July 17, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (07/17) - CA State Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo comes on the show to talk about the fact that Pres. Trump cut federal funding for CA's high-speed rail project. More on federal funding for CA's high-speed rail being cut. More on SB549 being walked back to be reworked and reintroduced. People in Pacific Palisades have gotten tickets from law enforcement in the area.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
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Day from one until four o'clock, and every day after
four o'clock you can listen to the podcast John Cobot
Show on demand pick up whatever you missed. We are
celebrating today throughout the show the end of federal money
for high speed rail. The Trump administration pulled the plug.
Four billion dollars that was to come to high speed
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rail is not coming. And if Congressman Kevin Kylie has
his way, he's going to pass a law that forever
bans any federal money going to high speed rail, so
that a Democratic administration down the road that can't revive
the pipeline. It's in the history of the United States.
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There's no analogy to this project. Seventeen years, seventeen billion dollars,
nothing to show for it, and I mean literally nothing
to show for it. No tracks, no trains, and it
was supposed to be Los Angeles to San Francisco at
two hundred and twenty miles an hour, and it was
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supposed to be done five years ago. And now after
seventeen years of nothing, let's get to Alexandra Mersdo, Republican
from Tulare, and talk to her about this event. Alexandra,
how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm doing well, It's good to be back again.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Newsom, is you represent the Central Valley, which is where
this thing, this imaginary railroad is supposed to appear one day.
And Newsom is always claiming, well, this is bringing so
many jobs to the Central Valley?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And isn't there anything else that we can we can
build that the Central Valley needs.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That these workers can get strugged right out of my mouth, Well, let's.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Tell us we have shovel ready projects. We're ready to
get to work. I want to keep people working in
the valley, and I want to make sure they can
go home to their families at night and have dinner
with them. We are critically underfunded when it comes to infrastructure,
when it comes to our roads, when it comes to
our water systems, on so many fronts. And I'm getting
really tired of Gavin Newsom, who is nowhere near this
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high speed rail, trying to convince us that he's giving
the Central Valley a gift. This is not a gift.
This is an eyesore and a slap in the face
to hard working people in the Central Valley who are
struggling right now, so that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That is the only defense he uses is he's bringing jobs.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And I.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Mean I drive around California like everyone else, and the
roads and bridges or in horrific condition we have Periodically
we have these water shortages, so we need water storage
built among so many things here in California. The state
is crumbling. So I couldn't believe that an imaginary railroad
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is required to employ people.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It's a false narrative that has been pushed by the
news of the administration and many of my Democrat colleagues
for years. What this comes down to is it's a
bunch of people that don't live where we are, don't
work the way that we work because we are an
ag driven economy in the Central Valley. That if they
really want to help us out and they want to
keep people working, give us our dang water. We live
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in the fourth largest economy in the world, and communities
in my district don't have access to clean drinking water.
So if we're going to brag about how great we are,
why don't we find basic infrastructure that makes people's lives
better rather than these privileged projects that want to put
us into the future, and all they're doing is putting.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Us into debt.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How can there be one person in the state that
doesn't have consistent access to drinking water?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
That seems to be a possible Let.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Me know, I can't imagine. It seems to be impossible,
but it's very real. And if we continue down this path,
that we don't start putting shovels in the ground for
water infrastructure projects, now we're going to have large portions
of California that are uninhabitable, plain and simple.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What do you think the money's gone.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's a great question. I do know that a lot
of money's gone to fancy consultants. I know a lot
of money has gone to removing graffiti off of these structures.
I know that there's a lot of questions as far
as why has it taken this long? Why has it
cost us much? I actually wrote a letter to President
Trump all the way back in a gleef February, asking him,
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let's figure out where this money is going, because it's
not going towards progress. The high speed rail will tell
you that this is going to you know, all of
the environmental and legal objections that have happened. And let
me also make sure that if you have spare time,
you go and check out the fancy marketing videos that
they've spent millions of dollars to make sure they're selling
on you, selling you on this pipe dream that is
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the high speed Rail. This is literally the epitome of
a failure of a project. And I'm really kind of
tired of them trying to convince us that there's progress
being made. If they count progress as eleven concrete structures
and twenty two miles of raised dirt with no track
being laid, we might need to check our metric of
what progress looks like in the state of California.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I was just going to ask you, if I drive
through the Central Valley, what evidence would I see of
this high speed rail project.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, like I told you, that's about all you would see.
But to add insult to injury, I had the CEO
of the High Seed Rail in front of me on
a hearing not too long ago, and I asked them
a series of questions, one of which was, if the
federal money stops, what's your plan financially? Because California's been
a twelve billion dollar deficit. We don't have extra money
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just laying around. His answer was, this money is not
going to be taken away. You know, we're going to
have this money. And if President Trump does to take
it away, ag Bonte is going to drag them into
court and get it back, which we all know how
much they love to do that. But then my next
question was, is, okay, you get this built, how many
have you done any surveys or any studies of who's
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going to ride it? No, we haven't done that, okay,
seventeen years. Didn't think that was important. My next question
was and then my next question was, okay, how much
is a ticket going to cost? The average income in
my district is thirty one thousand dollars a year, so
it's not like we have a bunch of money laying
around to take a joy ride on the high speed rail.
That's never going to happen. They didn't have that information either,
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So you don't know who's going to ride it, you
don't know how much they're going to pay. So what's
your plan to maintain this project? And that's what's so frustrating.
