July 9, 2026 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/09) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio fills in for John and discusses the FBI informant inside Governor Gavin Newsom's inner circle. Former Newsom Chief of Staff is being investigated by the FBI for misuse of campaign funds. More on why the district attorneys are afraid to look into Newsom's shady dealings. The CA government won't release Newsom's Baby2Baby contract to the public.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I Am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Apps k I Am six forty and on the iHeartRadio
app Carl Demayo sitting in for my good friend John.
Go vote while he's off with getting getting the rest
that he deserves. For me, I'm on a four week
quote legislative recess, but no, no recess for me. We've
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got a lot of work to do between now and November,
and we need you to be part of it. We're
going to pass the California Voter ID initiative yes on
Prop thirty nine. We have our proposition number yes on
Prop thirty nine, four voter ID, and we're going to
defeat bad tax hikes and there's a bunch of them
on the ballot. We had to vote no on a
bunch of things. And we're going to pass the Taxpayer
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Protection Initiative to save Prop thirteen and that's a yes
vote on Prop forty three. And we've got a lot
of great candidates. We've got to get across the finish
line to break the Democrat supermajority and maybe win a
couple of the state wide offices.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
But we can't do that without your help.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You gotta go to the website Reform California dot org,
chip in a contribution, sign up, and please consider voluntary.
We need people to canvass your neighborhood. Each neighborhood, I
am not gonna send you to Democrat doors. I don't
want you to get a bad YELP review from them
like Katie Porter would give you. Can you imagine if
you knocked on Katie Porter's door as a Republican with
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a Republican doorhannger, you might not survive the experience. I
mean it might be from like one of those movies
of Silence of the Lambs. You'd end up in a
pit in a basement somewhere and she'd say it puts
the lotion on or it gets those scary stuff. I
will not do that to you. I will not send
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you to Katie Porter's home with a Republican voter guide. No,
I will send you to a low propensity Republican who's
not gonna vote. But if you knock on their door
and give them the voter guide, they will vote, and
then we have a higher chance of winning the seat
in your area, as well as passing voter RD. So
if you don't sign up, I have no one to
walk that neighborhood. So please get off the couch and
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into the fight Reform California dot org.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Sign up as a volunteer.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
We're gonna talk this hour about corruption in Sacramento. I
think it's gonna take longer than an hour, but no,
I'm going to talk about Gavin Newsom's criminal investigation and
the fact that he had a senior political operative in
his orbit wearing an FBI wire for an indeterminate amount
of time.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But before we.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Get into that, I got a couple of text messages
over the commercial break because we were talking about Katie
Porter's awful, uncouth, nasty Yelp reviews that she left on
pizza parlors and massage parlors and tacticab companies Yelp pages.
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One of the text messages said, quote, be careful, Carl,
You're gonna get canceled making fun of a fat woman.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Hold on a minute, Oh ond did I.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Call her fat? I did not call her fat. I
said that I.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Wouldn't want to massage her.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
There's a there's a dramatic difference.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
There is. No I was not commenting on her size.
I did say that she got angry when the pizzas
didn't arrive, and she quote blamed it on quote the
twenty children who are not getting their pizzas on time.
Something tells me she was probably angry herself. Did you
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just on the basis of her nasty, acidic yelp review?
But here's the thing, just because I'm in politics doesn't
mean I get the I have to surrender my sense
of humor. Okay, I do not subscribe to cancel culture
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here pick a finger, and I actually think.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You, the voter ought to be given more.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yelp reviews, bad yelp reviews to bad politicians. So if
I'm gonna poke fun at Katie Porter for her nasty
yelp reviews, and if someone's gonna get upset about that
and say, oh my gosh, we have to cancel Carl
because he said he didn't want to massage Katie Porter.
He said she was unreasonable about the twenty pizzas. No,
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she's mean, and I think that that criticism is well founded.
She's a mean, mean person. And the voter sniffed that
out and voted against her and gave her a one
star Yelp. I think it's a one star what is it?
Is it a five star rating on Yelp? I think
she got like a third of a star, she got
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two small little triangles. She didn't even get a star.
But if you want to cancel me, bring it on, baby,
because here you got in Sacramento democrats protecting Gavin Newsom
who may have committed some crimes allegedly. Or you've got
this guy, this Graham Platner guy. This guy was a
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complete trade wreck in a Nazi tattoo, and all the
allegations against him, even if a third of them are true.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
This guy is bad news.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And not the least of which is he's a Democrat socialist.
He's a cuckoo, you know, insane extremist wants to impose
a savings tax on all of you. What you got
in your mattress? What do you got in your savings account?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What eck? What do you do you have in your home?
I need it, government needs it.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
We're taking a raak. They want to do that here
in California. It's Prop forty, the billionaire's tax, but it's
actually everybody's tax. Oh then you had the other one,
the flatulent one. No, not Katie Porter, the male version
of Katie Port, Eric Swawell, all the bad behavior he
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engaged in. But you know what's so interesting about this
If you poke fun at Katie for Porter saying you
don't want to massage her and that she gets angry
when she's not fed on a expeditious schedule, that somehow
you need to be canceled, and you're bad. But these
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people literally assault females in a sexual way. These people
are doing bad, bad things, or Katie Porter's case, attacking
a staff member, viciously attacking It's a hostile work environment.
