August 21, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (08/21) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about the latest going on with the Menendez Brothers parole hearings. The LA Times wrote a misleading headline about an illegal immigrant who committed a lewd act with a minor under the age of 14. Mayor of Whittie Joe Vinatieri comes on the show to talk about why SB759 should be passed as it would close a loophole that gives less severe punishments to repeat offenders. California gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck comes on the show to talk about all of the redistricting drama going on in California.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can'f I am six forty you're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We have so much coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
In just a few minutes, we are getting Alex Stone
and he's going to be reporting live. He's covering the
Menendez Brothers' parole hearings, which are happening in San Diego.
Today is Eric's day, Tomorrow is Lyles Day.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Again.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
These two guys now in their fifties who blew their parents'
head off almost exactly thirty six years ago today. I
think it was August the twentieth of nineteen eighty nine.
And everyone is familiar with the story to the point
of wanting to vomit now. And because the silly TikTok
girls got a strong movement together and Netflix ran an
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idiotic docu series, there became this ground swell to let
these two murderous beasts out. These are nothing but violent psychopaths.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
But I find them.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So cute, I do.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I find them so cute.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Good, Maybe one of them will marry you, and let's
see what happens. So the Menendez brothers their parole hearing,
Alex Stone will tell us all about it. Two thirty
is going to be Joe Vintieri and Joe is the
mayor of Whittier. And some years ago a police officer
in Whittier was killed. His name's Keith Boyer. And Keith
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Boyer is killed by a guy who was out on probation,
but he wasn't supervised and he ended up murdering Keith Boyer.
And there is a bill called the Keith Boyer Bill
and to close these supervision loopholes, and Joe is going
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to come on and talk about it.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Joe Vin a Teri.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And at the end of the hour, we're going to
talk to Democratic candidate Steve Klubec. He's running for governor.
He's a democratic businessman, not your standard Democrat by any means,
and we will speak with him. That's all just in
this hour, and then there's a lot more good stuff
in the three o'clock hour as well. Jim Garretty is
(02:12):
one of my favorite writers. I was talking about Joel
Kochkin yesterday. He's another great writer, and he went through
all the list of Gavin Newsom's all the terrible, terrible
record of Gavin newsom you know, with the high taxes
and the high poverty rate and the high unemployment rate.
Jim Garretty for the National Review had his own separate story,
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and he had other horrible facts about Gavin Newsom's reign.
Do you know housing costs in California are twice as
high as the national medium, twice as high, and rents
are fifty percent higher than the national media. Yeah, we
have not only by far the highest housing costs to
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buy a home, but rents are fifty percent higher. One
thirty Californians live at the poverty level, rather one third
lives near the poverty level. Another twenty percent lives at
the poverty level homeless. This for all the tens of
billions of dollars spent, is up sixty percent in the
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past ten years, sixty percent. The overall crime rate and
the violent crime rate rate are significantly higher than the national.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Average year after year.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And finally, the percentage of students in California who perform
at or above proficiency level for math and reading twenty
eight percent. Twenty eight percent, so seventy two percent, almost
three quarters of California students not proficient in math and reading.
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On top of above average crime rate, an above average
violent crime rate, a busted budget, housing costs, that are
double the national median, rents fifty percent higher than the
national median, fifty percent of Californians living at or near
the poverty line, homelessness up sixty percent in the last
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ten years. This is the governor who is spending the day.
They're working on it right now to redraw the district
lines here in California so that Republican and independent voters
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who want to vote Republican have virtually no representation in
Congress from California. They're working on that now, and as
we told you earlier, he lied. He said they wouldn't
do it if Texas stood down with their plan. Well
today they announced they're doing it anyway, So he lied
about that, trying to tamp down the initial resistance. So
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you talk about you talk about narcissistic psychopaths. The only
difference in the brain structure and the morality of the
Menendez brothers in Newsom is Newsom hasn't killed his parents,
But as far as their narcissism and psychopathy, these are
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the same people. There's no conscience at all. We'll talk
more about this later in the show. Let's get Alex
Stone on Menendez brothers. The hearing alex Eric Menendez was
going to get his parole hearing today. Has that gone
on yet, Yeah, it's going on right now, John, It's
been going on.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
For about five hours now. It started earlier today, and
we expect in the next hour or two, maybe three
hours that we're going to get a decision. He's going
to learn tonight whether he gets parole or not. That's
not the final word. Still, the state, the Parole Legal
Council would have one hundred and twenty days to look
at it, and then the governor would get another thirty
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days to assess it as well and potentially veto it
like we've seen with Sir and Sir Ann where he
was granted parole and the governor vetoed it, and with
some of the Manson followers where then it went to
the governor and he vetoed it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So it's not a sure thing.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
And you know, as politics comes into it. Even though
Governor Newsom has claimed that he has no intention of
running for president, if he does, does he want to
be known as the governor who released the Menendez brothers.
Politically that may not be great. So it's not a
sure thing that if it goes to Governor newsom that
he would allow them to get out. But it is
right now in the hands of the parole board for
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Eric Menendez. Tomorrow is going to be Lyle. I'm at
the prison right now where both of them are inside
and Eric is speaking remotely to the board, and in
a couple hours we're going to know exactly what went down.
The public is not allowed in there. There is one
pool reporter who will report out and then we can
report what's going on in there, and that they will
the decision will come down tonight on Eric.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So Eric is on like a zoom call and his attorney. Yeah,
is his attorney part of the procedure or is it
Eric by himself?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
No, it is, yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Well, and it gets interesting because the victims' families in
a case are allowed to be part of this as well.
But this is a unique case because it is the
family members are the family members of the victims and
the killers. So they're allowed to be part of this,
and we assume, like they have been, that they are
defending the Menendez brothers, trying to get them out, saying
that they deserve to be out. So the family members
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get to speak as well. The attorneys are a part
of this, the DA, even though we don't think Nathan
Hockman himself is going to do this, but it would
be the Deputy DA who has been dealing with and
fighting under the Hawkman administration. Their release that they are
are part of this as well. Everybody is there and
then it's a commission of two to three commissioners and
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then they make that decision within we're told forty five
minutes or so, after everything has wrapped up, they will
then issue their decision on whether he gets parole or not.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
All right, well, if that happens while we're on the air,
come right back on and.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Tell us you got it.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
I'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
That is Alex Stone, ABC News for KFI, and he
is covering this hearing in San Diego. I believe that
Eric Manendez is speaking from the prison and he's on
a video screen and the pro board members are talking
with him, and if the pro board lets Lyle and
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Eric go, then it goes to Newsom's desk for final review.
