March 11, 2025 • 36 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/11) - John Alle comes on the show to talk about how he is disputing Mayor Karen Bass saying that crime is down in the MacArthur Park area as well as his phone call with Mayor Karen Bass that was leaked a few weeks ago. Another Kamala Harris word salad.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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four on the iHeart app. MacArthur Park We've periodically discussed
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and I've seen this with my own eyes. It is
one of the most disgusting sections of the city. There
is a section of the city called Westlake, not to
be confused with Westlake Village, which is a beautiful, pristine
area north of Los Angeles. No, Westlake in the city
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is filled with gang members shooting each other, selling guns
and drugs. Lots of locals using the drugs in the open,
injecting themselves with the heroin and Fenton Hill and snorting meth,
mental patient having episodes in the street. A lot of
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homeless people, a lot of tents, a lot of insanity
and crime, and a lot of stolen goods. I mean
a tremendous number of goods that local vendors sell. That's
what they call them in the LA Times and the
idiot politicians. They're vendors No, they're selling stolen goods, is
what they're doing. A lot of the stuff that's taken
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from your local Target or CBS or Walmart ends up
in Westlake. These illegal alien vendors sell the sell the junk,
and it's it's an intolerable place to live. There's it's
it's it's it's like the most depraved civilization you'll ever find.
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Unitsus Hernandez is the dope who's the city council woman there?
And Uh, it's the same district where it Langer's Delias
and and you've heard the owner of Langers Delhi complain
about how bad it is and he's threatened to go
out of business over it. Well, we had BASS holding
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a press conference today because they claim to have done
some cleanup. MacArthur Park has changed, said Bass. More police
foot patrols, more mental health outreach workers, more teams to
stop people from oding on drugs. They put fencing along
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Alvarado Street to try to disrupt the all stolen goods
and the drugs and the guns sold by the vendors. Uh,
you know, staffed by all the illegal aliens.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
John Alley, though manages a number of properties in Westlake
and he interrupted the news conference. We're gonna talk with
with John now. He's also been involved in sounding the
alarm on Santa Monica all these years. John Alley, how.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Are you good? Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
John Well.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I heard some of Bassi's press conference. I've read the
La Times version. They're trying to say that they've turned
a corner, that they're cleaning things up, Life's going to
get better.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
What do you know?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
It was very disappointing. In my phone conversation with her,
where she called me on Saturday, January fourth, before the fires,
she told me she would never have a press conference.
She did not want to acknowledge the danger there and
she would never hold a press conference because she thought
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it would be a publicity stunt. And yesterday was a
publicity stunt. It was a purplicity stunt by our mayor
and by Unicus Frnandez. The two of them don't talk
and unfortunately are police chief. The fencing that's gone up
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has gone up on one side of the street that
has done nothing. Karen bass did not inform first District
Council Member units Is Hernandez the fencing was going up.
She did it, and there were openings to the fencing
to get in on the street, to get into the stores.
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But all that did was allow the illegal vendors and
their curtel members who control the vendors to go to
the other side. And the other side are buildings that
I manage. Langers is my tenant, Norm Langers is my tenant.
Langer Zones buildings. Many, many people in our coalition of
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property owners down there have buildings and they're scared to death.
They can't get through them. They've been threats and by
cartel members. And I've been threatened by cartel members to
let them use the sidewalks in front. And what can
you say about a well known deli that must close
at four pm every day because of crime And the
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minute he walks out, the cartel members come over and
the vendors start selling. And nobody mentioned this. Yesterday the
press conference was supposed to be in MacArthur Park on
the sidewalk, and I mentioned to Mayor Baths. I said,
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had this been in MacArthur Park, you could have been killed.
Just the day before there were seven overdoses. I don't
know how many died. Two guys totally naked swimming, running
crazy on some sort of opioid or drug or meth.
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What she told me she wouldn't do, she did yesterday.
And she told me that in a phone call that
many people heard.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I have a clip. Would you play the clip so
people can know what you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Well, you can do that, or I can explain the
background of it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
All right, go ahead, Why don't you explain the background
of it.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I'm the person who recorded it. And she called me
on a Saturday. I didn't call her and I was driving,
and she apologized for not checking in with me. I've
been checking in with her since August because it's gotten
continuously worse in that area. I didn't call her. She
stated she was sorry she didn't check in with me.
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Sooner she was boarding a plane. She said to Ghana
and I said, I heard you were going. I really
wish you'd stay home. I said, they're making a big
deal about this huge deal about wins. But every night
on the sidewalks across MacArthur Park and in MacArthur Park,
there's two types of fires. There's the Ankle Heights fire,
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which are used to cook mess and the others are
used to stay warm. And I said, there's going to
be a problem there, and if these fires burn buildings
and people die, it'd be very embarrassing for you mayor
to have to come back return early, and it would
be embarrassing to our city. Please don't go. She said
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she had to go because she was invited by the President.
And I said, you know, I think this area of
la is more of a Third World city than Ghana,
probably all of Ghana. I recorded the call. Never done it,
and never want to do that sort of thing again,
but John I recorded it. Listening to her, I felt
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my life and the safety of my tenants and their
hard working employees were in danger. There's a people that
live in a one square mile there. That's four times
the density of Manhattan. That's a lot of people. And
she was talking in whispered tones, so she was borning
a plane. I couldn't understand why she was talking. It
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sounded like a hit man whisper. Yeah, it was gussy,
it was creepy, and the first part was threatening me.
It was very Chicago esque. We talked about a lot
of things. I told her I wish she wouldn't go.
She continuously asked, what's going on. I passed by there
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on my way to the office. But she's never taken
me up on my requests to drive with her, whether
police escort behind, to see what's going on, just drive
down the center of the yellow median.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
She doesn't know what MacArthur Park is like, seriously, nor.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Always asking me what's going on? That's it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Now, Seriously, she doesn't know what's going on at MacArthur Park.
