June 3, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (06/03) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio comes on the show to talk about CA Assembly Democrats killing a bill that would have reversed a $0.65 gas tax hike that is going to go into effect in 2026. More on bills the Democrats killed yesterday in the CA State Assembly. CA State Senator Tony Strickland comes on the show to talk about why he opposes a new taxpayer-funded study into the economic impact of CA’s high-speed rail. The former manager at the morgue at Harvard has plead guilty to multiple charges including trafficking stolen human remains.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. How are you welcome?
We've got plenty to do today.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello Deborah, Hello, mister Cobel.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm dandy.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Uh, you are dandy. We are going to get right
to it. Carl Demayo's coming on in just a moment,
because there were two terrible votes, and let me tell you,
these votes are important. These votes affect your life and
what you pay for gas and electricity in this state.
The first we're going to talk about is the Democrats
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voted to kill Assembly Bill twelve. That bill would reverse
that sixty five cent gas tax hike from the California
Air Resources Board. This is the new low fuel carbon
standard and it's a sixty five cent increase, and I
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believe it's on pause for a few months while they
sort out some technicalities, but it is definitely coming, and
it's coming within a number of months. And we're going
to talk now to Carl Demyo, the Republican assemblyman who
is on the front lines of the battle in Sacramento.
Because there was some mutterings by Democrats at a hearing
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recently they were upset with the California Air Resources Board.
In fact, one Democrat wanted the chairwoman to resign and
I wanted is that going to change the way they vote? Well,
they were given some red meat here. It's like, yeah, well,
why didn't you kill this sixty five cent gas tax increase?
And it looks like the Democrats said, no, we will
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not kill that. Let's get to Carl Demayo.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
How are you, Oh well, I'm pretty frustrated. In California,
drivers and families should be really pissed because what you're
seeing up here in Sacramento is absolutely a war on
working families. The cost of living crisis is not going
to get better, It's only going to get worse. So
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the Democrats in December, when they were sworn in, said, Okay,
we understand the results of this election. We're going to
do something about cost of living. That was six months ago.
Now this week is the end of the legislative process
for the entire year. All the bills have to get
out of the Assembly or else nothing else happens. And
they've done nothing, not a single bill of consequence to
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reduce the living. So what we Republicans decided to do
is te up all the bills that they've killed along
the way and buried in the committee and decided to
put it into some desk drawer and forget about it.
And we decided to call the question force a vote,
a floor vote on each of those good bills, this
one on suspending the sixty five cent gas tax increased
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with a low carbon fuel standard. It should be an
easy one, right, but no, the Democrats voted it down.
And even some of the one that were critical of
the California Air Resources Board for being out of control
and not considering cost impacts from these regulations, they didn't
lift a finger to do anything about actually reversing the policy.
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These people are liars, cheats, and thieves, and that is
being as kind as they can possibly be. They have
failed working families, and anyone who gets hit with higher costs,
you know who to blame. And you know the only
way that your household budget's going to get relief, vote
a Democrat out of the next election.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So there were a few Democrats who made some loud
noises at the California Air Resources Board a chairwoman, and
like I said, one asked for her resignation. So those
Assembly people did not vote to reverse this incoming sixty
five cent tax. So they were faking it publicly at
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the hearings scolding, and that's where Card the card lady admitted,
It's like, hey, we don't take into account how this
is going to affect price increases.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And that's why I firmly believe that when these politicians
are grand standing, when they're lying, when they're trying to
connive and deceive the voter, nothing is more clarifying, John
than a bill that actually does something. It's not rhetoric,
it's not for social media, it doesn't grandstand. It simply
solves the problem. And these Democrats showed us where they
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really stand. They don't stand with working families. They want
to continue to make things more expensive. Because here's the deal.
At the end of the day, they don't want you
driving a car. They have set it for decades. They
do not want you driving a car. They want you
in some sort of public transportation, or they want you
in an electric vehicle. And so for them, eight dollars
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a gallon gas, which is what we're on track to hit.