It's a bunch of miss deadlines. It's a bunch of
false promises, and it's let's just keep spending money but
not actually get the job done.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's why I'm thinking this almost sounds like organized crime,
that they set up this mechanism so that all of
them can make six figure salaries every year and not
actually produce even even five feet a rail line. I mean,
it's it's it's almost like ads, like some sort of
bizarre novel, you know, a group of.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Bureaucrats highway robbery. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. And what what's
the market for people to travel from Bakersfield to Mercelle.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
That I'm so glad you asked that. That is what
is so frustrating to me, because they did this statewide
poll saying that people still support the high speed rail.
You want to know what they support. They support San
Francisco to Los Angeles that their own inspector General said
was never going to happen. The Central Valley is not
a commuter town. Nobody is going to travel from Reside
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to Bakersfield going two hundred and twenty miles per hour.
My mask might be off, but I think you might
have to even like slingshot backwards to go forwards. It's
one hundred and sixty five miles right now. With what
their project they're projected at track is so to go
two hundred and twenty miles per hour. Think about that,
but it doesn't necessarily map out. But anyway, I digress
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in that nobody's going to use this. They can continue
to try to convince the Central Valley that we need this.
Why don't you ask people from the central Valley and
the representatives from the Central Valley have made it very
clear we've got ideas. Maybe you should start listening to us.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
All right, Alexandra Mescido from Tallara, thank you for coming
on with us. She's the assemblyman.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Thank you so much. You have a great day in.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That Central Valley region. We'll continue with this. It's it's
a party day. Trumpez out foxed Newsom again the way
he out fox Newsom on the electric car mandate. Right,
that's two huge wins. And Newsom's only response to anything
is ihi gonn sue. And he gets his little mini
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me bonta, his little toady to file a bunch of paperwork.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And you know that that's we'll talk more. We come back.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
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Speaker 1 (09:04):
Now, so Trump is pulling four billion dollars from a
high speed rail funding. And remember the current version of
high speed rail is supposed to be just Bakersfield to Mercette.
And I hope you heard our last guest on Alexandra Mercido,
she's the assembly woman from that area, and.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
She just laughed and scoffed.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It's like, of course, there is no market to travel
from Bakersfield to Mercet. It's not a commuter area. It's
like one hundred and sixty five miles. There's nobody who's
ever going to take this train. Seventeen billion dollars in
seventeen years. Gavin Newsom has awakened every morning since he
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became governor. Right he became governor in January twenty nineteen,
it is six and a half years. Every morning he's
awakened knowing that this high speed rail was a massive,
gigantic waste of money that taxpayers on the state and
on the federal level had been looted. And there was
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a brief time in twenty nineteen where he was honest
and said that we got to pull the plug on
this and then I don't know, maybe sob i'dy left
a horse's head on his pillow. But this whole why,
which Alexandra Messido pointed out that, well, this is jobs
for the Central Valley. Build some roads, build water infrastructure.
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Farmers have a really tough time up there because the
water supply, because we have such an ancient, antiquated water
system in this state.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So let's see.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
The Federal Railroad Administration is the exact agency that pulled
the four billion dollar funding. They announced an investigation a
few months ago. The Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
asked for the review, and Duffy just let Newsom have it,
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he said, Governor Newsom and the complicit Democrats have enabled
this waste for years. Federal dollars are not a blank
check that come with a promise to deliver results.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Anybody disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Because Newson is saying, I'm gonna sue, Rob BoNT is
gonna sue. What's your case to sue? You produce nothing?
He knows every day that he produces nothing. For high
speed rail, you think they would have laid down some
fake rail or some toy rail, but literally zero Duffy said,
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after over a decade of failures, high speed rail authorities
mismanagement and incompetence has proven it cannot build its train
to nowhere on time or on budget.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It's time for this boondoggle to die.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Duffy said that newsoman California are the definition of government
and competence and possibly corruption. How can you disagree with that?
How is that not true? I mean, I'm on to
see tomorrow. Maybe they already have it up today. Well, yeah,
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they do have a story up today. I don't see
anybody at the El Segundo Times writing one of their
stupid progressive opinion pieces saying well, that's not true and
that's not fair, and really, you know, it's a very selective,
cherry picking argument. It's distorted, it's slanted. No, there's actually
no railroad track and there's no railroad trains. Now, who's
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going to justify that after seventeen freaking years. Seventeen years
people who were in the womb back when this thing
passed to be graduating high school soon. And if you
took an aerial shot of the central Valley aside from
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some lumps of dirt, it would look the same. No
track no trains. Now, how long is this supposed to
go on? And they say, well, it's a legal agreement.
They've got to give us some money. It's a legal
agreement means you actually have to produce something. I'm just
astonished at this. And they just keep blundering on and
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they're all full of bravado, all full of outrage and
self righteous anger. And they've had I don't know how
many different executives, and they always appear at these at
these hearings or hold these meetings, and they're always doing
raw rah, We're great, We're fine, this is gonna be
and they're just I don't where do they go to
school for this? This is what they teach in business school?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
It's like they're mobsters? What are And the public has
been sitting like these inert little blobs for seventeen years
and nobody's ever gotten together to get like a proposition
on the ballot, something to force the end of the waste.
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How could this not have been stopped over the first
seventeen years. And people who don't understand Trump's appeal, this
is what it is. We spent years listening about how
we're going to have an electric car mandate without electrical
chargers or an electric grid to support it, and the
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cars run out of juice pretty quickly, and on and
on and on, and he just says, this is stupid.
Let's let's end the mandate, and they end it. And
then at high speed rail seventeen years, it's seventeen billion dollars.
Now it's bakersfielder said, and he just says, let's end this.