But the Democrats cover that up. They circle the wagon,
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they keep the secret, They protect their own until it's
no longer convenient for the Democrat party. Oh no, no,
this always plays out this way. They always cover up
for someone who's engaging in the worst behavior, the most
atrociously bad, illegal, venomous behavior, And they all know about this.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
They cover it up.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I ran against a guy named Bob Filmer for mayor
in twenty twelve. All the Democrats knew that he was
sexually harassing people, that he was violently attacking people, that
he was corrupt. They all protected him. The female Democrats
endorsed him, saying that he was an advocate for women's rights,
but in fact he was sexually assaulting women. He got
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convicted of sexual assault crimes. He also voted for the
Defensive Marriage Act, which was against the gay marriage and
the gays endorsed him because, oh, my goodness, he's a
wonderful champion for gay rights. He voted for DOMA for
God's sakes. And by the way, did you happen to
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know that he's running against a gay Republican.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Ah, but not.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Good for the Democrat Party. Therefore, they will cover up
his misdeeds. And it's not about it's not about the issues,
my friends. It's about raw political power, hanging on to
raw political power, which means that they will protect bad
behavior and even corrupt behavior as long as it's their person.
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And this brings us to Gavin Newsom and this federal
investigation that's happening right now. And I'm not surprised the
guy's corrupt pay to play politics. He has so many
stinky they call it stinky situations. I think they're illegal,
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but at the very least they're conflicts of interest, they're unethical,
they're inappropriate, And now he's being investigated. According to him,
he's being investigated. He came out and said, no, I'm
being investigated. It's all Donald Trump. He's trying to set
me up. Oh, but the investigation began under Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
They're coming up. I'm gonna tell you what's happened so far.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
What are the illegal activities that have already been documented,
who's already gone to jail?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Who wore the wire in Newsom's inner circle?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Second, what should Newsom be worried about? Where are the
areas where I think he has a risk ord exposure?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And Third, why is this happening.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You're listening to John coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Kay if I am six forty and on the iHeartRadio
app Carl to MYO sitting in for John Cobot. Okay,
let's move on quickly before Katie Porter goes and leaves
me a bad YELP review. So Gavin Newsom came out
two weeks ago and he said, I am under investigation
by the federal government. They are the FBI's asking close associates,
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former employees, family members about all sorts of things, and
it's all Donald Trump's fault. I done nothing wrong and
I'm a victim. This is what we call getting ahead
of a story. Something bad's about to happen, and in
a moment you'll realize why. Newsom realizes things are going
to get bad, and he's trying to shape it politically
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before it happens. Now, he says, Donald Trump is targeting him.
But the reality is Number one, as I'm going to
walk through, he has engaged in bad conduct. The things
that I'm about to tell you he has done. Now,
some of the things may not be illegal. I think
they are, but Donald Trump didn't do those things. He
did he and his wife. Number two, the investigation began.
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Are you ready for this under Joe Biden? Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I guess what happened was Donald Trump called Joe Biden and,
in a very rare moment of lucidity when he actually
was vaguely.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Aware, he and Donald.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Trump must have plotted this together, because it happened under
Joe Biden. So what has happened so far, Well, there's
already been an indictment and a guilty plea by Governor
Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson. She was
indicted for money laundering fraud allegedly, she admitted, not just
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allegedly anymore, she admitted that she stole money from a
campaign committee and gave it to some political operatives who
are friendly with her.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That's a little weird.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And when this happened, I said, first, whose political committee
was it? Well, it was Xavier Besserah, you know, the
Democrat candidate for governor right now. Ten thousand dollars a
month was stolen out of his campaign committee while he
was the Health and Human Services secretary, and he has
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to sign all his campaign reports, and these campaign this
campaign was a dormant campaign had millions of dollars in it,
and it's dormant, so there should be no activity besides
a modest like twenty five dollars filing fee for you know,
you know, the campaign finance reports, but no tens of
thousands of dollars a month were being taken out of
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his campaign account that was dormant, in violation of the law.
And he said, I didn't know, are any of you
buying this crap? Because I certainly not. They might ask, well,
why would he why would Xavier Besara.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Keep his mouth shut?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, because Xavier Bessera, who was anointed by Gavin Newsom
in this primary because he basically cleared the field with
Swawell and then all of Newsom's political machine got behind Bserah.
Bissera knew he wanted to run for higher office at
some point and he needed to keep political operatives happy
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in his orbit, so he gave them money to do
no work, which is a guy, you know what that is?
That is well, that's stealing campaign funds from yourself, taking
campaign money and giving it to someone for no work
because under the law he was not allowed to have
a campaign. You can't be spending money on a committee
that cannot engage in campaign committee activities. He claims he
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didn't know that. Either makes him an idiot incompetent, which
by the way, is possible, or he's in on it.
So Jana Williamson said, yep, I took the money, I
gave it to these political operatives and now she's cooperating
with the feeds. So when Newsom says this is a
witch hunt, well, witch hunts don't produce guilty please by
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your former chief of staff. And by the way, Gavin
Newsom knew that she was being charged and led her quiet,
resigned without saying anything. He didn't do a press conference saying, look,
oh my goodness, my chief of staff is now being
investigated by the FBI, and it's a prima facia case
of her taking the money. This is inappropriate. I can't
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have her as my Jieva staff. So I'm announcing to
everyone that I'm firing her.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh he didn't fire her. He gave her six.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Months of severance.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
He took care of her.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
He issued a statement saying how wonderful she was. But
everyone knew this was going on. It was not a
secret in Sacramento, and so Newsom is participating. And then
we found out that someone was wearing a wire all along.
Alexis Podesta, a political operative in Sacramento close to Gavin Newsom,
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was wearing a wire the whole time in and around
the governor's office. You don't wear a wire when it's
pretty much an open shutcase on the campaign finance, money laundering.
That's a matter of record. It's pretty clear, open shot.
Why was Alexis Podesta wearing a wire? But more importantly,
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what did she get recorded while she was wearing said wire?
