December 10, 2025 • 36 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (12/10) - Newsom can't make a good presidential candidate because he is a complete failure! Santa Monica has a new mayor and she is very controversial.
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the talk back feature on the iHeartRadio app. I am
often baffled by everything what goes on in the world. Wow,
how media covers stories, weird issues or phrases that get
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repeated over and over again by everybody in politics and
the media, and you know, you can almost see the
wheels of the propaganda machine working. So I've noticed if
if you follow news at all, you can't help but
notice that there's a word that was rarely used in
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recent years, affordability, which is being repeated over and over again.
Self evident affordability means do people have enough money to
buy the stuff they need to live at a decent level,
and that nation has suddenly maybe this happened a week
ago Tuesday, become unaffordable, and so it's become a big
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weapon to be used for the next election cycle against Trump.
And I was trying to figure out, like, why suddenly
you keep talking about people upset about prices. Prices are high,
prices are high, But why are people upset when the
inflation rate is so much less than it was under Biden.
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Under Biden it was over nine percent. Now it's under
three percent. And I think what's happened is is that
Trump campaigned and people over promise and distort when they
campaign that he was going to lower prices. Now I
don't remember in my lifetime any president actually lowering prices.
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What he can help do is lower the rate of inflation.
But that's not what he was saying. He said lower prices.
And since most people have no sense of history or
memory and they can't do math, that kind of claim
should have been dismissed immediately. Well, he's not going to
do that, and because he hasn't, there's no way to
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do that. You can't affect the price of well, the
inflation rate with your policies and so people, I guess,
actually thought that the price of stuff was going to
go down. And when you tell them, well, the inflation
rates only two point eight percent or whatever it is, yeah, yeah,
but that means, you know, the prices are even higher,
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and yeah, that's the problem.
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The Biden years, prices went up accumulatively twenty two percent.
So now this extra let's say, three percent inflation is
on top of that twenty two percent, and people still
have in their heads the brain is fixed on what
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did stuff used to cost five years ago, right in
twenty twenty, like before the pandemic, what did stuff cost?
And that that's still in everybody's heads, and they never
got used to the last five years of inflation. And
now Trump comes along and you got another three percent inflation.
It's like, well, the prices still are bad, and they
are bad. But I think that's the disconnect between Trump's
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crowds saying well, we've lowered the rate of inflation. It's like, well, yeah,
but he promised to lower the prices, which is a
bad promise. Nobody's ever done that. That's not possible. I
think the only time prices go down significantly is if
you have the Great Depression, and nobody wants that. So
the Democrats serve using that, trying to build that as
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an argument and make a case going into the election
cycle next November for the mid terms for Congress and
then eventually the presidential race, which is now three years away.
And Gavin Newsom has become the leading candidate by all
accounts in these early polls because he says nasty things
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about Trump and apparently that's all half the country is
looking for. But if this affordability question is really important
to people, then the world has got to look at
what has happened to prices in the state of California
since Gavin Newsom took over. John Fleischman, political analyst. He
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has a website called so does Itmatter dot com? So
does Itmatter dot Com? And yeah, you have to pay
for many things on the website and it's worth it.
And he wrote a piece this week Gavin Newsom's gift
to the state soon could be his gift to the nation.
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Got to take seriously this idea that Newsom is the
leading candidate, because I don't think you want to live
in a country where Gavin Newsom is the president. And
I'm going to run down all the price changes here
in California, and most of this has to do with
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his policies. But you go through this and you realize
he is like the worst candidate if he's going to
be prattling about affordability. I remember, he's not going to
be running against Trump, so he's going to have to
promote what he's done in California. Right, what else is
on the resume? Eight years of being governed, eight years
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of being lieutenant governor, eight years of being the mayor
of San Francisco. What do you have to show after
twenty four years at high levels of government. Well, according
to the Legislative Analyst Office in Sacramento, you know what
it costs people to carry a typical mid tier home,
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like a middle of the pack house. You got to
pay fifty five hundred dollars. Fifty five hundred dollars. That
is about eighty percent higher than it was five years ago.
Even if you look at the bottom tier of housing,
your monthly payment is over three thousand. Yeah. I mean
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it's extremely expensive here for housing, as you know, and
for rent. If you just want to buy a modest
starter home, well, now you need income that exceeds a
statewide median income. Not affordable. That's why I'm just I
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don't understand how everybody's carrying on about the affordability. And
then Newsom is the top candidate. All right, that's a disaster.
Then electricity, you have a house in California, you are
paying eighty percent more for electricity than the rest of
the nation on average, eighty percent. Like PGNE customers, average
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rates are eighty percent higher than they were in twenty nineteen.
So you're paying eighty percent higher than the start of
Newsom's term and eighty percent higher than the rest of
the country is right now, triple A gas prices. They
put out a list state by state. I read from
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them frequently. National averages two ninety five. There are states
like Oklahoma where it's down to two thirty five, California
about four to fifty. So we're at four fifty. The
nation's average is two ninety five. That's over a dollar
fifty per gallon higher. Wow, that's that means every time
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you fill up, that's an extra thirty bucks you're paying.
Times you have fifty weeks a year, that's fifteen hundred
dollars extra your paying insurance in California. Wall Street Journal
found that nationally, premiums have risen fifty to seventy five percent.
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California one of the worst markets. Back in twenty twenty,
a household needed about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
in annual income to have a mid priced California home.
Now you have to be making a quarter of a
million dollars. The median rent in California is over twenty
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two hundred a month, fifty percent higher than the national medium.
And it goes on and on like this. It's like, now,
these are all the big ticket items, electricity, gasoline, rent, mortgages.