That's not that far from city Hall. It's the worst
place in the in the law, in this in the city.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I mean, what the hell are you telling me here?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, if she goes straight on Wilshire from her home
at the Mayor's mansion at Sixth and Irving, she would
pass MacArthur Park and go right to her office in
downtown LA And she hasn't done that. And listening to
her in the first initial part of that conversation was,
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you know, let's let's face it, it's challenging for me
to listen to threats from cartel members who control the sidewalk,
the vendors and block entry and the langers and the
other store friends I have. But it was worse listening
to her, uh tell me and uh and and the
other things that she said. You know, we we talked
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she was in I guess she had some spare time.
Maybe the plane was late taking.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I'm I'm gonna have to just stop you just a minute.
When we come back, I want to play you there
was about a minute and a half of audio that
made its way around the internet, which we played originally
some weeks ago. I'm going to play it again so
people can hear what you're talking about. Some of what
you're talking about is on this audio, and some of
it's not. And I also want to go through. You
gave me a list of like bullet points of things
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she has said to you and things she was unaware of,
and I just want to cover all that so people
understand just how absurd the situation is.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
John Alley, he's a business owner in MacArthur Park, and
he's saying that that was just a lot of nonsense
at Karen Bass's photo op, claiming that MacArthur Park is
getting better because of action that she's taken. Just its
rife with crime and drug addicts and mental patients, homeless people, thieves.
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Tell you more we come back.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
We're going to continue talking with businessman John Alley. John
Alley has been trying to get the city government in
La and Santa Monica, Santa Monica to clean up all
the crime and the homelessness that has plagued a lot
of business districts. He owns a number of properties in
the Westlake section of the city, like Langer's Deli, for example.
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MacArthur Park is what we're talking about, overrun with the
most extreme variety of homeless people, mental patients, thieves, criminals,
drug cartel members.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It's bad.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And he's been constantly lobbying Karen Bass to do something,
and she's belatedly done a little bit for a photo
op today. But John Alley says, it's it's all nonsense.
They all the all the bad guys just moved across
the street. She just wanted, you know, a TV shot
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to impress the cameras. We were talking about an audio
and you may have heard this audio. It was all
over the internet. We played it on the show of
a phone call that Bass had she was about to
board a plane to Ghana. It was John Alley who
had who was speaking with her and was trying to
get her to do something about MacArthur Park, and he
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also said, you know, the fire warnings are pretty bad.
I think that's really what jumped out at me from
your last story is that you were telling her the
fires are going to be really bad. You shouldn't go
to Ghana. It's going to be embarrassing if the fires
break out. You were worried they'd break out MacArthur Park
because of all the all the fires that homeless people
start every day. Let's play this clip here and then
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we'll go on from there.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
If the situation is very dangerous, and I would never do,
I will take the criticism before I do a publicity
stunt and frankly a press conference at this point in time,
which is be publicity, I think. I don't think my
neighbors and property owners, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And the residents.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I mean, forty one thousand people live within a square
mile here.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, two families share one bedroom apartment.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But they want to hear that something is going to
be doneized if it's recognized exactly. But if I have
a choice between that and compromising something, I just have
to go along with it. It's not my area of expertise.
I want to make sure that you are safe and
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hopefully you can read.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
In between the lines.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
But I would just appreciate just and it's hard for
me to.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Tell you this, but.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Hold tight, you will you will understand.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And when I am able to talk, I will be
happy to go onto great detail.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
And you've got me on the street, and you're welcome
to call me at any time.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'll call you right back.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
No problem. And just in terms of my trip, just
so you know, I'm missing two bdays.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
And if President Biden extends me an invitation.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I took it.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That's John Alley, a business owner on the phone with
Karen Bass. What was she talking about? Read between the lines?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
That's a good question. And the conversation was pleasant at
that point. Earlier on it was not so pleasant because
I challenged her. I said, you're not going to be
gone two days. You're not coming back to Wednesday. That's
five days. Saturdays and Sundays count. You're mayor. It's a
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twenty four to seven day job. She got a little
testy with me. She wanted to know more about the
number of overdoses. She wanted to know more about She
had no idea that the US Attorney's Office shows fourteen
hundred plus gang members in that area and they're active
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or are they active? You can see from the graffiti
on every single building. She got further testing when I
asked her why she had not fired Deputy Mayor Brian Williams,
and she said, why do you care? This was in
the beginning of the conversation, and I said, I care
a lot because he's on leave right now for bomb
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threats at the city Hall. And who is he. He's
in charge of LA's homeland security in overseas police and fire.
I asked her. I said, Mayor, would you fire him?
He's on paid leave. Could you fire him? If the
FBI finds there's nothing wrong, he can get his back
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pay and you can rehire him. But you've got to
fire him.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
What'd she say?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
She got very very angry, very angry.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
It was Williams allegedly calling in the bomb threats, and
like you said, in charge of LA's homeland security, overseas police,
overseas fire. He should have been part of the mix
the day the fire broke out. And she got angry
because you suggested she fire him.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
She's not talking to her staff. She's not talking to
the police chief. The police chief wasn't even aware that
he was on paid leave. He said, he's on unpaid
I said, no, Chief, it's paid.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No, it's paid.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
He wasn't aware of that. And he said, well, let
me just tell you. I didn't need to go to
youssus Hernandez to put up that fencing. And Karen Bass said,
I didn't even discuss it with her. I can't because
she wouldn't allow it. And four days later when she
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called me when she got back, when she put the
fencing up for five days, she said, the fencing is up.
All is safe. And I said, you know, Mayor, I'm
looking at my cameras right now, and there's a group
there that looks like they're about ready to riot and
they're trying to tear that chainling fencing down. And she
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said really, and I said, yes, it'd be great for
you or the police chief to go down there. What
she didn't understand either, and what our police chief didn't
understand is you know the use of drones. You know,
ad blood, Let.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Me stop you there because I got to do Debra's news.
