April 24, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (04/24) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio fills in for John. Carl talks about how there are members of the CA legislature that want to ban gas-powered appliances. How much will it cost Californians if gas-powered appliances are banned in the state. CA State Assemblywoman Laurie Davies comes on the show to talk about a bill that she and Carl are proposing to help fight the proposed gas-powered appliance ban. Carl answers questions from listeners submitted on the Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. If I am six forty, you're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Carl Demayo filling in for John Cobelt. We're having a
great conversation this week about all the failings, corruption, wasteful spending,
self dealing, money laundering of California politicians. In other words,
is John ever going to come back? I think we've
got a lot to talk about. No, he's going to
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be back next week. I am so honored to be
sitting in at his microphone for this ongoing conversation. By
the way, if you want me to talk about any issue,
answer any question, give you this story behind the story,
take you behind the scenes of what's really going on
in your California state government. Use the talkback feature on
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the iHeartRadio app. Ask me a question or just pitch
me an issue that you want me to respond to,
and I'm going to get to those later on today
and tomorrow, coming at three o'clock, We're going to talk
about the judges that are trying to stop Donald Trump's
various agenda items and why California is ground zero in
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whether or not Trump's agenda during his term will get implemented.
But first, let's talk about why the environmentalists here in
California hate the environment so much. No, no, I'm serious. Look,
I love the environment. You love the environment. Everyone loves
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the environment. I'm still trying to find the person that
doesn't like the environment.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The Democrats and the liberal media like to say Republicans
don't like the environment. I'm sorry. I have yet to
find a Republican who says, yeah, I I'm the one
that likes the dirty air and the dirty water.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Oh, Carl, you guys are always protecting the polluters.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
No, what we're doing is asking the question, how much
does that regulation cost and what is the benefit. It's
called cost benefit, and we find that a lot of
the well do gooder ideas that come up there, are
invented by environmentalists, are actually not They're not good for
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your pocketbook, they're not good for your job, they're not
good for your quality of life, and we're actually finding
more and more they're not even good for the environment.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But nobody talks about that.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Okay, And this is what I think Republicans need to
do is instead of just saying, oh, that regulation's gonna
cost money, and it's gonna take away convenience. Yeah, okay, fine,
we know that. But people still like the environment. So
they're like, well, we got to kind of all do
our part.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Gotta do our part, Carl, gotta do our part. Environment's important,
Mother nature, she's depending upon us. Well what if I told.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You, not only does this proposed environmental regulation cost money,
destroy jobs, take away convenience, but it's really lousy for
the environment.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And guess what.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So many of the the current environmental propose the recent
environmental proposals of California Democrats are bad for the environment.
Perfect example, remember in twenty of twenty fifteen when they
passed the mandate to get rid of plastic bags in
the supermarket.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Remember that, Remember you.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Know those flimsy plastic bags that we used to get
for free in the supermarket. Well, the Democrats came along
and said, we need to reduce the plastic waste in
our landfills. We're going to ban the plastic bags at
the supermarket. Well, they implemented a bill that banned free
plastic bags, the thin ones, but then said you could
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sell for ten cents a plastic bag that's thick. And
as a result of this law, we almost tripled. The
amount of plastic waste that went into our landfills almost tripled.
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Another example electric cars. Democrats say, oh, we got to
get rid of.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Gas powered cars. They're bad for the environment, so they
mandate these evs.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, if you ever look at the full environmental footprint
of an electric vehicle with a big battery, you understand
all the mining impacts cobalt, You understand anything having to
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do with a battery an electric vehicle. You'll find that
the carbon emitted to make the battery to mine the
materials and components for that car, and that battery actually
outstrips the carbon savings.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh and by the way, where you getting the electricity.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You're plugging into the wall, so you go from gas
power to electricity power.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Where's the electricity coming from?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Sometimes it comes from solar, but a lot of times,
because we import one third of our energy in this
state comes from a natural gas peaker plant in New
Mexico or worse south of the border. Oh yeah, and
when you import energy across long distances, you lose energy
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because you have to use kilot our energy to actually
transport energy. So about a third of our energy that
we import is lost just to transport it here to
California because we don't make it within our own state.
I don't know about you, but my mama taught me
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environmentalism meant waste not, want not. But these environmentalists, they're
very wasteful. I remember in the eighties growing up, and
everyone was talking about the clean natural gas bus. Remember
that we need to use clean natural gas. And all
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the politicians held press conferences saying, we're here today to
announce that our police department, our fire department, our bus
for our school district is gonna now be powered by
clean natural gas because we.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Care about the environment. We love the environment. That's why
we spent so much money on a clean natural gas bus.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Now they say natural gas buses are the work of
the devil.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Satan made us do it. It's destroying the environment.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Wait, wait, hold on, I remember just a few years
ago you were saying, well, how we should be giving
you credit and patting you on the back for being
so green and so good for the environment because you
were spending extra money for clean natural gas. You know what,
I'm sick and tired of listening to people who've been
wrong so many times. The same Yahoo's saying that we're
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going to die in twelve years because a climate change
are running ran around and said we're going.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
To die because of COVID nineteen.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
By the way, up here in Sacramento, when people come
into the hearing room wearing COVID nineteen masks and sit
there and want to lecture me on what you know
is going on with the environment, I roll my eyes
and I say, I mean, dude, you are still wearing
the mask. And again I'm not saying you can't wear
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a mask, but I don't really think you have a
good handle on science.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You don't have a really good judgment. These people have
been wrong so many times.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I mean, remember we were supposed to be gone in
twenty ten, two thousand and five, Remember the hockey stick
graft from al Gore.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
In two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
The ice caps will be gone on by two thousand
and nine, the polar bears are going to be gone.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
They're going extinct. Nobody calls these people out on their bs.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Nobody says, wait, you said this ten years ago and
this is where we are today. You were wrong. Nobody
says they're wrong. The media doesn't hold them accountable for
being wrong. They say, oh no, no, No, these are the environmentalists.