If I were Newsom, I'd be you know what, my
pants would be dirty. So this wire thing came out
after Newsom gave his speech two weeks ago saying I'm
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being investigated. It's all manufactured, and I'm a victim. He knew,
he knew that Podesta was wearing the wire. He found
out about it, which is why, in part, he gave
that press conference that video. Oh, by the way, he
has not done a press conference. He has not answered
any questions about this. He issued a video saying he's
a victim of Trump's witch hunt, but he has yet
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to answer any questions.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
This is bad.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What should Newsom be worried about? I have three things
I will tell you he needs to be worried about.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty, okay if I am.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Six forty and on the iHeartRadio app Carl Tobio sitting
in for John Cobalt. We're going to be talking about
at five o'clock the Yes on Prop thirty nine campaign
to pass a voter ID that I'm leading, and we're
going to need your help. But first we're talking about
corruption in Sacramento. Gavin Newsom announced he's under investigation, but
everything's fine, He's done nothing wrong, and it's Donald Trump
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that's just trying to pick on him. Well, his cheapest
staff pled guilty to federal felonies. One of his closest aides,
Alexis Podesta, wore a wire in his orbit, and there's
a bunch of stinky situations that he's engaged in that
have caused people to say this looks a little illegal,
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if not unethical. And of course the investigation started under
Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
But oh, nothing to worry about, right.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
The three things that Newsom should be worried about is
first and foremost the Williamson angle. Obviously, she you know,
has pled guilty, and as part of a plea deal,
you have to cooperate with other investigations, other targets that
the Feds may have. I believe she's helping the Feds
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in their investigation on Newsom.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And it's not going to just be hey, did Newsom engage.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
In this money laundering from Bessera's campaign? No, no, no, no, no,
that's chump change, my friends. It's going to be what
we've seen, which are the quid pro quo, the nature
of contracts and government decisions that seem to be made
to the benefit of Newsom's campaign contributors. It's always hard
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to prove that a politician sells their office because what
they can say is, yeah, I mean the labor unions
give me all this money to put me into and
keep me into office because I give everything to labor.
That's just well politics. It's because they appreciate a pro
labor candidate versus the labor union person saying, hey, if
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you give us this labor contract and give us a
bigger pension deal, we'll give you one hundred thousand dollars
if it's a quid pro quo connection. And so I
believe that there are probably a number of decisions that
Williamson and or Podesta have been able to identify that
Newsom may be culpable for. We'll see number two behested payments.
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This is where Gavin Newsom has raised money for his
wife's his wife's five oh one C three foundation, where
she gets millions of dollars of income, which then guess
what goes right into his household.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The money that he's.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Raising are from companies and interests that have business before
the state of California, and so there are questions about
quid pro quo there, But more importantly did she appropriately
handle the finances?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Is she appropriately.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Reporting that income? And third, it gets into the issue
of her five oh one C three seems to be
engaging in a lot of politics and political promotion for Gavinism.
He's featured in the darn five oh one C three
videos and so ethics experts have been talking for the
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past several weeks about the content of her five to
one C three and whether that violates laws as well.
These are things that he should legitimately be worried about. Now,
why is this happening, Well, you may have a corrupt
elected official newsome, but it's opening by the Feds because
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there's a culture in Sacramento that these politicians don't feel
that the rules apply to them. And there is a
reason why. It's not just politicians feel that the rules
don't apply to them. That's kind of how they operate,
you know, all the time. But in particular California, Democrat
politicians do not believe that the rules apply to them.
And that is because we are in a super majority,
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one party control state. They don't worry about a district
attorney investigating them. Why, because the district attorney needs their
endorsement in.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
The next election.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
They're all part of the big Democrat club, the Democrat
party infrastructure. They're all on team Democrats. So you don't
you don't investigate one of your teammates. So one party
control is a reason why these politicians don't feel that
the rules apply to them. No one's gonna go kick
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the tires or investigate. Not the district attorney who's a Democrat.
Not the state attorney General, Rob Banta, you know, of
the Bonta crime family, because he's engaging in the corrupt
acts as well with his wife, and so they're not
worried about the state attorney general investigating them. It's a
super majority state. Oh but also, do you think the
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liberal media is going to kick the tires? Oh, hell's no, honey.
The liberal media isn't going to hold a Democrat accountable
for stinky situations. All the things I just talked about
are just a summary of stinky situations. I mean, Gavin Newsome,
you know, awards a Chinese multinational company byg a no
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bid contract and then flies to China to support their
electric vehicles at the expense of California companies and people,
wonder like, wait, why would you do that? And then
we find out that, yeah, the Chinese Communist Party has
been giving money to politicians and influencing them and integrating
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and infiltrating their networks. When something doesn't make sense from
a public policy standpoint, that's when I immediately ask, well,
what's the politician getting under the table. Why would they
do something so stupid on behalf of their constituents.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
There must be an.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Angle for them politically or maybe personally from a financial standpoint,
So all of these situations he's put himself into. Oh,
coming up, he was asked today about his tax returns,
because part of this is.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
They believe that there may be.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Miss reporting of taxes by the newsoms hit him and
his wife. When you commit a crime, usually they get
you on the tax side first and then they get
you on the actual crime side. Coming up, what he
had to say at a campaign stop in Nevada today
when a reporter had the audacity to ask a question
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about these investigations.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Forty, KFIAM six forty. Carl Demaios sitting in for John
Cobelt we're talking about corruption in Sacramento and all the
reasons why Newsome should be very worried. He hasn't done
a press conference where he's taken questions on this topic.
He released a video, but now he's out gallivanting around
the nation running for president. And guess what those media outlets,
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they are not the sickophants that California media has become
where they just basically roll over whenever a Democrat says,
I'm not answering questions, I'm not doing a press conference,
I don't need to give you records. So all of
that stuff happens here in California. There's very few exceptions.
