July 14, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (07/14) - LA City Councilwoman Traci Park comes on the show to talk about the possibility of affordable housing being built in Pacific Palisades instead of families rebuilding their homes. More on the headache that residents are experiencing during the rebuilding process in Pacific Palisades. Santa Monica businessman John Alle has been paying for one way tickets out of LA for homeless people.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
That's what we do here.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And we're going to talk with Tracy Park, the LA
City council woman right now. Tracy represents the West Side
of Los Angeles, which includes Pacific Palisades and the California
Department of Housing and Community Development. NEWSOM made this announcement
a few days ago, announced one hundred and one million
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dollars in funding. They issued a nofah. You know what
a nofah is. Notice a funding availability one hundred and
one million dollars for low income housing in the Palisades,
which has upset a lot of.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
People for the reasons we have talked about.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Most people can't get their permits processed in Palisades, and
it seems like to have this river of money come
in for low income housing, a lot of people think
that that's eventually what the state is going to engineer.
You know, Scott Wiener is trying to pass a bill
that allows low income housing to be built in any
residential neighborhood, single family neighborhood. Let's get Tracy park on.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
How are you, Tracy, Hey, John, I'm good things.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
There are a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Of people, you know, angry about the Palisades, and it
seems to intensify as you know, you probably get more
of it than anybody else in the world. But this,
this explain this one hundred and one million dollars for
low income housing. That that that's a tough thing to
swallow for a lot of people who can't get anywhere
with the city on getting their their permit issued.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yes, and I have certainly been, you know, deeply engaged
over the last several days as all of this has unfolded.
And now I just want to be very clear. My
obligation is to the victims of this fire, and I
have been very clear from day one that we need
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to rebuild the Pacific Palisades for the people who were
impacted by the fire. And nobody is looking to do
a corporate landswap or giveaway or engineer some entirely new community.
And I also want to mention that the governor and
his team have been extremely helpful to me personally and
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to the Pacific Palisades, especially with our efforts to keep
the area secure and supporting the law enforcement efforts there.
But this nofa is consistent with a statewide push to
add apartments and density, especially affordable housing, which as we
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all know, comes with taller buildings and more units and
no parking. You know, some additional housing related to seniors
and some workforce housing makes some sense. But people in
the Pacific Polisades are rightly upset and frustrated about one
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hundred million dollars being made available to corporate developers to
add more density instead of directly helping the victims of
the fire, especially given how many hundreds of them were
under or uninsured and who lacked the resources that they
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need to actually rebuild. And so their frustration and anger
over this is loud and clear to me as their
council member.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, what can be done here? Because this building long
income housing, more density. There's already a tremendous amount of
traffic that comes out of the in and out of
the palisades. On Sunset Boulevard, it's already a parking lot
and Sunset Boulevard most afternoons because I drive through it.
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You don't need more density and the parking is not
existing in a lot of places. The last thing the
Palisades needs is more people stuffed in there. It's not
designed for it because you can only go to the
south into the east to get out of there.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, John, you're right, and you hit the nail on
the head. The Pacific Palisades was it pain't in the
ass to get to on a good day before the fire.
It's worse now because of the construction and the other
access issues. But think about the evacuations that happens on
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and around January seventh. It is a miracle that no
one died. John, Think about how chaotic it was evacuating
out of Brintwood and there was no active fire burning
in your community. So there are major public safety and
emergency access ingress and egress issues related to density that
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must be at the forefront of our planning during this rebuilding.
So I have already introduced legislation here at the local
level that would tie any added new density to adequate
evacuation routes. But I also think it's important that we
consider the strain on our infrastructure, our roads, our electric grid,
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our sewer systems, our water pipes, our fire department, our
police Department, our schools and everything else. And so we
have seen the challenges just during the fire in the
aftermath itself, of over densification without concurrent invents, inadequate infrastructure
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to support it. And you know, here the people of
the Pacific Palisades, you know, John, I have been in
hundreds of meetings in the last six months. I have
spoken to thousands of impacted residents. Nobody has asked for
money for corporate developers to come in and build residential
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skyscrapers on Sunset Boulevard with no parking. What they are
asking for is Sacramento's help in resolving the ensurability concerns
and providing the financial relief directly who the victims of
the fire.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You said Newsom's administration has been cooperative. Are they cooperative
on those issues?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You know, they have been really helpful to see the
eleven As we have navigated through the security issues around
the Palisades, the governor and his team have been great
about waiving regular relations and red tape. You've seen that
with sequel exemptions and the role of the Coastal Commission,
and so, you know, I think the intentions behind this
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are good and they are consistent with state policy. But
to describe the Pacific Palisades as urban infill is just
simply not consistent with this very challenging geographical hillside coastal terrain.
And it's a perfect example of how Sacramentos hop down
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approach to density and development in local communities just simply
doesn't always work.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, nobody in the Palisades wants this. Can you hang
on for another segment? Sure you have the time. Okay, good.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Tracy Park and she is the council person for the
West Side District eleven of Los Angeles, including the Palisades.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We continue with Tracy Park. Tracy is the council owned
for the West Side of Los Angeles District number eleven,
and we've been talking about the news of administration announcing
one hundred and one million dollars in funding for low
income housing in the palis Age Palisades, which is absolutely
enraged a lot of the displaced residents of that town. Tracy,
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what is the problem with the permits? It's been six months.
