rig the systems so
that there's almost only Democrats representing California and Congress. Because
again forty three to nine is not enough. He wants
it forty nine to three and this, and he's got
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all kinds of obstacles here because there's constitutional amendments and
weren't passed that we're passed not long ago. It's supposed
to be an outside an outside commission for exactly this reason. Okay, look,
we had an outside commission and it still ended up
being lopsided in the Democrats favor forty three to nine.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
He wants to make it.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Forty nine to three and just scrap everything that was
agreed on. I mean, the last time there was a
vote on this, it was over sixty percent. Not that
he cares because sixty eight percent voted for Prop. Thirty
six and he won't fund it. You know, the big
majorities had voted for the death penalty and he won't
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do that either. And of course I'll tell you Trump
is the dick dam But there is a one guy,
Carl Demyo, who fights the most fiercely for the Republicans.
He's the assemblyman from San Diego. He's always on with us,
and he went to the Legislative Council Karen Jenkins to
get an official state legal opinion, and what Newsom is doing.
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Let's have CACRA Channel three and Sacramento.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Ashley Savala explained California's Office of Legislative Council says that
it provides nonpartisan legal services when it comes to the
processes of the state capitol, the activity of the governor
and state lawmakers. Republican Assemblyman Karl Demayo is asking the
office to provide a public legal opinion on the Democratic
led redistricting push in California. Demayo, in a letter to
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the Office of Legislative Council, pointed to several sections of
the California Constitution and state law that prohibit California lawmakers
from taking the steps there preparing to take next week.
That's finalizing the cong resstional maps, drawing them themselves, voting
on it, and putting it on the ballot. Politicians in
California are not allowed to draw these maps. An independent
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redistrict and commission has had this responsibility for the last
two decades. This all comes as Democrats in California push
ahead with an effort to redraw congressional maps to try
to remove five Republicans from California's representation in the US
House of Representatives. But we should note Legislative Council is
appointed by Democrats. Here's what Demayo had to say about
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that this is.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
A corrupt system. But I always believe you give the
corrupt system the chance to do it right first time,
and when they don't, you expose their corruption and you
hold them accountable. And I think voters will hold these
people accountable by rejecting this at the ballot box, and ultimately,
if necessary, I believe the federal courts will hold them
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accountable for the absolutely illegal process that they're using here.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
In a statement, Legislative Council Kara Jenkins told me she
cannot comment on any request for legal services from a lawmaker,
pointing to confidentiality related laws. She also said her office
is not authorized to provide interpretations of the law to
the public.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
So are there any interests in the past where this
office has been involved like this.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
Yeah, Gulston.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
I mean, technically we could look at all the activity
at the state capitol and say, so we know. The
Office of Legislative Council was part of the Democratic led
effort to have broad non disclosure agreements that continue to
keep details secret on how exactly taxpayer funds are being
used on the California Capital Annex project. We also know
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from our own observations and our own reporting over the
last year that the office has stood by as lawmakers
in the state Senate have violated legislative open meetings laws
in the Senate Rules Committee, and as the Assembly Rules
Committee has violated legislative open records laws.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
All right, at least he's going to war and proud
the buyer's right. The whole system is corrupt, the watchdogs
are corrupt. It's nearly one hundred percent Democrat run, and
it's it's not enough.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We don't have a two party system.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Other countries have several parties, they have four or five
six parties that are active and viable. Some countries have
dozens of parties. Here in California, it's one, and it's
run by the far left, extreme that most of the
general public doesn't agree with. Prop thirty six was a
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great example. Sixty eight percent said, no, we're going to
make We're gonna make shoplifting illegal again. Theft is going
to be illegal again, public drug use illegal again. Fentadelt
dealing illegal.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Sixty eight thirty two.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That one, and Newsom tried every underhanded trick, every bit
of black magic. He was capable of to derail it,
to stop it, he couldn't. But now he's not funding it.
And this is the guy in charge. Sixty eight point
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thirty two. Would just want money to get the drug
addicts off the streets, to get the thieves off the streets,
to get the fentanyl dealers. That's what we want the
money for. To treat them, to treat their drug problems,
to treat mental health.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
He won't do.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It because there's those three groups. They're the Holy Trinity.
They're sacred to progressives, including Newsom, and the three groups
are the legal aliens, the criminals, and the homeless. So
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anything that infringes on any member of those three groups,
all the stop signs come out.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
No, No, can't do that. We won't do that. We
just won't fund it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Most of the public is against it, and most of
the public keeps voting for these people. Are we come back.
We told you that city of Los Angeles, which could
not possibly be managed worse by Karen Bass. Massive amount
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of overspending. They're broke, and one of the big drivers
is lawsuit settlements. It's gone up from thirty five million
twenty years ago to two hundred and eighty six million.
