January 5, 2026 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (01/05) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the special he’s hosting called “LA Fires: One Year Later” that will be airing on Jan. 7th at 7p to commemorate the 1yr anniversary of the devastating SoCal fires. Michael also talks about the trend of people leaving California. CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio comes on the show to talk about the voter ID initiative that he is trying to get on the ballot. NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's tenant director wants people to think of houses as collective property not individual property in an re-surfaced clip from 2018.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're back on together. We're on every day one until
four o'clock. After four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand,
that's the podcast and you get to listen to what
you missed. Much going on in the world. The last hour,
we spent a lot of time on Nicholas Medora. He
was in court today to face the charges, and we
talked about the removal by the Trump administration of Madua.
(00:22):
And we are going to cover a lot about the
fire later in the show. And we're gonna do a
little bit right now with Michael Monks from KFI News
because he has put together a special that's going to
run Wednesday night, the anniversary of the fire at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The name of it.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Sorry, let me get my marketing out on because I
just failed the whole team Ellie Wildfires one year later?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Are they coming too fast? These questions? I know sometimes
I you know, you need a cue card. No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's been a traumatic year, I know, And so we're
still filling it here.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
I know, Ellie Wildfires one year later.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That's a good title.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Yeah, not bad, huh, very original.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So yeah, Wednesday night, the news team here worked on
this and so you'll hear a variety of voices telling
stories about what happened obviously that day, but what has
happened since, and what are people going through, the challenges
they're facing rebuilding, the personal challenges they're feeling. If you've
ever seen not just your house, but all of the
houses on your street burned down, you're probably dealing with
(01:23):
some things. And so we explore that aspect and some
of the industries that have been hit and continue to
suffer because of what happened back on January seventh of
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Still my wife and I go there to do a hike.
There's a canyon that was largely untouched by the fire,
and it's wasteland still. You know, a few developers, I
think they greased whoever they had to grease, and they
are building homes. There's some framing going on, but for
most people it's.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's a nightmare. It was a nightmare when it happened.
It's been a nightmare since. We had the story last
week that, according to the real estate company Redfen, a
lot of investors, a lot of companies are coming in
private investors are coming in and buying those vacant lots now.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
And there may be a variety of reasons for that.
It may be.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
People saying, you know what, I don't want to wait,
or it's been too frustrating to get anything done, so
we're just going to cash out now. And then what
does that mean for those neighborhoods. We don't really know.
I mean, private companies might not be coming in because
they want to destroy the fabric of the neighborhood. They
want to they want to make a buck on this, probably,
But will they wait? Will they will they keep those
lots vacant while they will because they have the resources
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in the capital to do that. They carry exactly, So
a lot of concerns still. But when you think back
to a year ago this week and all of us
who were here in this building as this was unfolding,
it started as an interesting news story, one that we've
been warning about for days because that's what the forecast said,
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that the Santa Ana wins are blowing in. We know
we have a lot of dry conditions out there, red
flags waving all over the place, red flag warning.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Everybody knew except carm Bet.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Because of the conditions that we found ourselves and we
knew that this was possible, and then you started to
see the first first flames. And I pulled a clip
from your Very program. You were talking to a woman
who was in the Palisades and at this point people
were trying to leave the neighborhood and she got stuck
in a very serious traffic jam and people didn't know
(03:24):
what to do.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Let's take a listen to that.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
There's a palm tree on fire. So like we're kind
of all sitting here in the car and watching. I mean,
it's like fifty feet away.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I think, oh, that's really frightening.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It's really frightening. It's really really.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Frightening, and you can't get away from.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It, no, because we we were locked in. It's kind
of like, you know, we see those terrible movies where
everybody's running from something and all the cars are stuck.
That's kind of how it is.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, oh my gosh. Yeah, this tree is really it's
on the corner in the median.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
On Palisades Drive and sunset directly on the corner. There's
and I don't know if you can hear all the honking.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I can.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, I saw on TV there was a palm tree
in the medium that was yeah, it's right.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Now, I just I just don't know, Like people are
getting out of their cars. Now, what did you say, yes, yes,
get out of the car, all right, go okay, okay, Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
My god, that's terrifying.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
And a little clip of debbor there at the end.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And you remember that what you were talking about there
was the fear of these folks were feeling because they
were leaving.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
The neighborhood and they got stuck in this jam.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And at that point it was just a palm tree
that was It seems so quaint now, like you were like,
I'm scared that this. Of course you're scared that there's
a palm tree on fire. But what came after was
so much and that was really just the beginning of it.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I remember talking to her a couple hours later after
she got out of the mess, and she said, that
was a police officer who was banging on our window
to get out, and that was her dog in the
back seat who was alarmed by the police officer.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
When I went over there to the palisades in the
midst of this, when you were finally able to walk
through some of the parts of the community, you saw
those traffic jams and the remnants of it, and these
burnt out cars that looked like a scene from The
Walking Dead. It was just absolutely horrifying knowing that people
ran for their lives.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And that was only the beginning, only.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
The beginning, and so we'll talk about the beginning, but
we're not going to spend a lot of time in
this special talking about that day. It's about what's happened
since a lot has happened. Fire chiefs have been fired,
new people have come in, residents have gotten angrier in
most senses, and we explore all of that on La
Wildfires one year Later, which we'll air on Wednesday from
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seven to nine. If you can't catch it, then it
will air again on Saturday night from seven to nine.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Okay, Now, coming up, Michael's going to stay here and
we're going to talk about the exodus. Maybe some of
it from the fire, but there's actually a long list
of reasons people leave California, and we're number one again
for the sixty year in a row. You Hall says,
we've got more people leaving our state than anywhere else,
and Florida and Texas are accepting more residents from around
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the country than anywhere else, so Florida and Texas growing.
We're shrinking at least the number of legal citizens that
we have or shrinking. We'll talk more with Michael coming up.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
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Speaker 1 (06:41):
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Speaker 5 (06:57):
I don't know what just happened. I went into a
it to fit in my big face. But we need
an engineer.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
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Speaker 3 (07:08):
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of the rescue with his parent. No, I've been lifting, Yeah,
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Speaker 2 (07:15):
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Speaker 3 (07:16):
I apologize, Eric. I'm usually very gentle with the equipment.
Usually I'm very gentle anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
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Speaker 1 (07:25):
He used the talk back feature in the iHeartRadio app Tuesday.
We know on Friday we play it twice at about
three twenty and three fifties, so we just pause for
a second as Eric is doing some repair work on
this microphone stands.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
This is where Shannon Farren usually sits in the morning.
I'm saying, I think she probably got a little rough
with it. You just brutally ripped that right out of it.
All right, eat your vegetables kids, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Eric Michael still with us because U haul has its
annual growth indexing which way it's customers you're going, and well,
one way is the most popular way is out of California,
and Texas and Florida are getting a lot of incoming.
(08:13):
But we are all about the exodus. Talk about this.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
This is a annual report that U haul puts out. Now,
how scientific is it. It's just from their own data.