We have to listen to them.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
They're they're they're they're they're completely.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Uh uh reliable and and and and you can't question them.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Anyone who does hates the environment.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
No, I just don't like listening to people who've been
wrong so many times and who are bad for the environment.
That brings me to the natural gas appliance ban coming up.
Let me tell you just how expensive it's going to
be if they implement a ban on gas appliances. And
I'm not just talking about a ban, they're talking about
retrofit mandates. How much is that gonna cost you?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Coming up? As Carl to Bio sits in for John
co Belt.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
You're listening to John coblt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Carl Tobio sitting in for John co Belt. We're talking
about natural gas appliance bans and the ban on your
gas cars.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
They've got the ban on your your stove that they
want to put in place.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You wouldn't be able to get a gas powered water heater,
no gas powered furnace, no gas fireplace if you like,
if you have a pool, no gas jacuzzi, no, no,
heating the pool of your gas heater, no gas whatsoever.
Gas appliance ban. Oh, but it's worse the California Air
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Resources Board, which is implementing these natural gas appliance bans,
which also implemented the ban on gas powered cars by
twenty thirty five, immense power. None of these people are elected,
but they're the ones imposing these bands. Not only do
they want to ban new purchases of gas appliances, so
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that if your stove breaks, you're not allowed to buy
a gas powered stove. You've got to get an electric stove.
But they're going to require retrofits of existing homes and
they're going to say you have until twenty thirty to
get all your appliances replaced, and if not, then we're
just going to shut off the gas. It's a mandate retrofit.
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Now in order to get rid of a gas appliance,
you're not just having to buy a new appliance, which
is going to have all sorts of impractical, costly impacts
on the supply chain, Like if California said to everyone,
everyone has to go out and buy a brand new
water heater all at once. The supply chain globally for
water heaters would absolutely come falling down. The cost of
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water heaters would spike across the globe, particularly here in California.
But again, these environmentalists, they don't care, they have no concept,
they're not tethered to practical reality. But put that aside, Okay,
put the insanity in the impractical impracticality of just the
supply chain for the appliances themselves aside.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Where are you going to get the electrician to hook
it up?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Because all the electricians are going to be too busy
to get all these appliances hooked up. So you have
the cost of the appliance which is going to be
sky high. Scarcity, supply chain won't handle it. The cost
of an electrician is going to be sky high. You
have to have all sorts of new things installed in
your house. You go from a gas hookup to you know,
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these are not just like outlets that you put.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Into your wall in your kitchen.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
These are large, high capacity, high electricity hookups. It's gonna
be a lot of expense to retrofit your home. In fact,
the National Association of home Builders twenty twenty one, So
remember this is several years ago. Inflation and construction costs
has gone up dramatically since twenty twenty one, but the
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National Association of Homebuilders said the average home in California
would cost thirty thousand dollars to retrofit to replace the
gas furnace, the gas water heater, and the gas stove.
That's not even counting a gas fireplace or anything having
to do.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
With a pool.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
If you have one, you have thirty thousand dollars lying around,
and that's twenty twenty one number. Inflation has gone up
since then, and that's static. It's like, okay, assuming you
can find the electrician and you can actually find the
appliances on the market, assuming the supply chain doesn't literally
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crash because California politicians are unhinged, untethered, out of touch,
bat blank crazy is what I call them. But put
all that as the cost, the convenience, the impracticality, This
isn't even good for the environment because guess what's gonna
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be powering all those new appliances. Energy electricity that we
don't have, So we're not gonna be able to actually
plug in because the electric grids is gonna go and crash.
We don't have the electricity to service all of those
new appliances that are putting pressure on the electric grid
that used to be powered by gas.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Now it has to be done by kilowatt.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Electricity, and by some magic you feet if we actually
suddenly we're able to buy the electricity on the market,
which we won't be able to to replace gas powered
at the source, Guess where the electricity is gonna come from?
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Natural gas peaker plants in Mexico, in Arizona, in Texas,
in Nevada. And you're gonna transport that energy at a
loss of energy across state lines.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
These people are not even good environmentalists.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Oh and where are you gonna put all the old
gas stoves, gas water heaters, gas furnaces.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You're gonna put those in the landfill.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You're gonna shove all these appliances that actually have not
reached the end of their useful life.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You're gonna shove them all in the landfill.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No one in the media asks these questions, by the way,
no one thinks through hmm, how are we going to
ban natural gas appliances? What would that cost? What is
the convenience factor, what's the practicality of it? How do
we power things? No, they just sit there with their
cheesy blank grins on TV saying how wonderful it is
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for the environment, and anyone that questions, dares to question,
must hate the environment.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No, actually, I like the environment.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I love the environment, and my policies are better the
environment than these yahoos that don't know their rear end from.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
A hole in the ground. Come it up.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'm gonna be joined by one of my colleagues in
the State Assembly, Lori Davies, who's helping me fight the
natural gas appliance bans. We have a bill that we've proposed,
and we're gonna need your help to make this issue
a wedge issue in the twenty twenty six election.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
That's all coming up. Carl Demiyo sitting in for John Cobelt.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Coming up at three o'clock, we're going to talk about
voter ID. You can help us get voter ID on
the twenty twenty six ballot. Go to the website voter
idpetition dot org and sign the petition voter idpetition dot
org and help us restore election integrity in our state.
