July 31, 2025 • 28 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (07/31) - CA State Assemblyman David Tangipa comes on the show to talk about AB377 which will create oversight for the remaining high-speed rail budget. 10 Cal Trans workers are being accused of drinking on the job. The police officer who was shot dead in New York near the NFL offices was laid to rest today. Public officials in LA are so stubborn.
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
All right, let's go on.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We're going to talk with David Tangipa.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's been on with us before.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
He's a Republican Assemblement from the Central Valley, which of
course is ground zero for this colossal disaster high speed rail.
He wrote a bill that Newson signed it demanding a
comprehensive budget and spending plan for this fabulous Merced to
Bakersfield segment.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
And and.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
We'll find out the rationale behind this bill and why
Newsom signed it. And Newsom got roasted just yesterday and
the Sacramento b by the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy over
Newsom suing the federal government because Trump cut off the
four billion dollars to this disaster.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
David Tegepa, welcome, How are.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You, John? It's always great to join you. And uh,
you know, I can tell you this.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I'm definitely surprised if the governor signed it. I had
to change all of my veto language because I was
expecting him to veto it, and not only that wear
like a badge of honor. But you know, I'm happy
he signed it because it is time and bring accountability
to California.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So what does this require him to do?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
So what AB three seven seven is it's legal framework
to require a financial plan on high speed rail. Actually,
when I got with my team together to start talking
about bills to all the concrete structures, a lot of
them are right in the middle of my district.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I asked them. I was like, well, what what do
we need?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
And they said, well, one of the best things that
we could do is a financial plan. And it was
more than I dismay that there wasn't a legal financial
plan in place for high speed rail.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It actually made me very angry.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
And the bill is essentially a do your business or
get off the pot type of bill that we're looking
at the cost and the cost overruns of what happened
to high speed rail and the original bill that was
sold to US thirty three billion dollars in the Bay
Area to LA and now we're at one hundred and
thirty five billion dollars with just the thirty five billion
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dollars to get the merced the Bakersfield portion done. But
this is what I've talked about that you know, if
you're in the real world and you're ten percent with
overestimated costs on your original project, you're probably going to
start looking for a new job soon. If you're twenty
percent over cost on an estimated project, you're probably never
going to get a job again. But if you're four
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hundred percent overestimated cost, you probably worked for California High
speed Rail, because that doesn't happen in reality. And this
bill is about getting us out of Lalla land and
getting business done.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
There really was no legal financial plan that they're working from.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Seriously, none, none, whatsoever that was lucked in funding. And
that is what we wanted was, Hey, there's no way
in hell that we're going to go from thirty three
billion dollars of the original to one hundred and thirty
something billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
That it's that's going to end.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
And now with the governor signing it, and like I said,
I was actually surprised that he signed it. And I
had a lot of legal language ready to go to
say that, look, the governor again rejects accountability on this project.
But he did sign it, and he and he had
to sign it because this is I was with Secretary
Duffy in LA when we announced the investigation. We were
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able to uncover seven hundred million dollars spent in change
order delays. And what that means is high Speed Rail
didn't even know where the gas utility lines and easement
lines were on a lot of the parcels in place.
And there's a contract piece that's called non execution, a
contract where the contractors that have equipment on the property
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are owed one hundred and seventy thousand dollars a day
for every day delayed, up to five million dollars a month.
And we have found out that again seven hundred million
dollars have been paid for for zero work to be done.
That's how bad high.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
School do you think is this corruption that they know
what they're doing and this is by design.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I just don't know if there's any argument against it
on who's being lined up, where this money is coming.
Is this a project that is just funneling money coming
from taxpayers going to different and interest groups. That is
something that we're working on in the investigation as well.
I know that the federal government I've been working with
them on that.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Nobody's that bad at their job.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can't have seven hundred million dollars worth of change
orders that that's just preposterous. This must be a whole
racket that they set up. This is how you built
the revenue stream as you come up with endless change
orders and then everybody profits off the change orders and
you don't have to build anything.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Work doesn't even need to be done. You're one hundred
percent correct on that, and that's where as we're doing
this investigation. We have also discovered that high speed rail
is the third most expensive infrastructure project in the history
of the world, now only.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Behind two projects.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Number one is the interstate project that Eisenhower. When adjusted
for inflation, the entire you can go from California to
York and you can do the drive and number two
is the International Space Station and then it goes California
high speed rail. Right, and we have nothing to show up.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Right, we have an interstate highway system and we have
an International space station. We have no rail, I mean
zero rail. That's what's what's almost fascinating about this is this.
They pulled this scam and spent you know, fifteen seventeen
billion dollars, didn't produce a thing, and don't have a
plan to explain where they're going to get the rest
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of the money or how they're going to spend it.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I'm just astonished that they could get away with this.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
You're one hundred percent correct, and that's actually what I'm
asking you know, for people who are the listeners, this
is their tax dollars. This is the money that is
being spent on concrete and rebar with nothing in return.