We'll continue this when we come back, because you have
more things that you put in your letter that I mean,
it's quite an indictment that you've put together here of
Karen Bass. It seems like she's unaware of a lot
of things the way she was unaware of the fire warnings.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I don't know what's going on here. This is all crazy.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to have Carl
Demayo on. He's the Republican Assemblyman and there's a voter
initiative that you can be a part of to get
rid of all the all the fake voters in California
who are voting. That's what ballot harvesting is about. Ballot
(18:32):
harvesting leads to a lot of phony voters, and I
think it's part of the reason that the Democrats have
super majorities in this state in the.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Legislature. We'll talk about all that coming up.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
We got to continue this with John Alley, though Johnny
Alley's Businessman first had him on the show a number
of times over the Santa Monica situation where the leaders
there let the streets of Santama could go to hell
and a lot of businesses have closed homelessness crime, you
know the routine. And he also owns businesses in Westlake
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section MacArthur Park where Langers Delhi is for example. In fact,
he owns the building that Langers Deli is in. And
Karen Bass held one of those fake press conferences today
to say, well, well, you know, we're starting to clean
up MacArthur Park, and John has come on and said
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nothing of the sort. There's plenty of criminals and drug
addicts and vendors selling stolen merchandise and drug cartel members
running the vending tents. They just moved to the other
side of the street from where Karen bass Is fencing
had been put up. We're going to get back on
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with him because we played a clip of an audio
conversation that he recorded with Bass. I'm going to run
down a list of things that you mentioned in your let.
You said you told her that the police were not
escorting firefighters and fire trucks into MacArthur Park or the
surrounding area to guard them when they showed up for
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the fires. So when the homeless people start the fires
and the firemen have to try to put them out
with all the criminals and bad characters in the neighborhood.
The police won't go in there to protect the firefighters.
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Exactly what I'm saying. And neither Karen Bass nor the
police chief or were that. And we've got the smallest
fire station, number eleven on Seventh Street, in the whole county.
Out of eighty eight counties, this is the smallest one,
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but it's the busiest in the whole country. And these people,
these firefighters are brave, fearless and dedicated. But they're going
into the parks, which I told the mayor she was
unaware of. And I told the chief when I met
with the chief in his office. I said, they're going
into the park and they don't have their backs covered.
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And I saw what happened in twenty four in Santa Monica.
I saw what happened in nineteen ninety two right across
from the police station when firefighters were trying to put
out a fire in my building which burned down. If
fire fighters don't have their backs covered, they're not going
to be safe. That's not right. But the problem is
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the police, which I told Karen Bath and the chief
of police, the police are staying two and three blocks
away from the park at night at best. I've seen
a squad car on the east side of the park
and they won't go into the park.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Why and why is this?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
The police are afraid, not enough of them. It would
take five or six twenty four six cars worth twenty
four officers to get in there and and stop a
drug deal, stop a knifing, stop a fight. But why
would they They've got families, they've got lives, and with
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unsus Hernandez who has said she doesn't want the police,
she wants ambassadors in that park. Why would they go
in there and be put on you know, scrutiny every
action and if they did, if God forbid something did happen,
they'd be put on leave. And so they get it.
And I can't really blame.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Them, Yeah I can.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Unders you also write that you you You said to
Karen Bass, why don't you drive with me between ten
and six, We'll get a marked or an unmarked police escort.
And what did she say to that offer?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
She wouldn't accept it. She said, well, I'll drive. I
drive as much as I can if I'm going to
my office for my home. And I said, Mayor it's
a lot different at nine nine thirty eight in the
morning than it is between ten pm and six am.
I said, you one cannot drive close to the curb.
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You have to drive down the center lane and there's
no traffic because drivers know to stay away from that area.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You right that she didn't know that five people a
day die in the park and the sidewalks. Every day,
five people die in the MacArthur Park MacArthur Park District.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yes, and Uniceus Fernandez actually yesterday indicated that seven people
were overdosing a day.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's up to send that park. Yeah, seven a day
die just in the.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Park, just in the park.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Wow, seventy dead bodies every day in MacArthur Park.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
The alleys behind the buildings across from the park, they're deadly.
Even the dumpsters can't and the city authorized dumpsters happens.
They can't even empty the trash. Sometimes they'll call me
and they'll say, I can't get in it's blocked and
they have to come back. I have to pay more.
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And if you try to drive from seventh to eighth
you may not get out alive. On the other side,
it's that bad, I told meyerbas I said, the street lights.
You could start with the street lights. I said, the
street lights, forty nine percent of them are out. We
counted them, and I said, we counted them just from
Wilshire Boulevard at MacArthur Park down to where you live
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at Irving, forty percent are out. Of course, in Windsor
Square they're all on. But when it's dark, bad things happen.
And we've mentioned that to Unices Hernandez and Unices Hernanda's
has said, well, our plan is to go solar. And
we told her going solar is great, we love it. No,
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she said, well, it's copper. It's the copper issue. I said,
it's not all the copper issue, it's basic maintenance. I said,
there are poles where copper is missing, but there are
many poles where the lights are just out and there's
no copper missing.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, they just don't you. She did not know. Best
did not know.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
And this is according to US Attorney General's Office, there's
fourteen hundred plus gang members that live in the area,
fourteen hundred and she had no idea.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
No, And you know it's sad because I reminded her,
I said, you promised us twenty first century policing methods.
And you mentioned it again when you appointed Jim McDonald.
Where are those We don't even have drones, I said.
These crooks are on the roofs, running escaping the police
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who can't see them on the ground. Even Santa Monica,
the police chief, did his best there to get drones
and they work. But we don't have him in La
and and that's that's a problem for the police. So
that's why there are so few police there. There's there's
not an increase in police. And I don't believe in
it is hernandez uh indicating that more trash is being
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picked up and that more needles are being picked up.
