March 24, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/24) - Jamie Paige from the Westside Current comes on the show to talk about LAHSA spinning the homeless numbers after a bad audit. More on the city of LA losing money giving parking tickets out. Daniel Guss comes on the show to talk about LA City Council not liking how much cursing people are doing during public comment.
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Let's get to Jamie Page from the West Side Current,
which is a really good news website for the West
Side of Los Angeles, and they do the stories that
the La Times used to do. This is based on
early data from the twenty twenty five Los Angeles Homeless Count,
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and they have found thirty six hundred fewer, as they say,
unsheltered homeless that would be like the street crazies, and
which is a really small percentage amount considering the billions
that they've spent to give us more detailed Jamie Page,
west Side Current, Jamie, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I'm good? John, how about you?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'm fine. What have you learned about this homeless count?
And did they release these numbers or did you get
a tip?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No, we got to release last Thursday, And anybody who
follows the homeless count usually wait for the end of
June for these numbers to come in. They compile them,
they go through kind of a system through the USC
to put them in a formula that quote unquote, we're
all supposed to understand. So it took us all by
surprise that these numbers were released so early. They do say,
(02:19):
they did say when they released them that this is
not a comprehensive count, and that there's still months of
counting that they still need to do for things like
making sure, by the way, the youth is not a
part of this count. They admitted that. So these are
just really preliminary, raw numbers that don't really paint a
picture because we don't have enough information yet. But they
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were released, and the CEO of LASA said that they
were released because they are under so much fire and
April first, the county is going to be voting on
their budget, so they thought, well, here's thirty six hundred people.
Let's put this information out there. Whether it's right or wrong,
(03:02):
here's a number.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
We don't know if it's accurate or not, but hey,
you know, we're fighting for our lives.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
That it's not incomplete data, by the way, they've admitted that.
So it's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But it's a simple count one, two, three, four. Presumably
they sent out hundreds of people to walk in the
streets of La County and as they found the people,
they've found the bodies, they counted them. I don't know
why that would take months. You just let let's say
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you sent out a thousand people. Each one of them
has a number, You add up the numbers and there's
your total.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, there's like strange things that the USC does with this.
They have. This is something that they say that they
do is they have like an annual multiplier data that
they include with this. I don't know if you remember,
but we to get specific counts from like Venice and Westchester.
Now we only get what they call spot counts, so
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a bunch of cities put together, which they say is
a more accurate picture.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I remember the Venice count a few years ago and
they had a zero in one particular section of Venice,
which was notorious for its homeless problem.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yes, yes, well, and often that happens. They have this,
They had the app that year, they launched this new
app that was supposed to be fantastic. Well, then when
the numbers came in through this app, they found that
a lot of them were wrong. There's never really been
a rhyme or reason for most people who follow this
point in time count except for this is how how
we get our money. The city, the county, the state
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gets their money from these pit counts. So that's the
reason for doing them. Last year, there was a victory
lap for the one percent decrease that they said they have,
and that's well within their margin of error, right.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right, so been it could have been a five percent
increase all we know, yes, well.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, yes, and those of us who are boots on
ground all the time. The numbers often don't add up
to what they say that they are the one thing
I want to highlight though, and that's what we tried
to do in a very in a very quick way,
because again we weren't expecting these numbers. Is the budget
every year now for LASA is eight hundred and seventy
five million dollars. So, however that number goes up or down,
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the thirty six hundred from this year, we're still talking
about a multi hundred dollar budget that the two don't
add up.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Now, Now, when it's written in your story that it's
thirty six hundred unsheltered, does that mean these people are
actually living in the streets? What counts as unsheltered? They
have a people in temporary housing, you know the the.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You know cardwellers.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, are they unsheltered? I mean what what's definition unsheltered?
Is it literally they're laying in the streets? Or does
it include living in your car, living in a temporary
room for the night.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Or nobody knows?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
And I just want to be clear. This is their
terminology that they're using this year. It is broken up
into sheltered like a bridge home or they're they're homeless,
but they're living in a shelter within the city, right, Like,
those are all categories that they then compile and put
together for us. This is their new way of doing
it this year. And so they called this unsheltered, and
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they said that the numbers are vehicle dwellers, tent dwellers,
people who are street dwellers, is what they had used.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I see, So which do they count? A tent dweller
is unsheltered?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We don't know, No, that's a that's a street yes, unheltered.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That oh icee okay, of course, See they have to
make it confusing.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Of course they do, because then they can't and then.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
They could change the definition every year. But I know
in the county there's seventy thousand homeless people they say
that they admit to in the city, it's forty five thousand.
Either way, three thousand, six hundred, if this number is
even accurate, is not much of a dead considering all
the billions we spent in the last especially eight years.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And that's the argument they like to make, right, They're saying, well,
this is a five percent to ten percent decrease if
we do this year after year. Look at all the
progress we're making, but they don't do they don't add
the mass in and for eight hundred and seventy five
million dollars. And of course this isn't all about the
unsheltered homeless, but it's a significant budget. And if that is, like,
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if that's their victory lap, then we have some serious
issues with how much money we're spending on this crisis.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh, it's a disaster. It's overall, it's a complete failure.
It's a disaster. Obviously, they're going to put a few
people away because they've built so so much in the
way of temporary shelters and bridge homes and whatnot. But
some of those people end up in temporary shelter and
then and then they're out, they're back on the street,
and there's always new people coming in on the buses
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all the time, because you know, Venice is a great
destination around the country for all the drug addicts and
mental patients. Everybody knows Venice in those circles.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So not only do they yes, they know Venice, they
know what they're going to get when they go to Venice,
right like three square males and shower and handouts and
all of that. Stuff that come with the appeal of
living by a beach.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, and an ocean view, yeah, on top of it all.
All right, well, all right, well we'll mark this number
down and see where it goes from here, and as
you get more information, please let us know and we'll
be we'll be reading Westside Current dot com and we'll
talk again soon.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
All right, perfect, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
All right, that's Jamie Page with the West Side Current.
