March 13, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (03/13) - CA State Assemblyman Tom Lackey comes on the show to talk about a press conference held today by Assembly Republicans about Prop 36 not being funded. More on the problems with not funding Prop 36. Kamala Harris's latest word salad.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Today is a star studded day coming up after two o'clock,
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we're going to have Stephen Klubeck on. Stephen Klubeck is
running for governor as a Democrat, but not the Gavin
Newsome kind of democrat. Klubec is a very successful businessman
and I'll go through what he's accomplished in life later on,
but he's definitely someone you ought to listen to. He's
got really definite strong ideas and it's a far better
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path than what we're on now with the Gavit Dusom
and possibly Kamala Harris. Oh, by the way, it's a
special treat just to set up Steve Kluebeck. Eric, have
the Kamala Harris' latest Word Salid edition ready. We'll play
it right before the two o'clock news, because I think
it's one of her best, and I just want you
to imagine her for the next four to eight years
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speaking to us as California governor. And then we'll talk
to Steve Klubec and make that kind of contrast. And
after three o'clock Congressman Kevin Kyleie formerly in the California Legislature,
now he's in Washington, d C. And he is publicly
asking that the FBI investigate high speed rail because we
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don't have any rail, we don't have any electricity on
the rail, and we have their trains and nobody's going
high speed. The whole thing is a complete fraud, sham,
a disaster. I've been saying for ten years there should
be criminal investigations here, and there should be criminal investigations
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because when you have thirteen billion dollars disappear and nothing
to show for it, it means people stole money willingly, knowingly.
All right, we'll get to that, but first, I guess
this was inevitable. The good people in California, seventy percent
of them past Prop thirty six in November. You remember
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Prop thirty six. It was going to make theft illegal again,
make public drug use illegal again, create crimes for Fentanyel
because actually there weren't many against it, and part of
the deal was, for example, if you are convicted after
the third time of a drug crime, you must go
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to prison unless you go to drug treatment. Well, to
have drug treatment programs to service all the public drug addicts,
you need money. And it turns out the Democrats and
are not funding any of these programs because they don't
even want to treat the drug addicts. They don't want
them in prison, they don't want drug treatment. I guess
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they want him to die in the street. I don't know.
We're going to talk to a republic assimilately in Tom
Lackey about all this. Tom, Welcome to the show again.
How are you.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm doing well. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Explain what the Democrats are not funding so people understand
what the gap here is in getting this thing fully implemented.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, they're not funding the aspects demanded by Prop thirty six.
And clearly the governor feels like he knows better than
all of our California voters because he's completely ignoring the
voice of the people by not funding these programs associated
with Prop thirty six. And it was a glaring omission
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that we brought to the attention. I happen to be
on the Budget Committee and brought it to their attention,
and all they did was dance around my questions. They
were unable to address the specific questions that I had
posed to them. And we'll continue to push this issue,
but it's clear that they have no intention at this
point point of funding Prop thirty six. But there's been
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some pushback also by some fellow Democratic colleagues, so I
think we might have a chance to have some positive
energy added to this whole dismissal of Prop thirty six.
I think obviously there was a clear mandate for the
people from the people to accomplish this, and he may
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try to escape it at this point, but I don't
think he's going to be successful in not funding it.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Why don't they want the drug addicts treated? I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, I don't understand either. I will tell you that
I've been up here now for ten years, and they're
very good at dancing around answering questions in a direct way,
and they also are kind of comfortable with hypocrisy, and
so when you have those two elements, it makes difficult,
it makes it difficult to negotiate, so you can't.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Have a normal converse. You can't have a normal conversation
with them.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That's unfortunately a in many circumstances. I don't want to
characterize all Democrats as crazy, because they're not. But some
of them just need to be encouraged to know that
they have the people behind them, and I think we
can get them to move, at least enough of them
to move, because some of them, just like all politics,
they're not reachable. So most are at least to some degree.
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And I think we got to work with these people
because Prop thirty six was clearly a mandate given from
the people, and they're not going to be able to
get away with not funding it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Was What was the language in Prop thirty six, Like,
did it set up specific programs? Did it did it
say it require funding? I mean, I mean what's the
what are the.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Specific funding I mean? And the language of Prop thirty
six it's very specific in outlining the course of the
legislature in the future, and when you don't fund it,
it can't happen. So it's a clearer dismissal of the
will of the people. So we're able to push this
and we'll continue to do this because we're still early
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in the budget process and it's already from the very
beginning we pointed it out that this is not going
to be successful.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No, I mean no, there ought to be another reason
for a major revolt when you have something past seventy
to thirty and it's a major referendum. This is a
major issue. All the theft, right, all the crime that
was allowed to run amok all this time, all the
suffering going on in the streets, not only the drug addicts,
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but everybody else that had to put up with all
the aberrant violent behavior of the drug addicts, and then
the fentanel. Do you have to say anything more about fentanyl?
I mean, it's killing one hundred thousand Americans a year,
many of them teenagers. We've had a number of parents
on this show whose teenagers died of fentinyl poisoning. I mean,
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I it's indisputable that people wanted this changed, and it's
obvious that they had to fund drug treatment centers as
an example.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, clearly, the impetus behind Pop forty seven and fifty
seven was that we were being too harsh and punishing
people that had addictions. And we understand that to a degree,
but what we've seen is ignoring it and feeding the
problem makes it worse and puts other people in jeopardy.
And so now what we did by proposition thirty six
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is say that we're going to mandate treatment and these
people that have these problems have to be pushed into treatment.
They're not going to voluntarily take care of it. And
that's what the myth was to forty seven and fifty seven,
is that people would, just if given the opportunity, would
take that path that proved to be very mythical and
did not happen. And so I mean, we're trying to
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use reason, right, Let's just use reason.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, reason, I know that's well. I had Matt Mayhon
on the show yesterday. He's the Democratic mayor of San
Jose and he's going down a similar path as you
are preaching, in that after three offers of help to
a homeless person, the next time, you're going to be
forced into a shelter. And if you don't go, you
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might be arrested and you might go to jail, or
you'll go before a judge and the judge will direct
you to some kind of mental health or drug treatment.
