May 8, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (05/08) - John rips into a brutal new poll showing most Californians believe Governor Gavin Newsom is more focused on his presidential ambitions than doing his job. Even 3 out of 4 voters say he’s done nothing to help the state—and only 41% of Democrats think he's trying. John compares Newsom’s declining popularity to rising stars like Governors Whitmer, Shapiro, and Bashir, and highlights South Carolinians’ brutal take on him. Then it’s onto California’s soaring gas prices—with new reports suggesting prices could hit $9 per gallon—and Newsom’s failed energy policies are to blame. Then, John exposes Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s taxpayer-funded world tour, missing key state duties along the way. Wrapping the hour, John reacts to sex workers showing up in Sacramento to oppose legislation that would finally outlaw the purchase of 16- and 17-year-olds for sex.
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missed coming up in a few minutes. There's a story
this week that came out of San Francisco. Yes, funny.
There's one reporter in Sacramento at kcr A TV, Ashley's Valla,
who covers the legislature really well, and she has been
breaking a lot of news about that pedophile vote they've
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been having for the last week. In fact, she's got
another story and we're going to talk about that later
in the hour. But there's also a really good reporter
in sam in Francisco at ABC seven, Stephanie Sierra. Now
these are statewide stories. We don't have a single Los
Angeles based reporter that covers Sacramento government. We don't even
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have anybody that covers it badly. We just don't have
any None of the television stations in town right, two, four, five, seven, nine,
eleven that weird Spectrum TV. Are they still doing COVID
stories on Spectrum? My friend and I called the COVID
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channel because ninety nine times out of one hundred for
several years, odds are if you turn on the Spectrum channel,
you got your latest COVID update. So they don't cover Sacramento.
Nobody covers Sacramento. La Times doesn't. Yeah, look at the
La Times, clostly they have they have zero news that
they generate themselves. But Stephanie Sierra reports for ABC seven
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in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And remember Ricarda.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Lara, she did a lot on her. We did a lot.
She did a lot on him, and so did we.
Riccardo Lara is the insurance commissioner who has completely effed
up the insurance industry in the state. Virtually everybody I
know is angry with their insurance coverage. If they can
even get insurance coverage, it's extremely expensive. In a lot
of cases, it doesn't exist anymore. And chaces back to
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Riccardo Lara, who's done this. I wouldn't even call it
a half assed job. He travels around. He's taken dozens
of trips, many of them on taxpayer expense, just to
enjoy himself. Famously, he went to Bermuda for a fifteen
minute speech when he was supposed to attend to hearing
in Sacramento on this insurance disaster. So Stephanie Sierra has
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a new report because they're looking through records about his
travel and they cannot get any comment or information out
of Riccardo Lara and the staff. This is what Bass
does down here. They just stonewall everybody and they hope
you get bored and you wander away, and then they
continue with either their incompetence, their stupidity, or their corruption.
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So that'll come up in a little bit now. Speaking
of incompetence and stupidity, we got Gavin Newsom. You know,
Trump's only been in office for four months, not even
and they're already doing a lot of polling on who
the next president might be in twenty twenty eight. And
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it shows you how instead of going to Sacramento and
covering the pedophile caucus, or going to Sacramento and finding
out why Cardilara is stealing so much of our tax
money so we could travel travel. They run endless polls
and endless stories on how unpopular Gaven Newsom is, and
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they got another one. This is the La Times and
U see Berkeley. They found that most California voters believe
by a more than two to one margin that Newsom
is more interested in campaigning for the White House than
doing anything to fix California's problems. As a pretty stunning poll,
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I mean, it's an almost total rejection. Fifty four percent
of all voters in California believe that Newsom is doing
things that will benefit him as a possible candidate for president.
Only twenty six percent of voters think he's governing the
state and helping to solve its problems. Twenty six percent,
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So three quarters of voters don't think he's doing anything
to help the state. That one quarter I'd like to
I'd like to talk to. They're probably the same kind
of people who were applauding Joe Biden's cognitive decline, and
they view clip we played last hour.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
In fact, h.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Only forty one percent Democrats think he's governing the state
to solve its problems. You got, you got sixty percent
of Democrats who think he's either running for governor, a
running for president, or has no particular opinion. His approval
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rating is at forty six percent. His disapproval rating is
also forty six percent. I don't know what you would
approve him for. What is the up arrow? Six years
of Gavin Newsom? Tell me what's better? Is it homelessness?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Is it crime? Is it high speed rail?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Was it the way he handled COVID locking down the
schools for a year and a half. Was it handling
the homeless money that twenty four billion that disappeared? Was
it handling the unemployment money during COVID that fifty billion
that disappeared? Tell you what it's? The up era budget
is way out of whack. Budget's thirty seven billion in
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the red at least. So like for people who approve
of him, what are you approving of exactly? You don't
also notice? This is to me, this is media biz
all times when they run photos of him, they run
a photo of him from about five years ago where
he looks younger and his hair is dark, and they
don't run photos he's now turning gray and white, and
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he's starting to getting a little wrinkly and JOWI like.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The bloom is the bloom is off.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
He's starting to wilt, But they don't publish photos of
him wilted. They still publish the old photos of him
looking young and virile and dynamic divity to speaking of,
I should read that email you sent me. Debra got
an email from a listener. Let me see.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm not going to give his name because it could
be embarrassing, but he wrote here, debor Mark, I'm a
longtime listener. I often hear John refer to Gavin Newsom
as good looking because of his quote air and chin line.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, I'm a man that likes men. Gavin Newsom is gross.
And then he put the vomit emoji. I've never seen that.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Oh, you've never seen that, imoments.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I've never seen the vomit emoji. You know, it's one
of those little yellow smiley guys and he's got his
mouth open and there's green vomit pouring out of it.