We're talking about California liberal politicians banning natural gas appliances
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in your home and also imposing a ban on gas
powered cars.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
None of these bands.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
By the way, were voted on by the legislature. That's
how the politicians avoid accountability. They basically delegate broad authority,
you know, massive powers to unelected bureaucrats who are a
bunch of wing nuts who sit there on these boards
and commissions, and then impose these draconian, sweeping, costly, anti freedom,
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anti consumer mandates, and then they say.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Oh, it wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You can blame the California Air Resources Board. You don't
like your utility rate increase, you can blame the Public
Utilities Commission. Sorry, but who delegated all this power to
this board? Oh yeah, that's right, it would be you.
This is the scam that the politicians and Sacramento have
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engaged in shield themselves from your anger when bad policies
are foisted on you. That's why we're trying to pass
a bill. Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight would say that
California Air Resources Board cannot ban gas powered cars or
gas appliances, cannot impose retrofits on your home or your business.
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That that's something that would only be able to be
done if our politicians passed a law. We don't want
them to pass the law, but at least force the
politicians to vote on these bad ideas. Democrats are not
even allowing us to vote on this in committee. But
we're going to be making emotion in the coming weeks
to force this bill onto the Assembly floor and get
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a recorded vote on it. Joining me on our line
at KFI is assembly Woman Lori Davies. She represents the
seventy fourth Assembly District in South Orange County and North
San Diego, CA. And she's one of the good ones.
She's fighting the good fight and she's been on this
natural gas appliance ban scam for many years trying to
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fight it. Laurie, thanks for stopping by. When did you first,
you know, start hearing that the Democrats and Sacramento wanted
to get rid of gas stoves in people's kitchens.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
You know, I've been hearing it. And by the way,
Carol's great to hear you on air again.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Thank you, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We've been listening.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Yeah, we've been listening to this for years and you know,
just a matter of time and when they get to
the point. But as always, you've got you know where
we were talking about twenty thirty air quality boards banned
the sale of gas furnaces, water heaters, And every time
they say the word affordability, they do the opposite. They
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go ahead and they push something that isn't affordable. So
I knew this was coming, and especially you know, I
think getting the message out is so important because of
my background was a food and average and restaurants. Trust me,
the chefs really, you know, got wind of this many
years ago and really put a lot of pressure. I
think they did that in another state. We're able to
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know they did then another city and they were able
to stop it.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
When just it wasn't it just twenty years ago we
were hearing these same Democrat politicians before they got in
the Assembly, they were serving on county boards or city councils,
and they were lecturing us on why we needed to
go to clean natural gas buses. And they were, you know,
doing press conferences standing in front of natural gas buses
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with a big bow, big red bow on it or
green bow, as the case may be, and they would
say how wonderful they are for protecting the environment because
they're moving everything to natural gas. Now they claim natural
gas is the work of the devil. I mean, has
anyone like pointed this out to them? I mean, are
they ashamed of the fact that they were the ones
pushing natural gas several years ago?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I don't think they remember that far back. I had
said on Orange County Transportation Authority Board, and like you said,
is we were doing natural gas, you know, and they
had to take the money and go ahead to make
sure everything was natural gas. And then all of a
sud they're like, nope, now it has to be electric.
And the money that has been lost and through the
tax payers is just incredible. It's kind of onto their
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nixt whim of what they want to do.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So I introduced this bill, Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight,
and it's very simple. It doesn't say that we're going to,
you know, make a decision on natural gas or the
electric vehicle mandate. It just simply says that if we're
going to ban anything in the state of California, then
by golly, the politicians who are elected by the people
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in the legislature, they should be the ones and the
only ones with that power, and they should be forced
to put their name behind these bad policies. We can't
even get a committee vote on Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight.
They don't even want to take it up.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
No, you're you're right, and that's just it is. They
don't want to be a countable for it. They want
to be able to point fingers. And again, this is
not the agenda of California. There was a poll taken
just recently and at least seventy percent of the people
in California said they do not want their gas taken away.
And yet once again they tend not to hear it,
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and they do what third gend is and not the agenda,
the people's. And that's why getting this onto a ballot
really makes a difference. We saw that with PROMP thirty six,
that the public came out, their voices were heard, and
unfortunately with the super majority up there, that's really the past.
Sometimes we have to take to let Californias vote so
that they really do hear you know what they want.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, I know that.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You know, we have only a few opportunities to go
to the Assembly floor and do something called wharf that's
a parliamentary procedure to force a vote on bills. I
planned a Wharf Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight soon, just
because I think people need need to know that there
is a recorded vote where Democrats voted down the ability
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to stop these unelected bureaucrats from banning gas stoves, gas furnaces,
gas water heaters, gas powered cars. We need a list
of names, and that way the voters get to decide
whether those politicians should continue to serve an office. And
as you pointed out, the polling on this, every poll
I've seen shows seventy percent, as you said, seventy percent
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of Californians don't want natural gas appliances to be banned.
