November 17, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (11/17) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio comes on the show to talk about why he sent a letter to the Department of Justice saying they need to investigate Gov. Newsom over $3 billion dollars in taxpayer funds going missing. Santa Clara County has approved a new sales tax increase. There is a new candidate for mayor in LA but she is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Let's go to who. We're going to go to. Carl
Demio so much.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Gavin new some news. You know, he finally came back
into the country. They let him back in. He was
hiding in the Amazon while his top chief of staff
for two years was being let off in handcuffs for
stealing money. And he never said boo last week, while
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Dana Williamson was being dragged off, and of course the
story was that when they first told her she was
being investigated, they said, we're also investigating separately. Gavin Newsom,
what do you know? She goes, I know nothing, And
that hasn't been explained yet as to what that investigation
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may have been, or maybe it's ongoing.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Carlamio, the California Assemblyman out of San Diego. He has
a suggestion for an investigation, and he believes so strongly.
He sent a letter to Trump's Department of Justice that
Gavin Newsom should be criminally investigated. And it involves three
billion dollars that are missing. Three billion. Let's go to Carl.
How are you.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm fine, John, what's this story? Three billion dollars?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, well, it ties into what you were just talking
about with Dana Williamson, the chief of staff that was
just indicted by the Feds. There's corruption in Sacramento. It's clear,
and everyone sees it and knows about it. But the
reason why chargers are never brought is you have a
one party controlled state. The Democrats control of the Attorney
General's office. There are no state charges. They control most
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of the district attorney these offices, so there are no
local charges. Everyone knew what Dana Williamson was doing, and
it was a surprise to no one because it's the
way the corrupt system works. They trade favors, they give
each other contracts, and so the FED step in and
bring charges. And in this case, we know what's going
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on at the retirement board. We have gotten financial disclosures
from the State pension Board CalPERS, and they already give
out gold plated pensions that taxpayers can't afford. But one
way they say they're going to be able to afford
them is that they're going to make so much money
in the stock market. They're going to get investment returns
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and it's going to cover all the lavish payoffs. Well,
problem is, the politicians have told the pension board that
they want investments to go to the Green New Deal ideology.
All of these scam investments in solar and wind and
all these battery storage facilities are part of these Green
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New Deal investment trusts. And now Kalipers is losing billions
of dollars in bad investments that they made because the
politicians want to go after these Green New Deal scams.
So I'm not expecting the state to investigate because they
look the other way. That's why I'm asking the federal
investigators to look at did they violate their fuduciary responsibility?
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Was there quid pro quo? Was there any financial kickbacks
that were going on? Because they lost so much money
in these scams that it can't just be Green New
Deal ideology. I believe it's worse than that I think
that they're self dealing here, and we got to get
to the bottom of it.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So they put the money directly into this investment fund,
and then where does the money go from there? It's
saying in a fund, who gets it next?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
There's a good question and what political relationships do they
have to the politicians, because most of these green New
deal companies and green New deal hedge funds investment funds
end up giving campaign contributions back to the Democrats, not
the Republicans, but the Democrats. And then the Democrat politicians
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tell the investment boards, hey, we want you to invest
in these sorts of industries, these sorts of investment pools. Well,
when you take a look at the returns, they lost
a lot of money, a ton of money. And during
the same period of time, had they just put it
into the Dow Jones index, where the average stock market index,
they would have made three point six billion dollars. So
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the total loss is well above three billion dollars of
taxpayer funds, and that means that the taxpayers are now
on the hook to make up those losses. This is
as bad as Bernie Madoff, where they were cooking the books.
Here they literally took on these high risk investments and
lead the taxpayers holding three billion dollars worth of losses.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
This has been one of the best stock market climates
to invent over the last few years, just by investing
in tech and AI. And they didn't do any of that.
It went to these Green New Deal companies exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
But it gets worse than that. They started these investments
back in two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight,
at the lowest part of the stock market. Okay, so
you would think that the investment returns would be amazingly
better because you saw Dow Jones and the S and
T go up by the triple digits triple digits during
the same period of time. Nope, they actually have lost
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billions of dollars during the same period of time. And
so we've called on the investigators because the federal government
is already looking at the Green New Deal scams, and
I believe that they need to broaden out their investigation
to look at some of these investment funds that have
lost their shirt. They lost the tax bearers their shirt.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Before you go the Stanon Williamson situation newsom.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
According to the La Times in the New York times.
Apparently the FEDS, and this is during the Joe Biden years,
they were investigating Newsome. That's what they told Williamson. They
wanted to get dirt out of her. They wanted her
to wear a wire. She said, I don't know anything.
