July 16, 2026 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (07/16) - John talks to Alex Villanueva about running for LA County Sheriff. Also in studio is Rachel Darvish, a Palisades resident who confronted Newsom as he lied about talking to Biden on the phone. Additionally, Shira Scott Astrof, founder and President of The Animal Rescue Mission comes in to talk about the animals being used for drug testing on Skid Row.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt
Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. All right, can'f I Am
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(00:22):
And then well, we're not on YouTube today. We are
not live on YouTube because somebody left the camera home.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I was going to say, why not, I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Know somebody left? Huh, Well it wasn't you. But we
you know what, We've got a special hour this hour.
We've got three guests in the studio and this issue
is important enough to have at least three starts. Off
to my right, we have alex Vianna Waiva running for
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La County Sheriff. He is the former sheriff. He's running
against against Sheriff Lunette sitting next to Rachel Darvish. You'll
remember her. We're gonna play you a little clip in
just a moment. She was the Palisades resident, the mother
who confronted Gavin Newsome. Uh after the fire. After the
(01:13):
fire started, things were still burning, and Cott knew some
lying about talking to Joe Biden on his phone as
he was trying to dodge her and get away from her.
We also have Shira Shira Scott Astroff, founder and president
of the Annual Animal Rescue Mission. They went on a
(01:34):
walking tour of Skid Road today to see h exactly
what's going on with the animal situation there, particularly the dogs.
We've talked a lot about this over several months now
and nothing's being done. And these are the dogs that
some of the crazy people are abusing. Are they're dying
the dogs? Uh, they're being used.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
For experiments, drug experiments before the uh, before the vague
and inject themselves. They inject the dog to see what
happens there. Their horrible shape, they're suffering. And I don't
I've never seen a situation where you have so many
people screaming and screaming and calling up all these politicians
every day for a long time and nothing changes.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Uh. Let's start first with Alex because since you were
the La County sheriff, you know exactly what your power is.
And now you're running again, it seems because you told
me I remember during your first term when you started
cleaning up the city homeless problem, he said, people forget
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an La County sheriff has jurisdiction over every square inch
of the county, including the city of La So I
can't go into La and if things are out of hand,
put them back in order. Talk about the jurisdiction that
Sheriff Luna has over skid Row and what he should
be doing here, Well, he has jurisdiction. Any sheriff has
drugs jurisdiction over the entire county. And you can have
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all the municipal police departments anywhere in the county. However,
if they fail to do their job and they're leaving chaos,
dysfunction on the streets, lawlessness, the sheriff can and should
step in to address the situation. And that's exactly what
we did in twenty twenty one in Venice on the
boardwalk when we had the situation with Mike Bonnan, your
(03:23):
close friend Mike Bonness, and that place was it was
being destroyed and it was the cash cow of the
tourism industry in La County and they were just letting
it just go to waste because they wanted to show
how virtuous they were. Describe what you saw today.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
What we saw today is what we saw in twenty
twenty one on the Venice Boulevard. We saw misery everywhere.
We saw the failed experiment of harm reduction. There's golf
carts with a Department of Public Health running around handing
out free needles in the glass pipes, supposedly for safe
come a consumption of drugs. And I guess they hand
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out in narcan when people overdose. And you saw all
kinds of people in different stages of overdosing, and you know,
bent over with their butts in the air, and you
know they took a fentantyl yeah, in this classical pose,
the fentanyl fold they call it, yeah, And they're all
over the place like that, and it's they're almost like
works of art.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And so we're handing out the drugs to them so
they could stay in that state pretty much, and they're
This whole idea about being a harm reduction is false,
absolutely false. Is harm perpetuation is what it is. And
did you see any any animals? They were animals running around.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
If we saw some of some of the strays running around,
And we understand there's some places there are little hot
pockets of it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And I think Shia can speak to that. Okay, So
Shira Scott, Astrat, founder and President of the Animal Rescue Mission,
what what do you what was your experience today? And
then let's talk in general about what you know regarding
skid Run and what's happening to the dogs and even
cats there. What you see today?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Well, I'm can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, yeah, you're good.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I'm so glad that.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
More eyes are getting on skid Row, but it's the
right eyes people that actually can do something and hopefully
will do something. Skid Row is an absolute mess. I've never,
like you said, seen something that has so much attention
on it and everyone is exposing how bad it is,
and nothing is being done. These animals are being bred
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repeatedly for money, They're being sold there. They're horrible, Horrific
things are happening these animals. I mean, everything you could
think of is happening to them, and it just makes
no sense. We have the laws, we have Spain uter laws,
we have animal cruelty laws, and they are just ignored.
And it is disgusting that that's how we allow our
animals to get treated.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
If you or I were doing to those animals what
these street people are doing a neighbor would call and
you'd have animal services coming over the house and taking
the dog away, right, and I'd be arrested.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You'd be arrested, right if it was a private home.
But it seems in skid row they've got special protection.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Skid Row, they definitely have special protection.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I mean they get away with the most deplorable stuff.
I don't know, honestly, it's questionable about what you said
about being in private homes, because right now we are
seeing horrific animal abuse happening in residential neighborhoods. But yeah,
skid roads, it's lawless. I mean the mayor actually said, like,
rules don't apply here, so yeah, and she said everything's
(06:37):
fine here. She said so many times on the news
that the animals are great, there's no neglect, and then
you cut to visuals.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's like wait, but she actually said that.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Oh yeah, Oh no, there's an actual clip. I'll send
it to you.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh please do that.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah, And then I remember I used to I would
go on the news and be like, you know, our animal.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Crisis is out of control.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
The shelters are disgusting, and I would post videos and
then she'd be.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Like, no, they're great.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
They're no kill everyone's doing great, and it's like I
just can't wrap my head around, like we have the proof,
we have the truth narrative, and then you see these
Pierre headlines, and I think that's one of the biggest
problems is when people aren't here physically seeing it, or
going to the shelters or on skid row, they believe
when you know, we have a mayor that says everything's great,
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the animals, they're getting taken care of, and.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's like, yeah, it's astonishing. Let me talk with Rachel
Darvish now and let me play the clip first. You'll
remember Rachel. She was the Palisades mom who confronted Gavin
Newsom while the fires were going on and knewson was
trying to evade her and lied about being on the
phone with Biden and she caught him. Play the clip, Governor,
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you got a second.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Commenter, gommentor, I live here.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Governor, that was my daughter's school.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Governor, please tell me what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm not gonna hurt on my promise.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I'm literally talking to the president right now.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
It's a specific answer the question of what we can
do for you and your daughter can I hear it.