Let's end this. Those three words so much power, so
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much effectiveness. And what's the response, Trump sucks? Uh, Well,
he's ending seventeen years of waste. He's ending this disastrous
electric car mandate that they had no electricity for. What
are you insane? You're insane. I don't get anything. We
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come back the other insanity. And I think people are
starting to finally realize in the Palisades that there's a
lot of politicians up to no good. They don't want
the Palisades to rebuild, they don't want it to be
like it wise.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
They want to.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Turn it into a high speed rail, high speed rail,
a low income housing paradise. High speed rail low income housing.
These are the two big wet dreams of progressives, and
they're both are taking bullets this week.
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That is at John Cobelt Radio. Two big wins temporary wins,
they're never permanent. One of them was Trump polling four
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billion from high speed rail and you could hear you
could hear Newsom running around with his pants down, squealing
all the way from Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The second win was this weirdo Santa Monica State Senator
Ben Allen, without any publicity at all, any notification at all,
he quietly had a bill that they were going to
quickly vote on this week in the legislature so that
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the city of Los Angeles would have the power to
buy burned out lots.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
And then it seemed that it would allow them.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
To have a fast track to build low income housing. Well,
this we talked about extensively this week. Just found out
about it a couple of days ago. A lot of
people online. Everybody's angry, everybody is angry, insulted, frustrated, and
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of course the brain stems at the La Times. Do
they do a scan on your brain before you get
a job at the La Times? And if you have
just a little tiny stem, just a little little tiny
wiggle of electricity, then they say, hey, y, you want
to be an editor.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You want to be managing editor.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Because they actually run a headline conspiracy theories thwart rebuilding
plan after La County wildfires that this was a conspiracy
theory that they were planning to build low income housing
on the burned out empty lots.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And I saw that and it's like, oh wow.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That is a real smack in the face of normal citizens.
That is real smack in the face to tax payers.
You're a conspiracy theorist. Okay, this is Liam Dillon who
wrote this piece of garbage. So, Limb, I'm assuming you
speak English, you'll be able to understand this.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Limb.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You have a situation where you had the most extensive,
most frightening wind and fire warnings that anybody's ever seen,
and you had a mayor ignore them and then she
lies in said oh no, And then you had this
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gigantic one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir, which was
built to fight fires, completely empty over something trivial like
a cover being torn. You had hundreds of fire hydrants,
I think over a thousand fire hydrants busted, not working.
You had a fire department that was fifty percent five
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zero fifty percent defunded, and none of them were position
positioned the night before the day of the fire. The
response time was slowed to nonexistent. Twelve hours after the fire,
many neighborhoods still didn't have any firefighters show up. Water
ran out quickly. Thousands, seven thousand plus lost their homes,
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some people died. You had the DWP running by that brainstem.
Jenny's Kin not only didn't fill up the reservoir, they
didn't get anybody to shut off the electricity, which caused
more fires. Okay, so the place burns. Pallas ages. Now
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this vast wasteland. Karen Bass, after being embarrassed by Donald Trump, says, Oh,
we're gonna be streamlining. We're gonna cut the red tape.
News them that oily, greasy parasite. Ah, We're gonna streamline,
cut the red tape. Okay, then they don't cut the
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red tape. Months go by January February March April May, Jude, Liam,
He's still listening. July, handful of permits, nothing, people getting
angry and frustrated. Not to mention, they found out that
their insurance had been canceled on them. They were tossed
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into the fair Plan, which wildly undersures under insures your
property because our government insurance commissioner, well, our government's corrupt.
The insurance commissioner doesn't show up for public meetings. He
flies around the world, He goes to Pride Night Disco's
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disco celebrations.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
He doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
He doesn't see that there's all these people who are
now uninsured or underinsured. Gavin Newsom doesn't clear out the
brush on the state lands. Bass doesn't clear the brush
out in the city lands. Still listening, Liam, because I
know you think this is all conspiracy, But everything I
just laid out to you really happened. Place gets burned out,
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No permit's coming, and then suddenly within a week there
are four realizations. One is that well four stories. Karen
Bass did not cut the red tape. The permits aren't
coming very quickly, and she had refused to accept Rick
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Crusoe's offer of AI software to dramatically expedite the process. Okay,
Story number one, Karen Bass will not use the AI
she would. Tracy Park said she does know why. Caruso said,
don't know what.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I know why. Let's see story number two.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Scott Wiener has a bill at something popped up out
of nowhere saying that any single family neighborhood can have
a developer come in and build a low income apartment tower.
The words, you have a neighbors selling a lot, low
income housing, developer could build an apartment towel, and suddenly
your neighborhood is crawling with low income people and all
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the pathologies that bring.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
All right conspiracy theory right.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Third story is Gavin Newsom offering one hundred million dollars
to developers to build low income housing in the Palisades.
Oh my god, so Bass is exhausting people by not
issuing permits. These people have been wiped out because of
the corrupt insurance industry that the state enables. Wiener has
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his bill saying, hey, you can build these towers in
any neighborhood. Newsom's offering one hundred million dollars to developers
to build them in the Palisades. And here's the coup
de gras. The final story. Suddenly you have state center
to bill. Allen has created a bill an agency to
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buy the burned out lots, the burned out lots that
you can't get insured. Oh are you tired and exhausted
by this process? Here the city of la is going
to buy it. And he attaches the language of that bill. Well, actually,
what he did is he inserted language of that bill
into another bill which called for significant spending on low
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income housing. Oh, so the original bill called for spending
a lot of money on loan income housing. And then
your next paragraph is, hey, the city can buy the
Palisades lots that got burned out. But you're a conspiracy
theorist if you connected to it's in the same bill.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's like adjacent paragraphs.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
On top of the newsom thing, on top of the
Wiener bill, on top of bass and the pyramits. And
they actually say, oh, this is uh remember monitoring conspiracy theory,
right wing propaganda, internet memes, blah blah, bl.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It makes your head explode.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
The heat.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Us they hate you.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
They didn't bother to put out the fire. They didn't
bother to prevent the damage from happening. They didn't have water,
they didn't have fire hydrants, they didn't have firefighters, they
didn't have fire trucks, they didn't clear the brush, they
didn't show up, and now all of a sudden, they've
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got all this energy. It's like, well, here's an agency
to buy burned out land. Here's a bill that allows
low income housing apartments everywhere, every neighborhood. Here's another funding
bill from newsom. Here it's one hundred million dollars to
low income developer.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
But hey, no, we.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Want the Palisades to be rebuilt exactly as it was.