This year, two hundred and eighty six million dollars we
pay out to people that sued the city, and there's
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a big chunk of that it's giving out to people
who trip over sidewalks. We're gonna tell you a story
about a guy who won three million dollars from the
City of Los Angeles tripping over a sidewalk because the
sidewalk was busted up, but also he was stared at
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his stupid phone.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
We'll explain all that.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
We got a report from Channel seven to enhance the
whole story. We'll get to that in minutes.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand that's on the
iHeart app and it's same as the radio show. You
can hear what you missed so yesterday. We've been talking
to us periodically for months. The city of la is
badly mismanaged because we have an idiot as mayor, and
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we have majority idiots on the city council, super majority,
and they can't they can't do math, and they don't
want to do math properly, and so the city's busted.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's broke.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And there are certain services that are necessary, such as
paved roads and paid sidewalks. Right need that to walk on,
to drive on. They won't do it. Roads in my
neighborhood are a disaster. They're the quality of what you
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would find in Syria or Iran after a bombing raid.
It's really it's really shocking how bad the roads are.
And you know, I live in a good neighborhood. Nobody cares.
This also leads to a lot of lawsuits, you know,
lots of broken street pavement, lots of broken sidewalks, and
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all the dufices who don't look where they're walking anymore.
Happened in this case, we'll see what it is. They
end up tripping and falling and they sue and the
city twenty years ago would pay thirty five million dollars
in lawsuits in a year. Now it's paying two hundred
and eighty six million this year, two hundred eighty six million.
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Part of the reason why la is broke and you've
got a idiot city city attorney Heidi Soto Feldstein. Yeah,
I think that's her name, and they're just settling left
and right for gargantuan amounts of money because it's not
their money.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
They don't care. That's the whole bottom mind all this.
They don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Well, listen to this story from KBC Channel seven. This
is Kevin o Zebek Cut number six. Some guy here
tripped on a sidewalk in Woodland Hills and he's getting
a three million dollar reward.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Last week, as we told you about an eighty five
year old woman's fight to fix the sidewalk right in
front of her home, we've reported on this number as well.
In roughly the past five years, the city has paid
out more than eighty six million dollars all because of
lawsuits for relating two broken and uneven sidewalks. Well, now
you can take that number and tack on another three million,
all because of one lawsuit connected to one sidewalk. And
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now the LA Controller has launched an audit to see
if the city is doing all in its power to
make repairs and reduce its risk of lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Was the city in Los Angeles's property and cap his
condition at the time.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Of the incidents?
Speaker 9 (20:26):
With those words payment Harabi just became three million dollars richer.
But these don't appear to be tears of joy. Paymon
tells us his left arm isn't fully functional all because
of this severely uneven La City sidewalk.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Right now, pain is a lot right now, I can't
use it.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
My shoulder all the way back in December of twenty nineteen,
Paymont says he was walking down Ventura Boulevard in Woodland
Hills and as he checked a text on his phone,
he tripped on this seven inch uplift to the sidewalk.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
I didn't see that.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Ultimately, you get to decide.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
In the courtroom. His attorneys successfully argued that city employees
saw the sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Look like this but didn't repair it, and.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That should be fixed in a reasonable manner.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
If that happened in this case, miss a Rove would
still be able to do what he loves and not
be in constant pain every day.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Three surgeries in years a physical therapy later, Paymon says
he still cannot return to making a living as a
wedding photographer. As a result, the jury awarded Peymon just
over three million dollars as for the sidewalk. It's still
has not been fixed.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
It's now been about four and a half years since
Peymon has.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Fallen in this spot. And just look at the state
of the sidewalk today.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
I mean, right here, there is this huge chunk of
sidewalk that is just sitting here loose.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
It is a very big deal because number one, people
get hurt, injured, or even killed at the hands of
the city.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Controller. Kenneth Mahea has been sounding the alarm about the
huge amount of tax dollars Los Angeles now spends on
liability lawsuits. In the fiscal year that just recently wrapped,
it's estimated the city spent a record two hundred and
eighty six million in liability payouts. For some context, here,
twenty years ago, the city paid out just thirty five million.
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Mahia's office has launched an audit to see if the
city is most effectively reducing its risk of lawsuits.
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Do you think these liability payouts are skyrocketing because people
are just more litigious and they're suing more? Or is
it because the city is not taking care of its infrastructure.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
And that's why we are trying to do this audit
to figure that out. But what we do know is
that these liabilities we're seeing, they're increasing every year.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Not surprising considering even in man saying he fell and
fractured his shoulder here, not to mention a three million
dollars payout. Still has it led the city to level
out this sidewalk.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
I don't understand why they don't want to feace it.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I don't get it.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
So the city did start its new fiscal year on
July first, and the Controller's office as in just that
first month of this new fiscal year, more than nine
million of your tax dollars went to liability claims.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Now, Mihia says, this is.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Less than the first month of the previous fiscal year.
So we will see as the year goes on if
this city has finally been able to reverse what has
been a really expensive trend.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
David and Givonni.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, we've seen so many places where sidewalks are just
a mess, But in this one in particular, are they
going to ever fix that one?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
In Woodland Hills and we could have it again? So
we've been asking, David, and we do not know.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
We've been repeatedly asking the city's Bureau of Engineering.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
That question, and we've not gotten response.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
We also do want to let you know we've been
repeatedly asking the city's law office if they're going to
try to appeal that three million dollar decision.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Crickets from them as well.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Euro of Engineering can't fix the sidewalk, even after it
costs to the city. Excuse me, us taxpayers three million dollars?