Eight dollars gallon gas, is exactly the desired outcome of
this nonsense and so we're calling them out on it.
I always say, call the question and get a list
of names, the names of these politicians who are lying
through their teeth and not wanting to actually solve the problem.
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And we have a list.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
We are compiling list after list after list, and I
hope that these lists will be actually weaponized in the
upcoming lest now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
They're complete phonies. I was talking with somebody the other
day and I said, exactly what you just said. This
is the plan eight dollars gas. They want ten dollars
a gallon gas. That's what they're shooting for in the
near term. This is exactly what they gained out years ago,
and they're getting it. And now they're faking outrage. But
when it comes to a vote, they run and hide
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and they vote against step repealing this gas tax increase.
Let's go to part two here, another vote. I assume
you forced this bill up to be voted on a
proposal to reduce electricity in utility rates. I've got something
here that was just published earlier this year. The headline
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California's power rates second highest in the US. It's double
the average of the rest of the country, and it
is soaring even higher in the near future. And what
was your bill designed to do?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, so some of the listeners who are sitting in
their electric vehicles saying, well, the sixty plague said to
Gala doesn't apply to me. Hey, how about the fact
that you're paying double per kilowat hour for your electricity?
That does impact you. And so we offered a bill
on that issue to basically reduce the cost of the
electricity and utilities in the state of California. Our bill
would have said that you cannot increase rates above the
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national average, and that the state of California would have
to rescind taxes, fees, and regulations in order to hit
that bogee hit that cost cap every single year, which
is completely doable. Okay, So if other states can get
their killowt hour down to half of our rate, we
can certainly do it. It's it's it's a failure of
government policy. And so Democrats once again voted down the bill.
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And this is why forcing a vote is so important.
When I got up here, one of the things I
told my Republican colleagues is not only are we going
to fight, but we need to get the list of names.
We have to force them to vote yes or no
on these bills because the list of names is what
has to be presented to the voters so the voters
can actually know who to vote for and who to
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vote against in the upcoming election. And we now have
another recorded vote on electricity rates where the Democrats said, nope,
they're not going to give any any relief to working families.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And that would be reducing the taxes and the regulations.
And you know that that's that's driving up the cost
of electricity. Electricity does not have to be this expensive
in California, just like the gasoline. They choose for it
to be this expensive.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They they their policies are designed to produce high costs
because they want to manipulate you into doing what they
believe is good for society. Well, I actually think that
you should be able to afford to live in California.
And the idea that we are paying more in every
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category and energy prices, both gas and electricity have a
ripple effect. It's not just you know, the electricity that
you're paying or the gas that you're paying at the pump,
the price at the pump. Remember, with all these energy
costs and gas costs there will be a ripple effect
for food. Everything we do has to be transported, everything
we buy is transported, and so it's a ripple effect
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of inflation across of all of California if we don't
get a handle on these energy and gasoline prices.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
All right, very good, Carl, and I am going to
find the story because I believe we just did it
yesterday on or maybe Friday. Whoever was squawking at that
Assembly committee hearing against the carb representatives and the California
Energy Commission representatives, and I'm going to see how they voted.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Jazz Meat Blank is Jazz Meat Vans. Yes, she's from
Central Valley and she's running for Congress. That's the only
reason why she did it. It's nothing but a political stunt.
But we exposed her for what she is. She's a fraud.
She's a complete phony in fraud.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
All right, we'll keep on top of it. You're doing
great work up there, Thank you, Thank you. All right,
Carl Demiel, the Assembly Republican. We will tell you about
those who tried to create a ruckus against the California
Air Resources Board chairwoman and then it looks like backed
away and voted down or hid from reversing the sixty
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five cent gas tax increase and refused the proposal to
reduce electric and utility rates. We'll get into all that next.
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You're not going to get this news anywhere else. We
had Carl Tomay on the Republican Assembly woman. Assemblyman, excuse me,
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been reading too many stories about those trans athletes. Carl
produced a bill and dared the Democrats to vote against it.