They think you're not paying attention. Much of the media
is not covering this. We've stitched this together from various sources,
most of which you probably don't read every day because
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you have a normal life. None of the television stations
are covering this. La Times covers it, a little lot
of it doesn't. And of course, when they try to
draw it all together, Liam Dillon thinks it's a conspiracy theory,
like we're supposed to believe and trust the government. We
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come back, you know what they are doing in the
Palisades to the remaining residents. They're chasing Palisades residents around
to hand out all kinds of traffic tickets. Yes, that's
what the government's doing in the Palisades, not releasing permits
and helping with construction, but flagging people and giving them
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expensive tickets. You are not going to believe this.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
This is what the.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Bass administration and the new administration does with LAPD and.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
HP and the Sheriff's department as well.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
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Speaker 2 (27:21):
You listened to Kevin Kylie.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
He was on in the one o'clock hour of the
Northern California Congressman talking about Trump pulling four billion dollars
in federal money from high speed rail. And then the
three o'clock hour at Alexandra Messito, a Northern California assembly woman,
who also discussed why it's absurd that this project has
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been going on in the Central Valley for seventeen years
and she represents the Central Valley. So that's that's among
other things on the podcast. And then we've been talking
about the Palisades and the big win there is State
Senator Bill Allen pulled his nutty bill back that was
going to give Los Angeles to right, the right to
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the City of Los Angeles to buy burned out lots,
and it was attached to a low income housing bill
low income housing spending. And Alan and the LA Times
are trying to claim, oh, no, no, no, it was
two unrelated issues. Well, jeez, they were both in the
same bill. Looks like they want to buy the lots
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and then spend money on low income housing, same bill,
one paragraph after the other.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
As the conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Here's what the government is doing to the poor people
in the Palisades, the ones who didn't get burned out,
the ones who didn't die. They had now sicked all
the law enforcement agencies to write up tickets. This is
California Highway Patrol LAPD Sheriff's Department. They have sent units
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that are normally stationed far outside the west side of LA.
Give you an example of the tickets. Jeremy Gordon was
pulled over for driving while going to his home in
the Pacific, the Palisades Islands. He wasn't racing down PCH PCH,
he wasn't going to a stop sign. He was going
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forty five miles an hour. Normally that's the speed limit,
but they had reduced it temporarily to twenty five miles
an hour, so he got a ticket going forty five
and a twenty five zone, except there was no construction,
there was no workers. I was driving like everyone else
on the road. Gordon is not some teenage scoff law.
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He's lived in the Highlands for years and he's president
of one of the homeowners associations. Dozens of us have
been pulled over for these kinds of tickets. It's disgraceful.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
They put in a lot of cops to keep the
looters out. Instead, the sheriff's deputies, LAPD and the highway
patrol officers have been ordered to turn on the local residents.
Not keep the looters out, but turn on the residents
and start handing out tickets like Jeremy Gordon's ticket. We're
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driving fast in a construction zone where there was no
construction going on, and he was going the normal speed limit.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Gordon said.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Instead of patrolling our neighborhoods to prevent looting, they've been
victimizing already traumatized fire victims with their need to feed
their ticket revenue.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Coffers.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Another resident for the Pacific Highland says, I got pulled
over at six am on Sunset and Los Leones. The
CHP officer told me I didn't stop long enough. He
was hiding in the burned out driveway of the war
A Waldorf School. Ticket cost me four hundred and ninety
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one dollars and one point in my record.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It was cruel.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Residents are being cited for rolling stops and blinking red
lights and for driving what they said were reasonable speeds
on pch and Sunset. There's often no roadwork or any
signs indicating hazards. Some officers appeared unfamiliar with the area,
unsympathetic to the fire related trauma.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Uh, there was a fire here. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I wonder why they set me here. Going back to
Michael Gordon, Jerry Gordon. Rather, there were no cones, no flaggers,
no cruise. I was pulled off by a I was
pulled over by a sheriff's deputy who didn't know the area.
When I asked where the construction was, he couldn't answer.
It's not about safety, it's about money. Another woman named
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Sherry said, you got a five hundred dollars ticket trying
to help another residence returning to their home. They're giving
outrageous tickets to the contractors and day workers who are
trying to rebuild and they really can't afford.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
They're giving it to the construction workers.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
One woman got fined for failing to stop at a
flashing red light five hundred and fifty dollars, and she'd
have to contest it in Paca Denic because that's where
the officer was based.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Oh, this is a racket that it's not even just
the tickets.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Were being treated like criminals by the city, and they
still refuse to fully refill the scent in as reservoir.
There's no construction going on ninety five percent of the time,
said Jeremy Gordon. If they really cared about safety, they
post visible warnings or slow zones. They're lying in wait.
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This is outrageous the way the city of the county
and the state, the way they treat these people, absolutely
outrageous and cruel. I mean this has got to stop.
Enough is enough? Good lord, you're giving tickets to these people.