It's extraordinarily high here, way higher than the rest of
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the country. So how does Newsom come riding in and
prattle about affordability. I'm baffled by this. I completely don't
understand it. He's getting all kinds of tongue bads in
the media. Now. Everybody's racing to do the profile on
Gavin Newsom. Hardly a day goes by where I don't
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read like a new interview, a new profile, a new
analysis on Gavin Newsom. And in the same publication there'll
be some lengthy analysis us about how things are so
unaffordable in this country. Hello, I'm they're they're, they're they're
doing this in insane cheerleading for a guy who just
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just go by the numbers as objectively as possible. Complete
failure at providing an affordable life for most people. Take
his name away and his party away. Look at the
prices in all fifty states for electricity, gasoline, rent, mortgage.
If you saw his numbers, you'd say, well, not that
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guy who is that? That's a bad record there. How
come all the other forty nine governors in the other
forty nine states have better numbers? Boy, that is that
is the word. Well, highest inflation ray, highest unemployment rate,
and you know I can go on through the list
talk more when we come back.
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John Fleischman has a piece this week and his on
his website, So does itmatter dot com? And it was
it was addressing this, this whole craze right now, like
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almost everybody's writing about it and talking about it in
the media and politics is affordability have the price of
everything is so difficult, especially real estate, and it is
people are having a hard time because Trump didn't lower prices.
He can't. The inflation rate is lower, but that lower
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inflation rate, and it is a lot lower than it
used to be. Still is another two and a half
three percent higher means two and a half three percent
on top of the already inflated prices. So people are
looking around saying, well, wait a second, nothing's changed. In fact,
it's gotten slightly worse, and it will always get slightly worse.
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You'll always get, in the best of times, an inflation
rate between two and three percent. You hope your wages
can keep up that the inflation also kicks up your wages.
Some cases it is, some cases it isn't, you know.
It kind of depends what industry you're in. But all right,
so everybody's decided about this is the issue of the moment. Well,
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with a presidential election coming up after this midterm cycle,
being at the front of the pack right now, I'm
really gonna be curious to see how long it'll take
me poor before people figure out the California economically is
a disaster zone. And this is objective. This is just
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look at the available statistics that we can all agree on.
And you know, John Fleischman wrote about about the inflation
here in California, the cost of a home, the cost
of mortgage, the cost of electricity, the cost of gas,
just for starters. Well, Victor Davis Hanson is another writer
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that I really admire, and he put together his own
version of the affordability argument. You give you give the
government over to Gavin Newsom. Here's what he's done in California.
So now it's it's really it's really instructive, like almost
to write these things down and have a list and
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keep looking at the list. And again we're talking about
we're talking about look at all fifty states. Take away
the names of the governors, take away the political party.
If you're just going to judge all fifty states based
on their economic numbers. Who is the last guy you
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would want being president? Okay, So look at California. Forget
that it's news. Gas prices highest in the United States, unequivocally. Okay,
gas taxes highest in the US, highest electricity rates, highest
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home prices, fourth, highest home insurance. We have the largest
debt in the nation, two hundred and seventy billion dollars.
The government's in debt because they haven't funded all the
state workers benefit fits that we're going to have to
pay someday. You know, they're pensions and health care benefits.
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The annual budget deficit ranges from fifteen to seventy billion dollars.
We have the highest income taxes, the highest state sales tax,
the highest gas tax, and the top one percent of
California households pay fifty percent of the state income tax.
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How many times have you heard some idiot politician go, oh,
the rich have to pay their fair share. Okay, is
fifty percent high enough? A lot of them have left
the state. We have forty million people who live in California.
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Do you know what percentage get medical which is government
paid healthcare? It's supposed to be healthcare for poor people.
Fifty percent are on medical fifty percent, twenty million people.
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Do you know how many births are paid for by medical?
Fifty percent? Fifty percent of all the babies born, medical
has to cover the cost. He's got another list. We
have the largest population of illegal aliens. We have the
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largest number of homeless people. We have the largest number
of people who fled the state. We have the largest
number of people born in a foreign country eleven million.
That's twenty seven percent of the state. So we have
all these poor well, all these poor people without health
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insurance who are from other countries, many of them ilegal.
We have the largest number of people living in poverty.
We have the highest food prices in the continental United States.
The highest food prices on top of the highest electricity,
the highest gas, the highest rent, the highest mortgage payments,
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highest food prices, our infrastructure. Let's just start with the
roads at the bottom, worst roads. We're among the five
worst states in violent crime per person. You'll get the
whole population divided by the violent crimes. We're among the
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fifth the five worst. All right, now you've ingested all
those lists of statistics, that's pretty clear cut. Now go
put the name of the guy running the place for
the last seven years, the Gavin News. So what's what's
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the argument for having him be president? I know he's
shouting about Trump, insulting Trump, writing Trump insults on social
media or those uh, those weird those pathetic weirdos on
his staff are doing it. At least well, Trump's not
going to be running. I mean, I mean, this is
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he is the worst candidate possible to run for president.
He's the worst candidate for the Democrats to run, really,
the worst there's I could name five other people that
in the Democratic Party if they got elected, probably they'd
be Okay. This guy is so destructive. I mean, I
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can't think of a governor that has this record ever
had this right, I mean right now. Obviously he stands
by himself. There's no other state like California. When it
comes to all these categories. They listened, and these are
all really important categories. This is not eric obscure kind
of state. Say, this is all the stuff that's really
important to us, right, nothing more important than whether we
can afford to live in our house or apartment, whether
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we can afford food, or gas or electricity. Top of
the charts. Now there's got to be about almost I
don't know, twenty twenty five governors, right, There's about forty
five to fifty US senators. There's a couple of one
hundred congress people. There's all kinds of business leaders who
are Democrats. Why this guy? Why what I mean? He's
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unbelievably overwhelmingly incompetent. He's blown it in every category. What's
the up arrow here? What's the success story here since
he took over? Just look at it objectively. Pretend he's
not a Democrat. Pretend his name is Gavin Newsom. Just
look at the list of things I just read to you,
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and every one of these is true. So we'll see
when we come back. Santa Monica, which is a disaster zone,
has a new mayor and everybody's always is already screaming
about it. We're gonna play a clip from fox O
Liven News and talk about it because Santa Monica is
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swirling in the bowl.