People who rent a U haul truck or trailer, and
then they collect the data on whether it's a one
way and which state that truck is returned in. More
often than not, in California, the trucks that are rented
for one way for one way trips are on the
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way out, and the trucks that are coming to California
are far fewer than the ones that are leaving. So
it's more than half of the U haul rentals that
are one way trips are departing California rather than coming in.
And the rate in California is so bad that for
the sixth year in a row, California is number fifty
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growth on the U Haul Growth Index. Now, I will
say this is always interesting. We do the story every year.
It's it's and they do something in the middle of
the year too, to give you a kind of an
update on where things look. So it's always kind of fun.
I need to get around to asking one of these
U haul guys how Hawaii ranks on this list. It
comes in at number twenty eight. I'm not sure that
is a rough ride.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
What kind of equipment they're leasing in Hawaii for the
one way trips.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I don't I don't think they'd make it much much
off the coast.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Yeah, no, no, the water's a little rocky there. It's
twenty It's ranked twenty eighth.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Whereas so somebody said, somehow they factor into this data Alaska.
I guess technically you could drive through Canada. They're at
number twenty seven. But look, states like California and Illinois
are on the very bottom. I think your home state
is New Jersey. Yes, just above those two at number
forty eight. I left there a long time again, but
she came to California. I know, well, it's not the
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same place.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
That's exactly right. And I spoke to Chris Trudell.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
He operates a U haul operation here in central California.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Here's what he said about the report.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
We saw an arrival percentage of forty nine point four
percent and a departure percentage of fifty point six percent
growth in those areas for customers to move in California.
We've seen customers coming from areas such as Oregon, Utah, Nevada,
but when we see them leaving California, it's in a
different direction. We see them headed places such as Texas,
South Carolina, Florida. Cost of living is just so much
(10:31):
nicer there, and you get more bang for your buck.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You get more bang for your buck. And what he
says throughout our conversation is that it's the prices that
seem to be most to blame for folks, whether it's
an individual, whether it's a family, or whether it's a
business that's leaving California.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Know, it comes down to the cost.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I'm looking at the U Haul's own article on this,
and one paragraph says sunshine and warm weather remain appealing
to the moving public based on the top ten growth states.
We use to be the king.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Of sunshine and warm weather.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I saw that combination is working everywhere else except here.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I saw a post on X just today that said,
if the sunshine left California, it would be the apocalypse here.
It's all it has left. Yeah, it is to a
lot of people because there's we didn't get much of
that for the last two dreams.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
No, that's right, it's been rough.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
There's an article today in New York Magazine written by
somebody who left Los Angeles recently, and the headline is,
all my friends have left Los Angeles. Now, these are
folks who moved here to pursue creative careers. So they
are folks who aren't from LA. They've come here, and
there may be a variety of reasons related to the
entertainment industry that their careers dried up.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I saw productions down forty five.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Exactly, So you've got the signature industry that made Los
Angeles globally known Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Right, it's in the dumps right now.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
But even for rank and file angelino'seople who just live
out there in the mock. The prices are outrageous, whether
it's gas, whether it's home insurance, whether it's rent, and
the weather is no longer justifying the need to stay.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, it says as a political component here clearly sure.
Seven of the top ten growth states have Republican governors.
Nine of those ten states went read in the last
presidential election.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
They went for Trump.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And then nine of the bottom ten states featured Democratic governors,
and seven of those ten went for Kamala Harris. So
we really are dividing and we're fleeing one another, or
at least the Republican oriented voters are fleeing states because
the bottom ones California is number one. If we go
(12:53):
from the bottom up, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts.
These are the highest tax states, the most left wing governments,
the most oppressive nanty state rules, and the best states
for U haul apparently are all in the Southeastern conference Texas, Florida,
North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
But Washington State is number six. Arizona comes in at
number seven.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Idaho.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
People are going to Idaho.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I know that there's been some coverage of various folks
who have professional lives here in southern California and have
relocated their regular lives into Idaho, which I don't know
what that appeal is, but it must be the cost
of living, the slower pace.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It's it's beautiful, it's mountainous. It has that driven through
there a couple of times. It is beautiful. And I
think the tax rates. I don't know Idaho's tax rate,
but I do know Florida doesn't have an income tax.
We have a place there and boys that tempting. Texas
does not have an income tax, and I think that's
driving a lot of this. It has to I'm what
(13:58):
the hell, if you're a successful person, why would you
want to pay I don't know, eleven twelve thirteen percent
to Gavin Newsom when you see.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Exactly when you see the I think that's what's starting
to irritate folks, is what even folks who are like, yeah,
let's let's let's tax this, let's tax that, let's put
the money together and let's solve these problems, the problems
aren't being solved. On the other hand, I mean, I
live like the worst part of the city.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Right I live in downtown. I don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But if somebody said, hey, we can replicate that loth
that you love in Boise and it'll cost a third
of what you're paying and we'll get you a radio
gig on k Idaho, I'm not taking that job, you know.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
So it comes down to a lot of personal preference.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I think it does. I think a lot of people.
I've got friends who do well and they have perfected
the art of living six months in a day out
of here, and their tax bill goes from double digits
to zero, and it comes down to they feel like idiots. Really,
they feel insultant. It's like, what's wrong with we? Why
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am I given ten percent? To Gavin Newsom I heard recently.
You might know more about this than I because of
where you're from. But there are folks who probably live
in New York but live quotation marks in Florida for
tax busess and they will hang out on the Jersey
side of a bridge there for an extra day just
so that they don't clock too many hours in New
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York State, where they have to pay more taxes. I
lived in New York with my wife for a year
and I performed my own type of tax evasion because
I was living in New York, but I was working
in New Jersey at a radio station, and I grew
up in Jersey, so my parents were still around and
that was my legal address. Because New York City had
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an income tax on top of the state income tax,
on top of the federal income tax, and I forget
what it is. It was in the low single digits,
but you know, it's like, no, I'm not paying that.
So I was living with my parents on paper all
until I'm thirty years old.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
You know, the irs can still come after you for now.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I don't think they can't.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I don't think there's a statute of limitations on tax
law unfortunately. But look, I can say, as somebody who
is a transplant here, La is a place that attracts
a lot of transplants. This is one of those one
of the few cities in America where there are certain
types of jobs that you have to come to La
to pursue.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Most of them are creative. You've got to come out here.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
What happens as that continues to.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Disperse exactly, Not only are the opportunities becoming fewer and
farther between here in Los Angeles. But there are no
more romantic stories of loading up the pento with twenty
bucks forty bucks in your pocket and coming out here
and figuring out how to make it because you can't.
You need ten twenty thousand dollars in your pocket to
even move here.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
End of the year.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I was looking at the podcast numbers for this show,
and I'm looking at the states where we have a
lot of listeners, like a disproportionate amount of listeners, and
even breaks it down according to to cities, and you
know places in Georgia. Why Georgia, Well, there's a lot
of people moved behind the scenes entertainment industry who move
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there because that's where they have the work. A lot
of people in Texas and in Florida and Nevada and Arizona.