I just don't believe it, John, I neither do the residence.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
John.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I want to thank you for coming on and going
public with this, and and I hope you keep doing this.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I did, I did. I was amused by one other
comment that she made.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, go ahead one more and then I gotta I
gotta sure.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
She said, her understanding is she doesn't have quote power
in LA that resonates with the city council. I said, no, Mayor,
you have the bully pulpit. She said she hasn't spoken
to unises Hernandez in months. But they appeared yesterday to
put on a united front, just to get ahead of
this story. That was all.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
She doesn't have power, she's claiming.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I was shocked and I corrected her. I felt embarrassed
correcting a mayor.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I mean, she doesn't have a clue as to what
she's doing, not a clue, no wonder. January seventh happened.
Like it's all becoming clear now. She's completely oblivious to
what a mayor can do in Los Angeles, what a
mayor should do, what a responsibility is. She has no idea.
All right, John, we'll keep talking. Thank you very much
(27:35):
for coming on.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Oh thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
All right, And maybe you think it can't get worse.
Sure it can get worse by far. The leading candidate
for governor is Kamala Harris. And we have a clip
of her appearance at I don't even know what this was,
but she was on stage and there was a guy
interviewing her, and there was a crowd there, and you
(27:59):
got to hear. It's a couple of minutes, and it's
at it's at her most vacuous, at her most empty.
She must be stoned or drunk every time I hear
her speak, I'm trying to figure out, all right, is
it pot?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Is she she son of some edibles. She's your neighbor.
Go talk to her, go interview or ask her what's up.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I wouldn't take anything off a party tray in her
house because it's amazing how Lupi is. And she's got
on the Democratic side overwhelming support, and of course that
means she'd be governor because there's only a Democratic side
in the state.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
There's nothing else.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty Iheartradios.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
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Part was a bum starting.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Nobody wanted to leave to go to the grocery store.
So it was door dash And I'm thinking about this
about so I was willing to give up whatever might
be the tracking of Karmala Harris's particular fondness for Nacho
Chi's Dorito's for the.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Sake of getting a big bag of dorito's. As I
watched the oscars. That's the consumer behavior, and that's right.
But here's the thing, at what point do we also
uplift and highlight the consumer's right to also expect And
(31:13):
you can debate with me if it should be a right.
I think it should to expect that.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
The innovation would also be weighted in terms of solving
their everyday problems, which are beyond my craving for doritos,
but about whatever. And I know the work is happening
around the scientific discoveries, for example, to cure long standing diseases.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
But I'm going to throw out.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Another one and you all again, please get back to
me an information you have. I would love it if there.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Would be an investment of resources and solving the affordable
housing issue in America, like help you with that, help
me with that.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
I don't know that any big vcs are going to
fund because they're going to have to figure out where
the money is in that, but I'm telling you it
would really be helpful.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
And if.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
I do, and I bring up in the consumer because
I wonder how much of the trajectory of it all
the innovation is being fueled by what the consumer not
only desires in terms of again, and I'm simplifying it.
Obviously you're craving for a certain brand of potato chips,
corn chip, But what part of it is about getting
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enough information in front of the consumer to know these
other really big problems you're dealing with might also be
solved by this technology and if you demand it, if
we agree that the business model is based on consumer demand,
that there might actually be more resources going into some
of those things.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That was classic, That's one of her best.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
They covered a lot of territory there, from begg of
Dorito's and do Our Dash too, Housing affordability, Housing affordability
there touched on something else about a lot about consumer
innovation and choice. She's got to be stoned and she's
(33:22):
giggling the whole way.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I've just never heard anything like that. Now. She was
close to becoming president and she's way ahead in California
to be governor. That's is this.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
The life we're gonna Are we trapped in this for
the rest of our lives?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
What is it about her? Why would people vote for her?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Why are people sitting there listening to her and they're
laughing She's drunk or stoned or both. She didn't make
any sense at all. She weaves and rambles and Bob's
all over. I just don't understand. And all started with
(34:08):
the bag of doritos. What she apparently thought was the
funniest thing in the world, that she was ordering a
bag of Doritos.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And she supposedly is clearing out the field if she runs,
like if she runs, nobody else wants to take her on.
Although this missus potato head is back in the race,
Katie Porter.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
But she said if Kamala Harris enters, she's not She's gone.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Missus potato Head is afraid of Kamala. I probably should
have took more on that. But first we're gonna have
We're gonna have Carl Demayo on. You see, I listened
to Kamala Harris for two minutes and it actually scrambles
my brain. Something got decoupled in my head. A connection
(34:58):
has been severed. I can't think.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Do you have an urge for doritos now?
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I haven't urged for whatever led to her Dorito's craving.
I want some of that stuff. Carl wants to collect
a million signatures to get a constitutional amendment for a
voter ID requirement in California so we could get out
of the hell that we're living in with ballot harvesting.
(35:25):
Do with ballot harvesting, you can get a lot of
illegal votes from illegal aliens and others. And the way
out of this is a constitutional amendment. And because you're
not going to get this out of the legislature, those
Democrats are really happy having a super majority with all
those fake people voting or fake citizens voting. Carli Beyond
next stember Mark Lyden the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
(35:47):
you've been listening to The John Covelt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on every day from one until four o'clock,
and then after four o'clock we're a podcast John Cobelt
Show on demand, same as the radio show posted after
four on the iHeart app. MacArthur Park We've periodically discussed
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and I've seen this with my own eyes. It is
one of the most disgusting sections of the city. There
is a section of the city called Westlake, not to
be confused with Westlake Village, which is a beautiful, pristine
area north of Los Angeles. No, Westlake in the city
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is filled with gang members shooting each other, selling guns
and drugs. Lots of locals using the drugs in the open,
injecting themselves with the heroin and Fenton Hill and snorting meth,
mental patient having episodes in the street. A lot of
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homeless people, a lot of tents, a lot of insanity
and crime, and a lot of stolen goods. I mean
a tremendous number of goods that local vendors sell. That's
what they call them in the LA Times and the
idiot politicians. They're vendors No, they're selling stolen goods, is
what they're doing. A lot of the stuff that's taken
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from your local Target or CBS or Walmart ends up
in Westlake. These illegal alien vendors sell the sell the junk,
and it's it's an intolerable place to live. There's it's
it's it's it's like the most depraved civilization you'll ever find.