Rick Caruso was on our show last week. He's been
putting out the numbers, they're very, very low. I talk
to people all the time. You do too, You've heard
all the complaints. When when is the past administration going
to fast track the permitting process?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Why don't they take ricks artificial.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Intelligence software the plan check idea that he has, So
there's a lot of knock question.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
There are well over six hundred permits that are in
the pipeline now and a couple hundred that have already
been issued, and we've broken ground on sixteen properties in
less than six months. But there are a number of
issues that are holding people back. And as a council office,
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we actually circulated a survey where we got back about
one thousand responses from both people who lost homes and
had standing homes to try to get a sense of
what were the challenges they were facing, what was holding
them back in their decision making about whether to rebuild
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and if so, when or whether to sell. And the
primary issues continue to be questions related to insurance, especially
folks who were under or uninsured, and how they are
going to cover the gap between their coverage and the
actual rebuild cost. And then also questions related to access
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to capital, that's loan modifications for people who lost homes
who were somewhere mid cycle in a mortgage, as well
as the need for low interest access to capital for
people who now will be entering the mortgage marketplace during
the rebuild. But there are also questions related to the
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reopening of schools, other public amenities like the library and
rec center, as well as when there will be enough
retail and other amenities to sustain the lifestyle there. So
that survey feedback has given us, you know, a peak
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around the corner about what some of those issues are
now on the city side. Is there more that we
can and should be doing better? Absolutely? It is just
speak out because we don't have the AI capability.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well, what about Carricio's AI? Is that usable or not?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
He says it is, and he says he gets nothing
back from the Bass administration on it.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
It is. And you know, I'm having trouble getting straight
answers myself about why this isn't up and running the
county is able to do that. We are pushing for
self certification. I do appreciate Mayor Bass suspending collection of
the permits these emotion.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
What Rick says, what takes a few months could take
a few hours with the AI. You're saying it works,
he's saying it works. Why doesn't Karen Bass immediately implement
this system.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I don't want to speak on behalf of why it
hasn't been done, but I want you to know I
am pushing for it. It's just ridiculous to me that
in twenty twenty five we are going to be held
back by Ourkane procedures that are causing delay. I mean
there are examples of people that have submitted plans on
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like for like rebuilds, which should be a rubber stamp,
then they've gotten them back with notes. If I could
go on all day with one off stories where we
have had to intervene with either DBS or planning and
redirect them back to yes, get this done. You know
what our constituents want, John, They either want real help
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or they want us to get out of their way.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yes, that's what I'm hearing. I got a lot of
friends affected. As you know, we've got people here in
the building affected. I'm hearing the same stories over and
over again. They think there's a total lack of urgency. No,
it's more like a total lack of interest coming from
city Hall that everybody's moved on, and you know, there's
bigger political issues like the immigration rates that they can
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focus on, and the Palisades is six months ago. It's
all news.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
No. I was always about that, and I said from
the outset, you know, at some point the news cycle
is going to shift, the cameras are going to go away,
and the politicians are going to go back to Sacramento.
And you know, my job as our council member is
to continue to be at the forefront of this and
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to be the voice for the community so that these
needs in issues don't get lost into the rest of
the chaos of daily government governance in the city of
Los Angeles, which, by the way, those additional issues that
you mentioned, John, are not going to help us stabilize
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our budget or our local economy, or fix the sidewalks,
or rebuild the Palisades or get us ready for the
Olympics in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I just hear so much frustration as becoming despair. Is
what do you tell people? They say, what am I
supposed to do? They can't get an answer back from anyone,
They can't get a phone ball call back, they can't
get an email back.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It's like, why aren't. Why isn't there a whole set.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Of trailers built in the middle of Pacific Palisades with
government workers and the AIS software and the computer systems.
You know, you could do a pop up like that
pretty quickly, so people right in town there can get
all these needs met and have problems solved quickly. We've
got the technology, now there is the expertise out there
to do it. I don't understand. It feels like it's
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nineteen thirty two right now.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It feels like in many ways we are playing from
a playbook that was written twenty five years ago under
different circumstances in a different community. And I hear you
about the location of you know, the one stop permitting center,
for example, that has been housed over in West Los Angeles,
where it's a pain to park, You've got to get
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in the elevator and go to multiple different floors, and
it's an extra nuisance of a stop on the way
into the Palisades for people who have a reason to
be there and to be doing work there. So one
of the things that we are doing is looking to
move that right into the heart of the Palisades because
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it will naturally become a community hub, a place where
people can get their questions answered in real time. They
can see multiple departments at once. But it raises the
question of why have we been unable to not only
implement the technology but de silo these departments. When you
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look at the number of different departments and agencies that
you have to go out and get sign off and
clearance from, come on, it's just the scene. I know.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's people feel like nobody at city Hall cares.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
They just don't care.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It doesn't matter to people at city Hall what happens
to the Palisades and the homeowners, the residents there.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And how can I say otherwise?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Well, I very much care, And you know I put
out a lot of communication to our friends and neighbors
in the Palisades to keep them updated and engaged so
they know.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
When Yeah, you know, you're doing as terrific job as
anyone could humanly do.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Really, but you can't do it by yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
You, I know, you got to play politics here, but
you Karen Bass has got to do something.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
She's got to do something fast, something big.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I continue to need her help, but we as a
community have to stick together and we have to fight
to keep this on the forefront of everyone's attention, regardless
of whatever else may be going on in the city.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
All right, Tracy Park talking with you. Anytime you want
to come on, we will discuss things further. Tracy Park
the councilwoman from the West side of LA You're.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
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Speaker 2 (17:15):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and
you can listen to the John Cobelt Show on demand
on the iHeart app after four o'clock. I just had
Tracy Park on for half an hour and if you
missed it, that's what the podcast is for talking about
She's the council person for the West side of Los
Angeles and Palisades. Look, I'll tell you the truth. I
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drove through there yesterday with my wife and we actually
went off. We went off Sudden Said Boulevard and drove
through the neighborhoods, which we've been doing, you know, every
few weeks, and there's nothing going on there.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
There just is.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
There's no sense to momentum, there's no sense of recovery, rebuilding, nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It is just quiet.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You expect to see tumbleweeds, blowing across Sunset Boulevard in
front of you.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
There aren't people.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
There aren't there's scattered workers on individual properties or utility workers,
but for the most part, nothing's being constructed. I think
I think Tracy said there might be sixteen sixteen lots
where ground has been broken. There's over seven thousand homes
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that have burned, and then thousands more businesses, and it's
six months is enough time.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
To stop and say, well, all right?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And the thing is, there's not much in the pipeline
because the insurance industry was so mismanaged by cal fart
Lara and the Democratic legislature, and the insurance industry is
so corrupt and they pulled out on people so fast,
and they wouldn't write policies for many that a lot
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of people are uninsured, underinsured. Some of them didn't even
know it. The insurance company snuck in and they sent
drones over the to see that the reservoirs weren't filled
and that the brush wasn't cleared on Newsome State lands,
and they said, well, we're not ensuring this.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
We've lost a lot of we've lost enough money in California,
and they stuck out of town and people didn't even know.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That they had lost their insurance. They were getting thrown
into the state Fair Plan, which drastically under insures the
kind of people who live in the Palistates. And I know,
let me tell you, there is a lack of empathy.