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up after two o'clock Alex Stone from ABC News. You
may have heard that in Australia they have banned social
media for anyone under sixteen. Now already Australian kids are
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trying to find ways around the band. I don't think
it's that hard to do, but this is something that
other countries are considering, and boy, it ought to happen
in the US because it's really ruined a generation of kids'
brains emotionally and intellectually. And we'll talk to Alex find
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out how they're going to do this. I mean, there
have been many internal investigations at these social media companies
like Meta, which runs Facebook and Instagram, and it showed
they knew internally that social media contributes to suicidal thoughts
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and all kinds of body image neuroses in teenagers, especially girls.
They knew this, but they didn't want to do anything
to regulate it or block it because then they would
lose engagement time. See, they made a lot of money
from young girls obsessing over their body and their looks,
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and they made a lot of money over kids who
are insecure and to the point of suicide and obsess
on social media all day. Mark Zuckerberg gets wealthier and
wealthier for every poor teenage girl or boy who gets
sucked into the dark hole of Instagram. So we'll talk
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with Alex Stone about it. Coming up, also today after
three o'clock, we're going to have Steve Hilton. He's one
of the top candidates among Republicans for governor. Steve Hilton
is a Fox hosten a Fox News show for six years.
Also was a leading advisor to the British Prime Minister
David Cameron some years ago, and is a very successful
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businessman and entrepreneur. So we're going to talk with Steve
Hilton and what he wants. I think, after we've seen
what's happened in Minneapolis. In Minnesota's actually and in Maine.
You know, there's another Somali fraud scandaling Maine now that
we covered. He's saying, what do you think is going
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on in California. He's calling it Califraud and he wants
to set up a whistleblower hotline. So we'll talk about
all that with Steve Hilton. All Right, I've talked about
Santa Monica for a long time now because I live
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not far from there and it's kind of a it's
kind of an example of what is going on in
much of the state. But it's an example I'm really
familiar with. So even if you don't live near Santa
Monica and you're not affected by it, what you're affected
by throughout the state is these progressive policies which are
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incredibly damaging. And in Santa Monica, they took a beautiful city. Well,
when I came here, like Santa Monica's beautiful. San Francisco
is beautiful, and I'll probably be dead and I still
don't understand why citizens in Santa Monica and San Francisco
allowed their beautiful cities to be destroyed by criminals, mental patients,
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drug addicts, homeless people. I always say every day, it's like,
why did they let this happen? And why do they
continue to enable and encourage this. Human beings are very strange,
and you could have entire cities, even an entire state,
where we have a majority of the people who are
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self destructive. That's what we have in California. We have
people who, like millions of people who've created a destructive society.
So we've had a number of Marizon over the years
from Santa Monica. We had Phil Brock because every year
they got a new mayor. And I don't think that's
a good system of government. Yeah, I think they have
seven council members in Santa Monica and every year one
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of the seven gets to be the mayor. Phil Brock
was and he was rash own reasonable, but he had
to fight all the other council people who were these
left wing fanatics who were hell bent on prioritizing the
welfare of criminals and vagrants over anybody else. And then
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so Phil Brock and then what was her name, Negrete,
I forget her first name. We had her on the show,
and she also realized that things had gone to hell
and she is fighting with the rest of the council. Well,
now there's a new mayor named Caroline Terrosis. And if
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you remember, within the last couple of months, there was
this ruckus in Santa Monica because on Ocean Avenue, which
overlooks the beach is on the Seine. Is the avenue
where across the street from this beautiful park, which is
on a bluff, it's on a cliff that overlooks the
beach in the ocean. Well, among the buildings there were
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a couple of elder care homes which some whack job
wanted to turn into housing for severe mental patients. These
were severely mentally ill homeless people. And Caroline Terrosis apparently
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was aware of this plan and supported the proposal, and
then was when she was asked about it, she lied. Well,
they found emails which proved that Caroline Trosis didn't know
what was coming. That you were going to put up
a mental health housing facility in a residential neighborhood. A
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mental health housing facility, Well that sounds benign. Let me
tell you this. These were out and out psycho homeless
people and there was going to be two of them
close to each other on the same street. Listen to
this report. It's a good overview here about further adout
further Ado. It's a Fox eleven reporter math. You Seedorf,
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Now go ahead, you'll repeat after me.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Uppacked Santa Monica City Hall is Carolyn Therosis raises her
right hand, sworn in as the city's new mayor, and
immediate controversy.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
She lies, can't be trusted and quite possibly as a psychopath.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Frustration wowed even coming from residents calling in our new mayor.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Had advanced knowledge of the plan to place severely mentorial
individuals into Ocean Avenue.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
They're accusing Trosis of knowing months earlier about a now
pause project to convert two luxury Ocean Avenue properties into
interim housing for people with severe mental illness and not
telling the public. And we're just wondering why there residents
weren't I've notified in October. Fox eleven first uncovered the
project quietly moving forward until neighbors say they were blindsided
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with almost no notice.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Ended up with six hundred letters to the supervisor and
the city council.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
With immense backlash, the plans were paused.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Council member Trosis, You've known about this project since at
least November of twenty twenty four, While.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The then council Memberterrosis publicly denied claims she knew anything
months in advance, I just want to refute that statement
that was just made. It is not true that I've
known about this project since then. But Fox eleven has
now obtained emails showing Trosis was looped in as early
as last December, including one from a consultant asking for
a letter of support for the Ocean Avenue locations. Trosis
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replied by when do you need the letter of support.