And my bill is about accountability, but this is the
reality of it. Californians are getting everything they voted for,
and we need to start raising the standard again and
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start demanding on our elected officials to do a better
job just to be accountable with our dollars. And that's
what I'm asking everybody to start being a part of
this process because they are being stolen from.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
If they actually built Merced to Bakersfield, how many people
are going to ride on that train?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You know?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
That is it's a it's a reason why you know,
maybe everybody should start their morning with a little bit
of Bailey's the Uh, I just don't I don't understand.
The original project was supposed to go along the I
five corridor. Yeah, it should have gone along the five
corridor if something could have been done. But when Jerry
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Brown actually moved it over to the ninety nine corridor,
he put it in the hardest area to build, with population,
dense areas, with all this, and he said, well, who's
going to ride it all the way out.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
There on I five? Nobody lives there.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Well, who's going to ride it from Merced to Bakersfield. Uh,
there's we're a commuter community. And not only that, what
are we going to do when we get there?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
You gotta pop in.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You're gonna get in an uber and drive another hour
away to something else.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Or that's not what the Central Valley. We don't work
like that.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well I read it's not even madeira Bakersfield that were said.
It's more like Shafter to Maderra. That's what the stations
are gonna be.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yeah, that is it is Shafter, which is on the
outskirts of Bakersfield by about twenty twenty to thirty miles.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And then wait, are you serious? Shafter is twenty or
thirty miles.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, it's about twenty miles out.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And that's what they call Bakersfield.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
That is what they call Bakersfield.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So and then where where's Madeira?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
That is about thirty miles away from the city of Presno,
And well where is it ere? We said, it's about
thirty miles away from Merced.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
So it is you know and know it the uh were?
And not only that, I actually talk about it.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
How there's a stop from Fresno to Maderra.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Uh huh to travel at high speed in that.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
You'd pretty have to come to close to terminal velocity
to get there at a high speeded state.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So, oh my god, I shouldn't laugh. I mean, this
is our money. This is like seventeen billion dollars of
her money that's been set on fire.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Here. Holy I'm mackerel.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
That is the reality of the state of affairs in California.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
And you know where we are.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I used to play football for President State. The way
I described being up in Sacramento is I'm still playing
football because I'm running into everything headfirst. So uh we are.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It has been a fun seven months, I will say that.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, all right, David. We got to talk more about
this down the road. David tangipa assemblyman Republican from the
Central Valley, and he got new some to sign a
bail that's gonna call for the first time for a
comprehensive budget and spending plan. I was gonna say, bakersfielder said,
but it's it's shafter to Madera, which is thirty miles
outside those other two cities.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's hysterical. All right, Thank you very much. David.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Hey, I appreciate you you calling me anytime you need me.
Like I said, I didn't vote price speed rail when
it started.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I was eight. I was twelve years old.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
But we're going to try to fix it when we
get there, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
All right, David, we'll talk with you again soon. Thanks
very much.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
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Speaker 2 (10:43):
Do you believe this? I would that.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
We just had David tangipon. If you missed it, you
got to listen to this one on the podcast. He's
the Republican assemblyman in the Central Valley. And because Newsom
is now running for president and he's had all his
federal funding taken away for high speed rail, knew some
agreed and signed Toangheepa's bill requiring for the first time
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a comprehensive budget and spending plan for the Merced to
Bakersfield segment because up to this point, up to this
point they had no legally binding financial plan was ever
written down. We're in our seventeenth year since that, since
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that was passed the high speed Rail borrowing referendum back
in November two thousand and eight, another Schwartz piece of
Schwarzinger nonsense. And now seventeen years later, they've blown seventeen
billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Nobody knows where a lot of it went. This is
a refrain over and over again.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You know, it's like the homeless money two billion in
LA twenty four billion in the state.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Nobody knows where it went. You keep voting for the
same people, but.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
The capital all this is Bakersfield and mer said is
actually Shafter to Madera, to places I'd never heard of.
And it turns out they're both thirty miles away from
those two main cities. So it's gonna take you from
Shafter to Madera. That's the opening and closing of the
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high speed rail line. Who is going to be taking
that train. I gotta look, I gotta look this up.
I gotta see what the population of Shafter and Madera are.
It's thirty miles away from Bakersfield. It's thirty miles away
from ber said. Now listen to this more state government.
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This this stuff is obscene. In this case, literally obscene.
Do you know they fired they fired ten Cowtrans employees.