I didn't know what that was at first. Part of
what makes somewhat attractive his personality and Gavin Newsom is
one hundred percent lacking. I can't find an email address.
For John Coblt anymore. And there's a reason for that.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
You know, I'm your secretary.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I can't tell you how many messages I get?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Can you send this to John?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Can you tell John?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
People ask me, so, how did the audience react? I said,
I have no idea how to react. I don't think
phone calls. I don't read emails, no text messages, nothing.
All right, Uh, you got the moistline I got. We
got the more moistline I can take because that's funny.
Five minutes to six minutes of the moistline. I'm fine
for the week. He writes, Could you please share with
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him that Gavin Newsom is not good looking and that
this is from a qualified professional. He's professionally he's a
man professionally interested in other men. Yeah, and I love
and support your animal interest. That was to me, Well, yeah,
I think follow he should support my animals.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You have more animals than I do. That is that
is very true. But look, I mean, looks are so subjective.
I mean, we know that so many people find Gavin
Newsom attractive.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
You talk about that all the time.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
That's why this guy wrote you. So he happens to
think he's gross because of his personality, you know, to
each his own.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Uh I just I just he's like just so off
putting in in his slickness. Yes, and now that he's
changing all his positions to try to position himself for
the presidency, it's so obvious, there's nothing subtle.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well, what happens when gas goes to eight bucks a gallon?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
How's he going to run on that?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You would think?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
In fact, I got to play that clip too, because
Channel seven finally covered that story. Sometimes I feel like
I'm a howling loon in the wilderness and I'm the
only one carrying on about something that's really really important,
like gas is going to be almost eight fifty a
gallon within a year or a year and a half.
It's like, really nobody else in the media is interested.
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But Channel seven ran a short story. But at least
they ran something, and they had a clip of Michael
MChE On, the professor at USC who's done all the research.
Well we come back. What I was getting to is
there are a lot of Democrats across the country that
are not sold on Newsome. They think there are other
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better care. It's come twenty twenty eight, and there's one
really funny one. He's the former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman.
He's a former state senator. He's been involved in presidential
politics for decades. His name is Dick Harputlian and his
opinion of Gaven Newsom from South Carolina is a crackup.
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So we'll do that next, and we'll also we'll play
about the clip on the gas prices that Channel seven
is finally covering.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It's a real thing, people. It's not just.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Seven bucks a gallon by the end of this year. Yes, yes, yes,
six bucks sorry, six bucks and then eight bucks.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah. So it's all bad. Wherever it actually lands, it's
all bad. And the thing is it has to be
that high because of what's happening. You've got two refineries closing,
and you have the sixty five cent price increase because
of the California Air Resources Board. So it must happen.
It's not a wild eyed estimate. This is the way
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it's going. By design. They want this to happen.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
You know, I feel sorry for Gavin Newsom because he
was one of these It's one of these little irritating
Wiener kids. I'm sure he was a Wiener kid. Who
you know, he idolized Robert F. Kennedy when he was
very young, and he all he can think about all
his life is he wants to be president. And and
now he's so thoroughly efed up California that everybody's laughing
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at him, even a lot of Democrats around the country
are laughing at him. And if you're just joining us there,
there's a new poll out which says that California voters,
by a fifty four to twenty six margin, thinks that
he's more focused on winning the White House than fixing
all the problems here. And he's got a relatively low
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approval rating of forty six percent. His disapproval rating is
forty six percent. And I know this may come as
a shock for those of you who are in love
with his dreamy eyes and his slick hair. But that
hair is not looking so good anymore. Looking it's looking
like dishwater gray, whitish.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
You know, there's a double standard, John for women when
their hair looks like that, people don't like it. Men
it looks distinguished, some say.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Some say not on him, though, I think he was
such a pretty boy like you know, like George Clooney.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It really worked well for him because I saw him
the other day. He's doing to play in New York.
We had to dye his hair, and he does look
a lot better silver than it does with a dyed
dark brown look. But do some I don't know, he's
looking worn, looking haggard.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Maybe he's going to dye his hair.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He's going to hear you and he's going to go seriously,
you're going to see him with dyed hair.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
That's what I want to go to him into. Yeah,
some other governors are much more popular in their states.
Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania's fifty nine percent, Kentucky's
Andy Bisheer Basher excuse me sixty eight percent, and Gretchen
Whitm of Michigan fifty four percent, and they're all rumored
to be major candidates for Democrat voters in the primary
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twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Newsom.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Newsom is when you actually look at national polls, he
doesn't have much of a following. It's like three percent
because a lot of people don't know him, and those
who do know him think he's mistakes. He's no good
because they see all the news coming out of California.
Here is one of those opinions. Dick car Harputlian is
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a former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman and state senator.
He's been involved in presidential politics for decades and South
Carolina is one of the big early primaries. South Carolina
was the state that saved Joe Biden's rear end and
cornel La times Harpoutlan has little good to say about
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Newsom or his twenty twenty eight chances. I think Gavin
Newsom is what all of us think of when we
think of a slick, wealthy California playboy kind of guy.
I mean, his hair is perfectly quaffed, his shoes are
shiny and probably Italian. Many of us remember during COVID
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when he was telling everybody not to go out and
he was having a fabulous dinner at the French laundry
in Napa. I just think he's out of touch with
the blue collar folks. We need to get back to
the Democratic Party, and California's not a good place to
come from anyway. Marputlian said they've got a huge homeless population.
The ten cities budget deficit, taxes that are quote so
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freaking high. This is a Democrat. It's not a model
the rest of the country wants to follow. So what's
poor Gavin gonna do when he goes when he goes splack,
he'll be like Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
He'll run.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And if he makes it to January of twenty twenty eight,
the primary, he's two three states, he's done. You know,
he'll be getting five eight percent of the vote and
then his life is over. There was no other purpose
of having to become president. And that silly wife of his,
she's auditioning for First Lady. I saw a story on
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her the other day. She's got all the moves down.