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Unitsus Hernandez is the dope who's the city council woman there?
And Uh, it's the same district where it Langer's Delias
and and you've heard the owner of Langers Delhi complain
about how bad it is and he's threatened to go
out of business over it. Well, we had BASS holding
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a press conference today because they claim to have done
some cleanup. MacArthur Park has changed, said Bass. More police
foot patrols, more mental health outreach workers, more teams to
stop people from oding on drugs. They put fencing along
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Alvarado Street to try to disrupt the all stolen goods
and the drugs and the guns sold by the vendors. Uh,
you know, staffed by all the illegal aliens.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
John Alley, though manages a number of properties in Westlake
and he interrupted the news conference. We're gonna talk with
with John now. He's also been involved in sounding the
alarm on Santa Monica all these years. John Alley, how.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Are you good? Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
John Well.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I heard some of Bassi's press conference. I've read the
La Times version. They're trying to say that they've turned
a corner, that they're cleaning things up, Life's going to
get better.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
What do you know?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
It was very disappointing. In my phone conversation with her,
where she called me on Saturday, January fourth, before the fires,
she told me she would never have a press conference.
She did not want to acknowledge the danger there and
she would never hold a press conference because she thought
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it would be a publicity stunt. And yesterday was a
publicity stunt. It was a purplicity stunt by our mayor
and by Unicus Frnandez. The two of them don't talk
and unfortunately are police chief. The fencing that's gone up
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has gone up on one side of the street that
has done nothing. Karen bass did not inform first District
Council Member units Is Hernandez the fencing was going up.
She did it, and there were openings to the fencing
to get in on the street, to get into the stores.
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But all that did was allow the illegal vendors and
their curtel members who control the vendors to go to
the other side. And the other side are buildings that
I manage. Langers is my tenant, Norm Langers is my tenant.
Langer Zones buildings. Many, many people in our coalition of
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property owners down there have buildings and they're scared to death.
They can't get through them. They've been threats and by
cartel members. And I've been threatened by cartel members to
let them use the sidewalks in front. And what can
you say about a well known deli that must close
at four pm every day because of crime And the
(05:17):
minute he walks out, the cartel members come over and
the vendors start selling. And nobody mentioned this. Yesterday the
press conference was supposed to be in MacArthur Park on
the sidewalk, and I mentioned to Mayor Baths. I said,
(05:40):
had this been in MacArthur Park, you could have been killed.
Just the day before there were seven overdoses. I don't
know how many died. Two guys totally naked swimming, running
crazy on some sort of opioid or drug or meth.
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What she told me she wouldn't do, she did yesterday.
And she told me that in a phone call that
many people heard.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I have a clip. Would you play the clip so
people can know what you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Well, you can do that, or I can explain the
background of it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
All right, go ahead, Why don't you explain the background
of it.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I'm the person who recorded it. And she called me
on a Saturday. I didn't call her and I was driving,
and she apologized for not checking in with me. I've
been checking in with her since August because it's gotten
continuously worse in that area. I didn't call her. She
stated she was sorry she didn't check in with me.
(06:40):
Sooner she was boarding a plane. She said to Ghana
and I said, I heard you were going. I really
wish you'd stay home. I said, they're making a big
deal about this huge deal about wins. But every night
on the sidewalks across MacArthur Park and in MacArthur Park,
there's two types of fires. There's the Ankle Heights fire,
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which are used to cook mess and the others are
used to stay warm. And I said, there's going to
be a problem there, and if these fires burn buildings
and people die, it'd be very embarrassing for you mayor
to have to come back return early, and it would
be embarrassing to our city. Please don't go. She said
(07:26):
she had to go because she was invited by the President.
And I said, you know, I think this area of
la is more of a Third World city than Ghana,
probably all of Ghana. I recorded the call. Never done it,
and never want to do that sort of thing again,
but John I recorded it. Listening to her, I felt
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my life and the safety of my tenants and their
hard working employees were in danger. There's a people that
live in a one square mile there. That's four times
the density of Manhattan. That's a lot of people. And
she was talking in whispered tones, so she was borning
a plane. I couldn't understand why she was talking. It
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sounded like a hit man whisper. Yeah, it was gussy,
it was creepy, and the first part was threatening me.
It was very Chicago esque. We talked about a lot
of things. I told her I wish she wouldn't go.
She continuously asked, what's going on. I passed by there
(08:35):
on my way to the office. But she's never taken
me up on my requests to drive with her, whether
police escort behind, to see what's going on, just drive
down the center of the yellow median.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
She doesn't know what MacArthur Park is like, seriously, nor.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Always asking me what's going on? That's it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Now, Seriously, she doesn't know what's going on at MacArthur Park.
That's not that far from city Hall. It's the worst
place in the in the law, in this in the city.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I mean, what the hell are you telling me here?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, if she goes straight on Wilshire from her home
at the Mayor's mansion at Sixth and Irving, she would
pass MacArthur Park and go right to her office in
downtown LA And she hasn't done that. And listening to
her in the first initial part of that conversation was,
(09:38):
you know, let's let's face it, it's challenging for me
to listen to threats from cartel members who control the sidewalk,
the vendors and block entry and the langers and the
other store friends I have. But it was worse listening
to her, uh tell me and uh and and the
other things that she said. You know, we we talked
(10:00):
she was in I guess she had some spare time.