It's Assembly Bill twelve. It would reverse the sixty five
cent gast axe hike that the California Air Resources Board
is laying on us with their new Low Carbon Fuel
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Standard regulation sixty five cent increase. This is on top
of the two oil refineries that are closing. That now
has some Democrats freaking out because they're believing the predictions
by USC's Michael Mache that eight fifty gallon gas is coming,
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and it's coming within the next year and a half.
So Carl tried to ease their pain and say, hey,
here's a bill. This reverses the sixty five cent gas
tax hike for the low carbon Fuel standard. But the
vote went nowhere. It lost thirty nine to eighteen. Although
it does seem that some of these people were either
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absent or they decided to abstain. Some of them are
getting cowardly where they don't want to vote on a
bill if they know for sure it's going to fail,
but they don't want their name on blocking the bill.
And then the second one is a proposal to reduce
electric and utility rates. Again, we pay double the electricity
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of the rest of the country. I think we're paying
thirty cents to kill a lot hour. Rest of the
country is paying fifteen cents to kill a lot hour.
And it's solely because of regulations and taxes from the
California A leedgeislature and governor. So in this case, Carl's
proposal would reduce the rates, and forty nine forty nine
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Assembly people said no, keep the high electric rates, keep
the utility rates. Coming up. In about five minutes, we're
going to have, well, actually about ten minutes after Dever's news,
we're going to have Senate Transportation Vice Chairman Tony Strickland
on because what the Democrats did agree to spend money
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on was seven hundred thousand dollars to study high speed rail. Seriously, well,
first of all, there's nothing to study because there is
no high speed rail. There's nothing to see here, but
they want to study it at seven hundred thousand dollars.
And we're also going to talk to Tony Strickland about this
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gas price situation here. This comes, as Carl said, six
months after the Democrats claim they were going to attack
the cost of living here in California, which everybody is
crushed by except you know, the wealthy billionaires in the
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tech industry up in northern California. Uh, and everybody else
is fighting it bad. We've got the most misleading statement,
and I see it repeated over and over because people
are basically monkeys and they just copy whatever the monkey
next to them says or does. Most ridiculous statement, and
Newsom is pushing this that we have the fifth fourth
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largest economy now in the world was number five, and
that it's number four and therefore we're really rich and
wealthy and we can afford all these taxes. That is
complete total crap, bold leap, just nonsense. Much of the
wealth is tied up in tech companies and tied up
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in wealthy employees and wealthy executives of tech companies. In fact,
that's what this same left wing crowd always preaches. Income inequality. Well, yeah,
and that income inequality means that although California has the
fourth largest economy in the world, most of the people
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in California don't have much money because we have the
highest poverty rate in the nation, and everywhere from middle
class on down is struggling. I mean, I mean six
six percent of the country struggles to make ends meet
week to week. They're living week to week. Sixty percent
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of the country doesn't even have one thousand dollars in
the bank to cover an emergency, and those percentages are
probably even higher here in California. So his statement that
we're wealthy, most of the people are not wealthy. A
tiny sliver are extremely wealthy, and that tilts things and
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makes it look like we're all swimming in money. Obviously
we're not. And the biggest boulder around the necks of
so many people in this state is is gas prices
and electricity prices, and that affects the cost of food,
anything that has to be transported in this state. I
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mean today, I went to my local station, which has
the lowest price in my neighborhood, and I guess this
is as low as gas can get in my area
on the west side, four fifty nine a gallon, four
fifty nine. And I actually looked this up today because
Trump was claiming that there are places in the US
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where you can get gas for a dollar ninety eight
or a dollar ninety nine, which I assumed he was
full of it on that, but I went to check,
and yeah, there is nobody selling it for a dollar
ninety nine. They did find a gas station in Texas
selling it for two dollars and eleven cents. Two dollars
and eleven cents, And I was looking at four point
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fifty nine today, and that's the bargain price in California.
The last time I checked the average was yesterday, it
was for seventy seven across the state. But somebody right
now is at a gas station, probably in rural Texas,
and they're pumping for two eleven a gallon. So we
are way, way, way out of whack with the rest
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of the country and it's only because, well it's two things.
