May 23, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (05/23) - Michael Monks came on the show to talk about the latest happening down at LA City Hall as the City Council approved a new budget among other things. LA City Councilwoman Traci Park went on a rant about wasteful spending in the city yesterday during the City Council meeting. PCH reopened today for the first time since the fires.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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we got somebody else coming on, don't we Oops? All good?
(00:23):
I just spilled water all over my phone.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
At how much water do you need to get? You
need rice?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I need rice? Yeah, I'm not particularly hungry now.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
No, it's for your phone. You show up, yes, yes, No,
you better John. You're just leaving your phone. You need
to go get some paper towels and wipe it down.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
At least maybe my phone will short out and not
ring for the whole weekend. Okay, then there's that. All right,
let's get Michael Monks on here.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Let's not I'm not sure how things are going in
here today. Uh, you know, I get crazy and I
start It's Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, the La City Council approved a fourteen billion dollar budget.
Tracy Park had a fit, Yeah, which I I maybe
might have a clip of it, but I'm going to
play it its entirety later. And it seems like they're
cutting well, the fire department is getting cut in some way.
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There seems to be a debate about that. But if
they're debating it, that's not good. The police department is
getting cut in a backward sort of way. Even Karen
Bass's Inside Safe program is getting cut. Talk about this.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, So they approved the budget yesterday and it was
a very long meeting, a lot of back and forth. Now,
in the past couple of years, when the budget came
up for a vote, you saw just a handful of
council members vote against it, and it was usually the
Democratic Socialist groups, the DSA endorsed politicians, the more progressive
members who voted no because of police funding. They wanted
less money for the police department. This year, there were
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three council members again who voted against it. But it
wasn't those guys. It was, as you mentioned, council member
Tracy Park and she was joined by a council members
Monica Rodriguez and John Lee, who were upset specifically about
what you mentioned, the fire department and the police department.
To sanity caucus, you might call it that if if
you're in agreement with them, certainly. The city was facing
a pretty significant budget deficit, estimated to be about a
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billion dollars, and in Mayor Bass's proposed budget that the
city council diestop and moved some money around, and she
was saying, we need to lay off about sixteen hundred workers.
So the budget committee over the past two weeks before
this vote, they went through this thing and try to
save as many jobs as they can. They think they've
saved about a thousand of those jobs. But in order
to do that, they had to make cuts elsewhere. They
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had to make changes. Mayor Bass had wanted to see
the city hire another four hundred and eighty police officers.
The budget committee recommended, and the city Council adopted a
budget that only allows for them to hire two hundred
and forty. And because some officers will retire, some officers
might leave, that might end up being a net negative
to a department that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
We already struggle with fewer police officers.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
In the near future, it's projected that you will end
up with fewer police office, the lowest level in many
many years. And in my book, that is a cut
to the police department certainly. But the other thing to consider,
and I think the reason that it was something that
many other members could digest was the police department has
been fully funded for about ten thousand positions for a
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while now, and no matter who the chief is over
the years, how many times have you had a parade
of chiefs come on this program and talk about various things,
and they've said, oh, we're struggling.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You know, we're struggling to hire.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
They had the money to hire a lot of officers,
but their recruiting wasn't working.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It was it may have been bureaucracy, it might.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Have been it mudes around Police Georgia, but they have
not been able to fill their ranks. And so now
the city is saying, we're gonna give you money the
fun fewer anyway, and put that money elsewhere so that
we can save jobs in street services, street lighting, the zoo,
those street lighting. Well, you know, we have a major
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problem city. It's dark everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I know, it's dark.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Criminals, Yeah, that's right. Killing, it's a circular firing squad.
In this budget talk because they are trying to solve
problems by defunding some of these solutions.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well, yeah, because we've got we've got garbage everywhere, we
got street lights out everywhere. I don't understand any of
this that this makes any sense.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Conversely, or similarly, the fire department, as you noted, they're
not being cut necessarily, but there are fewer new firefighters
coming compared to what Mayor Bass had suggested. You may
recall we had a pretty significant fire in Pacific Palisades
earlier this year.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I've heard of it, and there was.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
A lot of debate about what the status of the
fire department was.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Did did their budget get cut, did it not? It
depended on how you looked at the whether it went
up a little or down a little. It's half the
size that it's supposed to be for a city this big.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And a city as large as this that has not
added additional firehouses in deb gades. And so we may
see the city vote as soon as next year on
a bond measure that will allow for the construction of
more facilities, but that can't impact employees. We can't approve
bonds to hire people, so that's not going to be
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part of this. So Mayor Bass had wanted about two
hundred some odd additional firefighters and it looks like the
city council's budget that they adopted yesterday would expand that
department by fifty eight employees.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Fifty eight, Well, that would have put out the fire
in the Palisades. Fifty eight people probably mostly work work.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
That's why you heard an impassioned speech from council Member
Tracy Park, who represents the Palisades yesterday. There were some
Every member took a turn to speak just before the vote,
and some of it was weird. Weather Hut, for example,
cried over the budget. Over the budget, Yeah, what was
she crying about. She just envisions the police. She envisions
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the city someday where there are no homeless people walking around,
where people aren't afraid of the police.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Make it illegal, yeah, make homeless people illegal, just like
all the other cities do. Go walk around Irvine, You're
not going to find anybody sleeping in the street. Walk
around Beverly Hills, even West Hollywood, Malibu, there's no people
in the street because it's not legal. There.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I mentioned the circular firing squad or the defunding of
solutions in order to address problems. You see it a
lot at these city council meetings and rarely do you
see this city do any introspection. For example, today they
did vote to adjust the minimum wage for hotel and
airport workers up to thirty dollars an hour by twenty
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twenty eight, despite the cries of the small hotel operators
who are saying, there's just no way we can we
can afford this. And by the way, you yourselves just
yesterday cut your own budget, are still laying off hundreds
of workers and telling your union employees to please delay
your own raises because you can't afford it. And now
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you're telling us to pay more to our workers when
we're in the same economic condition or worse than you are,
and we can't borrow money at the level that you
can to save our well, I've.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Read at the hotels that agreed to supply discount rooms
for the Olympics want to pull out of the deal.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Eight of them have so far. You might see more
of that because of just how serious it is. But
the complaint from the supporters at city Hall about that
issue as it relates to the budget is the city
has become unaffordable.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
We need we need a living wage for these folks.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But there's never any talk about any of the policies
that might lend itself to making it so expensive to
live here.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Plus, if you let in a million illegal aliens that
are living in Los Angeles, that's going to drive up
the cost of housing. If eleven, if a million illegal
aliens weren't here, imagine all the housing that would open up,
and then the rents and the and the price of
the buildings would drop.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
It also would if there were more available, more houses built.