I'm not wearing a wire. What do you think that's about?
The investigation into Newsom.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh, I'll tell you exactly what it's about. The local
FBI office are made up of civil servants who don't
traditionally get involved in politics. They just look at what's
going on and they tried it to the bottom of
whether it violates the law. So the local office of
the FBI agents were pursuing a case that was very clear,
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not the district attorney, not the state attorney general. Even
though the Williamson stuff was all out there in the
media and it was gross, it's stunk to high heaven.
The Biden administration could have brought these charges against Williamson
all the way back in the spring of last year,
but they didn't. They could have brought them in November, January, February.
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They did not. It took Trump coming in looking at
what the FBI local office had come up with to
bring the charges. So what that tells me is, yes,
there was probably stuff that they could have gone after
newsom on, But the question remains, what have they buried?
What evidence did they decide not to pursue because they
were told by Biden's team at the time, No, we're
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not interested in going after news all.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Right, then more to come, I'm sure. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Karl Demiah and he's the Republican state assemblyman down in
the San Diego area. Now coming up next. Actually I
want to do a little tease. Why'd you play cut
number two? This is all just cheering, right, Eric. You
can't tell what they're cheering over. Okay, what do you
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think they're cheering there?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I think when you showed up for postathon last year,
that was me at the Dodgers celebration.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I was gonna say, right, could have been the Dodger celebration,
could have been people at a bar watching a football game.
We'll tell you what those people were cheering about. You're
not going to believe this.
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play this clip again. You've had a few minutes to
think about it. Why do you think these people are
so happy, excited and cheering.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
This is fifteen seconds of joy. Listen.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Not the Dodgers winning the World Series, not the Rams
scoring a touchdown, not the Lakers getting a last second victory.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
That was.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
People in Santa Clara County government workers and activists cheering
a sales tax increase.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yes, I like the way you screwed up your face there,
sales tax increase. A sales tax increase.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It was Measure A, and the sales tax in Santa
Clara County is now going to be nine point seventy
five percent.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's something to cheer about.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, and listen, listen, listen to they just watched their
taxes go up.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
This crowd. Play it again. Measure A one.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
General sales tax rates are now going to be over
ten percent.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It helps the homeless.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
No, this was for their public hospital system, which they
claim was going to be falling apart. And plus Trump
cuts some of the spending that they were supposed to
get and how much funding did you say that Carl
Demile once investigated for taxpayer funds missing from Newsom three
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billion dollars between money blown and lost opportunities. Now, Santa
Clara County, that range bell, that's where San Jose is right,
That's where the forty nine ers play. And it made
me think back about five years ago, the height of
COVID when the forty nine Ers had a game on
NBC Sunday and Night Football and the Santa Clara, Santa
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Clara County government made the announcers Al Michaels and Chris
Collinsworth wear masks in the broadcast booth even though the
stadium was empty. There's no fans weren't allowed in the stadium,
and they were up in the booth many levels above
the field. And I found a photo of Al Michaels
and Chris Collinsworth sitting there with those stupid blue hospital
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masks on, and they had a headset microphone and the
little black microphone balls right, shows up really well in
front of the blue mask.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And I guarantee they had to take a COVID test
to get into the building that day.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, Yeah, to get into the stadium, and it's like
the people in Santa Clara County are freaking nuts. All
those counties in northern California, it's like the Marine County town.
What's the name of that, Tiberan, Tiberan, And they have
these garbage sorting mandates, except whoever they contracted out to
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collect the garbage throws all the regular landfill trash into
the same mix as the recycled cans and bottles and
now the organic waste that you're supposed to separate. But
if they catch you not separating it, it's a five
hundred dollars fine. And then the guy they hired throws
it all on into the same bin. They're crazy. And
then Tipperon was in the news again this week because
they have banned completely all smoking, not not just the sales,
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but you can't smoke. You can't smoke a cigarette, a cigar,
you can't have a vaping thing. Uh, I guess crack
pipes are allowed.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Oh, crack pipes are around. You can smoke crack and
you can smoke meth. Well it's a joke, but I'm
very gullible.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I forgot. But they probably they probably don't enforce the
crack and the and the myth smoking from the homeless.
