May 12, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (05/12) - Susan Shelley comes on the show to talk about possible tax hikes coming to California. The new pope's brother has quite the potty mouth. More on Gov. Newsom finally cracking down on homeless encampment enforcement. A Worscester, MA city councilwoman incited a mob when ICE showed up in a neighborhood.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. You are here. We
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and you can hear what you missed. Coming up later
(00:24):
in the hour, we are going to talk about Gavin
Newsom suddenly discovering that the homeless situation on the streets
is intolerable. After six and a half years as governor,
he is recommending laws to ban people from living on
the streets. Six and a half years of failure, six
(00:47):
and a half years, he's blown twenty four billion dollars
and got nothing for it, and now he's telling the
cities and towns, well, just just make it illegal. Yeah,
we'll get into that coming up. Also, we must talk
about the pope's brother, you know. Yeah, yeah, you have
(01:07):
enough kids. One of them may grow up to be
a pope. And another one is uh calling politicians foul
names on Twitter, So we'll cover that. Uh, here's your
gas price update. Here's how badly. You're getting posed by
Gavin News some four dollars and eighty nine cents for
(01:27):
regular in California today for eighty nine on average. The
national average is three thirteen three thirteen, And there are
twenty seven states selling gas for under three dollars. Twenty
seven states under three dollars. And let me check again.
The low estate is Mississippi at two sixty three, two
(01:52):
sixty three you can get to gas on average, and
we're at four eighty nine. And I bring this up
because we're going to talk to Susan Shelley now. And
she's a columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News and
the Southern California News Group and the legislature, all the
progressives up in Sacramento. They want to raise taxes and
(02:17):
stop other taxes from expiring in the near future, and
at least one of them is connected directly to the
excessive cost of gasoline. Let's get Susan Shelley on. How
are you, Susan?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'm great, John, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
All right, what's the schemes here? They really have tax ideas?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh? They do?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You know?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The first thing you should know is that when you're
paying those gas prices. You're paying a little more than
a Nicola gallon to fund the bullet train. And that's
because we have this cap and trade program. This is
one of the ones that's expiring. It expires in twenty
thirty if it's not renewed, and you are paying. According
to the Legislative Analyst, you are currently paying about twenty
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three cents a gallon for this cap and trade program,
which is really a hidden tax, and it could go
as high as seventy four cents according to the LAOS
analysis that depending on how much you have to pay
for these permits.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
That's the climate change tax.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That's the climate change tax. It's supposed to reduce greenhouse
gases in California by taking money out of your wallet.
I don't know why that doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It seems like it, and it hasn't worked so far.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, it hasn't worked, But California did it because we
have to show leadership to the world. And guess what,
no one is following, No one.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Wants It's funny. No other state is anywhere near for
eighty nine a gallon. They didn't follow us on that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So this is this program. Are they voting on this
already to extend it.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Or is this something Well, it expires in twenty in
twenty thirty, but they're worried that if they don't extend
it early, then people will not pay much for these permits.
You see, the refineries and the electric utilities and the manufacturers,
they're the ones that have to buy these permits, and
they're auctioned every quarter by the Stay of California. And
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how much is it worth if they're going to get
rid of the program. You don't really need to stockpile
these things and pay a lot of money for them
if the requirement's going to go away. So that's what
they're worried about, and they want to renew it early.
So you have to watch for that because this is
going to take a two thirds vote because it looks
enough like a tax that they're worried that there could
be a lawsuit over it, saying you can't do this
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with less than a two thirds vote.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It was a backdoor tax that affected directly the refineries,
and now the refineries are closing at a rapid rate.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
What do you know it's going well, I think yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
There's also they're working on getting around Prop thirteen and
raising our property taxes even though Prop thirteen says you cannot.
How are they trying to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
This is very concerning the Board of Equalization, which is
a state agency that oversees all the county assessors for
property taxes. They held a special meeting. They heard a
special presentation at their meeting saying, why, look, there's ways
we could get at these property owners around Prop thirteen
and we don't even have to go to the voters
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to do it. And they had some law professor come
in and say, yeah, what you could do is the
legislature could pass a special income tax on people whose
property taxes are judged to be too low relative to
their income. So this is a new thing. This would
get around Prop thirteen. It wouldn't go through the county assessor,
It would go through the franchise Tax Board, and it
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would be an income tax on people whose property taxes
were theoretically too low relative to what they could afford
to pay.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But Prop thirteen says no, they can only go up
at no more than two percent per year. So how
do they think this idea would work? Wouldn't it get
shot down right away in the courts?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well? Maybe, but it's not a property to So the
way the courts view taxpayers is as if they're organ
donors and you just take whatever you can get out
of them. Before they completely write it's.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
A tax based on whether your property tax are too
low relative to your income. But it's not a property tax.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
That's what they're That's what this law professor was arguing
on the Board of Equalization, which oversees property taxes, is
sitting there listening to this. I think that's a bad sign.