You could tell there's a lot of asterisks to this,
but still at thirty six hundred unsheltered homeless, however you
define that, that's not much considering we have over seventy
thousand in the county and we have spent many billions
(09:07):
of dollars and more billions to come. It's look, I
think we've made the case. It's a racket. It's undeniably
run by a bunch of criminals, both inside the LA government,
inside city hall and among these nonprofits. It's a bunch
of criminals. The question is when's the public going to
decide to stop it, stop the funding, have these people fired,
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and just force the homeless out do what they're going
to be doing. In San Jose three Outreach three outreach events,
and after that you have to get off public property
or you go before a judge and then the judge
sends you to drug treatment or to jail. That's what
we have to do in Los Angeles. They're doing it
(09:53):
more and more around the state. San Jose being the latest.
We had the mayor on a week or two ago,
and that's where Karen Bass has to and she has
to be forced to go there. Speaking to Karen Bash,
it is incredibly incompetent. I mean people should be in
jail for this one. How do you lose sixty five
(10:13):
million dollars handing out parking tickets? Well, I had an
email exchange with the city hall reporter Daniel Guss about it,
and I'm going to tell you what he tells me,
and then Daniel's coming on after two thirty. Because it
looks like the the burning issue the LA City Council
is trying to deal with is crazy people showing up
at the meeting and shouting the N word and the
(10:35):
C word and all kinds of other slurs and insults.
That's what they're working on. But sixty five million blown
handing out parking tickets. You don't hear you don't hear
any comment, But then again, you don't hear anybody in
the media asking for comment.
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(11:17):
cupcakes for everybody once we get to twenty five thousand.
No really, yeah, yeah, definitely cupcakes. Okay, cool, all right.
There's nothing you could do about it, you know, the
other people have to sign up, but you do the
most work on it. Daniel Gus, we're going to talk
to him Daniel Gus dot substack dot com if you
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want to read his columns. He's one of the very
few people covering city Hall. In fact, he may be
the only one that covers it constantly here in Los
Angeles because we no longer have a media ecosystem. But
Daniel Gus dot substack dot com and after two thirty
the only Times had a story about Marquith Harris Dawson,
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the president of the city Council, who, by the way,
has had virtually nothing to say about the massive fires
that destroyed the Palisades, the one hundred and seventeen million
gallons of water missing from that reservoir, the lack of
funding for the fire department.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
It's only half funded.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
He's had nothing to say about the city of Los
Angeles being broke. But he's really all twisted up that
there's a lot of crazy people that show up at
the public meeting and they yell all kinds of bad
names and bad words at him and the other city
council people. So he's trying to stop them from speaking
(12:45):
those bad words out loud, which is unconstitutional, but that's
their priority. I over the weekend, Daniel Guss is going
to be on with us to talk about that issue.
But over the weekend, I asked Daniel, I'm trying to
figure out what I'm obsessed with this one because I
have an enormous animosity towards people who write parking tickets.
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I find it incredibly irritating. It is so abusive, It
is so outrageous that they want fifty sixty seventy dollars
because you've overstayed, you're welcome at the parking meter, or
you've parked slightly outside the line or in a red zone.
You know the red zone. How many red zones do
they have because of fire hydrants?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Right?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And they try to shame and scold you. It's like,
well it's for fire safety reasons. Yeah, well hardly any
of the fire hydrants work. You don't have water connected
to them. But you're gonna find me sixty five bucks
from parking too close. I just over the weekend, I said,
what is it about the parking Enforcement Agency? They lost
(13:58):
sixty five million dollars last year? Sixty five million dollars.
They write almost two million tickets a year. That's a
huge loss. How is that possible? Because you know, most
of those employees are are irritating little parasites. They just
almost all have bad attitudes and I can't stand them.
(14:19):
I can't stand what they do. And then I find
out they blew sixty five million. It's one thing that
they were making millions of dollars, and he goes, well,
the city needs the money and it is illegal. You know,
you ought to pay attention to where you're poor. But
they lost sixty five million. So he wrote back to
me and he says, it's salaries and benefits. And it's
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the same way that organized lager labor has tried to
guilt us into thinking that if you have a job
shaking the fry basket at McDonald's, you're entitled to a
living wage to support a family of four, which is nonsense.
But they have been pre this for so many years
and bribing political officials that now McDonald's is paying twenty
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bucks an hour to flip flip burgers. And what's happened
is some places are going out of business. Some places
have drastically raise their prices, but actually a lot of
places have fired thousands of workers. And guess what's coming
AI Ordering. The company that owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC,
(15:32):
that's owned by one conglomerate, they're going to be installing AI.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So when you.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Roll up to the little box for your order, you're
talking to a bot. Now this bot will speak English,
and the speaker will be clear, and the transaction will
be accurate and quick. So all those people who mumble
in a foreign language at these fast food restaurants over
(15:59):
your order box, they're out of a job.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Because they're not worth twenty dollars an hour.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So fortunately, artificial intelligence and you know, this has all
been speeded up because of the absurd demands of the
unions and the politicians taking the bribes and creating an
artificial wage structure. Well, what Gus tells me is that
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this is what's going on with the parking enforcement bureaucracy.
They get they get relatively high salaries and lots of benefits,
and so the department basically is bankrupt because this has
been going on for eight years.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Nobody reported this for eight years.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Los Angeles has run a deficit on parking tickets since
twenty seventeen, eight years and this year and last year
is about sixty five million dollars of a loss. That's
one hundred and thirty million dollars lost. If they stopped
writing parking tickets and closed the parking enforcement agency, there'd
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be an extra sixty five million dollars on the books.
And according to Gus, he says, the ticket people drive around,
they meet their quota, which the government never admits to uh,
and they spend the rest of the day texting and eating.