Can I hear your call?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Because I don't believe it? I'm sorry, can I there's
literally I've tried five times.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
That's why I'm walking around to make them.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Why is the President not taking your call.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Because it's not going through? Why I have to get
cell service?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Let's get it, let's get it. I want to be
here when you call the President.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I'm doing that right now, and it's to immediately get reimbursements,
individual assistance. I want to help you get this looking.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I'm so sorry, especially for your daughter.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
I have the four kids, everyone who went to school there,
they lost their homes. They lost two homes because they
were living in one and building another. Kether Please tell me,
tell me what are you going to do with the president.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Right now, we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Why is there in the hydrants?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Govenal?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It's all literally?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Is it going to be different next time?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It has to be?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Has to be.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
What are you going to do all the hydrants? I
would fill them up parts you know that.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
I would fill up the hudlands myself.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
But would you do that? I would do whatever I can,
but you're.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Not I see the Do you know there's water dripping
over there?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Governor, there's water coming out there.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
And you can use it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I'm going to make the call to address everything I
can right now, including making sure.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
People to make sure you can. Can I have an
opportunity to.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
At least tell people you're doing what you're saying you're doing.
Could somebody have a contact?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Can I have your contact right now?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You did what nobody in the media has done. He's
been in office for over twenty years and nobody's ever
done what you did. And that was just one of
the great moments. John, Yeah, I know, I could see
you're crying all over again.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to listen to because I
grew up there. Yeah, and where this happened was especially painful.
I was in front of the rubble of my daughter's preschool.
Right these are two year olds, three year olds. This
is their safe place.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
He's lying to me God in front of this safe place.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Of all the lies, of all the phony moments. That
was a gold star. That was five gold stars. I
couldn't believe where he's I'm on the phone right now. Well,
tis Yeah, I want to pick up with what you
saw today in your reaction to what's going on at
skid Row with all the animals.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But I just wanted to remind the audience of your
previous work.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That is Rachel Darvish. She's here along with Sheriff Scott Astroff,
founder and president of the Animal Rescue Mission, and Alex
v Anda Waiver running for La County Sheriff.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
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Speaker 1 (10:48):
Kf I AM six forty more stimulating talk radio John
co Belts Show. We have three guests in the studio,
Alex Vannaweva who's running for La County Sheriff. He's also
the former sheriff shearer, Scott astrot Under president the Animal
Rescue Mission, and Rachel Darvish, who has become an activist,
a Palisades resident, and a mom famous for confronting Gavin
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Newsom during the fire. And Rachel, we were talking with
you. You were part of the three of you were part
of this group that walked through skid row. What did
you see yourself, general conditions, how the animals were, what's
going on there?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
So, John, here's actually the difficult part with all of this.
I think everyone knows what skid row looks like, right.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's just a.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Different version of the same thing every single day. So
this is not something new that you're hearing today. I
don't have anything new.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It looked horrible. But here's what's interesting.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
This area of Los Angeles has been called skid row
for a very long time, but it's about fifty years now.
In nineteen seventy six is when they actually I think
you know all this better than I do, but they
actually created a containment area for the people that were
migrants or whatever homeless at the time. And so here's
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the disappointing part about all of this, and it goes
back to politics. It goes back to the people who
burned us down in the Palisades. For thirty two years,
you have contained this area. The only thing you've seen
happen is the number of homelessness increase, the spending go up,
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and you have seen zero change, or in fact, you've
seen it get worse. So I didn't see anything different
than when I would go visit years ago, when they
would make us go in high school or elementary school
or something here in Los Angeles, we'd go, we'd go
and volunteer and serve food.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Nothing different.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Maybe the it's larger, it's larger, the scope is different,
but the problem is still the same. And we have
the money there. Either it's not used, or it's lost,
or it disappeared.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It's stolen. It's stolen by these nonprofits. And you know,
you have the leaders of the nonprofits pay themselves six
figure salaries, They hire all their friends and relatives, and
well you would know this.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I mean, it's a racket. They have built a huge,
very lucrative racket. We tracked a ten year time period
twenty eleven to twenty twenty one, the homeless population doubled
in size from under thirty nine thousand to over eighty thousand,
and they spent six and a half a billion dollars
at the county and city level in the population more
(13:37):
than doubled. Who in their right mind would say, oh,
let's keep doing that because it's working so well, and
they doubled down on stupid.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Our elected officials.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yes, how do you wrap your mind around that mindset
that to this very day is still insisting, Oh, it's
an affordability problem. It's not drugs or it's not mental illness.
And you know what rent could be an a month,
they couldn't afford it. Well, they know it's not an
affordability problem. They know it's the drugs and the mental illness.
(14:07):
But everybody is making so much money and they can
snow the public when they're propaganda. Well, when we cleaned
the Venice Boardwalk in twenty one, it took us only
a few months, got rid of the drug dealers, got
everybody in the shelter, everything opened up again, the tourists
came back. And what was the reception we got from
the politicians?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
How dare you? Yeah, everybody in government hated you because
you were breaking up you were breaking up the casino. Yeah,
pretty much. Yeah, So, I mean I couldn't believe how
badly the supervisors treated you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
My buddy is Sheila Cule in particular, that's her district. Well,
she had her hand in that and the racket as well,
as we found out. You know, we come back. It's
a short segment. We got a longer win coming up.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Sharon. I want to talk to you because your organization
Animal Rescue Mission obviously very involved, but it doesn't seem
like all the other animal organizations are as worked up,
and I want to talk to you about that and
what you know.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I'm ready, You're ready, Okay, maybe you can spill some secrets.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You can all spill secrets. Here. It's just me and
you talking. Nobody's listening.
