August 19, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (08/19) - LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia says city lawsuit settlement payouts are unsustainable. The city of Orange is also broke just like LA is. An influencer was grabbed out of a car by ICE agents in LA and it was caught on video.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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you pick up on whatever you miss. The podcast is
the same as the radio show. In an hour, we're
going to talk with Jamie Page from the West Side Current.
You may have heard Michael Monks's report on this a
few minutes ago in the news. There is this terrible
idea called Senate Bill seventy nine, written by the worst
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legislator in California, Scott Wiener, and this would override local
zoning laws and you could end up with someone buying
the house next door to you, and they'll some developer
will build a six story apartment building. If you're within
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a half mile of a rail or subway station, they
could build a four story apartment building near bus lines.
It's it's because all these sicko progressives hate single family housing,
They hate families, they hate your life. They hate that
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you have a car that you use to drive to work.
They hate that you have a lawn that you water.
They hate that you have a swimming pool that you fill.
They hate it. They think you're killing the planet. So
they want to destroy single family housing. And you know,
they're like, they really are, like the Chinese communists, don't
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they got a thousand year plan. So this, this terrible,
terrible thing called Senate Bill seventy nine would allow anybody
to start building these apartment complexes on residential streets if
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they fall within those boundaries. And I'm actually mildly surprised, No,
I'm a lot surprised. La City Council voted their opposition
to it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It was eight to five.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh I best you could pick the five ones, the
five council people who favored this. But it was introduced
by Tracy Park and John Lee, who there's only to
my count, there's only three saying legislators on the La
City Council, and it's Tracy, it's John Lee, and it's
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Monica Rodriguez. The rest of them ought to be locked
up in the same mental institution that where we've put
that guy who's beating the woman at the rose Ball.
They should all share a wing together because they're crazy people,
absolutely crazy people. There's a lot of cities in towns
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against it, and it's something that ordinarily wouldn't pay very
much attention to because all the progressive suck ups in
the media just don't do it. But I'm telling you,
and Jamie Page is writing about this for the Westside
Current and she'll tell you about it coming up after
three o'clock. All right, how bad is it in LA government?
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We have to rely on a socialist to talk some sense.
Everything is swung so far over the progressive cliff that
there's an LA City Controller, Kenneth Mahea. He's with the
Democratic Socialist Party, and he says we're paying way, way,
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way too much money in lawsuit settlements. Almost three hundred
billion this year, almost three hundred million, excuse me million,
almost half a billion for the last two years. And
one of the signature stories of the last week is
some guy trips over a sidewalk and he wins a
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three million dollar settlement from the city. Now, the sidewalk
had been reported broken for a long long time, but
they don't fix anything in the city. I don't know
what that engineering department does I'm assuming. I'm assuming it's
booze and strippers all day.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm telling you the wives should take a visit sometime
about about noontime all these engineering yards. See what's going on,
because they're not they're not repairing sidewalks, they're not repairing streets.
I don't know what they're doing. I assume they're up
to no good though. So the liability payments are crazy
and we've got uh, we've got this nutty uh hang on.
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I had mental blocks, you know, I have a lot
of mental issues, and one of them is remembering the
name of the city attorney who gives away so much
of our tax money to all the crazy people who sue.
And your name is Heidi Feldstein Sodo. And this is
La City Control Kenneth Mahea's comments about this mess.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It's unsustainable. What the hell is the City of Los
Angeles doing about these liabilities?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
That?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Are we just going to keep paying these out or
people just going to keep getting hurt? Well, that is
why we launched an audit on the city's risk management
policies and practices on reducing harm and these liability payouts.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
If you don't know, these liability payots are some of
the biggest reasons why the city's undergoing layoffs of city employees,
why departments are getting cut, why services for you all
are getting cut.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Why your streets and your sidewalks look like boot.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Why city facilities that you walk into look like dookie.
Why our childcare centers got shut down, why senior meals
got canceled.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah, these liability pants are unsustainable.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, that's a really good message. He is right on,
but I think he undercut the messages a little bit.
I heard this, I got I was listening to Brgina's
news coming in about noon time, and I heard I
heard doukie. I didn't even think he was saying dookie.
I actually thought you had one of those bleep sounds.
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I didn't realize that it was a word. Can you
tick like dookie? Yeah, he's a grown man. I think
he's a grown man. I can't remember the last time
I heard dookie. I'm sure it came from like a
five year old. He's thirty four years old.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
He's thirty four years old. But that way, you can't
believe it. There are other euphemisms look like dookie.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
He's the socialist who describes things as dookie and he's
the most rational guy in the place.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
This is where we are.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Look like dookie.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
However, he's right because they will fix the sidewalks.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
They claim they don't have the money.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Guy trips over the sidewalk, and Heidi Felgstein stto gives
him three million dollars or that guy get it in
a jury trough.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
No, I think that guy got it in a jury trial.