And they make it very difficult to build in this
city inside safe program. Yeah, they did cuts some money
from that, and they've also in this budget added some
more or oversight of the homeless fending. You may recall
that they did not really have anybody at City Hall
who was documenting the dollars that were sent out to
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LASA so that they could see if they were being
effective or not. So they decided they should probably do
that now that loss is about to collapse.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I hear Judge Carter's going to have bas testifying that.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Stuff's not over yet either, the stuff over the homeless funding,
that's not over yet either. So they have managed to
close that billion dollar budget deficit, but that's just for
this budget. They got a lot of problems ahead, all right, Michael,
very good, always a pleasure. Michael Monks KFI News covering
the dysfunction of the clowns and mental patients that run
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the city City council.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
All right, we come back. You got it. You gotta
hear Tracy Park. Tracy Park went off like I never
heard anybody go off at an LA City Council meeting,
and she told the truth one hundred percent from beginning
to end. You will enjoy this to hear these bozos
get told off once and for all.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
All right, just had Michael Monks on the clowns, the
buffoons LA City Council. There's only three sane people at
the moment, and that's Tracy Park, who represents the West side,
and Monica Rodriguez and John Lee represent parts of the valley.
The rest of them really ought to be locked up
in a mental institution. They really ought to get the
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net and put them in straight jackets, carry them away
and shoot them up with a sedative because they make
no sense. They want fewer cops on the streets, fewer firefighters,
and they're doing still doing nothing. But wasting money on
homeless people. Tracy Park finally had enough yesterday and she
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went off when it was her turn to speak before
the budget vote. Let's play you this, enjoy it.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
At the start of this budget process, we made a
promise to maintain core services and minimize impacts to Angelino's.
But this budget doesn't reflect those promises. It's bloated with
homeless spending, a bottomless pit and taxpayer boondoggle that doubles
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down on failure year after year, and frankly, at this point,
it's just embarrassing. Hundreds of millions of dollars on bridge
homes and home keys and interim housing sites, and no
one can even tell us which ones are operational and
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which ones aren't, or how.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Many beds we have.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Spending a million and a half.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Dollars per door to.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Build micro units of housing to give away to homeless
drug addicts, when the vast majority of our own city
employees can never afford a condo at that price. LASA
is in a free for all. Literally, no one is
able to account for the billions we flush down the toilet,
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The county wisely pulling out while we're over here at
this city completely unprepared and so unable to manage our
own homeless affairs that we're about to be placed in
receivership by a federal judge. Again, it's embarrassing. I don't
think we should agree to spend another penny on homelessness
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until we, as a full council, not just the few
of you who get invited into the conversation, have the
chance to chime in and actually cast a boat on
whether we're finally getting a divorce from LASA, on what
the future of homeless services delivery looks like in LA.
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But instead of fixing that mess, what do we do
side to go after the increase we gave our fire department?
After all, we literally just witnessed in January with our
own eyes how desperately in need they are, with literally
half the staffing and funding they should have for a
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fire department in a city of our size. There are
still one hundred rigs sitting over at the boneyard. But
we're sitting here unable to say yes to the mechanics
that we need to fix them. We're shrinking LAPD in
favor of expanding other programs that haven't been effective, and
we're doing it right on the cusp of major world
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events and in the midst of a crime and homelessness crisis,
while our residents continue to be victimized in a city
where the former deputy marriages pled guilty to calling in
bomb threats to city Hall.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That's the state of.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Our city going after our neighborhood councils, the people who
volunteer their time to help guide us and do good
things in our neighborhood and in our city, All of
our residents and taxpayers, all they want is a fully
funded police and fire department. They want the sidewalks fixed,
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they want the street lights to work, and they want
their kids to be able to play at the local
park without having to step over drug and trash camps.
We are down rabbit holes of spending on things that
no one cares about. We haven't eliminated the price gouging
that we do to ourselves, and just can't in good
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conscience vote for a budget that makes our city less safe,
less fiscally sound, and even less responsive to our constituents
basic needs. I do appreciate all of the hard work
that the mayor and the CEO and the CLA and
the budget committee put into this but I just cannot
support this budget as it stands.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Isn't that great? Just brilliant?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Wow, that's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, Wow, I feel like playing it over and over
for the rest of the show. She's your rep, right,
Yeah she is. She is, and she's actually cleaned up
a good portion of the homeless camps and responds very quickly,
it can be done. You have to want to do it.
A lot of the council people do not want to
disturb the homeless.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Everything she said, I'm going to take my news hat off.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yes, second, all right, can I hold it?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You can, I'm going to go bring it over to
you catch it, all right? Everything she said makes perfect sense.
And if the whole city council was on her side
and felt the same way, can you imagine how this
city would be run.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They held the vote after her speech. They voted twelve
to three for the budget. I know there's only three
saying city council members, there's only the twelve of them
are insane. They're crazy people.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I would like to ask all of them, what did
Tracy Parks say that you do not agree with?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, it's not the homeless spending, it's not a bottomless pit.
It's not a boondoggle. It is. Everybody says, so all
the auditors, judges, media, investigators, everybody says, wow, this is
a cess pool.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And she's right.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
No more money should be spent on the homeless problem
until we fix the broken system. All this money, the
sales tax that people just voted on that what was it?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Measure A yeah, measure a double the double the sales
text for homeless use, where is.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That money going? We can't find the other money, so
where's this money on the same train.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It just disappears. They steal it. The nonprofits and the agencies,
the bureaucrats, they steal the money. They give themselves incredible salaries.
I've seen the soal I've seen how much they get.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
But again, no matter what you say, because I've talked
to enough people, especially about the homeless problem. Look, nobody
likes to know that we have a homeless problem. Of course,
I think we all feel bad that there are people
that are homeless, whether it's because they're mentally ill or
they have a drug problem, whatever the reason. But to
keep throwing money at the problem and nothing's working. But
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then if you don't agree, and you don't agree on
raising the taxes to help the homeless, then you're a
bad person.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Nobody can understand why would you not want to help
the homeless.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Do they know that none of this is work? Though
it's one thing to say, Okay, I agree, big problem.