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Speaker 1 (15:27):
KIM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app John
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we have three guests in the studio, Alex VI and
a Waiver running for La County Sheriff, Rachel Darvish, pal
sage resident famous for confronting Gavin Newsom during the fire,
(15:49):
catching him lying about speaking to Joe Biden on the phone.
Sheer A Scott Astroff also with US founder and president
of the Animal Rescue Mission. They toured Skid Road today
to see what's going on and how bad is it
for the animals. And I want to go to Shira.
Since you run this Animal Rescue Mission, you're obviously very
(16:11):
involved and you're going public. I find there's too much
silence from a lot of the other organizations. I don't.
It seems like I have seen incredible demonstrations and publicity
stunts on the part of PETA, for example, over relatively
minor issues, and this one is huge. I mean, Joey Tuccio,
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the activist, is putting it online every day showing you
the dead dogs, the torture dogs, the dogs with their
rotting legs, and not a peep at of Pita, not
a peep out of a lot of other animal organizations.
What's up? You know these people, I assume you.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Love to speak on this.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Pete actually is the only one that does speak on
on this. But you know, as far as best Friends ASPCA,
they won't speak on it because they need just like
our mayor right now, they need people to think that
there's no problem. Things are great, save them all. You know,
we always he we're best friends doing the no kill
LA And then you see what's happening in the shelters.
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But you know, most people they're not here, they're not
seeing it themselves.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
What's the motivation for them not telling the truth and
not being loud about it?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Because if they were to actually fix the crisis, they
couldn't get their million dollar salaries. I mean, this is
best friends in ASPCA. They I mean, I'm getting very
vocal about it lately, and thankfully a lot of other
people are. You could look on paper, they give less
than one percent of their donations to the actual animals.
The rest goes to their salaries, private jets, They have
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offshore accounts. So they need this crisis to keep going.
So like the number one thing that could solve this
prevention spay and neuter, get the amount of animals down.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
They won't.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
They won't help with that at all. They just it's
it's a profit for them.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
It's a business.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
And I really hope that at some point at their
stop because this is perpetuating the crisis everywhere and skid
row the shelters.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
It's all connected.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Rachel, How we involved politically at all before this fire happened.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So I actually worked in the Clinton White House. I did.
I was an intern in ninety six.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
I studied abroad in Cambridge, and then I came back
and I while I was at UCLA, and then I
worked in the Clinton White House. And let me tell
you that was a real wake up call. Working in
the Clinton White House, meeting Hillary. It actually changed my
mind about the direction I wanted my life to go in.
So I did ultimately go to law school. I was
always aware I was not active.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
This has all this disillusioned you about what, however you
thought the world works.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
So I'm a mom now right.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I had a daughter four years ago, and I think
that changes you in ways that nothing else will. But
I think as human beings, it's really hard or as
sorry as Angelinos or it's Californians, it's really hard to
sit back and ignore what sixteen years of one party
rule has done to us. It's obvious. It's on the walls,
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it's in your pocketbooks, it's in your communities. The governor
can walk around and talk about this being the fourth
largest economy in the world.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
But I'm sorry, I live in those neighborhoods that you
burn down. I live in, or we all.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Live in the neighborhoods that are overrun by encampments. That's
where the reality is of.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
This state right now.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
So if I didn't get active after you burned my
entire community down, there'd be.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Something wrong with me, and I would there would be
something wrong if I didn't get you this way.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
What's wrong with everybody else? Why do the voting patterns
persist when they've been so destructive?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Look today, it's skid row, someone said. Someone said, first
of all, we've met a bunch of Republicans on skid row,
which was really awesome. And I don't mean that because
I like Republicans better than Democrats.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I was impressed that.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
People had the ability to think for themselves and to
get to the points they did logically and end up
in the place they were.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Why. Because it's we make it so easy for those
people on skid row.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Someone said to me today, stop paying these people, Stop
giving them the drugs, stop giving in the money, stop
giving them the clothes, whatever it is you're doing, stop
it and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Are we gonna do that?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
No, because, just like Shira says, just like the sheriff knows,
once you stop doing that, the problems for them stops.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, and then and and their business, their racket drives up.
Do you know how many animal racket drives?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Son?
Speaker 6 (20:44):
We saw there, We saw Mercedes and Lexus is parked
in front of the Wineguard building, right, So we asked,
who's cars are these? And the homeless there, No, these
aren't their cars. These are the employees' cars.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Wine Guard's a big guest, part of the homeless rack,
part of the racket, the part of the now you
worked on the inside, alex ultimately, and I know you
can't say this definitively. I suspect a lot of politicians
at the end are getting kickbacks from all these nonprofits
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because they're funneling literally billions of dollars to all kinds
of nonprofits, and the nonprofit executives and employees are taking
a big cut.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's why you saw the Mercedes and the Lexuses. But
the people who originally grant the money have to be
getting some of it on the back end, and that's
why they keep this whole racket financed.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Well.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I can confirm that in twenty two we took the
time to do a deep dive into homeless nonprofits, specifically
County and City of LA nonprofits, and of those six
and a half billion dollars with a ten year time period,
we trace three million that went back into the campaign
coffers of the elected officials. So exactly what you're saying
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is happening. The money is coming back because they're hiring,
you know, at eight hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
A year a CEO.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Then you have all the executive staff, the officers of
the corporation. I think Saint Joseph Center as three pharmacists.