She gives away huge yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, she gives away huge payouts though huge payouts, and
because she doesn't want to go to a jury, then
she goes to a jury and the jury And what's
wrong with the person on the jury who gives away
three million dollars in tax money. I don't care what
his injuries are. The guy who got injured was staring
at his phone. I don't think you should get a
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dollar if you're staring at your phone, if you haven't
learned to watch where you're walking. It's one thing if
you're walking in a sinkhole swallows you up, But if
you're staring at your stupid screen scrolling TikTok, and then
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you get three million dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And so Heidi Feldstein.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Soto's attorneys for the city couldn't make an argument as
to why a guy looking at his phone does not
deserve a three million dollar payout. They couldn't make that
convincing an argument. I obviously the city's wrong, and the
city went years ignoring this. Now this is just crazy Land.
What am I doing? This is all insanity? Jesus, She's insane.
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The jury's insane. The guy scrolling who injured himself is insane.
He's rich and crazy, but he is insane, even though
he's absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
How did this happen? How did this happen?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
More?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Coming up?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
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Speaker 2 (09:30):
We just just finished playing you a little clip from
Kenneth Mahea, the socialist city controller, who is correct that
LA pays out hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements,
legal settlements, and it's one of the big reasons LA
is broke. And it's a reason that, well, let's have
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Kenneth say it.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Why city facilities that you walk into look like.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Dookie, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Why the sidewalks are busted, the roads are busted, People
trip and they fall down. The easy answer to this
is fix them. And they'll say, oh, I have the money. Well,
you don't have the money because you don't fix them,
and then people fall. They make wild claims, LA's not
the ill new one. People in Orange County probably feel
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very smug sometimes listening to all this nonsense about Los Angeles. Well,
the city of Orange is also broke and broke headed
towards bankruptcy in about three years. They have look like
they're looking at a forty six million dollar deficit five
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years from now if trends continue.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So they hired a consultant. You imagined this.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Most of us balance our checkbooks. How many give us
hire outside consultants. Well, the idiots who run the city
of Orange, and I'll name names in a few seconds,
they hired an organization, well, a company called Grant Thornton.
I don't know if that's a partnership. A person in
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the corporate named Grant Thornton Consultants. How do they balance
their budget? Shockingly, the geniuses said, well, you got to
cut your spending. I'm not making this up. Twelve percent
cut and spending. And look at this, a one percent
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sales tax hike because the sales tax is not high
enough in this state. They say the City of Orange
should hike it by one percent.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You know, they tried that.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
They asked for a half cent sales tax increase. It
was on the ballot last November and the people of
Orange said no.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So hey, wait, you had a tax increase.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
On the ballot. Well put another one on the ballot.
See what happens this time. Public doesn't care if these
towns go bankrupt. I think most people are rooting for
all these towns and cities to go bankrupt because that's
the only thing that will get them to cut their
spending and fire all the useless direc that work there.
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I mean, if you're not going to fix the sidewalks,
why don't you close the whole engineering department? Seriously, why
not get rid of everybody on sidewalk patrol, get rid
of everybody who fixes the roads. You're not fixing them.
We're going to have to make the payouts anyway, whether
you exist or not, because you're just showing up and
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sitting in the yard all day. One of the Grant
Thornton consultants is a guy named Bob Hockey, said, the
city has to work. I'm convincing voters that the one
percent sales tax hike won't be about patting the budget.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hockey's from planet naive. Of course it's going to be
used to pad the budget. You know how I know
this because during the COVID era, the city received two
one time payments of fourteen million dollars each, and they
spent the money to hire fire and police. Now you
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may say, well, it's a good thing, we need fire. Yeah,
except if you take a pair of one time payments
and you spend it on a cost that goes on forever.
That's a bad way to create a budget. You can't
use temporary funds to finance a permanent need, you see.
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And because they didn't get any more COVID bailout money,
now the positions that were funded, there's no money for them. Uh.
One of the UH, one of the consultants said, it's
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very clear one time money was spent in a way
where it has doesn't seem mean never might skip that.
Some of these people don't make sense. You know what
else they found that Orange does, like most cities in California,
it's very bad business climate. It's not business friendly, and
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Orange is just down the road from Disneyland. How could
you not have a good business environment when you're down
the road from Disneyland. They also said there's a lot
of under used commercial property. Oh, empty storefronts, vacant lots.
That's all over the place too. Also in Orange is
Chapman University, a huge university, a really good one. How
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could you be down the road from a really good
university and down the road from Disneyland you got these
empty lots, an empty store runs and you're not bringing
in business. Apparently the city council and the mayor and competent.
For example, the consultant Hockey said, Disneyland would love to
see the sites where potential hotels could be. They'd love
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to see entertainment zones that would surround it so the
guests can have the Disney experience, but they can do
an Orange at a lower price point than what they
can do in Anaheim. Maybe you should make the consultant
the mayor. Who's this guy, Stuart, He's got quotes all
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over the place in this story, Stuart said. Stuart said,
Stuart said, well we'll just go with this. Oh, Sean Stewart,
he's with Grant Thornton. Yeah, he seems like a smart guy.
We talked to businesses that may be attracted to the city.