I mean there are some Democrats that are waking up
and they want to clean up their cities and clean
up their districts.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, because sympathy only goes so far when you're proven
time and time again that you're a threat to yourself.
Someone has to act in your interest. And that's all
we're trying to do here is to be good stewards
of accountability.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So you think there are enough Democrats out there who
will start considering this. It doesn't seem like this should
be an ideological issue. It just seems obvious. You put
them into drug treatment, they avoid jail, which is what
usually gets the Democrats all wigged out. Okay, they're avoiding jail,
they're going into drug treatment. Drug treatment takes a while.
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You have to fund it, I mean, don't. I really
don't understand the opposition unless you're in favor of people
dying in the streets. What possibly could be their opposition
to this?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, you got to remember at this point it's just
the governor's opposition, right, and so now the work is
still ahead of us. I'm not saying this is an
easy sell because we have people that are very loyal.
They're more loyal to the governor elected positions, but.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
He's running around renouncing some of the most progressive policies.
Right he's doing these podcasts with conservative activists, and he's saying, yeah,
you're right, you know, we shouldn't have men playing women's sports. Yeah,
we should be enough with the pronouns and this and that. Well,
I mean, why not this one. This one's got at
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least seventy percent support, probably more in the state. Why
wouldn't he bend on this? Why would he be against
drug treatment for these addicts.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You're asking me to defend this guy. That's not I'm
not in the position to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I just thought, maybe you hear stuff, maybe you know,
people talk gossip, like what's wrong with him? Why wouldn't
he do this?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, because it all has to do with the way
he's trying to package himself right now. And now I
think he's he's focused on things other than just governing California. Yeah,
and so, but he's got to realize that this ignoring
Proposition thirty six is not going to be acceptable. And
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it's up to those of us who are in the
legislature to remind everybody, because I think everybody is pretty
much aware of the outcome and the voters will on
this front. And so I have to believe that after
pushing and pushing, that we're going to get this funded
and to what degree, I don't know. It better be
fully funded.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Still exists that battle will still be a challenge in
the days ahead.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
All Right, Tom, you did good work. Come on the
show anytime, and if you're not getting any progress, let's
talk about this again as often as we have to.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah. I appreciate you paying attention, and please continue to
do that because the battle is not over, not even close.
But I don't think he's going to get away with
this and it's up to us to push.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
All Right, Tom Lackey, the assemblement, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
All right. Just absolutely baffling. Why why wouldn't you fund
drug treatment programs for people who otherwise would die on
the street, especially after seventy percent of the state demanded
it and it passed in that proposition after three chances
if you're picked up for drug use, then you go
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to jail or you go to drug treatment, but they
don't fund the drug treat all right, we got more
coming up.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
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Speaker 1 (12:07):
Follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at
John Cobelt Radio. And we are going to have Stephen
Klubeck on after two o'clock on the show. Stephen Klubeck
is a very successful businessman and he is running for
governor as a Democrat in twenty twenty six. And if
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you're not familiar with him, he has had a very
impressive life, a lot of success, and he's got a
lot of strong opinions on what needs to be done
to try to fix the colossal mess that California is in.
So this is someone you want to listen to. Stephen
Klubeck coming up after two o'clock. And we just finished
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talking with Tom Lackey. He's a Republican assemblyman the Assembly.
Republicans had an event today with law enforcement leaders vic
them his rights advocates. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats in
the legislature are undermining Prop thirty six, one of the
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and it's inexplicable why because more than anything else, the
Democrats hate people going to prison, and they were angry
with Prop thirty six because prison is an option if
after three times you're caught for stealing, you go to prison.
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After three times you're caught for drug use, you can
go to prison. Now. Remember this is after getting three freebies.
This is the fourth time you've been caught. Then maybe
you'll go to prison on the drug offenses, or you
can take rehab. Now, to me, this is a wonderful compromise.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Me.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I'd throw everybody in prison for ten years the first
time they stole something.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Me.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
First time you get caught with drugs, it's rehab or prison.
I'd go Singapore, Saudi Arabia. They don't have these problems.
There's going to Singapore. No, we don't say when because
we don't want to say what. But she's terrified because
odds are she's going to violate some Uh I'm gonna
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keep my mouth shut. Yeah sure, uh so we'll set
up and go fund me for you. But no, really,
I am because they're really tough and strict and they
don't have these problems, and that's all I'm interested in.
I don't want these problems. I don't want to have
to worry about being broken into and have things stolen.
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I don't want to play poop p hop scotch. I
don't want to have to deal with drug addicts laying
in the road. And that's not an exaggeration. It happened
even in my neighborhood. They were laying in the road
at a homeless encampment that nobody wanted to clean up,
not very far from my house. So I've lived this.
I don't care anymore, but I'm open to compromise. And
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to me, the fourth time you get caught, yeah, you
go to jail or you go to drug treatment. Now,
for some reason, Gavin Newsom, by the way, he is
so full of horse veces because he's running. He's had
three of these podcasts meeting with these conservative activist types
and he's trying to pretend he agrees with them on
some of the stuff. But you have to stop and
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look at his policies here in California. He hasn't changed
a single policy. He hasn't moved an inch on a
single policy. Nobody really gives a crap about the transgender stuff.
It's kind of annoying, but it doesn't really affect your life.
Nobody really cares about the pronoun nonsense. It's annoying, but
it doesn't affect your life. You know what, affects your
life whether drug addicts are taken off the street for
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good and if they're treated, because that'll keep them off
the street for good, that don't keep him out to
jail for good. So part of Prop thirty six is
you have to fund the treatment, and they just won't.
I'll give you an example. San Francisco sheriff's officials said
they reopened two dormitories at one of the city jails
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because there's an eight percent increase in inmates right because
they're arresting from Prop thirty six. They have a guy
named Kunal Mody. He's the new chief of Health, Homelessness,
and Family Services, and he wrote on x that treatment
capacity is one of the major challenges. It has a
program to try to improve conditions on Sixth Street, and
oh my god, I've been on Sixth Street San Francisco.
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Holy moly, that is an outdoor zoo. I've never seen
so many drug addicts stumbling in the streets, sent in laddics.