Who runs that? I'm gonna go look it up during
the commercial break, Bureau of Engineering.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Why is this so hard to fix a sidewalk?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You just dig it up and flatten it out, smooth
it out, put in a new concrete slab.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Why is this difficult? What do they do all day?
Is it porn? Is it strippers? Is it booze? What
is it?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Three million dollars? Three million dollars? And they were warned repeatedly,
and now they just don't answer the phone. They just
don't return questions. But I must say, and maybe this
is gonna make me sound like a jerk. The guy
who tripped and got the three million now his his
arm is still screwed up and he can't do his
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job being a photographer. His name is Paymon Haravi, although
if you take away the accent, it's paymn Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
He tripped because he was he was reading a text.
He checked a text on his phone.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
So we couldn't see that the sidewalk was thrust up
in front of him. That often happens when the sidewalks
are near tree roots. So instead of you know what
we learned as kids, look where you're going. See, we
have eyes, and when we walk, we're supposed to look down,
look ahead, look down, look ahead, so you don't walk
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in front of.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
A bus, and so you don't trip over a broken sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And then came this miraculous invention, the stupid cell phone,
and people read their idiotic messages. I mean, ninety nine
percent of messages are are are beyond worthless, it's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So this guy Paymon.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Decides in instead of looking where he's going, which even
a three year old figures out. I mean, I go
to a park frequently to work out with my friend.
I look at little kids all the time. Most none
of them are on phones. All of them are looking
where they're going. I never see any little kid fall.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
You know who falls? Grown adults who can't stop staring
at their stupid screen. Oh, I got a test message?
Do you hear that? Dang? I got text? Message.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And then and then the guy walks into traffic, it's
run over by a bus, walks into a tree in
this case, trips over the sidewalk. Why does he get
three million because he didn't do the basic thing that
a three year old learns. It's like basic survival. Look
where you're going or you might trip. Didn't you have
your mother ever yell at you to do look where
you're going. You didn't do that, you'd end up tumbling
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down the stairs. I mean, three million dollars for a
guy who had to read a text instead of looking down.
Because you could see a bump like that or a
raised sidewalk like that from you know, a decent distance.
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If you have your eyes open, there's enough warning. Why
does he get three million for that? I mean, I
feel sorry for the guy, but sometimes you got to
blame yourself. Why do I have to pay for it?
I have to pay for it because he can't stop
reading his texts and somebody at the Bureau of Engineering
is too stupid or lazy to get up in the
morning and fix the sidewalk. So it's three million dollars
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awarded and we all have to pay.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Why I'm not working for this all right, More coming up.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
John Cobelt Show, can't find Am six forty more stimulating
talk radio coming up after three o'clock, just two minutes
after Brigina's news, Crys Lagras is coming on the journalist
And you know what the government originally tried to do
the state and the city. They wanted to buy up
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lots in the Palisades and Alta Dina and start building
low income housing apartments on what was single family zoned land.
And there was such a blowback that Knews issued in
executive order which would stopped that nonsense. Well, now there
is a coalition of low income housing groups and attorneys parasites,
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and these are these arrogant bastards who think that people
have no right to live in single family neighborhoods, that
everybody has to accept low income housing and all it
brings with it. And we're going to talk to Chris
Leagras because these low income housing advocates, right, these are troublemakers.
Want to sue. They want to sue so they could
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put their disgusting hellholes in the Palisades in Altadena, right,
speaking of a disgusting hell hole, how about how about
this Idaho prison, the Idaho Maximum Security Prison in Kuna,
And that's where Brian Coberger is going to rot for
the rest of his life. And he's in solitary confinement.
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He did not get the death penalty, and you wanted
to suffer as much as he can, like the next
best thing to the death penalty. He's the guy who
killed four Idaho students, has stabbed him to death, really grazzily,
really disgusting. So the inmates and by the way, he's
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with guys. There's only thirty two other prisoners, so he's
with Coberger's with guys who are as bad as he is. Okay,
so it's it's thirty three of the worst, most violent
mental patients and all of them should be killed, but
they're not, and they want to gang up to harass him.
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I think it's the word that's been used in this story.
They knew he was coming, and according to a homicide
detective Chris McDonough, the inmates were waiting for him and
when he got there, they're making his life absolutely miserable.
And the guards weren't aware of it until it started happening.
They have a relentless taunting campaign against Coburger. They take
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turns yelling through the vents into his cell around the block.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Oh that's not what I thought it was going to be.
What'd you want it to be? I thought they were
going to torture him with like meat smells through the
air vents because he's vegan. I thought that's why you
picked the story.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Now they're using the vent system, they're kicking the doors,
they're taunting him, and they're torturing him psychologically. And he's
complaining because he says he can't sleep at night. They
do all this yelling and banging all night long.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
You think his victims could sleep at night.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Uh no, they can't, and neither in the families, and
neither kin the friends. But he's whining because you know
he was He was a a prissy boy, you know.