And so the narcissistic cycle path makes a decision on
the two murderous narcissistic cycle paths, and you know he
wants to let them out. I mean, they've let out
just about everybody else, but he's running for president.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
How's that?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
In an introduction, ladies and gentlemen, the man who released
Eric and Lylemanndez, who blew their parents heads off with
a shotgun. Blast your next president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's cool to run on.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I guess it's not much worse than all the other
stuff I listed before Alex came on. All right, more
coming up, we got Joe Vinitaria. What are your mare
to talk about? The Keith Borier Bill Keith Boyer was
the cop who was killed by a guy who had
just been released from prison and Keith Keith in Keith's memory.
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Joe is trying to get a bill passed that would
close these supervision loopholes after a criminal is let out
of prison. We'll talk about that after two thirty. Stephen
Klubec after around two fifty about his run for governor
as a Democrat. He's a billionaire businessman. That's all ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Oh guess what, I know it's Thursday. But as a bonus,
as a special present, you could hear one round of
the Moistline at three fifty. We had last week's second
round preempted by Trump and Putin because they were coming out,
and you know, we carried the remarks live because who
(10:25):
knows what the hell they were gonna say turned out
to be a big dud. Putin spoke in Russian and
some long winded history lesson, and Trump shockingly had nothing
to say, and I thought, you know, it's not fair
at all of us. So we're gonna hear the second
round of last week's moist Line coming up at three fifty.
All right, now, I've got some immigration stories, and this
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is classic Los Angeles Times stupidity, written by Clara Harter
and the headline Salvadoran man trying to self deport is
arrested at a California airport. In fact, I think the
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online headline was his reward.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He got deported.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
He was trying to self deport and then Ice caught
him and deported him. So the way it was written
it was to make Ice sound stupid and listen to
the story. After three weeks in custody, a federal court
had convicted him about being in the country illegally following
a prior removal Okay, so he'd been removed before and
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then he was convicted of coming back. Now he's being
deported to El Salvador, exactly where he was attempting to
go when he was detained. But why was he ordered
out of the country the first time? That wasn't in
the headline, that wasn't in the lead paragraph. No, that's
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in the fourth paragraph. His name is Jason Roney Escobar Valencia,
thirty years old. First they give you the SOB story.
He was brought to the Bay Area at eleven years
old by his father, who had obtained temporary protected status
because of unsafe conditions in El Salvador, and Escobar Valencia
spent the entirety of his adolescents and adult life in
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the US, where now he has a two year old
son and a one year old daughter, according to his attorney.
All right, you got this is the setup? The La
Times does this bubblehead Clara Harder. Then fourth paragraph, boom.
Escabar Valencia is a convicted sex offender. So first they
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have a headline ridiculing Ice for deporting a guy who's
self deporting. Then they run a SOB story paragraph about
how he's got a two.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Year old and a one year old, and he was
brought here when he was eleven.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, he grew up to be a convicted sex offender
and that's why he was thrown out of the country.
And then he came back anyway, and Ice wanted to
make sure he really was thrown out of the country.
You're not going to trust his self deporting when he claims,
or his attorney claims, when he boarded the flight at
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San Francisco Airport, he was trying to do the right thing,
the right thing. He wanted to leave the US because
he did not have legal status here. Oh and then
in the sixth paragraph, he was convicted of committing a
lewd act with a child under the age of fourteen.
So this guy really went for it a little kid.
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He committed some disgusting sex act with and the La
Times ran a headline mocking Ice for deporting him out.
Clara Harder and the headline rider ought to be deported.
Oh and get this, Oh there's more. Shortly after arriving
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back at El Salvador, the first time, Escobar Valencia was
the victim of an attempted homicide in a neighborhood controlled
by MS thirteen. This is after he was deported for
sexually assaulting a child under the age of fourteen. So,
after he sexually assaulted a child, he goes to El
Salvador and then he's the victim of an attempted homicide.
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Claire Harter spends all this time explaining all the terrible
things he's suffered. We don't know what he did to
the little kid specifically, and how that kid is because
she doesn't care. Then we go back to quoting the lawyer,
who is this nut, Elise LaRouche. It was in this
context that mister Escobar Valencia made the decision to return
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to the US. He understands now he should not have returned,
but he was an extreme fear. Well, what about the
kid that he's sexually attacked act who was under fourteen?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Is everybody insane?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Here's another story. This is out of the USA today.
Six year old student and her family were deported just
before the start of the new school year in New York,
a case sparking uproar across the state, including from the
governor and officials in the nation's largest public school system.
The second grader New York City went with her mother
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an older brother to an ice check in when agents
detained him and then they were deported. You have to
go farther down in the USA Today's story to find
out the student's mother consistently attended check ins after a
deportation order was issued in June of twenty twenty four,
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when her family asylum application was denied.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That wasn't in the headline.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
One of the spokespeople for ICE said, Martha, the mom
and two of her children all received final orders of
removal from an immigration judge in June of twenty twenty four.
Now Here, in August of twenty twenty five, we're getting
the big SOB story from the USA Today. Good lord,
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they it's incurable. It's an incurable woke disease. Even when
they have convicted child sex molesters or a family that
was repeatedly told no, you have no asylum. You have
to leave the country. You have to go now, they're
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still here over a year later.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh, it's terrible. Right before the school started.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They were deported at the end of the TI twenty
twenty four school year, and they stayed here for a
whole extra school year, violating a federal order. All right,
when we come back, we're gonna talk to Joe Vinatieri.
You remember officer Keith Boyer from Whittier some years ago
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got murdered by a criminal that was let out of
prison and he murdered Keith Boyer. And turns out he
was being supervised the way these guys ought to be.