They don't have a pharmacy, but they have three pharmacists
on their payroll. What on earth are they doing? But
that's the type of money they're spending and we're not
getting anything out of in return. What they're doing is
they're just funding this ecosystem that provides political cover is, oh,
(22:36):
we're doing something about Look at all these things we're funding,
look at insights, safe, all these beds, And it's all
a game because they're not talking about the outcomes. All
they're giving is outputs, outputs, But what's the outcome? The
place looks as crappy as it does today as it
did five years ago, ten years, if not worse.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, they emphasize how much money they've spent. Yeah, they
never talk about any not even one success story. Yeah,
what's the result.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
And that's what the public needs, and that's what voters
need to start voting on. How do you get the
public to be aware of this and to believe it
and to care about it.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It just seems like much of California. In the city,
everybody's a zombie in some way. They're just not paying attention,
or they're not affected, or they just I don't know,
the brain won't accept the information it's too outrageous.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It's when it hits them directly, and they're going to
do something like when her home burns down, her community
burns down, Altady in the Palisades, those people are probably
going to have a different voting pattern than the average
person's not affected by those type of trgies. But when
you have a homeless encampment on the corner in your neighborhood,
watch how these people are going to vote differently. Look
(23:43):
at Venice when we cleaned up Venice, the people voted very,
very differently than before the cleanup. So they do react
to a positive reinforcement. And our message has to be one.
I mean, it's easy to beat down to politicians, but
you have to point of the fact that we can
fix these things.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
No, it's the voters. Yes, voters are the ones that.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Had to take responsibility of who they're putting in office
and don't vote based at kind of d or an R.
Don't vote on ideology. Put people in office and know
what the hell they're doing and get the job done.
That should be the focus.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
All right, Well, go one more segment and we're talking
with Alexia in a waver. They are former sheriff running
again for La County Sheriff against Robert Luna. Rachel Darvish,
Palisades resident and mom famous for confronting Gavin Newsom during
the fire, Shira Scott Astroft, founder and President of the
Animal Rescue Mission. One more segment coming up.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
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Speaker 1 (24:42):
Final segment here caf I Am six forty live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app with Alex v In a wave
of running for La County Sheriff. We have Shiriff Scott Ashtroft,
founder and President of the Animal Rescue Mission, Rachel Darvish,
a Palisades mom turned activists who confronted Gavid Newsom. If
you remember catching Biden catching Newsome lying about being on
(25:03):
the phone with Joe Biden during the fire, and they
took a tour of Skid Road today to see all
the human and animal devastation there. Shira, we were again
Shira as president of the Animal rescue mission. We're just
talking off the air, and I want you to talk
about what you've discovered about the inner workings of all
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the politicians you talk to and all of these animal
rights groups that are getting money from the politicians. It
sounds like one big, happy, incestuous, rich family.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
It definitely is.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
And you know a lot of the smaller nonprofits they're
not aware of this. That's why, you know, people like
me are getting obnoxiously loud, because we're at the point
where if we don't fix us, if we don't call
these big organizations out, I mean, whelready way past that point.
For instance, if we were to solve this animal crisis,
thank god, I don't want to to be an animal
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organization anymore, go back to being a actress. But for places
like Best Friends and ASPCA, they need the crisis to
continue because that's how they get their million dollar salaries,
that's how they keep going. So then they intertwine, you know,
all the city officials. They basically make it so that
they're gonna make them look good, they're gonna support them.
(26:22):
They lobby against every animal welfare bill. I mean, the
the proof is out there, everything is out there.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Everybody could see this, but they do such a good
break though.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
That's what really shocked me about this skid row situation.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
That's what's so disgusting, Like the way that our animals
are being treated in Los Angeles. It is worse than
my shelters in Tijuana. It is worse now, and it's disgusting,
and it's happening in broad daylight and no one's doing anything,
and it's our city officials, it's these huge organizations. It's
it's infuriating, and then you have people like me that
(26:57):
have to spend my own money, spend my own life
life trying to fix it. But when you're up against
these crup nonprofits and these crop city officials, it's very,
very hard.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Rachel, I just got a minute. Here are people waking
up on the west side of town.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
I also, I hope, so I hope burning down your home,
your churches, your synagogues, your neighborhood grocery stores, your everything
would wake you up.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And if it doesn't, then I think we're done here
with this state. I really do.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
I think this is the final opportunity. I've never believed
more in a set of candidates in particular, that we
have from the golden ticket that we've got with Steve
Hilton for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Gloria Romero, Michael Gates Attorney General,
Herb Morgan for Controller, and Alex Banueva go to Alex
Vianueva twenty twenty six dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I mean, this is the only chance we have.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I'm fifty and I'm asking you all, whoever is listening,
to know that if you don't care about the future,
you've lost the present, right, You've lost today.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, Alex, you you probably saw this coming, you know,
because you were inside the beast for four years. Yes,
and the beast turned on you. Oh, they turned real quick. Yeah,
as soon as they realized that I wasn't there just
to play and be part of the machine. I was
there to actually fix what was going wrong. They oh
(28:24):
my god, we cannot have that there. How are you
going to get your message through this time?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Well, one thing is that we're our messages is an
easy sell because we're dealing with reality. We're dealing with impacts.
Everybody's everyone's, everyone's lives. I mean, just imagine just going
to the grocery store. Every family they have to ponder
out what time do we go who's going to go
with us to have a security plan, to do all
the things, just to go by freaking groceries that didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
True you know, the park?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah to me going to the rounse Yes, going to
the Rouse on Wilshire. I sit in the car and
I look around and I see.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Where the weird crazy Violee guy is and it's like, Okay,
how could I time this mad dash into the.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Store that didn't exists before. This is something's developed probably
the last three or four years, and it's because we've
allowed lawlessness to permeate the county. We've allowed the Sheriff's
Department LAPD to dwindle into their.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
One more quick question of this take somebody like Karen Bass.
What's in it for her to allow the lawlessness? She
can be a hero by keeping the place safe and
still collect whatever money is sloshing in through the back door.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
What's the point of making everybody terrified in the city
to get to where she's at? And a lot of
politicians you have to basically swear fealty to the machine.
The machine is more important than doing your job.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Narcissistic political ambition and it blinds them too.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
How all the rest of us.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Are blinds them. It makes them delete their text messages
in the middle of us wildfire, like, how does that happen?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, it's funny that story disappeared. All right. I really
enjoyed talking with you and I wish you all the
best of luck, and please stay in contact with us,
and when you run into issues, call us. We'll put
you in on the air and keep the heat on.