He he was just a geeky student guy. And he
can't withstand the brutality of real psychotics. Well he's a
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real psychotic, but he's just kind of a weak, flimsy
version of that species. I mean, a PhD student. So
he's very annoyed and very frustrating. He's complaining all the time,
but the inmates have harassed him to the point, according
to Madonna, where he's just losing his mind and the
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most the guards can do is write it down. They
tell him there's nothing we can do. You're not in
physical harm. And he only gets one one shower every
other day, and he has this obsessive compulsive disorder, so
he's kind of I guess he's like a compulsively clean
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And now he's laying there in his own oil and
dirt and stink. He's kept in his cell for twenty
three hours a day. He only gets to go out
one hour a day for outdoor recreation, and he's in restraints.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
And you know he played he.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Pled guilty last month and the police said said no
death penalty. But every night they're banging and howling and
driving them nuts when we come back. Chris Lagras, he's
a local journalist and he's got a story on how
these low income housing advocates are thinking about suing to
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block Governor Knewsom's executive order, which said that we're not
going to do any low income housing in the burned
out neighborhoods of Alta, Dina and Palisades. And we have
Brigitta de Castina alive in the case twenty four hour News. 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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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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We're on every day between one and four o'clock. You
can listen on KFI. You can listen to the streaming.
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John Cobelt's show on demand, which gets posted after four
o'clock same as the radio show. You've probably heard about
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Gavin Newsom trying to look like the big tough man
to lead the Democratic Party, and so he's going to
engineer a redistricting scheme or scam. Right now, out of
the fifty two con Congress people coming from California, forty
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three out of the fifty two are Democrats, only nine
are Republicans. So it's.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Forty three.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's forty two to nine. No, make that forty three
to nine. I had it right the first time, and
Gavin Newsom would like to make it forty nine to
three by redrawing the lines. Now to do that, because
it's usually only redrun every ten years after a census,
and in California it's supposed to be done by an
independent commission, say he wants to do it in the
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middle of the census cycle, and he doesn't want the
Commission to do it. He wants to set up his
own thing. Now, he needs the constitutional Amendment to pass,
so he's trying to strut around, beating his chest, scream
about Trump, get people riled up, because he needs their
votes to put this Well, he needs the legislature votes,
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I guess to put it on the ballot. Then he
needs the public's votes to get it passed. Let's get
Susan Shelley on from Well. She works with Howard Jarvis
Taxpayers Association. Also writes great columns for the LA Daily.
Who's an Orange County Register and all the other suburban
papers and the New York Post all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Susan, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'm good. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, I mean, this is really a racket here. Forty
three to nine enough, he needs forty nine to three.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
He wants that.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He wants almost only Democrats representing California and Congress.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Well, he thinks he's fighting against Trump, but he's actually
in a war with the voters of California because the
voters use the initiative process to take this power to
draw these maps away from the Sacramento politicians. They did
this in two thousand and eight, and they did it
very narrowly and just for the state races, for a
citizen's redistricting committee. It just barely passed. But then two
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years later, somebody put on the ballot, well, would you
like to repeal it? And the voters said, no, no, no,
we like it. By fifty nine percent, they voted down
the idea of repealing it to keep it. And on
that same ballot, sixty one percent of voters said, not
only do we like it, we want to extend it
to congressional races. So that was twenty ten, and here's
Governor Newsom saying, well, the voters don't know what they want.
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We know what they want. We want to fight Trump.
And he thinks that he's going to ride this, I
guess to the nomination in twenty twenty eight. But I
think it's going to backfire on him. Why do you
think that, Well, because the voters.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
For all that they're so blue in California, for all
of that.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Everybody thinks, oh, we only do whatever the Democrats tell
us to do. If you look at a number of
different initiatives the voters have said we can't stand you guys,
and they've said it a number of times, not only
with the citizen redistricting, but the top two primary. They
threw out. The idea of party primaries is that, thank
you very much, we will pick the candidates with this
top two system, where the people who get the most votes,
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everybody's on the same ballot in the primary, and whoever
gets the most votes the top two go to the
general election. That was a direct hit on the power
structure in the political parties. And then there was another one.
There was the term limits thing in twenty twelve, where
there was already a fourteen year term limit, and the
voters said, we're throwing you out two years sooner. They
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made it twelve years. So a number of times the
voters of California have said, we don't care what you think.
And then just last year, Governor Nusa was against Props
thirty six, this tougher on crime initiative. Sixty eight percent
of the voters said yes anyway, and everybody in Sacramento was, well,
we have to make it easier to pass bonds, borrow money,
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raise property taxes.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
That went down to defeat by ten points.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So here he is asking the voters in a special
election on November fourth.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Of this year, He's going to ask.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Them to amend the constitution to give this map drawing
power back to the Sacramento politicians to draw maps in
a back room to benefit the leftist Democrats in Sacramento
who are way left where even the Democrats are in
this stay the voters, and he wants it to do
that to give more power to leftist politicians in Washington
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to do what open the border again, get men and
women's sports. He thinks that this is going to sell.
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And he's already got a forty three to nine advantage.