Apparently they had a wild retirement party for a coworker
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on state time while we were paying them, and they
had excessive drinking and a stripper, a taxpayer paid stripper. Yeah,
so ten of the employees are fired. Two others have
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been suspended. This happened on July tenth at the Monterey
Caltrans yard in case you have a highway that's never
been repaired, properly, paved, properly. This is why they spend
the day drinking and chasing strippers. Remember David Goldstein used
to do these stories on Caltrans and these guys would
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have uh I remember if it was Cowtrans or another
another government agency, but they'd find them at.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
A bar, drinking all day in the bar.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Listen to this jackass, a spokeshole for Cowtrans, Matt Rocco.
Cowtrans takes these allegations with the utmost seriousness. Sure you do,
and it's unwavering and holding those involved accountable. I apparently
they were drinking a lot and then they drove drunk
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out of the construction yard.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
In taxpayer paid Cowtrans vehicles.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
The nerve, so the cars we paid for were being
driven by drunken Cowtrans employees. Apparently they somebody, somebody tipped
them off, somebody who maybe wasn't.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
In Yeah, kissed that they didn't get to see the stripper.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
They didn't get a crack at the stripper themselves. And
it's like, we'll screw you guys. Wouldn't you snitch?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh? If I knew about this, you get ten government
employees fired. Wow. I mean, you know, after work you.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Go do what you want, right, but not on company time,
not on our using our taxpayer money, on our time,
on our time.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And it didn't bother anybody. Everybody went along. Nobody said,
you know, it's not a good idea. Why don't we
hold off till tonight and we go over to Barney's
basement and uh blood the good time there? Oh my,
where do you get a a stripper in Monterey in
the middle of the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I guess there's probably an app for that, right, Yeah,
there's plenty of strip clubs with good lunch specials. Well,
you can elaborate on that if you wish.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I will not.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So all the employees get to get a review before
they officially get fired. So that's your that's your tax
dollars at work. When we come back, I have a
number of things I want to do, but now I'm
running out of time. I don't have enough time anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
There's always tomorrow. There is there is tomorrow maybe, and
we'll get to that next whatever it is. What a
great tease, Thank you. I I just can't decide. There's
too many good things.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
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Speaker 1 (16:48):
We're out every day from one until four and then
after four o'clock John cobelt Show on demand the podcast
and if you're just joining us, I really would listen
to this hour on the podcast. Asked if you missed
the first segment because we had David David Tangipa on
and he's got a bill that Newsom signed to force
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a real budget and spending plan for what's left of
high speed rail.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
He's just not going to believe it. You gotta you gotta,
you gotta hear it. So today it was sad in
New York City today. The police officer who.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Is shot dead by that crazed former high school football player.
The detective's name was de Odril Islam, has two kids
and a third on the way. And the funeral was
today and they buried him the funeral. The ceremony was
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at a mosque in the Bronx and thousands of police
officers showed up and hundreds of other people, and the
NYPD commissioner was there when he was shot. And those
other people were killed at the office building on Park Avenue.
You know who wasn't in town, the leading they oral candidate,
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Zorn Mamdani, and he was in Africa, just like Karen
Bass was in Ghana when the fire destroyed Pacific Palisades.
Mamdani was in Uganda. His excuse he was getting married,
but he wasn't in New York and so he really
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couldn't defend himself for the first day or two when
everybody dug up all of his old tweets about how
much he hates the police. After deadrol Islam was murdered
by the crazy gunman, he had to finally go before
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the reporters and say I am not running to defund
the police, which is the first time he's ever said it,
but took the murder of a police officer to do that.
I'm gonna keep pointing out this guy, mom donni, even
though he's running for mayor in New York, because we
had many of these types here in Los Angeles and
here in California serving at all levels of government. There's
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a whole load of these defund the police guys who
don't care if the cops die. The only time they
care is when a policeman is murdered. And they have
to play pretend in front of the public. This mom,
Donnie guy is a bad, bad man. But the Progressives
seem to have control of New York City like they
do out here. I'm going to read you the tweets
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because the New York Post reprinted them. I know you
have to you occasionally use that phrase. Politician has to
walk back comments, you know, And I've never understood exactly
what that means. Is that a complete repudiation. He was
momentarily insane, he was drawn, didn't mean it well. When
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somebody has a very definitive, harsh position and repeats it
over and over and over again, I don't believe any
walking back. I don't believe that he's evolved or modified.
I believe now he's lying and then he was telling
the truth. Because here's Zoron Kwam Mamdani. Back in twenty twenty,
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he was running for Assembly in New York State. Back
then he won. So he was putting out a lot
of messages. Here's one of them. Our police threatening the
physical safety of politicians who opposed their agenda. Our prosecutors
turning their own offices into super spreader events because of
their COVID truthers, the entire carceral system is an unreformable
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public health hazard. Defund and dismantle. Then, on the night
he was getting elected, he wrote, We'll have to wait
to see if our lead holds, but to be if leading,
even amidst a global pandemic, makes it clear another world
is really possible. Together, we can tax the rich, heal
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the sick, how's the poor, defund the police, and build
a socialist New York Solidarity forever leading candidate in New
York City.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Here's another one from June twenty eighth to twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD
is racist, anti queer, and a major threat to public safety.