Alex being a waiver running for La County Sheriff Sheer
Scott Ashtrot, founder and President of the Animal Rescue Mission,
Rachel Darvish, Palisades, mother and activist, Thank you all for
(30:20):
coming in, and Debora Mark is live in the KFI
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And then well, we're not on YouTube today. We are
not live on YouTube because somebody left the camera home.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I was going to say, why not, I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Know somebody left? Huh, Well it wasn't you. But we
you know what, We've got a special hour this hour.
We've got three guests in the studio and this issue
is important enough to have at least three starts. Off
to my right, we have alex Vianna Waiva running for
(00:52):
La County Sheriff. He is the former sheriff. He's running
against against Sheriff Lunette sitting next to Rachel Darvish. You'll
remember her. We're gonna play you a little clip in
just a moment. She was the Palisades resident, the mother
who confronted Gavin Newsome. Uh after the fire. After the
(01:13):
fire started, things were still burning, and Cott knew some
lying about talking to Joe Biden on his phone as
he was trying to dodge her and get away from her.
We also have Shira Shira Scott Astroff, founder and president
of the Annual Animal Rescue Mission. They went on a
(01:34):
walking tour of Skid Road today to see h exactly
what's going on with the animal situation there, particularly the dogs.
We've talked a lot about this over several months now
and nothing's being done. And these are the dogs that
some of the crazy people are abusing. Are they're dying
the dogs? Uh, they're being used.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
For experiments, drug experiments before the uh, before the vague
and inject themselves. They inject the dog to see what
happens there. Their horrible shape, they're suffering. And I don't
I've never seen a situation where you have so many
people screaming and screaming and calling up all these politicians
every day for a long time and nothing changes.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Uh. Let's start first with Alex because since you were
the La County sheriff, you know exactly what your power is.
And now you're running again, it seems because you told
me I remember during your first term when you started
cleaning up the city homeless problem, he said, people forget
(02:42):
an La County sheriff has jurisdiction over every square inch
of the county, including the city of La So I
can't go into La and if things are out of hand,
put them back in order. Talk about the jurisdiction that
Sheriff Luna has over skid Row and what he should
be doing here, Well, he has jurisdiction. Any sheriff has
drugs jurisdiction over the entire county. And you can have
(03:02):
all the municipal police departments anywhere in the county. However,
if they fail to do their job and they're leaving chaos,
dysfunction on the streets, lawlessness, the sheriff can and should
step in to address the situation. And that's exactly what
we did in twenty twenty one in Venice on the
boardwalk when we had the situation with Mike Bonnan, your
(03:23):
close friend Mike Bonness, and that place was it was
being destroyed and it was the cash cow of the
tourism industry in La County and they were just letting
it just go to waste because they wanted to show
how virtuous they were. Describe what you saw today.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
What we saw today is what we saw in twenty
twenty one on the Venice Boulevard. We saw misery everywhere.
We saw the failed experiment of harm reduction. There's golf
carts with a Department of Public Health running around handing
out free needles in the glass pipes, supposedly for safe
come a consumption of drugs. And I guess they hand
(04:02):
out in narcan when people overdose. And you saw all
kinds of people in different stages of overdosing, and you know,
bent over with their butts in the air, and you
know they took a fentantyl yeah, in this classical pose,
the fentanyl fold they call it, yeah, And they're all
over the place like that, and it's they're almost like
works of art.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
And so we're handing out the drugs to them so
they could stay in that state pretty much, and they're
This whole idea about being a harm reduction is false,
absolutely false. Is harm perpetuation is what it is. And
did you see any any animals? They were animals running around.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
If we saw some of some of the strays running around,
And we understand there's some places there are little hot
pockets of it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And I think Shia can speak to that. Okay, So
Shira Scott, Astrat, founder and President of the Animal Rescue Mission,
what what do you what was your experience today? And
then let's talk in general about what you know regarding
skid Run and what's happening to the dogs and even
cats there. What you see today?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Well, I'm can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, yeah, you're good.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I'm so glad that.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
More eyes are getting on skid Row, but it's the
right eyes people that actually can do something and hopefully
will do something. Skid Row is an absolute mess. I've never,
like you said, seen something that has so much attention
on it and everyone is exposing how bad it is,
and nothing is being done. These animals are being bred
(05:31):
repeatedly for money, They're being sold there. They're horrible, Horrific
things are happening these animals. I mean, everything you could
think of is happening to them, and it just makes
no sense. We have the laws, we have Spain uter laws,
we have animal cruelty laws, and they are just ignored.
And it is disgusting that that's how we allow our
animals to get treated.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
If you or I were doing to those animals what
these street people are doing a neighbor would call and
you'd have animal services coming over the house and taking
the dog away, right, and I'd be arrested.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You'd be arrested, right if it was a private home.
But it seems in skid row they've got special protection.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Skid Row, they definitely have special protection.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I mean they get away with the most deplorable stuff.
I don't know, honestly, it's questionable about what you said
about being in private homes, because right now we are
seeing horrific animal abuse happening in residential neighborhoods. But yeah,
skid roads, it's lawless. I mean the mayor actually said, like,
rules don't apply here, so yeah, and she said everything's
(06:37):
fine here. She said so many times on the news
that the animals are great, there's no neglect, and then
you cut to visuals.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's like wait, but she actually said that.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Oh yeah, Oh no, there's an actual clip. I'll send
it to you.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh please do that.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah, And then I remember I used to I would
go on the news and be like, you know, our animal.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Crisis is out of control.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
The shelters are disgusting, and I would post videos and
then she'd be.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Like, no, they're great.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
They're no kill everyone's doing great, and it's like I
just can't wrap my head around, like we have the proof,
we have the truth narrative, and then you see these
Pierre headlines, and I think that's one of the biggest
problems is when people aren't here physically seeing it, or
going to the shelters or on skid row, they believe
when you know, we have a mayor that says everything's great,
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the animals, they're getting taken care of, and.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's like, yeah, it's astonishing. Let me talk with Rachel
Darvish now and let me play the clip first. You'll
remember Rachel. She was the Palisades mom who confronted Gavin
Newsom while the fires were going on and knewson was
trying to evade her and lied about being on the
phone with Biden and she caught him. Play the clip, Governor,
(07:46):
you got a second.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Commenter, gommentor, I live here.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Governor, that was my daughter's school.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Governor, please tell me what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm not gonna hurt on my promise.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I'm literally talking to the president right now.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
It's a specific answer the question of what we can
do for you and your daughter can I hear it.