They want to be able to decide that themselves based
upon their own costs and convenience factors.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Laurie, thanks so much for stopping by.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You're one of the target seats that Democrats are trying
to flip because you present common sense and I need
to make sure you stay up in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So what is your website?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
If people want to check you out and maybe chip
in a contribution to help you get reelected, they.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Can go to Davies dot com.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Davies Davies, Just Davies dot com, d A v I E.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
S dot com yes, Wow, you got your last name
dot com Davies dot com. That's that's a good one.
Most people don't get something that simple. Go to Davies
dot com. Learn more about Lori Davies.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
What were you going to say? Real quick?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
They have that this is going to be heard in
front of the South Coast Air Quality Board. They've moved
it to June sixth, so we do have a little
bit of time, and I think we need to really
get some information. I'm going to be having a town
hall on May fifteenth. I will get the information out
to you that you can put onto your site, but
you know, we need to really show up, you know,
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with a lot of people and letting them know that
this is not okay. And we represent California they don't,
so you know, we still can fight.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
This absolutely and we'll get that recorded vote on the
Assembly floor in addition to the town hall that you're
hosting in Orange County. Thanks so much, Assembly Member Lori
Davis Davies, doing great work. Coming up, I'm going to
take some of your questions from the talkback feature of
the iHeartRadio app. So use that feature to send me
your questions and we'll give you a little bit more insight,
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insider view on the broken political system we have here
in California.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We've been giving people opportunities to submit questions, raise issues
that you want me to respond to using the talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app. I've heard none of these
in advance. This is the first time i've heard them.
The producer, the director, they get to select. I just
hear them live, just like you do. So hopefully I
won't be embarrassed by getting stumped. So let's see, Eric,
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you got one for me. I have a question for you, Carl,
exactly how powerful is Robert Revis?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Is he the mastermind behind the strings or is he
just the pumpin?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So most of you are sitting there saying, who the
hell is Robert Revis.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's not a dumb question. It nobody knows who he is.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
He's the Speaker of the California State Assembly. He's a
state assembly member, He's a Democrat. The question is how
powerful is he? Well, they're the super majority. They get
to do whatever the hell they want. They can kill bills,
they can decide what's coming up on the floor.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
He is presiding over a caucus of Democrats, sixty Democrats who.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Are very liberal, and he's got his hands full full.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It's a pretty out of control group. And the more
progress people like me make in turning up the temperature,
the more dissension there is on the Democrat side of
the aisle, because you have moderates who know that I'm
coming for their seats, the target seats. Those are vulnerable
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Democrats that I think we can kick out of office
in the purple districts. And the liberals are saying, no,
we have to do Green New Deal, we have to
do socialized medicine, we have to raise taxes. So they're
having their own little civil war. As messed up as
Republicans are. Democrats just keep their dirty laundry in the
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closet a secret a lot better than Republicans in California.
So he's got to always look over his shoulder. He
needs always to please thirty one of his colleagues Democrats,
to remain speaker. So yeah, he's got authority as the
Speaker of the Assembly to set the agenda to throw
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people like me off committees like he has done to
kill our bills like he has done to my bills.
But he himself is kind of in a little bit
of a jam and could lose his speakership if he
doesn't play nicey nice with the Liberals, which is why again,
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some of them are doing some really bad policies because
they're forced by their left flank, their extreme left flank,
to just simply walk the plank. Let's go with another one, Eric,
do you got another talkback feature?
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Hey, Carl, this is Chris from Riverside. Can you tell
me what the difference is between CARB, the California Air
Resources Board and the Air Quality Management District Seems like
they are doing the same thing.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Nah, yes, yes, yes, so we're getting into the nuts
and bolts of government.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
They do very similar things.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
The California Air Resources Board is a statewide agency, whereas
air Quality Management districts are in the regions. The CARB
set standards, then each of the regions have to cascade
that down and comply and do specific regional standards and regulations.
Let's get another one in real quick well, and by
the way, while we wait for that, Lori Davies texted
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me that her website is not Davies dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I didn't think it was. It's Davies for caa dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
So if you want to learn more about her and
help her out in her race for re election, Davies
da VI I E S forca dot com. One last
question from the talkback feature.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'm just curious what your opinion is that the future
of the high speed rail.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Isn't it obvious? It's a boondoggle, It's a grift project.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
It's corrupt.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Democrat politicians are using billions of dollars under the guise
of building a high speed rail project to simply line
the pockets of their campaign contributors and then get a
piece of the action through campaign contributions. I can't be
more clear about the fact that it's a wasteful project.
It's never going to get done. It's only going to
hemorrhage your taxpayer money into their campaign coffers, into the
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pockets of their rich supporters, and it needs to be killed.