There's no construction going on, so they set up fake
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speed limit zones, no construction going on, and they hand
out five hundred dollars tickets all right, Conways. Up next,
Michael Krazer Live the KFI twenty four Hour News. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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Day from one until four o'clock, and every day after
four o'clock you can listen to the podcast John Cobot
Show on demand pick up whatever you missed. We are
celebrating today throughout the show the end of federal money
for high speed rail. The Trump administration pulled the plug.
Four billion dollars that was to come to high speed
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rail is not coming. And if Congressman Kevin Kylie has
his way, he's going to pass a law that forever
bans any federal money going to high speed rail, so
that a Democratic administration down the road that can't revive
the pipeline. It's in the history of the United States.
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There's no analogy to this project. Seventeen years, seventeen billion dollars,
nothing to show for it, and I mean literally nothing
to show for it. No tracks, no trains, and it
was supposed to be Los Angeles to San Francisco at
two hundred and twenty miles an hour, and it was
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supposed to be done five years ago. And now after
seventeen years of nothing, let's get to Alexandra Mersdo, Republican
from Tulare, and talk to her about this event. Alexandra,
how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm doing well, It's good to be back again.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Newsom, is you represent the Central Valley, which is where
this thing, this imaginary railroad is supposed to appear one day.
And Newsom is always claiming, well, this is bringing so
many jobs to the Central Valley?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And isn't there anything else that we can we can
build that the Central Valley needs.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That these workers can get strugged right out of my mouth, Well, let's.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Tell us we have shovel ready projects. We're ready to
get to work. I want to keep people working in
the valley, and I want to make sure they can
go home to their families at night and have dinner
with them. We are critically underfunded when it comes to infrastructure,
when it comes to our roads, when it comes to
our water systems, on so many fronts. And I'm getting
really tired of Gavin Newsom, who is nowhere near this
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high speed rail, trying to convince us that he's giving
the Central Valley a gift. This is not a gift.
This is an eyesore and a slap in the face
to hard working people in the Central Valley who are
struggling right now, so that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That is the only defense he uses is he's bringing jobs.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And I.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Mean I drive around California like everyone else, and the
roads and bridges or in horrific condition we have Periodically
we have these water shortages, so we need water storage
built among so many things here in California. The state
is crumbling. So I couldn't believe that an imaginary railroad
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is required to employ people.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It's a false narrative that has been pushed by the
news of the administration and many of my Democrat colleagues
for years. What this comes down to is it's a
bunch of people that don't live where we are, don't
work the way that we work because we are an
ag driven economy in the Central Valley. That if they
really want to help us out and they want to
keep people working, give us our dang water. We live
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in the fourth largest economy in the world, and communities
in my district don't have access to clean drinking water.
So if we're going to brag about how great we are,
why don't we find basic infrastructure that makes people's lives
better rather than these privileged projects that want to put
us into the future, and all they're doing is putting.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Us into debt.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How can there be one person in the state that
doesn't have consistent access to drinking water?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
That seems to be a possible Let.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Me know, I can't imagine. It seems to be impossible,
but it's very real. And if we continue down this path,
that we don't start putting shovels in the ground for
water infrastructure projects, now we're going to have large portions
of California that are uninhabitable, plain and simple.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What do you think the money's gone.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's a great question. I do know that a lot
of money's gone to fancy consultants. I know a lot
of money has gone to removing graffiti off of these structures.
I know that there's a lot of questions as far
as why has it taken this long? Why has it
cost us much? I actually wrote a letter to President
Trump all the way back in a gleef February, asking him,
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let's figure out where this money is going, because it's
not going towards progress. The high speed rail will tell
you that this is going to you know, all of
the environmental and legal objections that have happened. And let
me also make sure that if you have spare time,
you go and check out the fancy marketing videos that
they've spent millions of dollars to make sure they're selling
on you, selling you on this pipe dream that is
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the high speed Rail. This is literally the epitome of
a failure of a project. And I'm really kind of
tired of them trying to convince us that there's progress
being made. If they count progress as eleven concrete structures
and twenty two miles of raised dirt with no track
being laid, we might need to check our metric of
what progress looks like in the state of California.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I was just going to ask you, if I drive
through the Central Valley, what evidence would I see of
this high speed rail project.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, like I told you, that's about all you would see.
But to add insult to injury, I had the CEO
of the High Seed Rail in front of me on
a hearing not too long ago, and I asked them
a series of questions, one of which was, if the
federal money stops, what's your plan financially? Because California's been
a twelve billion dollar deficit. We don't have extra money
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just laying around. His answer was, this money is not
going to be taken away. You know, we're going to
have this money. And if President Trump does to take
it away, ag Bonte is going to drag them into
court and get it back, which we all know how
much they love to do that. But then my next
question was, is, okay, you get this built, how many
have you done any surveys or any studies of who's
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going to ride it? No, we haven't done that, okay,
seventeen years. Didn't think that was important. My next question
was and then my next question was, okay, how much
is a ticket going to cost? The average income in
my district is thirty one thousand dollars a year, so
it's not like we have a bunch of money laying
around to take a joy ride on the high speed rail.
That's never going to happen. They didn't have that information either,
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So you don't know who's going to ride it, you
don't know how much they're going to pay. So what's
your plan to maintain this project? And that's what's so frustrating.
It's a bunch of miss deadlines. It's a bunch of
false promises, and it's let's just keep spending money but
not actually get the job done.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's why I'm thinking this almost sounds like organized crime,
that they set up this mechanism so that all of
them can make six figure salaries every year and not
actually produce even even five feet a rail line. I mean,
it's it's it's almost like ads, like some sort of
bizarre novel, you know, a group of.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Bureaucrats highway robbery. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. And what what's
the market for people to travel from Bakersfield to Mercelle.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
That I'm so glad you asked that. That is what
is so frustrating to me, because they did this statewide
poll saying that people still support the high speed rail.