They're all bent over and they're wobbling, and they block
all the lanes of traffic. We got stuck in traffic
on Sixth Street a couple of years ago, absolutely terrified.
But he said, we ran out of shelter and treatment
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big capacity every day and it was hard to get
them to complete their treatment programs because of the lack
of money, the lack of personnel. At the same time,
there's a study published in a medical journal, the Journal
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of a jama I forgot what that stands for, but
it's a big medical journal, and one of the findings
was that many drug addicts twenty percent told the researchers
they're actively seeking drug treatment and couldn't get it. These
are the people who want to get off the drugs,
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who want treatment, and they're all frustrated. The respondents say,
I'm showing up where they tell me to show up,
calling where they tell me to call, and then they
only get turned away. And only seven percent of lifetime
only seven percent of drug addicts said they were received treatment.
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And for some reason, the state the county never wants
to build and fund and staff the treatment centers. Actually,
to be fair, part of Prop forty seven was to
create treatment, but they never funded it, they never built it.
And I don't understand this. Why is Gavin Newsom against
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funding drug treatment for homeless people. Any person with common
sense knows that dealing with drug addicts and mental patients
in the street is very difficult to get them to
do what you want them to do. So you got
to have a hammer. That's why I had Matt Mayhonah
on the show yesterday in San Jose. He's a Democrat,
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but he's willing to use the hammer if necessary. Fourth
time you get approached about your homelessness, you have to
go into shelter or you're going to be arrested and
then sent for a judge, and the judge will decide
whether you go to jail or you go to some
kind of treatment situation. You got to do that with
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the mental patience. You got to do that with a
drug addicts. You got to do that with the homeless period.
You have to force them eventually and you give him
a choice jail or the treatment. But you have to
build the treatment centers and fund them. That's what the
tax money should go for. If you're paying for cradle
the grave, illegal illegal alien health care, how about paying
for all the American citizens that are whacked out on
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these drugs. Oh man, that's right. Newsom is such a
gold plated phony to the bone. He's such a fake.
I don't believe all these freaking podcasts he's doing all
this nonsense where he's giggling like a teenager. Actually change
one of your failing destructive policies. All right, Remember Steve
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Klubeck coming up after two o'clock. He's running for governor
as a Democrat, and he's got some pretty uh specific
ideas and what ought to be done in the state.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from kf I
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart App. All right, as I've been telling you, I
have Stephen Klubeck coming on after two o'clock. Stephen Klubeck
at a very successful businessman here in California. He's running
for governor as a Democrat. He has a lot of
strong opinions on how to clean up the California mess.
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Quite different from a progressive like Gavin Newsom. Stephen Klubec
is coming on after two o'clock. You're gonna want to
You're going to want to hear him. And next segment,
in order to provide a contrast with another leading candidate
for governor, we're gonna run the We played this a
couple of days ago, Kamala Harris's latest public appearance and
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about dorrit Us. It's about to rid Us and the
oscars and the Oscars, n ai Right and affordable housing,
and she tied it all together beautifully. If you haven't
heard this, you'll enjoy it. Now. We've been discussing what
we had. We had Tom Lackey on at start of
the show, the Republican Assemblyman, because the Republicans have got
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together and put on a press event to say, hey,
the drug treatment is not getting funded. That's the part
of Prop thirty six that's really important. If we're going
to if you want to avoid having public drug addicts
end up in jail or prison, then you've got to
treat them, and that's what Prop thirty six said the
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state has to do well. Gavin Newsom doesn't want to
treat the drug addicts, so he and the Democrats and
Sacramento are not budgeting for it. You know, they're preparing
a new budget and there's nothing in there about the
drug treatment that's necessary. And this is a long running issue.
I want to tie this into another story in Sam Bernardino,
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the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the Sheriff Shannon Dickis has
been speaking out publicly and they send out press releases
on people who have been arrested for what used to
be petty crimes that carried no consequences. This is during
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the PROP forty seven era. For example, here's a guy
who had a pocketful of stolen merchandise, a shopping cart
full of lacquer somebody else had from a hardware store,
or a few handfuls of lottery tickets, several bottles of liquor.
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And this is the kind of stuff that routinely was
being stolen dozens of times every day in San Bernardino.
Now they're getting arrested, and now they're being taken to jail,
and now they're being charged with crimes and can face
a real jail or prison sentence, because Shannon Dicka says
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he wants everyone to know that the thieves aren't going
to get away with it anymore. It used to be
you got little or no jail time. And he's got
one story here where Stater Brothers, which is a popular
chain up in the San Bernardino area. You might a
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store might have one shoplifter, but they'll hit the store
seven times a day, or or twenty people might come
in in a single day. So you've either got a
large number of people coming in and stealing stuff or
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one guy stealing over and over and over again, and
they couldn't do anything to stop him because every time
he stopped him, the cops should let him go, maybe
write an appearance ticket because there's no jail time to follow. Recently,
Dick has announced that there were two San Bernardino residents,
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one age forty three and the other age fifty four.
Now you are a loser among losers if you're fifty
four years old and you're stealing stuff from a home depot.
They stole the lacquer, they put it into a cart
and rolled it out of the store without paying. They
were women, Well, women do home improvement, right, they were
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doing a rebuilding project. Seriously, I do some stuff around
the house.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Do you roll out of a home depot with a
pile of stolen goods?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
No, I pay for things? Oh you pay for things? Well,
what did citizen? You are? I am? Oh so? And
guess what. Both of them had several theft convictions. Maybe
they were doing this all their lives. When you're fifty
four and you're still doing it. It's because that's your job.
That's how you get paid every day. So they were
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booked into jail and because normally you just get a
citation and told hey, promise to appear in court. Yeah, yeah,
we'll appear in court. Sure. And there's an interesting point
in this San Bernardino Soun's story. Brian Rochus wrote it,
when you take these people off the street, you're actually
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solving three different problems. Because when you have a vagrant,
the vagrant steals. Why does he steal so he could
buy drugs. So if you take them off the street
and put him in jail or give him drug treatment,
jail is the deterrent. Drug treatment solved the drug problem.