What we need is to defund the NYPD. Printed that
with a hashtag. Hashtag defund the NYPD, but your deal
(21:48):
with the current New York City mayor uses budget tricks
to keep as many cops as possible on the beat.
No to fake cuts. Defund the police. Here's another one.
We want to defund the police. And here's another one.
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We need a socialist city council to defund the police.
I think he's pretty definitive, isn't he. I don't think
there's any walking back room here, any wiggle room. Now,
he says his past tweets were not reflective of his
campaign's stance. Now, he says that police play an integral
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role in public safety.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Until he's elected. That's right.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Who would trust this guy? Do these do these progressives
really want no police? What do you think is going
to happen when there's no police. We've already partially defunded
police in LA. We're down to We're gonna be down
to eighty three hundred by the end of the year.
Ten years ago we had we had ten thousand. And
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you see what happens. You get these these burglary sprees
that the police are overwhelmed they can't show up for,
like what happened Insino, which led to the deaths of
that couple two weeks ago. So he has been He
has been preaching this for over five years. He says
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social workers should be responsible for answering some calls, including
domestic violence reports. Oh yeah, when your husband is beating
the crap out of you, sir, I.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Need you to take a deep breath, calm down, let's
talk about this. Hold my hand, let's sing together. You
don't want to hurt her.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
His other bizarre tweets, queer liberation means defund the police,
defund the Harem police.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I don't know what that means. Said, defunding the police
is a feminist issue. Some of this is nuns. I
don't understand that. I don't either. There's no translation for this.
Here's another one.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD
is racist, anti queer, and a major threat to public safety.
White supremacy has many faces, from the police and prison
systems in America to the occupation and apartheide in Palestine.
And he's getting, you know, thirty five percent of the vote,
which isn't that much except there's three other candidates, and
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none of the three candidates are getting near thirty. It's
some of those guys have to drop out because there's
three major candidates and then there's another minor candidate for two.
It's like, I believe he can be beaten one on one,
but nobody wants to drop out. Wow, Well, you'll see
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there'll be some jack ash like Hugo Sotro Martinez who
will be adopting the same rhetoric because this is what
these all all these socialist communists believe in their soul.
This is what they talk about at home. Mondamie went
full board though, five years ago because after the George
Floyd in Sanity, everybody felt, well, that's really cool, and
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he got a lot of applause for it. And now
he might be mayor and only get a third of
the vote. Jeez, going to hell. We're going to hell.
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And what Tim said, We got a Chargers game coming
up at well, the pregame starts at four o'clock right
after we're done here.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Playing. They're playing the Detroit Lions and the Hall of
Fame game in Canton, Ohio. This is the first preseason
game yep of the year.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
All right, yep, So that's right here on CAFI and
we're carrying the Chargers this year.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, all season. I go mad.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
One of the aggravating things about living in La La
County is how incredibly stubborn.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Public officials are.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I mean, especially on the stuff you really care about,
like all the r vs, all the homeless crazy people
who live in the RVs. That there is one I
think it's an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County and
Holly Mitchell is the idiot county supervisor, and it's South
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La County, and they've got hundreds and hundreds of RVs
that live in this particular neighborhood. And all the crazy
people dump all their human waste into the street, all
the feces all the year, and all the garbage. It's
really foul. They're all crazy, they're whacked out on drugs.
They beat the crap out of each other all day,
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screaming and howling into the night. And she refuses to
do anything about it, and you know, always has some
Kakamami's story as to why she can't. In San Francisco,
they got a normal person as mayor. His name's Daniel Lurie.
He's a very wealthy guy. He's the heir to uh
I believe I fortune, the Jeans Company, and uh you
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know what, he signed into law now two hour parking
restriction for r vs. It's going to be enforced all
over the city.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You can't park your RV on city streets, uh, two
hours a day. He says, it's no good for the families.
The families they always claim there's family. When I passed
these are vs, there aren't families. There are crazy bearded,
half naked drunks screaming into the night. But all right,
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he sees families and they're just simply not putting up
with it. Then they're gonna toe it because they said
there was so many so much waste water. Oh is
that what they're calling it? Waste water dumped into the sewers.
So at least he's doing something, all right, See you tomorrow,
John Cobalt Show, and we have Regina Degustina live in
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
All right, let's go on.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
We're going to talk with David Tangipa.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's been on with us before.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
He's a Republican Assemblement from the Central Valley, which of
course is ground zero for this colossal disaster high speed rail.