I mean, I could just look at the podcast.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Do one of these reports and put it out the
co belt growth in debt.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, like I could tell you people because we also
get enough email from them exactly in contact on social
media and it's like, yeah, I'm in Texas now and
I'm paying two twenty one, I.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Still want to know what's going on in Los Angeles.
That's what's interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
This is still a place that people are fascinated by,
but they just don't want to be here too.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
They want to hear it sync into the ocean and
it justifies their decision. Right, it was painful to move, right,
to leave friends and family behind it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It's like, look, honey, we did the right thing.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So's that's what we're here for, yeah, is to make
people feel better that they fled, all right, Michael Monks,
KFI News.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
When we come.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Back, well this, well, this will get more New Yorkers
going to Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Zorn Mom.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Donnie hired a real a real communist to be his
tenant director, and they have found audio where she has
denounced private property. You're not gonna believe this. Your your
hair is gonna fall out when you listen to this lady.
We'll do that we come back.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Coming up, we're gonna tell you about Zoran Madami. He
has a new tenant director. This woman is an advocate
for tenants who rent in New York City, and they
have dug up old tweets of hers and old video clips.
She is a died in I mean just to the bone,
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a died in the wool communist and she believes that
you should not have private property such as a home.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Really play you that clip.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Zorn Muondami is a real communist and he's doing exactly
what he said he would do when he was running.
We have communists here on the La City Council. I
just found out that two city council people went to
Mom Donnie's inauguration. They don't believe in private property. It's
even worse than that, and I'll tell you about it
coming up in just a minute. The Voter Idea initiative
(19:30):
has been backed by Carl Demyo and his organization Reformed California,
and he needed a more than a million signatures, and
it looks like they're past that point. Let's let's find
out to get this sun the ballot requiring voter ID
for elections in this state. Carl, how are you well?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Twenty twenty five was pretty exhausting, But we love the
fact that we're at a million signatures on California voter
ID and we're not done yet. A million is good.
We only need eight hundred and seventy four thousand valid signatures.
We have a million raw signatures, and I don't leave
anything to chance, particularly with Democrats in control of reviewing signatures.
(20:15):
So we did an internal audit and we have a
validity rate of eighty eight percent amongst our volunteers seventy
five percent when you add in the paid signatures. And
so we believe that just for an insurance policy, even
though we're at a million, we should get another two
hundred thousand signatures, just to make sure that the Democrats
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can't disqualify a bunch of signatures and keep us off
the ballot. So I'm asking all of our volunteers to
continue to collect signatures on the voter ID initiative. Yes,
we got a million, but now we want to do
another two hundred thousand just for added measure for confidence.
And so if you want to get a copy of
the petition, you can go to the website voter ID
(20:56):
Initiative dot com and you can sign it if you
just want to sign it yourself. If you haven't already signed,
we would appreciate you downloading, printing, and mailing back your
petition signed with a pen, or request a signature kit
be sent to you with the long form to collect
signatures from friends and family. We are getting everyone until
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February sixth to get the final signatures back, and I
am very confident we will be on the ballot in
November twenty twenty six for the California Voter ID initiative,
and it's going to be a game changer in California politics.
We'd clean up the voter roles, do citizenship verification and
voter ID, which is everything that we actually require with
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my initiative. It's going to be a game changer to
restore the integrity of our elections.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, this will be huge. You're going to do citizenship verification.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
There are three main components of my initiative. It's a
state constitutional amendment that requires when someone registers to vote
that each local county office will be required to audit
their roles to do citizenship verification before people are put
on the ballots. Second, the state auditor will randomly select
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voter registrations in each county and do an integrity audit
to make sure that only eligible, proper people are registered
to vote and that the voter lists are being properly maintained.
And then, third, when people cast a ballot, they will
have to show ID either in person or by mail.
They have to select a government document and give the
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last four digits of that government ID to vote by mail.
So we still allow the convenience of voting by mail,
even though I don't like it. The voters in California
do like mail in ballots, but we do require that
they verify who they are. And so we believe that
this is a common sense initiative that Democrats and Republicans
can both support, and we believe we can pass it
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in the November.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
All right, and go through how people can sign these petitions.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
If you go to voter ID Initiative dot com, you
can get the California Voter ID Initiative to sign. Also,
we're helping the Howard Jarvis Taxpirs Association with the Save
Prop thirteen initiative. Now you can go to opposetax Hikes
dot oorg to sign that initiative, and of course on
both websites you can ship at a contribution to help
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us cover the hard costs of this signature drive.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
All right, Kyle, Well, just one more thing. You know.
Tim Waltz is in the news today.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
He's dropping out a running for reelection because of the
massive scandal involving the Somalian community and all those welfare programs,
all that fraud nine ten billion dollars worth. You know,
I know that there's been at least ten times that
under Gavin Newsom. When is he going to be forced
to account for all this?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Well, we need to have a exactly what happened to
Tim Waltz happened here in California. And that's why we've
been focusing at Reform California, on Dojing California, and we've
uncovered a lot, but there's so much more. So if
you thought things were bad in Minnesota, remember how Minnesota
did their fraud. They copied what was already going on
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here in California. And so that's what we need to do,
is we need to make sure that we get citizen
activists to kick the tires, to show up and look
at contracts and grantees where the money's going, because the
fraud in California is one hundred times worse than what
you're seeing in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, I mean, you know, just the obvious stuff. You know,
the seventeen eighteen million dollars for high speed rail, the
twenty four billion excuse me, twenty four billion of NEWSOM
admitting homeless money unaccounted for. You got thirty two billion
and unemployment money unaccounted for from COVID. I mean, that's
about seventy four billion or so right there. And that's
(25:00):
just the biggest headlines and all that has been reported
for years and it's common, it's gone and there was
no repercussions for anyone.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
That's right. It's just the tip of the iceberg. And
so we need to kick the tires. We need to
audit every element of California state and local government. And
when they talk about tax increases, tell them hell to
they no pick a finger. No way in hell should
we be giving them more money until we can account
for the money we've already given them.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
All right, Carl Demyel, thank you for coming on. Good work,
as always, excellent work. There's nobody else in the state
who was able to get a million signatures for something
simple like voter ID, which that's another that's like ninety
percent of the countries in favor of voter ID.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And why do you think that, Why do you.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Think the elections are so slopsided in California considering the
way the state is is it really that appealing to
vote for these progressive Democrats over and over again. Are
people really doing that? Just doesn't make any sense to me.
The state is a sesspool, it's a sore in many ways,
(26:06):
and so are people really voting for the same for
the same criminals over and over again. I just don't
believe it. We come back Zorahn Mom. Donnie has a
tenant advocate, a woman named Sea Weaver. She's director of
the City Office to Protect Tenants. She's an absolute communist
(26:31):
and they have dug up her old tweets and some
old video that she posted. And you know, you'll be
the judge as to whether she's a real communist or not.