But Newsome is in Nevada today and he's asked a
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question about uh tax returns.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Listen it, I already have.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Have you been twenty years in my taxes?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I know you love taxes.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Donald Trump?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
When's he releasing him?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I am, because that's why I've released all my taxes
for decades. And you will have all those new tax
returns because I have no reason why you haven't gotten
them already.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So I have no me provide on.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
The FBI, federal investigations and your.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Wife, your stuff not much more than that has already
been provided. I mean, this is purely political, and you've
seen some of the party. I'm not sure. Maybe you
guys have reported it as well. People have stated pretty
clearly they were directed to find something.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
More people contacting years to.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Find something just directed.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Oh stands up.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
No, no, no. Your chief of staff pled guilty to
a federal felony.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Boddy.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You have a close operative who has always supported you,
wearing a wire in your office. You have all of
these stinky situations happening. No one was directed to find something.
You did something that may not be criminal, but you've
done a bunch of things that have created a bunch
of red flags and yellow fags. You have been fined
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by the California State Fair Political Practices Commission for failing
to report behested payments. These are the payments that you
take from special interest with business before your governor's office,
for your wife's charity air quotes around charity. The reason
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why we want to see your tax returns is number one,
you promised them to us when you ran for office,
and you broke your promise. And number two, a lot
of the questions have to deal with IRS questions about
you and your wife.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
So don't sit here's.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Saying what about Donald Trump's tax returns? Dude, You're the
one that's facing the questions. We can certainly ask questions
of Donald Trump, and you were demanding tax returns from
him years ago. You signed a bill into loss and
people had to give their tax returns up in order
to run for president. The question is are you going
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to apply the same standard to yourself? Of course not.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
But he's got nice hair.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So here's this other story that CBS, to their credit,
has been following. It's on Gavin Newsom's big announcement that
he was giving tens of millions of dollars in a
no bid contract to Baby to Baby.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
This is a group.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
That's giving out overpriced diapers to people when they can
get cheaper diapers from Costco or Amazon or Walmart. But
of course Newsom says, oh, give me credit because I'm
wasting money on diapers.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
But the thing about Baby to Baby is.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Several of the first Ladies, Newsom's wife's friends are on
the board and they have various contracts and financial ties
between these board members and Jennifer Cebel Newsom. So that
is a stinky situation. So the media said a couple
months ago, hey, can we see the contract?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Listen to CBS.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Forty million diapers as many diapers will be distributed this
year as Californians.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
That was Governor Gavin Newsom about two months ago at
a press conference announcing California's new free diaper program and
a multi million dollar contract with a nonprofit Baby to Baby,
But immediately critics pointed out that his wife, Jennifer Cebel Newsom,
also had a relationship with at least one of the
co CEO.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Sits on Jen's board of directors. Gavin Newsom is claiming
there was this huge rigorous process to figure out which
group to partner with for this free diaper program. But
was it really a rigorous process if you're best friends
with the CEO of this company.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
So we did a little fact check and you should
definitely go check out the story we did last month,
but we could only.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Go so far.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
So far, the state will not give us a copy
of the contract or the competitive bid scoring sheet. Four
days after that very high profile press conference, we simply
asked the Governor's office for a copy of that contract
that everyone was talking about. They told US reach out
to California Health and Human Services. They told us the
contracts were with yet another agency. That agency told us
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our requests had been received. That means legally they had
a maximum of ten days to tell us whether or
not we're going to get them. Exactly ten days later, now,
fourteen days after the press conference, the state replies, citing
an unusual circumstance clause in the California Public Records Act,
giving them another fourteen days to decide if these are
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disclosable records. California law clearly states any executed contract is
a public record, and so are competitive bid scoring sheets.
Forward fourteen more days. Spoiler alert, they are disclosable records,
but the state would need another three to four weeks
to get us copies. Translation, the state waited twenty four
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days to promptly notify us that it would need another
twenty eight days to get us a copy of that
contract that the governor announced nearly two months ago competitive
bidding process, and the day we were finally supposed to get
the records July third of state holiday unism, administration told
us they would need two more weeks.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
It's unacceptable, that's right. That is basically the run around
that Newsom is giving on a contract for an overpriced
typer program through a nonprofit that he said was competitively sourced.
But he doesn't want to give you a copy of
the contract, nor does he want to give you a
copy of the bid sheet. Oh and by the way,
one of the directors on that nonprofit board was also
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on the board of Jennifer Siebel Newsom's nonprofit and votes
on her salary and compensation package. A stinky situation, Gavin.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
But oh no, No, you're a victim. Clutch your pearls.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I have been targeted unfairly. This is all politics. I've
done nothing wrong. I've done nothing.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Give us the damn contract.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Under state law, you are required to give us a contract.
You would think a guy under investigation with as many
questions hanging over him, who says holier than thou. I'm
the most open governor. I'm running for president. Look how
great I am. We've done everything on the up and up. Okay,
can I see a copy of the contract under state law? No,
they did, They dally and they delay. Oh but he's
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the victim. He's done nothing wrong. I don't understand why
people are asking these questions. I got to give credit
for this CBS reporter. She's doing her job, But what
about the rest of the media infrastructure in the state
of California.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
They're bending over and taking it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
He's just literally covering it up, absolutely trying to facilitate
the scam, not raising questions at all. This should be
every news director's story. We have a governor who had
an aide wearing a wire as part of a criminal investigation,
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and he won't give documents up on a transaction related
to his own personal household's income. This is why you
have a corrupt state, my friends. You have corrupt politicians,
you don't have investigators in the state or local offices
that are willing to take on a member of their
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own party, and you don't have an honest, independent media.
And in that environment, you're going to get the most
grotesque level of corruption, and that is what has become California.
Coming up, California, voter ide has a ballot number. It
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is yes on Prop thirty nine, and I've been leading
the campaign to get this enacted, getting on the ballot,
and of course we want to get it passed with
a yes vote this fall, but we're gonna need your help. Today,
our opponents unveiled their campaign and I'm gonna share their
messaging with you and respond and let you know what
you can do to help. All that Coming up as
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Carl de miosit's in for John Coblt on KFI AM
six forty first to check on news and traffic with
Debra Mark.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You've been listening to the John Cobelt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI AM six
forty from three to six pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 4 (32:46):
App KFI am six More stimulating talk
I Am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Apps k I Am six forty and on the iHeartRadio
app Carl Demayo sitting in for my good friend John.