I think that the Trump administration will be going after
California for the four billion dollars that was misspent of
federal taxpayer money, and hope voters are going to wake
up and pull the plug and demand that the plug
be pulled because billions of dollars going to that project
could go to our potholes, could go to our freeways,
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could actually How about this, I know it's crazy. How
about we just give it back to you? How about
we give you your money back? Because all that money
for high speed rail is coming from your gas tax,
It's coming from all of the cap and trade regulations,
climate regulations, and fees and charges and taxes.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
That are applied. Why don't just give you the money back?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That would be too controversial to give people their money back.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Oh my goodness. All right?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Coming up, judges stopping Donald Trump on a variety of
executive orders, including an order that would require that we
check the citizenship of people before they registered to vote. Yeah,
a federal judge today put an end to that. Can
we just throw these judges off the bench.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I think we can.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Coming up, we'll cover that, but first, Michael Krozer in
the twenty four hour Newsroom at KFI has an update
on the news.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on KFI Am
six forty from one to four pm every Monday through
Friday and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,
Can't. If I am six forty, you're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Carl Demayo filling in for John Cobelt. We're having a
great conversation this week about all the failings, corruption, wasteful spending,
self dealing, money laundering of California politicians. In other words,
is John ever going to come back? I think we've
got a lot to talk about. No, he's going to
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be back next week. I am so honored to be
sitting in at his microphone for this ongoing conversation. By
the way, if you want me to talk about any issue,
answer any question, give you this story behind the story,
take you behind the scenes of what's really going on
in your California state government. Use the talkback feature on
(00:48):
the iHeartRadio app. Ask me a question or just pitch
me an issue that you want me to respond to,
and I'm going to get to those later on today
and tomorrow, coming at three o'clock, We're going to talk
about the judges that are trying to stop Donald Trump's
various agenda items and why California is ground zero in
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whether or not Trump's agenda during his term will get implemented.
But first, let's talk about why the environmentalists here in
California hate the environment so much. No, no, I'm serious. Look,
I love the environment. You love the environment. Everyone loves
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the environment. I'm still trying to find the person that
doesn't like the environment.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The Democrats and the liberal media like to say Republicans
don't like the environment. I'm sorry. I have yet to
find a Republican who says, yeah, I I'm the one
that likes the dirty air and the dirty water.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Oh, Carl, you guys are always protecting the polluters.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
No, what we're doing is asking the question, how much
does that regulation cost and what is the benefit. It's
called cost benefit, and we find that a lot of
the well do gooder ideas that come up there, are
invented by environmentalists, are actually not They're not good for
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your pocketbook, they're not good for your job, they're not
good for your quality of life, and we're actually finding
more and more they're not even good for the environment.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But nobody talks about that.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Okay, And this is what I think Republicans need to
do is instead of just saying, oh, that regulation's gonna
cost money, and it's gonna take away convenience. Yeah, okay, fine,
we know that. But people still like the environment. So
they're like, well, we got to kind of all do
our part.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Gotta do our part, Carl, gotta do our part. Environment's important,
Mother nature, she's depending upon us. Well what if I told.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You, not only does this proposed environmental regulation cost money,
destroy jobs, take away convenience, but it's really lousy for
the environment.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And guess what.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So many of the the current environmental propose the recent
environmental proposals of California Democrats are bad for the environment.
Perfect example, remember in twenty of twenty fifteen when they
passed the mandate to get rid of plastic bags in
the supermarket.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Remember that, Remember you.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Know those flimsy plastic bags that we used to get
for free in the supermarket. Well, the Democrats came along
and said, we need to reduce the plastic waste in
our landfills. We're going to ban the plastic bags at
the supermarket. Well, they implemented a bill that banned free
plastic bags, the thin ones, but then said you could
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sell for ten cents a plastic bag that's thick. And
as a result of this law, we almost tripled. The
amount of plastic waste that went into our landfills almost tripled.
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Another example electric cars. Democrats say, oh, we got to
get rid of.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Gas powered cars. They're bad for the environment, so they
mandate these evs.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, if you ever look at the full environmental footprint
of an electric vehicle with a big battery, you understand
all the mining impacts cobalt, You understand anything having to
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do with a battery an electric vehicle. You'll find that
the carbon emitted to make the battery to mine the
materials and components for that car, and that battery actually
outstrips the carbon savings.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh and by the way, where you getting the electricity.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You're plugging into the wall, so you go from gas
power to electricity power.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Where's the electricity coming from?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Sometimes it comes from solar, but a lot of times,
because we import one third of our energy in this
state comes from a natural gas peaker plant in New
Mexico or worse south of the border. Oh yeah, and
when you import energy across long distances, you lose energy
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because you have to use kilot our energy to actually
transport energy. So about a third of our energy that
we import is lost just to transport it here to
California because we don't make it within our own state.
I don't know about you, but my mama taught me
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environmentalism meant waste not, want not. But these environmentalists, they're
very wasteful. I remember in the eighties growing up, and
everyone was talking about the clean natural gas bus. Remember
that we need to use clean natural gas. And all
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the politicians held press conferences saying, we're here today to
announce that our police department, our fire department, our bus
for our school district is gonna now be powered by
clean natural gas because we.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Care about the environment. We love the environment. That's why
we spent so much money on a clean natural gas bus.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Now they say natural gas buses are the work of
the devil.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Satan made us do it. It's destroying the environment.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Wait, wait, hold on, I remember just a few years
ago you were saying, well, how we should be giving
you credit and patting you on the back for being
so green and so good for the environment because you
were spending extra money for clean natural gas. You know what,
I'm sick and tired of listening to people who've been
wrong so many times. The same Yahoo's saying that we're
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going to die in twelve years because a climate change
are running ran around and said we're going.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
To die because of COVID nineteen.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
By the way, up here in Sacramento, when people come
into the hearing room wearing COVID nineteen masks and sit
there and want to lecture me on what you know
is going on with the environment, I roll my eyes
and I say, I mean, dude, you are still wearing
the mask. And again I'm not saying you can't wear
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a mask, but I don't really think you have a
good handle on science.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You don't have a really good judgment. These people have
been wrong so many times.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I mean, remember we were supposed to be gone in
twenty ten, two thousand and five, Remember the hockey stick
graft from al Gore.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
In two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
The ice caps will be gone on by two thousand
and nine, the polar bears are going to be gone.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
They're going extinct. Nobody calls these people out on their bs.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Nobody says, wait, you said this ten years ago and
this is where we are today. You were wrong. Nobody
says they're wrong. The media doesn't hold them accountable for
being wrong. They say, oh no, no, No, these are the environmentalists.