I think it's obvious, and we'll talk about that coming
up next. You you got to hear this clip of her.
I just haven't heard anybody talk like this since I
(26:51):
don't know, like fifty years ago, when there was a
surge towards revolutionary communism back in the early seventies. There
were all these weird protest groups and underground groups, and they,
you know, they they well, we'll get into that coming up,
but it's definitely back in New York.
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Speaker 1 (27:47):
Donnie got inaugurated as New York City mayor over well,
it was on New Year's Day. And you know, he's
not hiding it. He's hiring a lot of communists to
be in his administration. He's not kidding around. These are
true believers. This is a weird insurgency. And I understand
(28:13):
that a couple of a couple of Los Angeles politicians
and the city Council attended his inauguration, and that would
be the president of the City Council and also Unices
Hernandez and what's what's a city council president's name, drawing
a blank on it right now because he's such a
(28:34):
Marquise Harris Dawson, that's right.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I almost said Marquis so I was.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I had to think about it. It's Marquis. Yeah, he's
such a non entity who's completely absent during the fire.
He's a real zero of a guy. And Unicus Hernandez
is just a looney bag. And the two of them, yeah,
they flew to New York to celebrate the communists coming
in because they're communists themselves. It's the same party. It's
the Democratic Socialists of America DSA. And that is a
(29:01):
fancy name for modern day communism, which keeps coming back
and some people keep falling for it, usually a young
generation that went to a school where they didn't cover history.
I don't think history has covered much at all. And communism,
socialism and all the cousins massive failures, ends up with
(29:23):
a lot of people suffering, ends up with destroyed economies.
It is a absolutely unworkable system and has been proven
to be unworkable many many times for over one hundred years.
But that didn't stop the idiots in New York from
electing Mom Donnie so he's got this woman named se
(29:46):
A Weaver, director of the City Office to Protect Tenants,
and over the years she made a lot of statements
urging her followers to elect more communists. She put this
in her posts on her x account formerly Twitter. Now
(30:07):
she had deleted this account at some point, but some
Internet investigators uncovered it. Here's an example of some of
the things that she posted.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
I think the reality though, I'm.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Going to read some of the posts and then I'm
gonna play the clip. That's okay.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Seize private property, she once wrote back in the twenty tens.
And she also said private property, including any kind of
any kind of and especially home ownership, is a weapon
of white supremacy.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah. White.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
That was August to twenty nineteen. So you own a home,
your home is a weapon of white supremacy, which makes
you a white supremacist. Now, by the way, this is
a red haired white woman saying this during the George
Floyd hysteria. The people are just people. Sorry, the police
(31:10):
are just people. The state sanctions to murder with immunity.
Remember the Democratic Socialists of America. Her name is Cea Weaver,
former campaign coordinator Housing Justice for All. She was a
advisor of the Mom Donnie campaign and now she is
in charge of the Office to Protect Tenants and they
(31:33):
found this clip, this audio video clip from twenty eighteen.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
I think the reality is is that for centuries we've
really treated property as an individualized good and not a
collective good. And we are going to and transitioning to
treating it as a collective good and towards a model
of shared equity will require that we think about it
differently and it will meet in that family is especially
(32:02):
white families, but some POT families to her homeowners as well,
are going to have a different relationship to property than
than the one that we currently have.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
White families, including some, she said, POC families. That's people
of color. We're gonna have a wait, she's gonna she
wants to seize our private property and make it everybody's property,
property of the collective. Do you want to share your house?
Speaker 5 (32:30):
I don't. Do you want to share yours?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I don't at all.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I've worked hard. But that makes us symbols of white supremacy,
you realize, But what.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
If you're not white?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
She said, even non white? Okay, So that's my point,
and how could you that makes.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Sense even no. In her mind, even black people are
symbols of white supremacy. In fact, that's what the La
Times called Larry Elder years ago, and he was running
for governor. Remember the black face of white supremacy. So
you know, white supremacy is so awful that even black
people fall for it. And now not only white people
can't have a private home. Black people can't have a
private home. Nobody can have a private home. And she
(33:06):
believes this, and there's a whole collection of them now
in Mom Donnie's administration.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
He believes this.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So she doesn't own a house. I don't know. I
never heard of her until this morning.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I'd like to find out if she ever owned a house.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I think they're going to be doing a lot of investigations.
She was a lobbyist and she was involved in lobbying
for rent stabilization laws in New York State. And it
is completely insane. What they want to do is they
(33:45):
want to freeze rent, stabilize rents, whatever in euphemism they have.
And what's going to happen then is those buildings will
not be maintained, they will start to rot or be
abandoned by the landlords because if the landlords can't raise
the rents, then they're not going to do maintenance and
repairs on the buildings. And they're gonna have to They're
(34:08):
gonna have to just get out and then and which is.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
What they want.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
That's what Mam Donnie and this sea of Weaver want,
because then the state will take over the apartments, they'll
own them, the collective will own them, and nobody will
have private property.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
There'll be no.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
More condos, there will be no more private homes. And
he is doing what he ran on. He was serious.
I mean the DSA, and you could look them up online.
They've been around in LA. They own four or five
council people I know force for sure in the party.
(34:45):
And there are several who are maybe not members of
the party, but their policies are the same. And and
and uh Marquise Harris Dawson, the city council president, is
one of them.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Now you're turning cities over to communists.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Where we're not allowed to own private property. Karen Bath
is one of them. That's why she idolized. She idolized
Fidel Castro when she was in her twenties. She made
many many visits. I loved watching Castro speak. She has
(35:21):
said that she was just overwhelmed by his charisma, mesmerized
by his speaking ability. Communist and that's her leanings and
those are her policies. And when she was running, nobody
covered this. The businessman Rick Caruso, who builds things, who
(35:45):
creates thousands and thousands of jobs, who produces many millions
and millions of dollars for the economy, he's the bad guy.
The woman whose base philosophy is to seize your property,
is to tax your way. How the hell? Who the
hell has Fidel Castro as their idol when they're young?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Tell me.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Most people, I don't know, guys idolize athletes, so do
many women, or you idolize actors, pop singers? Who idolizes
Fidel Castro? Somebody who's immersed in the communist philosophy, which
is what we have as our mayor, our city council president,
(36:32):
almost half of the city council. They're trying to get
a majority in the next election cycle.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
And now.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Zorroon Mamdani, the communist mayor in New York. He's got
a communist administration. And I almost never use that word communist.
I always thought it was just hyperbole on the part
of like right wing nuts, but it sticks here. It's
real when you get to seize property as saying that
(37:03):
it's a tool of white supremacy to own your own home.
And nearly half the politicians in la are already there
and you just don't know it because nobody covers it.
When we come back, Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analyst
is going to come on and explain the legality of
(37:24):
Maduro being confiscated out of Venezuela by the US military
and if this violates US law, international law doesn't matter,
and is he really going to face charges? Is there
any way out of these charges? It's coming up next
Debra Mark live in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
(37:45):
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we spent a lot of time on Nicholas Medora. He
was in court today to face the charges, and we
talked about the removal by the Trump administration of Madua.