I want to do my part to help. And then
we throw in the money and it's ten years and
billions of dollars and everything's worse. Do they realize how
all this has been flushed away?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Now everything got worse because people will cite other statistics
that there are fewer people on the streets, that we
have more homeless shelters, the inside Safe program, before you know,
it's imploded, right, So people would cite those examples and
say it is getting better. But if you if you stop,
if you stop throwing money at it, then it's gonna
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get worse. And that means you're a bad person because
you don't care about the homeless.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So they allow this infrastructure to waste all the money,
and then people go, wow, if we don't give them
that money, everything will get worse. But they didn't make
it better. They didn't make it better. That they're holding
us hostage by threatening to make it worse and yet
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other cities don't have this problem. I'll walk around Beverly
Hills anytime, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
You're not gonna find anybody.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
We're on We're on the radio from one until four
o'clock and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on
demand on the iHeart app. So we were talking right
before the news we played a really wonderful cliff Tracy
Park ranting about the new La City budget. The police
force is gonna shrink, the fire department is going to shrink,
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and she said the homeless spending is a bottomless pit
and a boondoggle, and everything she says is true. And
Deby and I were talking, and you said that you
talk to some people and they'll tell you that No,
according to the statistics, I hear things are getting better.
Much of the money's been stolen, and that's been proven
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by the audits. There have been several. The state Newsome
admits twenty four billion dollars is missing. They don't know
where it went. The federal audit that the Judge Carter
did on LASA. There's two billion dollars there that's missing.
Karen Bass tried to block an audit. She doesn't want
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to hear the bad news. And what they do is
they'll put out a press claiming this statistic or that statistic,
but they're generally lies. Much of the money is absorbed.
People don't know this, and people will fall for the lie.
I mean, look at the clips we've played in Newsom
talking about, you know, banning gas powered cars that that
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you know, it's like two minutes of Newsom. It's chock
full of nonsense. But they know most people will believe
an authority figure. When you're an authority figure. I'm sorry,
most people are pathetic and weak and uninformed, and well
that's what the governor said. Well that's what the mayor said.
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And those in power know that they're lying, and they
know that most people will fall for the lying. So
we're stuck here. Most people in LA have bought into
the idea that, well, you know, it's we have to
be compassionate towards the homeless, and everyone's doing the best
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they can. It's and then you tell them, we'll look
at all the towns that don't have this problem. Why
don't they have the problem. They don't allow it. They
simply don't allow it. And you know, in other states,
you get forced into treatment, you get arrested, or you
get forced into treatment, either for your drug addiction or
your mental illness. And that's why people come here, Because
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people come to LA because they're not forced into treating anything. Clearly,
everything they're doing is broken. Well, I mean what Tracy
said is true. They just keep doubling down on all
the same failed policies. We still have seventy thousand homeless
people living in LA County. Seventy thousand. You may get
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an occasional year where oh it's down two percent, it's
seventy thousand. It was over seventy grand last year, it's
over seventy thousand this year, it's over seventy thousand next year.
Let me tell you when they do counts. When they
do counts and they claim it's down one year, and
this is true. They came up with an app. People
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who do homeless counting went to Venice counted the homeless,
put it in an app. The app malfunctioned. They published
the results and there were areas. I remember they called
them quadrants in Venice, including the ones that are most
densely populated with vagrants. And according to the APP, that
quadrant of Venice had zero and they publicized this until
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somebody said, wait a second, that quadrant has hundreds, maybe thousands,
not zero. Oh yeah, we had a malfunction. That's what
they do.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Oh it's no big deal.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, but people will hear the first reports I launch
you here. They didn't find any homeless people in Venice.
So all the policy, no, no, they didn't work.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
All you have to do is drive on the given
street in Venice and you will see homeless people.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I use my eyes. You go drive to Oh jeez,
Michael Monks, you know, for some reason, he lived downtown.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, I know, I hear the horror stories.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He showed me photos. He showed me photos of, you know,
a long string of tents along the sidewalks downtown that
he that he could see from his window.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
They were cleaned up at one point, and they're back again.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Right, They move them around and say look they're gone,
and then the next week, oh they're back. They just
move people around. They don't have the money to put
everybody in housing, the Inside Safe program where there's stuff
in people in motels. Is broke. Even Bass said, we're
running out of money, and that's why the city council
cut Bass's budget for Inside Safe. You think they do
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that if it was a wild success. It's not a success.
And it's too expensive, and that's what Tracy said. It costs.
It costs like a million dollars per housing unit.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
But so what what is the answer?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
You make it illegal and they'll have to go elsewhere.
You say, if I told you you're getting arrested and
you're going to jail unless you go to mental health
treatment or drug treatment, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Well, I would go get treatment.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And if you wanted to stay on drugs, you'd leave town.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But a lot of these people, I'm convinced they don't
they don't care, and what are they gonna do. They're
gonna go to jail, they're gonna be let out the
next day.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well, that's why we'd have to have a system where
you go to jail and you stay in jail until
you're willing to go to treatment.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Then our jails are going to be.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
So we build build up, build new jails.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Like you're homeless, the homeless people jail.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Right, exactly the homeless people jail and say, look, we
got a deal. We don't want to hold on to you,
but we will until you decide. Are you going to
Building one, which is the mental health treatment, or Building
two that's the drug treatment, or you could stay here
in Building three. I don't think there's any other way
you could do this, or you have to leave town.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And how are they going to do that?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
If we find that, well, you give them, you give
them a.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Bus ticket, and then we bust some other cities, bust
some other cities, and.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Then those cities are going to bust them right back.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Problem. I mean, did the other cis Charlotte, North Carolina
doesn't have this problem. Beverly Hills doesn't have the problem. Sarasota,
Florida doesn't have the problem. These are towns I've been
in in the last month. They simply don't.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Have the problem.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You go up, you go up the coast to all
the towns in Inturra County, it's no problem. Go to
Palm Springs. I went to Palm Springs a couple of
months ago, no problem. They don't exist. You get outside
of LA and they all disappears. It's like, you know,
six dollars gas that disappears too. It's all specifically this
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government because they're woke progressives. They're destructive, and there is
something wrong with the majority of voters in this state.