What we heard is that the way the city operates today,
if we want to bring our businesses to the city,
we'd likely think about other cities. It's difficult to do
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business here. We also talk to people who had businesses
in the city and they said it's difficult to do
business with the city and to work with them. So
the city, the mayor of the city council, and all
the bureaucrats has done everything they could to drive out
current businesses and frustrate incoming businesses when they have Disneyland
and Chopman University down the road. And then they complain
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they don't have enough tax revenue, and since they have
botched up the business climate in the city, they want
to jack up the sales tax rates, which is only
going to harm the businesses because people will buy less.
And I'm picking on Orange because this is representative of
everybody here in California. Most of the cities are like this.
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States certainly like this, the counties like this. They make
it impossible to do business. Tax revenue goes down. Then
they go in to have enough money, so then you
don't fix the roads, they don't fix the sidewalks.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Everything's all busted up.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
People trip, they go to Jewelry's cry like little babies,
and they.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Get awarded millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Whereas, if you have lots of businesses, you could fund
all your stupid wet dream social programs and at the
same time have enough tax money to make a city run.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Properly and have enough police and fire. You can do it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
There are places all over the country that do it,
just not here. And then you run out of money
and you go bankrupt, and then you hire a consultant
to tell you the obvious.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You hire a consultant to tell you what you know.
Everybody who has a family and owns a property, you
can tell you who was the.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Said I was going to name names, or the mayor's
Dan Slater. He said, I think we should put a
stake through the heart of the Orange Way. This is
clearly not working. Council member on a barrio says, well,
we have to vet all the verify all the figures.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Councilwoman anagatieris, oh, we need further updates. John Demetro well,
at least he wants a list of all the unoccupied
undeveloped business properties. Yeah, but what are your geniuses doing
by yourself? You couldn't figure this out on your own.
I drive around, Oh, I don't know, the west side
Santa Monica, West LA. There's tons of empty businesses that
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were driven out, starting with the COVID nonsense that was stupid,
and then allowing the George Floyd rioters to destroy things
that was really, really stupid.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I wonder whether they're all out of business.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Well, you let all the crazy people bust up all
the stores or set fire to them. You locked people
down excessively for too long. Now they're gone. Didn't come
back enough text money.
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that's on the iHeart app after four o'clock. All right,
this is maybe the stupidest influencer, and this may be
the way to deal and get rid of not only
legal aliens, but influencers.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Is just a sick ice on them.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I can't believe how dumb this lady is her name
is Lady Tatiana Mafla Martinez. That's one person, and she's
a Colombian migrant influencer, so her audience is illegal aliens
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here in America and she's also here. She has forty
thousand followers. I don't know is that enough to be
Uh driving a tesla doesn't seem like she'd be making
that much money. But somehow she was sitting in her
tesla and she was live streaming whatever it is she does.
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I mean, according to the Daily Mail, she covers immigration
raids and anti ice protests. She posts videos. She's got
forty thousand TikTok followers. Isn't TikTok great? They can get
the Menendez brothers released, all the crazy people on TikTok
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and there's forty thousand people who have free time to
watch list this looney tune.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Leady Tatiyana Mafla Martinez came into this country illegally in
twenty twenty two, according to the federal government, and was
released by the Biden administration. She was immediately sent back home,
and uh, it looks like while she spent time here,
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she ended up with a drunk driving arrest, and so
that was why ICE burst in on her while she
was live streaming one of her posts inside tesla. We're
gonna play you a clip here, and she really freaks out.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
No no, no, no, no no no way, no no
no no fatha.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
They tried to lift her out of her tesla and
she uh lay on the ground writhing, then claimed she
was short of breath. They gave her medical treatment and
then hauled her off, and they're gonna ship her out
of the country, presumably back home to Colombia. Let's hear
that again. And by the way, this is I just
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want to recommend. This is what you should do when
ICE arrests you. This is the This will ensure that
you don't get deported.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
No no, no, no, no, no no way, no no
no no fathah.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
She was convicted for driving under the influence here in
Los Angeles, so she got loaded and was driving the
streets just waiting to run your child down. She got
arrested on August the fifteenth, and bizarrely continues to live
here in Law in Law, Los Angeles, live streaming all
her criticism of Ice.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, that's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You imagine going to a country you drive around drunk,
and you stay in the country and you start broadcasting
videos criticizing Ice and documenting raids. So she's every day
she's telling Ice that she's here, where she is now,
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she's already convicted. She's really fair game. This isn't a
hard working landscaper. This is a crazy young woman who
I guess then fakes having some kind of mental breakdown,
or maybe she was having an actual mental breakdown.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
She had such a panic attack she couldn't breathe, but
they gave her the medical troop. Now get this, people
in the neighborhood tried to interfere with her arrest. One
guy towed away a government vehicle while this was happening,
and he was mocking while videotaping ICE officers chasing chasing him.
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So hopefully that guy will be deported to that maximum
security prison in El Salvador.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That'd be a good place for him. Do you believe
this chaos? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
We need these kinds of immigrants, don't we? We really
really do?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
The economy is just going to collapse with that. Look
at all this money this girl's making somehow with forty
thousand TikTok followers pitching about Ice. She's into Tesla and
then this other guy, he's got the money to own
a tow trucks. That's just amazing. But yeah, they had
to do this with all social media influencers, even if
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they're Americans. Just grab him right in the middle of
their they're broadcasts and tow them out of the country.