Maybe the plane was late taking.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I'm I'm gonna have to just stop you just a minute.
When we come back, I want to play you there
was about a minute and a half of audio that
made its way around the internet, which we played originally
some weeks ago. I'm going to play it again so
people can hear what you're talking about. Some of what
you're talking about is on this audio, and some of
it's not. And I also want to go through. You
gave me a list of like bullet points of things
(10:28):
she has said to you and things she was unaware of,
and I just want to cover all that so people
understand just how absurd the situation is.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
John Alley, he's a business owner in MacArthur Park, and
he's saying that that was just a lot of nonsense
at Karen Bass's photo op, claiming that MacArthur Park is
getting better because of action that she's taken. Just its
rife with crime and drug addicts and mental patients, homeless people, thieves.
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Tell you more we come back.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
We're going to continue talking with businessman John Alley. John
Alley has been trying to get the city government in
La and Santa Monica, Santa Monica to clean up all
the crime and the homelessness that has plagued a lot
of business districts. He owns a number of properties in
the Westlake section of the city, like Langer's Deli, for example.
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MacArthur Park is what we're talking about, overrun with the
most extreme variety of homeless people, mental patients, thieves, criminals,
drug cartel members.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It's bad.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And he's been constantly lobbying Karen Bass to do something,
and she's belatedly done a little bit for a photo
op today. But John Alley says, it's it's all nonsense.
They all the all the bad guys just moved across
the street. She just wanted, you know, a TV shot
(12:07):
to impress the cameras. We were talking about an audio
and you may have heard this audio. It was all
over the internet. We played it on the show of
a phone call that Bass had she was about to
board a plane to Ghana. It was John Alley who
had who was speaking with her and was trying to
get her to do something about MacArthur Park, and he
(12:29):
also said, you know, the fire warnings are pretty bad.
I think that's really what jumped out at me from
your last story is that you were telling her the
fires are going to be really bad. You shouldn't go
to Ghana. It's going to be embarrassing if the fires
break out. You were worried they'd break out MacArthur Park
because of all the all the fires that homeless people
start every day. Let's play this clip here and then
(12:51):
we'll go on from there.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
If the situation is very dangerous, and I would never do,
I will take the criticism before I do a publicity
stunt and frankly a press conference at this point in time,
which is be publicity, I think. I don't think my
neighbors and property owners, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And the residents.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I mean, forty one thousand people live within a square
mile here.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, two families share one bedroom apartment.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But they want to hear that something is going to
be doneized if it's recognized exactly. But if I have
a choice between that and compromising something, I just have
to go along with it. It's not my area of expertise.
I want to make sure that you are safe and
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hopefully you can read.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
In between the lines.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
But I would just appreciate just and it's hard for
me to.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Tell you this, but.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Hold tight, you will you will understand.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
So okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And when I am able to talk, I will be
happy to go onto great detail.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
And you've got me on the street, and you're welcome
to call me at any time.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I'll call you right back.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
No problem. And just in terms of my trip, just
so you know, I'm missing two bdays.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
And if President Biden extends me an invitation.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I took it.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That's John Alley, a business owner on the phone with
Karen Bass. What was she talking about? Read between the lines?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
That's a good question. And the conversation was pleasant at
that point. Earlier on it was not so pleasant because
I challenged her. I said, you're not going to be
gone two days. You're not coming back to Wednesday. That's
five days. Saturdays and Sundays count. You're mayor. It's a
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twenty four to seven day job. She got a little
testy with me. She wanted to know more about the
number of overdoses. She wanted to know more about She
had no idea that the US Attorney's Office shows fourteen
hundred plus gang members in that area and they're active
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or are they active? You can see from the graffiti
on every single building. She got further testing when I
asked her why she had not fired Deputy Mayor Brian Williams,
and she said, why do you care? This was in
the beginning of the conversation, and I said, I care
a lot because he's on leave right now for bomb
(15:43):
threats at the city Hall. And who is he. He's
in charge of LA's homeland security in overseas police and fire.
I asked her. I said, Mayor, would you fire him?
He's on paid leave. Could you fire him? If the
FBI finds there's nothing wrong, he can get his back
(16:06):
pay and you can rehire him. But you've got to
fire him.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
What'd she say?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
She got very very angry, very angry.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
It was Williams allegedly calling in the bomb threats, and
like you said, in charge of LA's homeland security, overseas police,
overseas fire. He should have been part of the mix
the day the fire broke out. And she got angry
because you suggested she fire him.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
She's not talking to her staff. She's not talking to
the police chief. The police chief wasn't even aware that
he was on paid leave. He said, he's on unpaid
I said, no, Chief, it's paid.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No, it's paid.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
He wasn't aware of that. And he said, well, let
me just tell you. I didn't need to go to
youssus Hernandez to put up that fencing. And Karen Bass said,
I didn't even discuss it with her. I can't because
she wouldn't allow it. And four days later when she
(17:10):
called me when she got back, when she put the
fencing up for five days, she said, the fencing is up.
All is safe. And I said, you know, Mayor, I'm
looking at my cameras right now, and there's a group
there that looks like they're about ready to riot and
they're trying to tear that chainling fencing down. And she
(17:30):
said really, and I said, yes, it'd be great for
you or the police chief to go down there. What
she didn't understand either, and what our police chief didn't
understand is you know the use of drones. You know,
ad blood, Let.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Me stop you there because I got to do Debra's news.
