September 1, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (09/01) - Labor Day 2025 Best Of The John Kobylt Show. Jon Fleischman comes on the show to talk about hidden tax hikes. Significant action was taken against the drug cartels. Chris LeGras comes on the show to talk about Palisades residents being against low income housing coming to the area.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome,
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Feature on the iHeartRadio app. We've got John Fleischman coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
A long time analyst and very involved in the Republican
are Party for many years. He knows politics in this
state as well as anybody. He's got a site called
sodoesitmatter dot com? So doesitmatter dot com? And we are
going to get to one of his latest topics in
a moment. Sacramento, the legislature is going to put something
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on the ballot which will make it, I guess, facilitate
happy sounding ballot measures, but buried inside our terrible tax increases.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Johnny All, I'm here.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'm still recovery from having just watched the NEWSOM twenty
twenty eight campaign, rally paid for with your state tax
dollars and streamed on the official government ex account.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
But I'm here.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I want to talk about that first.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So he wants to force redistricting on the state so
that we could get forty nine Democratic representatives out of
fifty two, right, because forty three is not enough, and
he wants.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
To he I got like thirty seven percent of the
vote in California and they want Republicans to have about
four percent of the representation.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, it's absolutely nuts. So he has this rally today.
He wants to redraw the lines. And for people who
don't know, there was a ballot initiative that passed way
back in twenty ten and at passed sixty one to
thirty nine saying we're going to have an independent commission
to draw these lines. No politicians. So he wants to
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overturn an initiative that was passed by sixty one percent
of the public.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Then this morning, I know you saw this.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You wake up and political has a pall that says
sixty four percent of the state still wants to keep
that redistricting commission. They don't want Newsom or anybody else
getting him Bay. So he starts out he's behind two
to one, he's behind sixty four to thirty six, and
then he holds a pep rally. Is he insane?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I think he's figured out that win or lose. He
has taken the anti Trump lane. And like I said,
I really saw this more as they knew him for
president rally than really having to do with redistricting in California.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
But yes, he's insane.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
He's going to rally all these people and they're going
to move forward. I think they've got a tough road
to hoe to get on the ballot. I think that
the US Department of Justice is going to start filing
lawsuits the minute that they do this, talking about violation
of the Voter Rights Act. There are districts in California
that have to be approved by judges because of arcane rules,
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and I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the Department
of Justice mucked this thing up so it can't make
the ballot in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
But that doesn't matter to him.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
All he's doing is rallying all those people in the
room for his campaign for president.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And it was a lot of union people and a
lot of political hacks, and it was amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I turned on the rally a little bit late, and
I'm like, hey, that's the union guy that got arrested
just two months ago because he stood in the way
of ICE agents trying to actually serve legitimate judge approved
search warrants. And that guy ended up going to prison,
going to jail for the weekend. And now he's the
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opening speaker for Gavin Newsom at his presidential rally.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Literally like you can't make it up.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I feel like we live it in a different country
than the rest of the than the rest of the nation.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
It's like this dystopian reality of life.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
And yeah, you're.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Not kidding well, because he's got to get this done quickly.
He's got to get it on the ballot in a
number of days. You're going to have all kinds of
legal chances.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
They got to get They got to get it on
the ballot like next week, and they have a very
limited window before all of these fifty eight bureaucratic registrars
of voters have said, if you want us to print
it around and get ballots mailed out, you've got.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
To be on this timeline.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And that's why I think he's very, very susceptible to
lawsuits not in state court, because between Jerry Brown and
Gavin Newsom, sticks of the seven state Supreme court justices
are their bitches, so they're going to do whatever they
want state court, in state.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Court, but in federal court.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Now, now you've got a federal Department of Justice that's
going to go before federal courts, and that the end
of that chain gets to a much different Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Than the one in California.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And so I think it'll be interesting to see what happens.
I don't think Newsom cares if he gets it on
the ballot. He's happy if Trump's Department of Justice stops
at his because all he's doing is rallying the base
so that he can become the nominee for president in
twenty twenty eight. It's like it's like a win win
for him.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
He's happy.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
All right, let's talk about it.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Said, Really, we got to get to the boring bill,
which is a horrible bill.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
No, it's a horrible bill. I don't want to short
trift this Assembly Bill six. It's on a fast track
in Sacramento. Explain so that everybody can understand what would
this bill do if it became law.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Okay, so everyone who's listening, you already know that when
election time comes, you get a ballot in the mail,
and that ballot has like what you're voting on and
the actual ballot question. So for example, it might be
the the John Colebolt Fairness Act, and then the question
is do you believe that John Colebolt should have to
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give equal time on his radio show to left wing wackos.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
You'd know what the question is. You know what it is.
You know it's straightforward.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Well, if there's a.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Tax measure that's put before you right.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Now on the ballot, in addition to saying, you know,
this is the Better Schools in America Act, and do
you want to make schools better, it has to actually
say this represents a tax increase. This is how much
your taxes will go up, this is how much it
will cost, and this is how much money will be
raised by this tax increase over the next whatever period
of time. So it's like full disclosure so that you
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know when you're voting.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
What the tax implications are.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
What this legislation SB six ninety nine, sorry, AB six
ninety nine does is it says we're going to take.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
That warning to taxpayers.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
We're going to take it off of the ballot that
you all read right when you vote, and we're going
to put it in that two inch thick phone book
that you receive thirty days before the election, so you
can find it buried on page you know, forty seven
in small print, and if you look over there, you'll
realize what the tax implication is. And this is a
bill that's been promoted by the unions because they would
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like to get this off the ballot because one of
their big plays that they want to do is, you know,
they've been constantly getting raises, constantly driving up the pension costs,
and all of these cities and counties around California are
going bust, and so.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
They're now forced to put measures on the ballot to
increase taxes, and the unions don't want you, the taxpayer
to understand the financial cost of.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The measure, and so it's really insidious.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's really terrible.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
As you said, Don, I wrote about it all on
So Doesntmatter dot Com. But it's really bad and it's
on the fast track.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So literally, the only.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Person I think standing between this bill and it becoming
a law was the turret in the punch bowl that
just gave his presidential rally this morning. Because if he
doesn't veto the If he doesn't veto the bill, no
one's going to veto the bill. And what do you
do when the quote unquote adult in the room, Gavin
Newsom has suddenly decided to be a baby. There's no
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I'm not telling your listeners not to call their senators,
which you should do and oppose this bill, and you
should call Gavin Newsom's office and oppose this bill.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
But you know, I'm like what.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I'm following behind the most cynical talk show host in America,
And so you know, I'm really kind of skeptical that
we're going to stop it.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
But this is the latest scheme. If they can.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Keep you from understanding what you're voting on, they're happy.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well historically they've done it when they can get away with.