Whole society would be better off. In fact, all the
influencers have been pushing for the Minute and his brothers
to be released. Could we get them towed to El Salvador?
Give me one more round to her. I can't get it.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
No, no, yes, yes, yes, no way no.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Fay Yeah, illegal alien, convicted drunk driver live streaming criticizing Ice. Shockingly,
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she got arrested. I don't know how that happened. Good
good choices. That's several good choices in a row by
this lady. We got more coming up.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
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We are on from one until four and then after
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Speaker 1 (26:12):
After three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Today, the La City Council actually voted eight to five
to oppose a Senate bill that would start the destruction
of single family housing zoning here in Los Angeles. It
would allow for homes in certain neighborhoods if they're sold,
developer could come in and build a big apartment building
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right next door to you, maybe up to six floors
if it's near a bus or a rail line, and
there's a lot of bus lines on those on those boulevards.
And you know, if you're within a half mile of
a boulevard that that's several blocks. So it affects many,
many thousands of homes in Los ange Angelas and across
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the whole country. And the LA City Council wants to
fight it. Now eight to five they voted, and we're
going to talk with Jamie Page because they, let me
tell you, the socialist, progressive environmental mental patients hate your
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way of life, and somehow, some way they're going to
force you into an apartment and force you on a bus.
You're going to be herded on a bus and taken
away somewhere. You're allowed of bicycles. That's it. So Jamie
Page will beyond well, we just told you about the
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the mental breakdown of a young woman who is an
influencer from Columbia. She was here in the Los Angeles illegally,
had already been convicted of drunk driving in August, and
decided to have a live stream TikTok forty thousand followers
broadcasting from her tesla, all kinds of criticisms about ICE
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and the raids they're doing. And then I showed up
at her door and dragged her out, and she's screaming
and writhing and fainting and.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
No no, no, no, no, no no way, no no,
no fading.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
Mela heart fanathy. Yeah meyayah.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Why don't you go down Salvador and do that. Go
to Salvador and start screaming about the immigration enforcement there,
and UH live stream it and see what the El
Salvador and the police do.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Good lord, Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Department of Homeland Security is uh fighting back against uh
the lying Gavin Noose again all day long. There's so
many people whose jobs are fighting Newsom's lies. You might
have heard about this guy in Florida as a truck driver.
His name's har Ginger Sing and he made an illegal
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U turn on the Florida Turnpike that's like an interstate highway.
I don't know how you do that he was going
north on the turnpike and he was north of West
Palm Beach. He tried to do this U turn and
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a minivan crashed into the truck's trailer. He did it suddenly,
the trailer was blocking the lanes. Two passengers in the
minivan died. The driver also died later on, so three
of them ended up dead. Of course, Sing in the
big truck not hurt and his passenger not hurt. Florida
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says he entered the US illegally from Mexico in twenty eighteen.
Although it's not clear where he was originally living, he
does seem to have an Indian name.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Now get this, however, we got here.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
He comes over the border from Mexico, it's California and
gets a commercial truck driver's license. California is one of
these stupid states that gives out a commercial truck driver's
license to illegal aliens. Tricia maclauchland, a spokesman for Homeland Security,
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said giving a trucking license to someone in the country
illegally is asenine. That is correct, but Newsom's press office
responded that, well, Sing got a work per bit while
Trump as president, that was a lie. It was granted
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in June twenty twenty one under Joe Biden. Nice try.
They have a team of Gavin Newsome wars. There's a
number of stories out there and I don't have the
time to go through them. And it's just snarky, silly
mutant people that work in his press office and they
write snarky stuff trying to insult people they think they can.
(31:28):
I guess they're trying to out Trump Trump. I don't
know what the deal is. It's not funny, it's not clever,
it's just stupid. They look like low IQ seventh graders
and maybe intellectually that's what they are, and they just
lie about everything.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Singh is charged with three state counts of vehicular homicide
and immigration violations. Ice wants them after his criminal cases complete,
so hopefully he'll be convicted of the hicular homicide and
then uh maybe sent to that l Savadora Bax prison.
That's where I think everybody ought to go. Oh, here's
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how he tried to do the U turn. It was
one of those you know on the UH on the
medians where it says official use only and they'll have
a little paved path, so a police car, an emergency
vehicle can do a U turn on on on an
interstate highway, and so that's how we do it, and
the and they then they have video of a crash,
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and well, there you go again. It's worth worth having
this guy in the country. I'm glad California gave him
a driver's license to drive a truck. Guy makes a
U turn on a nurse on an interstate highway and
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then Gavin knew some lies about it. Okay, the whole
world's in order. That's the way everything should go. When
we come back, Jamie Page from the West Side Current
and it's about uh, the La City Council somehow we
fighting back against this idea that single family neighborhoods should
have apartment buildings in the middle of the blocks. We'll
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talk next with JB. Page, and we have Virginia Diagristita
live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've
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you pick up on whatever you miss. The podcast is
the same as the radio show. In an hour, we're
going to talk with Jamie Page from the West Side Current.