There is a bias against the Palisades residents by Karen Bass.
There is. I think it's personal animosity. Those are not
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her people. That's not why she got into politics. She
didn't get into politics to help out the kind of
people who live in the Palisades. She probably has stereotypical
notions of what they're like and how much wealth they have,
and a lot of them don't. A lot of them
inherited the homes over years. A lot of them bought
their homes, you know, decades ago when they were worth
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a lot less. You know, the real estate boom here
in California, the property value boom is fairly recent.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And she doesn't care. And that's the hardest thing to
deal with.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's the hardest thing for people to accept, because since
you're a little child, you're fed this nonsense in bs
about public service and public servants and they are here
to help everyone else and we should respect them.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And revere them, and they're full of crap.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
We know they're making a lot of money on the side,
a lot of money on the side, and they're making
a lot of money for their friends and relatives. Just
look at the nonprofit homeless industry and the two billion
dollars that disappeared in LA. That's how they're making their money.
I mean, you could have whatever political views you want,
but don't be a naive child. Don't be stupid. Karen
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Bass and most of that city council does not give
a crap about you. No matter where you are, they
don't care, and especially you're in the Palisades. I think
Bass has a lot of animosity and indifference, and that's
the way she's acting. Rick Caruso's AI technology that he
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acquired for his nonprofit Steadfast LA will work. It'll cut
the weight periods on plan check on the permits from
months to hours. Why isn't it being used. Why wasn't
it being used weeks and weeks ago when he first
announced it. Personal animosity from Bass, probably against Caruso because
he might be an opponent, and also just in general
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against the people there. She doesn't show up, She didn't
do anything you see here run a MacArthur park. She
turned her whole schedule upside down to start screaming about
to Ice arresting illegal aliens when she knows that the
park was rife with criminals, cartel members, gangsters, a lot
of them here illegally. She knows that, But that's that's
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what gets her excited. That's what turns her on. I
don't know why some things are inexplicable. You don't know
why they just are. And her sympathies, and a lot
of left winging progressive sympathies, are with criminals, even if
they're cartel members or gangsters. Okay, so people inexplicably elected
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her to be the mayor, so you expect her to
help out the residents of the Palisades who lost everything
in large part because she and the rest of the
city agencies were not prepared and did not respond. She's
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warned for days about the most destructive, deadly fire coming,
and she bolted for Africa. You think she cares. She
lands off the plane, has nothing to say. You think
she cares. She didn't even show up for Newsom's dog
and Pony show last week. That news conference on the
six month anniversary. No, she went to scream at ice
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agents who were trying to arrest the drug cartel members
and gangsters and MacArthur Park. She doesn't care. So now
we're stuck for eighteen months with somebody who doesn't care.
And if you got a family in the Palisades, And
by the way, this goes for Altadena and the county
supervisors too. The county supervisors for the most part, don't
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care about all the middle class families in Altadena. This
is not just a poor versus wealthy thing. This is
everybody in government in Los Angeles versus everybody who's normal,
who has jobs, in a family and homes. They don't care.
They're getting theirs. They're making their money on the side.
They got all those homeless nonp deals, so they and
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their family members are raking it in. Their friends are
raking it in. Not just homeless scams, but they've got
all kinds of scams, and they just enjoy the raw power.
Boston people around telling people what to do, right down
to plastic straws and compost bags anything. I mean, look,
you know just remember COVID Boston people around telling you
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what to do, claiming they had science on their side,
and they were all full of crap. It was their
wet dream. It was what they desire to do all
their lives. Lock people up in their homes. They want
to lock us up in our homes, put us on buses,
put us in high rises. And it's happened, you know,
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many times in history. What do you think Castro did
in Cuba? Oh, who's the biggest fan of Castro in
La Karen Bass? Not an accident, that's her mindset. So
it's playing out exactly as you would have predicted had
you paid any attention to Karen Bass, his life and
her beliefs and her activities. Somebody who joins some rebel
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organization that's in love with Castro and is traveling to
Cuba all the time and his praising Castro. I've been
to Cuba. I know that's that's what she admires. I
know that's what she'd like to turn the Palisades into.
It's not hyperbole, it's not rhetoric, it's not cheap insults,
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it's the truth. That's her mindset. That's what you elected.
And by the way, it's gonna happen in New York
City too. With that Zoorn Mondami, although he's more honest
about it. He's more honest about admiring socialists and communists.
She covered it up with her cute, little grandmotherly smile,
so she fooled everybody here. Mondami is not trying to
fool anybody, and he may get elected anyway because of
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all the crazy people in the cities.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Now you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Tomorrow, we're gonna have John Ally on. John is a
businessman and he has a group called Santa Monica Coalition.