So I think i'd probably right.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
In the end. Then I'm not gullible. No, you're not goible.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh So the thing is now I found a story,
it passed, and two days later later, everybody's fighting over
the money because law enforcement endorse the tax only after
they were assured that they would get.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Some of the money.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And now they don't want to give the police any
of the proceeds. So everybody's pissing out. They're fighting over
the tax money.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So they were cheering, cheering. I knew what you know.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I just looked at that and I saw cheering a
tax increase. I think, you know what, They're not paying
much in tax, they're getting the tax money. These are
the thieves, these are the parasites. So now in that context,
play that again. Listen to the parasites cheer more money
for me and scroll the cops. Is there a way
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to travel to San Francisco and drive around Santa Clara County?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Actually I think there is. Well, I'm gonna find that way.
I don't even want to set foot in that place.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Those are crazy, but somebody might stop my car and
force a mask on my face and then steal my wallet.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Well, there are traffic controllers are back to work. You
could fly.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, yes, I'm gonna only fly over Santa Clara County.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
What that whole area there?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And that's what's really terrible about these new congressional lines
is people out in eastern California in the rural areas.
Their congressperson is going to come out of these counties
because these counties have most of the population.
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All right, we have a new candidate to run against
Karen Bass. But it's not the kind of candidate you want.
It's one of those Democratic Socialists of America candidates DSA.
And don't be fooled by the word democratic. In fact,
one of the leaders of the Democratic Party said the
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other day, that's not us. They took the word democratic
that We've got nothing to do with that party. Okay,
Basically this is a communist party. So when you see
DSA Democratic Socialists of America and this is part of
the game. This is a new version of the communist party.
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And so a communist is running up against Ray well,
it was running against Karen Bass. And her name is
Ray Wang say ore A is the first name. It's
a woman, Wong h u aa. And yeah, she has
a lot of experience in making money. She's a community organizer.
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You know, before Obama ran I never heard that phrase,
and I still don't know what it is, but I
guess people make a living doing this. Well, yeah, because
they get the nonprofit money. That's the scam they get.
They get our tax money from the government and then
they organize the community. So she's a community organizer and
a minister I don't know what church. And and so
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she announced her campaign in downtown Los Angeles and here's
her opening statement. This campaign is not about me, It
is about us, all of us. All Angelina's I'm sorry,
what right there, She's blown it. Angelina Angelina's It's about
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the future that we will and must build together for
this new season in our city. In this new season,
we are going to be We're going to make affordable
for all. This is government taking over private property and
telling you how much you could rent your house for.
We are going to make transit free, safe and fast, yes,
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free buses filled with homeless people, criminals and illegal aliens.
And we're going to make sure that wages and work
are dignified.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
We're going to set the market for wages. What did
I see the other day? It was I think it
was in New York because the Communists in New York
now have this minimum wage increase, and one of the
local fast food chains said, well, we can't pay that,
we'll go out of business. So what they did is
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they hired this service out of the Philippines. This is
for real. I saw this with my eyes. You go
up to the kiosk at the counter and it's a
video screen and a woman up on the screen. It
takes your order, and she's sitting in the Philippines, and
you give the order and she types it into the
system and then there's a print out back in the
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kitchen and somebody else carries out your food, but she's
taken the order and you got a credit card.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
She's sitting. How far away is the Philippines for New
York City. It's not close. I don't know the mileage,
but it's not close.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
So the companies figured out a way around this in
a matter of minutes, and they knew it was coming,
so they already signed a deal. And now whoever had
that counter job is out of work. And when Newsom
signed the minimum wage mandatory increase twenty bucks an hour
for California fast food and how.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Many jobs have been lost?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Sixteen thousand, sixteen thousand, and the unions push for this.
I've never had this explain to me. Is push for
a minimum wage and you end up losing thousands of
fast food jobs?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
What does she do?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
She's deputy director of Housing Now California, a coalition of
over one hundred and fifty organizations that fights tenant displacement.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
So let me guess somebody buys.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
An apartment building. They're responsible for the maintenance and care.
It is America, and you charge the rent that the
market can bear. You can't charge them more than they're
willing to pay. And why would you charge them less
so the market people agreed to pay the rent, and
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then they claim, oh, it's not enough to live on.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I want the government to make sure that my rent
is never raised.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Well, why don't you move out of the building, or
move out of the city, or move out of the state.