I'm copying our city manager and housing director for awareness.
We expect honesty and that's not what we've been given.
Some residents voicing trust issues over the emails and the
mayor's other job as policy director for La County Supervisor
Holly Mitchell. It's a concern to many residents that she
would be dishonest about something like that, and then she
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continues to work for La County. You will be an
exceptional mayor.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Well.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Others defend the new mayor, saying she's right for the job.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Carolyn is a good human being who's genuine, and she's
going to she's gonna put the city first.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
In a statement to Fox eleven, Mayor Turosis says the
property addresses were never revealed before she forwarded the inquiry
to staff out in the city, had no approval authority,
and everyone agreed the locations were not ideal. The city
council was supposed to talk about that controversial Ocean Avenue
project tonight, but it was voted off of the agenda.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
She's a liar, She's a sticking liar, and she got caught.
And I don't know how anybody could say a woman
like that is good for the city as it puts
the city's interests at heart. No, she's a disaster. She's
one of these left wing LOUII bags. There is no
limit to the amount of destruction she wants to bring
to a neighborhood. Fifty fifty severely ill homeless people. That's
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a great idea. Who wouldn't want that in the neighborhood.
So here's here's the email. And again Trosis lied and
said what was the quarter agin? Let me get look
at the exact quote. I just want to refute that
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statement that she knew about it. It's not true that
I've known about the project. Well. A woman named Gina
gribbou with Englander, Canabi and Allen wrote to Terrosis on
December sixteenth, twenty twenty four, about these two about these
two buildings that we're going to have severely al mental patients.
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I'm reaching out to request your support for a grant
funding application for proposed interim housing sites in Santa Monica.
That's what Gribbe wrote to Rosis. When she was a counselman.
Our client Leo, who's Stillnikoff, owns a couple of former
assistant living facilities in Santa Monica. And is looking to
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transition them to interim housing with Saint Joseph Center serving
as the operator. And she replies to Rosis, well, when
do you need the letter by? And she forwarded the
information to the city manager and to the housing director,
and if you could share a draft with us with
more information about the projects, that would be appreciated. So
she knew it was coming. This all happened quietly. Nobody
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in the neighborhood knew that fifty severely ill, severely mentally
ill homeless people we're going to be moved into the neighborhood.
And then it leaked, and holy hell broke loose, and
then she denied no one about it. And that's your
new mayor of Santa Monica, Caroline Trosis. It is so galling.
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Of course they did it quietly. Of course they did
it secretly because they know nobody in their right mind
wants fifty mentally ill homeless people moving into the neighborhood.
Can you imagine what that would be like? And everybody
has referenced them as severely mentally ill? What else? What
else is going on that you don't know?
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And in just a few minutes Alex Stone from ABC News. Uh,
they are banning social media in Australia for anybody under
sixteen years old. Of course kids are trying to get
around this because they're not happy about it. Will their
addicts they've got there's plenty of adults who walk around,
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you know, with their with their faces glued to their
stupid phone and their stupid screen reading nonsense. And but
the children's brains have been obliterated, and it's it's just
this is terrible. Uh So, Uh, Australia is going to
try this. Other countries want to. We should that social
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media for people under sixty never should have been invented. Well,
I'll talk more about this later. Uh oh, here's another
criminal ready for another crook story? What do you know
another another elected official. Former Compton City council member Isaac Galvin,
pleaded guilty yesterday federal criminal charges for bribing a Baldwins
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a Baldwin Park City councilman. You got this. He used
to be a Compton council member Isaac Galvin, and he
pleaded guilty to bribing a Baldwin Park councilman. He paid
seventy thousand dollars in exchange for city marijuana permits. But
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I was a good guy to elect to the council.
He wants to sell marijuana for a living, and he's
bribing a councilman in another town. Galvin ran a consulting service,
let's see consulting. He gave bribes to the Baldwin Park
council person, Ricardo Pacheco. Ah. He acted as a middleman
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because one of Galvin's clients wanted a marijuana permit. All right,
So Galvin wasn't selling to marijuana. He was brokering the permit.
He was given money to a councilman and in Baldwin
Park so that Galvin's client could open up some marijuana shot. Wow,
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is that a business? Is that what consultants do? That's
what lobbyists do, so I guess yeah. Galvin pleaded guilty
in one count of bribery, one kind of tax evasion
he didn't report and within a half million dollars in income.
The hell he served on the Compton City council for
alm us ten years, and he lost his seat because
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of a vote rigging scandal and he was charged with
election fraud. Wow, that's that's a quality guy that they
elected in comp for ten years. They elected this character.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
In twenty seventeen, Baldwin Parks started issuing permits if he
wanted to grow or manufacture and distribute marijuana within the
city limits. And the Baldwin Park Council member, Ricardo Pacheco
was soliciting bribes from businesses who wanted marijuana development agreements
and permits, and Pacheco Pacheco took the money and used
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his position to get the permits approved. Galvin had as
a client a diamond bar company, and so Galvin gave
seventy thousand dollars in bribes to Pacheco. The guy who
wanted the permit was someone named Yi Chang Buy of Arcadia.
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The hell's going on, ye Chang Buy. There's so many
criminals in government, so many criminals serving in office. When
we come back Alex Stone about the idiocy of the
social media, they finally woke up in Australia. They're going
to try to ban it for people under sixteen uh Milon.