She wants to be first Lady so bad. Now here's
something that is going to further sink him.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I don't know how he gets out of this.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
The Phillip sixty six refinery in Los Angeles is closing
this October, that's what five months away, and then Valero
has a Benetia refinery closing in April of twenty twenty six,
less than a year from now. Those two refineries being
taken out of business, and the sixty five cent price
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increase from the California Air Resources board. Whatever the gas
price is now, it could be up seven by the
end of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Here's a report from Channel seven.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Mad But we could soon be paying more for gas.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, California.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
A University of Southern California professor says that could be
the case if two refineries close in our state. Phillip
sixty six refinery and Wilmington could close by the end
of the year, which would put push gas prices to
above six dollars. And then if the Valero refinery in
the Bay Area closes by the end of the next year,
that could send prices soaring to nine dollars a.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Gallon a reduction in supply relatively stable demand.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
In more layering on of legislative costs, price is going
to go up.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
To compensate for the closures, California would have to import
gas from either the Gulf, China, South Korea, or Malaysia.
Doing so would only add to the costs. In response
to the expected closures, Governor Newsom has directed the state
to intensify collaboration with refineries to maintain a stable and
affordable gasoline.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Sir, fineries are closing, there's nothing news can do collaboration
with refiners. They're closing, they're going in that business, they're
shutting down, they're not processing oil anymore. I mean, I'm
glad Channel seven covered the story for what fifty nine seconds?
But do you realize how bad it is when you
take twenty percent of the refinery capacity out of the
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marketplace and you had sixty five cents from this stupid
California Air Resources Board. That voice you heard in the
middle of the story was Michael mcche the professor from
USC who we've had on a couple of times. He
is projecting gas to be about eight dollars and forty
three cents in a year and a half. Eight forty
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three in Mississippi. You can get it for two sixty four.
Eric saw two thirty nine in Austin, Texas just over
the weekend. I paid myself in Florida, and we're looking
at eight forty three here. I want to see Gavin
Newsom run for president with eight forty three gallon per gas.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
In his state?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
What he is so he wants it so badly, but
he's so self destructive. He joined that stupid global warming cult,
the climate change cult, and now he's stuck idiot. Why
are we run by idiots? Why? All right, we come back.
We're gonna get the full story on how much tax
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money Ricardo Lauer, our idiot insurance commissioner, is wasting on
his travel.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
We're on every day from one until four and then
after four o'clock John Cobelts Show on demand on the
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Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh, we're gonna play now. Forgot what we were doing here.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
There is a reporter up in San Francisco for ABC
seven named Stephanie Sierra, and she's been doing a series
of reports on the insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, who has
been looting the taxpayers thousands and thousands of dollars, going
on dozens and dozens of trips just to have a
good time. I mean, you know, there's usually some well
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in Bermuda. Best example, he gave a fifteen minute speech
and he went off to Bermuda and had a good
time and spent our money and didn't show up at
a hearing to discuss the ongoing insurance disaster that we're
having in this state with the legislature. So here's the
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latest installment from Stephanie Sierra.
Speaker 10 (19:42):
As you know Michael, for months now, we've been trying
to get answers as to the business purpose for the
commissioner's international taxpayer funded travel. We've yet to get a
direct answer from your office with our specific questions, why
is that well.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lada is a national leader, He's.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
A global leader.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
This is California Insurance and Commissioner Ricardo Latta's Deputy Commissioner
of Communications, Michael Soller, a staffer we've been emailing over
the past year while struggling to get answers about the
state's insurance crisis, including most recently, why the commissioner was
absent for nearly all the Senate insurance hearings since assuming
office while traveling abroad or cross country.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Or while the business purpose.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
For nearly a dozen all inclusive tax pay funded trips
to places like Paris, Bogata, and reportedly Chile has yet
to be made public.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
This was last month.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Oh, I'll provide you a complete list. Every single trip
has a business purpose and it's led to really having
a full picture of what's happening.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
These are documents that are held within the department that
should be easily accessible.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
I appreciate that, and we do take this to the
process of transparency and public records really, really, really seriously.
We want to make sure that we're answering a question
we're not.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'll certainly follow up on that.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
We reached out out not once, not twice, but three
times since Sawler said that two weeks went by no response.
Earlier in the interview, I asked, three months.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Ago we made this initial request and we never got
that direct answer.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Is there a reason for that?
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Well, I know you've been making public records requests and
we've been working really expeditiously to get.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And respond to those requests.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
You know, I hope you feel that we are responding
with records pay Frank with.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
You, I haven't felt that way.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
And here's why. Let's go back to January thirteenth of
this year. That's when our first records request was sent
to the California Department of Insurance.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
In the weeks that followed, we checked.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Back again and again and again, each time with specific
questions about a series of international trips. It was more
than a month later when Michael Sahler first responded and
instead of answering what the business purpose was for those trips,
or if any regulatory action came as a result. Our
team got an email of what appeared to be a
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copy and paste of the Commissioner's bio. So we followed
up again twice, in part because the commissioner's former staffer,
a manager who processed these records at CDI and CALIHR,
told us they should be easily accessible.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
The departments having stuff from the cloud, so a lot
of this information is really literally at the touch of
somebody's fingertips.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
But the next day we were told we have conducted
an exhaustive search and found no records of attendance at
these events. Yet we found the Commissioner was pictured at
nearly all of them online on the front of press
releases and all over social media. In some cases, even
his own public schedule at the time noted he was there.