I don't understand how they're willing because we don't just
have like one indignity, we have like ten of them. Okay,
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We've got lots of crime, We've got lots of homelessness,
we have extremely high taxes. We have this this gas
car mandate, this ban that's that's been implemented, and maybe
now it's been overturned. We've got we've got the highest
gas taxes and the highest income taxes, and the highest
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sales taxes, the highest gas prices, the highest electricity prices.
I mean, what are we doing here?
Speaker 6 (25:26):
John?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Why are we still here?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
We have the worst school systems. No, I know, I
can't defend staying here. I really can't much of many
of the people I know who who've got the money
to move somewhere else. They've moved at least half the
time somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But it's hard and it's unfair.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And the people we have our families here and we
don't want to move. We have our jobs and our friends,
and we like the weather.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Why are the people who are still here, why do
they keep voting for this crowd? How could you have
twelve at of fifteen pece people on the city Council
in Los Angeles vote to shrink the police department, shrink
the fire department, and continue spending well over a billion
dollars on the vagrants and the mental patients, even though
all the programs have failed miserably, and they failed for
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ten years. These progressives had their run, they had it,
they had their way. For ten years, everything got worse.
Would anyone change their vote for anybody? Well?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I do know people that were pretty upset about the
fire and the palisades, and we're not fans.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Were fans of Karen Baths and are no longer fans.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah, so that that's what you need, You need seven
thousand buildings to burn.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Well, no, don't say that, don't put it out there.
We've had enough tragedy here.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
All right, we come back. I got a story about
my favorite favorite cabinet member of the Trump administration. You
know her Christino. Yeah, former South Dakota governor who killed her.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Own killed her own dog. But she's she's very pretty
but not everybody's perfect. All right, Yeah, I know you
like the way she looks that the.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Dog was an obeying.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Please just a joke. I don't like that joke.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Coming up after three thirty, next hour, Carl Demayo, Come
is coming on. He's got more uh more, Newsom chakinery.
Newsom has wasted five million dollars on a no bid
contract to some left wing group that runs a fake
hate crime hotline and two years five million dollars that
(27:52):
hate crime hotline referred zero cases. We'll talk to Carl
Demayo about that. Coming up. Christine Nome is that Homeland
Security secretary. Don't look at me like that. And there
(28:12):
was a lawsuit filed by the ACLU against the Trump
administration ten detained illegal immigrants and they were going to
be sent to Guantanamo Bay, and the AHLU sued, and
then they withdrew the lawsuit because several of the illegals
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were already deported, while the others just wanted to drop
out of the case, figuring there's no sense pissing off
Trump anymore. So Christine Nome posted the withdrawal in the
legal document, and then underneath that post she wrote, suck
it great, that's what I want to hear from the
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gift from these Gummer and officials, the AHLU and your
stupid lawsuits. Suck it. Nothing else to debate.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm still not a fan of her murdering her puppy.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I know you're never going to get over them. No,
you're not going to get around them. It's like one
dead disobedient dog. I mean, all right, I understand.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
We all have our you know, values and opinions, and
you have your boundaries and boundaries.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Now, the big question Debora and I both have when
we get out of here is will the traffic be easier?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I know today's holiday weekend, but much of that traffic
goes to the west. We're going to go to the east. Yes,
we're going to be going to the west. And for
the last four and a half months it has been impossible,
excruciating driving west down the one one to try to
get to for me, the west side, for Devera, the
West Valley because of all the extra traffic since they
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closed PCH.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
It's unbearable.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Every day I get home and I'm so angry. I
get to work and I'm angry.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
They also closed to Panga Canyon Road yep at times?
Is that still.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Closed that as well?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So you couldn't access Malibu from two out of the
three different different directions. Right, you can't access Balibu from
the ocean, but the three other ways, two of the
three were blocked, and so people would go on these
tortuous routes, you know, going down pH to the ten,
up the four h five to the one on one.
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And these are thousands of people every day just to
go to work or go home. And now they've opened
up the closed stretch on PCH. It was eleven miles
and today's the first day. I have two lanes in
each direction. I thought it was going to be one lane.
So this is better than I thought. Yes, and they
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have patrol cars everywhere, and most drivers were abiding by
the twenty five mile an hour speed limit, but there
were a few trying to race through. You know, this
is why, you know, there this eternal fight to try
to make PCH safer. It's not the highways, the people. Yes,
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that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And you know what, it's such a beautiful You have
the beach, right, you have the beautiful ocean.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Why do you need to speed?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
There's there's just too many rich jerks on the west side.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, I know they're driving their Ferraris, and you.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Know, I listen to you. You got that fancy convertible,
you go flying. I don't have a Ferrari, but if
you could, you would. Of course.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I'm just a little jealous, but I would be flying
down pch.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I'd be respectful and I would be mindful.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You're always under the speed limit, not always flying with
the top down.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I try to be careful and safe.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
If she's not, she's looking at her phone, looking at
the light.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
No, that was one time.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
But no, why me, you can't.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I tell you every day I see people staring at
their phones driving, or people like John Kobel who are
driving in the carpool lane that are not supposed to
and they don't get pulled over, but I do.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It's amazing how much you can drive in the carpool
Lane's because we don't. We've hardly any police. Well, I
know now it's gonna be worse. They're sending all the police.
They came out apparently with the bass. We were ripping
on her yesterday. We'll see if this plan works. She's
got a plan to uh set up checkpoints all over
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access to Pacific Palisades from Malibu from Sunset Boulevard because
the National Guard is gone.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
But you know, also John Summer's right around the corner,
and we have all these graduations schools out, so the
traffic is going to be light anyway. So it's going
to be hard to tell if it's because of pch
and to pangabein.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Open yeah, but if it's if it's just ten percent better,
that's gonna be huge. Yes, let me see what We've
got a text on this yesterday, sixteen checkpoints and one
hundred and thirty LAPD police officers twenty four to seven
along with CHP and forty eight private patrol cars, so
that they're going to try to keep the bad guys
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from looting what's left of the Palisades and from squatting
there and having gangs set up encampments. All right, we
come back. We got two rounds of the moistline coming up.
Carl Demio on this five million dollar no bid contract
to some left wing group to run a hate crime
hotline that came up with zero cases in two years.