Go vote while he's off with getting getting the rest
that he deserves. For me, I'm on a four week
quote legislative recess, but no, no recess for me. We've
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got a lot of work to do between now and November,
and we need you to be part of it. We're
going to pass the California Voter ID initiative yes on
Prop thirty nine. We have our proposition number yes on
Prop thirty nine, four voter ID, and we're going to
defeat bad tax hikes and there's a bunch of them
on the ballot. We had to vote no on a
bunch of things. And we're going to pass the Taxpayer
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Protection Initiative to save Prop thirteen and that's a yes
vote on Prop forty three. And we've got a lot
of great candidates. We've got to get across the finish
line to break the Democrat supermajority and maybe win a
couple of the state wide offices.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
But we can't do that without your help.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You gotta go to the website Reform California dot org,
chip in a contribution, sign up, and please consider voluntary.
We need people to canvass your neighborhood. Each neighborhood, I
am not gonna send you to Democrat doors. I don't
want you to get a bad YELP review from them
like Katie Porter would give you. Can you imagine if
you knocked on Katie Porter's door as a Republican with
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a Republican doorhannger, you might not survive the experience. I
mean it might be from like one of those movies
of Silence of the Lambs. You'd end up in a
pit in a basement somewhere and she'd say it puts
the lotion on or it gets those scary stuff. I
will not do that to you. I will not send
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you to Katie Porter's home with a Republican voter guide. No,
I will send you to a low propensity Republican who's
not gonna vote. But if you knock on their door
and give them the voter guide, they will vote, and
then we have a higher chance of winning the seat
in your area, as well as passing voter RD. So
if you don't sign up, I have no one to
walk that neighborhood. So please get off the couch and
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into the fight Reform California dot org.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Sign up as a volunteer.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
We're gonna talk this hour about corruption in Sacramento. I
think it's gonna take longer than an hour, but no,
I'm going to talk about Gavin Newsom's criminal investigation and
the fact that he had a senior political operative in
his orbit wearing an FBI wire for an indeterminate amount
of time.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But before we.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Get into that, I got a couple of text messages
over the commercial break because we were talking about Katie
Porter's awful, uncouth, nasty Yelp reviews that she left on
pizza parlors and massage parlors and tacticab companies Yelp pages.
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One of the text messages said, quote, be careful, Carl,
You're gonna get canceled making fun of a fat woman.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Hold on a minute, Oh ond did I.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Call her fat? I did not call her fat. I
said that I.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Wouldn't want to massage her.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
There's a there's a dramatic difference.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
There is. No I was not commenting on her size.
I did say that she got angry when the pizzas
didn't arrive, and she quote blamed it on quote the
twenty children who are not getting their pizzas on time.
Something tells me she was probably angry herself. Did you
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just on the basis of her nasty, acidic yelp review?
But here's the thing, just because I'm in politics doesn't
mean I get the I have to surrender my sense
of humor. Okay, I do not subscribe to cancel culture
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here pick a finger, and I actually think.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You, the voter ought to be given more.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yelp reviews, bad yelp reviews to bad politicians. So if
I'm gonna poke fun at Katie Porter for her nasty
yelp reviews, and if someone's gonna get upset about that
and say, oh my gosh, we have to cancel Carl
because he said he didn't want to massage Katie Porter.
He said she was unreasonable about the twenty pizzas. No,
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she's mean, and I think that that criticism is well founded.
She's a mean, mean person. And the voter sniffed that
out and voted against her and gave her a one
star Yelp. I think it's a one star what is it?
Is it a five star rating on Yelp? I think
she got like a third of a star, she got
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two small little triangles. She didn't even get a star.
But if you want to cancel me, bring it on, baby,
because here you got in Sacramento democrats protecting Gavin Newsom
who may have committed some crimes allegedly. Or you've got
this guy, this Graham Platner guy. This guy was a
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complete trade wreck in a Nazi tattoo, and all the
allegations against him, even if a third of them are true.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
This guy is bad news.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And not the least of which is he's a Democrat socialist.
He's a cuckoo, you know, insane extremist wants to impose
a savings tax on all of you. What you got
in your mattress? What do you got in your savings account?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What eck? What do you do you have in your home?
I need it, government needs it.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
We're taking a raak. They want to do that here
in California. It's Prop forty, the billionaire's tax, but it's
actually everybody's tax. Oh then you had the other one,
the flatulent one. No, not Katie Porter, the male version
of Katie Port, Eric Swawell, all the bad behavior he
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engaged in. But you know what's so interesting about this
If you poke fun at Katie for Porter saying you
don't want to massage her and that she gets angry
when she's not fed on a expeditious schedule, that somehow
you need to be canceled, and you're bad. But these
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people literally assault females in a sexual way. These people
are doing bad, bad things, or Katie Porter's case, attacking
a staff member, viciously attacking It's a hostile work environment.
But the Democrats cover that up. They circle the wagon,
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they keep the secret, They protect their own until it's
no longer convenient for the Democrat party. Oh no, no,
this always plays out this way. They always cover up
for someone who's engaging in the worst behavior, the most
atrociously bad, illegal, venomous behavior, And they all know about this.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
They cover it up.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I ran against a guy named Bob Filmer for mayor
in twenty twelve. All the Democrats knew that he was
sexually harassing people, that he was violently attacking people, that
he was corrupt. They all protected him. The female Democrats
endorsed him, saying that he was an advocate for women's rights,
but in fact he was sexually assaulting women. He got
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convicted of sexual assault crimes. He also voted for the
Defensive Marriage Act, which was against the gay marriage and
the gays endorsed him because, oh, my goodness, he's a
wonderful champion for gay rights. He voted for DOMA for
God's sakes. And by the way, did you happen to
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know that he's running against a gay Republican.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Ah, but not.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Good for the Democrat Party. Therefore, they will cover up
his misdeeds. And it's not about it's not about the issues,
my friends. It's about raw political power, hanging on to
raw political power, which means that they will protect bad
behavior and even corrupt behavior as long as it's their person.