To give Soler the benefit of the doubt, we followed
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up again.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
It was arguably one of the most unproductive email exchanges
I've had with the government agency that campaigns on promises
of transparency. We followed up again and again.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I feel like a broken record here, but.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
Each time the questions very simple what was the business
purpose and what happened as a.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Result, And his last email shared no answer, but this
I'm glad we were able to help you. Fast forward
three weeks later to this interview.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Again.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Our hope was just to try to hear your side.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
Yeah, no, and I really appreciate that, because you know
the the We're going to get back to you with
information about all the folks he's met with here in
California because that's what's driving the changes.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
We never got that yet. He did say.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Every trip has an important business purpose.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Fifteen datas since this interview, we got a response from
Saller asking for an email of the trips, requested a
list we've already provided four times. Instead of identifying the
business purpose for these trips, he wrote, Commissioner Ricardo Latta
has taken a groundbreaking approach to the role of insurance commissioner.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Going on to say he's meeting the moment.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
The detailed email failed to provide any specific regulatory action
that came from these trips.
Speaker 11 (23:58):
It's hard to believe if the thirst dog recommendation that
these trips took place.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
We know they did.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
What's the issue? I mean, we're not playing hide and seek,
I believe, but it seems like somebody is.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
We also have a significant chunk of records that are
missing from our initial request.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Is that something you can help us with?
Speaker 8 (24:14):
Yeah? Absolutely, please reach out to me.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I wasn't aware of that.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
So if there's things that are making sent you several
emails like explaining that, but I'll reforward them to you.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Seven on your side found the Commissioner made at least
forty six trips across the globe since assuming office in
twenty nineteen, but the records provided by his office are
missing receipts and required travel documents from at least thirty
of those trips. State laws, specifically CALHR requires a rigorous
process to get taxpayer funded out of country travel approved,
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including a series of forms that look like this where
the mission critical purpose needs to be identified.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
After our first story aired, we requested those forms again.
Speaker 10 (24:53):
But I just want to be able to hear that
from you. If that is something you could prioritize for us.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Absolutely, yeah, please reach out to me again. We take
this with this record's request, you know, very seriously. We
have a team that works on that so I can
follow up.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Yet we never got them in fact aside from one,
the department only provided records of a handful of trips
that we already had and in some cases stand forwarded
emails showing these records do exist, it failed to attach them.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
That's a great story, and that is Stephanie Sierra from
ABC seven in San Francisco. Does it make you furious?
I mean, we all have insurance problems. The fire insurance
in the state, home insurance, car insurance. Everything's out of
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sight at a sight, expensive, going up dramatically every year,
unaffordable in a lot of cases for a lot of people.
And there seems to be nobody working to help ease
all this pain here.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
A lot of people can't get insurance. A lot of people.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Leather insurance canceled in the Palisades, for example, and in Altadena,
and the fair plan they were dumped into has a
pretty tight cap and it's broke anyway. And while I
was listening to SHARE's report, by the way, the idiot,
the bozo who's the communications Deputy Commissioner of Communications and
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Press Relations, Okay, Michael Solar, that was the guy who
kept spewing nonsense, just generic cliches, pretending that he's helping
and he was lying every time, and I was writing
down the phrases. It's customer service phrases. I appreciate that.
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You know, we want transparency. We'll deal with that expeditiously.
Thank you for reaching out all these lame corporate cliche
words that these little wieners and weasels use. Michael Solar,
you have you have Lara going to Paris, Bogatah, Chile,
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forty six trips and the receipts and records are missing
for thirty of the trips and this is all state law.
And then you had this embarrassing fool, Michael Solar. And
you can look him up s O l l e
r on Insurance dot ca A dot gov. And he's
got an email address there. I'll give it to you.
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You can tell my own press you were Michael Dot
Solar s O l l e r at Insurance dot
ca A dot gov. That's Michael dot Solar, s O
L L E r at Insurance dot ca A dot gov.
Just go to the page and you'll see it, and uh,
just tell him you know what you thought of all
he's mean. Look look at your insurance bill right before
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you write to him. Lara's running a scam. He's flat
out stealing taxpayer money and he's traveling all over the world.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But he's meeting the moment. Yeah, yeah, he did see that.
He said he's beating the moment.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
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Coming up right after three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Well, we have a new contingent that has joined the
battle to make it a felony to buy teenagers for sex.
You know, that's been the big fight in the Assembly
in the last a week or two. The prostitutes showed up,
excuse me, the sex workers. Yes, a group of prostitutes
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showed up to lobby against the bill and they were
immediately taken into chambers by the Assembly lead. We will
give you the details. I'm not making it. It's a
true story. It's from Ashley Zavalla, KCRA and Sacramento. The
it was one of two reporters that covers Sacramento government
in the entire state none here in La. All right,
(29:16):
do you have any knee problems? No?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And there's a reason you don't I found out today. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
This study is published in os dr Arthritis and Cartilage,
and it found out that, uh, they just looked at
people in their thirties, average age thirty three, and nearly
two thirds already had cartilage damage or bone damage. Two
thirds and a lot of them aren't even feeling knee
pain yet. But they discovered that the knee decay starts
(29:47):
real early and then eventually you feel it, and you know,
they looked at two hundred and eighty eight people MRI scans. Uh,
sixty percent were women, average age thirty three, and they
found out the main reason they're too fat. Too much
weight on the body and it pounds and pounds and
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pounds on. Yeah, that's right, that's why you don't have
any new problems because you eate eighty nine pounds and
it wears away your cartilage, It creates bone marrow, lesions,
it creates what they call small bone growths called osteophytes.
(30:29):
You get, you get, you get like like or extra
bone growth, which could be painful. And primarily it goes
back to just eating too much. You're too fat, because
there's only so much, so much abuse that your your
system can take. Yeah, so if your knees are bothering you,
(30:49):
it's not because you played too much tennis. It's not
because it's an old football injury. Well, if you'ny, if
you're skinny, then it may be that you play too
much tennis. Right, you have worn it out, but barring
an extensive athletic career, just the food. Put the fork
down for a minute, give your knees a break. When
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we come back. Yes, the prostitutes have shown up, and boy,
those assembly members were happy to meet them.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
The meeting is still going on. It started last night.