I think they might have been put up to it
by though, someone in the legislatures, like, well, see if
you can float this and we'll see if anybody salutes
it when it goes up the flagpole. Do not salute this.
This is a really bad idea to raise people's income
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taxes based on their ability to pay their property tax bill.
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So it's an income tax based on your property taxes
being too low in their opinion, that's all I see. Now, Yeah,
now that's that's that's nonsense. That is really garbage.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well I hope it's garbage, but you never know it.
Calif Or. You know, they get a lot of stranger
through the courts here.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
No, they can easily pass a garbage tax and have
it approved. But I mean, the whole concept is just
these people are horrible. All right, here's another one. There's
a temporary income tax on anyone who makes above two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Go through the
history of this thing and what's up next.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Well, this passed in twenty twelve. This was an initiative
supposedly from citizens, but how many citizens really go out
and ask for tax increases. Not too many. It was
actually the Teachers' union that did this, and Governor Governor
Jerry Brown said, unless this passes, there are going to
be catastrophic cuts to education. The world's going to come
to an ask unless this tax increase passes. And it's
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just temporary, so of course it passes so that we
don't have catastrophic cuts to education, and then it gets
renewed four years later till twenty thirty. Well, the same
thing is with the cap and trade. We're getting close
to twenty thirty. They want to renew it as soon
as possible. And I've already seen one news report that
someone who's going to run for superintendent of education statewide
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is saying, well, you know, if you make a lot
of money, you're using the system that education supports, and
you it's time for you to pay up.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Wait a second, hold there you go. I couldn't send
my kids to public schools because in LA they're so bad.
I mean, they're so horrible. I had to spend an
exorbitant amount of money on private schools.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And it's terrible what's happened to the schools and that
all these kids are wasting so much time and we're
wasting so much money and they're learning nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I saw the other day like roughly like seventy five
percent of the kids in California can't read at grade level,
can't do math at grade level, seventy five percent, and
they graduate this way. So exactly, if we didn't fund
it and the system collapsed, how would we even know?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's a good question. You know, they closed the schools
during COVID and we did have learning loss from that,
and now how are they going to make it up?
These kids have just been so robbed of their time
and of their opportunities, and I hope everybody can recover
that they can watch YouTube videos and learn what they've
missed when they get older and they need this information.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It's just emotional manipulation on everybody on the legislator's part.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, well, you know, the education gets forty percent of
the general fund. It's not like they're underfunded, and yet
they always want more.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I know, and I remember about fifteen years ago. I think,
like Schwarzenegger's last year, the budget was one hundred billion dollars.
Now it's close to three hundred billion. So they had
forty percent of one hundred billion. Now they're getting forty
percent of three hundred billion. They've got plenty of money.
There's no problem with the money. And the test scores
are the worst they've been in thirty five years since
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they started counting test scores.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, it's really heartbreaking for all the kids who are
in school who just are so much better. And the
taxpayers have come through again and again approving these tax increases,
and what do we get out of it. Nothing but
increased spending on administrators and increased benefits for people who
work in the school system. And it's really unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Susan Shelley, thanks for coming on again. Thank you with
the LA Daily News, we come back. The Pope's brother.
Pope's brother is not like the Pope.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
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Six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
After Debra's three thirty News, Gavin Newsom suddenly discovered there's
one hundred and eighty seven thousand homeless people laying around
in California and it's got to stop, you know, it's
got to stop. And he is sending out a proposed
law for every city and town to pass immediately to
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end encampments. Yes, he's really doing this. We'll get to that,
but first, you know, I have three sons and wildly
different personalities, the three of them. I mean, they're not
that far apart in age, just two to three years
for each one of them. And it looks like the
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Pope's mother also gave birth to three wildly different sons.
Because I think we know well the Pope Leo the fourteenth,
he he seems to be a very like, calm, decent,
compassionate religious man. And then there's brother Louis. Louis Prevost,
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the eldest brother, lives in Port Charlotte, Florida, and New
York Times called him up and he was asked, how
you feel about his brother's electionist pope and he said, geez,
it was just like yesterday I was throwing him down
the stairs and now he's Pope. But the best part
is somebody went through his Twitter feed and found him
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posting a video of Nancy Pelosi from nineteen ninety six
with the caption, well, he reposted this. These effing liberals
are crying about tariffs? Is just unreal? Do they not
know there's a thing called video? Just listen to what
this drunk sea word had to say in the mid nineties,
long before her husband had grinder dates. Oh, referring to
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Paul Pelosi, he took the hammer in the head, right.