(17:29):
And of course they have they have big egos because
they see how upset people get when they write their bogus,
stupid tickets, and with the way they ambush people, they
lay in wait in parking lots and jump on them
when the meter runs out. And it's it's a completely useless,
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costly department. There is no benefit to it. And they're
probably going to lose another SIT six five million in
the coming year too. Now, if they're going to be
doing you know, the Elon musk dance here in La
and cut thousands of jobs, they should cut the whole
parking enforcement agency out because it provides not one penny
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of profit to the city. And they do spend the
rest of the day texting and eating. I see a
lot of them staying around, just wandering around or sitting
in their cars. All right, we come back Daniel Gush
to talk about apparently too many people are using the
N word and the C word and a lot of
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other naughty words. And President are Keise Harris staus In
to the city council, who's yet to say anything about
the fire. He was the mayor that day, he was
the acting mayor that day. He's he's going to ban
people from saying bad things at city council meetings.
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Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's Monday.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
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eight eight six, or usually talkback feature on the iHeart
radio app. You've not heard the city council talk out
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loud about all the cause of the fire in the Palisades,
or why the hydrants didn't work by the hundreds, or
let's see why the water reservoir was empty one hundred
and seventeen million gallons. I heard there was a second
reservoir that was also empty. We didn't hear why the
fire department's only half funded, why the firefighters weren't on
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patrol already that morning in the Palisades and other areas.
But you know what they're upset about. They want to
pass a law so that if you show up at
an LA City Council meeting you can't call them any
nasty names and say nasty things about them. We have
Daniel Guss, who's the because cover City Hall for a
(20:01):
long time and it's a Daniel guest dot substack dot
com if you want to read his columns. Daniel, how
are you not too bad?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one working
on the weekends.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
John, that's right, that's right. You were very helpful.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I had a little email exchange, part of which I
talked about in the last segment on the on the
parking ticket thing. I'm not to follow up on that,
by the way, if in your comings and goings, if
you find any more about this parking enforcement situation. I
am astonished that they lost sixty five million dollars. That
doesn't seem possible to me.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Oh gosh, I'm.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Not surprised at all. John. There is no agency in
the City of Los Angeles that runs well. This is
just one that is so relatable. Yeah, that they're they're
taking in less than the costs to run the department.
That is that is commonplace. But it's so relatable because
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who hasn't had a parking ticket from time to time.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It's just amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
We'll talk about that in detail another time, but right
now I want to discuss people showing up at the
city council meetings where they have an absolute First Amendment
right to say whatever they want, and they do say
whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
They drop the N word, C word.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
According to the La Times, it's racial slurs, anti Semitica slurs.
The council people are attacked over their looks, their weight,
they're closed, their sexual orientation, their gender. I know you've
seen some of this what goes on there.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Well, sure, let's be clear. You can't say anything you want,
you can't cause a riot, and you can't threaten people,
but you can mock. And it is a centuries old tradition,
way before the United States was formed. It is a millennial,
millennium long tradition of criticizing and mocking your local government leaders.
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Now in city Hall. This has been going on for
a long time. It has grown more hostile recently because
the City Council President, Marquise Harris Dawson has, for no
good reason, stopped the call in feature that was so
helpful and a really great idea that we all learned
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to use zoom over the pandemic. And because he has
made it onerous to participate in government meetings and he's
narrowed the opportunities for the people to get to downtown
Los Angeles by ten o'clock three days a week, that
the hostility has increased. However, this has been going on
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for a while. But you know where I think these
people got the idea that it's okay to say the
ND word or the other words. Maybe John Marquise, Harris
Dawson can jump in his Tesla, by the way, which
went up twelve percent today. Mister Harris Dawson should get
in his Tesla and drive to sixty eight to forty
Hollywood Boulevard because there there's a star on the Walk
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of Fame to Snoop who has a song titled en
Words Saying Hi, and he can then drive his tessel
at to sixty seven fifty two Hollywood Boulevard where the
star for ice Cube was celebrated by city Council and
approved by city Council. He's got a song called the
N word you love to Hate. I could go on
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about fifty cent and Pitbull, but how about during the
halftime of the Super Bowl where Harris Dawson sends out
a tweet to Kendrick Lamar and he says much love
to Kendrick Lamar for making our City proud well. Kendrick
Lamar has a number called mad City, where one of
the lines is where are you from my end word?
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I guess that's where members of the public found out.
But here's the problem. John. In the article by the
West Side Current in which John regarding a terrific right
by the way, John regard he's an excellent writer. He
interviewed Harris Dawson about this about a week ago, and
Harris Dawson admitted he's targeting that's the end of the ballgame.
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He is targeting certain types of free speech but not others.
And he's celebrating in these context city Council where he's
trying to ban forget it, it's over.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well because it's a public meeting and the public has
the right to express themselves anyway they wish with the
exceptions that you pointed out at the beginning of the segment.
You know, you can't start a riot, and you can't
yell fire and all those all those well known rules.
I imagine it's the same people showing up every week
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and doing their act.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
For the most part, it is. But I want to
say that there's a long history where a lot of
these let's just polite. We call them the city council
crazies who show up and guess what they are, basically
the canaries in the coal line for a lot of
the stuff going on. About fifteen years ago, one of
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these so called city council crazies, two of them actually
got the name of Matt Dowd and another guy by
the name of David Saltzburg better known as better known
by his Venice Beach name Zuma Dog. And these guys
correctly forecast all of the trouble that went on with
the planning and land use and development and Jose Weezar.
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So these guys and a lot of the people who
go there nowadays, maybe they don't have anything better to do.