I mean, remember Prop forty seven was the Better Schools,
Safer Schools and Neighborhoods Act.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Well that's the irony and it actually and it actually
ties back to the speech that Gavin Newsom gave this morning,
right because we have in California this jacked up system
where the Attorney General of California writes the title on
the sean those very words I told you about the
John Colebolt Fairness Act and what it would do that
would actually get written in this state by Rob Bonta,
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the very liberal Attorney General, who of course has endorsed
what the governor is doing in this case. If the
if the legislature puts an act on the ballot, they
actually get to pick their own title and summary, so
it will be very very biased what the voter see
will be, you know, something very anbiased.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
And so.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, it's already bad enough that the title and summary
that you see is twisted and it's biased. But now
even the factual statement underneath it that at least lets
you know how much the actual cost they want to
get rid of that too. So it's really it's really, uh,
it's disingenuous, it's dishonest and and and this is coming
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from people who hold press conferences complaining about no rules
and the rigging of the system while they simultaneously practice
no rules and the rigging.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Of the system. It's it's it's it's ihypoperacy.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It's best I know, it's quite a time we're living in.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
John Fleischmann, thank you for coming and go read his
site sodoesitmatter dot com. And there's further details explaining what's
going on here sodesitmatter dot com. Thank you, John, all right,
we'll talk again soon. Are more coming up?
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moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six, eight seven
seven Moist eighty six, or you can contact us with
the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Now, one of
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the reasons, one of the big reasons we have so
many people laying in the streets and dying is the
tremendous amount of drugs that comes over the border, an
enormous amount of fentanyl and meth, cocaine, heroine, pot, you
name it, and people here in California ingested by the
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tens of thousands. Some of them end up living on
the streets and there and their brains get ravaged, they
destroy their brains, and of course bass and newsm do
do nothing to help them. There's no mandatory drug treatment.
There is no mandatory mental health treatment. Either their mentally
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ill and that leads them to the drugs, or the
drugs create the mental illness one way or the other.
But their brains are scrambled and fried. And then we've
gotta we've gotta, we've got to endure their behavior as
Bass and newsom, you know, make excuses for them, cover
for them, but don't actually remove them in any great numbers. Well,
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one of the original sins is the drugs. Now, Trump
ordered the State Department to drop plans to send in
the military into Mexico. US military would go across the
Mexican border and do whatever they have to do to
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destroy the drug cartels, which I thought should have been done,
you know, decades ago. I've never understood why, because they
are better financed and better armed than the Mexican military.
They're the ones that have created all the death and
all the addiction here in this state. And they're the
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ones who've created these disgusting living conditions that we have
to put up with. And just it's not even the
Mexican government, it's not the Mexican people, it's the drug cartels,
just level them, do whatever you have to do to
wipe them out. Now, the Mexican government say they were
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blindsided by Trump's idea yesterday, and I'm going to talk
about that in a couple of minutes, because they feel
like they've been doing everything they can, but whatever it is,
it's not enough. I mean, they claim that fifty well,
the Trump administration claims that fentinyl has dropped by fifty percent.
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There's fifty percent fentonyl I'm sorry, fifty percent less fentinyl
coming over the border, and partly that comes from shutting
down the border. This would be the most aggressive step
against the cartels, and they not only wanted to choke
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off the migrants, but they wanted to choke off the
whole fentinyl heroin industry. They have designated these carts tells
as well as some of these Venezuelan gangs as FARGN
terrorist organizations, which gives the rationale for sending the military
to go after these these goins because normally it was
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considered a law enforcement issue, but law enforcement wasn't working
for all these decades. I don't think they ever tried
that hard.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
It got to the.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Point where I wondered, are people in the American government
getting a kickback?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Wouldn't be shocking.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I mean, Mexican officials have been found over the years
to be getting a little side money from the cartels,
and they do have a big influence. But now, I mean,
the Trump administration is claiming that they're driving some of
the cartels into bankruptcy. The cartels are feeling so much
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pressure they're slowing their production or they're trying to find
new ways to avoid detection. There's the US Ambassador to Mexico,
Ronald Johnson, said that the drop in fentanyl seizures again
fifty percent drop, was due to a secure border increased
collaboration between the US and Mexico. Johnson said, cartels are
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going bankrupt and our countries are safer because Trump and
the President of Mexico, Claudia Shinbaum, have actually been cooperating here.
But Shinbaum does not want the military to come into Mexico.
Mexican people very sensitive about the US is storming in.
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Not a good history, not good memories, cultural memories of this,
and so that's that's too much. We'll talk more about this,
and we'll talk about how they've been cooperating and what
success they have had to achieve at least a fifty
percent drop. Trump's not satisfied. He probably wants the other
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fifty percent to be stopped once and for all. I'm
so much death, I mean the fentanyl. The deaths have
dropped in the last couple of years, but when it's height,
and I was always like just stunned. It's like one
hundred thousand people. One hundred thousand people would die of
fentinyl poisoning, and there was one country supplying most of it,
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and that was Mexico, and they were getting most of
their ingredients from China, which is one of the reasons
that Trump slapped all these tariffs on China. And this
is something no other president would do on either side. Why,
I mean, he apparently has had success with the tariffs.