Remember there was a young guy who burst in and
everybody thought he was Evan. So he reposted a tweet
calling Pelosi the sea word, a drunk sea word. Other
reposts showed a meme a mental institution with the caption
where the woke lived before the nineteen seventies. Another post
(12:52):
invoked the power of prayer to insult democrats the caption,
please pray for the thirty three percent to approve of Biden,
that they be healed of their mental affliction. His brother
might be able to help with that. Yeah, looks it
looks like the prayers don't work, because I mean, I mean,
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if Biden ran, he still would have probably gotten about
forty five percent of the vote. He also uh, He
also called for Democrats who met with the Ukrainian president
Zelensky to be arrested for treason, and he also wrote
that Europe should go their own way into complete socialism
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and ultimately communism. You just usually if you have a
like a genetic pool or an environment that that is
so religious, it produces a pulpe that that you know,
his his immediate family. You would think we're kind of
(13:57):
mellow and religious, and but guy, he's uh, he's having
none of this this. You know, like the worst, the
worst and best invention was Twitter, because I didn't realize
just how unstable and stupid much of the public was
until everyone got to post every thought they had in
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their heads twenty four to seven, And it turned out
human nature was far, far worse than I ever thought
he could be. And I always had a very low
opinion truthfully human nature. But when we come back, all right,
Gavin Newsome, this is so infuriating. You know, if one
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percent of me thought he was doing this for the
right reason, but zero percent of me thinks he's doing
it for the right reason. One hundred percent of me
knows he's doing this because he wants to run for
president and he wants to make the world forget that
he allowed all the disgusting He allowed the disgusting mess
that's fester in most of California's big cities. It was
(15:02):
him that's coming up next to you.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
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Speaker 1 (15:13):
Ron every day one until four o'clock. After four o'clock
we become a podcast. John Cobelt's show on demand, So
download it and see whatever it is you missed. Gavin Newsom, Oh,
this is infuriating to wake up to this. Upset me
this morning. New York Times broke the story and it's
a real thing. Newsome after six and a half years
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as governor, twelve and a half years in an executive
position in Sacramento governor lieutenant governor, and after spending tens
of billions of dollars of our money on programs that
do not work. In fact, it's worse than that. He
doesn't know where the money went twenty four billion for homeless,
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and he's admitted to it. He's admitted to it, and
he still is running for president. But he's spooked by
his own record, and so he wakes up and he goes, wow,
this is a disgusting state. There's one hundred and eighty
seven thousand people homeless. We have half of the street
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homeless in the whole nation. And much of it happened
under his watch, while he was spending tens of billions
to try to reverse things. So now he issues a
press release and an ordinance, a model ordinance for local
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counties and cities and towns to make homelessness illegal on
the streets. Now it's illegal to camp on public property.
No tents, no sleeping bags, no blankets. You can't sleep.
You can't lie there for more than three consecutive days
(17:04):
or nights in the same location. You got to move
along after three days, and then you got to move
along again. You got to move along again, or you
can get arrested. You can't have any semi permanent structures
like no sheds, no roofing, sighting materials. You've seen these things.
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You can't sit, sleep, li or camp on any public street,
road or bike path, or on any sidewalk. So it
get it off the streets, off the sidewalks, and he's
asking all the cities to pass it because he can't
control what goes on in the cities, and a lot
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of cities, like Los Angeles have not been listening to him.
He's been selling this idea for a while, so now
he wrote it down and it's all so he has
talking points when he gets interviewed by reporters about running
for president. He's got nothing to do. In nineteen months.
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How old is he, like, fifty six, fifty seven, something
like that, fifty seven. She he's got, you know, another
thirty five years to live, and there's nothing for him
to do. He's turned out. And he was a guy
who wanted to be president since he was a little kid,
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and thought he was on a glide path because he
never had any opposition, He never had anybody criticizing him.
Here in California, he lived in a bubble. And suddenly
he's poking his head outside the boatable and he goes, oh,
my god, you mean the other forty nine states don't
have this, No, they don't. There's one hundred and eighty
seven thousand homeless people, two thirds are living out in
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the street around the country. No, I'm sorry. One hundred
and eighty seven thousand homeless in the state, and two
thirds of those are living outdoors. So we got one
hundred and twenty five thousand vagrants, mental patients, and drug
addicts in the street, one hundred and twenty five thousand. God,
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and more than half of that's in La County. Oh,
it's so disgusting, isn't it. And what's in California is
half of all the street homeless in the nation. That's
just astonishing. See you follow this this two hundred and
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fifty thousand street homeless in the nation, one hundred and
twenty five thousand here in California. Seventy thousand of those
are in La County. So we have almost thirty percent
in La County of the whole country's street homeless. And
(20:05):
I'm looking at this story written by Sean Hubler, and
she used to work for the La Times, and she
said it's because of the temperate climate and the state's
brutal housing crisis. No, it's not. I mean, she should
be sent to journalism jail for that. That is a
complete falsehood. It's because they're addicted to drugs, or they're
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mentally ill or both, that's it the housing climate. You
could give them a free house, and we've tried that.
They're still mentally ill and they still are on drugs.