We'vet him on a number of times, and he is
now offering homeless people one way tickets out of town.
He's been doing this since June. And you got a
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one way ticket and you go back and see your
family and friends. There are donors donating the money. He's
gotten over two hundred calls from people asking for help
since they broke the story a couple of weeks ago,
and they've sent people on flights and bus rides to Texas, Pennsylvania,
Wyoming and other places.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
So that's a way. And you know, this is why.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Everybody always says this is a joke. But imagine instead
of the billions of dollars. If we just offered everybody
a bus or a plane ticket home, maybe we could
get some some kind of reduction in the street home US.
And I don't know if you heard earlier two o'clock hour,
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we had Michael Monks on from CAMFI News. That's another
good thing to listen to on the podcast later is
so they announced they announced the homeless census count, which
they took in February for twenty twenty five. We're down
four percent in the county, three percent in the city.
And everybody's putting out tweets and all kinds of press
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releases congratulating themselves for three and four percent drops. But
only Michael put into his report that, hey, look at
the twenty nineteen numbers. In twenty nineteen, the county homeless
was fifty eight thousand, Now it's seventy two. In twenty nineteen,
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the city homeless numbers were thirty five thousand, Now it's
forty two. It's down from last year, both city and county,
but it's still way higher than it was in twenty
nineteen and twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
It was a very bad year.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Twenty seventeen, things started to really get out of control.
That's why we passed those measures to raise billions of
dollars in tax money. And in twenty nineteen it got worse,
and it's been getting worse and worse, and now a
slight drop. And you wouldn't believe the crap that Karen
bass is putting out on our ex accounts, like are
you you are insane? Right? Yeah, they know what they're doing.
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They know most people are never going to hear that
the numbers are still much higher than they were in
twenty nineteen because all the schlock TV news departments in
town aren't going to report it. They are, they're going
to bury it, like they've been burying a lot of
the truth on the immigration story. Speaking of the immigration story,
I meant to get to this all day, but I
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got a few minutes left. I've really had it up
to here with all the nonsense, the way the marijuana
farm was covered up in Ventura County and all the
people screaming about the workers being arrested. I think they
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rested about three hundred and sixty at that marijuana farm.
Do you know they got fourteen miners, fourteen miners working
in sweatshop conditions. Most of them didn't have parents. Here's
the way that life works. The kids had their family
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members pay the drug and smuggling cartels. All right, So
the family pays the cartel, the kids are smuggled over
the border. Now they're put into forced labor as slaves.
As slaves, and any money they make goes to the
cartel to pay off the transportation debt. They charged thousands
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of dollars to take a kid over the border. So
when that kid goes to work, somebody's got to pay
the cartel. I'm guessing it's the company. There's a reason
that company. By the way, it was a federal judge
signed a warrant to investigate that company. So you saw
those jackasses throwing rocks and shooting at the ICE agents.
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It's really horrifically violent. Well, the ICE agents had a
federal warrant because that company hired not only hundreds of
illegal aliens, which is against the law, but they had
a child labor slave camp at least fourteen kids. That's
why when I saw that stupid you normally I don't
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like to talk about idiot politicians and their tweets and
they're back and forth against each other. But you probably
heard that news some was taunting jd Vance his Vance
took his family to Disneyland, because Newsomb really is a
low class skunk. So he's taunting Advance about I hope
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you enjoy Disneyland and made some crack about all the
all the broken families the Advance has affected here in California.
It's like, you schmuck, You've got children working as slaves
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and a marijuana farm right in your state. You didn't
do anything to police that that was that was thriving
here Inventory County under Newsom's nose, growing marijuana, which which,
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by the way, is it's still illegal federal. It may
be legal in California, but it's illegal on a federal basis,
so the federal government has every right to bust in there.
And then they've hired illegal aliens, which breaks federal law.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
And then they have.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Miners working without parents. Well, that breaks every moral law
in the history of the universe. And so Newsom, instead
of applauding Ice for busting it up and apologizing to
the state for allowing this to fester under his nose,
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he goes after jd Vance for taking his family to Disneyland.
There's something so incredibly sick about Gavin Newsom, and it
is going to be so entertaining when he gets his
ass handed to him what he runs for president.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I think people don't want these whack job progressives anymore,
not even in the Democratic Party. This guy still thinks
it's twenty twenty. It's not anymore. He is used up
outdated old news at a style. Maybe he could get
a couple of wacky old ladies to swoon over them
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in South Carolina. But his day is done, and he
should be He should be embarrassed that there were immigrant
children working as slaves in a forced labor marijuana farm.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I mean, how awful is that? Is he going to
run on that?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Hey, Here in California, pot is not only legal, but
we hire legal workers for slave wages, you know, because
people like their cheap pot. And we hire children for
the slave wages until until they're able to pay off
their debt to the drug cartels. And by the way,
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if there are drug cartel members living in California, we
give them free healthcare.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
I want him to run on that so badly. I mean,
I mean, but I don't think.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't think most of the public is that stupid?
Even the people who voted for Kamala Harris aren't that stupid.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
But you never know, you never know. But just as
a human being, he's just he's just awful. He's just awful.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
He should have been down there providing comfort to all
those poor kids. We're working slaves.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I saw in the LA legis, the California legislature today
they have an idea that they want slave reparations. Again,
this is another group every year they want slave reparations. Okay,
it's like, hello, you have modern day slaves here in Camerao,
in Ventura County. You have modern day child slaves. That's why,
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that's that's fascinating about this. The same people who want
reparations for slaves from the eighteen hundreds are throwing rocks
and bottles at the ice agents who are trying to
rescue the child slaves here in the year twenty twenty five.