We have to listen to them.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
They're they're they're they're they're completely.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Uh uh reliable and and and and you can't question them.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Anyone who does hates the environment.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
No, I just don't like listening to people who've been
wrong so many times and who are bad for the environment.
That brings me to the natural gas appliance ban coming up.
Let me tell you just how expensive it's going to
be if they implement a ban on gas appliances. And
I'm not just talking about a ban, they're talking about
retrofit mandates. How much is that gonna cost you?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Coming up? As Carl to Bio sits in for John
co Belt.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
You're listening to John coblt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Carl Tobio sitting in for John co Belt. We're talking
about natural gas appliance bans and the ban on your
gas cars.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
They've got the ban on your your stove that they
want to put in place.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You wouldn't be able to get a gas powered water heater,
no gas powered furnace, no gas fireplace if you like,
if you have a pool, no gas jacuzzi, no, no,
heating the pool of your gas heater, no gas whatsoever.
Gas appliance ban. Oh, but it's worse the California Air
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Resources Board, which is implementing these natural gas appliance bans,
which also implemented the ban on gas powered cars by
twenty thirty five, immense power. None of these people are elected,
but they're the ones imposing these bands. Not only do
they want to ban new purchases of gas appliances, so
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that if your stove breaks, you're not allowed to buy
a gas powered stove. You've got to get an electric stove.
But they're going to require retrofits of existing homes and
they're going to say you have until twenty thirty to
get all your appliances replaced, and if not, then we're
just going to shut off the gas. It's a mandate retrofit.
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Now in order to get rid of a gas appliance,
you're not just having to buy a new appliance, which
is going to have all sorts of impractical, costly impacts
on the supply chain, Like if California said to everyone,
everyone has to go out and buy a brand new
water heater all at once. The supply chain globally for
water heaters would absolutely come falling down. The cost of
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water heaters would spike across the globe, particularly here in California.
But again, these environmentalists, they don't care, they have no concept,
they're not tethered to practical reality. But put that aside, Okay,
put the insanity in the impractical impracticality of just the
supply chain for the appliances themselves aside.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Where are you going to get the electrician to hook
it up?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Because all the electricians are going to be too busy
to get all these appliances hooked up. So you have
the cost of the appliance which is going to be
sky high. Scarcity, supply chain won't handle it. The cost
of an electrician is going to be sky high. You
have to have all sorts of new things installed in
your house. You go from a gas hookup to you know,
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these are not just like outlets that you put.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Into your wall in your kitchen.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
These are large, high capacity, high electricity hookups. It's gonna
be a lot of expense to retrofit your home. In fact,
the National Association of home Builders twenty twenty one, So
remember this is several years ago. Inflation and construction costs
has gone up dramatically since twenty twenty one, but the
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National Association of Homebuilders said the average home in California
would cost thirty thousand dollars to retrofit to replace the
gas furnace, the gas water heater, and the gas stove.
That's not even counting a gas fireplace or anything having
to do.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
With a pool.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
If you have one, you have thirty thousand dollars lying around,
and that's twenty twenty one number. Inflation has gone up
since then, and that's static. It's like, okay, assuming you
can find the electrician and you can actually find the
appliances on the market, assuming the supply chain doesn't literally
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crash because California politicians are unhinged, untethered, out of touch,
bat blank crazy is what I call them. But put
all that as the cost, the convenience, the impracticality, This
isn't even good for the environment because guess what's gonna
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be powering all those new appliances. Energy electricity that we
don't have, So we're not gonna be able to actually
plug in because the electric grids is gonna go and crash.
We don't have the electricity to service all of those
new appliances that are putting pressure on the electric grid
that used to be powered by gas.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Now it has to be done by kilowatt.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Electricity, and by some magic you feet if we actually
suddenly we're able to buy the electricity on the market,
which we won't be able to to replace gas powered
at the source, Guess where the electricity is gonna come from?
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Natural gas peaker plants in Mexico, in Arizona, in Texas,
in Nevada. And you're gonna transport that energy at a
loss of energy across state lines.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
These people are not even good environmentalists.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Oh and where are you gonna put all the old
gas stoves, gas water heaters, gas furnaces.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You're gonna put those in the landfill.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You're gonna shove all these appliances that actually have not
reached the end of their useful life.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You're gonna shove them all in the landfill.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No one in the media asks these questions, by the way,
no one thinks through hmm, how are we going to
ban natural gas appliances? What would that cost? What is
the convenience factor, what's the practicality of it? How do
we power things? No, they just sit there with their
cheesy blank grins on TV saying how wonderful it is
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for the environment, and anyone that questions, dares to question,
must hate the environment.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No, actually, I like the environment.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I love the environment, and my policies are better the
environment than these yahoos that don't know their rear end from.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
A hole in the ground. Come it up.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'm gonna be joined by one of my colleagues in
the State Assembly, Lori Davies, who's helping me fight the
natural gas appliance bans. We have a bill that we've proposed,
and we're gonna need your help to make this issue
a wedge issue in the twenty twenty six election.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
That's all coming up. Carl Demiyo sitting in for John Cobelt.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Coming up at three o'clock, we're going to talk about
voter ID. You can help us get voter ID on
the twenty twenty six ballot. Go to the website voter
idpetition dot org and sign the petition voter idpetition dot
org and help us restore election integrity in our state.