You may have heard Michael Monks's report on this a
few minutes ago in the news. There is this terrible
idea called Senate Bill seventy nine, written by the worst
(00:44):
legislator in California, Scott Wiener, and this would override local
zoning laws and you could end up with someone buying
the house next door to you, and they'll some developer
will build a six story apartment building. If you're within
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a half mile of a rail or subway station, they
could build a four story apartment building near bus lines.
It's it's because all these sicko progressives hate single family housing,
They hate families, they hate your life. They hate that
(01:36):
you have a car that you use to drive to work.
They hate that you have a lawn that you water.
They hate that you have a swimming pool that you fill.
They hate it. They think you're killing the planet. So
they want to destroy single family housing. And you know,
they're like, they really are, like the Chinese communists, don't
(01:57):
they got a thousand year plan. So this, this terrible,
terrible thing called Senate Bill seventy nine would allow anybody
to start building these apartment complexes on residential streets if
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they fall within those boundaries. And I'm actually mildly surprised, No,
I'm a lot surprised. La City Council voted their opposition
to it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It was eight to five.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh I best you could pick the five ones, the
five council people who favored this. But it was introduced
by Tracy Park and John Lee, who there's only to
my count, there's only three saying legislators on the La
City Council, and it's Tracy, it's John Lee, and it's
(02:52):
Monica Rodriguez. The rest of them ought to be locked
up in the same mental institution that where we've put
that guy who's beating the woman at the rose Ball.
They should all share a wing together because they're crazy people,
absolutely crazy people. There's a lot of cities in towns
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against it, and it's something that ordinarily wouldn't pay very
much attention to because all the progressive suck ups in
the media just don't do it. But I'm telling you,
and Jamie Page is writing about this for the Westside
Current and she'll tell you about it coming up after
three o'clock. All right, how bad is it in LA government?
(03:36):
We have to rely on a socialist to talk some sense.
Everything is swung so far over the progressive cliff that
there's an LA City Controller, Kenneth Mahea. He's with the
Democratic Socialist Party, and he says we're paying way, way,
(03:58):
way too much money in lawsuit settlements. Almost three hundred
billion this year, almost three hundred million, excuse me million,
almost half a billion for the last two years. And
one of the signature stories of the last week is
some guy trips over a sidewalk and he wins a
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three million dollar settlement from the city. Now, the sidewalk
had been reported broken for a long long time, but
they don't fix anything in the city. I don't know
what that engineering department does I'm assuming. I'm assuming it's
booze and strippers all day.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm telling you the wives should take a visit sometime
about about noontime all these engineering yards. See what's going on,
because they're not they're not repairing sidewalks, they're not repairing streets.
I don't know what they're doing. I assume they're up
to no good though. So the liability payments are crazy
and we've got uh, we've got this nutty uh hang on.
(05:00):
I had mental blocks, you know, I have a lot
of mental issues, and one of them is remembering the
name of the city attorney who gives away so much
of our tax money to all the crazy people who sue.
And your name is Heidi Feldstein Sodo. And this is
La City Control Kenneth Mahea's comments about this mess.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It's unsustainable. What the hell is the City of Los
Angeles doing about these liabilities?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
That?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Are we just going to keep paying these out or
people just going to keep getting hurt? Well, that is
why we launched an audit on the city's risk management
policies and practices on reducing harm and these liability payouts.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
If you don't know, these liability payots are some of
the biggest reasons why the city's undergoing layoffs of city employees,
why departments are getting cut, why services for you all
are getting cut.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Why your streets and your sidewalks look like boot.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Why city facilities that you walk into look like dookie.
Why our childcare centers got shut down, why senior meals
got canceled.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah, these liability pants are unsustainable.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, that's a really good message. He is right on,
but I think he undercut the messages a little bit.
I heard this, I got I was listening to Brgina's
news coming in about noon time, and I heard I
heard doukie. I didn't even think he was saying dookie.
I actually thought you had one of those bleep sounds.
(06:43):
I didn't realize that it was a word. Can you
tick like dookie? Yeah, he's a grown man. I think
he's a grown man. I can't remember the last time
I heard dookie. I'm sure it came from like a
five year old. He's thirty four years old.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
He's thirty four years old. But that way, you can't
believe it. There are other euphemisms look like dookie.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
He's the socialist who describes things as dookie and he's
the most rational guy in the place.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
This is where we are.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Look like dookie.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
However, he's right because they will fix the sidewalks.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
They claim they don't have the money.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Guy trips over the sidewalk, and Heidi Felgstein stto gives
him three million dollars or that guy get it in
a jury trough.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
No, I think that guy got it in a jury trial.
She gives away huge yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, she gives away huge payouts though huge payouts, and
because she doesn't want to go to a jury, then
she goes to a jury and the jury And what's
wrong with the person on the jury who gives away
three million dollars in tax money. I don't care what
his injuries are. The guy who got injured was staring
at his phone. I don't think you should get a
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dollar if you're staring at your phone, if you haven't
learned to watch where you're walking. It's one thing if
you're walking in a sinkhole swallows you up, But if
you're staring at your stupid screen scrolling TikTok, and then
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you get three million dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And so Heidi Feldstein.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Soto's attorneys for the city couldn't make an argument as
to why a guy looking at his phone does not
deserve a three million dollar payout. They couldn't make that
convincing an argument. I obviously the city's wrong, and the
city went years ignoring this. Now this is just crazy Land.