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He knows that's going to work. We'll talk to Alex next. Hey,
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the talk back feature on the iHeartRadio app. I am
often baffled by everything what goes on in the world. Wow,
how media covers stories, weird issues or phrases that get
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repeated over and over again by everybody in politics and
the media, and you know, you can almost see the
wheels of the propaganda machine working. So I've noticed if
if you follow news at all, you can't help but
notice that there's a word that was rarely used in
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recent years, affordability, which is being repeated over and over again.
Self evident affordability means do people have enough money to
buy the stuff they need to live at a decent level,
and that nation has suddenly maybe this happened a week
ago Tuesday, become unaffordable, and so it's become a big
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weapon to be used for the next election cycle against Trump.
And I was trying to figure out, like, why suddenly
you keep talking about people upset about prices. Prices are high,
prices are high, But why are people upset when the
inflation rate is so much less than it was under Biden.
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Under Biden it was over nine percent. Now it's under
three percent. And I think what's happened is is that
Trump campaigned and people over promise and distort when they
campaign that he was going to lower prices. Now I
don't remember in my lifetime any president actually lowering prices.
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What he can help do is lower the rate of inflation.
But that's not what he was saying. He said lower prices.
And since most people have no sense of history or
memory and they can't do math, that kind of claim
should have been dismissed immediately. Well, he's not going to
do that, and because he hasn't, there's no way to
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do that. You can't affect the price of well, the
inflation rate with your policies and so people, I guess,
actually thought that the price of stuff was going to
go down. And when you tell them, well, the inflation
rates only two point eight percent or whatever it is, yeah, yeah,
but that means, you know, the prices are even higher,
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and yeah, that's the problem.
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The Biden years, prices went up accumulatively twenty two percent.
So now this extra let's say, three percent inflation is
on top of that twenty two percent, and people still
have in their heads the brain is fixed on what
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did stuff used to cost five years ago, right in
twenty twenty, like before the pandemic, what did stuff cost?
And that that's still in everybody's heads, and they never
got used to the last five years of inflation. And
now Trump comes along and you got another three percent inflation.
It's like, well, the prices still are bad, and they
are bad. But I think that's the disconnect between Trump's
(03:43):
crowds saying well, we've lowered the rate of inflation. It's like, well, yeah,
but he promised to lower the prices, which is a
bad promise. Nobody's ever done that. That's not possible. I
think the only time prices go down significantly is if
you have the Great Depression, and nobody wants that. So
the Democrats serve using that, trying to build that as
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an argument and make a case going into the election
cycle next November for the mid terms for Congress and
then eventually the presidential race, which is now three years away.
And Gavin Newsom has become the leading candidate by all
accounts in these early polls because he says nasty things
(04:29):
about Trump and apparently that's all half the country is
looking for. But if this affordability question is really important
to people, then the world has got to look at
what has happened to prices in the state of California
since Gavin Newsom took over. John Fleischman, political analyst. He
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has a website called so does Itmatter dot com? So
does Itmatter dot Com? And yeah, you have to pay
for many things on the website and it's worth it.
And he wrote a piece this week Gavin Newsom's gift
to the state soon could be his gift to the nation.
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Got to take seriously this idea that Newsom is the
leading candidate, because I don't think you want to live
in a country where Gavin Newsom is the president. And
I'm going to run down all the price changes here
in California, and most of this has to do with
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his policies. But you go through this and you realize
he is like the worst candidate if he's going to
be prattling about affordability. I remember, he's not going to
be running against Trump, so he's going to have to
promote what he's done in California. Right, what else is
on the resume? Eight years of being governed, eight years
(06:00):
of being lieutenant governor, eight years of being the mayor
of San Francisco. What do you have to show after
twenty four years at high levels of government. Well, according
to the Legislative Analyst Office in Sacramento, you know what
it costs people to carry a typical mid tier home,
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like a middle of the pack house. You got to
pay fifty five hundred dollars. Fifty five hundred dollars. That
is about eighty percent higher than it was five years ago.
Even if you look at the bottom tier of housing,
your monthly payment is over three thousand. Yeah. I mean
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it's extremely expensive here for housing, as you know, and
for rent. If you just want to buy a modest
starter home, well, now you need income that exceeds a
statewide median income. Not affordable. That's why I'm just I
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don't understand how everybody's carrying on about the affordability. And
then Newsom is the top candidate. All right, that's a disaster.
Then electricity, you have a house in California, you are
paying eighty percent more for electricity than the rest of
the nation on average, eighty percent. Like PGNE customers, average
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rates are eighty percent higher than they were in twenty nineteen.
So you're paying eighty percent higher than the start of
Newsom's term and eighty percent higher than the rest of
the country is right now, triple A gas prices. They
put out a list state by state. I read from
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them frequently. National averages two ninety five. There are states
like Oklahoma where it's down to two thirty five, California
about four to fifty. So we're at four fifty. The
nation's average is two ninety five. That's over a dollar
fifty per gallon higher. Wow, that's that means every time
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you fill up, that's an extra thirty bucks you're paying.
Times you have fifty weeks a year, that's fifteen hundred
dollars extra your paying insurance in California. Wall Street Journal
found that nationally, premiums have risen fifty to seventy five percent.
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California one of the worst markets. Back in twenty twenty,
a household needed about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
in annual income to have a mid priced California home.
Now you have to be making a quarter of a
million dollars. The median rent in California is over twenty
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two hundred a month, fifty percent higher than the national medium.
And it goes on and on like this. It's like, now,
these are all the big ticket items, electricity, gasoline, rent, mortgages.
It's extraordinarily high here, way higher than the rest of
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the country. So how does Newsom come riding in and
prattle about affordability. I'm baffled by this. I completely don't
understand it. He's getting all kinds of tongue bads in
the media. Now. Everybody's racing to do the profile on
Gavin Newsom. Hardly a day goes by where I don't
(09:51):
read like a new interview, a new profile, a new
analysis on Gavin Newsom. And in the same publication there'll
be some lengthy analysis us about how things are so
unaffordable in this country. Hello, I'm they're they're, they're they're
doing this in insane cheerleading for a guy who just
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just go by the numbers as objectively as possible. Complete
failure at providing an affordable life for most people. Take
his name away and his party away. Look at the
prices in all fifty states for electricity, gasoline, rent, mortgage.