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Treatment solves the theft problem. Right, if you're not using drugs,
you don't have to. And if you're off the drugs,
you might be able to figure out how to get
a job. You might be able to figure out how
to navigate the system and get some kind of temporary shelter,
and after you start working a while, you could pay rent.
You see, But you have to get off the drugs
because that's scrambling your brain. So the drug treatment to
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me is the central component of this because then the
drug addict avoids jail. The drug addict doesn't need to steal,
his mind clears up, so he can go to work,
he could get temporary shelter, he could eventually rent his
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own apartment. But the first thing that has to be
done is his brain has to be has to go
through a flush, and he has to go through the
treatment so he's not addicted anymore. To me, this is
the one thing out of the whole, this whole complicated issue,
and it's not that complicated, is fund the drug treatment.
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And here you have Shannon Dickas explaining, here's how it works,
here's what they do. They're stealing this stuff for the
drug money, so get them off the drugs. And they're
using all the drugs because they're addicted and they can't
control themselves anymore. So of course they're going to steal stuff.
Legalizing drug use, legalizing theft. What is that done. It's
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made everybody miserable. We're all crazy now. And Gavin Newsom
won't won't fund it. You know what he is funding
though today this came out. California has to borrow three
and a half billion dollars they've run out of money
in the medicaid program. It's called medical here. This is
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the state's program for poor people, largely federally funded. But
we've run out of the money because California decided to
give medicaid to illegal aliens. They're spending nine and a
half billion dollars to provide medical to illegal aliens, and
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eight and a half out of the nine and a
half billion is coming from the States General fund. So
we're paying for illegal aliens to get medical care. And
they claim they don't have any money for the drug
treatment of the attics dying in the streets. Now they
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want a loan. They want a loan. They blow three
hundred billion dollars a year. We have the highest taxes
in the country, and Gavin Newsome wants to Alan to
bail out his illegal alien health fund. We'll be doing
more on that one too. We come back, Kamala Harris. Yes,
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we're having Steve Klubec on after two o'clock. He's running
for governor. Very successful businessman and you'll want to hear
him talk about his ideas for cleaning up the mess.
But I wanted a contrast with another leading candidate for
Governor Kamala Harris because she made an appearance the other day.
Maybe you heard it, maybe you missed it. But I
can't stop. I mean I can't. I could listen to
this thing every day. It's another Word Salad special.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
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Speaker 1 (29:27):
You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social
media John Cobelt Radio. We're trying to get to twenty
five thousand followers. So let's get to it, all right.
We have a real Kennedy for governor coming on. He
is Stephen Klubeck, a very successful businessman who I will
give you a rundown of in just a couple of minutes.
I kind of won't almost want to introduce him now,
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so when he comes on right after Deverish two o'clock news,
he and I can get right into the meat of
the conversation. But what I want to do first is
Klubec is running against possibly Kamala Harris if she decides
to get in the race. And I think people's attention
spans and their memories are very short, so I think
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you have to remember what it would be like if
we actually had to hear her speak every day, if
she was the governor for four to eight years, if
this was a reality. Now she was on stage, she
was getting interviewed, and it was at some I guess
business conference. I'm not sure what it was. There's a
whole circuit right here, you go. And and so she's
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sitting up on stage there and she starts talking about
being hungry for Dorito's on Oscar night, So play the clip.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
So we did DoorDash because I'm wanted Dorito's. And it
was they were about the red carpet.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Part was about starting.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Nobody wanted to leave to go to the grocery store,
so it was door dash and I'm and I'm thinking
about this about so I was willing to give up
whatever might be the tracking of Kamala Harris's particular, I
fondness for Nacho cheese Dorito's for the sake of getting
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a big bag of Dorito's as I watched the oscars.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
That's behavior and that's right.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
But here's the thing. At what point do we also
uplift and highlight the consumer's right to also expect And.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You can debate with me if it should be a right.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I think it should to expect that the innovation would
also be weighted in terms of solving their everyday problems,
which are beyond my craving for Dorito's but about whatever.
And I know the work is happening around, you know,
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the scientific discoveries, for example, to cure longstanding diseases.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I'm gonna throw out.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Another one and you all again, please get back to
me any information you have. I would love it if
there would be an investment of resources and solving the
affordable housing issue in America, like, help you with them,
help me with that, help you do what. I don't
know that any big vcs are gonna fund it, cause
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they're gonna have to figure out where the money is
in that.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
But I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
It would really be helpful.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
And and I do.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
And I bring up them the consumer, because I wonder
how much of the trajectory of it all, the innovation
is being fueled by what the consumer not only desires
in terms of again, and I'm simplifying it obviously my
craving for a certain brand of potato chip corn chip,
But what part of it is about getting enough information
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in front of the consumer to know these other really
big problems you're dealing with might also be solved by
this technology. And if you demand it, if we agree
that the business model is based on consumer demand, that
there might actually be more resources going into some of
those things.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
That was stunning. That is a stunning performance. There should
be an award for that. I gotta believe she was
stoned out of her mind. That was all. That was
one sentence. I forgot what the We didn't hear the question,
but that was one response there from Dorito's to AI
affordable housing curing diseases, asking venture capitalists to figure out
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where the money is and affordable housing, here's a clue.
If they're not building it, it means there isn't any
money in it. It means the cost of build, buying
the land and building the structures do not allow for
a profit that's worth the effort. So there you go.