I mean, total that up for me, all right, con
ways up next see you tomorrow. We got Michael Kerzer
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And we're going to talk with Tracy Park, the LA
City council woman right now. Tracy represents the West Side
of Los Angeles, which includes Pacific Palisades and the California
Department of Housing and Community Development. NEWSOM made this announcement
a few days ago, announced one hundred and one million
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dollars in funding. They issued a nofah. You know what
a nofah is. Notice a funding availability one hundred and
one million dollars for low income housing in the Palisades,
which has upset a lot of.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
People for the reasons we have talked about.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Most people can't get their permits processed in Palisades, and
it seems like to have this river of money come
in for low income housing, a lot of people think
that that's eventually what the state is going to engineer.
You know, Scott Wiener is trying to pass a bill
that allows low income housing to be built in any
residential neighborhood, single family neighborhood. Let's get Tracy park on.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
How are you, Tracy, Hey, John, I'm good things.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
There are a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Of people, you know, angry about the Palisades, and it
seems to intensify as you know, you probably get more
of it than anybody else in the world. But this,
this explain this one hundred and one million dollars for
low income housing. That that that's a tough thing to
swallow for a lot of people who can't get anywhere
with the city on getting their their permit issued.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yes, and I have certainly been, you know, deeply engaged
over the last several days as all of this has unfolded.
And now I just want to be very clear. My
obligation is to the victims of this fire, and I
have been very clear from day one that we need
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to rebuild the Pacific Palisades for the people who were
impacted by the fire. And nobody is looking to do
a corporate landswap or giveaway or engineer some entirely new community.
And I also want to mention that the governor and
his team have been extremely helpful to me personally and
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to the Pacific Palisades, especially with our efforts to keep
the area secure and supporting the law enforcement efforts there.
But this nofa is consistent with a statewide push to
add apartments and density, especially affordable housing, which as we
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all know, comes with taller buildings and more units and
no parking. You know, some additional housing related to seniors
and some workforce housing makes some sense. But people in
the Pacific Polisades are rightly upset and frustrated about one
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hundred million dollars being made available to corporate developers to
add more density instead of directly helping the victims of
the fire, especially given how many hundreds of them were
under or uninsured and who lacked the resources that they
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need to actually rebuild. And so their frustration and anger
over this is loud and clear to me as their
council member.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, what can be done here? Because this building long
income housing, more density. There's already a tremendous amount of
traffic that comes out of the in and out of
the palisades. On Sunset Boulevard, it's already a parking lot
and Sunset Boulevard most afternoons because I drive through it.
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You don't need more density and the parking is not
existing in a lot of places. The last thing the
Palisades needs is more people stuffed in there. It's not
designed for it because you can only go to the
south into the east to get out of there.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, John, you're right, and you hit the nail on
the head. The Pacific Palisades was it pain't in the
ass to get to on a good day before the fire.
It's worse now because of the construction and the other
access issues. But think about the evacuations that happens on
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and around January seventh. It is a miracle that no
one died. John, Think about how chaotic it was evacuating
out of Brintwood and there was no active fire burning
in your community. So there are major public safety and
emergency access ingress and egress issues related to density that
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must be at the forefront of our planning during this rebuilding.
So I have already introduced legislation here at the local
level that would tie any added new density to adequate
evacuation routes. But I also think it's important that we
consider the strain on our infrastructure, our roads, our electric grid,
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our sewer systems, our water pipes, our fire department, our
police Department, our schools and everything else. And so we
have seen the challenges just during the fire in the
aftermath itself, of over densification without concurrent invents, inadequate infrastructure
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to support it. And you know, here the people of
the Pacific Palisades, you know, John, I have been in
hundreds of meetings in the last six months. I have
spoken to thousands of impacted residents. Nobody has asked for
money for corporate developers to come in and build residential
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skyscrapers on Sunset Boulevard with no parking. What they are
asking for is Sacramento's help in resolving the ensurability concerns
and providing the financial relief directly who the victims of
the fire.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You said Newsom's administration has been cooperative. Are they cooperative
on those issues?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You know, they have been really helpful to see the
eleven As we have navigated through the security issues around
the Palisades, the governor and his team have been great
about waiving regular relations and red tape. You've seen that
with sequel exemptions and the role of the Coastal Commission,
and so, you know, I think the intentions behind this
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are good and they are consistent with state policy. But
to describe the Pacific Palisades as urban infill is just
simply not consistent with this very challenging geographical hillside coastal terrain.
And it's a perfect example of how Sacramentos hop down
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approach to density and development in local communities just simply
doesn't always work.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, nobody in the Palisades wants this. Can you hang
on for another segment? Sure you have the time. Okay, good.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Tracy Park and she is the council person for the
West Side District eleven of Los Angeles, including the Palisades.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We continue with Tracy Park. Tracy is the council owned
for the West Side of Los Angeles District number eleven,
and we've been talking about the news of administration announcing
one hundred and one million dollars in funding for low
income housing in the palis Age Palisades, which is absolutely
enraged a lot of the displaced residents of that town. Tracy,
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what is the problem with the permits? It's been six months.