Oh god, we just told you on Friday, wasn't it
Friday that there's a building not far from downtown seventh
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and Whitmer. I think yeah, because that's the name of
the intersection and the building, and it was built in
twenty twenty and it's totally trashed. It's totally destroyed by
the homeless people and all the homeless visitors. So you
can give them a free home. You can give a
free building. These were free apartments, a free building was constructed.
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So Sean Hubler is lying. You can tell there's nobody
at the New York Times that has spent even five
minutes in la or learning about what the homeless city.
Oh yeah, yeah, it's the housing crisis here. No it's not.
Oh it's temperate climate. No it's not. Go to Florida,
you won't find this. Go to North Carolina, you won't
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find this. This doesn't exist. It's the policies. This didn't
exist in California even ten years ago. So sick of
this and then this buffoon, this clown stands up and
he look, I wrote all by myself an ordinance, and
it should be a model for every city in town
here in the state. This is what you do. You
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make it illegal. How about that? I just thought of that.
You make it illegal. Oh, this is so infuriating. And
there's going to be no follow up because he announces
this every few months. There's never any follow up to anything.
He's trying to lure them with three billion dollars. Oh
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another after spending twenty four billion that went for nothing? Hey,
how about another three billion? Yeah, and how much you
want to bet the homelesses are still going to be
on the streets. Karen Bass is out right against all this.
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I mean, the Supreme Court said nobody has a right
to sleep in public. Nobody has a right to do it.
You simply ban it, and you arrest them, and the
Supreme Court holds up the arrest. They back it. You
don't nobody has to live like this. There's nothing in
the law and nothing in the constitution. No, this is
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a choice that progressive politicians make. Why and why what's
the bottom line? You know what it is? It because
they and their friends and relatives are making a fortune
because all the silly goofs in this state that vote
for these propositions, these extra taxes have supplied billions of
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dollars to this criminal operation and at best spends a
billion three of tax money for what they're still living
in the streets by the tens of thousands. You live
in La City and County. You picked the worst place
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for homeless policy in the nation. There is no other
city or county with worst homeless policies. They have the
most homeless, and they're so corrupt and everybody's getting rich
off it. And the lady running the homeless uh Lossa
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Valsia Adams Kellum. Yeah, she was enjoying life. She gave
her husband's nonprofit two million dollars. It's it's just so
discussed and now I want to see news somem come
out and challenge Bass. Just Sinker entirely. Come on, he's
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afraid he should. He should say Bass is an unfit
to be mayor. That's what she should he should say.
Between that and we talked about this earlier. You know
how many permits the County of La has approved of
for rebuilding Palisades and Alta Dina total fourteen weeks you
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know how many seven seven? That's it, one every two weeks.
Jim Garrity has figured out that a national review has
figured out it will take four hundred and sixty one
years to rebuild Altadene in Palisades at the rate of
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approval we have now. But nobody challenges her. Nobody. Everyone's afraid.
I don't know what they're afraid of. Oh, yeah, right,
it violates the progressive religion, which most of the media
belongs to. That religion, and certainly most of the Democrats
in this state belong as well.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
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Speaker 1 (25:49):
All right. In Massachusetts, one of the devout members of
the of the woke progressive cult is a politician Unsulman
in Woolster. Uh and his name, I don't really know
how to pronounce it. Uh it tell hoxyodge h A
x h I A j HAXIAJ and uh the uh.
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The ice guys showed up in Worcester and they wanted
an arrest an accused violent criminal. Okay, an accused violent criminal.
Twenty five neighbors went out into the street wailing and chanting,
no warrant and not the mother. Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
The person who was apprehended was Fierra de Oliviera, and
the daughter of Ferira jumped in front of an unmarked
ICE vehicle while holding her own infant, trying to stop
the arrest.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
And and then and then the councilman attel hoxyadge uh
started whipping up the crowd. Here's here's what it sounded like.
This is the chaos. I should correct one thing. Excel
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was a woman, so as a council woman can't can't
tell what these names. And the accused criminal they arrested
also a woman very day the area. She was arrested
for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and
battery and a pregnant victim. Hmm. So the councilwoman got violent,
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the illegal alien they were arresting was violent. And then
the illegal alien's daughter was busted. She ran after an
ICE car and kicked its passenger side. She's charged with
reckless endangerment of her child because she was carrying a baby,
her baby in the arms. Also charged with disturbing the peace,
disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. Ice was trying to arrest
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an illegal alien who'd been arrested for the salt and battery.