We're talking about California liberal politicians banning natural gas appliances
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in your home and also imposing a ban on gas
powered cars.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
None of these bands.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
By the way, were voted on by the legislature. That's
how the politicians avoid accountability. They basically delegate broad authority,
you know, massive powers to unelected bureaucrats who are a
bunch of wing nuts who sit there on these boards
and commissions, and then impose these draconian, sweeping, costly, anti freedom,
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anti consumer mandates, and then they say.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Oh, it wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You can blame the California Air Resources Board. You don't
like your utility rate increase, you can blame the Public
Utilities Commission. Sorry, but who delegated all this power to
this board? Oh yeah, that's right, it would be you.
This is the scam that the politicians and Sacramento have
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engaged in shield themselves from your anger when bad policies
are foisted on you. That's why we're trying to pass
a bill. Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight would say that
California Air Resources Board cannot ban gas powered cars or
gas appliances, cannot impose retrofits on your home or your business.
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That that's something that would only be able to be
done if our politicians passed a law. We don't want
them to pass the law, but at least force the
politicians to vote on these bad ideas. Democrats are not
even allowing us to vote on this in committee. But
we're going to be making emotion in the coming weeks
to force this bill onto the Assembly floor and get
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a recorded vote on it. Joining me on our line
at KFI is assembly Woman Lori Davies. She represents the
seventy fourth Assembly District in South Orange County and North
San Diego, CA. And she's one of the good ones.
She's fighting the good fight and she's been on this
natural gas appliance ban scam for many years trying to
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fight it. Laurie, thanks for stopping by. When did you first,
you know, start hearing that the Democrats and Sacramento wanted
to get rid of gas stoves in people's kitchens.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
You know, I've been hearing it. And by the way,
Carol's great to hear you on air again.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Thank you, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We've been listening.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Yeah, we've been listening to this for years and you know,
just a matter of time and when they get to
the point. But as always, you've got you know where
we were talking about twenty thirty air quality boards banned
the sale of gas furnaces, water heaters, And every time
they say the word affordability, they do the opposite. They
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go ahead and they push something that isn't affordable. So
I knew this was coming, and especially you know, I
think getting the message out is so important because of
my background was a food and average and restaurants. Trust me,
the chefs really, you know, got wind of this many
years ago and really put a lot of pressure. I
think they did that in another state. We're able to
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know they did then another city and they were able
to stop it.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
When just it wasn't it just twenty years ago we
were hearing these same Democrat politicians before they got in
the Assembly, they were serving on county boards or city councils,
and they were lecturing us on why we needed to
go to clean natural gas buses. And they were, you know,
doing press conferences standing in front of natural gas buses
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with a big bow, big red bow on it or
green bow, as the case may be, and they would
say how wonderful they are for protecting the environment because
they're moving everything to natural gas. Now they claim natural
gas is the work of the devil. I mean, has
anyone like pointed this out to them? I mean, are
they ashamed of the fact that they were the ones
pushing natural gas several years ago?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I don't think they remember that far back. I had
said on Orange County Transportation Authority Board, and like you said,
is we were doing natural gas, you know, and they
had to take the money and go ahead to make
sure everything was natural gas. And then all of a
sud they're like, nope, now it has to be electric.
And the money that has been lost and through the
tax payers is just incredible. It's kind of onto their
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nixt whim of what they want to do.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So I introduced this bill, Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight,
and it's very simple. It doesn't say that we're going to,
you know, make a decision on natural gas or the
electric vehicle mandate. It just simply says that if we're
going to ban anything in the state of California, then
by golly, the politicians who are elected by the people
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in the legislature, they should be the ones and the
only ones with that power, and they should be forced
to put their name behind these bad policies. We can't
even get a committee vote on Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight.
They don't even want to take it up.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
No, you're you're right, and that's just it is. They
don't want to be a countable for it. They want
to be able to point fingers. And again, this is
not the agenda of California. There was a poll taken
just recently and at least seventy percent of the people
in California said they do not want their gas taken away.
And yet once again they tend not to hear it,
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and they do what third gend is and not the agenda,
the people's. And that's why getting this onto a ballot
really makes a difference. We saw that with PROMP thirty six,
that the public came out, their voices were heard, and
unfortunately with the super majority up there, that's really the past.
Sometimes we have to take to let Californias vote so
that they really do hear you know what they want.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, I know that.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You know, we have only a few opportunities to go
to the Assembly floor and do something called wharf that's
a parliamentary procedure to force a vote on bills. I
planned a Wharf Assembly Bill twelve thirty eight soon, just
because I think people need need to know that there
is a recorded vote where Democrats voted down the ability
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to stop these unelected bureaucrats from banning gas stoves, gas furnaces,
gas water heaters, gas powered cars. We need a list
of names, and that way the voters get to decide
whether those politicians should continue to serve an office. And
as you pointed out, the polling on this, every poll
I've seen shows seventy percent, as you said, seventy percent
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of Californians don't want natural gas appliances to be banned.
They want to be able to decide that themselves based
upon their own costs and convenience factors.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Laurie, thanks so much for stopping by.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You're one of the target seats that Democrats are trying
to flip because you present common sense and I need
to make sure you stay up in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
So what is your website?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
If people want to check you out and maybe chip
in a contribution to help you get reelected, they.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Can go to Davies dot com.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Davies Davies, Just Davies dot com, d A v I E.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
S dot com yes, Wow, you got your last name
dot com Davies dot com. That's that's a good one.