You want to know what they support. They support San
Francisco to Los Angeles that their own inspector General said
was never going to happen. The Central Valley is not
a commuter town. Nobody is going to travel from Reside
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to Bakersfield going two hundred and twenty miles per hour.
My mask might be off, but I think you might
have to even like slingshot backwards to go forwards. It's
one hundred and sixty five miles right now. With what
their project they're projected at track is so to go
two hundred and twenty miles per hour. Think about that,
but it doesn't necessarily map out. But anyway, I digress
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in that nobody's going to use this. They can continue
to try to convince the Central Valley that we need this.
Why don't you ask people from the central Valley and
the representatives from the Central Valley have made it very
clear we've got ideas. Maybe you should start listening to us.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
All right, Alexandra Mescido from Tallara, thank you for coming
on with us. She's the assemblyman.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Thank you so much. You have a great day in.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
That Central Valley region. We'll continue with this. It's it's
a party day. Trumpez out foxed Newsom again the way
he out fox Newsom on the electric car mandate. Right,
that's two huge wins. And Newsom's only response to anything
is ihi gonn sue. And he gets his little mini
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me bonta, his little toady to file a bunch of paperwork.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
And you know that that's we'll talk more. We come back.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Now, so Trump is pulling four billion dollars from a
high speed rail funding. And remember the current version of
high speed rail is supposed to be just Bakersfield to Mercette.
And I hope you heard our last guest on Alexandra Mercido,
she's the assembly woman from that area, and.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
She just laughed and scoffed.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It's like, of course, there is no market to travel
from Bakersfield to Mercet. It's not a commuter area. It's
like one hundred and sixty five miles. There's nobody who's
ever going to take this train. Seventeen billion dollars in
seventeen years. Gavin Newsom has awakened every morning since he
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became governor. Right he became governor in January twenty nineteen,
it is six and a half years. Every morning he's
awakened knowing that this high speed rail was a massive,
gigantic waste of money that taxpayers on the state and
on the federal level had been looted. And there was
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a brief time in twenty nineteen where he was honest
and said that we got to pull the plug on
this and then I don't know, maybe sob i'dy left
a horse's head on his pillow. But this whole why,
which Alexandra Messido pointed out that, well, this is jobs
for the Central Valley. Build some roads, build water infrastructure.
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Farmers have a really tough time up there because the
water supply, because we have such an ancient, antiquated water
system in this state.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So let's see.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
The Federal Railroad Administration is the exact agency that pulled
the four billion dollar funding. They announced an investigation a
few months ago. The Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
asked for the review, and Duffy just let Newsom have it,
(11:12):
he said, Governor Newsom and the complicit Democrats have enabled
this waste for years. Federal dollars are not a blank
check that come with a promise to deliver results.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Anybody disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Because Newson is saying, I'm gonna sue, Rob BoNT is
gonna sue. What's your case to sue? You produce nothing?
He knows every day that he produces nothing. For high
speed rail, you think they would have laid down some
fake rail or some toy rail, but literally zero Duffy said,
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after over a decade of failures, high speed rail authorities
mismanagement and incompetence has proven it cannot build its train
to nowhere on time or on budget.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It's time for this boondoggle to die.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Duffy said that newsoman California are the definition of government
and competence and possibly corruption. How can you disagree with that?
How is that not true? I mean, I'm on to
see tomorrow. Maybe they already have it up today. Well, yeah,
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they do have a story up today. I don't see
anybody at the El Segundo Times writing one of their
stupid progressive opinion pieces saying well, that's not true and
that's not fair, and really, you know, it's a very selective,
cherry picking argument. It's distorted, it's slanted. No, there's actually
no railroad track and there's no railroad trains. Now, who's
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going to justify that after seventeen freaking years. Seventeen years
people who were in the womb back when this thing
passed to be graduating high school soon. And if you
took an aerial shot of the central Valley aside from
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some lumps of dirt, it would look the same. No
track no trains. Now, how long is this supposed to
go on? And they say, well, it's a legal agreement.
They've got to give us some money. It's a legal
agreement means you actually have to produce something. I'm just
astonished at this. And they just keep blundering on and
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they're all full of bravado, all full of outrage and
self righteous anger. And they've had I don't know how
many different executives, and they always appear at these at
these hearings or hold these meetings, and they're always doing
raw rah, We're great, We're fine, this is gonna be
and they're just I don't where do they go to
school for this? This is what they teach in business school?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
It's like they're mobsters? What are And the public has
been sitting like these inert little blobs for seventeen years
and nobody's ever gotten together to get like a proposition
on the ballot, something to force the end of the waste.
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How could this not have been stopped over the first
seventeen years. And people who don't understand Trump's appeal, this
is what it is. We spent years listening about how
we're going to have an electric car mandate without electrical
chargers or an electric grid to support it, and the
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cars run out of juice pretty quickly, and on and
on and on, and he just says, this is stupid.
Let's let's end the mandate, and they end it. And
then at high speed rail seventeen years, it's seventeen billion dollars.
Now it's bakersfielder said, and he just says, let's end this.
Let's end this. Those three words so much power, so
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much effectiveness. And what's the response, Trump sucks? Uh, Well,
he's ending seventeen years of waste. He's ending this disastrous
electric car mandate that they had no electricity for. What
are you insane? You're insane. I don't get anything. We
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come back the other insanity. And I think people are
starting to finally realize in the Palisades that there's a
lot of politicians up to no good. They don't want
the Palisades to rebuild, they don't want it to be
like it wise.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
They want to.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Turn it into a high speed rail, high speed rail,
a low income housing paradise. High speed rail low income housing.