(00:22):
And we are going to cover a lot about the
fire later in the show. And we're gonna do a
little bit right now with Michael Monks from KFI News
because he has put together a special that's going to
run Wednesday night, the anniversary of the fire at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The name of it.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Sorry, let me get my marketing out on because I
just failed the whole team Ellie Wildfires one year later?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Are they coming too fast? These questions? I know sometimes
I you know, you need a cue card. No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's been a traumatic year, I know, And so we're
still filling it here.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
I know, Ellie Wildfires one year later.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That's a good title.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Yeah, not bad, huh, very original.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So yeah, Wednesday night, the news team here worked on
this and so you'll hear a variety of voices telling
stories about what happened obviously that day, but what has
happened since, and what are people going through, the challenges
they're facing rebuilding, the personal challenges they're feeling. If you've
ever seen not just your house, but all of the
houses on your street burned down, you're probably dealing with
(01:23):
some things. And so we explore that aspect and some
of the industries that have been hit and continue to
suffer because of what happened back on January seventh of
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Still my wife and I go there to do a hike.
There's a canyon that was largely untouched by the fire,
and it's wasteland still. You know, a few developers, I
think they greased whoever they had to grease, and they
are building homes. There's some framing going on, but for
most people it's.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's a nightmare. It was a nightmare when it happened.
It's been a nightmare since. We had the story last
week that, according to the real estate company Redfen, a
lot of investors, a lot of companies are coming in
private investors are coming in and buying those vacant lots now.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
And there may be a variety of reasons for that.
It may be.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
People saying, you know what, I don't want to wait,
or it's been too frustrating to get anything done, so
we're just going to cash out now. And then what
does that mean for those neighborhoods. We don't really know.
I mean, private companies might not be coming in because
they want to destroy the fabric of the neighborhood. They
want to they want to make a buck on this, probably,
But will they wait? Will they will they keep those
lots vacant while they will because they have the resources
(02:34):
in the capital to do that. They carry exactly, So
a lot of concerns still. But when you think back
to a year ago this week and all of us
who were here in this building as this was unfolding,
it started as an interesting news story, one that we've
been warning about for days because that's what the forecast said,
(02:55):
that the Santa Ana wins are blowing in. We know
we have a lot of dry conditions out there, red
flags waving all over the place, red flag warning.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Everybody knew except carm Bet.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Because of the conditions that we found ourselves and we
knew that this was possible, and then you started to
see the first first flames. And I pulled a clip
from your Very program. You were talking to a woman
who was in the Palisades and at this point people
were trying to leave the neighborhood and she got stuck
in a very serious traffic jam and people didn't know
(03:24):
what to do.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Let's take a listen to that.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
There's a palm tree on fire. So like we're kind
of all sitting here in the car and watching. I mean,
it's like fifty feet away.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I think, oh, that's really frightening.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It's really frightening. It's really really.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Frightening, and you can't get away from.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It, no, because we we were locked in. It's kind
of like, you know, we see those terrible movies where
everybody's running from something and all the cars are stuck.
That's kind of how it is.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, oh my gosh. Yeah, this tree is really it's
on the corner in the median.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
On Palisades Drive and sunset directly on the corner. There's
and I don't know if you can hear all the honking.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I can.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, I saw on TV there was a palm tree
in the medium that was yeah, it's right.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Now, I just I just don't know, Like people are
getting out of their cars. Now, what did you say, yes, yes,
get out of the car, all right, go okay, okay, Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
My god, that's terrifying.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
And a little clip of debbor there at the end.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And you remember that what you were talking about there
was the fear of these folks were feeling because they
were leaving.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
The neighborhood and they got stuck in this jam.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And at that point it was just a palm tree
that was It seems so quaint now, like you were like,
I'm scared that this. Of course you're scared that there's
a palm tree on fire. But what came after was
so much and that was really just the beginning of it.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I remember talking to her a couple hours later after
she got out of the mess, and she said, that
was a police officer who was banging on our window
to get out, and that was her dog in the
back seat who was alarmed by the police officer.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
When I went over there to the palisades in the
midst of this, when you were finally able to walk
through some of the parts of the community, you saw
those traffic jams and the remnants of it, and these
burnt out cars that looked like a scene from The
Walking Dead. It was just absolutely horrifying knowing that people
ran for their lives.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And that was only the beginning, only.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
The beginning, and so we'll talk about the beginning, but
we're not going to spend a lot of time in
this special talking about that day. It's about what's happened
since a lot has happened. Fire chiefs have been fired,
new people have come in, residents have gotten angrier in
most senses, and we explore all of that on La
Wildfires one year Later, which we'll air on Wednesday from
(05:57):
seven to nine. If you can't catch it, then it
will air again on Saturday night from seven to nine.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Okay, Now, coming up, Michael's going to stay here and
we're going to talk about the exodus. Maybe some of
it from the fire, but there's actually a long list
of reasons people leave California, and we're number one again
for the sixty year in a row. You Hall says,
we've got more people leaving our state than anywhere else,
and Florida and Texas are accepting more residents from around
(06:24):
the country than anywhere else, so Florida and Texas growing.
We're shrinking at least the number of legal citizens that
we have or shrinking. We'll talk more with Michael coming up.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
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Speaker 1 (06:41):
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it's Michael's is destroying the studio. You just tore the
microphone right out of its base.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I don't know what just happened. I went into a
it to fit in my big face. But we need
an engineer.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You reaped a large metal d right.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I have been exercising. It was my resolution. Here's eric'slar
of the rescue with his parent. No, I've been lifting, Yeah,
tell me about it.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
WHOA.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I apologize, Eric. I'm usually very gentle with the equipment.
Usually I'm very gentle anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Eight seven seven eighty six.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
He used the talk back feature in the iHeartRadio app Tuesday.
We know on Friday we play it twice at about
three twenty and three fifties, so we just pause for
a second as Eric is doing some repair work on
this microphone stands.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
This is where Shannon Farren usually sits in the morning.
I'm saying, I think she probably got a little rough
with it. You just brutally ripped that right out of it.
All right, eat your vegetables kids, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Eric Michael still with us because U haul has its
annual growth indexing which way it's customers you're going, and well,
one way is the most popular way is out of California,
and Texas and Florida are getting a lot of incoming.
(08:13):
But we are all about the exodus. Talk about this.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
This is a annual report that U haul puts out. Now,
how scientific is it. It's just from their own data.
People who rent a U haul truck or trailer, and
then they collect the data on whether it's a one
way and which state that truck is returned in. More
often than not, in California, the trucks that are rented
for one way for one way trips are on the
(08:39):
way out, and the trucks that are coming to California
are far fewer than the ones that are leaving. So
it's more than half of the U haul rentals that
are one way trips are departing California rather than coming in.