Some of them are homeless people, but they go to
the meetings. And when you go to the meetings, you
find out where the thread on the sweater is that
you want to pull. And that's really at the core
of what's going on here. They want to silence the
people who are most visible, who have the time to
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find out where this stuff. Some of them are crazy,
and some of them are crazy like foxes.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Right, Yeah, So they spend the week looking for all
the dirty deeds that are going on behind the scenes,
and then they show up at the meeting and sometimes
they let all their vitriol fly, but it doesn't it
doesn't invalidate the stuff that they've dug up.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Right, and that's the problem. They do that a because
they're colorful personalities and b because that's how that's how
they get attention to the issues. And trust me, these
people are right more often than they are not. They
go to the eight thirty committee meetings. I mean, they're
there in city Hall at eight thirty, questioning and looking
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at and so they're doing it colorfully. And hammer Sawson
who celebrates Kendrick Lamore with the N word and his lyrics,
and city Council with all of these others celebrate these
folks with the N word and their lyrics. Suddenly they
don't want those words to be used.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Now, I've ever had any patients for people who embrace
all these rap stars and then go around lecturing and
scolding others over language they might use. Let me ask
you one more thing before I got to go, why
don't we have an official proclamation for the cause of
the Palisades fire?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Surely they know by now.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Well, you know I wanted to go to city Hall
shortly after that because Harris Dawson was the acting mayor
when this happened, and three of his staffers actually physically
assaulted me when he tried to censor me at the meeting,
and so I turned my camera on in the whole way.
So why don't we have an official proclamation? It's the
same reason. Why not one of them of the fifteen,
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not one of them has called for Karen Bass to
resign because they all are there in jobs with salaries
and benefits and cars and travel that not one of
them could touch in the private sector, and they don't
want to disrupt the status quo. And Monica Rodriguez, who
stood up for la FD chief Kristin Crowley, you know
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she hasn't called for the mayor to resign. But nine
of the people I know wanted to resign. So they're
protecting themselves, not the people they represent.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Why would revealing the cause of the fire cause any
any embarrassment or any issues and cause someone to lose
their job?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
What right right there?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Because there but for the grace of the city council
go I Because they all have things that they'd rather
not have. The public know because if you vote against Bob,
Bob will vote against Monica. Monica is going to spill
the secrets on Emelda, and Melda's going to spill the
secrets on this one or that one. So they all
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have things to hide, and not one of them has
the courage. And I'll be honest with you, John Kenneth,
May you have the city Controller DSA or not. He's
been the most transparent person in city hall about this stuff. Yeah,
that's his job, of course.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
DSA is Democratic Socialists of America and he has been
telling the truth about them being massively in debt and
what's causing the debt in the budget. In fact, I
was going to talk about him later. The Wall Street
Journal did an editorial entitled Los Angeles goes for Broke
Literally all right, well, listen, can you hear anything about
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the cause of the fire you let us know? And
any more about the parking losing sixty five million dollars
on parking tickets, all this stuff?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (29:38):
I sure will, John, talk to you later.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
All right, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
We just had Daniel Guss on the reporter who covers
City Hall because Marquise Harris Dawson, who is acting mayor
the day of the fire, he's really upset that people
say use foul language and call all the city council
members all kinds of nasty names, including the N word
and the C word, and is trying to ban them
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from saying those things, which is a violation of the
First Amendment at a public meeting. Now we have a
cut here and I haven't heard this, but one of
the characters that shows up and berates the city council
people is a mister Herman and this was him in
an LA City Council meeting last year.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
And well, let's see what this is, mister Herman. Which
items had you signed up for?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Mister criminal attorney, I wish to speak, and all mo
the items are signed up for the record and non
agenda public comments, sir, please thanks.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
So you have three minutes rid of miss one through nine,
followed by the men in general.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Please begin, mister h.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
Regarding these abatements, you know it's a shame that whereas Gregorian,
who has two abatements for over ten thousand dollars, You
mean to tell me he's not gonna wave and not
this wave. I'm talking about wave all those extra additional
surcharges against people who or just trying to make a
(31:06):
living and continue to own their property. Now on item
number four, I definitely support the family that you give
them a receipt and wave all those conditions that you
put against their property for twelve thousand.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Dollars, because that's ridiculous. Man, they already had a fence.
You don't have to put up a second fence to
build them on their property because some bulams jump over
the fence and pick up their yard. Yeah, I'm talking
about that.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Just twelve thousand.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Dollars ain't chump change and money don't fall off the
mother trees, mister attorney, So you should do something about it.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Food. You should.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Now, whether you.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Have a heart or a conscience, maybe that dumb chairman
up there will wave those feest and maybe provide them
with provisions to pay the initial fine with all the
other searcharges that you mother criminals keep building people on
abatement and leans.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
For the record, what about the.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Other items I signed? I signed up on all items
and the reason because like I said, for the record,
it's unconstitutional that you again, try to say to me
while I'm speaking, mister attorney, are you paying attention because
this is about you, you enforcement.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Sir, your violence and your criminal.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Activity of threats, sir. Are you listening to me? Mister Bloomfield,
is he listening to me? Because I'm really off mother
topic and that Attorney Foo, former Attorney Foo, don't want
to pay attention to my mother about all the items
on the agenda.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
We should give him a show that mister hermit.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
He was also wearing a post bored around his neck
with a big swastika on it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Well, there's a friendly touch. Huh, that's great.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
See, and Marquise Harristawsen wants to ban people like mister
Herman from expressing themselves, which is his constitutional right here
in America. All right, we should maybe we can make
this a regular feature. Actually, oh yeah, we do have
the moistcoats, so I was going to say, it's pretty close.
When we come back, we are going to talk to
(33:31):
Royal Oaks from ABC News because you may have heard
that there has been a considerable back and forth on
whether the Trump administration violated the constitutional rights of criminal
illegal aliens who got deported to El Salvador and put
in a terrible prison. These would be including trend de
Ragua gang members from Venezuela. Well, there's a lot of
(33:54):
news on this. Turns out Venezuela made a deal with
the Trump administration and is going to take back deportees.
And I think there was a lot of behind the
scenes maneuvering that led to those plane flights Tel Salvador.