We'll continue this when we come back, because you have
more things that you put in your letter that I mean,
it's quite an indictment that you've put together here of
Karen Bass. It seems like she's unaware of a lot
of things the way she was unaware of the fire warnings.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I don't know what's going on here. This is all crazy.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to have Carl
Demayo on. He's the Republican Assemblyman and there's a voter
initiative that you can be a part of to get
rid of all the all the fake voters in California
who are voting. That's what ballot harvesting is about. Ballot
(18:32):
harvesting leads to a lot of phony voters, and I
think it's part of the reason that the Democrats have
super majorities in this state in the.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Legislature. We'll talk about all that coming up.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
We got to continue this with John Alley, though Johnny
Alley's Businessman first had him on the show a number
of times over the Santa Monica situation where the leaders
there let the streets of Santama could go to hell
and a lot of businesses have closed homelessness crime, you
know the routine. And he also owns businesses in Westlake
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section MacArthur Park where Langers Delhi is for example. In fact,
he owns the building that Langers Deli is in. And
Karen Bass held one of those fake press conferences today
to say, well, well, you know, we're starting to clean
up MacArthur Park, and John has come on and said
(19:29):
nothing of the sort. There's plenty of criminals and drug
addicts and vendors selling stolen merchandise and drug cartel members
running the vending tents. They just moved to the other
side of the street from where Karen bass Is fencing
had been put up. We're going to get back on
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with him because we played a clip of an audio
conversation that he recorded with Bass. I'm going to run
down a list of things that you mentioned in your let.
You said you told her that the police were not
escorting firefighters and fire trucks into MacArthur Park or the
surrounding area to guard them when they showed up for
(20:12):
the fires. So when the homeless people start the fires
and the firemen have to try to put them out
with all the criminals and bad characters in the neighborhood.
The police won't go in there to protect the firefighters.
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Exactly what I'm saying. And neither Karen Bass nor the
police chief or were that. And we've got the smallest
fire station, number eleven on Seventh Street, in the whole county.
Out of eighty eight counties, this is the smallest one,
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but it's the busiest in the whole country. And these people,
these firefighters are brave, fearless and dedicated. But they're going
into the parks, which I told the mayor she was
unaware of. And I told the chief when I met
with the chief in his office. I said, they're going
into the park and they don't have their backs covered.
(21:12):
And I saw what happened in twenty four in Santa Monica.
I saw what happened in nineteen ninety two right across
from the police station when firefighters were trying to put
out a fire in my building which burned down. If
fire fighters don't have their backs covered, they're not going
to be safe. That's not right. But the problem is
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the police, which I told Karen Bath and the chief
of police, the police are staying two and three blocks
away from the park at night at best. I've seen
a squad car on the east side of the park
and they won't go into the park.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Why and why is this?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
The police are afraid, not enough of them. It would
take five or six twenty four six cars worth twenty
four officers to get in there and and stop a
drug deal, stop a knifing, stop a fight. But why
would they They've got families, they've got lives, and with
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unsus Hernandez who has said she doesn't want the police,
she wants ambassadors in that park. Why would they go
in there and be put on you know, scrutiny every
action and if they did, if God forbid something did happen,
they'd be put on leave. And so they get it.
And I can't really blame.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Them, Yeah I can.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Unders you also write that you you You said to
Karen Bass, why don't you drive with me between ten
and six, We'll get a marked or an unmarked police escort.
And what did she say to that offer?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
She wouldn't accept it. She said, well, I'll drive. I
drive as much as I can if I'm going to
my office for my home. And I said, Mayor it's
a lot different at nine nine thirty eight in the
morning than it is between ten pm and six am.
I said, you one cannot drive close to the curb.
(23:18):
You have to drive down the center lane and there's
no traffic because drivers know to stay away from that area.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You right that she didn't know that five people a
day die in the park and the sidewalks. Every day,
five people die in the MacArthur Park MacArthur Park District.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yes, and Uniceus Fernandez actually yesterday indicated that seven people
were overdosing a day.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's up to send that park. Yeah, seven a day
die just in the.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Park, just in the park.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Wow, seventy dead bodies every day in MacArthur Park.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
The alleys behind the buildings across from the park, they're deadly.
Even the dumpsters can't and the city authorized dumpsters happens.
They can't even empty the trash. Sometimes they'll call me
and they'll say, I can't get in it's blocked and
they have to come back. I have to pay more.
(24:15):
And if you try to drive from seventh to eighth
you may not get out alive. On the other side,
it's that bad, I told meyerbas I said, the street lights.
You could start with the street lights. I said, the
street lights, forty nine percent of them are out. We
counted them, and I said, we counted them just from
Wilshire Boulevard at MacArthur Park down to where you live
(24:38):
at Irving, forty percent are out. Of course, in Windsor
Square they're all on. But when it's dark, bad things happen.
And we've mentioned that to Unices Hernandez and Unices Hernanda's
has said, well, our plan is to go solar. And
we told her going solar is great, we love it. No,
(25:00):
she said, well, it's copper. It's the copper issue. I said,
it's not all the copper issue, it's basic maintenance. I said,
there are poles where copper is missing, but there are
many poles where the lights are just out and there's
no copper missing.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, they just don't you. She did not know. Best
did not know.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
And this is according to US Attorney General's Office, there's
fourteen hundred plus gang members that live in the area,
fourteen hundred and she had no idea.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
No, And you know it's sad because I reminded her,
I said, you promised us twenty first century policing methods.
And you mentioned it again when you appointed Jim McDonald.
Where are those We don't even have drones, I said.
These crooks are on the roofs, running escaping the police
(25:51):
who can't see them on the ground. Even Santa Monica,
the police chief, did his best there to get drones
and they work. But we don't have him in La
and and that's that's a problem for the police. So
that's why there are so few police there. There's there's
not an increase in police. And I don't believe in
it is hernandez uh indicating that more trash is being
(26:14):
picked up and that more needles are being picked up.