And there is a loophole in post release supervision that
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Boyer's trying to get closed with help of the legislature.
Joe Vinnie Tieri, the mayor, is going to come on
and explain that coming up, and then Stephen Klubeck after him.
He's running for governor as a Democrat. Interesting guy and
he'll be on this hour as well.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You're listening to John Cope else on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
We have a good editorial candidate, Democrat businessman Steven Klubek,
coming on the show in the next segments. I want
you to listen to that. The Keith Boyer bill is
up for a hearing. Keith Boyer remember him. He was
the officer in Whittier some years ago who got shot
by a gang member named Michael.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Mahea and killed and Mahia.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
He actually opened fire on two police officers, killing Boyer,
and he had just gotten out of prison.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
He since was sentenced to life.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Who knows, but there are a number of people in
Whittier Mayor Joe Vintieria is one of them that want
a bill passed to close this loophole regarding how bad
guys are supervised when they're let out of prison. Because
this Michael Mahea was running around loose and was free
and able to kill Officer Keith Boyer. Let's get Joe
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on here.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Joe, hey, John, how are you God? Did disco goes
back to twenty fifteen? Is that right?
Speaker 7 (19:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He is twenty seventeen. Okay, all right, Well.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You know what, because all right, I'm looking at a
I'm looking at a mug shot of Mahea and it's
dated twenty fifteen. But I guess that's the reason he
was in prison. Whatever he did in twenty fifteen, he
got out in twenty six seventeen, and then and then
he and then he shot and killed Officer Keith Boyer.
All right, So what's this loophole that you're trying to
get closed with the Assembly bill?
Speaker 7 (19:37):
So, so here's what the issue is. When Officer Boyer
was shot and killed, Mahia was on post released community
supervision and was being followed by probation in La County.
But the problem was that the law said that once
you are out on this community supervision, you can't commit
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any violations. And what happened was he went ahead and
committed one violation. I think it was a misdemeanor something
marijuana thing. So they put him in for ten days.
He's out of county jail on ten days. That happened
five times. Five times. The fifth time, two weeks later
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is when Officer Boyer went to the traffic accidents here
in Whittier and he was involved in accident and Keith
was shot and killed. So the problem was, even though
it said three, it basically said you can go ahead
and be involved in these infractions and you're gonna go
do your time for ten days and then you're back out.
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There's no accountability. So this bill basically says, look it,
if someone goes ahead and commits a felony or a misdemeanor,
even though they're out on the third time, they're going
to go see the judge, and the judge going to determine, well,
should they really be out or should they be back
in prison incarceration. So that's what this bill does. And
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this was passed shortly after Boser Boy was killed and
went through both the Assembly and the State Senate only
to be veto and they went through without a negative vote,
went through and it was vetoed at the last minute
by Governor Jerry Brown. We had the same bill up
last year, made it all the way through the Senate,
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made it over to the Assembly of got through Assembly
Public Safety Committee, and we went through without a single
negative vote, went to the Assembly Appropriations Committee and died
in that committee. Why is it important now because next
Friday we're going to be in front of Assembly Appropriations
Committee on SB seven to fifty nine, and we're trying
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to get the word out, encouraging everyone to call to
talk to your Assembly member and say, hey, look it
it's all about common sense, it's about making everyone safe.
Please vote to get it out of the Assembly Appropriations
Committee on Friday.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Let me play the ad that's running to support this bill.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You can play cut two.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
In California, a dangerous loophole is putting our communities at risk.
Right now, someone on post release supervision can violate the
terms of their release multiple times, even commit new crimes
without facing serious consequences. SB seven fifty nine changes that
it holds repeat offenders accountable and gives counties the power
to act after a third violation involving a new felony
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or misdemeanor. This isn't about punishment, it's about prevention. What
are your police Officer? Keith Boyer lost his life because
the system failed. SB seven fifty nine learns from that
tragedy and prioritizes public safety. Call your state representative today
and urge them to vote yes on SB seven fifty nine.
Let's close the loophole before another life is lost.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Hard to believe that you can have someone in prison
for a felony and they violate the law once, not twice,
three times and there's no serious consequences.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
That's correct. That's correct, and that's why we say it's
a loophole and it needs to be plugged. Oser Boyer
was not the only officer who was killed by someone
who is on a post committee release. We've had other officers.
We had a sheriff's sergeant in an old valley was
killed prior to Officer Boyer. We had the same situation
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with officers in Palm Springs and thankfully. It hasn't happened
a lot, but one time is too many, and so
that's what this is all about. And we're just asking
everyone to call your Assembly member and say, look it
we need to support. I want you to support SB
seven fifty nine. It's in Assembly Appropriations Committee on next Friday,
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a week from today, and we want you to please
tell the members of that committe to vote it out
so it can get on the floor of the Assembly
and it can be voted upon by everyone the Assembly
and then get it to the governor.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Jovin Atieri, the Mayor Whittier, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
John, thank you for your help on this, and we're
gonna stick with it until this happened.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, anytime, all right, jovin Etieri, the Mayor Whittier. We're
gonna have Stephen Klubeck, Democratic candidate for governor, billionaire businessman.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
He's up next.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and
then every day after four o'clock it's John Cobelt's show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We are going to
spend a few minutes now talking to one of the
candidates for governor on the Democratic side, Stephen Klubeck. Stephen,
you may have heard, is a businessman who had great success,
(24:53):
the founder of Diamond Resorts, a timeshare company, and he
also has been on a number of television shows like
Undercover Boss, uh and and he has jumped into at
the moment, really the only pure businessman who's running for
office on either side. Let's get Steve and on again.
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He's been with us before. How are you welcome, John?
Speaker 6 (25:17):
How are you today?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I'm good with the news.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
This week, newsom is dominating the news with his redistricting plan.
Where do you stand on this? What do you think
of what he's doing?