Can I hear your call?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Because I don't believe it? I'm sorry, can I there's
literally I've tried five times.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
That's why I'm walking around to make them.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Why is the President not taking your call.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Because it's not going through? Why I have to get
cell service?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Let's get it, let's get it. I want to be
here when you call the President.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I'm doing that right now, and it's to immediately get reimbursements,
individual assistance. I want to help you get this looking.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I'm so sorry, especially for your daughter.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
I have the four kids, everyone who went to school there,
they lost their homes. They lost two homes because they
were living in one and building another. Kether Please tell me,
tell me what are you going to do with the president.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Right now, we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Why is there in the hydrants?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Govenal?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It's all literally?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Is it going to be different next time?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It has to be?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Has to be.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
What are you going to do all the hydrants? I
would fill them up parts you know that.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
I would fill up the hudlands myself.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
But would you do that? I would do whatever I can,
but you're.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Not I see the Do you know there's water dripping
over there?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Governor, there's water coming out there.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
And you can use it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I'm going to make the call to address everything I
can right now, including making sure.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
People to make sure you can. Can I have an
opportunity to.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
At least tell people you're doing what you're saying you're doing.
Could somebody have a contact?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Can I have your contact right now?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You did what nobody in the media has done. He's
been in office for over twenty years and nobody's ever
done what you did. And that was just one of
the great moments. John, Yeah, I know, I could see
you're crying all over again.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to listen to because I
grew up there. Yeah, and where this happened was especially painful.
I was in front of the rubble of my daughter's preschool.
Right these are two year olds, three year olds. This
is their safe place.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
He's lying to me God in front of this safe place.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Of all the lies, of all the phony moments. That
was a gold star. That was five gold stars. I
couldn't believe where he's I'm on the phone right now. Well,
tis Yeah, I want to pick up with what you
saw today in your reaction to what's going on at
skid Row with all the animals.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But I just wanted to remind the audience of your
previous work.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That is Rachel Darvish. She's here along with Sheriff Scott Astroff,
founder and president of the Animal Rescue Mission, and Alex
v Anda Waiver running for La County Sheriff.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (10:48):
Kf I AM six forty more stimulating talk radio John
co Belts Show. We have three guests in the studio,
Alex Vannaweva who's running for La County Sheriff. He's also
the former sheriff shearer, Scott astrot Under president the Animal
Rescue Mission, and Rachel Darvish, who has become an activist,
a Palisades resident, and a mom famous for confronting Gavin
(11:10):
Newsom during the fire. And Rachel, we were talking with
you. You were part of the three of you were part
of this group that walked through skid row. What did
you see yourself, general conditions, how the animals were, what's
going on there?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
So, John, here's actually the difficult part with all of this.
I think everyone knows what skid row looks like, right.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's just a.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Different version of the same thing every single day. So
this is not something new that you're hearing today. I
don't have anything new.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It looked horrible. But here's what's interesting.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
This area of Los Angeles has been called skid row
for a very long time, but it's about fifty years now.
In nineteen seventy six is when they actually I think
you know all this better than I do, but they
actually created a containment area for the people that were
migrants or whatever homeless at the time. And so here's
(12:07):
the disappointing part about all of this, and it goes
back to politics. It goes back to the people who
burned us down in the Palisades. For thirty two years,
you have contained this area. The only thing you've seen
happen is the number of homelessness increase, the spending go up,
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and you have seen zero change, or in fact, you've
seen it get worse. So I didn't see anything different
than when I would go visit years ago, when they
would make us go in high school or elementary school
or something here in Los Angeles, we'd go, we'd go
and volunteer and serve food.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Nothing different.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Maybe the it's larger, it's larger, the scope is different,
but the problem is still the same. And we have
the money there. Either it's not used, or it's lost,
or it disappeared.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It's stolen. It's stolen by these nonprofits. And you know,
you have the leaders of the nonprofits pay themselves six
figure salaries, They hire all their friends and relatives, and
well you would know this.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I mean, it's a racket. They have built a huge,
very lucrative racket. We tracked a ten year time period
twenty eleven to twenty twenty one, the homeless population doubled
in size from under thirty nine thousand to over eighty thousand,
and they spent six and a half a billion dollars
at the county and city level in the population more
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than doubled. Who in their right mind would say, oh,
let's keep doing that because it's working so well, and
they doubled down on stupid.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Our elected officials.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yes, how do you wrap your mind around that mindset
that to this very day is still insisting, Oh, it's
an affordability problem. It's not drugs or it's not mental illness.
And you know what rent could be an a month,
they couldn't afford it. Well, they know it's not an
affordability problem. They know it's the drugs and the mental illness.
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But everybody is making so much money and they can
snow the public when they're propaganda. Well, when we cleaned
the Venice Boardwalk in twenty one, it took us only
a few months, got rid of the drug dealers, got
everybody in the shelter, everything opened up again, the tourists
came back. And what was the reception we got from
the politicians?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
How dare you? Yeah, everybody in government hated you because
you were breaking up you were breaking up the casino. Yeah,
pretty much. Yeah, So, I mean I couldn't believe how
badly the supervisors treated you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
My buddy is Sheila Cule in particular, that's her district. Well,
she had her hand in that and the racket as well,
as we found out. You know, we come back. It's
a short segment. We got a longer win coming up.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Sharon. I want to talk to you because your organization
Animal Rescue Mission obviously very involved, but it doesn't seem
like all the other animal organizations are as worked up,
and I want to talk to you about that and
what you know.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I'm ready, You're ready, Okay, maybe you can spill some secrets.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You can all spill secrets. Here. It's just me and
you talking. Nobody's listening.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
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we have three guests in the studio, Alex VI and
a Waiver running for La County Sheriff, Rachel Darvish, pal
sage resident famous for confronting Gavin Newsom during the fire,
(15:49):
catching him lying about speaking to Joe Biden on the phone.