I can answer your question. I can help you out
there now. I just want you to contrast that little
(33:59):
monologue there with our next guest right after Debora's new
Steve Klubeck. Steve has been conducting hundreds of meetings around
California with business leaders and lawmakers and venture capitalists and politicians, Democrats, Republicans,
union people, farm workers, everybody, and trying to come up
(34:20):
with a better way for California. He's a Democrat, very
successful businessman, has turned around a lot of the businesses
that were in serious trouble. I've seen his name in
a number of news stories about good notorial candidates, but
I don't know much about him, So I figured you
didn't know much about him, So we're all going to
talk to him together. Coming up next Deborah Mark Live
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Today is a star studded day coming up after two o'clock,
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we're going to have Stephen Klubeck on. Stephen Klubeck is
running for governor as a Democrat, but not the Gavin
Newsome kind of democrat. Klubec is a very successful businessman
and I'll go through what he's accomplished in life later on,
but he's definitely someone you ought to listen to. He's
got really definite strong ideas and it's a far better
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path than what we're on now with the Gavit Dusom
and possibly Kamala Harris. Oh, by the way, it's a
special treat just to set up Steve Kluebeck. Eric, have
the Kamala Harris' latest Word Salid edition ready. We'll play
it right before the two o'clock news, because I think
it's one of her best, and I just want you
to imagine her for the next four to eight years
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speaking to us as California governor. And then we'll talk
to Steve Klubec and make that kind of contrast. And
after three o'clock Congressman Kevin Kyleie formerly in the California Legislature,
now he's in Washington, d C. And he is publicly
asking that the FBI investigate high speed rail because we
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don't have any rail, we don't have any electricity on
the rail, and we have their trains and nobody's going
high speed. The whole thing is a complete fraud, sham,
a disaster. I've been saying for ten years there should
be criminal investigations here, and there should be criminal investigations
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because when you have thirteen billion dollars disappear and nothing
to show for it, it means people stole money willingly, knowingly.
All right, we'll get to that, but first, I guess
this was inevitable. The good people in California, seventy percent
of them past Prop thirty six in November. You remember
(02:13):
Prop thirty six. It was going to make theft illegal again,
make public drug use illegal again, create crimes for Fentanyel
because actually there weren't many against it, and part of
the deal was, for example, if you are convicted after
the third time of a drug crime, you must go
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to prison unless you go to drug treatment. Well, to
have drug treatment programs to service all the public drug addicts,
you need money. And it turns out the Democrats and
are not funding any of these programs because they don't
even want to treat the drug addicts. They don't want
them in prison, they don't want drug treatment. I guess
(02:57):
they want him to die in the street. I don't know.
We're going to talk to a republic assimilately in Tom
Lackey about all this. Tom, Welcome to the show again.
How are you.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm doing well. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Explain what the Democrats are not funding so people understand
what the gap here is in getting this thing fully implemented.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, they're not funding the aspects demanded by Prop thirty six.
And clearly the governor feels like he knows better than
all of our California voters because he's completely ignoring the
voice of the people by not funding these programs associated
with Prop thirty six. And it was a glaring omission
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that we brought to the attention. I happen to be
on the Budget Committee and brought it to their attention,
and all they did was dance around my questions. They
were unable to address the specific questions that I had
posed to them. And we'll continue to push this issue,
but it's clear that they have no intention at this
point point of funding Prop thirty six. But there's been
(04:02):
some pushback also by some fellow Democratic colleagues, so I
think we might have a chance to have some positive
energy added to this whole dismissal of Prop thirty six.
I think obviously there was a clear mandate for the
people from the people to accomplish this, and he may
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try to escape it at this point, but I don't
think he's going to be successful in not funding it.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Why don't they want the drug addicts treated? I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, I don't understand either. I will tell you that
I've been up here now for ten years, and they're
very good at dancing around answering questions in a direct way,
and they also are kind of comfortable with hypocrisy, and
so when you have those two elements, it makes difficult,
it makes it difficult to negotiate, so you can't.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Have a normal converse. You can't have a normal conversation
with them.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That's unfortunately a in many circumstances. I don't want to
characterize all Democrats as crazy, because they're not. But some
of them just need to be encouraged to know that
they have the people behind them, and I think we
can get them to move, at least enough of them
to move, because some of them, just like all politics,
they're not reachable. So most are at least to some degree.
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And I think we got to work with these people
because Prop thirty six was clearly a mandate given from
the people, and they're not going to be able to
get away with not funding it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Was What was the language in Prop thirty six, Like,
did it set up specific programs? Did it did it
say it require funding? I mean, I mean what's the
what are the.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Specific funding I mean? And the language of Prop thirty
six it's very specific in outlining the course of the
legislature in the future, and when you don't fund it,
it can't happen. So it's a clearer dismissal of the
will of the people. So we're able to push this
and we'll continue to do this because we're still early
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in the budget process and it's already from the very
beginning we pointed it out that this is not going
to be successful.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No, I mean no, there ought to be another reason
for a major revolt when you have something past seventy
to thirty and it's a major referendum. This is a
major issue. All the theft, right, all the crime that
was allowed to run amok all this time, all the
suffering going on in the streets, not only the drug addicts,
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but everybody else that had to put up with all
the aberrant violent behavior of the drug addicts, and then
the fentanel. Do you have to say anything more about fentanyl?
I mean, it's killing one hundred thousand Americans a year,
many of them teenagers. We've had a number of parents
on this show whose teenagers died of fentinyl poisoning. I mean,
(06:59):
I it's indisputable that people wanted this changed, and it's
obvious that they had to fund drug treatment centers as
an example.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, clearly, the impetus behind Pop forty seven and fifty
seven was that we were being too harsh and punishing
people that had addictions. And we understand that to a degree,
but what we've seen is ignoring it and feeding the
problem makes it worse and puts other people in jeopardy.
And so now what we did by proposition thirty six
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is say that we're going to mandate treatment and these
people that have these problems have to be pushed into treatment.
They're not going to voluntarily take care of it. And
that's what the myth was to forty seven and fifty seven,
is that people would, just if given the opportunity, would
take that path that proved to be very mythical and
did not happen. And so I mean, we're trying to
(07:56):
use reason, right, Let's just use reason.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, reason, I know that's well. I had Matt Mayhon
on the show yesterday. He's the Democratic mayor of San
Jose and he's going down a similar path as you
are preaching, in that after three offers of help to
a homeless person, the next time, you're going to be
forced into a shelter. And if you don't go, you
(08:21):
might be arrested and you might go to jail, or
you'll go before a judge and the judge will direct
you to some kind of mental health or drug treatment.
I mean there are some Democrats that are waking up
and they want to clean up their cities and clean
up their districts.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, because sympathy only goes so far when you're proven
time and time again that you're a threat to yourself.