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China got the message about the fentanyl ingredients, although you know,
I'm sure they're cheating some Mexico certainly got the message.
So I wasn't this done ten twenty thirty years ago.
I leads me to dark places are.
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feature on the iHeartRadio app. Chris la Graz coming on
with us there. He's a local journalist who, as we've
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had on the show quite a few times, he does
great work. He's got a piece at Pasadena now dot com.
After the Palisades and Altadena burned out, they were trying
to pass laws so that developer can move in and
build low income housing multi family units, apartment buildings and
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duplexes and quadruplexes. And most of the people who live
in the Palisades, I know for sure, live in single
family homes and they like it that way. And you
have these outsiders who are banging the drum for low
income housing, and nobody wants that. I'll say it's bleep
me nobody. And eventually Newsome realized he was on the
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losing side, issued an executive order and they're not going
to be building low income housing. So the low income
housing advocates want to sue to reverse Newsome's order. Let's
talk to Chris Legrad to see what this is about. Chris,
how are you?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Good? John? How are you?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
So, as it stands, new Some issoot in order and
that blocks these low income housing ideas. What are these
groups planning to do well?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
First of the couple quick points of clarification, the story
opacity that now is not actually mine. There's actually not
a name on a story, but that's where the story
first ran that brought people's attention to this. And Newsome's
order applies specifically to one law called SB nine, and
what SB nine does is it allows developers to go
in and buy a single family parcel, split it in two,
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and build duplexes on each of the two new parcels
for a total of four units where there used to
be a single family house, and then using ADUs and JADUs,
you can get as many as eight and possibly ten
units where there used to be a House, and obviously
Pacific Colisades and Alpadena are you know, ripe for this
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kind of development because you don't have to pay for
the demolition because mother nature already did it for you
if you're a developer. So about two and a half
weeks ago it was reported that developers had started doing
exactly this with SB nine on half a dozen or
so parcels in the Palisades. And these are not people rebuilding.
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These are developers who bought parcels from people whose homes
had burned down and it decided or not be able
to rebuild, and tried to start shoehorning multiple units into
the Palisades. We haven't seen if it's happening in Altadena,
but it is almost certainly happening in Altadena. So this
resulted in a letter both from Tracy Park, the council
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woman of course for the Palisades, who wrote to the
governor as soon as she'd learned of it two Fridays ago.
That was followed by a letter from Mayor Bass, and
within about five days knewsom It signed as executive order
exempting just Altadena and the Palisades from this kind of
quote unquote multi family development. And in response, YIMBI Law
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has announced that they are considering I don't want to
stay threatening, but considering lawsuit to overturn Newsome's orders so
that developers could continue adding thousands and thousands of new
units to places that have already burned. And the quote
I think that sums it all up is that one
of the attorneys in this Pacadyena Now story was quoted
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as saying, quote, there is nothing linking additional density to
added fire danger. And you're saying, that's about a place
where with the current density, we had gridlocked evacuations, people
running through smoke and embers on foot, and bulldozers pushing
cars out of the way so fire engines could actually
get to the fire. But adding a couple thousand more
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people passed no real connection.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
YIBBI stands for yes in my backyard, which I find
will be one of the most obnoxious phrases. Yes in
my backyard, Well, then put them in your backyard. But
this crowd is saying yes in other people's backyards.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Well, and here's the thing. The reason and Gavin Newsom
acted so quickly is that this is he's actually and
people really need to understand because that this is the
greater significance. The reason he did this so quickly is
there is another even worse bill as we speak, making
its way through the legislature, SB seventy nine. And what
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SB seventy nine does is that it requires cities to
approve multifamily developments up to seven stories, and then when
you add other existing laws, it could be up to
as many as fifteen stories in single family neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Fifteen fifteen stories in a single family neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
There's a bill that would allow that.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
And the only requirement is that the parcel be within
a half mile or a quarter mile of certain kinds
of transit stops. And you don't even need to worry
about the definitions because ultimately involve this bill is that
any parcel that's within a half mile the bus stop
will be automatically up zoned and I can go build
fifteen stories where they're used to.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I mean, I heard about SP seventy nine, We talked
about it. I had no idea could lead to a
fifteen story apartment building on a single family site.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Absolutely because itself has new new heights allotments. And then
when you add again density bonus and other incentives, you
just multiply the number of units. Oh and also, according
to recent law, you can build that, let's say, fifteen
stories without a single off street parking spot because you're
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near a bus line or.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
A train to try to force everybody onto buses and trains. Yes, yeah, yeah,
I ac tell you what it could affect me because
we're a half mile away from Sunset Boulevard and I'm
pretty sure there's a bus stop there. So yeah, this
is trying to force me to take the bus, to
take the bus to Burbank.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, you're screwed.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I could wake up and there could be a fifteen
story low income apartment building across the street.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
It could be low income, it could be luxury. It
could be anything the developer can get away with. Oh
and here's another wonderful example. I just learned of a
project up in the Bay Area that's taking advantage of
some of these laws. And it's a twenty unit development,
except one of the units is a fifty four bed
assisted care facility that this developer, who is very creative,
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My head is off to their legal team, somehow managed
to get this fifty four unit assisted care facility counted
as a single unit for the purposes of the approvals?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Is that going into a residential area?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, yeah, it's up there. I believe it's Marine count Wait.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
In a Ring county. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And the reason I'm telling that story is it's another
example of these laws that have been passed over the
last seven or eight years by people like Scott Wiener
and the EMBs. We are now starting to see the
worst fears that those of us who have been advocating
against these laws all along, our worst fears are coming
true because they are written so broadly and in language
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that has so many loopholes you could, you know, literally
drive a construction truck through it. And we're now starting
to see that manifest in all of these different ways.