He wrote a bill that Newson signed it demanding a
comprehensive budget and spending plan for this fabulous Merced to
Bakersfield segment.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
And and.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
We'll find out the rationale behind this bill and why
Newsom signed it. And Newsom got roasted just yesterday and
the Sacramento b by the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy over
Newsom suing the federal government because Trump cut off the
four billion dollars to this disaster.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
David Tegepa, welcome, How are.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You, John? It's always great to join you. And uh,
you know, I can tell you this.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I'm definitely surprised if the governor signed it. I had
to change all of my veto language because I was
expecting him to veto it, and not only that wear
like a badge of honor. But you know, I'm happy
he signed it because it is time and bring accountability
to California.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So what does this require him to do?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
So what AB three seven seven is it's legal framework
to require a financial plan on high speed rail. Actually,
when I got with my team together to start talking
about bills to all the concrete structures, a lot of
them are right in the middle of my district.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I asked them. I was like, well, what what do
we need?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
And they said, well, one of the best things that
we could do is a financial plan. And it was
more than I dismay that there wasn't a legal financial
plan in place for high speed rail.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It actually made me very angry.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
And the bill is essentially a do your business or
get off the pot type of bill that we're looking
at the cost and the cost overruns of what happened
to high speed rail and the original bill that was
sold to US thirty three billion dollars in the Bay
Area to LA and now we're at one hundred and
thirty five billion dollars with just the thirty five billion
(02:43):
dollars to get the merced the Bakersfield portion done. But
this is what I've talked about that you know, if
you're in the real world and you're ten percent with
overestimated costs on your original project, you're probably going to
start looking for a new job soon. If you're twenty
percent over cost on an estimated project, you're probably never
going to get a job again. But if you're four
(03:04):
hundred percent overestimated cost, you probably worked for California High
speed Rail, because that doesn't happen in reality. And this
bill is about getting us out of Lalla land and
getting business done.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
There really was no legal financial plan that they're working from.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Seriously, none, none, whatsoever that was lucked in funding. And
that is what we wanted was, Hey, there's no way
in hell that we're going to go from thirty three
billion dollars of the original to one hundred and thirty
something billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
That it's that's going to end.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
And now with the governor signing it, and like I said,
I was actually surprised that he signed it. And I
had a lot of legal language ready to go to
say that, look, the governor again rejects accountability on this project.
But he did sign it, and he and he had
to sign it because this is I was with Secretary
Duffy in LA when we announced the investigation. We were
(04:00):
able to uncover seven hundred million dollars spent in change
order delays. And what that means is high Speed Rail
didn't even know where the gas utility lines and easement
lines were on a lot of the parcels in place.
And there's a contract piece that's called non execution, a
contract where the contractors that have equipment on the property
(04:24):
are owed one hundred and seventy thousand dollars a day
for every day delayed, up to five million dollars a month.
And we have found out that again seven hundred million
dollars have been paid for for zero work to be done.
That's how bad high.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
School do you think is this corruption that they know
what they're doing and this is by design.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I just don't know if there's any argument against it
on who's being lined up, where this money is coming.
Is this a project that is just funneling money coming
from taxpayers going to different and interest groups. That is
something that we're working on in the investigation as well.
I know that the federal government I've been working with
them on that.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Nobody's that bad at their job.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can't have seven hundred million dollars worth of change
orders that that's just preposterous. This must be a whole
racket that they set up. This is how you built
the revenue stream as you come up with endless change
orders and then everybody profits off the change orders and
you don't have to build anything.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Work doesn't even need to be done. You're one hundred
percent correct on that, and that's where as we're doing
this investigation. We have also discovered that high speed rail
is the third most expensive infrastructure project in the history
of the world, now only.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Behind two projects.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Number one is the interstate project that Eisenhower. When adjusted
for inflation, the entire you can go from California to
York and you can do the drive and number two
is the International Space Station and then it goes California
high speed rail. Right, and we have nothing to show up.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Right, we have an interstate highway system and we have
an International space station. We have no rail, I mean
zero rail. That's what's what's almost fascinating about this is this.
They pulled this scam and spent you know, fifteen seventeen
billion dollars, didn't produce a thing, and don't have a
plan to explain where they're going to get the rest
(06:29):
of the money or how they're going to spend it.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I'm just astonished that they could get away with this.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
You're one hundred percent correct, and that's actually what I'm
asking you know, for people who are the listeners, this
is their tax dollars. This is the money that is
being spent on concrete and rebar with nothing in return.
And my bill is about accountability, but this is the
reality of it. Californians are getting everything they voted for,
and we need to start raising the standard again and
(06:56):
start demanding on our elected officials to do a better
job just to be accountable with our dollars. And that's
what I'm asking everybody to start being a part of
this process because they are being stolen from.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
If they actually built Merced to Bakersfield, how many people
are going to ride on that train?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You know?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
That is it's a it's a reason why you know,
maybe everybody should start their morning with a little bit
of Bailey's the Uh, I just don't I don't understand.