They belonged to this bizarre climate religion and they're having
no effect on the climate none at all. And secondly,
they have a lot of dirty deals that they're all
profiting from this high speed rail, which we're going to
talk with Tony Strickland about next another seven hundred thousand
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dollars to about some bogus consultant to look at the
economic impact of having a train go from Bakersfield to Merced.
We'll hear from Tony Strickland, the Republican out of Huntington Beach,
the state senator that's coming up next.
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on the iHeartRadio app. Among the big news today, these
the Democrats have are passing a bill to spend seven
hundred thousand dollars of your money to study high speed rail.
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Tony Strickland, who's the Republican state senator out of Huntington Beach,
objects to this and we're going to find out why. Tony,
how are you.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm good, John, How are you? Thanks for having me on?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
What is this about seven hundred thousand dollars to study what?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
You can't make this stuff up? And it's ridiculous. It's
another way to based are hardered dollars that people send
tax dollars to to Sacramento. We all know, everybody in
this building knows, as proposed, this train is not going
to be built that was promised to the people of
California from San Francisco to Los Angeles. And the spending
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is out of control. It's already over one hundred and
twenty billion dollars and climbing. And now they're saying it's
a train from Merced to Bakersfield, and they want to
study the impacts of a train from Merced to Bakersfield.
Study the impact exactly. They say, Oh, we're going to
study the economic impact of having a train from Merced
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to Bakersfield.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Okay, who's getting the contract? This is just more corruption
to me, it is It must be some politically connected
consultants and this is a gift to them.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It's an outrage. In fact, when I spoke on the
floor not only against this, but you know, I told
the members that we need to There needs to be
a serious conversation, and they're pulling the plug on this train.
This is absurd. We've already wasted billions of dollars. Those
money that we keep spending will be better spent on
my proposals to take that money and lower the gas
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prices for everybody in California. When we continue to raise
the gas prices every single year since Governor Newsin has
been in office, and that falls disproportioned on hard work
in California families across the state. That would be a
better way and better use of our money instead of
just wasting on this train that we know is never
going to be built.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well, what are they going to study the economic impact
of Merced to Bakersfield. I mean, there's very few people
who are traveling between Merced and Bakersfield, and they're going
to take the highway. I don't There's nothing to study
here and there's no train to study, So I don't
get it.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I couldn't agree with you more. And obviously, as proposed
to the people of California, if they would have came
up and say, hey, we want to spend one hundred
and twenty billion dollars on the train from said the Bakersfield.
My guess is that vote wouldn't have gone as well
as it did when they lie to the people of California.
They knew the money was not going to come from
the federal government, and they knew that. You know, I
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always asked the question because I was in the legislature
during that time, and I asked, well, how much is
it going to cost to go get a train ticket
from San Francisco Los Angeles One. They couldn't even answer
that question.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Because it didn't matter.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, exactly, I mean, I drive their cars. People are
going to take a point.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I realized some years ago that the the arguments that
people like you and I would discuss publicly are not
the point. The point is that they set up these
elaborate mechanisms that are nothing more than scams. They're they're
just they're just stealing money and then they're laundering the money.
And whether it's high speed rail or you know, the
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whole climate infrastructure they created, the homeless industry they created here.
You could argue with them all day and you'd be
one hundred percent right, But that was never the point.
The point was to create a revenue source, so their
friends and family and business associates and consultants and donors
can steal the money and run off with it.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, and now they're saying, oh, we have a budget deficit.
And I'll tell you, over the last ten years they've
increased spending by triple. You would think if we increase
the spending by triple, we would have better services. But
we still have homelessnesses out of control, rising crime, and
krumblin infrastructure. They are wasting money. California doesn't have a
revenue problem. It has a wastefile spending problem.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
They've had several audits of high speed rail. The last audit,
or maybe it was the next to last audit, they
couldn't find any record of where the money was spent.