Publicans vote for well, Californians vote for Republican candidates for
Congress at over a forty percent rate, and this would
give them about the six percent of congressional representation from California.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So's it's wildly and wildly at a sink.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And then it claims that Trump is anti democratic.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, he can say it, maybe he can sell it.
I don't think he can sell it. Trump got people
don't realize Trump got six million votes in California. You
would think to listen to the governor talk that everyone
was against Donald Trump, but he got six million votes.
That's a lot of people, and they are the people
more likely to turn out in a special election because
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conservatives tend to do that. They're more civically oriented, and
they turn out in the off year elections at a
higher rate than the liberals do. It's just history in California.
So if that's the case, you've got thirty eight percent
of the voters in California who voted for Donald Trump
into twenty twenty four, six million people, and then Governor
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Newsom is going to have to try to turn out
his liberal voters.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
That's going to be very expensive, and it's going.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
To take money away from all the fundraising they're doing
for their twenty twenty four races because it's expensive to
go to go knocking on doors and buying advertising and
all the rest of it. That takes money away from
everything else that they're doing. I think he got into
this without really thinking it through, and the consequences are
going to be pretty bad for him.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And they only have about five days in the legislature
next week to get everything done, to have it written
voted on, you know, the whole process.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
That's right, because the ballots would go out October fourth,
So they got to they have to get moving to
make that November fourth date.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
There's just something gross about this that he's unilatterally deciding
to ignore the the rhythm of the census, to ignore
all those propositions that were past, not that long ago,
We're only talking fifteen years ago, and you go ahead.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
There's going to be a lot of opposition. Charles Munger Junior,
who paid twelve million dollars of his own money to
get that congressional redistricting measure passed in twenty ten, has
already said that he's going to fund a campaign against
what the governor's doing now. And candidate for governor Steve Hilton, who's.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Well known from Fox News, he is going to file
a lawsuit to stop it.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He says he can file a lawsuit in federal court
on equal protection grounds. And then you have Governor Schwarzenegger,
who reportedly is coming back to champion citizen redistricting again
because that was his issue in twenty ten. So this
is not going to happen without a fight, and I
think the governor loses.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Did he just want the publicity to look like he's
the fighting leader of the Democratic Party, and he doesn't
care if he wins or loses.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
This is just showmanship on his part.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, I think that was the plan originally, but maybe
it didn't go as he thought because he's written a
letter to President Trump saying please call off the Republican
redistricting in Texas. He didn't say please, he said, if
you call off the Republican redistricting in Texas, we'll call
off what we're doing in California. But otherwise we're gonna fight.
This is this is silly. For one thing, Texas is
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doing this because they got a letter from the Justice
Department from Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dylon,
who is from California. They got a Texas got a
letter saying your districts are in violation of the Voting
Rights Acting. You have to redistrict, and that's why they're
doing it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Very good, Susan, Thank thank you very much. I always
enjoy having you come on the show. Excellent column this week,
and we'll we'll see if it blows up on Newsom,
and if.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It does, I'm really going to enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
He's got all the self control of like a teenage boy.
Really's Scott.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah right, Susan, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Susan Shelley, Columnists, Southern California News Group, Post, Howard Jarvis,
Texpayers Association.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That reminds me.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Later this hour, I got to tell you the story
how the inmates in that maximum security prison in Idaho
are torturing Brian Coberger through the air vents. I even
the the violet felons in this Idaho prison hate Brian
Coberger and he's he's he's obviously psychotic, and he has
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these obsessive compulsive disorders and other psychological issues, and they're
making him literally go insane because well, I'll explain it
to you coming up after probably after two fifty here.
First thing though, just to follow up, we just had
Susan Shelley on the Communist from New York Post, Ellie
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Daily News, Orange County Register. She wrote a piece on
how this whole thing may blow up in Gavin Newsom's face,
the idea that he's going to rig the systems so
that there's almost only Democrats representing California and Congress. Because
again forty three to nine is not enough. He wants
it forty nine to three and this, and he's got
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all kinds of obstacles here because there's constitutional amendments and
weren't passed that we're passed not long ago. It's supposed
to be an outside an outside commission for exactly this reason. Okay, look,
we had an outside commission and it still ended up
being lopsided in the Democrats favor forty three to nine.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
He wants to make it.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Forty nine to three and just scrap everything that was
agreed on. I mean, the last time there was a
vote on this, it was over sixty percent. Not that
he cares because sixty eight percent voted for Prop. Thirty
six and he won't fund it. You know, the big
majorities had voted for the death penalty and he won't
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do that either. And of course I'll tell you Trump
is the dick dam But there is a one guy,
Carl Demyo, who fights the most fiercely for the Republicans.
He's the assemblyman from San Diego. He's always on with us,
and he went to the Legislative Council Karen Jenkins to
get an official state legal opinion, and what Newsom is doing.
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Let's have CACRA Channel three and Sacramento.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Ashley Savala explained California's Office of Legislative Council says that
it provides nonpartisan legal services when it comes to the
processes of the state capitol, the activity of the governor
and state lawmakers. Republican Assemblyman Karl Demayo is asking the
office to provide a public legal opinion on the Democratic
led redistricting push in California. Demayo, in a letter to
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the Office of Legislative Council, pointed to several sections of
the California Constitution and state law that prohibit California lawmakers
from taking the steps there preparing to take next week.