Someone has to act in your interest. And that's all
we're trying to do here is to be good stewards
of accountability.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So you think there are enough Democrats out there who
will start considering this. It doesn't seem like this should
be an ideological issue. It just seems obvious. You put
them into drug treatment, they avoid jail, which is what
usually gets the Democrats all wigged out. Okay, they're avoiding jail,
they're going into drug treatment. Drug treatment takes a while.
(09:11):
You have to fund it, I mean, don't. I really
don't understand the opposition unless you're in favor of people
dying in the streets. What possibly could be their opposition
to this?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, you got to remember at this point it's just
the governor's opposition, right, and so now the work is
still ahead of us. I'm not saying this is an
easy sell because we have people that are very loyal.
They're more loyal to the governor elected positions, but.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
He's running around renouncing some of the most progressive policies.
Right he's doing these podcasts with conservative activists, and he's saying, yeah,
you're right, you know, we shouldn't have men playing women's sports. Yeah,
we should be enough with the pronouns and this and that. Well,
I mean, why not this one. This one's got at
(09:58):
least seventy percent support, probably more in the state. Why
wouldn't he bend on this? Why would he be against
drug treatment for these addicts.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You're asking me to defend this guy. That's not I'm
not in the position to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I just thought, maybe you hear stuff, maybe you know,
people talk gossip, like what's wrong with him? Why wouldn't
he do this?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, because it all has to do with the way
he's trying to package himself right now. And now I
think he's he's focused on things other than just governing California. Yeah,
and so, but he's got to realize that this ignoring
Proposition thirty six is not going to be acceptable. And
(10:42):
it's up to those of us who are in the
legislature to remind everybody, because I think everybody is pretty
much aware of the outcome and the voters will on
this front. And so I have to believe that after
pushing and pushing, that we're going to get this funded
and to what degree, I don't know. It better be
fully funded.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Still exists that battle will still be a challenge in
the days ahead.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
All Right, Tom, you did good work. Come on the
show anytime, and if you're not getting any progress, let's
talk about this again as often as we have to.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah. I appreciate you paying attention, and please continue to
do that because the battle is not over, not even close.
But I don't think he's going to get away with
this and it's up to us to push.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
All Right, Tom Lackey, the assemblement, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
All right. Just absolutely baffling. Why why wouldn't you fund
drug treatment programs for people who otherwise would die on
the street, especially after seventy percent of the state demanded
it and it passed in that proposition after three chances
if you're picked up for drug use, then you go
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to jail or you go to drug treatment, but they
don't fund the drug treat all right, we got more
coming up.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (12:07):
Follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social media at
John Cobelt Radio. And we are going to have Stephen
Klubeck on after two o'clock on the show. Stephen Klubeck
is a very successful businessman and he is running for
governor as a Democrat in twenty twenty six. And if
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you're not familiar with him, he has had a very
impressive life, a lot of success, and he's got a
lot of strong opinions on what needs to be done
to try to fix the colossal mess that California is in.
So this is someone you want to listen to. Stephen
Klubeck coming up after two o'clock. And we just finished
(12:49):
talking with Tom Lackey. He's a Republican assemblyman the Assembly.
Republicans had an event today with law enforcement leaders vic
them his rights advocates. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats in
the legislature are undermining Prop thirty six, one of the
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and it's inexplicable why because more than anything else, the
Democrats hate people going to prison, and they were angry
with Prop thirty six because prison is an option if
after three times you're caught for stealing, you go to prison.
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After three times you're caught for drug use, you can
go to prison. Now. Remember this is after getting three freebies.
This is the fourth time you've been caught. Then maybe
you'll go to prison on the drug offenses, or you
can take rehab. Now, to me, this is a wonderful compromise.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Me.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I'd throw everybody in prison for ten years the first
time they stole something.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Me.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
First time you get caught with drugs, it's rehab or prison.
I'd go Singapore, Saudi Arabia. They don't have these problems.
There's going to Singapore. No, we don't say when because
we don't want to say what. But she's terrified because
odds are she's going to violate some Uh I'm gonna
(14:26):
keep my mouth shut. Yeah sure, uh so we'll set
up and go fund me for you. But no, really,
I am because they're really tough and strict and they
don't have these problems, and that's all I'm interested in.
I don't want these problems. I don't want to have
to worry about being broken into and have things stolen.
(14:47):
I don't want to play poop p hop scotch. I
don't want to have to deal with drug addicts laying
in the road. And that's not an exaggeration. It happened
even in my neighborhood. They were laying in the road
at a homeless encampment that nobody wanted to clean up,
not very far from my house. So I've lived this.
I don't care anymore, but I'm open to compromise. And
(15:07):
to me, the fourth time you get caught, yeah, you
go to jail or you go to drug treatment. Now,
for some reason, Gavin Newsom, by the way, he is
so full of horse veces because he's running. He's had
three of these podcasts meeting with these conservative activist types
and he's trying to pretend he agrees with them on
some of the stuff. But you have to stop and
(15:29):
look at his policies here in California. He hasn't changed
a single policy. He hasn't moved an inch on a
single policy. Nobody really gives a crap about the transgender stuff.
It's kind of annoying, but it doesn't really affect your life.
Nobody really cares about the pronoun nonsense. It's annoying, but
it doesn't affect your life. You know what, affects your
life whether drug addicts are taken off the street for
(15:53):
good and if they're treated, because that'll keep them off
the street for good, that don't keep him out to
jail for good. So part of Prop thirty six is
you have to fund the treatment, and they just won't.
I'll give you an example. San Francisco sheriff's officials said
they reopened two dormitories at one of the city jails
(16:15):
because there's an eight percent increase in inmates right because
they're arresting from Prop thirty six. They have a guy
named Kunal Mody. He's the new chief of Health, Homelessness,
and Family Services, and he wrote on x that treatment
capacity is one of the major challenges. It has a
program to try to improve conditions on Sixth Street, and
oh my god, I've been on Sixth Street San Francisco.
(16:37):
Holy moly, that is an outdoor zoo. I've never seen
so many drug addicts stumbling in the streets, sent in laddics.
They're all bent over and they're wobbling, and they block
all the lanes of traffic. We got stuck in traffic
on Sixth Street a couple of years ago, absolutely terrified.