The original project was supposed to go along the I
five corridor. Yeah, it should have gone along the five
corridor if something could have been done. But when Jerry
(07:39):
Brown actually moved it over to the ninety nine corridor,
he put it in the hardest area to build, with population,
dense areas, with all this, and he said, well, who's
going to ride it all the way out.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
There on I five? Nobody lives there.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Well, who's going to ride it from Merced to Bakersfield. Uh,
there's we're a commuter community. And not only that, what
are we going to do when we get there?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
You gotta pop in.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You're gonna get in an uber and drive another hour
away to something else.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Or that's not what the Central Valley. We don't work
like that.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well I read it's not even madeira Bakersfield that were said.
It's more like Shafter to Maderra. That's what the stations
are gonna be.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yeah, that is it is Shafter, which is on the
outskirts of Bakersfield by about twenty twenty to thirty miles.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And then wait, are you serious? Shafter is twenty or
thirty miles.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah, it's about twenty miles out.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And that's what they call Bakersfield.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
That is what they call Bakersfield.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So and then where where's Madeira?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
That is about thirty miles away from the city of Presno,
And well where is it ere? We said, it's about
thirty miles away from Merced.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
So it is you know and know it the uh were?
And not only that, I actually talk about it.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
How there's a stop from Fresno to Maderra.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Uh huh to travel at high speed in that.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
You'd pretty have to come to close to terminal velocity
to get there at a high speeded state.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So, oh my god, I shouldn't laugh. I mean, this
is our money. This is like seventeen billion dollars of
her money that's been set on fire.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Here. Holy I'm mackerel.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
That is the reality of the state of affairs in California.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
And you know where we are.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I used to play football for President State. The way
I described being up in Sacramento is I'm still playing
football because I'm running into everything headfirst. So uh we are.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
It has been a fun seven months, I will say that.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, all right, David. We got to talk more about
this down the road. David tangipa assemblyman Republican from the
Central Valley, and he got new some to sign a
bail that's gonna call for the first time for a
comprehensive budget and spending plan. I was gonna say, bakersfielder said,
but it's it's shafter to Madera, which is thirty miles
outside those other two cities.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's hysterical. All right, Thank you very much. David.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Hey, I appreciate you you calling me anytime you need me.
Like I said, I didn't vote price speed rail when
it started.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I was eight. I was twelve years old.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
But we're going to try to fix it when we
get there, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
All right, David, we'll talk with you again soon. Thanks
very much.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (10:36):
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Speaker 2 (10:43):
Do you believe this? I would that.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
We just had David tangipon. If you missed it, you
got to listen to this one on the podcast. He's
the Republican assemblyman in the Central Valley. And because Newsom
is now running for president and he's had all his
federal funding taken away for high speed rail, knew some
agreed and signed Toangheepa's bill requiring for the first time
(11:06):
a comprehensive budget and spending plan for the Merced to
Bakersfield segment because up to this point, up to this
point they had no legally binding financial plan was ever
written down. We're in our seventeenth year since that, since
(11:26):
that was passed the high speed Rail borrowing referendum back
in November two thousand and eight, another Schwartz piece of
Schwarzinger nonsense. And now seventeen years later, they've blown seventeen
billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Nobody knows where a lot of it went. This is
a refrain over and over again.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You know, it's like the homeless money two billion in
LA twenty four billion in the state.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Nobody knows where it went. You keep voting for the
same people, but.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
The capital all this is Bakersfield and mer said is
actually Shafter to Madera, to places I'd never heard of.
And it turns out they're both thirty miles away from
those two main cities. So it's gonna take you from
Shafter to Madera. That's the opening and closing of the
(12:23):
high speed rail line. Who is going to be taking
that train. I gotta look, I gotta look this up.
I gotta see what the population of Shafter and Madera are.
It's thirty miles away from Bakersfield. It's thirty miles away
from ber said. Now listen to this more state government.
(12:55):
This this stuff is obscene. In this case, literally obscene.
Do you know they fired they fired ten Cowtrans employees.
Apparently they had a wild retirement party for a coworker
(13:16):
on state time while we were paying them, and they
had excessive drinking and a stripper, a taxpayer paid stripper. Yeah,
so ten of the employees are fired. Two others have
(13:36):
been suspended. This happened on July tenth at the Monterey
Caltrans yard in case you have a highway that's never
been repaired, properly, paved, properly. This is why they spend
the day drinking and chasing strippers. Remember David Goldstein used
to do these stories on Caltrans and these guys would
(13:59):
have uh I remember if it was Cowtrans or another
another government agency, but they'd find them at.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
A bar, drinking all day in the bar.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Listen to this jackass, a spokeshole for Cowtrans, Matt Rocco.