And so Gavin Newsom said, sure, I'll get rid of
SB nine and the Palisades and Alta Dina, which also
by the Ray, raises another question. So then the question is,
mister Governor, just so unclear? There are hundreds of other communities,
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including yours, including mine in the Bay Area, that are
very similar to the Palisades in terms of fire danger, evacuations,
et cetera. So, mister Governor, is the new policy that
I have to wait for my neighborhood to burn down
before I get relief from these laws.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Yes, why is the only.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Answers?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Can you all right? Thanks very much for coming on, Chris.
We'll talk.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
There's a ton more to talk about.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Do you got time to stand and wait?
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Do you got time to stand in another segment?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Oh? Sure?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Okay, all right then hang on, hang on, we'll talk
more about this. Crystal gras a journalists are more coming up.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
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Speaker 3 (26:24):
We continue with Crystal Graw. Chris is a local journalist,
and we're talking about all these outrageous laws which are
going to allow developers to buy lots in your single
family neighborhood and build all kinds of high density housing
is the polite term. It's could be low income housing.
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It could be housing that ends up fifteen stories high
right across the street from you. Because they're they're they're
using the state law to overrule all local law, local
zoning law, especially when it comes to single family housing,
which has been declared evil by the progressives in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Chris, when we left off, you said there's a lot
more going on what else is going on?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well, you know, since since about twenty for about the
last ten years, the legislature has passed something like three
hundred bills that have been signed in the law and
in some shape or form rest control from local governments
away from development and housing and land use. And there
are all sorts of new exceptions and exemptions for multi
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family development because, as you alluded to, the prevailing wisdom
and sacramento is that single family houses are responsible for
everything from racism to you know, polar bears dying horrible depths.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Right, climate change though, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So, now never mind the fact that eighty two percent
of cals of every conceivable walk pipe and the background
live in low density neighborhoods, single family neighborhoods and duplexes
and the like. You know, that's that's the California, the
American dream that an has declared war on. So whether
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it's a density bonus is something that they use that
if a developer adds just a small sprinkling of quote
unquote affordable units, they get to add multiples of that
in regular price, market rate and measury units. So the
way it pencils out for the developer who by the way,
there's no way of enforcing even those affordability requirements. But
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the developer just puts it down on paper and they
get their extra units and their extra levels, And as
I said a few minutes ago, that's how you get
to as many as fourteen or fifteen under SP seventy nine.
So they are now SB seventy nine is a culmination
of this whole process. And California is in good company.
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Oregon has has all but outlawed single family zoning. The
city of Minneapolis got rid of single family zoning. New
York is trying to do it, and there's even some
similar legislation in Texas and Florida because you know, for
certain Republicans they think this is a matter of property
rights and if you want a piece of property, if
you want to build fifteen stories, well you should be
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allowed to build fifteen stories. So there's actually a bill
in Florida right now that would do something similar to
SP seventy nine. Next a mile radius, not a half
mile radius. And as I often say to folks, you know,
when Gavin Newsom and Ron De Santis starts singing from
the same hymn, all the rest of us better pay attention.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
And this is all funded by developers who spend lots
of money on guys from Newsome to Desantus.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, and Scott Wiener in Sacramento. Yeah, absolutely, this is
This is big developers, big finance, big philanthropy, and big tech.
And you know this is all the fifteen minute city,
which you and I have talked about many times, and
I know others have talked about on the show, but
less than any But you have any doubt take a
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look at SB seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Fifteen minute cities.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Just briefly run down that whole concept because most I
bring this up every once in a while with people.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
And they've never heard of this.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
And that's the real problem here is most people don't
know this is all going on. But briefly, what's a
fifteen minute city?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Great? Well, because most people have better things to worry
about the idea of the fifteen minute city was originated
in where many great ideas have come from over the
last century or so, at the Sorbonne in Paris, by
a professor there who the concept is that everybody should
live in intense urban cores where everything we need is
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a fifteen minute walk, bicycle ride or transit ride away
from working, schoolcation to socializing, to shopping to everything. It's
all in about fifteen minutes. And to get there we
need to get rid of our cars, which is why
the city of Paris over the last five years has
gotten rid of about sixty percent of its public parking spaces.
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And if you want to see the future if California
continues down this path, go to the fifteenth are on
these months and a TikToker or a delivery driver, how
they feel about who they gonna have parking. It's always,
you know, the lower income and the working folks who
get hit first and the worst.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
So this is this.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Sp seventy nine, this up zoning, this trying to turn
single family homes into many Miami beaches, the Manhattan's, this
is this is a very well refined period. It's happening.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
But if eighty two percent of the public is living
in single family home neighborhoods, when when everybody figures this out,
and clearly very few have, there's going to be a
big blowback.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
There has to be.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, but by that time, Zron Mom Danny will be
president and we'll be out of luck.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Chris, I gotta go gotta do the news.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Thank you, Thanks Sean.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That a good one, all right, rage.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Journalists, Yeah, we can't do enough on this topic. And
you've got to become aware of this and start spreading
the word yourself or you are, because there's usually there's
no parking requirements for these developers to put up these monstrosities,
these up to fifteen story buildings, with all these dozens
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of units. There's no parking requirements and there's no there's
no uh way to get out in the Palisades. It
was nearly impossible to get out as it was. Oh,
they hate suburbia. And of course the Republicans are finding
a reason to join this because they want the money.
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You know, for decades the Republicans were just as complicit
in uh open borders because their corporate buddies wanted the
cheap labor. That's why we had a huge problem. And
now they're back joining forces with the likes of Scott
Wiener and Gavin Newsom because they're all got their heads
in the troth enjoying all those campaign donations from the
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developers we got. There's a lot of work to do.