And the rate in California is so bad that for
the sixth year in a row, California is number fifty
(09:00):
growth on the U Haul Growth Index. Now, I will
say this is always interesting. We do the story every year.
It's it's and they do something in the middle of
the year too, to give you a kind of an
update on where things look. So it's always kind of fun.
I need to get around to asking one of these
U haul guys how Hawaii ranks on this list. It
comes in at number twenty eight. I'm not sure that
is a rough ride.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
What kind of equipment they're leasing in Hawaii for the
one way trips.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I don't I don't think they'd make it much much
off the coast.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Yeah, no, no, the water's a little rocky there. It's
twenty It's ranked twenty eighth.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Whereas so somebody said, somehow they factor into this data Alaska.
I guess technically you could drive through Canada. They're at
number twenty seven. But look, states like California and Illinois
are on the very bottom. I think your home state
is New Jersey. Yes, just above those two at number
forty eight. I left there a long time again, but
she came to California. I know, well, it's not the
(09:57):
same place.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
That's exactly right. And I spoke to Chris Trudell.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
He operates a U haul operation here in central California.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Here's what he said about the report.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
We saw an arrival percentage of forty nine point four
percent and a departure percentage of fifty point six percent
growth in those areas for customers to move in California.
We've seen customers coming from areas such as Oregon, Utah, Nevada,
but when we see them leaving California, it's in a
different direction. We see them headed places such as Texas,
South Carolina, Florida. Cost of living is just so much
(10:31):
nicer there, and you get more bang for your buck.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You get more bang for your buck. And what he
says throughout our conversation is that it's the prices that
seem to be most to blame for folks, whether it's
an individual, whether it's a family, or whether it's a
business that's leaving California.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Know, it comes down to the cost.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I'm looking at the U Haul's own article on this,
and one paragraph says sunshine and warm weather remain appealing
to the moving public based on the top ten growth states.
We use to be the king.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Of sunshine and warm weather.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I saw that combination is working everywhere else except here.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I saw a post on X just today that said,
if the sunshine left California, it would be the apocalypse here.
It's all it has left. Yeah, it is to a
lot of people because there's we didn't get much of
that for the last two dreams.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
No, that's right, it's been rough.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
There's an article today in New York Magazine written by
somebody who left Los Angeles recently, and the headline is,
all my friends have left Los Angeles. Now, these are
folks who moved here to pursue creative careers. So they
are folks who aren't from LA. They've come here, and
there may be a variety of reasons related to the
entertainment industry that their careers dried up.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I saw productions down forty five.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Exactly, So you've got the signature industry that made Los
Angeles globally known Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Right, it's in the dumps right now.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
But even for rank and file angelino'seople who just live
out there in the mock. The prices are outrageous, whether
it's gas, whether it's home insurance, whether it's rent, and
the weather is no longer justifying the need to stay.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, it says as a political component here clearly sure.
Seven of the top ten growth states have Republican governors.
Nine of those ten states went read in the last
presidential election.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
They went for Trump.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And then nine of the bottom ten states featured Democratic governors,
and seven of those ten went for Kamala Harris. So
we really are dividing and we're fleeing one another, or
at least the Republican oriented voters are fleeing states because
the bottom ones California is number one. If we go
(12:53):
from the bottom up, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts.
These are the highest tax states, the most left wing governments,
the most oppressive nanty state rules, and the best states
for U haul apparently are all in the Southeastern conference Texas, Florida,
North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
But Washington State is number six. Arizona comes in at
number seven.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Idaho.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
People are going to Idaho.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I know that there's been some coverage of various folks
who have professional lives here in southern California and have
relocated their regular lives into Idaho, which I don't know
what that appeal is, but it must be the cost
of living, the slower pace.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It's it's beautiful, it's mountainous. It has that driven through
there a couple of times. It is beautiful. And I
think the tax rates. I don't know Idaho's tax rate,
but I do know Florida doesn't have an income tax.
We have a place there and boys that tempting. Texas
does not have an income tax, and I think that's
driving a lot of this. It has to I'm what
(13:58):
the hell, if you're a successful person, why would you
want to pay I don't know, eleven twelve thirteen percent
to Gavin Newsom when you see.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Exactly when you see the I think that's what's starting
to irritate folks, is what even folks who are like, yeah,
let's let's let's tax this, let's tax that, let's put
the money together and let's solve these problems, the problems
aren't being solved. On the other hand, I mean, I
live like the worst part of the city.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Right I live in downtown. I don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But if somebody said, hey, we can replicate that loth
that you love in Boise and it'll cost a third
of what you're paying and we'll get you a radio
gig on k Idaho, I'm not taking that job, you know.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
So it comes down to a lot of personal preference.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I think it does. I think a lot of people.
I've got friends who do well and they have perfected
the art of living six months in a day out
of here, and their tax bill goes from double digits
to zero, and it comes down to they feel like idiots. Really,
they feel insultant. It's like, what's wrong with we? Why
(15:02):
am I given ten percent? To Gavin Newsom I heard recently.
You might know more about this than I because of
where you're from. But there are folks who probably live
in New York but live quotation marks in Florida for
tax busess and they will hang out on the Jersey
side of a bridge there for an extra day just
so that they don't clock too many hours in New
(15:24):
York State, where they have to pay more taxes. I
lived in New York with my wife for a year
and I performed my own type of tax evasion because
I was living in New York, but I was working
in New Jersey at a radio station, and I grew
up in Jersey, so my parents were still around and
that was my legal address. Because New York City had
(15:46):
an income tax on top of the state income tax,
on top of the federal income tax, and I forget
what it is. It was in the low single digits,
but you know, it's like, no, I'm not paying that.
So I was living with my parents on paper all
until I'm thirty years old.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
You know, the irs can still come after you for now.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I don't think they can't.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I don't think there's a statute of limitations on tax
law unfortunately. But look, I can say, as somebody who
is a transplant here, La is a place that attracts
a lot of transplants. This is one of those one
of the few cities in America where there are certain
types of jobs that you have to come to La
to pursue.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Most of them are creative. You've got to come out here.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
What happens as that continues to.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Disperse exactly, Not only are the opportunities becoming fewer and
farther between here in Los Angeles. But there are no
more romantic stories of loading up the pento with twenty
bucks forty bucks in your pocket and coming out here
and figuring out how to make it because you can't.
You need ten twenty thousand dollars in your pocket to
even move here.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
End of the year.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I was looking at the podcast numbers for this show,
and I'm looking at the states where we have a
lot of listeners, like a disproportionate amount of listeners, and
even breaks it down according to to cities, and you
know places in Georgia. Why Georgia, Well, there's a lot
of people moved behind the scenes entertainment industry who move
(17:09):
there because that's where they have the work. A lot
of people in Texas and in Florida and Nevada and Arizona.
I mean, I could just look at the podcast.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Do one of these reports and put it out the
co belt growth in debt.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, like I could tell you people because we also
get enough email from them exactly in contact on social
media and it's like, yeah, I'm in Texas now and
I'm paying two twenty one, I.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Still want to know what's going on in Los Angeles.