There were no invoices, there were no receipts. It simply
disappeared as if you had guys stuffing it into their
to those cloth bags that robbers back in the eighteen
hundreds would carry around when they rob banks.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
How do you spend billions of dollars? And I laid
down one track of rail And that's well again, you're
you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It's you never. But if you never intended to lay
down track. Yeah, which I think is what this is about.
They never intended to and they don't care about all
the criticism. It doesn't bother them because everybody in their
group is getting is getting paid.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Well. We need a new leadership here and we need
to turn around California. I mean, we need, you know,
to bring back some common sense and what they're doing
at the federal level, we need to do here at
the state level and start, you know, have more oversight
on this wastefol spending that they're doing.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, this is this is horrible. This is just like
a fire hose spending.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Our systems need to hold each one of these legislators
accountable when they vote for a seven hundred billion dollars
a seven hundred thousand dollars study, when they keep voting,
you know, ten point two billion dollars to keep this
project going. I'm hopeful that the people of California will
hold these legislators accountable. Come next to November.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Let me ask you one more thing unrelated by but
in the past week, members of the Democrats on the
Transportation Committee have been criticizing members of CARB One of
them asked for the resignation of the CARB chairwoman because
they they are starting to believe the eight dollars and
fifty cent gas prediction from Michael MChE of USC Is
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that real or is that show for the TV cameras?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
No, I think it's real. I also called for the
President Card to step down. I also called for making
more of those decisions give them away from the Air
Resources Board, things like the Coast of Commission, because there's
no accountability when it comes to these unaccountable boards are
making huge decisions for California. It'd be better to have
those decisions made in the legislature. So for example, if
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you don't like the job I'm doing as a state center,
you can vote me out. But these unaccountable boards are
wreaking havoc on a hardworking California families, and they admitted
that they don't even put into question the cost of
their regulation. They've even admitted that, yeah, I saw that
it will be it will be eight dollars a gallon,
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you know, with two refineries setting down and we keep
increasing the gas tax, people can't afford these decisions.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Are they going to do something to stop this, to
try to help change whatever needs to be changed so
that refine those refineries don't shut down, stop these price increases,
get rid of cars power. I mean, are they really
going to do it? Are they just getting nervous with I.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Think more and more of my colleagues are getting nervous
because they're hearing from their constituents and they're trying to deflect.
And the start of this year they said, oh, we're
going to have this discussion on affordability, and we're going
to have affordability session. At the same time, they're now
proposing new tax increases to keep health care for illegals.
You know, they they just don't get it. At the
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end of the day, these people are out of step
with reality and they're out of step with everyday people
in their districts. Because I always say, even Democrats in
their district are not these crazy people that are the
two thirds majority.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
No, No, there's a huge disconnect there. Well, Tony Strickland,
State Senator, thank you very much for coming on.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I think thank you so much for having me. I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
He's the vice chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, and
the legislature is passing a bill seven hundred thousand dollars
of your money to study high speed rail to see
what the economic impact is from Bakersfield to Merced Seriously
to somebody. Some consultants who donated money to someone are
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making getting a big payday out of this. We'll have
more coming up.
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We are going to talk with John Heisman. He writes
the Flash Report online and he had a piece today
that's going to again affect your life. The South Coast
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Air Quality Management District a while back, they had this
idea to ban any new gas powered water heaters and
furnaces in southern California that would affect seventeen million people.
They would have prohibited gas powered water heaters and furnaces
in new construction by twenty twenty six and then mandate
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electric replacements by twenty twenty seven. They ended up with
a huge storm of blowback from anyone who owned a home,
rented a space, businesses, industry groups, thirteen thousand letters flooded
in and so they revised it, but they still want
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to charge you for you have a gas water heater.