If you saw his numbers, you'd say, well, not that
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guy who is that? That's a bad record there. How
come all the other forty nine governors in the other
forty nine states have better numbers? Boy, that is that
is the word. Well, highest inflation ray, highest unemployment rate,
and you know I can go on through the list
talk more when we come back.
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John Fleischman has a piece this week and his on
his website, So does itmatter dot com? And it was
it was addressing this, this whole craze right now, like
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almost everybody's writing about it and talking about it in
the media and politics is affordability have the price of
everything is so difficult, especially real estate, and it is
people are having a hard time because Trump didn't lower prices.
He can't. The inflation rate is lower, but that lower
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inflation rate, and it is a lot lower than it
used to be. Still is another two and a half
three percent higher means two and a half three percent
on top of the already inflated prices. So people are
looking around saying, well, wait a second, nothing's changed. In fact,
it's gotten slightly worse, and it will always get slightly worse.
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You'll always get, in the best of times, an inflation
rate between two and three percent. You hope your wages
can keep up that the inflation also kicks up your wages.
Some cases it is, some cases it isn't, you know.
It kind of depends what industry you're in. But all right,
so everybody's decided about this is the issue of the moment. Well,
(12:54):
with a presidential election coming up after this midterm cycle,
being at the front of the pack right now, I'm
really gonna be curious to see how long it'll take
me poor before people figure out the California economically is
a disaster zone. And this is objective. This is just
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look at the available statistics that we can all agree on.
And you know, John Fleischman wrote about about the inflation
here in California, the cost of a home, the cost
of mortgage, the cost of electricity, the cost of gas,
just for starters. Well, Victor Davis Hanson is another writer
(13:36):
that I really admire, and he put together his own
version of the affordability argument. You give you give the
government over to Gavin Newsom. Here's what he's done in California.
So now it's it's really it's really instructive, like almost
to write these things down and have a list and
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keep looking at the list. And again we're talking about
we're talking about look at all fifty states. Take away
the names of the governors, take away the political party.
If you're just going to judge all fifty states based
on their economic numbers. Who is the last guy you
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would want being president? Okay, So look at California. Forget
that it's news. Gas prices highest in the United States, unequivocally. Okay,
gas taxes highest in the US, highest electricity rates, highest
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home prices, fourth, highest home insurance. We have the largest
debt in the nation, two hundred and seventy billion dollars.
The government's in debt because they haven't funded all the
state workers benefit fits that we're going to have to
pay someday. You know, they're pensions and health care benefits.
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The annual budget deficit ranges from fifteen to seventy billion dollars.
We have the highest income taxes, the highest state sales tax,
the highest gas tax, and the top one percent of
California households pay fifty percent of the state income tax.
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How many times have you heard some idiot politician go, oh,
the rich have to pay their fair share. Okay, is
fifty percent high enough? A lot of them have left
the state. We have forty million people who live in California.
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Do you know what percentage get medical which is government
paid healthcare? It's supposed to be healthcare for poor people.
Fifty percent are on medical fifty percent, twenty million people.
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Do you know how many births are paid for by medical?
Fifty percent? Fifty percent of all the babies born, medical
has to cover the cost. He's got another list. We
have the largest population of illegal aliens. We have the
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largest number of homeless people. We have the largest number
of people who fled the state. We have the largest
number of people born in a foreign country eleven million.
That's twenty seven percent of the state. So we have
all these poor well, all these poor people without health
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insurance who are from other countries, many of them ilegal.
We have the largest number of people living in poverty.
We have the highest food prices in the continental United States.
The highest food prices on top of the highest electricity,
the highest gas, the highest rent, the highest mortgage payments,
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highest food prices, our infrastructure. Let's just start with the
roads at the bottom, worst roads. We're among the five
worst states in violent crime per person. You'll get the
whole population divided by the violent crimes. We're among the
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fifth the five worst. All right, now you've ingested all
those lists of statistics, that's pretty clear cut. Now go
put the name of the guy running the place for
the last seven years, the Gavin News. So what's what's
(18:03):
the argument for having him be president? I know he's
shouting about Trump, insulting Trump, writing Trump insults on social
media or those uh, those weird those pathetic weirdos on
his staff are doing it. At least well, Trump's not
going to be running. I mean, I mean, this is
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he is the worst candidate possible to run for president.
He's the worst candidate for the Democrats to run, really,
the worst there's I could name five other people that
in the Democratic Party if they got elected, probably they'd
be Okay. This guy is so destructive. I mean, I
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can't think of a governor that has this record ever
had this right, I mean right now. Obviously he stands
by himself. There's no other state like California. When it
comes to all these categories. They listened, and these are
all really important categories. This is not eric obscure kind
of state. Say, this is all the stuff that's really
important to us, right, nothing more important than whether we
can afford to live in our house or apartment, whether
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we can afford food, or gas or electricity. Top of
the charts. Now there's got to be about almost I
don't know, twenty twenty five governors, right, There's about forty
five to fifty US senators. There's a couple of one
hundred congress people. There's all kinds of business leaders who
are Democrats. Why this guy? Why what I mean? He's
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unbelievably overwhelmingly incompetent. He's blown it in every category. What's
the up arrow here? What's the success story here since
he took over? Just look at it objectively. Pretend he's
not a Democrat. Pretend his name is Gavin Newsom. Just
look at the list of things I just read to you,
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and every one of these is true. So we'll see
when we come back. Santa Monica, which is a disaster zone,
has a new mayor and everybody's always is already screaming
about it. We're gonna play a clip from fox O
Liven News and talk about it because Santa Monica is
(20:20):
swirling in the bowl.