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And this brings us to Gavin Newsom and this federal
investigation that's happening right now. And I'm not surprised the
guy's corrupt pay to play politics. He has so many
stinky they call it stinky situations. I think they're illegal,
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but at the very least they're conflicts of interest, they're unethical,
they're inappropriate, And now he's being investigated. According to him,
he's being investigated. He came out and said, no, I'm
being investigated. It's all Donald Trump. He's trying to set
me up. Oh, but the investigation began under Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
They're coming up. I'm gonna tell you what's happened so far.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
What are the illegal activities that have already been documented,
who's already gone to jail?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Who wore the wire in Newsom's inner circle?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Second, what should Newsom be worried about? Where are the
areas where I think he has a risk ord exposure?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And Third, why is this happening.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You're listening to John coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Kay if I am six forty and on the iHeartRadio
app Carl to MYO sitting in for John Cobot. Okay,
let's move on quickly before Katie Porter goes and leaves
me a bad YELP review. So Gavin Newsom came out
two weeks ago and he said, I am under investigation
by the federal government. They are the FBI's asking close associates,
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former employees, family members about all sorts of things, and
it's all Donald Trump's fault. I done nothing wrong and
I'm a victim. This is what we call getting ahead
of a story. Something bad's about to happen, and in
a moment you'll realize why. Newsom realizes things are going
to get bad, and he's trying to shape it politically
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before it happens. Now, he says, Donald Trump is targeting him.
But the reality is Number one, as I'm going to
walk through, he has engaged in bad conduct. The things
that I'm about to tell you he has done. Now,
some of the things may not be illegal. I think
they are, but Donald Trump didn't do those things. He
did he and his wife. Number two, the investigation began.
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Are you ready for this under Joe Biden? Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I guess what happened was Donald Trump called Joe Biden and,
in a very rare moment of lucidity when he actually
was vaguely.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Aware, he and Donald.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Trump must have plotted this together, because it happened under
Joe Biden. So what has happened so far, Well, there's
already been an indictment and a guilty plea by Governor
Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson. She was
indicted for money laundering fraud allegedly, she admitted, not just
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allegedly anymore, she admitted that she stole money from a
campaign committee and gave it to some political operatives who
are friendly with her.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That's a little weird.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And when this happened, I said, first, whose political committee
was it? Well, it was Xavier Besserah, you know, the
Democrat candidate for governor right now. Ten thousand dollars a
month was stolen out of his campaign committee while he
was the Health and Human Services secretary, and he has
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to sign all his campaign reports, and these campaign this
campaign was a dormant campaign had millions of dollars in it,
and it's dormant, so there should be no activity besides
a modest like twenty five dollars filing fee for you know,
you know, the campaign finance reports, but no tens of
thousands of dollars a month were being taken out of
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his campaign account that was dormant, in violation of the law.
And he said, I didn't know, are any of you
buying this crap? Because I certainly not. They might ask, well,
why would he why would Xavier Besara.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Keep his mouth shut?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, because Xavier Bessera, who was anointed by Gavin Newsom
in this primary because he basically cleared the field with
Swawell and then all of Newsom's political machine got behind Bserah.
Bissera knew he wanted to run for higher office at
some point and he needed to keep political operatives happy
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in his orbit, so he gave them money to do
no work, which is a guy, you know what that is?
That is well, that's stealing campaign funds from yourself, taking
campaign money and giving it to someone for no work
because under the law he was not allowed to have
a campaign. You can't be spending money on a committee
that cannot engage in campaign committee activities. He claims he
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didn't know that. Either makes him an idiot incompetent, which
by the way, is possible, or he's in on it.
So Jana Williamson said, yep, I took the money, I
gave it to these political operatives and now she's cooperating
with the feeds. So when Newsom says this is a
witch hunt, well, witch hunts don't produce guilty please by
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your former chief of staff. And by the way, Gavin
Newsom knew that she was being charged and led her quiet,
resigned without saying anything. He didn't do a press conference saying, look,
oh my goodness, my chief of staff is now being
investigated by the FBI, and it's a prima facia case
of her taking the money. This is inappropriate. I can't
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have her as my Jieva staff. So I'm announcing to
everyone that I'm firing her.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh he didn't fire her. He gave her six.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Months of severance.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
He took care of her.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
He issued a statement saying how wonderful she was. But
everyone knew this was going on. It was not a
secret in Sacramento, and so Newsom is participating. And then
we found out that someone was wearing a wire all along.
Alexis Podesta, a political operative in Sacramento close to Gavin Newsom,
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was wearing a wire the whole time in and around
the governor's office. You don't wear a wire when it's
pretty much an open shutcase on the campaign finance, money laundering.
That's a matter of record. It's pretty clear, open shot.
Why was Alexis Podesta wearing a wire? But more importantly,
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what did she get recorded while she was wearing said wire?