That's finalizing the cong resstional maps, drawing them themselves, voting
on it, and putting it on the ballot. Politicians in
California are not allowed to draw these maps. An independent
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redistrict and commission has had this responsibility for the last
two decades. This all comes as Democrats in California push
ahead with an effort to redraw congressional maps to try
to remove five Republicans from California's representation in the US
House of Representatives. But we should note Legislative Council is
appointed by Democrats. Here's what Demayo had to say about
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that this is.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
A corrupt system. But I always believe you give the
corrupt system the chance to do it right first time,
and when they don't, you expose their corruption and you
hold them accountable. And I think voters will hold these
people accountable by rejecting this at the ballot box, and ultimately,
if necessary, I believe the federal courts will hold them
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accountable for the absolutely illegal process that they're using here.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
In a statement, Legislative Council Kara Jenkins told me she
cannot comment on any request for legal services from a lawmaker,
pointing to confidentiality related laws. She also said her office
is not authorized to provide interpretations of the law to
the public.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
So are there any interests in the past where this
office has been involved like this.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
Yeah, Gulston.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
I mean, technically we could look at all the activity
at the state capitol and say, so we know. The
Office of Legislative Council was part of the Democratic led
effort to have broad non disclosure agreements that continue to
keep details secret on how exactly taxpayer funds are being
used on the California Capital Annex project. We also know
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from our own observations and our own reporting over the
last year that the office has stood by as lawmakers
in the state Senate have violated legislative open meetings laws
in the Senate Rules Committee, and as the Assembly Rules
Committee has violated legislative open records laws.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
All right, at least he's going to war and proud
the buyer's right. The whole system is corrupt, the watchdogs
are corrupt. It's nearly one hundred percent Democrat run, and
it's it's not enough.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
We don't have a two party system.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Other countries have several parties, they have four or five
six parties that are active and viable. Some countries have
dozens of parties. Here in California, it's one, and it's
run by the far left, extreme that most of the
general public doesn't agree with. Prop thirty six was a
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great example. Sixty eight percent said, no, we're going to
make We're gonna make shoplifting illegal again. Theft is going
to be illegal again, public drug use illegal again. Fentadelt
dealing illegal.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Sixty eight thirty two.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That one, and Newsom tried every underhanded trick, every bit
of black magic. He was capable of to derail it,
to stop it, he couldn't. But now he's not funding it.
And this is the guy in charge. Sixty eight point
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thirty two. Would just want money to get the drug
addicts off the streets, to get the thieves off the streets,
to get the fentanyl dealers. That's what we want the
money for. To treat them, to treat their drug problems,
to treat mental health.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
He won't do.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It because there's those three groups. They're the Holy Trinity.
They're sacred to progressives, including Newsom, and the three groups
are the legal aliens, the criminals, and the homeless. So
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anything that infringes on any member of those three groups,
all the stop signs come out.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
No, No, can't do that. We won't do that. We
just won't fund it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Most of the public is against it, and most of
the public keeps voting for these people. Are we come back.
We told you that city of Los Angeles, which could
not possibly be managed worse by Karen Bass. Massive amount
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of overspending. They're broke, and one of the big drivers
is lawsuit settlements. It's gone up from thirty five million
twenty years ago to two hundred and eighty six million.
This year, two hundred and eighty six million dollars we
pay out to people that sued the city, and there's
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a big chunk of that it's giving out to people
who trip over sidewalks. We're gonna tell you a story
about a guy who won three million dollars from the
City of Los Angeles tripping over a sidewalk because the
sidewalk was busted up, but also he was stared at
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his stupid phone.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
We'll explain all that.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
We got a report from Channel seven to enhance the
whole story. We'll get to that in minutes.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand that's on the
iHeart app and it's same as the radio show. You
can hear what you missed so yesterday. We've been talking
to us periodically for months. The city of la is
badly mismanaged because we have an idiot as mayor, and
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we have majority idiots on the city council, super majority,
and they can't they can't do math, and they don't
want to do math properly, and so the city's busted.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's broke.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And there are certain services that are necessary, such as
paved roads and paid sidewalks. Right need that to walk on,
to drive on. They won't do it. Roads in my
neighborhood are a disaster. They're the quality of what you
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would find in Syria or Iran after a bombing raid.
It's really it's really shocking how bad the roads are.
And you know, I live in a good neighborhood. Nobody cares.
This also leads to a lot of lawsuits, you know,
lots of broken street pavement, lots of broken sidewalks, and
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all the dufices who don't look where they're walking anymore.
Happened in this case, we'll see what it is. They
end up tripping and falling and they sue and the
city twenty years ago would pay thirty five million dollars
in lawsuits in a year. Now it's paying two hundred
and eighty six million this year, two hundred eighty six million.
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Part of the reason why la is broke and you've
got a idiot city city attorney Heidi Soto Feldstein. Yeah,
I think that's her name, and they're just settling left
and right for gargantuan amounts of money because it's not
their money.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
They don't care. That's the whole bottom mind all this.