They haven't come out yet. Debra Mark is live in
the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
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We are on the air every day Monday through Friday
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missed coming up in a few minutes. There's a story
this week that came out of San Francisco. Yes, funny.
There's one reporter in Sacramento at kcr A TV, Ashley's Valla,
who covers the legislature really well, and she has been
breaking a lot of news about that pedophile vote they've
(00:50):
been having for the last week. In fact, she's got
another story and we're going to talk about that later
in the hour. But there's also a really good reporter
in sam in Francisco at ABC seven, Stephanie Sierra. Now
these are statewide stories. We don't have a single Los
Angeles based reporter that covers Sacramento government. We don't even
(01:13):
have anybody that covers it badly. We just don't have
any None of the television stations in town right, two, four, five, seven, nine,
eleven that weird Spectrum TV. Are they still doing COVID
stories on Spectrum? My friend and I called the COVID
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channel because ninety nine times out of one hundred for
several years, odds are if you turn on the Spectrum channel,
you got your latest COVID update. So they don't cover Sacramento.
Nobody covers Sacramento. La Times doesn't. Yeah, look at the
La Times, clostly they have they have zero news that
they generate themselves. But Stephanie Sierra reports for ABC seven
(01:59):
in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And remember Ricarda.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Lara, she did a lot on her. We did a lot.
She did a lot on him, and so did we.
Riccardo Lara is the insurance commissioner who has completely effed
up the insurance industry in the state. Virtually everybody I
know is angry with their insurance coverage. If they can
even get insurance coverage, it's extremely expensive. In a lot
of cases, it doesn't exist anymore. And chaces back to
(02:24):
Riccardo Lara, who's done this. I wouldn't even call it
a half assed job. He travels around. He's taken dozens
of trips, many of them on taxpayer expense, just to
enjoy himself. Famously, he went to Bermuda for a fifteen
minute speech when he was supposed to attend to hearing
in Sacramento on this insurance disaster. So Stephanie Sierra has
(02:47):
a new report because they're looking through records about his
travel and they cannot get any comment or information out
of Riccardo Lara and the staff. This is what Bass
does down here. They just stonewall everybody and they hope
you get bored and you wander away, and then they
continue with either their incompetence, their stupidity, or their corruption.
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So that'll come up in a little bit now. Speaking
of incompetence and stupidity, we got Gavin Newsom. You know,
Trump's only been in office for four months, not even
and they're already doing a lot of polling on who
the next president might be in twenty twenty eight. And
(03:33):
it shows you how instead of going to Sacramento and
covering the pedophile caucus, or going to Sacramento and finding
out why Cardilara is stealing so much of our tax
money so we could travel travel. They run endless polls
and endless stories on how unpopular Gaven Newsom is, and
(03:53):
they got another one. This is the La Times and
U see Berkeley. They found that most California voters believe
by a more than two to one margin that Newsom
is more interested in campaigning for the White House than
doing anything to fix California's problems. As a pretty stunning poll,
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I mean, it's an almost total rejection. Fifty four percent
of all voters in California believe that Newsom is doing
things that will benefit him as a possible candidate for president.
Only twenty six percent of voters think he's governing the
state and helping to solve its problems. Twenty six percent,
(04:39):
So three quarters of voters don't think he's doing anything
to help the state. That one quarter I'd like to
I'd like to talk to. They're probably the same kind
of people who were applauding Joe Biden's cognitive decline, and
they view clip we played last hour.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
In fact, h.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Only forty one percent Democrats think he's governing the state
to solve its problems. You got, you got sixty percent
of Democrats who think he's either running for governor, a
running for president, or has no particular opinion. His approval
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rating is at forty six percent. His disapproval rating is
also forty six percent. I don't know what you would
approve him for. What is the up arrow? Six years
of Gavin Newsom? Tell me what's better? Is it homelessness?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Is it crime? Is it high speed rail?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Was it the way he handled COVID locking down the
schools for a year and a half. Was it handling
the homeless money that twenty four billion that disappeared? Was
it handling the unemployment money during COVID that fifty billion
that disappeared? Tell you what it's? The up era budget
is way out of whack. Budget's thirty seven billion in
(06:04):
the red at least. So like for people who approve
of him, what are you approving of exactly? You don't
also notice? This is to me, this is media biz
all times when they run photos of him, they run
a photo of him from about five years ago where
he looks younger and his hair is dark, and they
don't run photos he's now turning gray and white, and
(06:26):
he's starting to getting a little wrinkly and JOWI like.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The bloom is the bloom is off.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
He's starting to wilt, But they don't publish photos of
him wilted. They still publish the old photos of him
looking young and virile and dynamic divity to speaking of,
I should read that email you sent me. Debra got
an email from a listener. Let me see.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm not going to give his name because it could
be embarrassing, but he wrote here, debor Mark, I'm a
longtime listener. I often hear John refer to Gavin Newsom
as good looking because of his quote air and chin line.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, I'm a man that likes men. Gavin Newsom is gross.
And then he put the vomit emoji. I've never seen that.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Oh, you've never seen that, imoments.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I've never seen the vomit emoji. You know, it's one
of those little yellow smiley guys and he's got his
mouth open and there's green vomit pouring out of it.
I didn't know what that was at first. Part of
what makes somewhat attractive his personality and Gavin Newsom is
one hundred percent lacking. I can't find an email address.
For John Coblt anymore. And there's a reason for that.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
You know, I'm your secretary.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I can't tell you how many messages I get?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Can you send this to John?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Can you tell John?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
People ask me, so, how did the audience react? I said,
I have no idea how to react. I don't think
phone calls. I don't read emails, no text messages, nothing.
All right, Uh, you got the moistline I got. We
got the more moistline I can take because that's funny.