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John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app coming
up after two o'clock Alex Stone from ABC News. You
may have heard that in Australia they have banned social
media for anyone under sixteen. Now already Australian kids are
(20:49):
trying to find ways around the band. I don't think
it's that hard to do, but this is something that
other countries are considering, and boy, it ought to happen
in the US because it's really ruined a generation of kids'
brains emotionally and intellectually. And we'll talk to Alex find
(21:09):
out how they're going to do this. I mean, there
have been many internal investigations at these social media companies
like Meta, which runs Facebook and Instagram, and it showed
they knew internally that social media contributes to suicidal thoughts
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and all kinds of body image neuroses in teenagers, especially girls.
They knew this, but they didn't want to do anything
to regulate it or block it because then they would
lose engagement time. See, they made a lot of money
from young girls obsessing over their body and their looks,
(21:52):
and they made a lot of money over kids who
are insecure and to the point of suicide and obsess
on social media all day. Mark Zuckerberg gets wealthier and
wealthier for every poor teenage girl or boy who gets
sucked into the dark hole of Instagram. So we'll talk
(22:13):
with Alex Stone about it. Coming up, also today after
three o'clock, we're going to have Steve Hilton. He's one
of the top candidates among Republicans for governor. Steve Hilton
is a Fox hosten a Fox News show for six years.
Also was a leading advisor to the British Prime Minister
David Cameron some years ago, and is a very successful
(22:37):
businessman and entrepreneur. So we're going to talk with Steve
Hilton and what he wants. I think, after we've seen
what's happened in Minneapolis. In Minnesota's actually and in Maine.
You know, there's another Somali fraud scandaling Maine now that
we covered. He's saying, what do you think is going
(22:58):
on in California. He's calling it Califraud and he wants
to set up a whistleblower hotline. So we'll talk about
all that with Steve Hilton. All Right, I've talked about
Santa Monica for a long time now because I live
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not far from there and it's kind of a it's
kind of an example of what is going on in
much of the state. But it's an example I'm really
familiar with. So even if you don't live near Santa
Monica and you're not affected by it, what you're affected
by throughout the state is these progressive policies which are
(23:45):
incredibly damaging. And in Santa Monica, they took a beautiful city. Well,
when I came here, like Santa Monica's beautiful. San Francisco
is beautiful, and I'll probably be dead and I still
don't understand why citizens in Santa Monica and San Francisco
allowed their beautiful cities to be destroyed by criminals, mental patients,
(24:10):
drug addicts, homeless people. I always say every day, it's like,
why did they let this happen? And why do they
continue to enable and encourage this. Human beings are very strange,
and you could have entire cities, even an entire state,
where we have a majority of the people who are
(24:31):
self destructive. That's what we have in California. We have
people who, like millions of people who've created a destructive society.
So we've had a number of Marizon over the years
from Santa Monica. We had Phil Brock because every year
they got a new mayor. And I don't think that's
a good system of government. Yeah, I think they have
seven council members in Santa Monica and every year one
(24:54):
of the seven gets to be the mayor. Phil Brock
was and he was rash own reasonable, but he had
to fight all the other council people who were these
left wing fanatics who were hell bent on prioritizing the
welfare of criminals and vagrants over anybody else. And then
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so Phil Brock and then what was her name, Negrete,
I forget her first name. We had her on the show,
and she also realized that things had gone to hell
and she is fighting with the rest of the council. Well,
now there's a new mayor named Caroline Terrosis. And if
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you remember, within the last couple of months, there was
this ruckus in Santa Monica because on Ocean Avenue, which
overlooks the beach is on the Seine. Is the avenue
where across the street from this beautiful park, which is
on a bluff, it's on a cliff that overlooks the
beach in the ocean. Well, among the buildings there were
(25:56):
a couple of elder care homes which some whack job
wanted to turn into housing for severe mental patients. These
were severely mentally ill homeless people. And Caroline Terrosis apparently
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was aware of this plan and supported the proposal, and
then was when she was asked about it, she lied. Well,
they found emails which proved that Caroline Trosis didn't know
what was coming. That you were going to put up
a mental health housing facility in a residential neighborhood. A
(26:37):
mental health housing facility, Well that sounds benign. Let me
tell you this. These were out and out psycho homeless
people and there was going to be two of them
close to each other on the same street. Listen to
this report. It's a good overview here about further adout
further Ado. It's a Fox eleven reporter math. You Seedorf,
(27:01):
Now go ahead, you'll repeat after me.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Uppacked Santa Monica City Hall is Carolyn Therosis raises her
right hand, sworn in as the city's new mayor, and
immediate controversy.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
She lies, can't be trusted and quite possibly as a psychopath.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Frustration wowed even coming from residents calling in our new mayor.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Had advanced knowledge of the plan to place severely mentorial
individuals into Ocean Avenue.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
They're accusing Trosis of knowing months earlier about a now
pause project to convert two luxury Ocean Avenue properties into
interim housing for people with severe mental illness and not
telling the public. And we're just wondering why there residents
weren't I've notified in October. Fox eleven first uncovered the
project quietly moving forward until neighbors say they were blindsided
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with almost no notice.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Ended up with six hundred letters to the supervisor and
the city council.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
With immense backlash, the plans were paused.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Council member Trosis, You've known about this project since at
least November of twenty twenty four, While.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The then council Memberterrosis publicly denied claims she knew anything
months in advance, I just want to refute that statement
that was just made. It is not true that I've
known about this project since then. But Fox eleven has
now obtained emails showing Trosis was looped in as early
as last December, including one from a consultant asking for
a letter of support for the Ocean Avenue locations. Trosis
(28:21):
replied by when do you need the letter of support.