You got to wake up, stop staring at your phone.
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A long time analyst and very involved in the Republican
are Party for many years. He knows politics in this
state as well as anybody. He's got a site called
sodoesitmatter dot com? So doesitmatter dot com? And we are
going to get to one of his latest topics in
a moment. Sacramento, the legislature is going to put something
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on the ballot which will make it, I guess, facilitate
happy sounding ballot measures, but buried inside our terrible tax increases.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Johnny All, I'm here.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'm still recovery from having just watched the NEWSOM twenty
twenty eight campaign, rally paid for with your state tax
dollars and streamed on the official government ex account.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
But I'm here.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I want to talk about that first.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So he wants to force redistricting on the state so
that we could get forty nine Democratic representatives out of
fifty two, right, because forty three is not enough, and
he wants.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
To he I got like thirty seven percent of the
vote in California and they want Republicans to have about
four percent of the representation.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
No, it's absolutely nuts. So he has this rally today.
He wants to redraw the lines. And for people who
don't know, there was a ballot initiative that passed way
back in twenty ten and at passed sixty one to
thirty nine saying we're going to have an independent commission
to draw these lines. No politicians. So he wants to
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overturn an initiative that was passed by sixty one percent
of the public.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Then this morning, I know you saw this.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You wake up and political has a pall that says
sixty four percent of the state still wants to keep
that redistricting commission. They don't want Newsom or anybody else
getting him Bay. So he starts out he's behind two
to one, he's behind sixty four to thirty six, and
then he holds a pep rally. Is he insane?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I think he's figured out that win or lose. He
has taken the anti Trump lane. And like I said,
I really saw this more as they knew him for
president rally than really having to do with redistricting in California.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
But yes, he's insane.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
He's going to rally all these people and they're going
to move forward. I think they've got a tough road
to hoe to get on the ballot. I think that
the US Department of Justice is going to start filing
lawsuits the minute that they do this, talking about violation
of the Voter Rights Act. There are districts in California
that have to be approved by judges because of arcane rules,
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and I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the Department
of Justice mucked this thing up so it can't make
the ballot in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
But that doesn't matter to him.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
All he's doing is rallying all those people in the
room for his campaign for president.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And it was a lot of union people and a
lot of political hacks, and it was amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I turned on the rally a little bit late, and
I'm like, hey, that's the union guy that got arrested
just two months ago because he stood in the way
of ICE agents trying to actually serve legitimate judge approved
search warrants. And that guy ended up going to prison,
going to jail for the weekend. And now he's the
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opening speaker for Gavin Newsom at his presidential rally.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Literally like you can't make it up.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I feel like we live it in a different country
than the rest of the than the rest of the nation.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
It's like this dystopian reality of life.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
And yeah, you're.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Not kidding well, because he's got to get this done quickly.
He's got to get it on the ballot in a
number of days. You're going to have all kinds of
legal chances.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
They got to get They got to get it on
the ballot like next week, and they have a very
limited window before all of these fifty eight bureaucratic registrars
of voters have said, if you want us to print
it around and get ballots mailed out, you've got.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
To be on this timeline.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And that's why I think he's very, very susceptible to
lawsuits not in state court, because between Jerry Brown and
Gavin Newsom, sticks of the seven state Supreme court justices
are their bitches, so they're going to do whatever they
want state court, in state.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Court, but in federal court.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Now, now you've got a federal Department of Justice that's
going to go before federal courts, and that the end
of that chain gets to a much different Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Than the one in California.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And so I think it'll be interesting to see what happens.
I don't think Newsom cares if he gets it on
the ballot. He's happy if Trump's Department of Justice stops
at his because all he's doing is rallying the base
so that he can become the nominee for president in
twenty twenty eight. It's like it's like a win win
for him.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
He's happy.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
All right, let's talk about it.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Said, Really, we got to get to the boring bill,
which is a horrible bill.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
No, it's a horrible bill. I don't want to short
trift this Assembly Bill six. It's on a fast track
in Sacramento. Explain so that everybody can understand what would
this bill do if it became law.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Okay, so everyone who's listening, you already know that when
election time comes, you get a ballot in the mail,
and that ballot has like what you're voting on and
the actual ballot question. So for example, it might be
the the John Colebolt Fairness Act, and then the question
is do you believe that John Colebolt should have to
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give equal time on his radio show to left wing wackos.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
You'd know what the question is. You know what it is.
You know it's straightforward.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Well, if there's a.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Tax measure that's put before you right.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Now on the ballot, in addition to saying, you know,
this is the Better Schools in America Act, and do
you want to make schools better, it has to actually
say this represents a tax increase. This is how much
your taxes will go up, this is how much it
will cost, and this is how much money will be
raised by this tax increase over the next whatever period
of time. So it's like full disclosure so that you
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know when you're voting.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
What the tax implications are.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
What this legislation SB six ninety nine, sorry, AB six
ninety nine does is it says we're going to take.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
That warning to taxpayers.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
We're going to take it off of the ballot that
you all read right when you vote, and we're going
to put it in that two inch thick phone book
that you receive thirty days before the election, so you
can find it buried on page you know, forty seven
in small print, and if you look over there, you'll
realize what the tax implication is. And this is a
bill that's been promoted by the unions because they would
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like to get this off the ballot because one of
their big plays that they want to do is, you know,
they've been constantly getting raises, constantly driving up the pension costs,
and all of these cities and counties around California are
going bust, and so.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
They're now forced to put measures on the ballot to
increase taxes, and the unions don't want you, the taxpayer
to understand the financial cost of.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The measure, and so it's really insidious.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's really terrible.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
As you said, Don, I wrote about it all on
So Doesntmatter dot Com. But it's really bad and it's
on the fast track.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So literally, the only.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Person I think standing between this bill and it becoming
a law was the turret in the punch bowl that
just gave his presidential rally this morning. Because if he
doesn't veto the If he doesn't veto the bill, no
one's going to veto the bill. And what do you
do when the quote unquote adult in the room, Gavin
Newsom has suddenly decided to be a baby. There's no
(08:00):
I'm not telling your listeners not to call their senators,
which you should do and oppose this bill, and you
should call Gavin Newsom's office and oppose this bill.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
But you know, I'm like what.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I'm following behind the most cynical talk show host in America,
And so you know, I'm really kind of skeptical that
we're going to stop it.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
But this is the latest scheme. If they can.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Keep you from understanding what you're voting on, they're happy.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well historically they've done it when they can get away with.