Judges on the appeals court are now listening to an
appeal they did today because a judge blocked further flights,
(34:18):
and it's an entertaining issue. We'll get to it coming
up after Debora's news. Deborah Mark Live in the KFI
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Speaker 2 (01:01):
Let's get to Jamie Page from the West Side Current,
which is a really good news website for the West
Side of Los Angeles, and they do the stories that
the La Times used to do. This is based on
early data from the twenty twenty five Los Angeles Homeless Count,
(01:22):
and they have found thirty six hundred fewer, as they say,
unsheltered homeless that would be like the street crazies, and
which is a really small percentage amount considering the billions
that they've spent to give us more detailed Jamie Page,
west Side Current, Jamie, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I'm good? John, how about you?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'm fine. What have you learned about this homeless count?
And did they release these numbers or did you get
a tip?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No, we got to release last Thursday, And anybody who
follows the homeless count usually wait for the end of
June for these numbers to come in. They compile them,
they go through kind of a system through the USC
to put them in a formula that quote unquote, we're
all supposed to understand. So it took us all by
surprise that these numbers were released so early. They do say,
(02:19):
they did say when they released them that this is
not a comprehensive count, and that there's still months of
counting that they still need to do for things like
making sure, by the way, the youth is not a
part of this count. They admitted that. So these are
just really preliminary, raw numbers that don't really paint a
picture because we don't have enough information yet. But they
(02:41):
were released, and the CEO of LASA said that they
were released because they are under so much fire and
April first, the county is going to be voting on
their budget, so they thought, well, here's thirty six hundred people.
Let's put this information out there. Whether it's right or wrong,
(03:02):
here's a number.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
We don't know if it's accurate or not, but hey,
you know, we're fighting for our lives.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
That it's not incomplete data, by the way, they've admitted that.
So it's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But it's a simple count one, two, three, four. Presumably
they sent out hundreds of people to walk in the
streets of La County and as they found the people,
they've found the bodies, they counted them. I don't know
why that would take months. You just let let's say
(03:39):
you sent out a thousand people. Each one of them
has a number, You add up the numbers and there's
your total.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, there's like strange things that the USC does with this.
They have. This is something that they say that they
do is they have like an annual multiplier data that
they include with this. I don't know if you remember,
but we to get specific counts from like Venice and Westchester.
Now we only get what they call spot counts, so
(04:07):
a bunch of cities put together, which they say is
a more accurate picture.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I remember the Venice count a few years ago and
they had a zero in one particular section of Venice,
which was notorious for its homeless problem.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yes, yes, well, and often that happens. They have this,
They had the app that year, they launched this new
app that was supposed to be fantastic. Well, then when
the numbers came in through this app, they found that
a lot of them were wrong. There's never really been
a rhyme or reason for most people who follow this
point in time count except for this is how how
we get our money. The city, the county, the state
(04:43):
gets their money from these pit counts. So that's the
reason for doing them. Last year, there was a victory
lap for the one percent decrease that they said they have,
and that's well within their margin of error, right.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right, so been it could have been a five percent
increase all we know, yes, well.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, yes, and those of us who are boots on
ground all the time. The numbers often don't add up
to what they say that they are the one thing
I want to highlight though, and that's what we tried
to do in a very in a very quick way,
because again we weren't expecting these numbers. Is the budget
every year now for LASA is eight hundred and seventy
five million dollars. So, however that number goes up or down,
(05:25):
the thirty six hundred from this year, we're still talking
about a multi hundred dollar budget that the two don't
add up.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Now, Now, when it's written in your story that it's
thirty six hundred unsheltered, does that mean these people are
actually living in the streets? What counts as unsheltered? They
have a people in temporary housing, you know the the.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You know cardwellers.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, are they unsheltered? I mean what what's definition unsheltered?
Is it literally they're laying in the streets? Or does
it include living in your car, living in a temporary
room for the night.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Or nobody knows?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
And I just want to be clear. This is their
terminology that they're using this year. It is broken up
into sheltered like a bridge home or they're they're homeless,
but they're living in a shelter within the city, right, Like,
those are all categories that they then compile and put
together for us. This is their new way of doing
it this year. And so they called this unsheltered, and
(06:26):
they said that the numbers are vehicle dwellers, tent dwellers,
people who are street dwellers, is what they had used.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I see, So which do they count? A tent dweller
is unsheltered?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We don't know, No, that's a that's a street yes, unheltered.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That oh icee okay, of course, See they have to
make it confusing.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Of course they do, because then they can't and then.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
They could change the definition every year. But I know
in the county there's seventy thousand homeless people they say
that they admit to in the city, it's forty five thousand.
Either way, three thousand, six hundred, if this number is
even accurate, is not much of a dead considering all
the billions we spent in the last especially eight years.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And that's the argument they like to make, right, They're saying, well,
this is a five percent to ten percent decrease if
we do this year after year. Look at all the
progress we're making, but they don't do they don't add
the mass in and for eight hundred and seventy five
million dollars. And of course this isn't all about the
unsheltered homeless, but it's a significant budget. And if that is, like,
(07:39):
if that's their victory lap, then we have some serious
issues with how much money we're spending on this crisis.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh, it's a disaster. It's overall, it's a complete failure.
It's a disaster. Obviously, they're going to put a few
people away because they've built so so much in the
way of temporary shelters and bridge homes and whatnot. But
some of those people end up in temporary shelter and
then and then they're out, they're back on the street,
and there's always new people coming in on the buses
(08:06):
all the time, because you know, Venice is a great
destination around the country for all the drug addicts and
mental patients. Everybody knows Venice in those circles.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So not only do they yes, they know Venice, they
know what they're going to get when they go to Venice,
right like three square males and shower and handouts and
all of that. Stuff that come with the appeal of
living by a beach.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, and an ocean view, yeah, on top of it all.
All right, well, all right, well we'll mark this number
down and see where it goes from here, and as
you get more information, please let us know and we'll
be we'll be reading Westside Current dot com and we'll
talk again soon.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
All right, perfect, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
All right, that's Jamie Page with the West Side Current.