Then the daughter jumped in and attacked the ice car,
and then this crazy councilwoman at Telhayaj jumped in and
was inciting the mob. None of this should be in
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the country. All of this should be gone. Conway is
coming up next and we'll see it. Tomar Krozer's got
the news live in the Camfi twenty four hour News. Hey,
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Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. You are here. We
are here at all four o'clock. We started at one,
so you missed a lot. You can make up after
four o'clock with the John Cobelt Show on demand podcast
same as the radio show after four on the iHeart app,
and you can hear what you missed. Coming up later
(00:24):
in the hour, we are going to talk about Gavin
Newsom suddenly discovering that the homeless situation on the streets
is intolerable. After six and a half years as governor,
he is recommending laws to ban people from living on
the streets. Six and a half years of failure, six
(00:47):
and a half years, he's blown twenty four billion dollars
and got nothing for it, and now he's telling the
cities and towns, well, just just make it illegal. Yeah,
we'll get into that coming up. Also, we must talk
about the pope's brother, you know. Yeah, yeah, you have
(01:07):
enough kids. One of them may grow up to be
a pope. And another one is uh calling politicians foul
names on Twitter, So we'll cover that. Uh, here's your
gas price update. Here's how badly. You're getting posed by
Gavin News some four dollars and eighty nine cents for
(01:27):
regular in California today for eighty nine on average. The
national average is three thirteen three thirteen, And there are
twenty seven states selling gas for under three dollars. Twenty
seven states under three dollars. And let me check again.
The low estate is Mississippi at two sixty three, two
(01:52):
sixty three you can get to gas on average, and
we're at four eighty nine. And I bring this up
because we're going to talk to Susan Shelley now. And
she's a columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News and
the Southern California News Group and the legislature, all the
progressives up in Sacramento. They want to raise taxes and
(02:17):
stop other taxes from expiring in the near future, and
at least one of them is connected directly to the
excessive cost of gasoline. Let's get Susan Shelley on. How
are you, Susan?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'm great, John, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
All right, what's the schemes here? They really have tax ideas?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh? They do?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You know?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The first thing you should know is that when you're
paying those gas prices. You're paying a little more than
a Nicola gallon to fund the bullet train. And that's
because we have this cap and trade program. This is
one of the ones that's expiring. It expires in twenty
thirty if it's not renewed, and you are paying. According
to the Legislative Analyst, you are currently paying about twenty
(02:59):
three cents a gallon for this cap and trade program,
which is really a hidden tax, and it could go
as high as seventy four cents according to the LAOS
analysis that depending on how much you have to pay
for these permits.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
That's the climate change tax.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That's the climate change tax. It's supposed to reduce greenhouse
gases in California by taking money out of your wallet.
I don't know why that doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It seems like it, and it hasn't worked so far.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, it hasn't worked, But California did it because we
have to show leadership to the world. And guess what,
no one is following, No one.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Wants It's funny. No other state is anywhere near for
eighty nine a gallon. They didn't follow us on that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So this is this program. Are they voting on this
already to extend it.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Or is this something Well, it expires in twenty in
twenty thirty, but they're worried that if they don't extend
it early, then people will not pay much for these permits.
You see, the refineries and the electric utilities and the manufacturers,
they're the ones that have to buy these permits, and
they're auctioned every quarter by the Stay of California. And
(04:04):
how much is it worth if they're going to get
rid of the program. You don't really need to stockpile
these things and pay a lot of money for them
if the requirement's going to go away. So that's what
they're worried about, and they want to renew it early.
So you have to watch for that because this is
going to take a two thirds vote because it looks
enough like a tax that they're worried that there could
be a lawsuit over it, saying you can't do this
(04:27):
with less than a two thirds vote.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It was a backdoor tax that affected directly the refineries,
and now the refineries are closing at a rapid rate.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
What do you know it's going well, I think yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
There's also they're working on getting around Prop thirteen and
raising our property taxes even though Prop thirteen says you cannot.
How are they trying to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
This is very concerning the Board of Equalization, which is
a state agency that oversees all the county assessors for
property taxes. They held a special meeting. They heard a
special presentation at their meeting saying, why, look, there's ways
we could get at these property owners around Prop thirteen
and we don't even have to go to the voters
(05:12):
to do it. And they had some law professor come
in and say, yeah, what you could do is the
legislature could pass a special income tax on people whose
property taxes are judged to be too low relative to
their income. So this is a new thing. This would
get around Prop thirteen. It wouldn't go through the county assessor,
It would go through the franchise Tax Board, and it
(05:35):
would be an income tax on people whose property taxes
were theoretically too low relative to what they could afford
to pay.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But Prop thirteen says no, they can only go up
at no more than two percent per year. So how
do they think this idea would work? Wouldn't it get
shot down right away in the courts?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well? Maybe, but it's not a property to So the
way the courts view taxpayers is as if they're organ
donors and you just take whatever you can get out
of them. Before they completely write it's.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
A tax based on whether your property tax are too
low relative to your income. But it's not a property tax.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
That's what they're That's what this law professor was arguing
on the Board of Equalization, which oversees property taxes, is
sitting there listening to this. I think that's a bad sign.
I think they might have been put up to it
by though, someone in the legislatures, like, well, see if
you can float this and we'll see if anybody salutes
it when it goes up the flagpole. Do not salute this.