I mean, remember Prop forty seven was the Better Schools,
Safer Schools and Neighborhoods Act.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Well that's the irony and it actually and it actually
ties back to the speech that Gavin Newsom gave this morning,
right because we have in California this jacked up system
where the Attorney General of California writes the title on
the sean those very words I told you about the
John Colebolt Fairness Act and what it would do that
would actually get written in this state by Rob Bonta,
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the very liberal Attorney General, who of course has endorsed
what the governor is doing in this case. If the
if the legislature puts an act on the ballot, they
actually get to pick their own title and summary, so
it will be very very biased what the voter see
will be, you know, something very anbiased.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
And so.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, it's already bad enough that the title and summary
that you see is twisted and it's biased. But now
even the factual statement underneath it that at least lets
you know how much the actual cost they want to
get rid of that too. So it's really it's really, uh,
it's disingenuous, it's dishonest and and and this is coming
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from people who hold press conferences complaining about no rules
and the rigging of the system while they simultaneously practice
no rules and the rigging.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Of the system. It's it's it's it's ihypoperacy.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It's best I know, it's quite a time we're living in.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
John Fleischmann, thank you for coming and go read his
site sodoesitmatter dot com. And there's further details explaining what's
going on here sodesitmatter dot com. Thank you, John, all right,
we'll talk again soon. Are more coming up?
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the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Now, one of
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the reasons, one of the big reasons we have so
many people laying in the streets and dying is the
tremendous amount of drugs that comes over the border, an
enormous amount of fentanyl and meth, cocaine, heroine, pot, you
name it, and people here in California ingested by the
(11:17):
tens of thousands. Some of them end up living on
the streets and there and their brains get ravaged, they
destroy their brains, and of course bass and newsm do
do nothing to help them. There's no mandatory drug treatment.
There is no mandatory mental health treatment. Either their mentally
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ill and that leads them to the drugs, or the
drugs create the mental illness one way or the other.
But their brains are scrambled and fried. And then we've
gotta we've gotta, we've got to endure their behavior as
Bass and newsom, you know, make excuses for them, cover
for them, but don't actually remove them in any great numbers. Well,
(12:05):
one of the original sins is the drugs. Now, Trump
ordered the State Department to drop plans to send in
the military into Mexico. US military would go across the
Mexican border and do whatever they have to do to
(12:25):
destroy the drug cartels, which I thought should have been done,
you know, decades ago. I've never understood why, because they
are better financed and better armed than the Mexican military.
They're the ones that have created all the death and
all the addiction here in this state. And they're the
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ones who've created these disgusting living conditions that we have
to put up with. And just it's not even the
Mexican government, it's not the Mexican people, it's the drug cartels,
just level them, do whatever you have to do to
wipe them out. Now, the Mexican government say they were
(13:08):
blindsided by Trump's idea yesterday, and I'm going to talk
about that in a couple of minutes, because they feel
like they've been doing everything they can, but whatever it is,
it's not enough. I mean, they claim that fifty well,
the Trump administration claims that fentinyl has dropped by fifty percent.
(13:30):
There's fifty percent fentonyl I'm sorry, fifty percent less fentinyl
coming over the border, and partly that comes from shutting
down the border. This would be the most aggressive step
against the cartels, and they not only wanted to choke
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off the migrants, but they wanted to choke off the
whole fentinyl heroin industry. They have designated these carts tells
as well as some of these Venezuelan gangs as FARGN
terrorist organizations, which gives the rationale for sending the military
to go after these these goins because normally it was
(14:15):
considered a law enforcement issue, but law enforcement wasn't working
for all these decades. I don't think they ever tried
that hard.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
It got to the.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Point where I wondered, are people in the American government
getting a kickback?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Wouldn't be shocking.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I mean, Mexican officials have been found over the years
to be getting a little side money from the cartels,
and they do have a big influence. But now, I mean,
the Trump administration is claiming that they're driving some of
the cartels into bankruptcy. The cartels are feeling so much
(14:56):
pressure they're slowing their production or they're trying to find
new ways to avoid detection. There's the US Ambassador to Mexico,
Ronald Johnson, said that the drop in fentanyl seizures again
fifty percent drop, was due to a secure border increased
collaboration between the US and Mexico. Johnson said, cartels are
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going bankrupt and our countries are safer because Trump and
the President of Mexico, Claudia Shinbaum, have actually been cooperating here.
But Shinbaum does not want the military to come into Mexico.
Mexican people very sensitive about the US is storming in.
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Not a good history, not good memories, cultural memories of this,
and so that's that's too much. We'll talk more about this,
and we'll talk about how they've been cooperating and what
success they have had to achieve at least a fifty
percent drop. Trump's not satisfied. He probably wants the other
(16:02):
fifty percent to be stopped once and for all. I'm
so much death, I mean the fentanyl. The deaths have
dropped in the last couple of years, but when it's height,
and I was always like just stunned. It's like one
hundred thousand people. One hundred thousand people would die of
fentinyl poisoning, and there was one country supplying most of it,
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and that was Mexico, and they were getting most of
their ingredients from China, which is one of the reasons
that Trump slapped all these tariffs on China. And this
is something no other president would do on either side. Why,
I mean, he apparently has had success with the tariffs.