If I were Newsom, I'd be you know what, my
pants would be dirty. So this wire thing came out
after Newsom gave his speech two weeks ago saying I'm
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being investigated. It's all manufactured, and I'm a victim. He knew,
he knew that Podesta was wearing the wire. He found
out about it, which is why, in part, he gave
that press conference that video. Oh, by the way, he
has not done a press conference. He has not answered
any questions about this. He issued a video saying he's
a victim of Trump's witch hunt, but he has yet
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to answer any questions.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
This is bad.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
What should Newsom be worried about? I have three things
I will tell you he needs to be worried about.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty, okay if I am.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Six forty and on the iHeartRadio app Carl Tobio sitting
in for John Cobalt. We're going to be talking about
at five o'clock the Yes on Prop thirty nine campaign
to pass a voter ID that I'm leading, and we're
going to need your help. But first we're talking about
corruption in Sacramento. Gavin Newsom announced he's under investigation, but
everything's fine, He's done nothing wrong, and it's Donald Trump
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that's just trying to pick on him. Well, his cheapest
staff pled guilty to federal felonies. One of his closest aides,
Alexis Podesta, wore a wire in his orbit, and there's
a bunch of stinky situations that he's engaged in that
have caused people to say this looks a little illegal,
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if not unethical. And of course the investigation started under
Joe Biden.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
But oh, nothing to worry about, right.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
The three things that Newsom should be worried about is
first and foremost the Williamson angle. Obviously, she you know,
has pled guilty, and as part of a plea deal,
you have to cooperate with other investigations, other targets that
the Feds may have. I believe she's helping the Feds
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in their investigation on Newsom.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And it's not going to just be hey, did Newsom engage.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
In this money laundering from Bessera's campaign? No, no, no, no, no,
that's chump change, my friends. It's going to be what
we've seen, which are the quid pro quo, the nature
of contracts and government decisions that seem to be made
to the benefit of Newsom's campaign contributors. It's always hard
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to prove that a politician sells their office because what
they can say is, yeah, I mean the labor unions
give me all this money to put me into and
keep me into office because I give everything to labor.
That's just well politics. It's because they appreciate a pro
labor candidate versus the labor union person saying, hey, if
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you give us this labor contract and give us a
bigger pension deal, we'll give you one hundred thousand dollars
if it's a quid pro quo connection. And so I
believe that there are probably a number of decisions that
Williamson and or Podesta have been able to identify that
Newsom may be culpable for. We'll see number two behested payments.
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This is where Gavin Newsom has raised money for his
wife's his wife's five oh one C three foundation, where
she gets millions of dollars of income, which then guess
what goes right into his household.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The money that he's.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Raising are from companies and interests that have business before
the state of California, and so there are questions about
quid pro quo there, But more importantly did she appropriately
handle the finances?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Is she appropriately.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Reporting that income? And third, it gets into the issue
of her five oh one C three seems to be
engaging in a lot of politics and political promotion for Gavinism.
He's featured in the darn five oh one C three
videos and so ethics experts have been talking for the
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past several weeks about the content of her five to
one C three and whether that violates laws as well.
These are things that he should legitimately be worried about. Now,
why is this happening, Well, you may have a corrupt
elected official newsome, but it's opening by the Feds because
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there's a culture in Sacramento that these politicians don't feel
that the rules apply to them. And there is a
reason why. It's not just politicians feel that the rules
don't apply to them. That's kind of how they operate,
you know, all the time. But in particular California, Democrat
politicians do not believe that the rules apply to them.
And that is because we are in a super majority,
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one party control state. They don't worry about a district
attorney investigating them. Why, because the district attorney needs their
endorsement in.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
The next election.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
They're all part of the big Democrat club, the Democrat
party infrastructure. They're all on team Democrats. So you don't
you don't investigate one of your teammates. So one party
control is a reason why these politicians don't feel that
the rules apply to them. No one's gonna go kick
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the tires or investigate. Not the district attorney who's a Democrat.
Not the state attorney General, Rob Banta, you know, of
the Bonta crime family, because he's engaging in the corrupt
acts as well with his wife, and so they're not
worried about the state attorney general investigating them. It's a
super majority state. Oh but also, do you think the
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liberal media is going to kick the tires? Oh, hell's no, honey.
The liberal media isn't going to hold a Democrat accountable
for stinky situations. All the things I just talked about
are just a summary of stinky situations. I mean, Gavin Newsome,
you know, awards a Chinese multinational company byg a no
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bid contract and then flies to China to support their
electric vehicles at the expense of California companies and people,
wonder like, wait, why would you do that? And then
we find out that, yeah, the Chinese Communist Party has
been giving money to politicians and influencing them and integrating
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and infiltrating their networks. When something doesn't make sense from
a public policy standpoint, that's when I immediately ask, well,
what's the politician getting under the table. Why would they
do something so stupid on behalf of their constituents.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
There must be an.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Angle for them politically or maybe personally from a financial standpoint,
So all of these situations he's put himself into. Oh,
coming up, he was asked today about his tax returns,
because part of this is.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
They believe that there may be.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Miss reporting of taxes by the newsoms hit him and
his wife. When you commit a crime, usually they get
you on the tax side first and then they get
you on the actual crime side. Coming up, what he
had to say at a campaign stop in Nevada today
when a reporter had the audacity to ask a question
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about these investigations.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Forty, KFIAM six forty. Carl Demaios sitting in for John
Cobelt we're talking about corruption in Sacramento and all the
reasons why Newsome should be very worried. He hasn't done
a press conference where he's taken questions on this topic.
He released a video, but now he's out gallivanting around
the nation running for president. And guess what those media outlets,
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they are not the sickophants that California media has become
where they just basically roll over whenever a Democrat says,
I'm not answering questions, I'm not doing a press conference,
I don't need to give you records. So all of
that stuff happens here in California. There's very few exceptions.
But Newsome is in Nevada today and he's asked a
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question about uh tax returns.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Listen it, I already have.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Have you been twenty years in my taxes?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I know you love taxes.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Donald Trump?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
When's he releasing him?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I am, because that's why I've released all my taxes
for decades. And you will have all those new tax
returns because I have no reason why you haven't gotten
them already.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So I have no me provide on.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
The FBI, federal investigations and your.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Wife, your stuff not much more than that has already
been provided. I mean, this is purely political, and you've
seen some of the party. I'm not sure. Maybe you
guys have reported it as well. People have stated pretty
clearly they were directed to find something.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
More people contacting years to.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Find something just directed.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Oh stands up.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
No, no, no. Your chief of staff pled guilty to
a federal felony.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Boddy.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You have a close operative who has always supported you,
wearing a wire in your office. You have all of
these stinky situations happening. No one was directed to find something.