Speaker 9 (25:28):
Well, look, it's unfortunate because the California voters have spoken
for independent redistricting, and I wish the Texas voters would
do the same and vote themselves and see what the
Texas voters say. It's putting California in a very vicarious position.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
And it's a it's a it's a.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Boomerang that's gonna, I think hurt the White House and
in the House.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
It's not the way that you.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Know, the American public, the customers of America.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Should be treated job.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
It's not representative, it's it's everyone should have a voice.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
About fifteen years ago, we passed a referendum sixty one
to thirty nine for an independent panel to draw the districts,
and now he wants to reduce them. It still has
two almost two thirds support. In the political poll last
week it was at sixty four to thirty six in
favor of keeping this panel. And I don't think specifically
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independence and Republicans ought to be ought to have a
congress person who may have represented them for years and
years be suddenly eliminated from the map.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Well, I could tell you that. You know me because
we've talked about this. It's all about the customers California.
It's what the customers want. The more and more I've learned, John,
we're in a workout right now. We got a problem
with the leaders that we've elected all of them.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
And you know.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
I look at the candidates I'm running against. Not one
person I trust with our tax dollars, the show performance
and results, and I'm being agnostic.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
It's scary. There's not one person that.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
Would be a good steward of our capital that is
experienced to fix broken and we need we need disruption
right now, we need disruption. I was just at a
state workers union meeting and I walked off stage because
they're out of touch. They don't even want to go
to work. How they work for all of us.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
They haven't been working the last five years.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Well they should be because we're paying their salary, So
show up to work.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
They're still on COVID lead half the time.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Well, but that's ridiculous, John, come on, they are getting
a check from all of us.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Go up to work.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
If you don't show up, that's constructive resignation.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
And I go on, I went on records.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Saying that you told that to them.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Of course I did, John, come on.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
But he does this. So what was the response? Nobody
does it?
Speaker 9 (28:02):
Because because I fixed the most broken, and I've got
to be unapologetically authentic. The response was, don't let the
door hit you on the way out. I'm like, great,
wait till I'm in charge, you know, and things you're
gonna be a little different, and the customer California will
be represented getting equal and greater value. That's hard center.
(28:22):
John's hard center representing the customers California and that's just
the way it's got to be. And I stopped pandering,
and I was funny. I turned to Basara and they
went said millionaire, billionaire, and I said, be Sarah. They're
talking about you like, no, no sarcasm, nothing, No, it's
straight face. But you know they want to throw these
(28:43):
epithets out. What's wrong with aspiration? Let everyone do?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well, yeah, what's wrong with accomplishing things and being successful?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Nothing?
Speaker 9 (28:53):
Nothing, nothing, And you've got to be you can't compromise.
These folks are panderers and they compro and they're co
opted by special interests, and it is what it is.
We got a problem. We're broken. California is not affordable, livable, workable.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
We know that. So we're going to do something about it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
John, all Right, So we got the highest and employment
in the country, got the highest poverty rate in the country,
got the highest taxes in the country, you know, the
whole list, and.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
We got some new some running for president.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Now between this redistricting thing and and uh mimicking Trump
and his tweets. And I know you're not a big
fan of Trump, but we need somebody to actually be
governing this place.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
Well, Well, look, John, I create value. I create brands.
I have integrity. Trump and I we have bravado. But
we do it differently. You know, I respect relationships and brands.
You don't piss up the Chinese and the Japanese. You
don't come out of these tariffs are just trickling down
to all of us. It's silly, It really is silly.
(30:00):
It's not helping the customers of America. And you know,
I'm looking at just Los Angeles, you know, I was.
I drove through the Palisades the other day.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
John. There's still buildings that are not cleaned up.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
And because I'm running for office, a lot of people
are reaching out to the campaign and they're saying, would
you help us cluebec because Steadfast LA has not delivered
any of the fire aid money to any of the
people within the palisade. No one on the palatine has
gotten money, say with hel the DNA, nobody's gotten money
from fire aid.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
You talked about that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That, Oh yeah, and we just yesterday we had we
had Kevin kyleie on their congressman. They want to do
an investigation.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
As you know what, as they should because what I've
heard and I don't know the details, but you know,
charity has given money to other charities and to other charities,
and there's a lot of self dealing, and that's just
overhead and overhead and overhead. Come on, John, it's got
to get to the people. And Steadfast LA too. I've gotten,
you know, and I hope mister Caruso fixes in his team.
(31:02):
There's people reaching out for insurance help and they said
it's Steadfast LA and I've got text and emails from folks.
We can't handle that. It's out of our purview. But
if Steadfast LA's mission is Palisades to be Palisades, fight,
fight that Senate Bill five forty nine, Keep Palisades Palisades,
Help the people, get them the money, help them with insurance.
(31:24):
See that task through. Rick, Let me ask you about.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
One other bill, because I only got another minute SAT
till seventy nine. If somebody sells their lot to a
developer and it's in the right section of town, that
developer can put up a six story apartment building in
a single family housing zone, and multiple of these apartment
buildings could suddenly pop up in these single family neighborhoods.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
That's just absurd. How about that? So the good enough
answer Debsurd's.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
But it's an endless it's an endless assembly line of nonsense.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
Because we don't have strong leadership that's not compromised, that
doesn't pander, that's authentic. And then if for the right reasons,
rolling up your sleeves, doing the work, no trophies, just
give the customer California equal or more they're barded for.
We're paying a lot to live in this state. Enough,
(32:24):
When are we going to have enough?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You're obvious you're running as a Democrat. You're going to
be running up if you win against radical, crazy Democrats
in the legislature, you know, because the Republicans are virtually
no power.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
In this the front of a check, I'm sorry to
walk over you. Not one of them has signed the
front of a check. I looked on stage against the
other candidates. Not one signed the front of a check.
Not one has been a good steward of capital, borrowed
money from banks and returned it. Not one has fixed
broken They're all a bunch of panderers and compromised individuals.
(32:58):
And that's what got us into this mess. And it's
not what is going to get us out. It's going
to take disruption. It's going to take disruption and somebody
who's committed to rolling up their sleeves and not making
everyone happy, but getting the job done for the customers.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
California.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
All right, Stephen Kluebeck, Democrat running for governor, Thank you
for coming on. We'll talk again.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Thanks a lot, John, all right, and will.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
You continue Brigittia die Gristino live in the CAFI twenty
four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
Cobalt 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
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
We have so much coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
In just a few minutes, we are getting Alex Stone
and he's going to be reporting live. He's covering the
Menendez Brothers' parole hearings, which are happening in San Diego.