You could tell there's a lot of asterisks to this,
but still at thirty six hundred unsheltered homeless, however you
define that, that's not much considering we have over seventy
thousand in the county and we have spent many billions
(09:07):
of dollars and more billions to come. It's look, I
think we've made the case. It's a racket. It's undeniably
run by a bunch of criminals, both inside the LA government,
inside city hall and among these nonprofits. It's a bunch
of criminals. The question is when's the public going to
decide to stop it, stop the funding, have these people fired,
(09:32):
and just force the homeless out do what they're going
to be doing. In San Jose three Outreach three outreach events,
and after that you have to get off public property
or you go before a judge and then the judge
sends you to drug treatment or to jail. That's what
we have to do in Los Angeles. They're doing it
(09:53):
more and more around the state. San Jose being the latest.
We had the mayor on a week or two ago,
and that's where Karen Bass has to and she has
to be forced to go there. Speaking to Karen Bash,
it is incredibly incompetent. I mean people should be in
jail for this one. How do you lose sixty five
(10:13):
million dollars handing out parking tickets? Well, I had an
email exchange with the city hall reporter Daniel Guss about it,
and I'm going to tell you what he tells me,
and then Daniel's coming on after two thirty. Because it
looks like the the burning issue the LA City Council
is trying to deal with is crazy people showing up
at the meeting and shouting the N word and the
(10:35):
C word and all kinds of other slurs and insults.
That's what they're working on. But sixty five million blown
handing out parking tickets. You don't hear you don't hear
any comment, But then again, you don't hear anybody in
the media asking for comment.
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(11:17):
cupcakes for everybody once we get to twenty five thousand.
No really, yeah, yeah, definitely cupcakes. Okay, cool, all right.
There's nothing you could do about it, you know, the
other people have to sign up, but you do the
most work on it. Daniel Gus, we're going to talk
to him Daniel Gus dot substack dot com if you
(11:40):
want to read his columns. He's one of the very
few people covering city Hall. In fact, he may be
the only one that covers it constantly here in Los
Angeles because we no longer have a media ecosystem. But
Daniel Gus dot substack dot com and after two thirty
the only Times had a story about Marquith Harris Dawson,
(12:04):
the president of the city Council, who, by the way,
has had virtually nothing to say about the massive fires
that destroyed the Palisades, the one hundred and seventeen million
gallons of water missing from that reservoir, the lack of
funding for the fire department.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
It's only half funded.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
He's had nothing to say about the city of Los
Angeles being broke. But he's really all twisted up that
there's a lot of crazy people that show up at
the public meeting and they yell all kinds of bad
names and bad words at him and the other city
council people. So he's trying to stop them from speaking
(12:45):
those bad words out loud, which is unconstitutional, but that's
their priority. I over the weekend, Daniel Guss is going
to be on with us to talk about that issue.
But over the weekend, I asked Daniel, I'm trying to
figure out what I'm obsessed with this one because I
have an enormous animosity towards people who write parking tickets.
(13:11):
I find it incredibly irritating. It is so abusive, It
is so outrageous that they want fifty sixty seventy dollars
because you've overstayed, you're welcome at the parking meter, or
you've parked slightly outside the line or in a red zone.
You know the red zone. How many red zones do
they have because of fire hydrants?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Right?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And they try to shame and scold you. It's like,
well it's for fire safety reasons. Yeah, well hardly any
of the fire hydrants work. You don't have water connected
to them. But you're gonna find me sixty five bucks
from parking too close. I just over the weekend, I said,
what is it about the parking Enforcement Agency? They lost
(13:58):
sixty five million dollars last year? Sixty five million dollars.
They write almost two million tickets a year. That's a
huge loss. How is that possible? Because you know, most
of those employees are are irritating little parasites. They just
almost all have bad attitudes and I can't stand them.
(14:19):
I can't stand what they do. And then I find
out they blew sixty five million. It's one thing that
they were making millions of dollars, and he goes, well,
the city needs the money and it is illegal. You know,
you ought to pay attention to where you're poor. But
they lost sixty five million. So he wrote back to
me and he says, it's salaries and benefits. And it's
(14:42):
the same way that organized lager labor has tried to
guilt us into thinking that if you have a job
shaking the fry basket at McDonald's, you're entitled to a
living wage to support a family of four, which is nonsense.
But they have been pre this for so many years
and bribing political officials that now McDonald's is paying twenty
(15:07):
bucks an hour to flip flip burgers. And what's happened
is some places are going out of business. Some places
have drastically raise their prices, but actually a lot of
places have fired thousands of workers. And guess what's coming
AI Ordering. The company that owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC,
(15:32):
that's owned by one conglomerate, they're going to be installing AI.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So when you.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Roll up to the little box for your order, you're
talking to a bot. Now this bot will speak English,
and the speaker will be clear, and the transaction will
be accurate and quick. So all those people who mumble
in a foreign language at these fast food restaurants over
(15:59):
your order box, they're out of a job.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Because they're not worth twenty dollars an hour.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So fortunately, artificial intelligence and you know, this has all
been speeded up because of the absurd demands of the
unions and the politicians taking the bribes and creating an
artificial wage structure. Well, what Gus tells me is that
(16:25):
this is what's going on with the parking enforcement bureaucracy.
They get they get relatively high salaries and lots of benefits,
and so the department basically is bankrupt because this has
been going on for eight years.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Nobody reported this for eight years.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Los Angeles has run a deficit on parking tickets since
twenty seventeen, eight years and this year and last year
is about sixty five million dollars of a loss. That's
one hundred and thirty million dollars lost. If they stopped
writing parking tickets and closed the parking enforcement agency, there'd
(17:09):
be an extra sixty five million dollars on the books.
And according to Gus, he says, the ticket people drive around,
they meet their quota, which the government never admits to uh,
and they spend the rest of the day texting and eating.