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Debra Mark is live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
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Show on demand on the iHeart App. And uh, we
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at three twenty and three point fifty. And we also
we got somebody else coming on, don't we Oops? All good?
(00:23):
I just spilled water all over my phone.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
At how much water do you need to get? You
need rice?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I need rice? Yeah, I'm not particularly hungry now.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
No, it's for your phone. You show up, yes, yes, No,
you better John. You're just leaving your phone. You need
to go get some paper towels and wipe it down.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
At least maybe my phone will short out and not
ring for the whole weekend. Okay, then there's that. All right,
let's get Michael Monks on here.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Let's not I'm not sure how things are going in
here today. Uh, you know, I get crazy and I
start It's Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, the La City Council approved a fourteen billion dollar budget.
Tracy Park had a fit, Yeah, which I I maybe
might have a clip of it, but I'm going to
play it its entirety later. And it seems like they're
cutting well, the fire department is getting cut in some way.
(01:14):
There seems to be a debate about that. But if
they're debating it, that's not good. The police department is
getting cut in a backward sort of way. Even Karen
Bass's Inside Safe program is getting cut. Talk about this.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, So they approved the budget yesterday and it was
a very long meeting, a lot of back and forth. Now,
in the past couple of years, when the budget came
up for a vote, you saw just a handful of
council members vote against it, and it was usually the
Democratic Socialist groups, the DSA endorsed politicians, the more progressive
members who voted no because of police funding. They wanted
less money for the police department. This year, there were
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three council members again who voted against it. But it
wasn't those guys. It was, as you mentioned, council member
Tracy Park and she was joined by a council members
Monica Rodriguez and John Lee, who were upset specifically about
what you mentioned, the fire department and the police department.
To sanity caucus, you might call it that if if
you're in agreement with them, certainly. The city was facing
a pretty significant budget deficit, estimated to be about a
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billion dollars, and in Mayor Bass's proposed budget that the
city council diestop and moved some money around, and she
was saying, we need to lay off about sixteen hundred workers.
So the budget committee over the past two weeks before
this vote, they went through this thing and try to
save as many jobs as they can. They think they've
saved about a thousand of those jobs. But in order
to do that, they had to make cuts elsewhere. They
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had to make changes. Mayor Bass had wanted to see
the city hire another four hundred and eighty police officers.
The budget committee recommended, and the city Council adopted a
budget that only allows for them to hire two hundred
and forty. And because some officers will retire, some officers
might leave, that might end up being a net negative
to a department that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
We already struggle with fewer police officers.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
In the near future, it's projected that you will end
up with fewer police office, the lowest level in many
many years. And in my book, that is a cut
to the police department certainly. But the other thing to consider,
and I think the reason that it was something that
many other members could digest was the police department has
been fully funded for about ten thousand positions for a
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while now, and no matter who the chief is over
the years, how many times have you had a parade
of chiefs come on this program and talk about various things,
and they've said, oh, we're struggling.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You know, we're struggling to hire.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
They had the money to hire a lot of officers,
but their recruiting wasn't working.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It was it may have been bureaucracy, it might.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Have been it mudes around Police Georgia, but they have
not been able to fill their ranks. And so now
the city is saying, we're gonna give you money the
fun fewer anyway, and put that money elsewhere so that
we can save jobs in street services, street lighting, the zoo,
those street lighting. Well, you know, we have a major
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problem city. It's dark everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I know, it's dark.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Criminals, Yeah, that's right. Killing, it's a circular firing squad.
In this budget talk because they are trying to solve
problems by defunding some of these solutions.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well, yeah, because we've got we've got garbage everywhere, we
got street lights out everywhere. I don't understand any of
this that this makes any sense.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Conversely, or similarly, the fire department, as you noted, they're
not being cut necessarily, but there are fewer new firefighters
coming compared to what Mayor Bass had suggested. You may
recall we had a pretty significant fire in Pacific Palisades
earlier this year.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I've heard of it, and there was.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
A lot of debate about what the status of the
fire department was.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Did did their budget get cut, did it not? It
depended on how you looked at the whether it went
up a little or down a little. It's half the
size that it's supposed to be for a city this big.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And a city as large as this that has not
added additional firehouses in deb gades. And so we may
see the city vote as soon as next year on
a bond measure that will allow for the construction of
more facilities, but that can't impact employees. We can't approve
bonds to hire people, so that's not going to be
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part of this. So Mayor Bass had wanted about two
hundred some odd additional firefighters and it looks like the
city council's budget that they adopted yesterday would expand that
department by fifty eight employees.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Fifty eight, Well, that would have put out the fire
in the Palisades. Fifty eight people probably mostly work work.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
That's why you heard an impassioned speech from council Member
Tracy Park, who represents the Palisades yesterday. There were some
Every member took a turn to speak just before the vote,
and some of it was weird. Weather Hut, for example,
cried over the budget. Over the budget, Yeah, what was
she crying about. She just envisions the police. She envisions
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the city someday where there are no homeless people walking around,
where people aren't afraid of the police.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Make it illegal, yeah, make homeless people illegal, just like
all the other cities do. Go walk around Irvine, You're
not going to find anybody sleeping in the street. Walk
around Beverly Hills, even West Hollywood, Malibu, there's no people
in the street because it's not legal. There.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I mentioned the circular firing squad or the defunding of
solutions in order to address problems. You see it a
lot at these city council meetings and rarely do you
see this city do any introspection. For example, today they
did vote to adjust the minimum wage for hotel and
airport workers up to thirty dollars an hour by twenty
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twenty eight, despite the cries of the small hotel operators
who are saying, there's just no way we can we
can afford this. And by the way, you yourselves just
yesterday cut your own budget, are still laying off hundreds
of workers and telling your union employees to please delay
your own raises because you can't afford it. And now
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you're telling us to pay more to our workers when
we're in the same economic condition or worse than you are,
and we can't borrow money at the level that you
can to save our well, I've.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Read at the hotels that agreed to supply discount rooms
for the Olympics want to pull out of the deal.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Eight of them have so far. You might see more
of that because of just how serious it is. But
the complaint from the supporters at city Hall about that
issue as it relates to the budget is the city
has become unaffordable.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
We need we need a living wage for these folks.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But there's never any talk about any of the policies
that might lend itself to making it so expensive to
live here.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Plus, if you let in a million illegal aliens that
are living in Los Angeles, that's going to drive up
the cost of housing. If eleven, if a million illegal
aliens weren't here, imagine all the housing that would open up,
and then the rents and the and the price of
the buildings would drop.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
It also would if there were more available, more houses built.