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China got the message about the fentanyl ingredients, although you know,
I'm sure they're cheating some Mexico certainly got the message.
So I wasn't this done ten twenty thirty years ago.
I leads me to dark places are.
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feature on the iHeartRadio app. Chris la Graz coming on
with us there. He's a local journalist who, as we've
(17:43):
had on the show quite a few times, he does
great work. He's got a piece at Pasadena now dot com.
After the Palisades and Altadena burned out, they were trying
to pass laws so that developer can move in and
build low income housing multi family units, apartment buildings and
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duplexes and quadruplexes. And most of the people who live
in the Palisades, I know for sure, live in single
family homes and they like it that way. And you
have these outsiders who are banging the drum for low
income housing, and nobody wants that. I'll say it's bleep
me nobody. And eventually Newsome realized he was on the
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losing side, issued an executive order and they're not going
to be building low income housing. So the low income
housing advocates want to sue to reverse Newsome's order. Let's
talk to Chris Legrad to see what this is about. Chris,
how are you?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Good? John? How are you?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
So, as it stands, new Some issoot in order and
that blocks these low income housing ideas. What are these
groups planning to do well?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
First of the couple quick points of clarification, the story
opacity that now is not actually mine. There's actually not
a name on a story, but that's where the story
first ran that brought people's attention to this. And Newsome's
order applies specifically to one law called SB nine, and
what SB nine does is it allows developers to go
in and buy a single family parcel, split it in two,
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and build duplexes on each of the two new parcels
for a total of four units where there used to
be a single family house, and then using ADUs and JADUs,
you can get as many as eight and possibly ten
units where there used to be a House, and obviously
Pacific Colisades and Alpadena are you know, ripe for this
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kind of development because you don't have to pay for
the demolition because mother nature already did it for you
if you're a developer. So about two and a half
weeks ago it was reported that developers had started doing
exactly this with SB nine on half a dozen or
so parcels in the Palisades. And these are not people rebuilding.
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These are developers who bought parcels from people whose homes
had burned down and it decided or not be able
to rebuild, and tried to start shoehorning multiple units into
the Palisades. We haven't seen if it's happening in Altadena,
but it is almost certainly happening in Altadena. So this
resulted in a letter both from Tracy Park, the council
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woman of course for the Palisades, who wrote to the
governor as soon as she'd learned of it two Fridays ago.
That was followed by a letter from Mayor Bass, and
within about five days knewsom It signed as executive order
exempting just Altadena and the Palisades from this kind of
quote unquote multi family development. And in response, YIMBI Law
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has announced that they are considering I don't want to
stay threatening, but considering lawsuit to overturn Newsome's orders so
that developers could continue adding thousands and thousands of new
units to places that have already burned. And the quote
I think that sums it all up is that one
of the attorneys in this Pacadyena Now story was quoted
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as saying, quote, there is nothing linking additional density to
added fire danger. And you're saying, that's about a place
where with the current density, we had gridlocked evacuations, people
running through smoke and embers on foot, and bulldozers pushing
cars out of the way so fire engines could actually
get to the fire. But adding a couple thousand more
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people passed no real connection.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
YIBBI stands for yes in my backyard, which I find
will be one of the most obnoxious phrases. Yes in
my backyard, Well, then put them in your backyard. But
this crowd is saying yes in other people's backyards.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Well, and here's the thing. The reason and Gavin Newsom
acted so quickly is that this is he's actually and
people really need to understand because that this is the
greater significance. The reason he did this so quickly is
there is another even worse bill as we speak, making
its way through the legislature, SB seventy nine. And what
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SB seventy nine does is that it requires cities to
approve multifamily developments up to seven stories, and then when
you add other existing laws, it could be up to
as many as fifteen stories in single family neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Fifteen fifteen stories in a single family neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
There's a bill that would allow that.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
And the only requirement is that the parcel be within
a half mile or a quarter mile of certain kinds
of transit stops. And you don't even need to worry
about the definitions because ultimately involve this bill is that
any parcel that's within a half mile the bus stop
will be automatically up zoned and I can go build
fifteen stories where they're used to.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I mean, I heard about SP seventy nine, We talked
about it. I had no idea could lead to a
fifteen story apartment building on a single family site.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Absolutely because itself has new new heights allotments. And then
when you add again density bonus and other incentives, you
just multiply the number of units. Oh and also, according
to recent law, you can build that, let's say, fifteen
stories without a single off street parking spot because you're
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near a bus line or.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
A train to try to force everybody onto buses and trains. Yes, yeah, yeah,
I ac tell you what it could affect me because
we're a half mile away from Sunset Boulevard and I'm
pretty sure there's a bus stop there. So yeah, this
is trying to force me to take the bus, to
take the bus to Burbank.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, you're screwed.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I could wake up and there could be a fifteen
story low income apartment building across the street.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
It could be low income, it could be luxury. It
could be anything the developer can get away with. Oh
and here's another wonderful example. I just learned of a
project up in the Bay Area that's taking advantage of
some of these laws. And it's a twenty unit development,
except one of the units is a fifty four bed
assisted care facility that this developer, who is very creative,
(24:34):
My head is off to their legal team, somehow managed
to get this fifty four unit assisted care facility counted
as a single unit for the purposes of the approvals?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Is that going into a residential area?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, yeah, it's up there. I believe it's Marine count Wait.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
In a Ring county. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And the reason I'm telling that story is it's another
example of these laws that have been passed over the
last seven or eight years by people like Scott Wiener
and the EMBs. We are now starting to see the
worst fears that those of us who have been advocating
against these laws all along, our worst fears are coming
true because they are written so broadly and in language
(25:15):
that has so many loopholes you could, you know, literally
drive a construction truck through it. And we're now starting
to see that manifest in all of these different ways.