Fifty dollars for a water heater, one hundred dollars for
a gas space heater. And this is what the manufacturers
would be hit with. And then eventually five hundred and
two hundred and fifty dollars for the space and water heaters,
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and the plan goes on from there. This is the fanaticism,
the climate fanaticism, trying to they belonged to this weird
religious cult. They're having no effect on the climate. They
also are trying to steal money from us, and they're
trying to tell us what to do and control us,
what kind of heater we can have, how we could
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power that heater anyway, John Fleischman is going to come
on about the South Coast Air Quality Management District. You
remember a few weeks ago I told you about the
guy who worked at the Harvard Medical School Morgue, Yes, yeah,
remember at Harvard. Obviously, at medical schools, a lot of
people donate their bodies to science, right, so that the students,
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the doctors can do experiments and learn well. The manager
of the Morgue Cedric Lodge. He has pleaded guilty. He
was stealing the body parts. If you remember, I do, yes, Well,
he's now pleaded guilty to interstate transport of stolen human remains.
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It turns out he and his wife, what a lovely couple.
They had a business going and they were taking the
remains home and then reselling them. They lived in New Hampshire,
so they would drive over the border, which led to
some of these crimes interstate transport of stolen human remains. See,
by living in New Hampshire, they'd lived in Massachusetts, there'd
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be fewer crimes that they would be charged with.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Can you imagine if that was one of your family member's.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Nobody knows where they are now. I mean he just
sold them. Yeah, it was like a brokerage service.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
I mean, come on, no morals, no values, morals and values.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Well, that's just not a thing anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You must have been born in the old century.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah, I must. I mean, that's that's just that's rude.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
So he uh, he would remove organs, right, I guess,
like livers and pancreas's hearts. Also, he'd remove their brains.
He would skin them he'd cut off their hands. He
would he would steal their faces. I guess he would
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skin and peel off the face. I don't know what
you would do with that.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
You you're selling the skin for graphing. You burn victims.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
We're really cheap facelifts. Don't get a facelift from a
guy in an alley. I have some ideas, Uh, dissected heads.
He was selling heads and other parts, and I don't
want to know what the other parts were.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
How much did he make? Do we know?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
No, I don't know, but his his uh, the FBI,
the postal service and postal service. Well, yeah, I guess
he was packing up the heads and the skin and
the faces and mailing.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And wait, but wait a second.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Don't you have to be alive, you know, on a
respirator or you know, some other artificial way of keeping
you alive, and you your your body parts have to
be harvested and then sent on ice and rushed.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, ever needs it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I guess this is when this was not for media transplants.
Maybe there's people who have collections, so.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It's not to save lives.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I mean, it's not that he's making money on the
black market, and then people are gonna.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Know these were people who just wanted a collection, a trophy, sure,
like maybe a trophy case, like you have your golden mics.
Somebody else has livers, livers from around the world.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
There's no There are a lot of weirdos in this world.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
There are there are coming up. We're gonna have John
Fleischman on the South Coast Air Quality Management District Management District.
They tried a gas powered water heater ban and a
gas furnace band and everybody got angry with them. So
now they have a new idea. To explain this new idea,
(31:43):
John Fleischman, he writes the Flash Report online. We'll talk
to him next. Deborah Mark is live in the KFI
twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
live on KFI Am six forty from one to four
pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime I'm
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Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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We've got plenty to do today.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello Deborah, Hello, mister Cobel.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm dandy.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Uh, you are dandy. We are going to get right
to it. Carl Demayo's coming on in just a moment,
because there were two terrible votes, and let me tell you,
these votes are important. These votes affect your life and
what you pay for gas and electricity in this state.
The first we're going to talk about is the Democrats
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voted to kill Assembly Bill twelve. That bill would reverse
that sixty five cent gas tax hike from the California
Air Resources Board. This is the new low fuel carbon
standard and it's a sixty five cent increase, and I
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believe it's on pause for a few months while they
sort out some technicalities, but it is definitely coming, and
it's coming within a number of months. And we're going
to talk now to Carl Demyo, the Republican assemblyman who
is on the front lines of the battle in Sacramento.
Because there was some mutterings by Democrats at a hearing
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recently they were upset with the California Air Resources Board.