Cowtrans takes these allegations with the utmost seriousness. Sure you do,
and it's unwavering and holding those involved accountable. I apparently
they were drinking a lot and then they drove drunk
(14:34):
out of the construction yard.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
In taxpayer paid Cowtrans vehicles.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
The nerve, so the cars we paid for were being
driven by drunken Cowtrans employees. Apparently they somebody, somebody tipped
them off, somebody who maybe wasn't.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
In Yeah, kissed that they didn't get to see the stripper.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
They didn't get a crack at the stripper themselves. And
it's like, we'll screw you guys. Wouldn't you snitch?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh? If I knew about this, you get ten government
employees fired. Wow. I mean, you know, after work you.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Go do what you want, right, but not on company time,
not on our using our taxpayer money, on our time,
on our time.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
And it didn't bother anybody. Everybody went along. Nobody said,
you know, it's not a good idea. Why don't we
hold off till tonight and we go over to Barney's
basement and uh blood the good time there? Oh my,
where do you get a a stripper in Monterey in
the middle of the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I guess there's probably an app for that, right, Yeah,
there's plenty of strip clubs with good lunch specials. Well,
you can elaborate on that if you wish.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I will not.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So all the employees get to get a review before
they officially get fired. So that's your that's your tax
dollars at work. When we come back, I have a
number of things I want to do, but now I'm
running out of time. I don't have enough time anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
There's always tomorrow. There is there is tomorrow maybe, and
we'll get to that next whatever it is. What a
great tease, Thank you. I I just can't decide. There's
too many good things.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Today, you're listening to John Cobbel's on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
We're out every day from one until four and then
after four o'clock John cobelt Show on demand the podcast
and if you're just joining us, I really would listen
to this hour on the podcast. Asked if you missed
the first segment because we had David David Tangipa on
and he's got a bill that Newsom signed to force
(17:08):
a real budget and spending plan for what's left of
high speed rail.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
He's just not going to believe it. You gotta you gotta,
you gotta hear it. So today it was sad in
New York City today. The police officer who.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Is shot dead by that crazed former high school football player.
The detective's name was de Odril Islam, has two kids
and a third on the way. And the funeral was
today and they buried him the funeral. The ceremony was
(17:46):
at a mosque in the Bronx and thousands of police
officers showed up and hundreds of other people, and the
NYPD commissioner was there when he was shot. And those
other people were killed at the office building on Park Avenue.
You know who wasn't in town, the leading they oral candidate,
(18:06):
Zorn Mamdani, and he was in Africa, just like Karen
Bass was in Ghana when the fire destroyed Pacific Palisades.
Mamdani was in Uganda. His excuse he was getting married,
but he wasn't in New York and so he really
(18:30):
couldn't defend himself for the first day or two when
everybody dug up all of his old tweets about how
much he hates the police. After deadrol Islam was murdered
by the crazy gunman, he had to finally go before
(18:50):
the reporters and say I am not running to defund
the police, which is the first time he's ever said it,
but took the murder of a police officer to do that.
I'm gonna keep pointing out this guy, mom donni, even
though he's running for mayor in New York, because we
had many of these types here in Los Angeles and
here in California serving at all levels of government. There's
(19:13):
a whole load of these defund the police guys who
don't care if the cops die. The only time they
care is when a policeman is murdered. And they have
to play pretend in front of the public. This mom,
Donnie guy is a bad, bad man. But the Progressives
seem to have control of New York City like they
do out here. I'm going to read you the tweets
(19:37):
because the New York Post reprinted them. I know you
have to you occasionally use that phrase. Politician has to
walk back comments, you know, And I've never understood exactly
what that means. Is that a complete repudiation. He was
momentarily insane, he was drawn, didn't mean it well. When
(20:00):
somebody has a very definitive, harsh position and repeats it
over and over and over again, I don't believe any
walking back. I don't believe that he's evolved or modified.
I believe now he's lying and then he was telling
the truth. Because here's Zoron Kwam Mamdani. Back in twenty twenty,
(20:23):
he was running for Assembly in New York State. Back
then he won. So he was putting out a lot
of messages. Here's one of them. Our police threatening the
physical safety of politicians who opposed their agenda. Our prosecutors
turning their own offices into super spreader events because of
their COVID truthers, the entire carceral system is an unreformable
(20:48):
public health hazard. Defund and dismantle. Then, on the night
he was getting elected, he wrote, We'll have to wait
to see if our lead holds, but to be if leading,
even amidst a global pandemic, makes it clear another world
is really possible. Together, we can tax the rich, heal
(21:09):
the sick, how's the poor, defund the police, and build
a socialist New York Solidarity forever leading candidate in New
York City.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Here's another one from June twenty eighth to twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD
is racist, anti queer, and a major threat to public safety.