Today is Eric's day, Tomorrow is Lyles Day.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Again.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
These two guys now in their fifties who blew their parents'
head off almost exactly thirty six years ago today. I
think it was August the twentieth of nineteen eighty nine.
And everyone is familiar with the story to the point
of wanting to vomit now. And because the silly TikTok
girls got a strong movement together and Netflix ran an
(00:45):
idiotic docu series, there became this ground swell to let
these two murderous beasts out. These are nothing but violent psychopaths.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
But I find them.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So cute, I do.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I find them so cute.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Good, Maybe one of them will marry you, and let's
see what happens. So the Menendez brothers their parole hearing,
Alex Stone will tell us all about it. Two thirty
is going to be Joe Vintieri and Joe is the
mayor of Whittier. And some years ago a police officer
in Whittier was killed. His name's Keith Boyer. And Keith
(01:26):
Boyer is killed by a guy who was out on probation,
but he wasn't supervised and he ended up murdering Keith Boyer.
And there is a bill called the Keith Boyer Bill
and to close these supervision loopholes, and Joe is going
(01:49):
to come on and talk about it.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Joe Vin a Teri.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And at the end of the hour, we're going to
talk to Democratic candidate Steve Klubec. He's running for governor.
He's a democratic businessman, not your standard Democrat by any means,
and we will speak with him. That's all just in
this hour, and then there's a lot more good stuff
in the three o'clock hour as well. Jim Garretty is
(02:12):
one of my favorite writers. I was talking about Joel
Kochkin yesterday. He's another great writer, and he went through
all the list of Gavin Newsom's all the terrible, terrible
record of Gavin newsom you know, with the high taxes
and the high poverty rate and the high unemployment rate.
Jim Garretty for the National Review had his own separate story,
(02:33):
and he had other horrible facts about Gavin Newsom's reign.
Do you know housing costs in California are twice as
high as the national medium, twice as high, and rents
are fifty percent higher than the national media. Yeah, we
have not only by far the highest housing costs to
(02:55):
buy a home, but rents are fifty percent higher. One
thirty Californians live at the poverty level, rather one third
lives near the poverty level. Another twenty percent lives at
the poverty level homeless. This for all the tens of
billions of dollars spent, is up sixty percent in the
(03:18):
past ten years, sixty percent. The overall crime rate and
the violent crime rate rate are significantly higher than the national.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Average year after year.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And finally, the percentage of students in California who perform
at or above proficiency level for math and reading twenty
eight percent. Twenty eight percent, so seventy two percent, almost
three quarters of California students not proficient in math and reading.
(03:54):
On top of above average crime rate, an above average
violent crime rate, a busted budget, housing costs, that are
double the national median, rents fifty percent higher than the
national median, fifty percent of Californians living at or near
the poverty line, homelessness up sixty percent in the last
(04:15):
ten years. This is the governor who is spending the day.
They're working on it right now to redraw the district
lines here in California so that Republican and independent voters
(04:35):
who want to vote Republican have virtually no representation in
Congress from California. They're working on that now, and as
we told you earlier, he lied. He said they wouldn't
do it if Texas stood down with their plan. Well
today they announced they're doing it anyway, So he lied
about that, trying to tamp down the initial resistance. So
(05:00):
you talk about you talk about narcissistic psychopaths. The only
difference in the brain structure and the morality of the
Menendez brothers in Newsom is Newsom hasn't killed his parents,
But as far as their narcissism and psychopathy, these are
(05:20):
the same people. There's no conscience at all. We'll talk
more about this later in the show. Let's get Alex
Stone on Menendez brothers. The hearing alex Eric Menendez was
going to get his parole hearing today. Has that gone
on yet, Yeah, it's going on right now, John, It's
been going on.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
For about five hours now. It started earlier today, and
we expect in the next hour or two, maybe three
hours that we're going to get a decision. He's going
to learn tonight whether he gets parole or not. That's
not the final word. Still, the state, the Parole Legal
Council would have one hundred and twenty days to look
at it, and then the governor would get another thirty
(06:01):
days to assess it as well and potentially veto it
like we've seen with Sir and Sir Ann where he
was granted parole and the governor vetoed it, and with
some of the Manson followers where then it went to
the governor and he vetoed it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So it's not a sure thing.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
And you know, as politics comes into it. Even though
Governor Newsom has claimed that he has no intention of
running for president, if he does, does he want to
be known as the governor who released the Menendez brothers.
Politically that may not be great. So it's not a
sure thing that if it goes to Governor newsom that
he would allow them to get out. But it is
right now in the hands of the parole board for
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Eric Menendez. Tomorrow is going to be Lyle. I'm at
the prison right now where both of them are inside
and Eric is speaking remotely to the board, and in
a couple hours we're going to know exactly what went down.
The public is not allowed in there. There is one
pool reporter who will report out and then we can
report what's going on in there, and that they will
the decision will come down tonight on Eric.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So Eric is on like a zoom call and his attorney. Yeah,
is his attorney part of the procedure or is it
Eric by himself?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
No, it is, yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Well, and it gets interesting because the victims' families in
a case are allowed to be part of this as well.
But this is a unique case because it is the
family members are the family members of the victims and
the killers. So they're allowed to be part of this,
and we assume, like they have been, that they are
defending the Menendez brothers, trying to get them out, saying
that they deserve to be out. So the family members
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get to speak as well. The attorneys are a part
of this, the DA, even though we don't think Nathan
Hockman himself is going to do this, but it would
be the Deputy DA who has been dealing with and
fighting under the Hawkman administration. Their release that they are
are part of this as well. Everybody is there and
then it's a commission of two to three commissioners and
(07:52):
then they make that decision within we're told forty five
minutes or so, after everything has wrapped up, they will
then issue their decision on whether he gets parole or not.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
All right, well, if that happens while we're on the air,
come right back on and.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Tell us you got it.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
I'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
That is Alex Stone, ABC News for KFI, and he
is covering this hearing in San Diego. I believe that
Eric Manendez is speaking from the prison and he's on
a video screen and the pro board members are talking
with him, and if the pro board lets Lyle and
(08:31):
Eric go, then it goes to Newsom's desk for final review.