Most people don't get something that simple. Go to Davies
dot com. Learn more about Lori Davies.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
What were you going to say? Real quick?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
They have that this is going to be heard in
front of the South Coast Air Quality Board. They've moved
it to June sixth, so we do have a little
bit of time, and I think we need to really
get some information. I'm going to be having a town
hall on May fifteenth. I will get the information out
to you that you can put onto your site, but
you know, we need to really show up, you know,
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with a lot of people and letting them know that
this is not okay. And we represent California they don't,
so you know, we still can fight.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
This absolutely and we'll get that recorded vote on the
Assembly floor in addition to the town hall that you're
hosting in Orange County. Thanks so much, Assembly Member Lori
Davis Davies, doing great work. Coming up, I'm going to
take some of your questions from the talkback feature of
the iHeartRadio app. So use that feature to send me
your questions and we'll give you a little bit more insight,
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insider view on the broken political system we have here
in California.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We've been giving people opportunities to submit questions, raise issues
that you want me to respond to using the talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app. I've heard none of these
in advance. This is the first time i've heard them.
The producer, the director, they get to select. I just
hear them live, just like you do. So hopefully I
won't be embarrassed by getting stumped. So let's see, Eric,
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you got one for me. I have a question for you, Carl,
exactly how powerful is Robert Revis?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Is he the mastermind behind the strings or is he
just the pumpin?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
So most of you are sitting there saying, who the
hell is Robert Revis.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's not a dumb question. It nobody knows who he is.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
He's the Speaker of the California State Assembly. He's a
state assembly member, He's a Democrat. The question is how
powerful is he? Well, they're the super majority. They get
to do whatever the hell they want. They can kill bills,
they can decide what's coming up on the floor.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
He is presiding over a caucus of Democrats, sixty Democrats who.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Are very liberal, and he's got his hands full full.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It's a pretty out of control group. And the more
progress people like me make in turning up the temperature,
the more dissension there is on the Democrat side of
the aisle, because you have moderates who know that I'm
coming for their seats, the target seats. Those are vulnerable
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Democrats that I think we can kick out of office
in the purple districts. And the liberals are saying, no,
we have to do Green New Deal, we have to
do socialized medicine, we have to raise taxes. So they're
having their own little civil war. As messed up as
Republicans are. Democrats just keep their dirty laundry in the
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closet a secret a lot better than Republicans in California.
So he's got to always look over his shoulder. He
needs always to please thirty one of his colleagues Democrats,
to remain speaker. So yeah, he's got authority as the
Speaker of the Assembly to set the agenda to throw
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people like me off committees like he has done to
kill our bills like he has done to my bills.
But he himself is kind of in a little bit
of a jam and could lose his speakership if he
doesn't play nicey nice with the Liberals, which is why again,
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some of them are doing some really bad policies because
they're forced by their left flank, their extreme left flank,
to just simply walk the plank. Let's go with another one, Eric,
do you got another talkback feature?
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Hey, Carl, this is Chris from Riverside. Can you tell
me what the difference is between CARB, the California Air
Resources Board and the Air Quality Management District Seems like
they are doing the same thing.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Nah, yes, yes, yes, so we're getting into the nuts
and bolts of government.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
They do very similar things.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
The California Air Resources Board is a statewide agency, whereas
air Quality Management districts are in the regions. The CARB
set standards, then each of the regions have to cascade
that down and comply and do specific regional standards and regulations.
Let's get another one in real quick well, and by
the way, while we wait for that, Lori Davies texted
(27:55):
me that her website is not Davies dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I didn't think it was. It's Davies for caa dot com.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
So if you want to learn more about her and
help her out in her race for re election, Davies
da VI I E S forca dot com. One last
question from the talkback feature.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'm just curious what your opinion is that the future
of the high speed rail.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Isn't it obvious? It's a boondoggle, It's a grift project.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
It's corrupt.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Democrat politicians are using billions of dollars under the guise
of building a high speed rail project to simply line
the pockets of their campaign contributors and then get a
piece of the action through campaign contributions. I can't be
more clear about the fact that it's a wasteful project.
It's never going to get done. It's only going to
hemorrhage your taxpayer money into their campaign coffers, into the
(28:47):
pockets of their rich supporters, and it needs to be killed.
I think that the Trump administration will be going after
California for the four billion dollars that was misspent of
federal taxpayer money, and hope voters are going to wake
up and pull the plug and demand that the plug
be pulled because billions of dollars going to that project
could go to our potholes, could go to our freeways,
(29:08):
could actually How about this, I know it's crazy. How
about we just give it back to you? How about
we give you your money back? Because all that money
for high speed rail is coming from your gas tax,
It's coming from all of the cap and trade regulations,
climate regulations, and fees and charges and taxes.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
That are applied. Why don't just give you the money back?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That would be too controversial to give people their money back.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Oh my goodness. All right?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Coming up, judges stopping Donald Trump on a variety of
executive orders, including an order that would require that we
check the citizenship of people before they registered to vote. Yeah,
a federal judge today put an end to that. Can
we just throw these judges off the bench.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I think we can.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Coming up, we'll cover that, but first, Michael Krozer in
the twenty four hour Newsroom at KFI has an update
on the news.
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