These are the two big wet dreams of progressives, and
they're both are taking bullets this week.
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That is at John Cobelt Radio. Two big wins temporary wins,
they're never permanent. One of them was Trump polling four
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billion from high speed rail and you could hear you
could hear Newsom running around with his pants down, squealing
all the way from Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The second win was this weirdo Santa Monica State Senator
Ben Allen, without any publicity at all, any notification at all,
he quietly had a bill that they were going to
quickly vote on this week in the legislature so that
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the city of Los Angeles would have the power to
buy burned out lots.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
And then it seemed that it would allow them.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
To have a fast track to build low income housing. Well,
this we talked about extensively this week. Just found out
about it a couple of days ago. A lot of
people online. Everybody's angry, everybody is angry, insulted, frustrated, and
(17:35):
of course the brain stems at the La Times. Do
they do a scan on your brain before you get
a job at the La Times? And if you have
just a little tiny stem, just a little little tiny
wiggle of electricity, then they say, hey, y, you want
to be an editor.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You want to be managing editor.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Because they actually run a headline conspiracy theories thwart rebuilding
plan after La County wildfires that this was a conspiracy
theory that they were planning to build low income housing
on the burned out empty lots.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And I saw that and it's like, oh wow.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That is a real smack in the face of normal citizens.
That is real smack in the face to tax payers.
You're a conspiracy theorist. Okay, this is Liam Dillon who
wrote this piece of garbage. So, Limb, I'm assuming you
speak English, you'll be able to understand this.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Limb.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You have a situation where you had the most extensive,
most frightening wind and fire warnings that anybody's ever seen,
and you had a mayor ignore them and then she
lies in said oh no, And then you had this
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gigantic one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir, which was
built to fight fires, completely empty over something trivial like
a cover being torn. You had hundreds of fire hydrants,
I think over a thousand fire hydrants busted, not working.
You had a fire department that was fifty percent five
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zero fifty percent defunded, and none of them were position
positioned the night before the day of the fire. The
response time was slowed to nonexistent. Twelve hours after the fire,
many neighborhoods still didn't have any firefighters show up. Water
ran out quickly. Thousands, seven thousand plus lost their homes,
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some people died. You had the DWP running by that brainstem.
Jenny's Kin not only didn't fill up the reservoir, they
didn't get anybody to shut off the electricity, which caused
more fires. Okay, so the place burns. Pallas ages. Now
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this vast wasteland. Karen Bass, after being embarrassed by Donald Trump, says, Oh,
we're gonna be streamlining. We're gonna cut the red tape.
News them that oily, greasy parasite. Ah, We're gonna streamline,
cut the red tape. Okay, then they don't cut the
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red tape. Months go by January February March April May, Jude, Liam,
He's still listening. July, handful of permits, nothing, people getting
angry and frustrated. Not to mention, they found out that
their insurance had been canceled on them. They were tossed
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into the fair Plan, which wildly undersures under insures your
property because our government insurance commissioner, well, our government's corrupt.
The insurance commissioner doesn't show up for public meetings. He
flies around the world, He goes to Pride Night Disco's
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disco celebrations.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
He doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
He doesn't see that there's all these people who are
now uninsured or underinsured. Gavin Newsom doesn't clear out the
brush on the state lands. Bass doesn't clear the brush
out in the city lands. Still listening, Liam, because I
know you think this is all conspiracy, But everything I
just laid out to you really happened. Place gets burned out,
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No permit's coming, and then suddenly within a week there
are four realizations. One is that well four stories. Karen
Bass did not cut the red tape. The permits aren't
coming very quickly, and she had refused to accept Rick
(22:11):
Crusoe's offer of AI software to dramatically expedite the process. Okay,
Story number one, Karen Bass will not use the AI
she would. Tracy Park said she does know why. Caruso said,
don't know what.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I know why. Let's see story number two.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Scott Wiener has a bill at something popped up out
of nowhere saying that any single family neighborhood can have
a developer come in and build a low income apartment tower.
The words, you have a neighbors selling a lot, low
income housing, developer could build an apartment towel, and suddenly
your neighborhood is crawling with low income people and all
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the pathologies that bring.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
All right conspiracy theory right.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Third story is Gavin Newsom offering one hundred million dollars
to developers to build low income housing in the Palisades.
Oh my god, so Bass is exhausting people by not
issuing permits. These people have been wiped out because of
the corrupt insurance industry that the state enables. Wiener has
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his bill saying, hey, you can build these towers in
any neighborhood. Newsom's offering one hundred million dollars to developers
to build them in the Palisades. And here's the coup
de gras. The final story. Suddenly you have state center
to bill. Allen has created a bill an agency to
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buy the burned out lots, the burned out lots that
you can't get insured. Oh are you tired and exhausted
by this process? Here the city of la is going
to buy it. And he attaches the language of that bill. Well, actually,
what he did is he inserted language of that bill
into another bill which called for significant spending on low
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income housing. Oh, so the original bill called for spending
a lot of money on loan income housing. And then
your next paragraph is, hey, the city can buy the
Palisades lots that got burned out. But you're a conspiracy
theorist if you connected to it's in the same bill.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's like adjacent paragraphs.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
On top of the newsom thing, on top of the
Wiener bill, on top of bass and the pyramits. And
they actually say, oh, this is uh remember monitoring conspiracy theory,
right wing propaganda, internet memes, blah blah, bl.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
It makes your head explode.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
The heat.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Us they hate you.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
They didn't bother to put out the fire. They didn't
bother to prevent the damage from happening. They didn't have water,
they didn't have fire hydrants, they didn't have firefighters, they
didn't have fire trucks, they didn't clear the brush, they
didn't show up, and now all of a sudden, they've
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got all this energy. It's like, well, here's an agency
to buy burned out land. Here's a bill that allows
low income housing apartments everywhere, every neighborhood. Here's another funding
bill from newsom. Here it's one hundred million dollars to
low income developer.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
But hey, no, we.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Want the Palisades to be rebuilt exactly as it was.