Sheer A Scott Astroff also with US founder and president
of the Animal Rescue Mission. They toured Skid Road today
to see what's going on and how bad is it
for the animals. And I want to go to Shira.
Since you run this Animal Rescue Mission, you're obviously very
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involved and you're going public. I find there's too much
silence from a lot of the other organizations. I don't.
It seems like I have seen incredible demonstrations and publicity
stunts on the part of PETA, for example, over relatively
minor issues, and this one is huge. I mean, Joey Tuccio,
(16:35):
the activist, is putting it online every day showing you
the dead dogs, the torture dogs, the dogs with their
rotting legs, and not a peep at of Pita, not
a peep out of a lot of other animal organizations.
What's up? You know these people, I assume you.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Love to speak on this.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Pete actually is the only one that does speak on
on this. But you know, as far as best Friends ASPCA,
they won't speak on it because they need just like
our mayor right now, they need people to think that
there's no problem. Things are great, save them all. You know,
we always he we're best friends doing the no kill
LA And then you see what's happening in the shelters.
(17:12):
But you know, most people they're not here, they're not
seeing it themselves.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
What's the motivation for them not telling the truth and
not being loud about it?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Because if they were to actually fix the crisis, they
couldn't get their million dollar salaries. I mean, this is
best friends in ASPCA. They I mean, I'm getting very
vocal about it lately, and thankfully a lot of other
people are. You could look on paper, they give less
than one percent of their donations to the actual animals.
The rest goes to their salaries, private jets, They have
(17:41):
offshore accounts. So they need this crisis to keep going.
So like the number one thing that could solve this
prevention spay and neuter, get the amount of animals down.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
They won't.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
They won't help with that at all. They just it's
it's a profit for them.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
It's a business.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
And I really hope that at some point at their
stop because this is perpetuating the crisis everywhere and skid
row the shelters.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
It's all connected.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Rachel, How we involved politically at all before this fire happened.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So I actually worked in the Clinton White House. I did.
I was an intern in ninety six.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
I studied abroad in Cambridge, and then I came back
and I while I was at UCLA, and then I
worked in the Clinton White House. And let me tell
you that was a real wake up call. Working in
the Clinton White House, meeting Hillary. It actually changed my
mind about the direction I wanted my life to go in.
So I did ultimately go to law school. I was
always aware I was not active.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
This has all this disillusioned you about what, however you
thought the world works.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
So I'm a mom now right.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I had a daughter four years ago, and I think
that changes you in ways that nothing else will. But
I think as human beings, it's really hard or as
sorry as Angelinos or it's Californians, it's really hard to
sit back and ignore what sixteen years of one party
rule has done to us. It's obvious. It's on the walls,
(19:11):
it's in your pocketbooks, it's in your communities. The governor
can walk around and talk about this being the fourth
largest economy in the world.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
But I'm sorry, I live in those neighborhoods that you
burn down. I live in, or we all.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Live in the neighborhoods that are overrun by encampments. That's
where the reality is of.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
This state right now.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
So if I didn't get active after you burned my
entire community down, there'd be.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Something wrong with me, and I would there would be
something wrong if I didn't get you this way.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
What's wrong with everybody else? Why do the voting patterns
persist when they've been so destructive?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Look today, it's skid row, someone said. Someone said, first
of all, we've met a bunch of Republicans on skid row,
which was really awesome. And I don't mean that because
I like Republicans better than Democrats.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I was impressed that.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
People had the ability to think for themselves and to
get to the points they did logically and end up
in the place they were.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Why. Because it's we make it so easy for those
people on skid row.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Someone said to me today, stop paying these people, Stop
giving them the drugs, stop giving in the money, stop
giving them the clothes, whatever it is you're doing, stop
it and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Are we gonna do that?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
No, because, just like Shira says, just like the sheriff knows,
once you stop doing that, the problems for them stops.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, and then and and their business, their racket drives up.
Do you know how many animal racket drives?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Son?
Speaker 6 (20:44):
We saw there, We saw Mercedes and Lexus is parked
in front of the Wineguard building, right, So we asked,
who's cars are these? And the homeless there, No, these
aren't their cars. These are the employees' cars.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Wine Guard's a big guest, part of the homeless rack,
part of the racket, the part of the now you
worked on the inside, alex ultimately, and I know you
can't say this definitively. I suspect a lot of politicians
at the end are getting kickbacks from all these nonprofits
(21:19):
because they're funneling literally billions of dollars to all kinds
of nonprofits, and the nonprofit executives and employees are taking
a big cut.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's why you saw the Mercedes and the Lexuses. But
the people who originally grant the money have to be
getting some of it on the back end, and that's
why they keep this whole racket financed.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Well.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I can confirm that in twenty two we took the
time to do a deep dive into homeless nonprofits, specifically
County and City of LA nonprofits, and of those six
and a half billion dollars with a ten year time period,
we trace three million that went back into the campaign
coffers of the elected officials. So exactly what you're saying
(22:06):
is happening. The money is coming back because they're hiring,
you know, at eight hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
A year a CEO.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Then you have all the executive staff, the officers of
the corporation. I think Saint Joseph Center as three pharmacists.
They don't have a pharmacy, but they have three pharmacists
on their payroll. What on earth are they doing? But
that's the type of money they're spending and we're not
getting anything out of in return. What they're doing is
they're just funding this ecosystem that provides political cover is, oh,
(22:36):
we're doing something about Look at all these things we're funding,
look at insights, safe, all these beds, And it's all
a game because they're not talking about the outcomes. All
they're giving is outputs, outputs, But what's the outcome? The
place looks as crappy as it does today as it
did five years ago, ten years, if not worse.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, they emphasize how much money they've spent. Yeah, they
never talk about any not even one success story. Yeah,
what's the result.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
And that's what the public needs, and that's what voters
need to start voting on. How do you get the
public to be aware of this and to believe it
and to care about it.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It just seems like much of California. In the city,
everybody's a zombie in some way. They're just not paying attention,
or they're not affected, or they just I don't know,
the brain won't accept the information it's too outrageous.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It's when it hits them directly, and they're going to
do something like when her home burns down, her community
burns down, Altady in the Palisades, those people are probably
going to have a different voting pattern than the average
person's not affected by those type of trgies. But when
you have a homeless encampment on the corner in your neighborhood,
watch how these people are going to vote differently. Look
(23:43):
at Venice when we cleaned up Venice, the people voted very,
very differently than before the cleanup. So they do react
to a positive reinforcement. And our message has to be one.