If you can't afford a building or a neighborhood or
a city and get out it's not for you. You
move to where it's affordable. That's the way it's been
done since the beginning of time. I don't understand this concept.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
You're not. There's nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
God didn't write a law that says you are entitled
to an apartment in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
No you're not.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
There's no state law, there's no US constitutional amendment.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You are entitled to a Los Angeles home.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
No you're not.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Hit the road, Go figure out a way to make money,
be useful. It's all the losers in life that want
this to.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I don't have enough money to pay my rent.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Well, maybe you should have gotten a college degree, or
gotten a college degree that that pays. Not one of
those uses gender degrees that they were handing out by
by the thousands a few years ago. You know, all
those people gender degrees literally have nothing to do, and
now they've joined you know, they've gone to work Bucks
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or they're working in fast food and they find out
it pays crap and they're demanding their union. You'll force
new legislation. We want twenty two an hour on twenty
five an hour. And next thing you know, you got
replaced by a video image of a girl in the Philippines. Well,
it's no wonder you're broke and you can't afford your apartment.
You're stupid, you don't understand economics. And so this is
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the revenge of the stupid, the losers, the talentless, the
people who don't have any marketable skills in the real world,
and instead they're all pissed off that other people with
talents and with skills are making money. It's just like
the nuttiest period I've ever seen in my life. So
Ray Wang is going to try to represent those people,
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and I'm sure she'll get some of the vote in
the primary, but you know what, that'll peel off some
votes from Karen Bass. So that's a good thing. Karen
Bass is going to get is going to get squished
from all sides, and you know what, I will say,
if she's mayor, I bet your Ray Wang actually stays
in the country when there's fire warnings, she probably won't
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be found in Ghana, Ghana.
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want to expand on this tomorrow because I just told
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you about the new candidate running for mayor, the communist
Ray Wang. It's a woman community organizer and she was
prattling on about free buses and free trains and the
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Democratic Socialists of America is what is the party she
belongs to that is not democratic? It's it that they're
they're they're they veered into communism and one day this week,
I'm going to read you from their pages. They think
they have every right to eventually to confiscate your property,
your your your lot, where you live, your apartment building
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that you rent to people. That's where they're going with this.
And they have won four seats so far on the
city council, and there is a primary in June for
mayor and for city council, and they're hoping to pick
up two more seats. In fact, they're hoping by twenty
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twenty eight to have eight of fifteen seats that they'll
be a majority of the Los Angeles City Council.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That's their goal. They're halfway there.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
They think they can get three quarters there after next
year's election cycle. There is a normal people mostly we
have normal people listening to the show. I mean relatively normal.
You have got to wake up. You have got to
like dump some ice water on your head. Because David's
anaiser had a story right after the election in the
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LA Times about how they want to pick up these
extra seats, and he relates that the night Zorn Mom
Donnie won in New York, they had a big party.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
In Highland Park.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
At a bar, the Greyhound Bar and Grill, and everybody
could see Mamdanni on these oversized TV screens celebrating his victory,
and Mom Donnie was yelling New York, We're gonna make
our buses fast and free, shouted the crowd inside the
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LA Bar. So that's what they're gonna be pushing for,
is free buses here in Los Angeles. This crowd wants
free bus rides.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I wouldn't get on the bus. I would rather walk
from the west side up up the mountain, through the
Supulvita Pass down the other side in the rain in
a thunderstorm before I'd get on an LA metro bus.
Because those things are discussing. They're also largely empty, at
least the ones on the west side. I watched we
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go down Wilson Boulevard, and I have a game where
I watch the buses go by, and most the number
of people on the bus ranges between zero and two.
And there's a lot of these double buses right they're
they're connected by one of those like accordion connection things.
And I'm looking at two buses attached together and between
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zero and two people on them, and it's mostly homeless people.
And this crowd that was cheering Mandani's win in the
Highland Park bar, they want free busses here.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So you know, I hadn't never take buses. I looked
it up. I went to the metro site.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know what, the price of the bus ride is
a dollar seventy five. So these are people who can't
afford a dollar seventy five. Of course they're all drinking
at the spar I bet you they all had about
like thirty forty bucks of booze and food that night, right,
but they a dollar seventy five. I said, well, what,
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why are we gonna Why are we gonna pay those people?
Why are we going to subsidize their bus ride? I
don't understand this, and this seems to be the main
demand that they have is free bus rides. Why so
there's such losers. Not only do they not own a car,
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I guess they don't own a bike either. They want
to sit and have somebody else drive them, but they
don't want to pay for the ride buck seventy five
they can't afford, and they're gonna dictate policy.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
They have coalesced.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They've created this political party people who had not earned
enough money to take a bus. But they're out boozing
all night on election night. So we'll talk more about
this tomorrow. This was a long story in the La Times.