And so the narcissistic cycle path makes a decision on
the two murderous narcissistic cycle paths, and you know he
wants to let them out. I mean, they've let out
just about everybody else, but he's running for president.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
How's that?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
In an introduction, ladies and gentlemen, the man who released
Eric and Lylemanndez, who blew their parents heads off with
a shotgun. Blast your next president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's cool to run on.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I guess it's not much worse than all the other
stuff I listed before Alex came on. All right, more
coming up, we got Joe Vinitaria. What are your mare
to talk about? The Keith Borier Bill Keith Boyer was
the cop who was killed by a guy who had
just been released from prison and Keith Keith in Keith's memory.
(09:34):
Joe is trying to get a bill passed that would
close these supervision loopholes after a criminal is let out
of prison. We'll talk about that after two thirty. Stephen
Klubec after around two fifty about his run for governor
as a Democrat. He's a billionaire businessman. That's all ahead.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Oh guess what, I know it's Thursday. But as a bonus,
as a special present, you could hear one round of
the Moistline at three fifty. We had last week's second
round preempted by Trump and Putin because they were coming out,
and you know, we carried the remarks live because who
(10:25):
knows what the hell they were gonna say turned out
to be a big dud. Putin spoke in Russian and
some long winded history lesson, and Trump shockingly had nothing
to say, and I thought, you know, it's not fair
at all of us. So we're gonna hear the second
round of last week's moist Line coming up at three fifty.
All right, now, I've got some immigration stories, and this
(10:50):
is classic Los Angeles Times stupidity, written by Clara Harter
and the headline Salvadoran man trying to self deport is
arrested at a California airport. In fact, I think the
(11:11):
online headline was his reward.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
He got deported.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
He was trying to self deport and then Ice caught
him and deported him. So the way it was written
it was to make Ice sound stupid and listen to
the story. After three weeks in custody, a federal court
had convicted him about being in the country illegally following
a prior removal Okay, so he'd been removed before and
(11:41):
then he was convicted of coming back. Now he's being
deported to El Salvador, exactly where he was attempting to
go when he was detained. But why was he ordered
out of the country the first time? That wasn't in
the headline, that wasn't in the lead paragraph. No, that's
(12:02):
in the fourth paragraph. His name is Jason Roney Escobar Valencia,
thirty years old. First they give you the SOB story.
He was brought to the Bay Area at eleven years
old by his father, who had obtained temporary protected status
because of unsafe conditions in El Salvador, and Escobar Valencia
spent the entirety of his adolescents and adult life in
(12:23):
the US, where now he has a two year old
son and a one year old daughter, according to his attorney.
All right, you got this is the setup? The La
Times does this bubblehead Clara Harder. Then fourth paragraph, boom.
Escabar Valencia is a convicted sex offender. So first they
(12:44):
have a headline ridiculing Ice for deporting a guy who's
self deporting. Then they run a SOB story paragraph about
how he's got a two.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Year old and a one year old, and he was
brought here when he was eleven.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, he grew up to be a convicted sex offender
and that's why he was thrown out of the country.
And then he came back anyway, and Ice wanted to
make sure he really was thrown out of the country.
You're not going to trust his self deporting when he claims,
or his attorney claims, when he boarded the flight at
(13:16):
San Francisco Airport, he was trying to do the right thing,
the right thing. He wanted to leave the US because
he did not have legal status here. Oh and then
in the sixth paragraph, he was convicted of committing a
lewd act with a child under the age of fourteen.
So this guy really went for it a little kid.
(13:39):
He committed some disgusting sex act with and the La
Times ran a headline mocking Ice for deporting him out.
Clara Harder and the headline rider ought to be deported.
Oh and get this, Oh there's more. Shortly after arriving
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back at El Salvador, the first time, Escobar Valencia was
the victim of an attempted homicide in a neighborhood controlled
by MS thirteen. This is after he was deported for
sexually assaulting a child under the age of fourteen. So,
after he sexually assaulted a child, he goes to El
Salvador and then he's the victim of an attempted homicide.
(14:29):
Claire Harter spends all this time explaining all the terrible
things he's suffered. We don't know what he did to
the little kid specifically, and how that kid is because
she doesn't care. Then we go back to quoting the lawyer,
who is this nut, Elise LaRouche. It was in this
context that mister Escobar Valencia made the decision to return
(14:51):
to the US. He understands now he should not have returned,
but he was an extreme fear. Well, what about the
kid that he's sexually attacked act who was under fourteen?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Is everybody insane?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Here's another story. This is out of the USA today.
Six year old student and her family were deported just
before the start of the new school year in New York,
a case sparking uproar across the state, including from the
governor and officials in the nation's largest public school system.
The second grader New York City went with her mother
(15:31):
an older brother to an ice check in when agents
detained him and then they were deported. You have to
go farther down in the USA Today's story to find
out the student's mother consistently attended check ins after a
deportation order was issued in June of twenty twenty four,
(15:52):
when her family asylum application was denied.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That wasn't in the headline.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
One of the spokespeople for ICE said, Martha, the mom
and two of her children all received final orders of
removal from an immigration judge in June of twenty twenty four.
Now Here, in August of twenty twenty five, we're getting
the big SOB story from the USA Today. Good lord,
(16:26):
they it's incurable. It's an incurable woke disease. Even when
they have convicted child sex molesters or a family that
was repeatedly told no, you have no asylum. You have
to leave the country. You have to go now, they're
(16:51):
still here over a year later.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh, it's terrible. Right before the school started.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They were deported at the end of the TI twenty
twenty four school year, and they stayed here for a
whole extra school year, violating a federal order. All right,
when we come back, we're gonna talk to Joe Vinatieri.
You remember officer Keith Boyer from Whittier some years ago
(17:19):
got murdered by a criminal that was let out of
prison and he murdered Keith Boyer. And turns out he
was being supervised the way these guys ought to be.
And there is a loophole in post release supervision that
(17:39):
Boyer's trying to get closed with help of the legislature.