This is a really bad idea to raise people's income
(06:36):
taxes based on their ability to pay their property tax bill.
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So it's an income tax based on your property taxes
being too low in their opinion, that's all I see. Now, Yeah,
now that's that's that's nonsense. That is really garbage.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well I hope it's garbage, but you never know it.
Calif Or. You know, they get a lot of stranger
through the courts here.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
No, they can easily pass a garbage tax and have
it approved. But I mean, the whole concept is just
these people are horrible. All right, here's another one. There's
a temporary income tax on anyone who makes above two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Go through the
history of this thing and what's up next.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Well, this passed in twenty twelve. This was an initiative
supposedly from citizens, but how many citizens really go out
and ask for tax increases. Not too many. It was
actually the Teachers' union that did this, and Governor Governor
Jerry Brown said, unless this passes, there are going to
be catastrophic cuts to education. The world's going to come
to an ask unless this tax increase passes. And it's
(07:45):
just temporary, so of course it passes so that we
don't have catastrophic cuts to education, and then it gets
renewed four years later till twenty thirty. Well, the same
thing is with the cap and trade. We're getting close
to twenty thirty. They want to renew it as soon
as possible. And I've already seen one news report that
someone who's going to run for superintendent of education statewide
(08:09):
is saying, well, you know, if you make a lot
of money, you're using the system that education supports, and
you it's time for you to pay up.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Wait a second, hold there you go. I couldn't send
my kids to public schools because in LA they're so bad.
I mean, they're so horrible. I had to spend an
exorbitant amount of money on private schools.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And it's terrible what's happened to the schools and that
all these kids are wasting so much time and we're
wasting so much money and they're learning nothing.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I saw the other day like roughly like seventy five
percent of the kids in California can't read at grade level,
can't do math at grade level, seventy five percent, and
they graduate this way. So exactly, if we didn't fund
it and the system collapsed, how would we even know?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's a good question. You know, they closed the schools
during COVID and we did have learning loss from that,
and now how are they going to make it up?
These kids have just been so robbed of their time
and of their opportunities, and I hope everybody can recover
that they can watch YouTube videos and learn what they've
missed when they get older and they need this information.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It's just emotional manipulation on everybody on the legislator's part.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, well, you know, the education gets forty percent of
the general fund. It's not like they're underfunded, and yet
they always want more.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I know, and I remember about fifteen years ago. I think,
like Schwarzenegger's last year, the budget was one hundred billion dollars.
Now it's close to three hundred billion. So they had
forty percent of one hundred billion. Now they're getting forty
percent of three hundred billion. They've got plenty of money.
There's no problem with the money. And the test scores
are the worst they've been in thirty five years since
(09:53):
they started counting test scores.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, it's really heartbreaking for all the kids who are
in school who just are so much better. And the
taxpayers have come through again and again approving these tax increases,
and what do we get out of it. Nothing but
increased spending on administrators and increased benefits for people who
work in the school system. And it's really unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Susan Shelley, thanks for coming on again. Thank you with
the LA Daily News, we come back. The Pope's brother.
Pope's brother is not like the Pope.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM.
Six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
After Debra's three thirty News, Gavin Newsom suddenly discovered there's
one hundred and eighty seven thousand homeless people laying around
in California and it's got to stop, you know, it's
got to stop. And he is sending out a proposed
law for every city and town to pass immediately to
(10:54):
end encampments. Yes, he's really doing this. We'll get to that,
but first, you know, I have three sons and wildly
different personalities, the three of them. I mean, they're not
that far apart in age, just two to three years
for each one of them. And it looks like the
(11:16):
Pope's mother also gave birth to three wildly different sons.
Because I think we know well the Pope Leo the fourteenth,
he he seems to be a very like, calm, decent,
compassionate religious man. And then there's brother Louis. Louis Prevost,
(11:36):
the eldest brother, lives in Port Charlotte, Florida, and New
York Times called him up and he was asked, how
you feel about his brother's electionist pope and he said, geez,
it was just like yesterday I was throwing him down
the stairs and now he's Pope. But the best part
is somebody went through his Twitter feed and found him
(12:00):
posting a video of Nancy Pelosi from nineteen ninety six
with the caption, well, he reposted this. These effing liberals
are crying about tariffs? Is just unreal? Do they not
know there's a thing called video? Just listen to what
this drunk sea word had to say in the mid nineties,
long before her husband had grinder dates. Oh, referring to
(12:28):
Paul Pelosi, he took the hammer in the head, right.