We'll get to that, all right. We got Conway up
in minutes. We got Michael Krazer with the news live
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Let's go to who. We're going to go to. Carl
Demio so much.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Gavin new some news. You know, he finally came back
into the country. They let him back in. He was
hiding in the Amazon while his top chief of staff
for two years was being let off in handcuffs for
stealing money. And he never said boo last week, while
(00:46):
Dana Williamson was being dragged off, and of course the
story was that when they first told her she was
being investigated, they said, we're also investigating separately. Gavin Newsom,
what do you know? She goes, I know nothing, And
that hasn't been explained yet as to what that investigation
(01:07):
may have been, or maybe it's ongoing.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Carlamio, the California Assemblyman out of San Diego. He has
a suggestion for an investigation, and he believes so strongly.
He sent a letter to Trump's Department of Justice that
Gavin Newsom should be criminally investigated. And it involves three
billion dollars that are missing. Three billion. Let's go to Carl.
How are you.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm fine, John, what's this story? Three billion dollars?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, well, it ties into what you were just talking
about with Dana Williamson, the chief of staff that was
just indicted by the Feds. There's corruption in Sacramento. It's clear,
and everyone sees it and knows about it. But the
reason why chargers are never brought is you have a
one party controlled state. The Democrats control of the Attorney
General's office. There are no state charges. They control most
(01:59):
of the district attorney these offices, so there are no
local charges. Everyone knew what Dana Williamson was doing, and
it was a surprise to no one because it's the
way the corrupt system works. They trade favors, they give
each other contracts, and so the FED step in and
bring charges. And in this case, we know what's going
(02:20):
on at the retirement board. We have gotten financial disclosures
from the State pension Board CalPERS, and they already give
out gold plated pensions that taxpayers can't afford. But one
way they say they're going to be able to afford
them is that they're going to make so much money
in the stock market. They're going to get investment returns
(02:41):
and it's going to cover all the lavish payoffs. Well,
problem is, the politicians have told the pension board that
they want investments to go to the Green New Deal ideology.
All of these scam investments in solar and wind and
all these battery storage facilities are part of these Green
(03:03):
New Deal investment trusts. And now Kalipers is losing billions
of dollars in bad investments that they made because the
politicians want to go after these Green New Deal scams.
So I'm not expecting the state to investigate because they
look the other way. That's why I'm asking the federal
investigators to look at did they violate their fuduciary responsibility?
(03:25):
Was there quid pro quo? Was there any financial kickbacks
that were going on? Because they lost so much money
in these scams that it can't just be Green New
Deal ideology. I believe it's worse than that I think
that they're self dealing here, and we got to get
to the bottom of it.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
So they put the money directly into this investment fund,
and then where does the money go from there? It's
saying in a fund, who gets it next?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
There's a good question and what political relationships do they
have to the politicians, because most of these green New
deal companies and green New deal hedge funds investment funds
end up giving campaign contributions back to the Democrats, not
the Republicans, but the Democrats. And then the Democrat politicians
(04:12):
tell the investment boards, hey, we want you to invest
in these sorts of industries, these sorts of investment pools. Well,
when you take a look at the returns, they lost
a lot of money, a ton of money. And during
the same period of time, had they just put it
into the Dow Jones index, where the average stock market index,
they would have made three point six billion dollars. So
(04:35):
the total loss is well above three billion dollars of
taxpayer funds, and that means that the taxpayers are now
on the hook to make up those losses. This is
as bad as Bernie Madoff, where they were cooking the books.
Here they literally took on these high risk investments and
lead the taxpayers holding three billion dollars worth of losses.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
This has been one of the best stock market climates
to invent over the last few years, just by investing
in tech and AI. And they didn't do any of that.
It went to these Green New Deal companies exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
But it gets worse than that. They started these investments
back in two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight,
at the lowest part of the stock market. Okay, so
you would think that the investment returns would be amazingly
better because you saw Dow Jones and the S and
T go up by the triple digits triple digits during
the same period of time. Nope, they actually have lost
(05:37):
billions of dollars during the same period of time. And
so we've called on the investigators because the federal government
is already looking at the Green New Deal scams, and
I believe that they need to broaden out their investigation
to look at some of these investment funds that have
lost their shirt. They lost the tax bearers their shirt.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Before you go the Stanon Williamson situation newsom.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
According to the La Times in the New York times.
Apparently the FEDS, and this is during the Joe Biden years,
they were investigating Newsome. That's what they told Williamson. They
wanted to get dirt out of her. They wanted her
to wear a wire. She said, I don't know anything.
I'm not wearing a wire. What do you think that's about?