They don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Well, listen to this story from KBC Channel seven. This
is Kevin o Zebek Cut number six. Some guy here
tripped on a sidewalk in Woodland Hills and he's getting
a three million dollar reward.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Last week, as we told you about an eighty five
year old woman's fight to fix the sidewalk right in
front of her home, we've reported on this number as well.
In roughly the past five years, the city has paid
out more than eighty six million dollars all because of
lawsuits for relating two broken and uneven sidewalks. Well, now
you can take that number and tack on another three million,
all because of one lawsuit connected to one sidewalk. And
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now the LA Controller has launched an audit to see
if the city is doing all in its power to
make repairs and reduce its risk of lawsuits.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Was the city in Los Angeles's property and cap his
condition at the time.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Of the incidents?
Speaker 9 (20:26):
With those words payment Harabi just became three million dollars richer.
But these don't appear to be tears of joy. Paymon
tells us his left arm isn't fully functional all because
of this severely uneven La City sidewalk.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Right now, pain is a lot right now, I can't
use it.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
My shoulder all the way back in December of twenty nineteen,
Paymont says he was walking down Ventura Boulevard in Woodland
Hills and as he checked a text on his phone,
he tripped on this seven inch uplift to the sidewalk.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
I didn't see that.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Ultimately, you get to decide.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
In the courtroom. His attorneys successfully argued that city employees
saw the sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Look like this but didn't repair it, and.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That should be fixed in a reasonable manner.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
If that happened in this case, miss a Rove would
still be able to do what he loves and not
be in constant pain every day.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Three surgeries in years a physical therapy later, Paymon says
he still cannot return to making a living as a
wedding photographer. As a result, the jury awarded Peymon just
over three million dollars as for the sidewalk. It's still
has not been fixed.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
It's now been about four and a half years since
Peymon has.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Fallen in this spot. And just look at the state
of the sidewalk today.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
I mean, right here, there is this huge chunk of
sidewalk that is just sitting here loose.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
It is a very big deal because number one, people
get hurt, injured, or even killed at the hands of
the city.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Controller. Kenneth Mahea has been sounding the alarm about the
huge amount of tax dollars Los Angeles now spends on
liability lawsuits. In the fiscal year that just recently wrapped,
it's estimated the city spent a record two hundred and
eighty six million in liability payouts. For some context, here,
twenty years ago, the city paid out just thirty five million.
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Mahia's office has launched an audit to see if the
city is most effectively reducing its risk of lawsuits.
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Do you think these liability payouts are skyrocketing because people
are just more litigious and they're suing more? Or is
it because the city is not taking care of its infrastructure.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
And that's why we are trying to do this audit
to figure that out. But what we do know is
that these liabilities we're seeing, they're increasing every year.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Not surprising considering even in man saying he fell and
fractured his shoulder here, not to mention a three million
dollars payout. Still has it led the city to level
out this sidewalk.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
I don't understand why they don't want to feace it.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I don't get it.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
So the city did start its new fiscal year on
July first, and the Controller's office as in just that
first month of this new fiscal year, more than nine
million of your tax dollars went to liability claims.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Now, Mihia says, this is.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Less than the first month of the previous fiscal year.
So we will see as the year goes on if
this city has finally been able to reverse what has
been a really expensive trend.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
David and Givonni.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, we've seen so many places where sidewalks are just
a mess, But in this one in particular, are they
going to ever fix that one?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
In Woodland Hills and we could have it again? So
we've been asking, David, and we do not know.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
We've been repeatedly asking the city's Bureau of Engineering.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
That question, and we've not gotten response.
Speaker 10 (23:47):
We also do want to let you know we've been
repeatedly asking the city's law office if they're going to
try to appeal that three million dollar decision.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Crickets from them as well.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Euro of Engineering can't fix the sidewalk, even after it
costs to the city. Excuse me, us taxpayers three million dollars?
Who runs that? I'm gonna go look it up during
the commercial break, Bureau of Engineering.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Why is this so hard to fix a sidewalk?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You just dig it up and flatten it out, smooth
it out, put in a new concrete slab.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Why is this difficult? What do they do all day?
Is it porn? Is it strippers? Is it booze? What
is it?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Three million dollars? Three million dollars? And they were warned repeatedly,
and now they just don't answer the phone. They just
don't return questions. But I must say, and maybe this
is gonna make me sound like a jerk. The guy
who tripped and got the three million now his his
arm is still screwed up and he can't do his
(24:50):
job being a photographer. His name is Paymon Haravi, although
if you take away the accent, it's paymn Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
He tripped because he was he was reading a text.
He checked a text on his phone.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
So we couldn't see that the sidewalk was thrust up
in front of him. That often happens when the sidewalks
are near tree roots. So instead of you know what
we learned as kids, look where you're going. See, we
have eyes, and when we walk, we're supposed to look down,
look ahead, look down, look ahead, so you don't walk
(25:36):
in front of.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
A bus, and so you don't trip over a broken sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And then came this miraculous invention, the stupid cell phone,
and people read their idiotic messages. I mean, ninety nine
percent of messages are are are beyond worthless, it's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So this guy Paymon.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Decides in instead of looking where he's going, which even
a three year old figures out. I mean, I go
to a park frequently to work out with my friend.