What am I doing? This is all insanity? Jesus, She's insane.
(09:04):
The jury's insane. The guy scrolling who injured himself is insane.
He's rich and crazy, but he is insane, even though
he's absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
How did this happen? How did this happen?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
More?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Coming up?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
We just just finished playing you a little clip from
Kenneth Mahea, the socialist city controller, who is correct that
LA pays out hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements,
legal settlements, and it's one of the big reasons LA
is broke. And it's a reason that, well, let's have
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Kenneth say it.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Why city facilities that you walk into look like.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Dookie, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Why the sidewalks are busted, the roads are busted, People
trip and they fall down. The easy answer to this
is fix them. And they'll say, oh, I have the money. Well,
you don't have the money because you don't fix them,
and then people fall. They make wild claims, LA's not
the ill new one. People in Orange County probably feel
(10:22):
very smug sometimes listening to all this nonsense about Los Angeles. Well,
the city of Orange is also broke and broke headed
towards bankruptcy in about three years. They have look like
they're looking at a forty six million dollar deficit five
(10:43):
years from now if trends continue.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So they hired a consultant. You imagined this.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Most of us balance our checkbooks. How many give us
hire outside consultants. Well, the idiots who run the city
of Orange, and I'll name names in a few seconds,
they hired an organization, well, a company called Grant Thornton.
I don't know if that's a partnership. A person in
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the corporate named Grant Thornton Consultants. How do they balance
their budget? Shockingly, the geniuses said, well, you got to
cut your spending. I'm not making this up. Twelve percent
cut and spending. And look at this, a one percent
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sales tax hike because the sales tax is not high
enough in this state. They say the City of Orange
should hike it by one percent.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You know, they tried that.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
They asked for a half cent sales tax increase. It
was on the ballot last November and the people of
Orange said no.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So hey, wait, you had a tax increase.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
On the ballot. Well put another one on the ballot.
See what happens this time. Public doesn't care if these
towns go bankrupt. I think most people are rooting for
all these towns and cities to go bankrupt because that's
the only thing that will get them to cut their
spending and fire all the useless direc that work there.
(12:22):
I mean, if you're not going to fix the sidewalks,
why don't you close the whole engineering department? Seriously, why
not get rid of everybody on sidewalk patrol, get rid
of everybody who fixes the roads. You're not fixing them.
We're going to have to make the payouts anyway, whether
you exist or not, because you're just showing up and
(12:42):
sitting in the yard all day. One of the Grant
Thornton consultants is a guy named Bob Hockey, said, the
city has to work. I'm convincing voters that the one
percent sales tax hike won't be about patting the budget.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hockey's from planet naive. Of course it's going to be
used to pad the budget. You know how I know
this because during the COVID era, the city received two
one time payments of fourteen million dollars each, and they
spent the money to hire fire and police. Now you
(13:23):
may say, well, it's a good thing, we need fire. Yeah,
except if you take a pair of one time payments
and you spend it on a cost that goes on forever.
That's a bad way to create a budget. You can't
use temporary funds to finance a permanent need, you see.
(13:48):
And because they didn't get any more COVID bailout money,
now the positions that were funded, there's no money for them. Uh.
One of the UH, one of the consultants said, it's
(14:10):
very clear one time money was spent in a way
where it has doesn't seem mean never might skip that.
Some of these people don't make sense. You know what
else they found that Orange does, like most cities in California,
it's very bad business climate. It's not business friendly, and
(14:30):
Orange is just down the road from Disneyland. How could
you not have a good business environment when you're down
the road from Disneyland. They also said there's a lot
of under used commercial property. Oh, empty storefronts, vacant lots.
That's all over the place too. Also in Orange is
Chapman University, a huge university, a really good one. How
(14:52):
could you be down the road from a really good
university and down the road from Disneyland you got these
empty lots, an empty store runs and you're not bringing
in business. Apparently the city council and the mayor and competent.
For example, the consultant Hockey said, Disneyland would love to
see the sites where potential hotels could be. They'd love
(15:18):
to see entertainment zones that would surround it so the
guests can have the Disney experience, but they can do
an Orange at a lower price point than what they
can do in Anaheim. Maybe you should make the consultant
the mayor. Who's this guy, Stuart, He's got quotes all
(15:41):
over the place in this story, Stuart said. Stuart said,
Stuart said, well we'll just go with this. Oh, Sean Stewart,
he's with Grant Thornton. Yeah, he seems like a smart guy.
We talked to businesses that may be attracted to the city.
What we heard is that the way the city operates today,
if we want to bring our businesses to the city,
we'd likely think about other cities. It's difficult to do
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business here. We also talk to people who had businesses
in the city and they said it's difficult to do
business with the city and to work with them. So
the city, the mayor of the city council, and all
the bureaucrats has done everything they could to drive out
current businesses and frustrate incoming businesses when they have Disneyland
and Chopman University down the road. And then they complain
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they don't have enough tax revenue, and since they have
botched up the business climate in the city, they want
to jack up the sales tax rates, which is only
going to harm the businesses because people will buy less.