Rick Caruso was on our show last week. He's been
putting out the numbers, they're very, very low. I talk
to people all the time. You do too, You've heard
all the complaints. When when is the past administration going
to fast track the permitting process?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Why don't they take ricks artificial.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Intelligence software the plan check idea that he has, So
there's a lot of knock question.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
There are well over six hundred permits that are in
the pipeline now and a couple hundred that have already
been issued, and we've broken ground on sixteen properties in
less than six months. But there are a number of
issues that are holding people back. And as a council office,
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we actually circulated a survey where we got back about
one thousand responses from both people who lost homes and
had standing homes to try to get a sense of
what were the challenges they were facing, what was holding
them back in their decision making about whether to rebuild
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and if so, when or whether to sell. And the
primary issues continue to be questions related to insurance, especially
folks who were under or uninsured, and how they are
going to cover the gap between their coverage and the
actual rebuild cost. And then also questions related to access
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to capital, that's loan modifications for people who lost homes
who were somewhere mid cycle in a mortgage, as well
as the need for low interest access to capital for
people who now will be entering the mortgage marketplace during
the rebuild. But there are also questions related to the
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reopening of schools, other public amenities like the library and
rec center, as well as when there will be enough
retail and other amenities to sustain the lifestyle there. So
that survey feedback has given us, you know, a peak
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around the corner about what some of those issues are
now on the city side. Is there more that we
can and should be doing better? Absolutely? It is just
speak out because we don't have the AI capability.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well, what about Carricio's AI? Is that usable or not?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
He says it is, and he says he gets nothing
back from the Bass administration on it.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
It is. And you know, I'm having trouble getting straight
answers myself about why this isn't up and running the
county is able to do that. We are pushing for
self certification. I do appreciate Mayor Bass suspending collection of
the permits these emotion.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
What Rick says, what takes a few months could take
a few hours with the AI. You're saying it works,
he's saying it works. Why doesn't Karen Bass immediately implement
this system.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I don't want to speak on behalf of why it
hasn't been done, but I want you to know I
am pushing for it. It's just ridiculous to me that
in twenty twenty five we are going to be held
back by Ourkane procedures that are causing delay. I mean
there are examples of people that have submitted plans on
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like for like rebuilds, which should be a rubber stamp,
then they've gotten them back with notes. If I could
go on all day with one off stories where we
have had to intervene with either DBS or planning and
redirect them back to yes, get this done. You know
what our constituents want, John, They either want real help
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or they want us to get out of their way.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yes, that's what I'm hearing. I got a lot of
friends affected. As you know, we've got people here in
the building affected. I'm hearing the same stories over and
over again. They think there's a total lack of urgency. No,
it's more like a total lack of interest coming from
city Hall that everybody's moved on, and you know, there's
bigger political issues like the immigration rates that they can
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focus on, and the Palisades is six months ago. It's
all news.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
No. I was always about that, and I said from
the outset, you know, at some point the news cycle
is going to shift, the cameras are going to go away,
and the politicians are going to go back to Sacramento.
And you know, my job as our council member is
to continue to be at the forefront of this and
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to be the voice for the community so that these
needs in issues don't get lost into the rest of
the chaos of daily government governance in the city of
Los Angeles, which, by the way, those additional issues that
you mentioned, John, are not going to help us stabilize
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our budget or our local economy, or fix the sidewalks,
or rebuild the Palisades or get us ready for the
Olympics in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I just hear so much frustration as becoming despair. Is
what do you tell people? They say, what am I
supposed to do? They can't get an answer back from anyone,
They can't get a phone ball call back, they can't
get an email back.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It's like, why aren't. Why isn't there a whole set.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Of trailers built in the middle of Pacific Palisades with
government workers and the AIS software and the computer systems.
You know, you could do a pop up like that
pretty quickly, so people right in town there can get
all these needs met and have problems solved quickly. We've
got the technology, now there is the expertise out there
to do it. I don't understand. It feels like it's
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nineteen thirty two right now.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It feels like in many ways we are playing from
a playbook that was written twenty five years ago under
different circumstances in a different community. And I hear you
about the location of you know, the one stop permitting center,
for example, that has been housed over in West Los Angeles,
where it's a pain to park, You've got to get
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in the elevator and go to multiple different floors, and
it's an extra nuisance of a stop on the way
into the Palisades for people who have a reason to
be there and to be doing work there. So one
of the things that we are doing is looking to
move that right into the heart of the Palisades because
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it will naturally become a community hub, a place where
people can get their questions answered in real time. They
can see multiple departments at once. But it raises the
question of why have we been unable to not only
implement the technology but de silo these departments. When you
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look at the number of different departments and agencies that
you have to go out and get sign off and
clearance from, come on, it's just the scene. I know.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It's people feel like nobody at city Hall cares.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
They just don't care.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It doesn't matter to people at city Hall what happens
to the Palisades and the homeowners, the residents there.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And how can I say otherwise?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Well, I very much care, And you know I put
out a lot of communication to our friends and neighbors
in the Palisades to keep them updated and engaged so
they know.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
When Yeah, you know, you're doing as terrific job as
anyone could humanly do.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Really, but you can't do it by yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
You, I know, you got to play politics here, but
you Karen Bass has got to do something.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
She's got to do something fast, something big.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I continue to need her help, but we as a
community have to stick together and we have to fight
to keep this on the forefront of everyone's attention, regardless
of whatever else may be going on in the city.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
All right, Tracy Park talking with you. Anytime you want
to come on, we will discuss things further. Tracy Park
the councilwoman from the West side of LA You're.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and
you can listen to the John Cobelt Show on demand
on the iHeart app after four o'clock. I just had
Tracy Park on for half an hour and if you
missed it, that's what the podcast is for talking about
She's the council person for the West side of Los
Angeles and Palisades. Look, I'll tell you the truth. I
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drove through there yesterday with my wife and we actually
went off. We went off Sudden Said Boulevard and drove
through the neighborhoods, which we've been doing, you know, every
few weeks, and there's nothing going on there.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
There just is.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
There's no sense to momentum, there's no sense of recovery, rebuilding, nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It is just quiet.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You expect to see tumbleweeds, blowing across Sunset Boulevard in
front of you.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
There aren't people.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
There aren't there's scattered workers on individual properties or utility workers,
but for the most part, nothing's being constructed. I think
I think Tracy said there might be sixteen sixteen lots
where ground has been broken. There's over seven thousand homes
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that have burned, and then thousands more businesses, and it's
six months is enough time.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
To stop and say, well, all right?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And the thing is, there's not much in the pipeline
because the insurance industry was so mismanaged by cal fart
Lara and the Democratic legislature, and the insurance industry is
so corrupt and they pulled out on people so fast,
and they wouldn't write policies for many that a lot
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of people are uninsured, underinsured. Some of them didn't even
know it. The insurance company snuck in and they sent
drones over the to see that the reservoirs weren't filled
and that the brush wasn't cleared on Newsome State lands,
and they said, well, we're not ensuring this.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
We've lost a lot of we've lost enough money in California,
and they stuck out of town and people didn't even know.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That they had lost their insurance. They were getting thrown
into the state Fair Plan, which drastically under insures the
kind of people who live in the Palistates. And I know,
let me tell you, there is a lack of empathy.