And so Gavin Newsom said, sure, I'll get rid of
SB nine and the Palisades and Alta Dina, which also
by the Ray, raises another question. So then the question is,
mister Governor, just so unclear? There are hundreds of other communities,
(25:38):
including yours, including mine in the Bay Area, that are
very similar to the Palisades in terms of fire danger, evacuations,
et cetera. So, mister Governor, is the new policy that
I have to wait for my neighborhood to burn down
before I get relief from these laws.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Yes, why is the only.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Answers?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Can you all right? Thanks very much for coming on, Chris.
We'll talk.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
There's a ton more to talk about.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Do you got time to stand and wait?
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Do you got time to stand in another segment?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Oh? Sure?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Okay, all right then hang on, hang on, we'll talk
more about this. Crystal gras a journalists are more coming up.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
We continue with Crystal Graw. Chris is a local journalist,
and we're talking about all these outrageous laws which are
going to allow developers to buy lots in your single
family neighborhood and build all kinds of high density housing
is the polite term. It's could be low income housing.
(26:45):
It could be housing that ends up fifteen stories high
right across the street from you. Because they're they're they're
using the state law to overrule all local law, local
zoning law, especially when it comes to single family housing,
which has been declared evil by the progressives in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Chris, when we left off, you said there's a lot
more going on what else is going on?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well, you know, since since about twenty for about the
last ten years, the legislature has passed something like three
hundred bills that have been signed in the law and
in some shape or form rest control from local governments
away from development and housing and land use. And there
are all sorts of new exceptions and exemptions for multi
(27:33):
family development because, as you alluded to, the prevailing wisdom
and sacramento is that single family houses are responsible for
everything from racism to you know, polar bears dying horrible depths.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Right, climate change though, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So, now never mind the fact that eighty two percent
of cals of every conceivable walk pipe and the background
live in low density neighborhoods, single family neighborhoods and duplexes
and the like. You know, that's that's the California, the
American dream that an has declared war on. So whether
(28:09):
it's a density bonus is something that they use that
if a developer adds just a small sprinkling of quote
unquote affordable units, they get to add multiples of that
in regular price, market rate and measury units. So the
way it pencils out for the developer who by the way,
there's no way of enforcing even those affordability requirements. But
(28:32):
the developer just puts it down on paper and they
get their extra units and their extra levels, And as
I said a few minutes ago, that's how you get
to as many as fourteen or fifteen under SP seventy nine.
So they are now SB seventy nine is a culmination
of this whole process. And California is in good company.
(28:52):
Oregon has has all but outlawed single family zoning. The
city of Minneapolis got rid of single family zoning. New
York is trying to do it, and there's even some
similar legislation in Texas and Florida because you know, for
certain Republicans they think this is a matter of property
rights and if you want a piece of property, if
you want to build fifteen stories, well you should be
(29:13):
allowed to build fifteen stories. So there's actually a bill
in Florida right now that would do something similar to
SP seventy nine. Next a mile radius, not a half
mile radius. And as I often say to folks, you know,
when Gavin Newsom and Ron De Santis starts singing from
the same hymn, all the rest of us better pay attention.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
And this is all funded by developers who spend lots
of money on guys from Newsome to Desantus.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, and Scott Wiener in Sacramento. Yeah, absolutely, this is
This is big developers, big finance, big philanthropy, and big tech.
And you know this is all the fifteen minute city,
which you and I have talked about many times, and
I know others have talked about on the show, but
less than any But you have any doubt take a
(30:01):
look at SB seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Fifteen minute cities.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Just briefly run down that whole concept because most I
bring this up every once in a while with people.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
And they've never heard of this.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
And that's the real problem here is most people don't
know this is all going on. But briefly, what's a
fifteen minute city?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Great? Well, because most people have better things to worry
about the idea of the fifteen minute city was originated
in where many great ideas have come from over the
last century or so, at the Sorbonne in Paris, by
a professor there who the concept is that everybody should
live in intense urban cores where everything we need is
(30:39):
a fifteen minute walk, bicycle ride or transit ride away
from working, schoolcation to socializing, to shopping to everything. It's
all in about fifteen minutes. And to get there we
need to get rid of our cars, which is why
the city of Paris over the last five years has
gotten rid of about sixty percent of its public parking spaces.
(31:01):
And if you want to see the future if California
continues down this path, go to the fifteenth are on
these months and a TikToker or a delivery driver, how
they feel about who they gonna have parking. It's always,
you know, the lower income and the working folks who
get hit first and the worst.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
So this is this.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Sp seventy nine, this up zoning, this trying to turn
single family homes into many Miami beaches, the Manhattan's, this
is this is a very well refined period. It's happening.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
But if eighty two percent of the public is living
in single family home neighborhoods, when when everybody figures this out,
and clearly very few have, there's going to be a
big blowback.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
There has to be.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, but by that time, Zron Mom Danny will be
president and we'll be out of luck.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Chris, I gotta go gotta do the news.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Thank you, Thanks Sean.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That a good one, all right, rage.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Journalists, Yeah, we can't do enough on this topic. And
you've got to become aware of this and start spreading
the word yourself or you are, because there's usually there's
no parking requirements for these developers to put up these monstrosities,
these up to fifteen story buildings, with all these dozens
(32:21):
of units. There's no parking requirements and there's no there's
no uh way to get out in the Palisades. It
was nearly impossible to get out as it was. Oh,
they hate suburbia. And of course the Republicans are finding
a reason to join this because they want the money.
(32:42):
You know, for decades the Republicans were just as complicit
in uh open borders because their corporate buddies wanted the
cheap labor. That's why we had a huge problem. And
now they're back joining forces with the likes of Scott
Wiener and Gavin Newsom because they're all got their heads
in the troth enjoying all those campaign donations from the
(33:05):
developers we got. There's a lot of work to do.
You got to wake up, stop staring at your phone.
Are more coming up temver Mark live in the CAFI
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