Remember there was a young guy who burst in and
everybody thought he was Evan. So he reposted a tweet
calling Pelosi the sea word, a drunk sea word. Other
reposts showed a meme a mental institution with the caption
where the woke lived before the nineteen seventies. Another post
(12:52):
invoked the power of prayer to insult democrats the caption,
please pray for the thirty three percent to approve of Biden,
that they be healed of their mental affliction. His brother
might be able to help with that. Yeah, looks it
looks like the prayers don't work, because I mean, I mean,
(13:13):
if Biden ran, he still would have probably gotten about
forty five percent of the vote. He also uh, He
also called for Democrats who met with the Ukrainian president
Zelensky to be arrested for treason, and he also wrote
that Europe should go their own way into complete socialism
(13:35):
and ultimately communism. You just usually if you have a
like a genetic pool or an environment that that is
so religious, it produces a pulpe that that you know,
his his immediate family. You would think we're kind of
(13:57):
mellow and religious, and but guy, he's uh, he's having
none of this this. You know, like the worst, the
worst and best invention was Twitter, because I didn't realize
just how unstable and stupid much of the public was
until everyone got to post every thought they had in
(14:18):
their heads twenty four to seven, And it turned out
human nature was far, far worse than I ever thought
he could be. And I always had a very low
opinion truthfully human nature. But when we come back, all right,
Gavin Newsome, this is so infuriating. You know, if one
(14:40):
percent of me thought he was doing this for the
right reason, but zero percent of me thinks he's doing
it for the right reason. One hundred percent of me
knows he's doing this because he wants to run for
president and he wants to make the world forget that
he allowed all the disgusting He allowed the disgusting mess
that's fester in most of California's big cities. It was
(15:02):
him that's coming up next to you.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Ron every day one until four o'clock. After four o'clock
we become a podcast. John Cobelt's show on demand, So
download it and see whatever it is you missed. Gavin Newsom, Oh,
this is infuriating to wake up to this. Upset me
this morning. New York Times broke the story and it's
a real thing. Newsome after six and a half years
(15:37):
as governor, twelve and a half years in an executive
position in Sacramento governor lieutenant governor, and after spending tens
of billions of dollars of our money on programs that
do not work. In fact, it's worse than that. He
doesn't know where the money went twenty four billion for homeless,
(15:58):
and he's admitted to it. He's admitted to it, and
he still is running for president. But he's spooked by
his own record, and so he wakes up and he goes, wow,
this is a disgusting state. There's one hundred and eighty
seven thousand people homeless. We have half of the street
(16:20):
homeless in the whole nation. And much of it happened
under his watch, while he was spending tens of billions
to try to reverse things. So now he issues a
press release and an ordinance, a model ordinance for local
(16:43):
counties and cities and towns to make homelessness illegal on
the streets. Now it's illegal to camp on public property.
No tents, no sleeping bags, no blankets. You can't sleep.
You can't lie there for more than three consecutive days
(17:04):
or nights in the same location. You got to move
along after three days, and then you got to move
along again. You got to move along again, or you
can get arrested. You can't have any semi permanent structures
like no sheds, no roofing, sighting materials. You've seen these things.
(17:28):
You can't sit, sleep, li or camp on any public street,
road or bike path, or on any sidewalk. So it
get it off the streets, off the sidewalks, and he's
asking all the cities to pass it because he can't
control what goes on in the cities, and a lot
(17:52):
of cities, like Los Angeles have not been listening to him.
He's been selling this idea for a while, so now
he wrote it down and it's all so he has
talking points when he gets interviewed by reporters about running
for president. He's got nothing to do. In nineteen months.
(18:12):
How old is he, like, fifty six, fifty seven, something
like that, fifty seven. She he's got, you know, another
thirty five years to live, and there's nothing for him
to do. He's turned out. And he was a guy
who wanted to be president since he was a little kid,
(18:33):
and thought he was on a glide path because he
never had any opposition, He never had anybody criticizing him.
Here in California, he lived in a bubble. And suddenly
he's poking his head outside the boatable and he goes, oh,
my god, you mean the other forty nine states don't
have this, No, they don't. There's one hundred and eighty
seven thousand homeless people, two thirds are living out in
(18:59):
the street around the country. No, I'm sorry. One hundred
and eighty seven thousand homeless in the state, and two
thirds of those are living outdoors. So we got one
hundred and twenty five thousand vagrants, mental patients, and drug
addicts in the street, one hundred and twenty five thousand. God,
(19:21):
and more than half of that's in La County. Oh,
it's so disgusting, isn't it. And what's in California is
half of all the street homeless in the nation. That's
just astonishing. See you follow this this two hundred and
(19:42):
fifty thousand street homeless in the nation, one hundred and
twenty five thousand here in California. Seventy thousand of those
are in La County. So we have almost thirty percent
in La County of the whole country's street homeless. And
(20:05):
I'm looking at this story written by Sean Hubler, and
she used to work for the La Times, and she
said it's because of the temperate climate and the state's
brutal housing crisis. No, it's not. I mean, she should
be sent to journalism jail for that. That is a
complete falsehood. It's because they're addicted to drugs, or they're
(20:28):
mentally ill or both, that's it the housing climate. You
could give them a free house, and we've tried that.
They're still mentally ill and they still are on drugs.