That's what's interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
This is still a place that people are fascinated by,
but they just don't want to be here too.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
They want to hear it sync into the ocean and
it justifies their decision. Right, it was painful to move, right,
to leave friends and family behind it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It's like, look, honey, we did the right thing.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So's that's what we're here for, yeah, is to make
people feel better that they fled, all right, Michael Monks,
KFI News.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
When we come.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Back, well this, well, this will get more New Yorkers
going to Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Zorn Mom.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Donnie hired a real a real communist to be his
tenant director, and they have found audio where she has
denounced private property. You're not gonna believe this. Your your
hair is gonna fall out when you listen to this lady.
We'll do that we come back.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Coming up, we're gonna tell you about Zoran Madami. He
has a new tenant director. This woman is an advocate
for tenants who rent in New York City, and they
have dug up old tweets of hers and old video clips.
She is a died in I mean just to the bone,
(18:52):
a died in the wool communist and she believes that
you should not have private property such as a home.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Really play you that clip.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Zorn Muondami is a real communist and he's doing exactly
what he said he would do when he was running.
We have communists here on the La City Council. I
just found out that two city council people went to
Mom Donnie's inauguration. They don't believe in private property. It's
even worse than that, and I'll tell you about it
coming up in just a minute. The Voter Idea initiative
(19:30):
has been backed by Carl Demyo and his organization Reformed California,
and he needed a more than a million signatures, and
it looks like they're past that point. Let's let's find
out to get this sun the ballot requiring voter ID
for elections in this state. Carl, how are you well?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Twenty twenty five was pretty exhausting, But we love the
fact that we're at a million signatures on California voter
ID and we're not done yet. A million is good.
We only need eight hundred and seventy four thousand valid signatures.
We have a million raw signatures, and I don't leave
anything to chance, particularly with Democrats in control of reviewing signatures.
(20:15):
So we did an internal audit and we have a
validity rate of eighty eight percent amongst our volunteers seventy
five percent when you add in the paid signatures. And
so we believe that just for an insurance policy, even
though we're at a million, we should get another two
hundred thousand signatures, just to make sure that the Democrats
(20:35):
can't disqualify a bunch of signatures and keep us off
the ballot. So I'm asking all of our volunteers to
continue to collect signatures on the voter ID initiative. Yes,
we got a million, but now we want to do
another two hundred thousand just for added measure for confidence.
And so if you want to get a copy of
the petition, you can go to the website voter ID
(20:56):
Initiative dot com and you can sign it if you
just want to sign it yourself. If you haven't already signed,
we would appreciate you downloading, printing, and mailing back your
petition signed with a pen, or request a signature kit
be sent to you with the long form to collect
signatures from friends and family. We are getting everyone until
(21:16):
February sixth to get the final signatures back, and I
am very confident we will be on the ballot in
November twenty twenty six for the California Voter ID initiative,
and it's going to be a game changer in California politics.
We'd clean up the voter roles, do citizenship verification and
voter ID, which is everything that we actually require with
(21:37):
my initiative. It's going to be a game changer to
restore the integrity of our elections.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, this will be huge. You're going to do citizenship verification.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
There are three main components of my initiative. It's a
state constitutional amendment that requires when someone registers to vote
that each local county office will be required to audit
their roles to do citizenship verification before people are put
on the ballots. Second, the state auditor will randomly select
(22:12):
voter registrations in each county and do an integrity audit
to make sure that only eligible, proper people are registered
to vote and that the voter lists are being properly maintained.
And then, third, when people cast a ballot, they will
have to show ID either in person or by mail.
They have to select a government document and give the
(22:35):
last four digits of that government ID to vote by mail.
So we still allow the convenience of voting by mail,
even though I don't like it. The voters in California
do like mail in ballots, but we do require that
they verify who they are. And so we believe that
this is a common sense initiative that Democrats and Republicans
can both support, and we believe we can pass it
(22:59):
in the November.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
All right, and go through how people can sign these petitions.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
If you go to voter ID Initiative dot com, you
can get the California Voter ID Initiative to sign. Also,
we're helping the Howard Jarvis Taxpirs Association with the Save
Prop thirteen initiative. Now you can go to opposetax Hikes
dot oorg to sign that initiative, and of course on
both websites you can ship at a contribution to help
(23:28):
us cover the hard costs of this signature drive.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
All right, Kyle, Well, just one more thing. You know.
Tim Waltz is in the news today.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
He's dropping out a running for reelection because of the
massive scandal involving the Somalian community and all those welfare programs,
all that fraud nine ten billion dollars worth. You know,
I know that there's been at least ten times that
under Gavin Newsom. When is he going to be forced
to account for all this?
Speaker 8 (23:57):
Well, we need to have a exactly what happened to
Tim Waltz happened here in California. And that's why we've
been focusing at Reform California, on Dojing California, and we've
uncovered a lot, but there's so much more. So if
you thought things were bad in Minnesota, remember how Minnesota
did their fraud. They copied what was already going on
(24:19):
here in California. And so that's what we need to do,
is we need to make sure that we get citizen
activists to kick the tires, to show up and look
at contracts and grantees where the money's going, because the
fraud in California is one hundred times worse than what
you're seeing in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, I mean, you know, just the obvious stuff. You know,
the seventeen eighteen million dollars for high speed rail, the
twenty four billion excuse me, twenty four billion of NEWSOM
admitting homeless money unaccounted for. You got thirty two billion
and unemployment money unaccounted for from COVID. I mean, that's
about seventy four billion or so right there. And that's
(25:00):
just the biggest headlines and all that has been reported
for years and it's common, it's gone and there was
no repercussions for anyone.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
That's right. It's just the tip of the iceberg. And
so we need to kick the tires. We need to
audit every element of California state and local government. And
when they talk about tax increases, tell them hell to
they no pick a finger. No way in hell should
we be giving them more money until we can account
for the money we've already given them.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
All right, Carl Demyel, thank you for coming on. Good work,
as always, excellent work. There's nobody else in the state
who was able to get a million signatures for something
simple like voter ID, which that's another that's like ninety
percent of the countries in favor of voter ID.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And why do you think that, Why do you.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Think the elections are so slopsided in California considering the
way the state is is it really that appealing to
vote for these progressive Democrats over and over again. Are
people really doing that? Just doesn't make any sense to me.
The state is a sesspool, it's a sore in many ways,
(26:06):
and so are people really voting for the same for
the same criminals over and over again. I just don't
believe it. We come back Zorahn Mom. Donnie has a
tenant advocate, a woman named Sea Weaver. She's director of
the City Office to Protect Tenants. She's an absolute communist
(26:31):
and they have dug up her old tweets and some
old video that she posted. And you know, you'll be
the judge as to whether she's a real communist or not.
I think it's obvious, and we'll talk about that coming
up next. You you got to hear this clip of her.