But he said, we ran out of shelter and treatment
(16:59):
big capacity every day and it was hard to get
them to complete their treatment programs because of the lack
of money, the lack of personnel. At the same time,
there's a study published in a medical journal, the Journal
(17:19):
of a jama I forgot what that stands for, but
it's a big medical journal, and one of the findings
was that many drug addicts twenty percent told the researchers
they're actively seeking drug treatment and couldn't get it. These
are the people who want to get off the drugs,
(17:41):
who want treatment, and they're all frustrated. The respondents say,
I'm showing up where they tell me to show up,
calling where they tell me to call, and then they
only get turned away. And only seven percent of lifetime
only seven percent of drug addicts said they were received treatment.
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And for some reason, the state the county never wants
to build and fund and staff the treatment centers. Actually,
to be fair, part of Prop forty seven was to
create treatment, but they never funded it, they never built it.
And I don't understand this. Why is Gavin Newsom against
(18:26):
funding drug treatment for homeless people. Any person with common
sense knows that dealing with drug addicts and mental patients
in the street is very difficult to get them to
do what you want them to do. So you got
to have a hammer. That's why I had Matt Mayhonah
on the show yesterday in San Jose. He's a Democrat,
(18:47):
but he's willing to use the hammer if necessary. Fourth
time you get approached about your homelessness, you have to
go into shelter or you're going to be arrested and
then sent for a judge, and the judge will decide
whether you go to jail or you go to some
kind of treatment situation. You got to do that with
(19:07):
the mental patience. You got to do that with a
drug addicts. You got to do that with the homeless period.
You have to force them eventually and you give him
a choice jail or the treatment. But you have to
build the treatment centers and fund them. That's what the
tax money should go for. If you're paying for cradle
the grave, illegal illegal alien health care, how about paying
for all the American citizens that are whacked out on
(19:30):
these drugs. Oh man, that's right. Newsom is such a
gold plated phony to the bone. He's such a fake.
I don't believe all these freaking podcasts he's doing all
this nonsense where he's giggling like a teenager. Actually change
one of your failing destructive policies. All right, Remember Steve
(19:54):
Klubeck coming up after two o'clock. He's running for governor
as a Democrat, and he's got some pretty uh specific
ideas and what ought to be done in the state.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from kf I
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
After four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart App. All right, as I've been telling you, I
have Stephen Klubeck coming on after two o'clock. Stephen Klubeck
at a very successful businessman here in California. He's running
for governor as a Democrat. He has a lot of
strong opinions on how to clean up the California mess.
(20:31):
Quite different from a progressive like Gavin Newsom. Stephen Klubec
is coming on after two o'clock. You're gonna want to
You're going to want to hear him. And next segment,
in order to provide a contrast with another leading candidate
for governor, we're gonna run the We played this a
couple of days ago, Kamala Harris's latest public appearance and
(20:57):
about dorrit Us. It's about to rid Us and the
oscars and the Oscars, n ai Right and affordable housing,
and she tied it all together beautifully. If you haven't
heard this, you'll enjoy it. Now. We've been discussing what
we had. We had Tom Lackey on at start of
the show, the Republican Assemblyman, because the Republicans have got
(21:19):
together and put on a press event to say, hey,
the drug treatment is not getting funded. That's the part
of Prop thirty six that's really important. If we're going
to if you want to avoid having public drug addicts
end up in jail or prison, then you've got to
treat them, and that's what Prop thirty six said the
(21:40):
state has to do well. Gavin Newsom doesn't want to
treat the drug addicts, so he and the Democrats and
Sacramento are not budgeting for it. You know, they're preparing
a new budget and there's nothing in there about the
drug treatment that's necessary. And this is a long running issue.
I want to tie this into another story in Sam Bernardino,
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the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the Sheriff Shannon Dickis has
been speaking out publicly and they send out press releases
on people who have been arrested for what used to
be petty crimes that carried no consequences. This is during
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the PROP forty seven era. For example, here's a guy
who had a pocketful of stolen merchandise, a shopping cart
full of lacquer somebody else had from a hardware store,
or a few handfuls of lottery tickets, several bottles of liquor.
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And this is the kind of stuff that routinely was
being stolen dozens of times every day in San Bernardino.
Now they're getting arrested, and now they're being taken to jail,
and now they're being charged with crimes and can face
a real jail or prison sentence, because Shannon Dicka says
(23:08):
he wants everyone to know that the thieves aren't going
to get away with it anymore. It used to be
you got little or no jail time. And he's got
one story here where Stater Brothers, which is a popular
chain up in the San Bernardino area. You might a
(23:30):
store might have one shoplifter, but they'll hit the store
seven times a day, or or twenty people might come
in in a single day. So you've either got a
large number of people coming in and stealing stuff or
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one guy stealing over and over and over again, and
they couldn't do anything to stop him because every time
he stopped him, the cops should let him go, maybe
write an appearance ticket because there's no jail time to follow. Recently,
Dick has announced that there were two San Bernardino residents,
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one age forty three and the other age fifty four.
Now you are a loser among losers if you're fifty
four years old and you're stealing stuff from a home depot.
They stole the lacquer, they put it into a cart
and rolled it out of the store without paying. They
were women, Well, women do home improvement, right, they were
(24:41):
doing a rebuilding project. Seriously, I do some stuff around
the house.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Do you roll out of a home depot with a
pile of stolen goods?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
No, I pay for things? Oh you pay for things? Well,
what did citizen? You are? I am? Oh so? And
guess what. Both of them had several theft convictions. Maybe
they were doing this all their lives. When you're fifty
four and you're still doing it. It's because that's your job.
That's how you get paid every day. So they were
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booked into jail and because normally you just get a
citation and told hey, promise to appear in court. Yeah, yeah,
we'll appear in court. Sure. And there's an interesting point
in this San Bernardino Soun's story. Brian Rochus wrote it,
when you take these people off the street, you're actually
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solving three different problems. Because when you have a vagrant,
the vagrant steals. Why does he steal so he could
buy drugs. So if you take them off the street
and put him in jail or give him drug treatment,
jail is the deterrent. Drug treatment solved the drug problem.