There is a bias against the Palisades residents by Karen Bass.
There is. I think it's personal animosity. Those are not
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her people. That's not why she got into politics. She
didn't get into politics to help out the kind of
people who live in the Palisades. She probably has stereotypical
notions of what they're like and how much wealth they have,
and a lot of them don't. A lot of them
inherited the homes over years. A lot of them bought
their homes, you know, decades ago when they were worth
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a lot less. You know, the real estate boom here
in California, the property value boom is fairly recent.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
And she doesn't care. And that's the hardest thing to
deal with.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's the hardest thing for people to accept, because since
you're a little child, you're fed this nonsense in bs
about public service and public servants and they are here
to help everyone else and we should respect them.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And revere them, and they're full of crap.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
We know they're making a lot of money on the side,
a lot of money on the side, and they're making
a lot of money for their friends and relatives. Just
look at the nonprofit homeless industry and the two billion
dollars that disappeared in LA. That's how they're making their money.
I mean, you could have whatever political views you want,
but don't be a naive child. Don't be stupid. Karen
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Bass and most of that city council does not give
a crap about you. No matter where you are, they
don't care, and especially you're in the Palisades. I think
Bass has a lot of animosity and indifference, and that's
the way she's acting. Rick Caruso's AI technology that he
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acquired for his nonprofit Steadfast LA will work. It'll cut
the weight periods on plan check on the permits from
months to hours. Why isn't it being used. Why wasn't
it being used weeks and weeks ago when he first
announced it. Personal animosity from Bass, probably against Caruso because
he might be an opponent, and also just in general
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against the people there. She doesn't show up, She didn't
do anything you see here run a MacArthur park. She
turned her whole schedule upside down to start screaming about
to Ice arresting illegal aliens when she knows that the
park was rife with criminals, cartel members, gangsters, a lot
of them here illegally. She knows that, But that's that's
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what gets her excited. That's what turns her on. I
don't know why some things are inexplicable. You don't know
why they just are. And her sympathies, and a lot
of left winging progressive sympathies, are with criminals, even if
they're cartel members or gangsters. Okay, so people inexplicably elected
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her to be the mayor, so you expect her to
help out the residents of the Palisades who lost everything
in large part because she and the rest of the
city agencies were not prepared and did not respond. She's
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warned for days about the most destructive, deadly fire coming,
and she bolted for Africa. You think she cares. She
lands off the plane, has nothing to say. You think
she cares. She didn't even show up for Newsom's dog
and Pony show last week. That news conference on the
six month anniversary. No, she went to scream at ice
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agents who were trying to arrest the drug cartel members
and gangsters and MacArthur Park. She doesn't care. So now
we're stuck for eighteen months with somebody who doesn't care.
And if you got a family in the Palisades, And
by the way, this goes for Altadena and the county
supervisors too. The county supervisors for the most part, don't
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care about all the middle class families in Altadena. This
is not just a poor versus wealthy thing. This is
everybody in government in Los Angeles versus everybody who's normal,
who has jobs, in a family and homes. They don't care.
They're getting theirs. They're making their money on the side.
They got all those homeless nonp deals, so they and
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their family members are raking it in. Their friends are
raking it in. Not just homeless scams, but they've got
all kinds of scams, and they just enjoy the raw power.
Boston people around telling people what to do, right down
to plastic straws and compost bags anything. I mean, look,
you know just remember COVID Boston people around telling you
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what to do, claiming they had science on their side,
and they were all full of crap. It was their
wet dream. It was what they desire to do all
their lives. Lock people up in their homes. They want
to lock us up in our homes, put us on buses,
put us in high rises. And it's happened, you know,
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many times in history. What do you think Castro did
in Cuba? Oh, who's the biggest fan of Castro in
La Karen Bass? Not an accident, that's her mindset. So
it's playing out exactly as you would have predicted had
you paid any attention to Karen Bass, his life and
her beliefs and her activities. Somebody who joins some rebel
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organization that's in love with Castro and is traveling to
Cuba all the time and his praising Castro. I've been
to Cuba. I know that's that's what she admires. I
know that's what she'd like to turn the Palisades into.
It's not hyperbole, it's not rhetoric, it's not cheap insults,
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it's the truth. That's her mindset. That's what you elected.
And by the way, it's gonna happen in New York
City too. With that Zoorn Mondami, although he's more honest
about it. He's more honest about admiring socialists and communists.
She covered it up with her cute, little grandmotherly smile,
so she fooled everybody here. Mondami is not trying to
fool anybody, and he may get elected anyway because of
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all the crazy people in the cities.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Now you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Tomorrow, we're gonna have John Ally on. John is a
businessman and he has a group called Santa Monica Coalition.
We'vet him on a number of times, and he is
now offering homeless people one way tickets out of town.