What we need is to defund the NYPD. Printed that
with a hashtag. Hashtag defund the NYPD, but your deal
(21:48):
with the current New York City mayor uses budget tricks
to keep as many cops as possible on the beat.
No to fake cuts. Defund the police. Here's another one.
We want to defund the police. And here's another one.
(22:10):
We need a socialist city council to defund the police.
I think he's pretty definitive, isn't he. I don't think
there's any walking back room here, any wiggle room. Now,
he says his past tweets were not reflective of his
campaign's stance. Now, he says that police play an integral
(22:33):
role in public safety.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Until he's elected. That's right.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Who would trust this guy? Do these do these progressives
really want no police? What do you think is going
to happen when there's no police. We've already partially defunded
police in LA. We're down to We're gonna be down
to eighty three hundred by the end of the year.
Ten years ago we had we had ten thousand. And
(22:57):
you see what happens. You get these these burglary sprees
that the police are overwhelmed they can't show up for,
like what happened Insino, which led to the deaths of
that couple two weeks ago. So he has been He
has been preaching this for over five years. He says
(23:20):
social workers should be responsible for answering some calls, including
domestic violence reports. Oh yeah, when your husband is beating
the crap out of you, sir, I.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Need you to take a deep breath, calm down, let's
talk about this. Hold my hand, let's sing together. You
don't want to hurt her.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
His other bizarre tweets, queer liberation means defund the police,
defund the Harem police.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I don't know what that means. Said, defunding the police
is a feminist issue. Some of this is nuns. I
don't understand that. I don't either. There's no translation for this.
Here's another one.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD
is racist, anti queer, and a major threat to public safety.
White supremacy has many faces, from the police and prison
systems in America to the occupation and apartheide in Palestine.
And he's getting, you know, thirty five percent of the vote,
which isn't that much except there's three other candidates, and
(24:35):
none of the three candidates are getting near thirty. It's
some of those guys have to drop out because there's
three major candidates and then there's another minor candidate for two.
It's like, I believe he can be beaten one on one,
but nobody wants to drop out. Wow, Well, you'll see
(24:59):
there'll be some jack ash like Hugo Sotro Martinez who
will be adopting the same rhetoric because this is what
these all all these socialist communists believe in their soul.
This is what they talk about at home. Mondamie went
full board though, five years ago because after the George
Floyd in Sanity, everybody felt, well, that's really cool, and
(25:20):
he got a lot of applause for it. And now
he might be mayor and only get a third of
the vote. Jeez, going to hell. We're going to hell.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
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Speaker 1 (25:37):
John cobelt Show, KFI AIM six forty more stimulating talk radio.
Last call for the moist line eight seven seven moist
eighty six. We had Vacancy's eight seven seven moist st
eighty six. So he usually talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
And what Tim said, We got a Chargers game coming
up at well, the pregame starts at four o'clock right
after we're done here.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Playing. They're playing the Detroit Lions and the Hall of
Fame game in Canton, Ohio. This is the first preseason
game yep of the year.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
All right, yep, So that's right here on CAFI and
we're carrying the Chargers this year.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, all season. I go mad.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
One of the aggravating things about living in La La
County is how incredibly stubborn.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Public officials are.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I mean, especially on the stuff you really care about,
like all the r vs, all the homeless crazy people
who live in the RVs. That there is one I
think it's an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County and
Holly Mitchell is the idiot county supervisor, and it's South
(26:44):
La County, and they've got hundreds and hundreds of RVs
that live in this particular neighborhood. And all the crazy
people dump all their human waste into the street, all
the feces all the year, and all the garbage. It's
really foul. They're all crazy, they're whacked out on drugs.
They beat the crap out of each other all day,
(27:05):
screaming and howling into the night. And she refuses to
do anything about it, and you know, always has some
Kakamami's story as to why she can't. In San Francisco,
they got a normal person as mayor. His name's Daniel Lurie.
He's a very wealthy guy. He's the heir to uh
I believe I fortune, the Jeans Company, and uh you
(27:30):
know what, he signed into law now two hour parking
restriction for r vs. It's going to be enforced all
over the city.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You can't park your RV on city streets, uh, two
hours a day. He says, it's no good for the families.
The families they always claim there's family. When I passed
these are vs, there aren't families. There are crazy bearded,
half naked drunks screaming into the night. But all right,
(28:04):
he sees families and they're just simply not putting up
with it. Then they're gonna toe it because they said
there was so many so much waste water. Oh is
that what they're calling it? Waste water dumped into the sewers.
So at least he's doing something, all right, See you tomorrow,
John Cobalt Show, and we have Regina Degustina live in
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