Five minutes to six minutes of the moistline. I'm fine
for the week. He writes, Could you please share with
(08:14):
him that Gavin Newsom is not good looking and that
this is from a qualified professional. He's professionally he's a
man professionally interested in other men. Yeah, and I love
and support your animal interest. That was to me, Well, yeah,
I think follow he should support my animals.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
You have more animals than I do. That is that
is very true. But look, I mean, looks are so subjective.
I mean, we know that so many people find Gavin
Newsom attractive.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
You talk about that all the time.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
That's why this guy wrote you. So he happens to
think he's gross because of his personality, you know, to
each his own.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Uh I just I just he's like just so off
putting in in his slickness. Yes, and now that he's
changing all his positions to try to position himself for
the presidency, it's so obvious, there's nothing subtle.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well, what happens when gas goes to eight bucks a gallon?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
How's he going to run on that?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You would think?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
In fact, I got to play that clip too, because
Channel seven finally covered that story. Sometimes I feel like
I'm a howling loon in the wilderness and I'm the
only one carrying on about something that's really really important,
like gas is going to be almost eight fifty a
gallon within a year or a year and a half.
It's like, really nobody else in the media is interested.
(09:38):
But Channel seven ran a short story. But at least
they ran something, and they had a clip of Michael
MChE On, the professor at USC who's done all the research.
Well we come back. What I was getting to is
there are a lot of Democrats across the country that
are not sold on Newsome. They think there are other
(09:59):
better care. It's come twenty twenty eight, and there's one
really funny one. He's the former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman.
He's a former state senator. He's been involved in presidential
politics for decades. His name is Dick Harputlian and his
opinion of Gaven Newsom from South Carolina is a crackup.
(10:21):
So we'll do that next, and we'll also we'll play
about the clip on the gas prices that Channel seven
is finally covering.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It's a real thing, people. It's not just.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Seven bucks a gallon by the end of this year. Yes, yes, yes,
six bucks sorry, six bucks and then eight bucks.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah. So it's all bad. Wherever it actually lands, it's
all bad. And the thing is it has to be
that high because of what's happening. You've got two refineries closing,
and you have the sixty five cent price increase because
of the California Air Resources Board. So it must happen.
It's not a wild eyed estimate. This is the way
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it's going. By design. They want this to happen.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
You know, I feel sorry for Gavin Newsom because he
was one of these It's one of these little irritating
Wiener kids. I'm sure he was a Wiener kid. Who
you know, he idolized Robert F. Kennedy when he was
very young, and he all he can think about all
his life is he wants to be president. And and
now he's so thoroughly efed up California that everybody's laughing
(11:32):
at him, even a lot of Democrats around the country
are laughing at him. And if you're just joining us there,
there's a new poll out which says that California voters,
by a fifty four to twenty six margin, thinks that
he's more focused on winning the White House than fixing
all the problems here. And he's got a relatively low
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approval rating of forty six percent. His disapproval rating is
forty six percent. And I know this may come as
a shock for those of you who are in love
with his dreamy eyes and his slick hair. But that
hair is not looking so good anymore. Looking it's looking
like dishwater gray, whitish.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
You know, there's a double standard, John for women when
their hair looks like that, people don't like it. Men
it looks distinguished, some say.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Some say not on him, though, I think he was
such a pretty boy like you know, like George Clooney.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It really worked well for him because I saw him
the other day. He's doing to play in New York.
We had to dye his hair, and he does look
a lot better silver than it does with a dyed
dark brown look. But do some I don't know, he's
looking worn, looking haggard.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Maybe he's going to dye his hair.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He's going to hear you and he's going to go seriously,
you're going to see him with dyed hair.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
That's what I want to go to him into. Yeah,
some other governors are much more popular in their states.
Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania's fifty nine percent, Kentucky's
Andy Bisheer Basher excuse me sixty eight percent, and Gretchen
Whitm of Michigan fifty four percent, and they're all rumored
to be major candidates for Democrat voters in the primary
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twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Newsom.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Newsom is when you actually look at national polls, he
doesn't have much of a following. It's like three percent
because a lot of people don't know him, and those
who do know him think he's mistakes. He's no good
because they see all the news coming out of California.
Here is one of those opinions. Dick car Harputlian is
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a former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman and state senator.
He's been involved in presidential politics for decades and South
Carolina is one of the big early primaries. South Carolina
was the state that saved Joe Biden's rear end and
cornel La times Harpoutlan has little good to say about
(13:53):
Newsom or his twenty twenty eight chances. I think Gavin
Newsom is what all of us think of when we
think of a slick, wealthy California playboy kind of guy.
I mean, his hair is perfectly quaffed, his shoes are
shiny and probably Italian. Many of us remember during COVID
(14:15):
when he was telling everybody not to go out and
he was having a fabulous dinner at the French laundry
in Napa. I just think he's out of touch with
the blue collar folks. We need to get back to
the Democratic Party, and California's not a good place to
come from anyway. Marputlian said they've got a huge homeless population.
The ten cities budget deficit, taxes that are quote so
(14:37):
freaking high. This is a Democrat. It's not a model
the rest of the country wants to follow. So what's
poor Gavin gonna do when he goes when he goes splack,
he'll be like Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
He'll run.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And if he makes it to January of twenty twenty eight,
the primary, he's two three states, he's done. You know,
he'll be getting five eight percent of the vote and
then his life is over. There was no other purpose
of having to become president. And that silly wife of his,
she's auditioning for First Lady. I saw a story on
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her the other day. She's got all the moves down.