(17:29):
And of course they have they have big egos because
they see how upset people get when they write their bogus,
stupid tickets, and with the way they ambush people, they
lay in wait in parking lots and jump on them
when the meter runs out. And it's it's a completely useless,
(17:52):
costly department. There is no benefit to it. And they're
probably going to lose another SIT six five million in
the coming year too. Now, if they're going to be
doing you know, the Elon musk dance here in La
and cut thousands of jobs, they should cut the whole
parking enforcement agency out because it provides not one penny
(18:14):
of profit to the city. And they do spend the
rest of the day texting and eating. I see a
lot of them staying around, just wandering around or sitting
in their cars. All right, we come back Daniel Gush
to talk about apparently too many people are using the
N word and the C word and a lot of
(18:34):
other naughty words. And President are Keise Harris staus In
to the city council, who's yet to say anything about
the fire. He was the mayor that day, he was
the acting mayor that day. He's he's going to ban
people from saying bad things at city council meetings.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's Monday.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Time to start up the moistline machine for Friday and
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eight eight six, or usually talkback feature on the iHeart
radio app. You've not heard the city council talk out
(19:19):
loud about all the cause of the fire in the Palisades,
or why the hydrants didn't work by the hundreds, or
let's see why the water reservoir was empty one hundred
and seventeen million gallons. I heard there was a second
reservoir that was also empty. We didn't hear why the
fire department's only half funded, why the firefighters weren't on
(19:41):
patrol already that morning in the Palisades and other areas.
But you know what they're upset about. They want to
pass a law so that if you show up at
an LA City Council meeting you can't call them any
nasty names and say nasty things about them. We have
Daniel Guss, who's the because cover City Hall for a
(20:01):
long time and it's a Daniel guest dot substack dot
com if you want to read his columns. Daniel, how
are you not too bad?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one working
on the weekends.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
John, that's right, that's right. You were very helpful.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I had a little email exchange, part of which I
talked about in the last segment on the on the
parking ticket thing. I'm not to follow up on that,
by the way, if in your comings and goings, if
you find any more about this parking enforcement situation. I
am astonished that they lost sixty five million dollars. That
doesn't seem possible to me.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Oh gosh, I'm.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Not surprised at all. John. There is no agency in
the City of Los Angeles that runs well. This is
just one that is so relatable. Yeah, that they're they're
taking in less than the costs to run the department.
That is that is commonplace. But it's so relatable because
(20:57):
who hasn't had a parking ticket from time to time.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
It's just amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
We'll talk about that in detail another time, but right
now I want to discuss people showing up at the
city council meetings where they have an absolute First Amendment
right to say whatever they want, and they do say
whatever they want.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
They drop the N word, C word.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
According to the La Times, it's racial slurs, anti Semitica slurs.
The council people are attacked over their looks, their weight,
they're closed, their sexual orientation, their gender. I know you've
seen some of this what goes on there.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Well, sure, let's be clear. You can't say anything you want,
you can't cause a riot, and you can't threaten people,
but you can mock. And it is a centuries old tradition,
way before the United States was formed. It is a millennial,
millennium long tradition of criticizing and mocking your local government leaders.
(22:00):
Now in city Hall. This has been going on for
a long time. It has grown more hostile recently because
the City Council President, Marquise Harris Dawson has, for no
good reason, stopped the call in feature that was so
helpful and a really great idea that we all learned
(22:21):
to use zoom over the pandemic. And because he has
made it onerous to participate in government meetings and he's
narrowed the opportunities for the people to get to downtown
Los Angeles by ten o'clock three days a week, that
the hostility has increased. However, this has been going on
(22:42):
for a while. But you know where I think these
people got the idea that it's okay to say the
ND word or the other words. Maybe John Marquise, Harris
Dawson can jump in his Tesla, by the way, which
went up twelve percent today. Mister Harris Dawson should get
in his Tesla and drive to sixty eight to forty
Hollywood Boulevard because there there's a star on the Walk
(23:04):
of Fame to Snoop who has a song titled en
Words Saying Hi, and he can then drive his tessel
at to sixty seven fifty two Hollywood Boulevard where the
star for ice Cube was celebrated by city Council and
approved by city Council. He's got a song called the
N word you love to Hate. I could go on
(23:26):
about fifty cent and Pitbull, but how about during the
halftime of the Super Bowl where Harris Dawson sends out
a tweet to Kendrick Lamar and he says much love
to Kendrick Lamar for making our City proud well. Kendrick
Lamar has a number called mad City, where one of
the lines is where are you from my end word?
(23:49):
I guess that's where members of the public found out.
But here's the problem. John. In the article by the
West Side Current in which John regarding a terrific right
by the way, John regard he's an excellent writer. He
interviewed Harris Dawson about this about a week ago, and
Harris Dawson admitted he's targeting that's the end of the ballgame.
(24:11):
He is targeting certain types of free speech but not others.
And he's celebrating in these context city Council where he's
trying to ban forget it, it's over.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well because it's a public meeting and the public has
the right to express themselves anyway they wish with the
exceptions that you pointed out at the beginning of the segment.
You know, you can't start a riot, and you can't
yell fire and all those all those well known rules.
I imagine it's the same people showing up every week
(24:48):
and doing their act.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
For the most part, it is. But I want to
say that there's a long history where a lot of
these let's just polite. We call them the city council
crazies who show up and guess what they are, basically
the canaries in the coal line for a lot of
the stuff going on. About fifteen years ago, one of
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these so called city council crazies, two of them actually
got the name of Matt Dowd and another guy by
the name of David Saltzburg better known as better known
by his Venice Beach name Zuma Dog. And these guys
correctly forecast all of the trouble that went on with
the planning and land use and development and Jose Weezar.
(25:35):
So these guys and a lot of the people who
go there nowadays, maybe they don't have anything better to do.