And I'm picking on Orange because this is representative of
everybody here in California. Most of the cities are like this.
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States certainly like this, the counties like this. They make
it impossible to do business. Tax revenue goes down. Then
they go in to have enough money, so then you
don't fix the roads, they don't fix the sidewalks.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Everything's all busted up.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
People trip, they go to Jewelry's cry like little babies,
and they.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Get awarded millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Whereas, if you have lots of businesses, you could fund
all your stupid wet dream social programs and at the
same time have enough tax money to make a city run.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Properly and have enough police and fire. You can do it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
There are places all over the country that do it,
just not here. And then you run out of money
and you go bankrupt, and then you hire a consultant
to tell you the obvious.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You hire a consultant to tell you what you know.
Everybody who has a family and owns a property, you
can tell you who was the.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Said I was going to name names, or the mayor's
Dan Slater. He said, I think we should put a
stake through the heart of the Orange Way. This is
clearly not working. Council member on a barrio says, well,
we have to vet all the verify all the figures.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Councilwoman anagatieris, oh, we need further updates. John Demetro well,
at least he wants a list of all the unoccupied
undeveloped business properties. Yeah, but what are your geniuses doing
by yourself? You couldn't figure this out on your own.
I drive around, Oh, I don't know, the west side
Santa Monica, West LA. There's tons of empty businesses that
(18:27):
were driven out, starting with the COVID nonsense that was stupid,
and then allowing the George Floyd rioters to destroy things
that was really, really stupid.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I wonder whether they're all out of business.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Well, you let all the crazy people bust up all
the stores or set fire to them. You locked people
down excessively for too long. Now they're gone. Didn't come
back enough text money.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We're on from one until four, and then listen to
the podcast. We've already had an extensive discussion about Dookie
that's on the iHeart app after four o'clock. All right,
this is maybe the stupidest influencer, and this may be
the way to deal and get rid of not only
legal aliens, but influencers.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Is just a sick ice on them.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I can't believe how dumb this lady is her name
is Lady Tatiana Mafla Martinez. That's one person, and she's
a Colombian migrant influencer, so her audience is illegal aliens
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here in America and she's also here. She has forty
thousand followers. I don't know is that enough to be
Uh driving a tesla doesn't seem like she'd be making
that much money. But somehow she was sitting in her
tesla and she was live streaming whatever it is she does.
(20:16):
I mean, according to the Daily Mail, she covers immigration
raids and anti ice protests. She posts videos. She's got
forty thousand TikTok followers. Isn't TikTok great? They can get
the Menendez brothers released, all the crazy people on TikTok
(20:40):
and there's forty thousand people who have free time to
watch list this looney tune.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Leady Tatiyana Mafla Martinez came into this country illegally in
twenty twenty two, according to the federal government, and was
released by the Biden administration. She was immediately sent back home,
and uh, it looks like while she spent time here,
(21:08):
she ended up with a drunk driving arrest, and so
that was why ICE burst in on her while she
was live streaming one of her posts inside tesla. We're
gonna play you a clip here, and she really freaks out.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
No no, no, no, no no no way, no no
no no fatha.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
They tried to lift her out of her tesla and
she uh lay on the ground writhing, then claimed she
was short of breath. They gave her medical treatment and
then hauled her off, and they're gonna ship her out
of the country, presumably back home to Colombia. Let's hear
that again. And by the way, this is I just
(22:11):
want to recommend. This is what you should do when
ICE arrests you. This is the This will ensure that
you don't get deported.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
No no, no, no, no, no no way, no no
no no fathah.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
She was convicted for driving under the influence here in
Los Angeles, so she got loaded and was driving the
streets just waiting to run your child down. She got
arrested on August the fifteenth, and bizarrely continues to live
here in Law in Law, Los Angeles, live streaming all
her criticism of Ice.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, that's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
You imagine going to a country you drive around drunk,
and you stay in the country and you start broadcasting
videos criticizing Ice and documenting raids. So she's every day
she's telling Ice that she's here, where she is now,
(23:33):
she's already convicted. She's really fair game. This isn't a
hard working landscaper. This is a crazy young woman who
I guess then fakes having some kind of mental breakdown,
or maybe she was having an actual mental breakdown.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
She had such a panic attack she couldn't breathe, but
they gave her the medical troop. Now get this, people
in the neighborhood tried to interfere with her arrest. One
guy towed away a government vehicle while this was happening,
and he was mocking while videotaping ICE officers chasing chasing him.
(24:19):
So hopefully that guy will be deported to that maximum
security prison in El Salvador.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That'd be a good place for him. Do you believe
this chaos? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
We need these kinds of immigrants, don't we? We really
really do?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
The economy is just going to collapse with that. Look
at all this money this girl's making somehow with forty
thousand TikTok followers pitching about Ice. She's into Tesla and
then this other guy, he's got the money to own
a tow trucks. That's just amazing. But yeah, they had
to do this with all social media influencers, even if
(24:56):
they're Americans. Just grab him right in the middle of
their they're broadcasts and tow them out of the country.