The investigation into Newsom.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh, I'll tell you exactly what it's about. The local
FBI office are made up of civil servants who don't
traditionally get involved in politics. They just look at what's
going on and they tried it to the bottom of
whether it violates the law. So the local office of
the FBI agents were pursuing a case that was very clear,
(06:42):
not the district attorney, not the state attorney general. Even
though the Williamson stuff was all out there in the
media and it was gross, it's stunk to high heaven.
The Biden administration could have brought these charges against Williamson
all the way back in the spring of last year,
but they didn't. They could have brought them in November, January, February.
(07:05):
They did not. It took Trump coming in looking at
what the FBI local office had come up with to
bring the charges. So what that tells me is, yes,
there was probably stuff that they could have gone after
newsom on, But the question remains, what have they buried?
What evidence did they decide not to pursue because they
were told by Biden's team at the time, No, we're
(07:26):
not interested in going after news all.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Right, then more to come, I'm sure. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Karl Demiah and he's the Republican state assemblyman down in
the San Diego area. Now coming up next. Actually I
want to do a little tease. Why'd you play cut
number two? This is all just cheering, right, Eric. You
can't tell what they're cheering over. Okay, what do you
(08:04):
think they're cheering there?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I think when you showed up for postathon last year,
that was me at the Dodgers celebration.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I was gonna say, right, could have been the Dodger celebration,
could have been people at a bar watching a football game.
We'll tell you what those people were cheering about. You're
not going to believe this.
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play this clip again. You've had a few minutes to
think about it. Why do you think these people are
so happy, excited and cheering.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
This is fifteen seconds of joy. Listen.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Not the Dodgers winning the World Series, not the Rams
scoring a touchdown, not the Lakers getting a last second victory.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
That was.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
People in Santa Clara County government workers and activists cheering
a sales tax increase.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yes, I like the way you screwed up your face there,
sales tax increase. A sales tax increase.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It was Measure A, and the sales tax in Santa
Clara County is now going to be nine point seventy
five percent.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's something to cheer about.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah, and listen, listen, listen to they just watched their
taxes go up.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
This crowd. Play it again. Measure A one.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
General sales tax rates are now going to be over
ten percent.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It helps the homeless.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
No, this was for their public hospital system, which they
claim was going to be falling apart. And plus Trump
cuts some of the spending that they were supposed to
get and how much funding did you say that Carl
Demile once investigated for taxpayer funds missing from Newsom three
(10:31):
billion dollars between money blown and lost opportunities. Now, Santa
Clara County, that range bell, that's where San Jose is right,
That's where the forty nine ers play. And it made
me think back about five years ago, the height of
COVID when the forty nine Ers had a game on
NBC Sunday and Night Football and the Santa Clara, Santa
(10:52):
Clara County government made the announcers Al Michaels and Chris
Collinsworth wear masks in the broadcast booth even though the
stadium was empty. There's no fans weren't allowed in the stadium,
and they were up in the booth many levels above
the field. And I found a photo of Al Michaels
and Chris Collinsworth sitting there with those stupid blue hospital
(11:15):
masks on, and they had a headset microphone and the
little black microphone balls right, shows up really well in
front of the blue mask.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And I guarantee they had to take a COVID test
to get into the building that day.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, Yeah, to get into the stadium, and it's like
the people in Santa Clara County are freaking nuts. All
those counties in northern California, it's like the Marine County town.
What's the name of that, Tiberan, Tiberan, And they have
these garbage sorting mandates, except whoever they contracted out to
(11:46):
collect the garbage throws all the regular landfill trash into
the same mix as the recycled cans and bottles and
now the organic waste that you're supposed to separate. But
if they catch you not separating it, it's a five
hundred dollars fine. And then the guy they hired throws
it all on into the same bin. They're crazy. And
then Tipperon was in the news again this week because
they have banned completely all smoking, not not just the sales,
(12:13):
but you can't smoke. You can't smoke a cigarette, a cigar,
you can't have a vaping thing. Uh, I guess crack
pipes are allowed.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Oh, crack pipes are around. You can smoke crack and
you can smoke meth. Well it's a joke, but I'm
very gullible.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I forgot. But they probably they probably don't enforce the
crack and the and the myth smoking from the homeless.
So I think i'd probably right.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
In the end. Then I'm not gullible. No, you're not goible.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Uh So the thing is now I found a story,
it passed, and two days later later, everybody's fighting over
the money because law enforcement endorse the tax only after
they were assured that they would get.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Some of the money.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
And now they don't want to give the police any
of the proceeds. So everybody's pissing out. They're fighting over
the tax money.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
So they were cheering, cheering. I knew what you know.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I just looked at that and I saw cheering a
tax increase. I think, you know what, They're not paying
much in tax, they're getting the tax money. These are
the thieves, these are the parasites. So now in that context,
play that again. Listen to the parasites cheer more money
for me and scroll the cops. Is there a way
(13:50):
to travel to San Francisco and drive around Santa Clara County?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Actually I think there is. Well, I'm gonna find that way.