She wants to be first Lady so bad. Now here's
something that is going to further sink him.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I don't know how he gets out of this.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
The Phillip sixty six refinery in Los Angeles is closing
this October, that's what five months away, and then Valero
has a Benetia refinery closing in April of twenty twenty six,
less than a year from now. Those two refineries being
taken out of business, and the sixty five cent price
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increase from the California Air Resources board. Whatever the gas
price is now, it could be up seven by the
end of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Here's a report from Channel seven.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Mad But we could soon be paying more for gas.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, California.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
A University of Southern California professor says that could be
the case if two refineries close in our state. Phillip
sixty six refinery and Wilmington could close by the end
of the year, which would put push gas prices to
above six dollars. And then if the Valero refinery in
the Bay Area closes by the end of the next year,
that could send prices soaring to nine dollars a.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Gallon a reduction in supply relatively stable demand.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
In more layering on of legislative costs, price is going
to go up.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
To compensate for the closures, California would have to import
gas from either the Gulf, China, South Korea, or Malaysia.
Doing so would only add to the costs. In response
to the expected closures, Governor Newsom has directed the state
to intensify collaboration with refineries to maintain a stable and
affordable gasoline.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Sir, fineries are closing, there's nothing news can do collaboration
with refiners. They're closing, they're going in that business, they're
shutting down, they're not processing oil anymore. I mean, I'm
glad Channel seven covered the story for what fifty nine seconds?
But do you realize how bad it is when you
take twenty percent of the refinery capacity out of the
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marketplace and you had sixty five cents from this stupid
California Air Resources Board. That voice you heard in the
middle of the story was Michael mcche the professor from
USC who we've had on a couple of times. He
is projecting gas to be about eight dollars and forty
three cents in a year and a half. Eight forty
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three in Mississippi. You can get it for two sixty four.
Eric saw two thirty nine in Austin, Texas just over
the weekend. I paid myself in Florida, and we're looking
at eight forty three here. I want to see Gavin
Newsom run for president with eight forty three gallon per gas.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
In his state?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
What he is so he wants it so badly, but
he's so self destructive. He joined that stupid global warming cult,
the climate change cult, and now he's stuck idiot. Why
are we run by idiots? Why? All right, we come back.
We're gonna get the full story on how much tax
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money Ricardo Lauer, our idiot insurance commissioner, is wasting on
his travel.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
We're on every day from one until four and then
after four o'clock John Cobelts Show on demand on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh, we're gonna play now. Forgot what we were doing here.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
There is a reporter up in San Francisco for ABC
seven named Stephanie Sierra, and she's been doing a series
of reports on the insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, who has
been looting the taxpayers thousands and thousands of dollars, going
on dozens and dozens of trips just to have a
good time. I mean, you know, there's usually some well
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in Bermuda. Best example, he gave a fifteen minute speech
and he went off to Bermuda and had a good
time and spent our money and didn't show up at
a hearing to discuss the ongoing insurance disaster that we're
having in this state with the legislature. So here's the
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latest installment from Stephanie Sierra.
Speaker 10 (19:42):
As you know Michael, for months now, we've been trying
to get answers as to the business purpose for the
commissioner's international taxpayer funded travel. We've yet to get a
direct answer from your office with our specific questions, why
is that well.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lada is a national leader, He's.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
A global leader.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
This is California Insurance and Commissioner Ricardo Latta's Deputy Commissioner
of Communications, Michael Soller, a staffer we've been emailing over
the past year while struggling to get answers about the
state's insurance crisis, including most recently, why the commissioner was
absent for nearly all the Senate insurance hearings since assuming
office while traveling abroad or cross country.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Or while the business purpose.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
For nearly a dozen all inclusive tax pay funded trips
to places like Paris, Bogata, and reportedly Chile has yet
to be made public.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
This was last month.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Oh, I'll provide you a complete list. Every single trip
has a business purpose and it's led to really having
a full picture of what's happening.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
These are documents that are held within the department that
should be easily accessible.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
I appreciate that, and we do take this to the
process of transparency and public records really, really, really seriously.
We want to make sure that we're answering a question
we're not.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'll certainly follow up on that.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
We reached out out not once, not twice, but three
times since Sawler said that two weeks went by no response.
Earlier in the interview, I asked, three months.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Ago we made this initial request and we never got
that direct answer.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Is there a reason for that?
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Well, I know you've been making public records requests and
we've been working really expeditiously to get.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And respond to those requests.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
You know, I hope you feel that we are responding
with records pay Frank with.
Speaker 10 (21:27):
You, I haven't felt that way.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
And here's why. Let's go back to January thirteenth of
this year. That's when our first records request was sent
to the California Department of Insurance.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
In the weeks that followed, we checked.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Back again and again and again, each time with specific
questions about a series of international trips. It was more
than a month later when Michael Sahler first responded and
instead of answering what the business purpose was for those trips,
or if any regulatory action came as a result. Our
team got an email of what appeared to be a
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copy and paste of the Commissioner's bio. So we followed
up again twice, in part because the commissioner's former staffer,
a manager who processed these records at CDI and CALIHR,
told us they should be easily accessible.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
The departments having stuff from the cloud, so a lot
of this information is really literally at the touch of
somebody's fingertips.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
But the next day we were told we have conducted
an exhaustive search and found no records of attendance at
these events. Yet we found the Commissioner was pictured at
nearly all of them online on the front of press
releases and all over social media. In some cases, even
his own public schedule at the time noted he was there.
To give Soler the benefit of the doubt, we followed
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up again.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
It was arguably one of the most unproductive email exchanges
I've had with the government agency that campaigns on promises
of transparency. We followed up again and again.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I feel like a broken record here, but.
Speaker 12 (22:55):
Each time the questions very simple what was the business
purpose and what happened as a.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Result, And his last email shared no answer, but this
I'm glad we were able to help you. Fast forward
three weeks later to this interview.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Again.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Our hope was just to try to hear your side.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
Yeah, no, and I really appreciate that, because you know
the the We're going to get back to you with
information about all the folks he's met with here in
California because that's what's driving the changes.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
We never got that yet. He did say.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Every trip has an important business purpose.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Fifteen datas since this interview, we got a response from
Saller asking for an email of the trips, requested a
list we've already provided four times. Instead of identifying the
business purpose for these trips, he wrote, Commissioner Ricardo Latta
has taken a groundbreaking approach to the role of insurance commissioner.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Going on to say he's meeting the moment.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
The detailed email failed to provide any specific regulatory action
that came from these trips.