(26:00):
Treatment solves the theft problem. Right, if you're not using drugs,
you don't have to. And if you're off the drugs,
you might be able to figure out how to get
a job. You might be able to figure out how
to navigate the system and get some kind of temporary shelter,
and after you start working a while, you could pay rent.
You see, But you have to get off the drugs
because that's scrambling your brain. So the drug treatment to
(26:22):
me is the central component of this because then the
drug addict avoids jail. The drug addict doesn't need to steal,
his mind clears up, so he can go to work,
he could get temporary shelter, he could eventually rent his
(26:43):
own apartment. But the first thing that has to be
done is his brain has to be has to go
through a flush, and he has to go through the
treatment so he's not addicted anymore. To me, this is
the one thing out of the whole, this whole complicated issue,
and it's not that complicated, is fund the drug treatment.
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And here you have Shannon Dickas explaining, here's how it works,
here's what they do. They're stealing this stuff for the
drug money, so get them off the drugs. And they're
using all the drugs because they're addicted and they can't
control themselves anymore. So of course they're going to steal stuff.
Legalizing drug use, legalizing theft. What is that done. It's
(27:31):
made everybody miserable. We're all crazy now. And Gavin Newsom
won't won't fund it. You know what he is funding
though today this came out. California has to borrow three
and a half billion dollars they've run out of money
in the medicaid program. It's called medical here. This is
(27:52):
the state's program for poor people, largely federally funded. But
we've run out of the money because California decided to
give medicaid to illegal aliens. They're spending nine and a
half billion dollars to provide medical to illegal aliens, and
(28:15):
eight and a half out of the nine and a
half billion is coming from the States General fund. So
we're paying for illegal aliens to get medical care. And
they claim they don't have any money for the drug
treatment of the attics dying in the streets. Now they
(28:36):
want a loan. They want a loan. They blow three
hundred billion dollars a year. We have the highest taxes
in the country, and Gavin Newsome wants to Alan to
bail out his illegal alien health fund. We'll be doing
more on that one too. We come back, Kamala Harris. Yes,
(28:57):
we're having Steve Klubec on after two o'clock. He's running
for governor. Very successful businessman and you'll want to hear
him talk about his ideas for cleaning up the mess.
But I wanted a contrast with another leading candidate for
Governor Kamala Harris because she made an appearance the other day.
Maybe you heard it, maybe you missed it. But I
can't stop. I mean I can't. I could listen to
this thing every day. It's another Word Salad special.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
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Speaker 1 (29:27):
You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social
media John Cobelt Radio. We're trying to get to twenty
five thousand followers. So let's get to it, all right.
We have a real Kennedy for governor coming on. He
is Stephen Klubeck, a very successful businessman who I will
give you a rundown of in just a couple of minutes.
I kind of won't almost want to introduce him now,
(29:48):
so when he comes on right after Deverish two o'clock news,
he and I can get right into the meat of
the conversation. But what I want to do first is
Klubec is running against possibly Kamala Harris if she decides
to get in the race. And I think people's attention
spans and their memories are very short, so I think
(30:10):
you have to remember what it would be like if
we actually had to hear her speak every day, if
she was the governor for four to eight years, if
this was a reality. Now she was on stage, she
was getting interviewed, and it was at some I guess
business conference. I'm not sure what it was. There's a
whole circuit right here, you go. And and so she's
(30:33):
sitting up on stage there and she starts talking about
being hungry for Dorito's on Oscar night, So play the clip.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
So we did DoorDash because I'm wanted Dorito's. And it
was they were about the red carpet.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Part was about starting.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Nobody wanted to leave to go to the grocery store,
so it was door dash and I'm and I'm thinking
about this about so I was willing to give up
whatever might be the tracking of Kamala Harris's particular, I
fondness for Nacho cheese Dorito's for the sake of getting
(31:14):
a big bag of Dorito's as I watched the oscars.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
That's behavior and that's right.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
But here's the thing. At what point do we also
uplift and highlight the consumer's right to also expect And.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You can debate with me if it should be a right.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I think it should to expect that the innovation would
also be weighted in terms of solving their everyday problems,
which are beyond my craving for Dorito's but about whatever.
And I know the work is happening around, you know,
(31:55):
the scientific discoveries, for example, to cure longstanding diseases.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I'm gonna throw out.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Another one and you all again, please get back to
me any information you have. I would love it if
there would be an investment of resources and solving the
affordable housing issue in America, like, help you with them,
help me with that, help you do what. I don't
know that any big vcs are gonna fund it, cause
(32:21):
they're gonna have to figure out where the money is
in that.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
But I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
It would really be helpful.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
And and I do.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
And I bring up them the consumer, because I wonder
how much of the trajectory of it all, the innovation
is being fueled by what the consumer not only desires
in terms of again, and I'm simplifying it obviously my
craving for a certain brand of potato chip corn chip,
But what part of it is about getting enough information
(32:55):
in front of the consumer to know these other really
big problems you're dealing with might also be solved by
this technology. And if you demand it, if we agree
that the business model is based on consumer demand, that
there might actually be more resources going into some of
those things.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
That was stunning. That is a stunning performance. There should
be an award for that. I gotta believe she was
stoned out of her mind. That was all. That was
one sentence. I forgot what the We didn't hear the question,
but that was one response there from Dorito's to AI
affordable housing curing diseases, asking venture capitalists to figure out
(33:37):
where the money is and affordable housing, here's a clue.
If they're not building it, it means there isn't any
money in it. It means the cost of build, buying
the land and building the structures do not allow for
a profit that's worth the effort. So there you go.
I can answer your question. I can help you out
there now. I just want you to contrast that little
(33:59):
monologue there with our next guest right after Debora's new
Steve Klubeck. Steve has been conducting hundreds of meetings around
California with business leaders and lawmakers and venture capitalists and politicians, Democrats, Republicans,
union people, farm workers, everybody, and trying to come up
(34:20):
with a better way for California. He's a Democrat, very
successful businessman, has turned around a lot of the businesses
that were in serious trouble. I've seen his name in
a number of news stories about good notorial candidates, but
I don't know much about him, So I figured you
didn't know much about him, So we're all going to
talk to him together. Coming up next Deborah Mark Live
(34:42):
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