I mean, it's easy to beat down to politicians, but
you have to point of the fact that we can
fix these things.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
No, it's the voters. Yes, voters are the ones that.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Had to take responsibility of who they're putting in office
and don't vote based at kind of d or an R.
Don't vote on ideology. Put people in office and know
what the hell they're doing and get the job done.
That should be the focus.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
All right, Well, go one more segment and we're talking
with Alexia in a waver. They are former sheriff running
again for La County Sheriff against Robert Luna. Rachel Darvish,
Palisades resident and mom famous for confronting Gavin Newsom during
the fire, Shira Scott Astroft, founder and President of the
Animal Rescue Mission. One more segment coming up.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty Hi.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Final segment here caf I Am six forty live everywhere
in the iHeartRadio app with Alex v In a wave
of running for La County Sheriff. We have Shiriff Scott Ashtroft,
founder and President of the Animal Rescue Mission, Rachel Darvish,
a Palisades mom turned activists who confronted Gavid Newsom. If
you remember catching Biden catching Newsome lying about being on
(25:03):
the phone with Joe Biden during the fire, and they
took a tour of Skid Road today to see all
the human and animal devastation there. Shira, we were again
Shira as president of the Animal rescue mission. We're just
talking off the air, and I want you to talk
about what you've discovered about the inner workings of all
(25:25):
the politicians you talk to and all of these animal
rights groups that are getting money from the politicians. It
sounds like one big, happy, incestuous, rich family.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
It definitely is.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
And you know a lot of the smaller nonprofits they're
not aware of this. That's why, you know, people like
me are getting obnoxiously loud, because we're at the point
where if we don't fix us, if we don't call
these big organizations out, I mean, whelready way past that point.
For instance, if we were to solve this animal crisis,
thank god, I don't want to to be an animal
(26:01):
organization anymore, go back to being a actress. But for places
like Best Friends and ASPCA, they need the crisis to
continue because that's how they get their million dollar salaries,
that's how they keep going. So then they intertwine, you know,
all the city officials. They basically make it so that
they're gonna make them look good, they're gonna support them.
(26:22):
They lobby against every animal welfare bill. I mean, the
the proof is out there, everything is out there.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Everybody could see this, but they do such a good
break though.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
That's what really shocked me about this skid row situation.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
That's what's so disgusting, Like the way that our animals
are being treated in Los Angeles. It is worse than
my shelters in Tijuana. It is worse now, and it's disgusting,
and it's happening in broad daylight and no one's doing anything,
and it's our city officials, it's these huge organizations. It's
it's infuriating, and then you have people like me that
(26:57):
have to spend my own money, spend my own life
life trying to fix it. But when you're up against
these crup nonprofits and these crop city officials, it's very,
very hard.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Rachel, I just got a minute. Here are people waking
up on the west side of town.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
I also, I hope, so I hope burning down your home,
your churches, your synagogues, your neighborhood grocery stores, your everything
would wake you up.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And if it doesn't, then I think we're done here
with this state. I really do.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
I think this is the final opportunity. I've never believed
more in a set of candidates in particular, that we
have from the golden ticket that we've got with Steve
Hilton for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Gloria Romero, Michael Gates Attorney General,
Herb Morgan for Controller, and Alex Banueva go to Alex
Vianueva twenty twenty six dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I mean, this is the only chance we have.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I'm fifty and I'm asking you all, whoever is listening,
to know that if you don't care about the future,
you've lost the present, right, You've lost today.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah, Alex, you you probably saw this coming, you know,
because you were inside the beast for four years. Yes,
and the beast turned on you. Oh, they turned real quick. Yeah,
as soon as they realized that I wasn't there just
to play and be part of the machine. I was
there to actually fix what was going wrong. They oh
(28:24):
my god, we cannot have that there. How are you
going to get your message through this time?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Well, one thing is that we're our messages is an
easy sell because we're dealing with reality. We're dealing with impacts.
Everybody's everyone's, everyone's lives. I mean, just imagine just going
to the grocery store. Every family they have to ponder
out what time do we go who's going to go
with us to have a security plan, to do all
the things, just to go by freaking groceries that didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
True you know, the park?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah to me going to the rounse Yes, going to
the Rouse on Wilshire. I sit in the car and
I look around and I see.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Where the weird crazy Violee guy is and it's like, Okay,
how could I time this mad dash into the.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Store that didn't exists before. This is something's developed probably
the last three or four years, and it's because we've
allowed lawlessness to permeate the county. We've allowed the Sheriff's
Department LAPD to dwindle into their.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
One more quick question of this take somebody like Karen Bass.
What's in it for her to allow the lawlessness? She
can be a hero by keeping the place safe and
still collect whatever money is sloshing in through the back door.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
What's the point of making everybody terrified in the city
to get to where she's at? And a lot of
politicians you have to basically swear fealty to the machine.
The machine is more important than doing your job.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Narcissistic political ambition and it blinds them too.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
How all the rest of us.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Are blinds them. It makes them delete their text messages
in the middle of us wildfire, like, how does that happen?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, it's funny that story disappeared. All right. I really
enjoyed talking with you and I wish you all the
best of luck, and please stay in contact with us,
and when you run into issues, call us. We'll put
you in on the air and keep the heat on.
Alex being a waiver running for La County Sheriff Sheer
Scott Ashtrot, founder and President of the Animal Rescue Mission,
Rachel Darvish, Palisades, mother and activist, Thank you all for
(30:20):
coming in, and Debora Mark is live in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. You've been listening to the John
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