And they make it very difficult to build in this
city inside safe program. Yeah, they did cuts some money
from that, and they've also in this budget added some
more or oversight of the homeless fending. You may recall
that they did not really have anybody at City Hall
who was documenting the dollars that were sent out to
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LASA so that they could see if they were being
effective or not. So they decided they should probably do
that now that loss is about to collapse.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I hear Judge Carter's going to have bas testifying that.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Stuff's not over yet either, the stuff over the homeless funding,
that's not over yet either. So they have managed to
close that billion dollar budget deficit, but that's just for
this budget. They got a lot of problems ahead, all right, Michael,
very good, always a pleasure. Michael Monks KFI News covering
the dysfunction of the clowns and mental patients that run
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the city City council.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
All right, we come back. You got it. You gotta
hear Tracy Park. Tracy Park went off like I never
heard anybody go off at an LA City Council meeting,
and she told the truth one hundred percent from beginning
to end. You will enjoy this to hear these bozos
get told off once and for all.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
All right, just had Michael Monks on the clowns, the
buffoons LA City Council. There's only three sane people at
the moment, and that's Tracy Park, who represents the West side,
and Monica Rodriguez and John Lee represent parts of the valley.
The rest of them really ought to be locked up
in a mental institution. They really ought to get the
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net and put them in straight jackets, carry them away
and shoot them up with a sedative because they make
no sense. They want fewer cops on the streets, fewer firefighters,
and they're doing still doing nothing. But wasting money on
homeless people. Tracy Park finally had enough yesterday and she
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went off when it was her turn to speak before
the budget vote. Let's play you this, enjoy it.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
At the start of this budget process, we made a
promise to maintain core services and minimize impacts to Angelino's.
But this budget doesn't reflect those promises. It's bloated with
homeless spending, a bottomless pit and taxpayer boondoggle that doubles
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down on failure year after year, and frankly, at this point,
it's just embarrassing. Hundreds of millions of dollars on bridge
homes and home keys and interim housing sites, and no
one can even tell us which ones are operational and
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which ones aren't, or how.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Many beds we have.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Spending a million and a half.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Dollars per door to.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Build micro units of housing to give away to homeless
drug addicts, when the vast majority of our own city
employees can never afford a condo at that price. LASA
is in a free for all. Literally, no one is
able to account for the billions we flush down the toilet,
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The county wisely pulling out while we're over here at
this city completely unprepared and so unable to manage our
own homeless affairs that we're about to be placed in
receivership by a federal judge. Again, it's embarrassing. I don't
think we should agree to spend another penny on homelessness
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until we, as a full council, not just the few
of you who get invited into the conversation, have the
chance to chime in and actually cast a boat on
whether we're finally getting a divorce from LASA, on what
the future of homeless services delivery looks like in LA.
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But instead of fixing that mess, what do we do
side to go after the increase we gave our fire department?
After all, we literally just witnessed in January with our
own eyes how desperately in need they are, with literally
half the staffing and funding they should have for a
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fire department in a city of our size. There are
still one hundred rigs sitting over at the boneyard. But
we're sitting here unable to say yes to the mechanics
that we need to fix them. We're shrinking LAPD in
favor of expanding other programs that haven't been effective, and
we're doing it right on the cusp of major world
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events and in the midst of a crime and homelessness crisis,
while our residents continue to be victimized in a city
where the former deputy marriages pled guilty to calling in
bomb threats to city Hall.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That's the state of.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Our city going after our neighborhood councils, the people who
volunteer their time to help guide us and do good
things in our neighborhood and in our city, All of
our residents and taxpayers, all they want is a fully
funded police and fire department. They want the sidewalks fixed,
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they want the street lights to work, and they want
their kids to be able to play at the local
park without having to step over drug and trash camps.
We are down rabbit holes of spending on things that
no one cares about. We haven't eliminated the price gouging
that we do to ourselves, and just can't in good
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conscience vote for a budget that makes our city less safe,
less fiscally sound, and even less responsive to our constituents
basic needs. I do appreciate all of the hard work
that the mayor and the CEO and the CLA and
the budget committee put into this but I just cannot
support this budget as it stands.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Isn't that great? Just brilliant?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Wow, that's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, Wow, I feel like playing it over and over
for the rest of the show. She's your rep, right,
Yeah she is. She is, and she's actually cleaned up
a good portion of the homeless camps and responds very quickly,
it can be done. You have to want to do it.
A lot of the council people do not want to
disturb the homeless.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Everything she said, I'm going to take my news hat off.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yes, second, all right, can I hold it?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
You can, I'm going to go bring it over to
you catch it, all right? Everything she said makes perfect sense.
And if the whole city council was on her side
and felt the same way, can you imagine how this
city would be run.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They held the vote after her speech. They voted twelve
to three for the budget. I know there's only three
saying city council members, there's only the twelve of them
are insane. They're crazy people.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I would like to ask all of them, what did
Tracy Parks say that you do not agree with?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, it's not the homeless spending, it's not a bottomless pit.
It's not a boondoggle. It is. Everybody says, so all
the auditors, judges, media, investigators, everybody says, wow, this is
a cess pool.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And she's right.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
No more money should be spent on the homeless problem
until we fix the broken system. All this money, the
sales tax that people just voted on that what was it?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Measure A yeah, measure a double the double the sales
text for homeless use, where is.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That money going? We can't find the other money, so
where's this money on the same train.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It just disappears. They steal it. The nonprofits and the agencies,
the bureaucrats, they steal the money. They give themselves incredible salaries.
I've seen the soal I've seen how much they get.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
But again, no matter what you say, because I've talked
to enough people, especially about the homeless problem. Look, nobody
likes to know that we have a homeless problem. Of course,
I think we all feel bad that there are people
that are homeless, whether it's because they're mentally ill or
they have a drug problem, whatever the reason. But to
keep throwing money at the problem and nothing's working. But
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then if you don't agree, and you don't agree on
raising the taxes to help the homeless, then you're a
bad person.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Nobody can understand why would you not want to help
the homeless.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Do they know that none of this is work? Though
it's one thing to say, Okay, I agree, big problem.