They think you're not paying attention. Much of the media
is not covering this. We've stitched this together from various sources,
most of which you probably don't read every day because
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you have a normal life. None of the television stations
are covering this. La Times covers it, a little lot
of it doesn't. And of course, when they try to
draw it all together, Liam Dillon thinks it's a conspiracy theory,
like we're supposed to believe and trust the government. We
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come back, you know what they are doing in the
Palisades to the remaining residents. They're chasing Palisades residents around
to hand out all kinds of traffic tickets. Yes, that's
what the government's doing in the Palisades, not releasing permits
and helping with construction, but flagging people and giving them
(26:55):
expensive tickets. You are not going to believe this.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
This is what the.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Bass administration and the new administration does with LAPD and.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
HP and the Sheriff's department as well.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
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Speaker 2 (27:21):
You listened to Kevin Kylie.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
He was on in the one o'clock hour of the
Northern California Congressman talking about Trump pulling four billion dollars
in federal money from high speed rail. And then the
three o'clock hour at Alexandra Messito, a Northern California assembly woman,
who also discussed why it's absurd that this project has
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been going on in the Central Valley for seventeen years
and she represents the Central Valley. So that's that's among
other things on the podcast. And then we've been talking
about the Palisades and the big win there is State
Senator Bill Allen pulled his nutty bill back that was
going to give Los Angeles to right, the right to
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the City of Los Angeles to buy burned out lots,
and it was attached to a low income housing bill
low income housing spending. And Alan and the LA Times
are trying to claim, oh, no, no, no, it was
two unrelated issues. Well, jeez, they were both in the
same bill. Looks like they want to buy the lots
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and then spend money on low income housing, same bill,
one paragraph after the other.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
As the conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Here's what the government is doing to the poor people
in the Palisades, the ones who didn't get burned out,
the ones who didn't die. They had now sicked all
the law enforcement agencies to write up tickets. This is
California Highway Patrol LAPD Sheriff's Department. They have sent units
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that are normally stationed far outside the west side of LA.
Give you an example of the tickets. Jeremy Gordon was
pulled over for driving while going to his home in
the Pacific, the Palisades Islands. He wasn't racing down PCH PCH,
he wasn't going to a stop sign. He was going
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forty five miles an hour. Normally that's the speed limit,
but they had reduced it temporarily to twenty five miles
an hour, so he got a ticket going forty five
and a twenty five zone, except there was no construction,
there was no workers. I was driving like everyone else
on the road. Gordon is not some teenage scoff law.
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He's lived in the Highlands for years and he's president
of one of the homeowners associations. Dozens of us have
been pulled over for these kinds of tickets. It's disgraceful.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
They put in a lot of cops to keep the
looters out. Instead, the sheriff's deputies, LAPD and the highway
patrol officers have been ordered to turn on the local residents.
Not keep the looters out, but turn on the residents
and start handing out tickets like Jeremy Gordon's ticket. We're
(30:24):
driving fast in a construction zone where there was no
construction going on, and he was going the normal speed limit.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Gordon said.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Instead of patrolling our neighborhoods to prevent looting, they've been
victimizing already traumatized fire victims with their need to feed
their ticket revenue.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Coffers.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Another resident for the Pacific Highland says, I got pulled
over at six am on Sunset and Los Leones. The
CHP officer told me I didn't stop long enough. He
was hiding in the burned out driveway of the war
A Waldorf School. Ticket cost me four hundred and ninety
(31:04):
one dollars and one point in my record.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It was cruel.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Residents are being cited for rolling stops and blinking red
lights and for driving what they said were reasonable speeds
on pch and Sunset. There's often no roadwork or any
signs indicating hazards. Some officers appeared unfamiliar with the area,
unsympathetic to the fire related trauma.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Uh, there was a fire here. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I wonder why they set me here. Going back to
Michael Gordon, Jerry Gordon. Rather, there were no cones, no flaggers,
no cruise. I was pulled off by a I was
pulled over by a sheriff's deputy who didn't know the area.
When I asked where the construction was, he couldn't answer.
It's not about safety, it's about money. Another woman named
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Sherry said, you got a five hundred dollars ticket trying
to help another residence returning to their home. They're giving
outrageous tickets to the contractors and day workers who are
trying to rebuild and they really can't afford.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
They're giving it to the construction workers.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
One woman got fined for failing to stop at a
flashing red light five hundred and fifty dollars, and she'd
have to contest it in Paca Denic because that's where
the officer was based.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Oh, this is a racket that it's not even just
the tickets.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Were being treated like criminals by the city, and they
still refuse to fully refill the scent in as reservoir.
There's no construction going on ninety five percent of the time,
said Jeremy Gordon. If they really cared about safety, they
post visible warnings or slow zones. They're lying in wait.
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This is outrageous the way the city of the county
and the state, the way they treat these people, absolutely
outrageous and cruel. I mean this has got to stop.
Enough is enough? Good lord, you're giving tickets to these people.
There's no construction going on, so they set up fake
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speed limit zones, no construction going on, and they hand
out five hundred dollars tickets all right, Conways. Up next,
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