You did something that may not be criminal, but you've
done a bunch of things that have created a bunch
of red flags and yellow fags. You have been fined
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by the California State Fair Political Practices Commission for failing
to report behested payments. These are the payments that you
take from special interest with business before your governor's office,
for your wife's charity air quotes around charity. The reason
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why we want to see your tax returns is number one,
you promised them to us when you ran for office,
and you broke your promise. And number two, a lot
of the questions have to deal with IRS questions about
you and your wife.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
So don't sit here's.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Saying what about Donald Trump's tax returns? Dude, You're the
one that's facing the questions. We can certainly ask questions
of Donald Trump, and you were demanding tax returns from
him years ago. You signed a bill into loss and
people had to give their tax returns up in order
to run for president. The question is are you going
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to apply the same standard to yourself? Of course not.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
But he's got nice hair.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
So here's this other story that CBS, to their credit,
has been following. It's on Gavin Newsom's big announcement that
he was giving tens of millions of dollars in a
no bid contract to Baby to Baby.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
This is a group.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
That's giving out overpriced diapers to people when they can
get cheaper diapers from Costco or Amazon or Walmart. But
of course Newsom says, oh, give me credit because I'm
wasting money on diapers.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
But the thing about Baby to Baby is.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Several of the first Ladies, Newsom's wife's friends are on
the board and they have various contracts and financial ties
between these board members and Jennifer Cebel Newsom. So that
is a stinky situation. So the media said a couple
months ago, hey, can we see the contract?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Listen to CBS.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Forty million diapers as many diapers will be distributed this
year as Californians.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
That was Governor Gavin Newsom about two months ago at
a press conference announcing California's new free diaper program and
a multi million dollar contract with a nonprofit Baby to Baby,
But immediately critics pointed out that his wife, Jennifer Cebel Newsom,
also had a relationship with at least one of the
co CEO.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Sits on Jen's board of directors. Gavin Newsom is claiming
there was this huge rigorous process to figure out which
group to partner with for this free diaper program. But
was it really a rigorous process if you're best friends
with the CEO of this company.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
So we did a little fact check and you should
definitely go check out the story we did last month,
but we could only.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Go so far.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
So far, the state will not give us a copy
of the contract or the competitive bid scoring sheet. Four
days after that very high profile press conference, we simply
asked the Governor's office for a copy of that contract
that everyone was talking about. They told US reach out
to California Health and Human Services. They told us the
contracts were with yet another agency. That agency told us
(28:28):
our requests had been received. That means legally they had
a maximum of ten days to tell us whether or
not we're going to get them. Exactly ten days later, now,
fourteen days after the press conference, the state replies, citing
an unusual circumstance clause in the California Public Records Act,
giving them another fourteen days to decide if these are
(28:49):
disclosable records. California law clearly states any executed contract is
a public record, and so are competitive bid scoring sheets.
Forward fourteen more days. Spoiler alert, they are disclosable records,
but the state would need another three to four weeks
to get us copies. Translation, the state waited twenty four
(29:11):
days to promptly notify us that it would need another
twenty eight days to get us a copy of that
contract that the governor announced nearly two months ago competitive
bidding process, and the day we were finally supposed to get
the records July third of state holiday unism, administration told
us they would need two more weeks.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
It's unacceptable, that's right. That is basically the run around
that Newsom is giving on a contract for an overpriced
typer program through a nonprofit that he said was competitively sourced.
But he doesn't want to give you a copy of
the contract, nor does he want to give you a
copy of the bid sheet. Oh and by the way,
one of the directors on that nonprofit board was also
(29:53):
on the board of Jennifer Siebel Newsom's nonprofit and votes
on her salary and compensation package. A stinky situation, Gavin.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
But oh no, No, you're a victim. Clutch your pearls.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I have been targeted unfairly. This is all politics. I've
done nothing wrong. I've done nothing.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Give us the damn contract.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Under state law, you are required to give us a contract.
You would think a guy under investigation with as many
questions hanging over him, who says holier than thou. I'm
the most open governor. I'm running for president. Look how
great I am. We've done everything on the up and up. Okay,
can I see a copy of the contract under state law? No,
they did, They dally and they delay. Oh but he's
(30:42):
the victim. He's done nothing wrong. I don't understand why
people are asking these questions. I got to give credit
for this CBS reporter. She's doing her job, But what
about the rest of the media infrastructure in the state
of California.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
They're bending over and taking it.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
He's just literally covering it up, absolutely trying to facilitate
the scam, not raising questions at all. This should be
every news director's story. We have a governor who had
an aide wearing a wire as part of a criminal investigation,
(31:25):
and he won't give documents up on a transaction related
to his own personal household's income. This is why you
have a corrupt state, my friends. You have corrupt politicians,
you don't have investigators in the state or local offices
that are willing to take on a member of their
(31:45):
own party, and you don't have an honest, independent media.
And in that environment, you're going to get the most
grotesque level of corruption, and that is what has become California.
Coming up, California, voter ide has a ballot number. It
(32:05):
is yes on Prop thirty nine, and I've been leading
the campaign to get this enacted, getting on the ballot,
and of course we want to get it passed with
a yes vote this fall, but we're gonna need your help. Today,
our opponents unveiled their campaign and I'm gonna share their
messaging with you and respond and let you know what
you can do to help. All that Coming up as
(32:27):
Carl de miosit's in for John Coblt on KFI AM
six forty first to check on news and traffic with
Debra Mark.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You've been listening to the John Cobelt Show podcast. You
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