Joe Vinnie Tieri, the mayor, is going to come on
and explain that coming up, and then Stephen Klubeck after him.
He's running for governor as a Democrat. Interesting guy and
he'll be on this hour as well.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You're listening to John Cope else on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
We have a good editorial candidate, Democrat businessman Steven Klubek,
coming on the show in the next segments. I want
you to listen to that. The Keith Boyer bill is
up for a hearing. Keith Boyer remember him. He was
the officer in Whittier some years ago who got shot
by a gang member named Michael.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Mahea and killed and Mahia.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
He actually opened fire on two police officers, killing Boyer,
and he had just gotten out of prison.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
He since was sentenced to life.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Who knows, but there are a number of people in
Whittier Mayor Joe Vintieria is one of them that want
a bill passed to close this loophole regarding how bad
guys are supervised when they're let out of prison. Because
this Michael Mahea was running around loose and was free
and able to kill Officer Keith Boyer. Let's get Joe
(19:02):
on here.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Joe, hey, John, how are you God? Did disco goes
back to twenty fifteen? Is that right?
Speaker 7 (19:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He is twenty seventeen. Okay, all right, Well.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You know what, because all right, I'm looking at a
I'm looking at a mug shot of Mahea and it's
dated twenty fifteen. But I guess that's the reason he
was in prison. Whatever he did in twenty fifteen, he
got out in twenty six seventeen, and then and then
he and then he shot and killed Officer Keith Boyer.
All right, So what's this loophole that you're trying to
get closed with the Assembly bill?
Speaker 7 (19:37):
So, so here's what the issue is. When Officer Boyer
was shot and killed, Mahia was on post released community
supervision and was being followed by probation in La County.
But the problem was that the law said that once
you are out on this community supervision, you can't commit
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any violations. And what happened was he went ahead and
committed one violation. I think it was a misdemeanor something
marijuana thing. So they put him in for ten days.
He's out of county jail on ten days. That happened
five times. Five times. The fifth time, two weeks later
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is when Officer Boyer went to the traffic accidents here
in Whittier and he was involved in accident and Keith
was shot and killed. So the problem was, even though
it said three, it basically said you can go ahead
and be involved in these infractions and you're gonna go
do your time for ten days and then you're back out.
(20:44):
There's no accountability. So this bill basically says, look it,
if someone goes ahead and commits a felony or a misdemeanor,
even though they're out on the third time, they're going
to go see the judge, and the judge going to determine, well,
should they really be out or should they be back
in prison incarceration. So that's what this bill does. And
(21:06):
this was passed shortly after Boser Boy was killed and
went through both the Assembly and the State Senate only
to be veto and they went through without a negative vote,
went through and it was vetoed at the last minute
by Governor Jerry Brown. We had the same bill up
last year, made it all the way through the Senate,
(21:27):
made it over to the Assembly of got through Assembly
Public Safety Committee, and we went through without a single
negative vote, went to the Assembly Appropriations Committee and died
in that committee. Why is it important now because next
Friday we're going to be in front of Assembly Appropriations
Committee on SB seven to fifty nine, and we're trying
(21:50):
to get the word out, encouraging everyone to call to
talk to your Assembly member and say, hey, look it
it's all about common sense, it's about making everyone safe.
Please vote to get it out of the Assembly Appropriations
Committee on Friday.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Let me play the ad that's running to support this bill.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You can play cut two.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
In California, a dangerous loophole is putting our communities at risk.
Right now, someone on post release supervision can violate the
terms of their release multiple times, even commit new crimes
without facing serious consequences. SB seven fifty nine changes that
it holds repeat offenders accountable and gives counties the power
to act after a third violation involving a new felony
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or misdemeanor. This isn't about punishment, it's about prevention. What
are your police Officer? Keith Boyer lost his life because
the system failed. SB seven fifty nine learns from that
tragedy and prioritizes public safety. Call your state representative today
and urge them to vote yes on SB seven fifty nine.
Let's close the loophole before another life is lost.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Hard to believe that you can have someone in prison
for a felony and they violate the law once, not twice,
three times and there's no serious consequences.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
That's correct. That's correct, and that's why we say it's
a loophole and it needs to be plugged. Oser Boyer
was not the only officer who was killed by someone
who is on a post committee release. We've had other officers.
We had a sheriff's sergeant in an old valley was
killed prior to Officer Boyer. We had the same situation
(23:31):
with officers in Palm Springs and thankfully. It hasn't happened
a lot, but one time is too many, and so
that's what this is all about. And we're just asking
everyone to call your Assembly member and say, look it
we need to support. I want you to support SB
seven fifty nine. It's in Assembly Appropriations Committee on next Friday,
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a week from today, and we want you to please
tell the members of that committe to vote it out
so it can get on the floor of the Assembly
and it can be voted upon by everyone the Assembly
and then get it to the governor.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Jovin Atieri, the Mayor Whittier, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
John, thank you for your help on this, and we're
gonna stick with it until this happened.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, anytime, all right, jovin Etieri, the Mayor Whittier. We're
gonna have Stephen Klubeck, Democratic candidate for governor, billionaire businessman.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
He's up next.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and
then every day after four o'clock it's John Cobelt's show
on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We are going to
spend a few minutes now talking to one of the
candidates for governor on the Democratic side, Stephen Klubeck. Stephen,
you may have heard, is a businessman who had great success,
(24:53):
the founder of Diamond Resorts, a timeshare company, and he
also has been on a number of television shows like
Undercover Boss, uh and and he has jumped into at
the moment, really the only pure businessman who's running for
office on either side. Let's get Steve and on again.
(25:13):
He's been with us before. How are you welcome, John?
Speaker 6 (25:17):
How are you today?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I'm good with the news.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
This week, newsom is dominating the news with his redistricting plan.
Where do you stand on this? What do you think
of what he's doing?