I don't even want to set foot in that place.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Those are crazy, but somebody might stop my car and
force a mask on my face and then steal my wallet.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Well, there are traffic controllers are back to work. You
could fly.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, yes, I'm gonna only fly over Santa Clara County.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
What that whole area there?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
And that's what's really terrible about these new congressional lines
is people out in eastern California in the rural areas.
Their congressperson is going to come out of these counties
because these counties have most of the population.
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All right, we have a new candidate to run against
Karen Bass. But it's not the kind of candidate you want.
It's one of those Democratic Socialists of America candidates DSA.
And don't be fooled by the word democratic. In fact,
one of the leaders of the Democratic Party said the
(16:22):
other day, that's not us. They took the word democratic
that We've got nothing to do with that party. Okay,
Basically this is a communist party. So when you see
DSA Democratic Socialists of America and this is part of
the game. This is a new version of the communist party.
(16:43):
And so a communist is running up against Ray well,
it was running against Karen Bass. And her name is
Ray Wang say ore A is the first name. It's
a woman, Wong h u aa. And yeah, she has
a lot of experience in making money. She's a community organizer.
(17:07):
You know, before Obama ran I never heard that phrase,
and I still don't know what it is, but I
guess people make a living doing this. Well, yeah, because
they get the nonprofit money. That's the scam they get.
They get our tax money from the government and then
they organize the community. So she's a community organizer and
a minister I don't know what church. And and so
(17:30):
she announced her campaign in downtown Los Angeles and here's
her opening statement. This campaign is not about me, It
is about us, all of us. All Angelina's I'm sorry,
what right there, She's blown it. Angelina Angelina's It's about
(17:52):
the future that we will and must build together for
this new season in our city. In this new season,
we are going to be We're going to make affordable
for all. This is government taking over private property and
telling you how much you could rent your house for.
We are going to make transit free, safe and fast, yes,
(18:16):
free buses filled with homeless people, criminals and illegal aliens.
And we're going to make sure that wages and work
are dignified.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
We're going to set the market for wages. What did
I see the other day? It was I think it
was in New York because the Communists in New York
now have this minimum wage increase, and one of the
local fast food chains said, well, we can't pay that,
we'll go out of business. So what they did is
(18:49):
they hired this service out of the Philippines. This is
for real. I saw this with my eyes. You go
up to the kiosk at the counter and it's a
video screen and a woman up on the screen. It
takes your order, and she's sitting in the Philippines, and
you give the order and she types it into the
system and then there's a print out back in the
(19:10):
kitchen and somebody else carries out your food, but she's
taken the order and you got a credit card.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
She's sitting. How far away is the Philippines for New
York City. It's not close. I don't know the mileage,
but it's not close.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
So the companies figured out a way around this in
a matter of minutes, and they knew it was coming,
so they already signed a deal. And now whoever had
that counter job is out of work. And when Newsom
signed the minimum wage mandatory increase twenty bucks an hour
for California fast food and how.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Many jobs have been lost?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Sixteen thousand, sixteen thousand, and the unions push for this.
I've never had this explain to me. Is push for
a minimum wage and you end up losing thousands of
fast food jobs?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
What does she do?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
She's deputy director of Housing Now California, a coalition of
over one hundred and fifty organizations that fights tenant displacement.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
So let me guess somebody buys.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
An apartment building. They're responsible for the maintenance and care.
It is America, and you charge the rent that the
market can bear. You can't charge them more than they're
willing to pay. And why would you charge them less
so the market people agreed to pay the rent, and
(20:47):
then they claim, oh, it's not enough to live on.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I want the government to make sure that my rent
is never raised.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Well, why don't you move out of the building, or
move out of the city, or move out of the state.
If you can't afford a building or a neighborhood or
a city and get out it's not for you. You
move to where it's affordable. That's the way it's been
done since the beginning of time. I don't understand this concept.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
You're not. There's nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
God didn't write a law that says you are entitled
to an apartment in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
No you're not.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
There's no state law, there's no US constitutional amendment.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You are entitled to a Los Angeles home.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
No you're not.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Hit the road, Go figure out a way to make money,
be useful. It's all the losers in life that want
this to.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I don't have enough money to pay my rent.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Well, maybe you should have gotten a college degree, or
gotten a college degree that that pays. Not one of
those uses gender degrees that they were handing out by
by the thousands a few years ago. You know, all
those people gender degrees literally have nothing to do, and
now they've joined you know, they've gone to work Bucks
(22:00):
or they're working in fast food and they find out
it pays crap and they're demanding their union. You'll force
new legislation. We want twenty two an hour on twenty
five an hour. And next thing you know, you got
replaced by a video image of a girl in the Philippines. Well,
it's no wonder you're broke and you can't afford your apartment.