Some of them are homeless people, but they go to
the meetings. And when you go to the meetings, you
find out where the thread on the sweater is that
you want to pull. And that's really at the core
of what's going on here. They want to silence the
people who are most visible, who have the time to
(25:58):
find out where this stuff. Some of them are crazy,
and some of them are crazy like foxes.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Right, Yeah, So they spend the week looking for all
the dirty deeds that are going on behind the scenes,
and then they show up at the meeting and sometimes
they let all their vitriol fly, but it doesn't it
doesn't invalidate the stuff that they've dug up.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Right, and that's the problem. They do that a because
they're colorful personalities and b because that's how that's how
they get attention to the issues. And trust me, these
people are right more often than they are not. They
go to the eight thirty committee meetings. I mean, they're
there in city Hall at eight thirty, questioning and looking
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at and so they're doing it colorfully. And hammer Sawson
who celebrates Kendrick Lamore with the N word and his lyrics,
and city Council with all of these others celebrate these
folks with the N word and their lyrics. Suddenly they
don't want those words to be used.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Now, I've ever had any patients for people who embrace
all these rap stars and then go around lecturing and
scolding others over language they might use. Let me ask
you one more thing before I got to go, why
don't we have an official proclamation for the cause of
the Palisades fire?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Surely they know by now.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Well, you know I wanted to go to city Hall
shortly after that because Harris Dawson was the acting mayor
when this happened, and three of his staffers actually physically
assaulted me when he tried to censor me at the meeting,
and so I turned my camera on in the whole way.
So why don't we have an official proclamation? It's the
same reason. Why not one of them of the fifteen,
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not one of them has called for Karen Bass to
resign because they all are there in jobs with salaries
and benefits and cars and travel that not one of
them could touch in the private sector, and they don't
want to disrupt the status quo. And Monica Rodriguez, who
stood up for la FD chief Kristin Crowley, you know
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she hasn't called for the mayor to resign. But nine
of the people I know wanted to resign. So they're
protecting themselves, not the people they represent.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Why would revealing the cause of the fire cause any
any embarrassment or any issues and cause someone to lose
their job?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
What right right there?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Because there but for the grace of the city council
go I Because they all have things that they'd rather
not have. The public know because if you vote against Bob,
Bob will vote against Monica. Monica is going to spill
the secrets on Emelda, and Melda's going to spill the
secrets on this one or that one. So they all
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have things to hide, and not one of them has
the courage. And I'll be honest with you, John Kenneth,
May you have the city Controller DSA or not. He's
been the most transparent person in city hall about this stuff. Yeah,
that's his job, of course.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
DSA is Democratic Socialists of America and he has been
telling the truth about them being massively in debt and
what's causing the debt in the budget. In fact, I
was going to talk about him later. The Wall Street
Journal did an editorial entitled Los Angeles goes for Broke
Literally all right, well, listen, can you hear anything about
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the cause of the fire you let us know? And
any more about the parking losing sixty five million dollars
on parking tickets, all this stuff?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (29:38):
I sure will, John, talk to you later.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
All right, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
We just had Daniel Guss on the reporter who covers
City Hall because Marquise Harris Dawson, who is acting mayor
the day of the fire, he's really upset that people
say use foul language and call all the city council
members all kinds of nasty names, including the N word
and the C word, and is trying to ban them
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from saying those things, which is a violation of the
First Amendment at a public meeting. Now we have a
cut here and I haven't heard this, but one of
the characters that shows up and berates the city council
people is a mister Herman and this was him in
an LA City Council meeting last year.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
And well, let's see what this is, mister Herman. Which
items had you signed up for?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Mister criminal attorney, I wish to speak, and all mo
the items are signed up for the record and non
agenda public comments, sir, please thanks.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
So you have three minutes rid of miss one through nine,
followed by the men in general.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Please begin, mister h.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
Regarding these abatements, you know it's a shame that whereas Gregorian,
who has two abatements for over ten thousand dollars, You
mean to tell me he's not gonna wave and not
this wave. I'm talking about wave all those extra additional
surcharges against people who or just trying to make a
(31:06):
living and continue to own their property. Now on item
number four, I definitely support the family that you give
them a receipt and wave all those conditions that you
put against their property for twelve thousand.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Dollars, because that's ridiculous. Man, they already had a fence.
You don't have to put up a second fence to
build them on their property because some bulams jump over
the fence and pick up their yard. Yeah, I'm talking
about that.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Just twelve thousand.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Dollars ain't chump change and money don't fall off the
mother trees, mister attorney, So you should do something about it.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Food. You should.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
Now, whether you.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Have a heart or a conscience, maybe that dumb chairman
up there will wave those feest and maybe provide them
with provisions to pay the initial fine with all the
other searcharges that you mother criminals keep building people on
abatement and leans.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
For the record, what about the.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Other items I signed? I signed up on all items
and the reason because like I said, for the record,
it's unconstitutional that you again, try to say to me
while I'm speaking, mister attorney, are you paying attention because
this is about you, you enforcement.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Sir, your violence and your criminal.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Activity of threats, sir. Are you listening to me? Mister Bloomfield,
is he listening to me? Because I'm really off mother
topic and that Attorney Foo, former Attorney Foo, don't want
to pay attention to my mother about all the items
on the agenda.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
We should give him a show that mister hermit.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
He was also wearing a post bored around his neck
with a big swastika on it.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Well, there's a friendly touch. Huh, that's great.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
See, and Marquise Harristawsen wants to ban people like mister
Herman from expressing themselves, which is his constitutional right here
in America. All right, we should maybe we can make
this a regular feature. Actually, oh yeah, we do have
the moistcoats, so I was going to say, it's pretty close.
When we come back, we are going to talk to
(33:31):
Royal Oaks from ABC News because you may have heard
that there has been a considerable back and forth on
whether the Trump administration violated the constitutional rights of criminal
illegal aliens who got deported to El Salvador and put
in a terrible prison. These would be including trend de
Ragua gang members from Venezuela. Well, there's a lot of
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news on this. Turns out Venezuela made a deal with
the Trump administration and is going to take back deportees.
And I think there was a lot of behind the
scenes maneuvering that led to those plane flights Tel Salvador.
Judges on the appeals court are now listening to an
appeal they did today because a judge blocked further flights,
(34:18):
and it's an entertaining issue. We'll get to it coming
up after Debora's news. Deborah Mark Live in the KFI
twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
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