Oh god, we just told you on Friday, wasn't it
Friday that there's a building not far from downtown seventh
(20:54):
and Whitmer. I think yeah, because that's the name of
the intersection and the building, and it was built in
twenty twenty and it's totally trashed. It's totally destroyed by
the homeless people and all the homeless visitors. So you
can give them a free home. You can give a
free building. These were free apartments, a free building was constructed.
(21:20):
So Sean Hubler is lying. You can tell there's nobody
at the New York Times that has spent even five
minutes in la or learning about what the homeless city.
Oh yeah, yeah, it's the housing crisis here. No it's not.
Oh it's temperate climate. No it's not. Go to Florida,
you won't find this. Go to North Carolina, you won't
(21:40):
find this. This doesn't exist. It's the policies. This didn't
exist in California even ten years ago. So sick of
this and then this buffoon, this clown stands up and
he look, I wrote all by myself an ordinance, and
it should be a model for every city in town
here in the state. This is what you do. You
(22:02):
make it illegal. How about that? I just thought of that.
You make it illegal. Oh, this is so infuriating. And
there's going to be no follow up because he announces
this every few months. There's never any follow up to anything.
He's trying to lure them with three billion dollars. Oh
(22:24):
another after spending twenty four billion that went for nothing? Hey,
how about another three billion? Yeah, and how much you
want to bet the homelesses are still going to be
on the streets. Karen Bass is out right against all this.
(22:45):
I mean, the Supreme Court said nobody has a right
to sleep in public. Nobody has a right to do it.
You simply ban it, and you arrest them, and the
Supreme Court holds up the arrest. They back it. You
don't nobody has to live like this. There's nothing in
the law and nothing in the constitution. No, this is
(23:06):
a choice that progressive politicians make. Why and why what's
the bottom line? You know what it is? It because
they and their friends and relatives are making a fortune
because all the silly goofs in this state that vote
for these propositions, these extra taxes have supplied billions of
(23:29):
dollars to this criminal operation and at best spends a
billion three of tax money for what they're still living
in the streets by the tens of thousands. You live
in La City and County. You picked the worst place
(23:55):
for homeless policy in the nation. There is no other
city or county with worst homeless policies. They have the
most homeless, and they're so corrupt and everybody's getting rich
off it. And the lady running the homeless uh Lossa
(24:16):
Valsia Adams Kellum. Yeah, she was enjoying life. She gave
her husband's nonprofit two million dollars. It's it's just so
discussed and now I want to see news somem come
out and challenge Bass. Just Sinker entirely. Come on, he's
(24:38):
afraid he should. He should say Bass is an unfit
to be mayor. That's what she should he should say.
Between that and we talked about this earlier. You know
how many permits the County of La has approved of
for rebuilding Palisades and Alta Dina total fourteen weeks you
(25:01):
know how many seven seven? That's it, one every two weeks.
Jim Garrity has figured out that a national review has
figured out it will take four hundred and sixty one
years to rebuild Altadene in Palisades at the rate of
(25:23):
approval we have now. But nobody challenges her. Nobody. Everyone's afraid.
I don't know what they're afraid of. Oh, yeah, right,
it violates the progressive religion, which most of the media
belongs to. That religion, and certainly most of the Democrats
in this state belong as well.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
All right. In Massachusetts, one of the devout members of
the of the woke progressive cult is a politician Unsulman
in Woolster. Uh and his name, I don't really know
how to pronounce it. Uh it tell hoxyodge h A
x h I A j HAXIAJ and uh the uh.
(26:16):
The ice guys showed up in Worcester and they wanted
an arrest an accused violent criminal. Okay, an accused violent criminal.
Twenty five neighbors went out into the street wailing and chanting,
no warrant and not the mother. Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
The person who was apprehended was Fierra de Oliviera, and
the daughter of Ferira jumped in front of an unmarked
ICE vehicle while holding her own infant, trying to stop
the arrest.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
And and then and then the councilman attel hoxyadge uh
started whipping up the crowd. Here's here's what it sounded like.
This is the chaos. I should correct one thing. Excel
(27:41):
was a woman, so as a council woman can't can't
tell what these names. And the accused criminal they arrested
also a woman very day the area. She was arrested
for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and
battery and a pregnant victim. Hmm. So the councilwoman got violent,
(28:07):
the illegal alien they were arresting was violent. And then
the illegal alien's daughter was busted. She ran after an
ICE car and kicked its passenger side. She's charged with
reckless endangerment of her child because she was carrying a baby,
her baby in the arms. Also charged with disturbing the peace,
disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. Ice was trying to arrest
(28:33):
an illegal alien who'd been arrested for the salt and battery.
Then the daughter jumped in and attacked the ice car,
and then this crazy councilwoman at Telhayaj jumped in and
was inciting the mob. None of this should be in
(28:54):
the country. All of this should be gone. Conway is
coming up next and we'll see it. Tomar Krozer's got
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