Whole society would be better off. In fact, all the
influencers have been pushing for the Minute and his brothers
to be released. Could we get them towed to El Salvador?
Give me one more round to her. I can't get it.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
No, no, yes, yes, yes, no way no.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Fay Yeah, illegal alien, convicted drunk driver live streaming criticizing Ice. Shockingly,
(25:50):
she got arrested. I don't know how that happened. Good
good choices. That's several good choices in a row by
this lady. We got more coming up.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
We are on from one until four and then after
four o'clock John Cobot Show on demand.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
After three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Today, the La City Council actually voted eight to five
to oppose a Senate bill that would start the destruction
of single family housing zoning here in Los Angeles. It
would allow for homes in certain neighborhoods if they're sold,
developer could come in and build a big apartment building
(26:39):
right next door to you, maybe up to six floors
if it's near a bus or a rail line, and
there's a lot of bus lines on those on those boulevards.
And you know, if you're within a half mile of
a boulevard that that's several blocks. So it affects many,
many thousands of homes in Los ange Angelas and across
(27:01):
the whole country. And the LA City Council wants to
fight it. Now eight to five they voted, and we're
going to talk with Jamie Page because they, let me
tell you, the socialist, progressive environmental mental patients hate your
(27:22):
way of life, and somehow, some way they're going to
force you into an apartment and force you on a bus.
You're going to be herded on a bus and taken
away somewhere. You're allowed of bicycles. That's it. So Jamie
Page will beyond well, we just told you about the
(27:46):
the mental breakdown of a young woman who is an
influencer from Columbia. She was here in the Los Angeles illegally,
had already been convicted of drunk driving in August, and
decided to have a live stream TikTok forty thousand followers
broadcasting from her tesla, all kinds of criticisms about ICE
(28:08):
and the raids they're doing. And then I showed up
at her door and dragged her out, and she's screaming
and writhing and fainting and.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
No no, no, no, no, no no way, no no,
no fading.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
Mela heart fanathy. Yeah meyayah.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Why don't you go down Salvador and do that. Go
to Salvador and start screaming about the immigration enforcement there,
and UH live stream it and see what the El
Salvador and the police do.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Good lord, Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Department of Homeland Security is uh fighting back against uh
the lying Gavin Noose again all day long. There's so
many people whose jobs are fighting Newsom's lies. You might
have heard about this guy in Florida as a truck driver.
His name's har Ginger Sing and he made an illegal
(29:15):
U turn on the Florida Turnpike that's like an interstate highway.
I don't know how you do that he was going
north on the turnpike and he was north of West
Palm Beach. He tried to do this U turn and
(29:36):
a minivan crashed into the truck's trailer. He did it suddenly,
the trailer was blocking the lanes. Two passengers in the
minivan died. The driver also died later on, so three
of them ended up dead. Of course, Sing in the
big truck not hurt and his passenger not hurt. Florida
(30:00):
says he entered the US illegally from Mexico in twenty eighteen.
Although it's not clear where he was originally living, he
does seem to have an Indian name.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Now get this, however, we got here.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
He comes over the border from Mexico, it's California and
gets a commercial truck driver's license. California is one of
these stupid states that gives out a commercial truck driver's
license to illegal aliens. Tricia maclauchland, a spokesman for Homeland Security,
(30:44):
said giving a trucking license to someone in the country
illegally is asenine. That is correct, but Newsom's press office
responded that, well, Sing got a work per bit while
Trump as president, that was a lie. It was granted
(31:05):
in June twenty twenty one under Joe Biden. Nice try.
They have a team of Gavin Newsome wars. There's a
number of stories out there and I don't have the
time to go through them. And it's just snarky, silly
mutant people that work in his press office and they
write snarky stuff trying to insult people they think they can.
(31:28):
I guess they're trying to out Trump Trump. I don't
know what the deal is. It's not funny, it's not clever,
it's just stupid. They look like low IQ seventh graders
and maybe intellectually that's what they are, and they just
lie about everything.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Singh is charged with three state counts of vehicular homicide
and immigration violations. Ice wants them after his criminal cases complete,
so hopefully he'll be convicted of the hicular homicide and
then uh maybe sent to that l Savadora Bax prison.
That's where I think everybody ought to go. Oh, here's
(32:06):
how he tried to do the U turn. It was
one of those you know on the UH on the
medians where it says official use only and they'll have
a little paved path, so a police car, an emergency
vehicle can do a U turn on on on an
interstate highway, and so that's how we do it, and
the and they then they have video of a crash,
(32:27):
and well, there you go again. It's worth worth having
this guy in the country. I'm glad California gave him
a driver's license to drive a truck. Guy makes a
U turn on a nurse on an interstate highway and
(32:47):
then Gavin knew some lies about it. Okay, the whole
world's in order. That's the way everything should go. When
we come back, Jamie Page from the West Side Current
and it's about uh, the La City Council somehow we
fighting back against this idea that single family neighborhoods should
have apartment buildings in the middle of the blocks. We'll
(33:08):
talk next with JB. Page, and we have Virginia Diagristita
live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've
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