Speaker 9 (25:28):
Well, look, it's unfortunate because the California voters have spoken
for independent redistricting, and I wish the Texas voters would
do the same and vote themselves and see what the
Texas voters say. It's putting California in a very vicarious position.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
And it's a it's a it's a.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Boomerang that's gonna, I think hurt the White House and
in the House.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
It's not the way that you.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
Know, the American public, the customers of America.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Should be treated job.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
It's not representative, it's it's everyone should have a voice.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
About fifteen years ago, we passed a referendum sixty one
to thirty nine for an independent panel to draw the districts,
and now he wants to reduce them. It still has
two almost two thirds support. In the political poll last
week it was at sixty four to thirty six in
favor of keeping this panel. And I don't think specifically
(26:29):
independence and Republicans ought to be ought to have a
congress person who may have represented them for years and
years be suddenly eliminated from the map.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Well, I could tell you that. You know me because
we've talked about this. It's all about the customers California.
It's what the customers want. The more and more I've learned, John,
we're in a workout right now. We got a problem
with the leaders that we've elected all of them.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
And you know.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
I look at the candidates I'm running against. Not one
person I trust with our tax dollars, the show performance
and results, and I'm being agnostic.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
It's scary. There's not one person that.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
Would be a good steward of our capital that is
experienced to fix broken and we need we need disruption
right now, we need disruption. I was just at a
state workers union meeting and I walked off stage because
they're out of touch. They don't even want to go
to work. How they work for all of us.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
They haven't been working the last five years.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Well they should be because we're paying their salary, So
show up to work.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
They're still on COVID lead half the time.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Well, but that's ridiculous, John, come on, they are getting
a check from all of us.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Go up to work.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
If you don't show up, that's constructive resignation.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
And I go on, I went on records.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Saying that you told that to them.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Of course I did, John, come on.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
But he does this. So what was the response? Nobody
does it?
Speaker 9 (28:02):
Because because I fixed the most broken, and I've got
to be unapologetically authentic. The response was, don't let the
door hit you on the way out. I'm like, great,
wait till I'm in charge, you know, and things you're
gonna be a little different, and the customer California will
be represented getting equal and greater value. That's hard center.
(28:22):
John's hard center representing the customers California and that's just
the way it's got to be. And I stopped pandering,
and I was funny. I turned to Basara and they
went said millionaire, billionaire, and I said, be Sarah. They're
talking about you like, no, no sarcasm, nothing, No, it's
straight face. But you know they want to throw these
(28:43):
epithets out. What's wrong with aspiration? Let everyone do?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well, yeah, what's wrong with accomplishing things and being successful?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Nothing?
Speaker 9 (28:53):
Nothing, nothing, And you've got to be you can't compromise.
These folks are panderers and they compro and they're co
opted by special interests, and it is what it is.
We got a problem. We're broken. California is not affordable, livable, workable.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
We know that. So we're going to do something about it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
John, all Right, So we got the highest and employment
in the country, got the highest poverty rate in the country,
got the highest taxes in the country, you know, the
whole list, and.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
We got some new some running for president.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Now between this redistricting thing and and uh mimicking Trump
and his tweets. And I know you're not a big
fan of Trump, but we need somebody to actually be
governing this place.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
Well, Well, look, John, I create value. I create brands.
I have integrity. Trump and I we have bravado. But
we do it differently. You know, I respect relationships and brands.
You don't piss up the Chinese and the Japanese. You
don't come out of these tariffs are just trickling down
to all of us. It's silly, It really is silly.
(30:00):
It's not helping the customers of America. And you know,
I'm looking at just Los Angeles, you know, I was.
I drove through the Palisades the other day.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
John. There's still buildings that are not cleaned up.
Speaker 9 (30:12):
And because I'm running for office, a lot of people
are reaching out to the campaign and they're saying, would
you help us cluebec because Steadfast LA has not delivered
any of the fire aid money to any of the
people within the palisade. No one on the palatine has
gotten money, say with hel the DNA, nobody's gotten money
from fire aid.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
You talked about that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That, Oh yeah, and we just yesterday we had we
had Kevin kyleie on their congressman. They want to do
an investigation.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
As you know what, as they should because what I've
heard and I don't know the details, but you know,
charity has given money to other charities and to other charities,
and there's a lot of self dealing, and that's just
overhead and overhead and overhead. Come on, John, it's got
to get to the people. And Steadfast LA too. I've gotten,
you know, and I hope mister Caruso fixes in his team.
(31:02):
There's people reaching out for insurance help and they said
it's Steadfast LA and I've got text and emails from folks.
We can't handle that. It's out of our purview. But
if Steadfast LA's mission is Palisades to be Palisades, fight,
fight that Senate Bill five forty nine, Keep Palisades Palisades,
Help the people, get them the money, help them with insurance.
(31:24):
See that task through. Rick, Let me ask you about.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
One other bill, because I only got another minute SAT
till seventy nine. If somebody sells their lot to a
developer and it's in the right section of town, that
developer can put up a six story apartment building in
a single family housing zone, and multiple of these apartment
buildings could suddenly pop up in these single family neighborhoods.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
That's just absurd. How about that? So the good enough
answer Debsurd's.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
But it's an endless it's an endless assembly line of nonsense.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
Because we don't have strong leadership that's not compromised, that
doesn't pander, that's authentic. And then if for the right reasons,
rolling up your sleeves, doing the work, no trophies, just
give the customer California equal or more they're barded for.
We're paying a lot to live in this state. Enough,
(32:24):
When are we going to have enough?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You're obvious you're running as a Democrat. You're going to
be running up if you win against radical, crazy Democrats
in the legislature, you know, because the Republicans are virtually
no power.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
In this the front of a check, I'm sorry to
walk over you. Not one of them has signed the
front of a check. I looked on stage against the
other candidates. Not one signed the front of a check.
Not one has been a good steward of capital, borrowed
money from banks and returned it. Not one has fixed
broken They're all a bunch of panderers and compromised individuals.
(32:58):
And that's what got us into this mess. And it's
not what is going to get us out. It's going
to take disruption. It's going to take disruption and somebody
who's committed to rolling up their sleeves and not making
everyone happy, but getting the job done for the customers.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
California.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
All right, Stephen Kluebeck, Democrat running for governor, Thank you
for coming on. We'll talk again.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Thanks a lot, John, all right, and will.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
You continue Brigittia die Gristino live in the CAFI twenty
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