He's been doing this since June. And you got a
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one way ticket and you go back and see your
family and friends. There are donors donating the money. He's
gotten over two hundred calls from people asking for help
since they broke the story a couple of weeks ago,
and they've sent people on flights and bus rides to Texas, Pennsylvania,
Wyoming and other places.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
So that's a way. And you know, this is why.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Everybody always says this is a joke. But imagine instead
of the billions of dollars. If we just offered everybody
a bus or a plane ticket home, maybe we could
get some some kind of reduction in the street home US.
And I don't know if you heard earlier two o'clock hour,
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we had Michael Monks on from CAMFI News. That's another
good thing to listen to on the podcast later is
so they announced they announced the homeless census count, which
they took in February for twenty twenty five. We're down
four percent in the county, three percent in the city.
And everybody's putting out tweets and all kinds of press
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releases congratulating themselves for three and four percent drops. But
only Michael put into his report that, hey, look at
the twenty nineteen numbers. In twenty nineteen, the county homeless
was fifty eight thousand, Now it's seventy two. In twenty nineteen,
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the city homeless numbers were thirty five thousand, Now it's
forty two. It's down from last year, both city and county,
but it's still way higher than it was in twenty
nineteen and twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
It was a very bad year.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Twenty seventeen, things started to really get out of control.
That's why we passed those measures to raise billions of
dollars in tax money. And in twenty nineteen it got worse,
and it's been getting worse and worse, and now a
slight drop. And you wouldn't believe the crap that Karen
bass is putting out on our ex accounts, like are
you you are insane? Right? Yeah, they know what they're doing.
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They know most people are never going to hear that
the numbers are still much higher than they were in
twenty nineteen because all the schlock TV news departments in
town aren't going to report it. They are, they're going
to bury it, like they've been burying a lot of
the truth on the immigration story. Speaking of the immigration story,
I meant to get to this all day, but I
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got a few minutes left. I've really had it up
to here with all the nonsense, the way the marijuana
farm was covered up in Ventura County and all the
people screaming about the workers being arrested. I think they
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rested about three hundred and sixty at that marijuana farm.
Do you know they got fourteen miners, fourteen miners working
in sweatshop conditions. Most of them didn't have parents. Here's
the way that life works. The kids had their family
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members pay the drug and smuggling cartels. All right, So
the family pays the cartel, the kids are smuggled over
the border. Now they're put into forced labor as slaves.
As slaves, and any money they make goes to the
cartel to pay off the transportation debt. They charged thousands
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of dollars to take a kid over the border. So
when that kid goes to work, somebody's got to pay
the cartel. I'm guessing it's the company. There's a reason
that company. By the way, it was a federal judge
signed a warrant to investigate that company. So you saw
those jackasses throwing rocks and shooting at the ICE agents.
(30:29):
It's really horrifically violent. Well, the ICE agents had a
federal warrant because that company hired not only hundreds of
illegal aliens, which is against the law, but they had
a child labor slave camp at least fourteen kids. That's
why when I saw that stupid you normally I don't
(30:51):
like to talk about idiot politicians and their tweets and
they're back and forth against each other. But you probably
heard that news some was taunting jd Vance his Vance
took his family to Disneyland, because Newsomb really is a
low class skunk. So he's taunting Advance about I hope
(31:12):
you enjoy Disneyland and made some crack about all the
all the broken families the Advance has affected here in California.
It's like, you schmuck, You've got children working as slaves
(31:33):
and a marijuana farm right in your state. You didn't
do anything to police that that was that was thriving
here Inventory County under Newsom's nose, growing marijuana, which which,
(31:56):
by the way, is it's still illegal federal. It may
be legal in California, but it's illegal on a federal basis,
so the federal government has every right to bust in there.
And then they've hired illegal aliens, which breaks federal law.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
And then they have.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Miners working without parents. Well, that breaks every moral law
in the history of the universe. And so Newsom, instead
of applauding Ice for busting it up and apologizing to
the state for allowing this to fester under his nose,
(32:40):
he goes after jd Vance for taking his family to Disneyland.
There's something so incredibly sick about Gavin Newsom, and it
is going to be so entertaining when he gets his
ass handed to him what he runs for president.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I think people don't want these whack job progressives anymore,
not even in the Democratic Party. This guy still thinks
it's twenty twenty. It's not anymore. He is used up
outdated old news at a style. Maybe he could get
a couple of wacky old ladies to swoon over them
(33:21):
in South Carolina. But his day is done, and he
should be He should be embarrassed that there were immigrant
children working as slaves in a forced labor marijuana farm.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I mean, how awful is that? Is he going to
run on that?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Hey, Here in California, pot is not only legal, but
we hire legal workers for slave wages, you know, because
people like their cheap pot. And we hire children for
the slave wages until until they're able to pay off
their debt to the drug cartels. And by the way,
(34:07):
if there are drug cartel members living in California, we
give them free healthcare.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
I want him to run on that so badly. I mean,
I mean, but I don't think.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't think most of the public is that stupid?
Even the people who voted for Kamala Harris aren't that stupid.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
But you never know, you never know. But just as
a human being, he's just he's just awful. He's just awful.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
He should have been down there providing comfort to all
those poor kids. We're working slaves.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I saw in the LA legis, the California legislature today
they have an idea that they want slave reparations. Again,
this is another group every year they want slave reparations. Okay,
it's like, hello, you have modern day slaves here in Camerao,
in Ventura County. You have modern day child slaves. That's why,
(35:09):
that's that's fascinating about this. The same people who want
reparations for slaves from the eighteen hundreds are throwing rocks
and bottles at the ice agents who are trying to
rescue the child slaves here in the year twenty twenty five.
I mean, total that up for me, all right, con
ways up next see you tomorrow. We got Michael Kerzer
(35:34):
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