Speaker 11 (23:58):
It's hard to believe if the thirst dog recommendation that
these trips took place.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
We know they did.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
What's the issue? I mean, we're not playing hide and seek,
I believe, but it seems like somebody is.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
We also have a significant chunk of records that are
missing from our initial request.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Is that something you can help us with?
Speaker 8 (24:14):
Yeah? Absolutely, please reach out to me.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I wasn't aware of that.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
So if there's things that are making sent you several
emails like explaining that, but I'll reforward them to you.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Seven on your side found the Commissioner made at least
forty six trips across the globe since assuming office in
twenty nineteen, but the records provided by his office are
missing receipts and required travel documents from at least thirty
of those trips. State laws, specifically CALHR requires a rigorous
process to get taxpayer funded out of country travel approved,
(24:42):
including a series of forms that look like this where
the mission critical purpose needs to be identified.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
After our first story aired, we requested those forms again.
Speaker 10 (24:53):
But I just want to be able to hear that
from you. If that is something you could prioritize for us.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Absolutely, yeah, please reach out to me again. We take
this with this record's request, you know, very seriously. We
have a team that works on that so I can
follow up.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Yet we never got them in fact aside from one,
the department only provided records of a handful of trips
that we already had and in some cases stand forwarded
emails showing these records do exist, it failed to attach them.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
That's a great story, and that is Stephanie Sierra from
ABC seven in San Francisco. Does it make you furious?
I mean, we all have insurance problems. The fire insurance
in the state, home insurance, car insurance. Everything's out of
(25:43):
sight at a sight, expensive, going up dramatically every year,
unaffordable in a lot of cases for a lot of people.
And there seems to be nobody working to help ease
all this pain here.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
A lot of people can't get insurance. A lot of people.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Leather insurance canceled in the Palisades, for example, and in Altadena,
and the fair plan they were dumped into has a
pretty tight cap and it's broke anyway. And while I
was listening to SHARE's report, by the way, the idiot,
the bozo who's the communications Deputy Commissioner of Communications and
(26:23):
Press Relations, Okay, Michael Solar, that was the guy who
kept spewing nonsense, just generic cliches, pretending that he's helping
and he was lying every time, and I was writing
down the phrases. It's customer service phrases. I appreciate that.
(26:43):
You know, we want transparency. We'll deal with that expeditiously.
Thank you for reaching out all these lame corporate cliche
words that these little wieners and weasels use. Michael Solar,
you have you have Lara going to Paris, Bogatah, Chile,
(27:04):
forty six trips and the receipts and records are missing
for thirty of the trips and this is all state law.
And then you had this embarrassing fool, Michael Solar. And
you can look him up s O l l e
r on Insurance dot ca A dot gov. And he's
got an email address there. I'll give it to you.
(27:27):
You can tell my own press you were Michael Dot
Solar s O l l e r at Insurance dot
ca A dot gov. That's Michael dot Solar, s O
L L E r at Insurance dot ca A dot gov.
Just go to the page and you'll see it, and uh,
just tell him you know what you thought of all
he's mean. Look look at your insurance bill right before
(27:49):
you write to him. Lara's running a scam. He's flat
out stealing taxpayer money and he's traveling all over the world.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But he's meeting the moment. Yeah, yeah, he did see that.
He said he's beating the moment.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
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Speaker 1 (28:27):
Coming up right after three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Well, we have a new contingent that has joined the
battle to make it a felony to buy teenagers for sex.
You know, that's been the big fight in the Assembly
in the last a week or two. The prostitutes showed up,
excuse me, the sex workers. Yes, a group of prostitutes
(28:52):
showed up to lobby against the bill and they were
immediately taken into chambers by the Assembly lead. We will
give you the details. I'm not making it. It's a
true story. It's from Ashley Zavalla, KCRA and Sacramento. The
it was one of two reporters that covers Sacramento government
in the entire state none here in La. All right,
(29:16):
do you have any knee problems? No?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And there's a reason you don't I found out today. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
This study is published in os dr Arthritis and Cartilage,
and it found out that, uh, they just looked at
people in their thirties, average age thirty three, and nearly
two thirds already had cartilage damage or bone damage. Two
thirds and a lot of them aren't even feeling knee
pain yet. But they discovered that the knee decay starts
(29:47):
real early and then eventually you feel it, and you know,
they looked at two hundred and eighty eight people MRI scans. Uh,
sixty percent were women, average age thirty three, and they
found out the main reason they're too fat. Too much
weight on the body and it pounds and pounds and
(30:07):
pounds on. Yeah, that's right, that's why you don't have
any new problems because you eate eighty nine pounds and
it wears away your cartilage, It creates bone marrow, lesions,
it creates what they call small bone growths called osteophytes.
(30:29):
You get, you get, you get like like or extra
bone growth, which could be painful. And primarily it goes
back to just eating too much. You're too fat, because
there's only so much, so much abuse that your your
system can take. Yeah, so if your knees are bothering you,
(30:49):
it's not because you played too much tennis. It's not
because it's an old football injury. Well, if you'ny, if
you're skinny, then it may be that you play too
much tennis. Right, you have worn it out, but barring
an extensive athletic career, just the food. Put the fork
down for a minute, give your knees a break. When
(31:10):
we come back. Yes, the prostitutes have shown up, and boy,
those assembly members were happy to meet them.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
The meeting is still going on. It started last night.
They haven't come out yet. Debra Mark is live in
the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
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