You're stupid, you don't understand economics. And so this is
(22:24):
the revenge of the stupid, the losers, the talentless, the
people who don't have any marketable skills in the real world,
and instead they're all pissed off that other people with
talents and with skills are making money. It's just like
the nuttiest period I've ever seen in my life. So
Ray Wang is going to try to represent those people,
(22:46):
and I'm sure she'll get some of the vote in
the primary, but you know what, that'll peel off some
votes from Karen Bass. So that's a good thing. Karen
Bass is going to get is going to get squished
from all sides, and you know what, I will say,
if she's mayor, I bet your Ray Wang actually stays
in the country when there's fire warnings, she probably won't
(23:08):
be found in Ghana, Ghana.
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I don't have a minute or two here, but I
want to expand on this tomorrow because I just told
(24:03):
you about the new candidate running for mayor, the communist
Ray Wang. It's a woman community organizer and she was
prattling on about free buses and free trains and the
(24:25):
Democratic Socialists of America is what is the party she
belongs to that is not democratic? It's it that they're
they're they're they veered into communism and one day this week,
I'm going to read you from their pages. They think
they have every right to eventually to confiscate your property,
your your your lot, where you live, your apartment building
(24:48):
that you rent to people. That's where they're going with this.
And they have won four seats so far on the
city council, and there is a primary in June for
mayor and for city council, and they're hoping to pick
up two more seats. In fact, they're hoping by twenty
(25:08):
twenty eight to have eight of fifteen seats that they'll
be a majority of the Los Angeles City Council.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That's their goal. They're halfway there.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
They think they can get three quarters there after next
year's election cycle. There is a normal people mostly we
have normal people listening to the show. I mean relatively normal.
You have got to wake up. You have got to
like dump some ice water on your head. Because David's
anaiser had a story right after the election in the
(25:41):
LA Times about how they want to pick up these
extra seats, and he relates that the night Zorn Mom
Donnie won in New York, they had a big party.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
In Highland Park.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
At a bar, the Greyhound Bar and Grill, and everybody
could see Mamdanni on these oversized TV screens celebrating his victory,
and Mom Donnie was yelling New York, We're gonna make
our buses fast and free, shouted the crowd inside the
(26:22):
LA Bar. So that's what they're gonna be pushing for,
is free buses here in Los Angeles. This crowd wants
free bus rides.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I wouldn't get on the bus. I would rather walk
from the west side up up the mountain, through the
Supulvita Pass down the other side in the rain in
a thunderstorm before I'd get on an LA metro bus.
Because those things are discussing. They're also largely empty, at
least the ones on the west side. I watched we
(26:54):
go down Wilson Boulevard, and I have a game where
I watch the buses go by, and most the number
of people on the bus ranges between zero and two.
And there's a lot of these double buses right they're
they're connected by one of those like accordion connection things.
And I'm looking at two buses attached together and between
(27:16):
zero and two people on them, and it's mostly homeless people.
And this crowd that was cheering Mandani's win in the
Highland Park bar, they want free busses here.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So you know, I hadn't never take buses. I looked
it up. I went to the metro site.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know what, the price of the bus ride is
a dollar seventy five. So these are people who can't
afford a dollar seventy five. Of course they're all drinking
at the spar I bet you they all had about
like thirty forty bucks of booze and food that night, right,
but they a dollar seventy five. I said, well, what,
(27:56):
why are we gonna Why are we gonna pay those people?
Why are we going to subsidize their bus ride? I
don't understand this, and this seems to be the main
demand that they have is free bus rides. Why so
there's such losers. Not only do they not own a car,
(28:18):
I guess they don't own a bike either. They want
to sit and have somebody else drive them, but they
don't want to pay for the ride buck seventy five
they can't afford, and they're gonna dictate policy.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
They have coalesced.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They've created this political party people who had not earned
enough money to take a bus. But they're out boozing
all night on election night. So we'll talk more about
this tomorrow. This was a long story in the La Times.
We'll get to that, all right. We got Conway up
in minutes. We got Michael Krazer with the news live
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