I just don't believe it, John, I neither do the residence.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
John.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I want to thank you for coming on and going
public with this, and and I hope you keep doing this.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I did, I did. I was amused by one other
comment that she made.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, go ahead one more and then I gotta I
gotta sure.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
She said, her understanding is she doesn't have quote power
in LA that resonates with the city council. I said, no, Mayor,
you have the bully pulpit. She said she hasn't spoken
to unises Hernandez in months. But they appeared yesterday to
put on a united front, just to get ahead of
this story. That was all.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
She doesn't have power, she's claiming.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
I was shocked and I corrected her. I felt embarrassed
correcting a mayor.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I mean, she doesn't have a clue as to what
she's doing, not a clue, no wonder. January seventh happened.
Like it's all becoming clear now. She's completely oblivious to
what a mayor can do in Los Angeles, what a
mayor should do, what a responsibility is. She has no idea.
All right, John, we'll keep talking. Thank you very much
(27:35):
for coming on.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Oh thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
All right, And maybe you think it can't get worse.
Sure it can get worse by far. The leading candidate
for governor is Kamala Harris. And we have a clip
of her appearance at I don't even know what this was,
but she was on stage and there was a guy
interviewing her, and there was a crowd there, and you
(27:59):
got to hear. It's a couple of minutes, and it's
at it's at her most vacuous, at her most empty.
She must be stoned or drunk every time I hear
her speak, I'm trying to figure out, all right, is
it pot?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Is she she son of some edibles. She's your neighbor.
Go talk to her, go interview or ask her what's up.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I wouldn't take anything off a party tray in her
house because it's amazing how Lupi is. And she's got
on the Democratic side overwhelming support, and of course that
means she'd be governor because there's only a Democratic side
in the state.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
There's nothing else.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
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Speaker 2 (28:42):
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absolutely frightening that the most popular candidate for governor for
(29:26):
twenty twenty six is Kamala Harris. I don't know what's
wrong with a majority of the state. There's nothing in
her head and she just got beaten pretty badly by Trump,
and there is no indication that she could actually run anything.
And the most damning is all the video and audio
(29:49):
out there of her trying to speak spontaneously. Now she's
at some kind of event, some kind of conference. There's
a host on stage, and she's starting to give her
opinions and this is supposed to be something about AI
(30:10):
consumer innovation, but it begins with a Dorito's story. She
wanted to get some doritos the night of the oscars.
See if you can follow this.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
So we did door dash because I wanted Dorito's.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
And it was they were about the red carpet.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Part was a bum starting.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Nobody wanted to leave to go to the grocery store.
So it was door dash And I'm thinking about this
about so I was willing to give up whatever might
be the tracking of Karmala Harris's particular fondness for Nacho
Chi's Dorito's for the.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Sake of getting a big bag of dorito's. As I
watched the oscars. That's the consumer behavior, and that's right.
But here's the thing, at what point do we also
uplift and highlight the consumer's right to also expect And
(31:13):
you can debate with me if it should be a right.
I think it should to expect that.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
The innovation would also be weighted in terms of solving
their everyday problems, which are beyond my craving for doritos,
but about whatever. And I know the work is happening
around the scientific discoveries, for example, to cure long standing diseases.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
But I'm going to throw out.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Another one and you all again, please get back to
me an information you have. I would love it if there.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
Would be an investment of resources and solving the affordable
housing issue in America, like help you with that, help
me with that.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
I don't know that any big vcs are going to
fund because they're going to have to figure out where
the money is in that, but I'm telling you it
would really be helpful.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
And if.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
I do, and I bring up in the consumer because
I wonder how much of the trajectory of it all
the innovation is being fueled by what the consumer not
only desires in terms of again, and I'm simplifying it.
Obviously you're craving for a certain brand of potato chips,
corn chip, But what part of it is about getting
(32:34):
enough information in front of the consumer to know these
other really big problems you're dealing with might also be
solved by this technology and if you demand it, if
we agree that the business model is based on consumer demand,
that there might actually be more resources going into some
of those things.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That was classic, That's one of her best.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
They covered a lot of territory there, from begg of
Dorito's and do Our Dash too, Housing affordability, Housing affordability
there touched on something else about a lot about consumer
innovation and choice. She's got to be stoned and she's
(33:22):
giggling the whole way.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I've just never heard anything like that. Now. She was
close to becoming president and she's way ahead in California
to be governor. That's is this.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
The life we're gonna Are we trapped in this for
the rest of our lives?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
What is it about her? Why would people vote for her?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Why are people sitting there listening to her and they're
laughing She's drunk or stoned or both. She didn't make
any sense at all. She weaves and rambles and Bob's
all over. I just don't understand. And all started with
(34:08):
the bag of doritos. What she apparently thought was the
funniest thing in the world, that she was ordering a
bag of Doritos.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
And she supposedly is clearing out the field if she runs,
like if she runs, nobody else wants to take her on.
Although this missus potato head is back in the race,
Katie Porter.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
But she said if Kamala Harris enters, she's not She's gone.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Missus potato Head is afraid of Kamala. I probably should
have took more on that. But first we're gonna have
We're gonna have Carl Demayo on. You see, I listened
to Kamala Harris for two minutes and it actually scrambles
my brain. Something got decoupled in my head. A connection
(34:58):
has been severed. I can't think.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Do you have an urge for doritos now?
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I haven't urged for whatever led to her Dorito's craving.
I want some of that stuff. Carl wants to collect
a million signatures to get a constitutional amendment for a
voter ID requirement in California so we could get out
of the hell that we're living in with ballot harvesting.
(35:25):
Do with ballot harvesting, you can get a lot of
illegal votes from illegal aliens and others. And the way
out of this is a constitutional amendment. And because you're
not going to get this out of the legislature, those
Democrats are really happy having a super majority with all
those fake people voting or fake citizens voting. Carli Beyond
next stember Mark Lyden the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
(35:47):
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