I want to do my part to help. And then
we throw in the money and it's ten years and
billions of dollars and everything's worse. Do they realize how
all this has been flushed away?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Now everything got worse because people will cite other statistics
that there are fewer people on the streets, that we
have more homeless shelters, the inside Safe program, before you know,
it's imploded, right, So people would cite those examples and
say it is getting better. But if you if you stop,
if you stop throwing money at it, then it's gonna
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get worse. And that means you're a bad person because
you don't care about the homeless.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So they allow this infrastructure to waste all the money,
and then people go, wow, if we don't give them
that money, everything will get worse. But they didn't make
it better. They didn't make it better. That they're holding
us hostage by threatening to make it worse and yet
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other cities don't have this problem. I'll walk around Beverly
Hills anytime, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
You're not gonna find anybody.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
We're on We're on the radio from one until four
o'clock and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on
demand on the iHeart app. So we were talking right
before the news we played a really wonderful cliff Tracy
Park ranting about the new La City budget. The police
force is gonna shrink, the fire department is going to shrink,
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and she said the homeless spending is a bottomless pit
and a boondoggle, and everything she says is true. And
Deby and I were talking, and you said that you
talk to some people and they'll tell you that No,
according to the statistics, I hear things are getting better.
Much of the money's been stolen, and that's been proven
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by the audits. There have been several. The state Newsome
admits twenty four billion dollars is missing. They don't know
where it went. The federal audit that the Judge Carter
did on LASA. There's two billion dollars there that's missing.
Karen Bass tried to block an audit. She doesn't want
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to hear the bad news. And what they do is
they'll put out a press claiming this statistic or that statistic,
but they're generally lies. Much of the money is absorbed.
People don't know this, and people will fall for the lie.
I mean, look at the clips we've played in Newsom
talking about, you know, banning gas powered cars that that
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you know, it's like two minutes of Newsom. It's chock
full of nonsense. But they know most people will believe
an authority figure. When you're an authority figure. I'm sorry,
most people are pathetic and weak and uninformed, and well
that's what the governor said. Well that's what the mayor said.
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And those in power know that they're lying, and they
know that most people will fall for the lying. So
we're stuck here. Most people in LA have bought into
the idea that, well, you know, it's we have to
be compassionate towards the homeless, and everyone's doing the best
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they can. It's and then you tell them, we'll look
at all the towns that don't have this problem. Why
don't they have the problem. They don't allow it. They
simply don't allow it. And you know, in other states,
you get forced into treatment, you get arrested, or you
get forced into treatment, either for your drug addiction or
your mental illness. And that's why people come here, Because
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people come to LA because they're not forced into treating anything. Clearly,
everything they're doing is broken. Well, I mean what Tracy
said is true. They just keep doubling down on all
the same failed policies. We still have seventy thousand homeless
people living in LA County. Seventy thousand. You may get
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an occasional year where oh it's down two percent, it's
seventy thousand. It was over seventy grand last year, it's
over seventy thousand this year, it's over seventy thousand next year.
Let me tell you when they do counts. When they
do counts and they claim it's down one year, and
this is true. They came up with an app. People
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who do homeless counting went to Venice counted the homeless,
put it in an app. The app malfunctioned. They published
the results and there were areas. I remember they called
them quadrants in Venice, including the ones that are most
densely populated with vagrants. And according to the APP, that
quadrant of Venice had zero and they publicized this until
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somebody said, wait a second, that quadrant has hundreds, maybe thousands,
not zero. Oh yeah, we had a malfunction. That's what
they do.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Oh it's no big deal.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, but people will hear the first reports I launch
you here. They didn't find any homeless people in Venice.
So all the policy, no, no, they didn't work.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
All you have to do is drive on the given
street in Venice and you will see homeless people.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I use my eyes. You go drive to Oh jeez,
Michael Monks, you know, for some reason, he lived downtown.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, I know, I hear the horror stories.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He showed me photos. He showed me photos of, you know,
a long string of tents along the sidewalks downtown that
he that he could see from his window.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
They were cleaned up at one point, and they're back again.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Right, They move them around and say look they're gone,
and then the next week, oh they're back. They just
move people around. They don't have the money to put
everybody in housing, the Inside Safe program where there's stuff
in people in motels. Is broke. Even Bass said, we're
running out of money, and that's why the city council
cut Bass's budget for Inside Safe. You think they do
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that if it was a wild success. It's not a success.
And it's too expensive, and that's what Tracy said. It costs.
It costs like a million dollars per housing unit.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
But so what what is the answer?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
You make it illegal and they'll have to go elsewhere.
You say, if I told you you're getting arrested and
you're going to jail unless you go to mental health
treatment or drug treatment, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Well, I would go get treatment.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And if you wanted to stay on drugs, you'd leave town.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But a lot of these people, I'm convinced they don't
they don't care, and what are they gonna do. They're
gonna go to jail, they're gonna be let out the
next day.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well, that's why we'd have to have a system where
you go to jail and you stay in jail until
you're willing to go to treatment.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Then our jails are going to be.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
So we build build up, build new jails.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Like you're homeless, the homeless people jail.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Right, exactly the homeless people jail and say, look, we
got a deal. We don't want to hold on to you,
but we will until you decide. Are you going to
Building one, which is the mental health treatment, or Building
two that's the drug treatment, or you could stay here
in Building three. I don't think there's any other way
you could do this, or you have to leave town.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And how are they going to do that?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
If we find that, well, you give them, you give
them a.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Bus ticket, and then we bust some other cities, bust
some other cities, and.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Then those cities are going to bust them right back.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Problem. I mean, did the other cis Charlotte, North Carolina
doesn't have this problem. Beverly Hills doesn't have the problem. Sarasota,
Florida doesn't have the problem. These are towns I've been
in in the last month. They simply don't.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Have the problem.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
You go up, you go up the coast to all
the towns in Inturra County, it's no problem. Go to
Palm Springs. I went to Palm Springs a couple of
months ago, no problem. They don't exist. You get outside
of LA and they all disappears. It's like, you know,
six dollars gas that disappears too. It's all specifically this
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government because they're woke progressives. They're destructive, and there is
something wrong with the majority of voters in this state.