I look at little kids all the time. Most none
of them are on phones. All of them are looking
where they're going. I never see any little kid fall.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
You know who falls? Grown adults who can't stop staring
at their stupid screen. Oh, I got a test message?
Do you hear that? Dang? I got text? Message.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And then and then the guy walks into traffic, it's
run over by a bus, walks into a tree in
this case, trips over the sidewalk. Why does he get
three million because he didn't do the basic thing that
a three year old learns. It's like basic survival. Look
where you're going or you might trip. Didn't you have
your mother ever yell at you to do look where
you're going. You didn't do that, you'd end up tumbling
(26:48):
down the stairs. I mean, three million dollars for a
guy who had to read a text instead of looking down.
Because you could see a bump like that or a
raised sidewalk like that from you know, a decent distance.
(27:09):
If you have your eyes open, there's enough warning. Why
does he get three million for that? I mean, I
feel sorry for the guy, but sometimes you got to
blame yourself. Why do I have to pay for it?
I have to pay for it because he can't stop
reading his texts and somebody at the Bureau of Engineering
is too stupid or lazy to get up in the
morning and fix the sidewalk. So it's three million dollars
(27:34):
awarded and we all have to pay.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Why I'm not working for this all right, More coming up.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
John Cobelt Show, can't find Am six forty more stimulating
talk radio coming up after three o'clock, just two minutes
after Brigina's news, Crys Lagras is coming on the journalist
And you know what the government originally tried to do
the state and the city. They wanted to buy up
(28:10):
lots in the Palisades and Alta Dina and start building
low income housing apartments on what was single family zoned land.
And there was such a blowback that Knews issued in
executive order which would stopped that nonsense. Well, now there
is a coalition of low income housing groups and attorneys parasites,
(28:36):
and these are these arrogant bastards who think that people
have no right to live in single family neighborhoods, that
everybody has to accept low income housing and all it
brings with it. And we're going to talk to Chris
Leagras because these low income housing advocates, right, these are troublemakers.
Want to sue. They want to sue so they could
(28:58):
put their disgusting hellholes in the Palisades in Altadena, right,
speaking of a disgusting hell hole, how about how about
this Idaho prison, the Idaho Maximum Security Prison in Kuna,
And that's where Brian Coberger is going to rot for
the rest of his life. And he's in solitary confinement.
(29:21):
He did not get the death penalty, and you wanted
to suffer as much as he can, like the next
best thing to the death penalty. He's the guy who
killed four Idaho students, has stabbed him to death, really grazzily,
really disgusting. So the inmates and by the way, he's
(29:43):
with guys. There's only thirty two other prisoners, so he's
with Coberger's with guys who are as bad as he is. Okay,
so it's it's thirty three of the worst, most violent
mental patients and all of them should be killed, but
they're not, and they want to gang up to harass him.
(30:04):
I think it's the word that's been used in this story.
They knew he was coming, and according to a homicide
detective Chris McDonough, the inmates were waiting for him and
when he got there, they're making his life absolutely miserable.
And the guards weren't aware of it until it started happening.
They have a relentless taunting campaign against Coburger. They take
(30:29):
turns yelling through the vents into his cell around the block.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Oh that's not what I thought it was going to be.
What'd you want it to be? I thought they were
going to torture him with like meat smells through the
air vents because he's vegan. I thought that's why you
picked the story.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Now they're using the vent system, they're kicking the doors,
they're taunting him, and they're torturing him psychologically. And he's
complaining because he says he can't sleep at night. They
do all this yelling and banging all night long.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
You think his victims could sleep at night.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Uh no, they can't, and neither in the families, and
neither kin the friends. But he's whining because you know
he was He was a a prissy boy, you know.
He he was just a geeky student guy. And he
can't withstand the brutality of real psychotics. Well he's a
(31:23):
real psychotic, but he's just kind of a weak, flimsy
version of that species. I mean, a PhD student. So
he's very annoyed and very frustrating. He's complaining all the time,
but the inmates have harassed him to the point, according
to Madonna, where he's just losing his mind and the
(31:44):
most the guards can do is write it down. They
tell him there's nothing we can do. You're not in
physical harm. And he only gets one one shower every
other day, and he has this obsessive compulsive disorder, so
he's kind of I guess he's like a compulsively clean
(32:05):
And now he's laying there in his own oil and
dirt and stink. He's kept in his cell for twenty
three hours a day. He only gets to go out
one hour a day for outdoor recreation, and he's in restraints.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
And you know he played he.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Pled guilty last month and the police said said no
death penalty. But every night they're banging and howling and
driving them nuts when we come back. Chris Lagras, he's
a local journalist and he's got a story on how
these low income housing advocates are thinking about suing to
(32:45):
block Governor Knewsom's executive order, which said that we're not
going to do any low income housing in the burned
out neighborhoods of Alta, Dina and Palisades. And we have
Brigitta de Castina alive in the case twenty four hour News. 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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