I just haven't heard anybody talk like this since I
(26:51):
don't know, like fifty years ago, when there was a
surge towards revolutionary communism back in the early seventies. There
were all these weird protest groups and underground groups, and they,
you know, they they well, we'll get into that coming up,
but it's definitely back in New York.
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YouTube dot com slash at John Cobelt's show. A little
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Speaker 2 (27:43):
For the other social media, Zorn Mom.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Donnie got inaugurated as New York City mayor over well,
it was on New Year's Day. And you know, he's
not hiding it. He's hiring a lot of communists to
be in his administration. He's not kidding around. These are
true believers. This is a weird insurgency. And I understand
(28:13):
that a couple of a couple of Los Angeles politicians
and the city Council attended his inauguration, and that would
be the president of the City Council and also Unices
Hernandez and what's what's a city council president's name, drawing
a blank on it right now because he's such a
(28:34):
Marquise Harris Dawson, that's right.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I almost said Marquis so I was.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I had to think about it. It's Marquis. Yeah, he's
such a non entity who's completely absent during the fire.
He's a real zero of a guy. And Unicus Hernandez
is just a looney bag. And the two of them, yeah,
they flew to New York to celebrate the communists coming
in because they're communists themselves. It's the same party. It's
the Democratic Socialists of America DSA. And that is a
(29:01):
fancy name for modern day communism, which keeps coming back
and some people keep falling for it, usually a young
generation that went to a school where they didn't cover history.
I don't think history has covered much at all. And communism,
socialism and all the cousins massive failures, ends up with
(29:23):
a lot of people suffering, ends up with destroyed economies.
It is a absolutely unworkable system and has been proven
to be unworkable many many times for over one hundred years.
But that didn't stop the idiots in New York from
electing Mom Donnie so he's got this woman named se
(29:46):
A Weaver, director of the City Office to Protect Tenants,
and over the years she made a lot of statements
urging her followers to elect more communists. She put this
in her posts on her x account formerly Twitter. Now
(30:07):
she had deleted this account at some point, but some
Internet investigators uncovered it. Here's an example of some of
the things that she posted.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
I think the reality though, I'm.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Going to read some of the posts and then I'm
gonna play the clip. That's okay.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Seize private property, she once wrote back in the twenty tens.
And she also said private property, including any kind of
any kind of and especially home ownership, is a weapon
of white supremacy.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah. White.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
That was August to twenty nineteen. So you own a home,
your home is a weapon of white supremacy, which makes
you a white supremacist. Now, by the way, this is
a red haired white woman saying this during the George
Floyd hysteria. The people are just people. Sorry, the police
(31:10):
are just people. The state sanctions to murder with immunity.
Remember the Democratic Socialists of America. Her name is Cea Weaver,
former campaign coordinator Housing Justice for All. She was a
advisor of the Mom Donnie campaign and now she is
in charge of the Office to Protect Tenants and they
(31:33):
found this clip, this audio video clip from twenty eighteen.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
I think the reality is is that for centuries we've
really treated property as an individualized good and not a
collective good. And we are going to and transitioning to
treating it as a collective good and towards a model
of shared equity will require that we think about it
differently and it will meet in that family is especially
(32:02):
white families, but some POT families to her homeowners as well,
are going to have a different relationship to property than
than the one that we currently have.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
White families, including some, she said, POC families. That's people
of color. We're gonna have a wait, she's gonna she
wants to seize our private property and make it everybody's property,
property of the collective. Do you want to share your house?
Speaker 5 (32:30):
I don't. Do you want to share yours?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I don't at all.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I've worked hard. But that makes us symbols of white supremacy,
you realize, But what.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
If you're not white?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
She said, even non white? Okay, So that's my point,
and how could you that makes.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Sense even no. In her mind, even black people are
symbols of white supremacy. In fact, that's what the La
Times called Larry Elder years ago, and he was running
for governor. Remember the black face of white supremacy. So
you know, white supremacy is so awful that even black
people fall for it. And now not only white people
can't have a private home. Black people can't have a
private home. Nobody can have a private home. And she
(33:06):
believes this, and there's a whole collection of them now
in Mom Donnie's administration.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
He believes this.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
So she doesn't own a house. I don't know. I
never heard of her until this morning.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
I'd like to find out if she ever owned a house.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I think they're going to be doing a lot of investigations.
She was a lobbyist and she was involved in lobbying
for rent stabilization laws in New York State. And it
is completely insane. What they want to do is they
(33:45):
want to freeze rent, stabilize rents, whatever in euphemism they have.
And what's going to happen then is those buildings will
not be maintained, they will start to rot or be
abandoned by the landlords because if the landlords can't raise
the rents, then they're not going to do maintenance and
repairs on the buildings. And they're gonna have to They're
(34:08):
gonna have to just get out and then and which is.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
What they want.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
That's what Mam Donnie and this sea of Weaver want,
because then the state will take over the apartments, they'll
own them, the collective will own them, and nobody will
have private property.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
There'll be no.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
More condos, there will be no more private homes. And
he is doing what he ran on. He was serious.
I mean the DSA, and you could look them up online.
They've been around in LA. They own four or five
council people I know force for sure in the party.
(34:45):
And there are several who are maybe not members of
the party, but their policies are the same. And and
and uh Marquise Harris Dawson, the city council president, is
one of them.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Now you're turning cities over to communists.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Where we're not allowed to own private property. Karen Bath
is one of them. That's why she idolized. She idolized
Fidel Castro when she was in her twenties. She made
many many visits. I loved watching Castro speak. She has
(35:21):
said that she was just overwhelmed by his charisma, mesmerized
by his speaking ability. Communist and that's her leanings and
those are her policies. And when she was running, nobody
covered this. The businessman Rick Caruso, who builds things, who
(35:45):
creates thousands and thousands of jobs, who produces many millions
and millions of dollars for the economy, he's the bad guy.
The woman whose base philosophy is to seize your property,
is to tax your way. How the hell? Who the
hell has Fidel Castro as their idol when they're young?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Tell me.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Most people, I don't know, guys idolize athletes, so do
many women, or you idolize actors, pop singers? Who idolizes
Fidel Castro? Somebody who's immersed in the communist philosophy, which
is what we have as our mayor, our city council president,
(36:32):
almost half of the city council. They're trying to get
a majority in the next election cycle.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
And now.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Zorroon Mamdani, the communist mayor in New York. He's got
a communist administration. And I almost never use that word communist.
I always thought it was just hyperbole on the part
of like right wing nuts, but it sticks here. It's
real when you get to seize property as saying that
(37:03):
it's a tool of white supremacy to own your own home.
And nearly half the politicians in la are already there
and you just don't know it because nobody covers it.
When we come back, Royal Oaks, ABC News legal analyst
is going to come on and explain the legality of
(37:24):
Maduro being confiscated out of Venezuela by the US military
and if this violates US law, international law doesn't matter,
and is he really going to face charges? Is there
any way out of these charges? It's coming up next
Debra Mark live in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
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