I don't understand how they're willing because we don't just
have like one indignity, we have like ten of them. Okay,
(24:55):
We've got lots of crime, We've got lots of homelessness,
we have extremely high taxes. We have this this gas
car mandate, this ban that's that's been implemented, and maybe
now it's been overturned. We've got we've got the highest
gas taxes and the highest income taxes, and the highest
(25:18):
sales taxes, the highest gas prices, the highest electricity prices.
I mean, what are we doing here?
Speaker 6 (25:26):
John?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Why are we still here?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
We have the worst school systems. No, I know, I
can't defend staying here. I really can't much of many
of the people I know who who've got the money
to move somewhere else. They've moved at least half the
time somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But it's hard and it's unfair.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
And the people we have our families here and we
don't want to move. We have our jobs and our friends,
and we like the weather.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Why are the people who are still here, why do
they keep voting for this crowd? How could you have
twelve at of fifteen pece people on the city Council
in Los Angeles vote to shrink the police department, shrink
the fire department, and continue spending well over a billion
dollars on the vagrants and the mental patients, even though
all the programs have failed miserably, and they failed for
(26:15):
ten years. These progressives had their run, they had it,
they had their way. For ten years, everything got worse.
Would anyone change their vote for anybody? Well?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I do know people that were pretty upset about the
fire and the palisades, and we're not fans.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Were fans of Karen Baths and are no longer fans.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah, so that that's what you need, You need seven
thousand buildings to burn.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Well, no, don't say that, don't put it out there.
We've had enough tragedy here.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
All right, we come back. I got a story about
my favorite favorite cabinet member of the Trump administration. You
know her Christino. Yeah, former South Dakota governor who killed her.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Own killed her own dog. But she's she's very pretty
but not everybody's perfect. All right, Yeah, I know you
like the way she looks that the.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Dog was an obeying.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Please just a joke. I don't like that joke.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Coming up after three thirty, next hour, Carl Demayo, Come
is coming on. He's got more uh more, Newsom chakinery.
Newsom has wasted five million dollars on a no bid
contract to some left wing group that runs a fake
hate crime hotline and two years five million dollars that
(27:52):
hate crime hotline referred zero cases. We'll talk to Carl
Demayo about that. Coming up. Christine Nome is that Homeland
Security secretary. Don't look at me like that. And there
(28:12):
was a lawsuit filed by the ACLU against the Trump
administration ten detained illegal immigrants and they were going to
be sent to Guantanamo Bay, and the AHLU sued, and
then they withdrew the lawsuit because several of the illegals
(28:33):
were already deported, while the others just wanted to drop
out of the case, figuring there's no sense pissing off
Trump anymore. So Christine Nome posted the withdrawal in the
legal document, and then underneath that post she wrote, suck
it great, that's what I want to hear from the
(29:03):
gift from these Gummer and officials, the AHLU and your
stupid lawsuits. Suck it. Nothing else to debate.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm still not a fan of her murdering her puppy.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I know you're never going to get over them. No,
you're not going to get around them. It's like one
dead disobedient dog. I mean, all right, I understand.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
We all have our you know, values and opinions, and
you have your boundaries and boundaries.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Now, the big question Debora and I both have when
we get out of here is will the traffic be easier?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I know today's holiday weekend, but much of that traffic
goes to the west. We're going to go to the east. Yes,
we're going to be going to the west. And for
the last four and a half months it has been impossible,
excruciating driving west down the one one to try to
get to for me, the west side, for Devera, the
West Valley because of all the extra traffic since they
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closed PCH.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
It's unbearable.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Every day I get home and I'm so angry. I
get to work and I'm angry.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
They also closed to Panga Canyon Road yep at times?
Is that still.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Closed that as well?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So you couldn't access Malibu from two out of the
three different different directions. Right, you can't access Balibu from
the ocean, but the three other ways, two of the
three were blocked, and so people would go on these
tortuous routes, you know, going down pH to the ten,
up the four h five to the one on one.
(30:41):
And these are thousands of people every day just to
go to work or go home. And now they've opened
up the closed stretch on PCH. It was eleven miles
and today's the first day. I have two lanes in
each direction. I thought it was going to be one lane.
So this is better than I thought. Yes, and they
(31:06):
have patrol cars everywhere, and most drivers were abiding by
the twenty five mile an hour speed limit, but there
were a few trying to race through. You know, this
is why, you know, there this eternal fight to try
to make PCH safer. It's not the highways, the people. Yes,
(31:27):
that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And you know what, it's such a beautiful You have
the beach, right, you have the beautiful ocean.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Why do you need to speed?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
There's there's just too many rich jerks on the west side.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, I know they're driving their Ferraris, and you.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Know, I listen to you. You got that fancy convertible,
you go flying. I don't have a Ferrari, but if
you could, you would. Of course.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I'm just a little jealous, but I would be flying
down pch.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I'd be respectful and I would be mindful.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You're always under the speed limit, not always flying with
the top down.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I try to be careful and safe.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
If she's not, she's looking at her phone, looking at
the light.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
No, that was one time.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
But no, why me, you can't.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I tell you every day I see people staring at
their phones driving, or people like John Kobel who are
driving in the carpool lane that are not supposed to
and they don't get pulled over, but I do.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It's amazing how much you can drive in the carpool
Lane's because we don't. We've hardly any police. Well, I
know now it's gonna be worse. They're sending all the police.
They came out apparently with the bass. We were ripping
on her yesterday. We'll see if this plan works. She's
got a plan to uh set up checkpoints all over
(32:47):
access to Pacific Palisades from Malibu from Sunset Boulevard because
the National Guard is gone.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
But you know, also John Summer's right around the corner,
and we have all these graduations schools out, so the
traffic is going to be light anyway. So it's going
to be hard to tell if it's because of pch
and to pangabein.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Open yeah, but if it's if it's just ten percent better,
that's gonna be huge. Yes, let me see what We've
got a text on this yesterday, sixteen checkpoints and one
hundred and thirty LAPD police officers twenty four to seven
along with CHP and forty eight private patrol cars, so
that they're going to try to keep the bad guys
(33:25):
from looting what's left of the Palisades and from squatting
there and having gangs set up encampments. All right, we
come back. We got two rounds of the moistline coming up.
Carl Demio on this five million dollar no bid contract
to some left wing group to run a hate crime
hotline that came up with zero cases in two years.
(33:47):
Debra Mark is live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
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