I'm copying our city manager and housing director for awareness.
We expect honesty and that's not what we've been given.
Some residents voicing trust issues over the emails and the
mayor's other job as policy director for La County Supervisor
Holly Mitchell. It's a concern to many residents that she
would be dishonest about something like that, and then she
(28:43):
continues to work for La County. You will be an
exceptional mayor.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Well.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Others defend the new mayor, saying she's right for the job.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Carolyn is a good human being who's genuine, and she's
going to she's gonna put the city first.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
In a statement to Fox eleven, Mayor Turosis says the
property addresses were never revealed before she forwarded the inquiry
to staff out in the city, had no approval authority,
and everyone agreed the locations were not ideal. The city
council was supposed to talk about that controversial Ocean Avenue
project tonight, but it was voted off of the agenda.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
She's a liar, She's a sticking liar, and she got caught.
And I don't know how anybody could say a woman
like that is good for the city as it puts
the city's interests at heart. No, she's a disaster. She's
one of these left wing LOUII bags. There is no
limit to the amount of destruction she wants to bring
to a neighborhood. Fifty fifty severely ill homeless people. That's
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a great idea. Who wouldn't want that in the neighborhood.
So here's here's the email. And again Trosis lied and
said what was the quarter agin? Let me get look
at the exact quote. I just want to refute that
(30:02):
statement that she knew about it. It's not true that
I've known about the project. Well. A woman named Gina
gribbou with Englander, Canabi and Allen wrote to Terrosis on
December sixteenth, twenty twenty four, about these two about these
two buildings that we're going to have severely al mental patients.
(30:27):
I'm reaching out to request your support for a grant
funding application for proposed interim housing sites in Santa Monica.
That's what Gribbe wrote to Rosis. When she was a counselman.
Our client Leo, who's Stillnikoff, owns a couple of former
assistant living facilities in Santa Monica. And is looking to
(30:48):
transition them to interim housing with Saint Joseph Center serving
as the operator. And she replies to Rosis, well, when
do you need the letter by? And she forwarded the
information to the city manager and to the housing director,
and if you could share a draft with us with
more information about the projects, that would be appreciated. So
she knew it was coming. This all happened quietly. Nobody
(31:13):
in the neighborhood knew that fifty severely ill, severely mentally
ill homeless people we're going to be moved into the neighborhood.
And then it leaked, and holy hell broke loose, and
then she denied no one about it. And that's your
new mayor of Santa Monica, Caroline Trosis. It is so galling.
(31:36):
Of course they did it quietly. Of course they did
it secretly because they know nobody in their right mind
wants fifty mentally ill homeless people moving into the neighborhood.
Can you imagine what that would be like? And everybody
has referenced them as severely mentally ill? What else? What
else is going on that you don't know?
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And in just a few minutes Alex Stone from ABC News. Uh,
they are banning social media in Australia for anybody under
sixteen years old. Of course kids are trying to get
around this because they're not happy about it. Will their
addicts they've got there's plenty of adults who walk around,
(32:27):
you know, with their with their faces glued to their
stupid phone and their stupid screen reading nonsense. And but
the children's brains have been obliterated, and it's it's just
this is terrible. Uh So, Uh, Australia is going to
try this. Other countries want to. We should that social
(32:47):
media for people under sixty never should have been invented. Well,
I'll talk more about this later. Uh oh, here's another
criminal ready for another crook story? What do you know
another another elected official. Former Compton City council member Isaac Galvin,
pleaded guilty yesterday federal criminal charges for bribing a Baldwins
(33:13):
a Baldwin Park City councilman. You got this. He used
to be a Compton council member Isaac Galvin, and he
pleaded guilty to bribing a Baldwin Park councilman. He paid
seventy thousand dollars in exchange for city marijuana permits. But
(33:34):
I was a good guy to elect to the council.
He wants to sell marijuana for a living, and he's
bribing a councilman in another town. Galvin ran a consulting service,
let's see consulting. He gave bribes to the Baldwin Park
council person, Ricardo Pacheco. Ah. He acted as a middleman
(33:59):
because one of Galvin's clients wanted a marijuana permit. All right,
So Galvin wasn't selling to marijuana. He was brokering the permit.
He was given money to a councilman and in Baldwin
Park so that Galvin's client could open up some marijuana shot. Wow,
(34:20):
is that a business? Is that what consultants do? That's
what lobbyists do, so I guess yeah. Galvin pleaded guilty
in one count of bribery, one kind of tax evasion
he didn't report and within a half million dollars in income.
The hell he served on the Compton City council for
alm us ten years, and he lost his seat because
(34:42):
of a vote rigging scandal and he was charged with
election fraud. Wow, that's that's a quality guy that they
elected in comp for ten years. They elected this character.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
In twenty seventeen, Baldwin Parks started issuing permits if he
wanted to grow or manufacture and distribute marijuana within the
city limits. And the Baldwin Park Council member, Ricardo Pacheco
was soliciting bribes from businesses who wanted marijuana development agreements
and permits, and Pacheco Pacheco took the money and used
(35:20):
his position to get the permits approved. Galvin had as
a client a diamond bar company, and so Galvin gave
seventy thousand dollars in bribes to Pacheco. The guy who
wanted the permit was someone named Yi Chang Buy of Arcadia.
(35:40):
The hell's going on, ye Chang Buy. There's so many
criminals in government, so many criminals serving in office. When
we come back Alex Stone about the idiocy of the
social media, they finally woke up in Australia. They're going
to try to ban it for people under sixteen uh Milon.
(36:03):
He knows that's going to work. We'll talk to Alex next. Hey,
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