In fact, one Democrat wanted the chairwoman to resign and
I wanted is that going to change the way they vote? Well,
they were given some red meat here. It's like, yeah, well,
why didn't you kill this sixty five cent gas tax increase?
And it looks like the Democrats said, no, we will
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not kill that. Let's get to Carl Demayo.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
How are you, Oh well, I'm pretty frustrated. In California,
drivers and families should be really pissed because what you're
seeing up here in Sacramento is absolutely a war on
working families. The cost of living crisis is not going
to get better, It's only going to get worse. So
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the Democrats in December, when they were sworn in, said, Okay,
we understand the results of this election. We're going to
do something about cost of living. That was six months ago.
Now this week is the end of the legislative process
for the entire year. All the bills have to get
out of the Assembly or else nothing else happens. And
they've done nothing, not a single bill of consequence to
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reduce the living. So what we Republicans decided to do
is te up all the bills that they've killed along
the way and buried in the committee and decided to
put it into some desk drawer and forget about it.
And we decided to call the question force a vote,
a floor vote on each of those good bills, this
one on suspending the sixty five cent gas tax increased
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with a low carbon fuel standard. It should be an
easy one, right, but no, the Democrats voted it down.
And even some of the one that were critical of
the California Air Resources Board for being out of control
and not considering cost impacts from these regulations, they didn't
lift a finger to do anything about actually reversing the policy.
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These people are liars, cheats, and thieves, and that is
being as kind as they can possibly be. They have
failed working families, and anyone who gets hit with higher costs,
you know who to blame. And you know the only
way that your household budget's going to get relief, vote
a Democrat out of the next election.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So there were a few Democrats who made some loud
noises at the California Air Resources Board a chairwoman, and
like I said, one asked for her resignation. So those
Assembly people did not vote to reverse this incoming sixty
five cent tax. So they were faking it publicly at
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the hearings scolding, and that's where Card the card lady admitted,
It's like, hey, we don't take into account how this
is going to affect price increases.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And that's why I firmly believe that when these politicians
are grand standing, when they're lying, when they're trying to
connive and deceive the voter, nothing is more clarifying, John
than a bill that actually does something. It's not rhetoric,
it's not for social media, it doesn't grandstand. It simply
solves the problem. And these Democrats showed us where they
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really stand. They don't stand with working families. They want
to continue to make things more expensive. Because here's the deal.
At the end of the day, they don't want you
driving a car. They have set it for decades. They
do not want you driving a car. They want you
in some sort of public transportation, or they want you
in an electric vehicle. And so for them, eight dollars
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a gallon gas, which is what we're on track to hit.
Eight dollars gallon gas, is exactly the desired outcome of
this nonsense and so we're calling them out on it.
I always say, call the question and get a list
of names, the names of these politicians who are lying
through their teeth and not wanting to actually solve the problem.
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And we have a list.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
We are compiling list after list after list, and I
hope that these lists will be actually weaponized in the
upcoming lest now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
They're complete phonies. I was talking with somebody the other
day and I said, exactly what you just said. This
is the plan eight dollars gas. They want ten dollars
a gallon gas. That's what they're shooting for in the
near term. This is exactly what they gained out years ago,
and they're getting it. And now they're faking outrage. But
when it comes to a vote, they run and hide
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and they vote against step repealing this gas tax increase.
Let's go to part two here, another vote. I assume
you forced this bill up to be voted on a
proposal to reduce electricity in utility rates. I've got something
here that was just published earlier this year. The headline
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California's power rates second highest in the US. It's double
the average of the rest of the country, and it
is soaring even higher in the near future. And what
was your bill designed to do?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, so some of the listeners who are sitting in
their electric vehicles saying, well, the sixty plague said to
Gala doesn't apply to me. Hey, how about the fact
that you're paying double per kilowat hour for your electricity?
That does impact you. And so we offered a bill
on that issue to basically reduce the cost of the
electricity and utilities in the state of California. Our bill
would have said that you cannot increase rates above the
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national average, and that the state of California would have
to rescind taxes, fees, and regulations in order to hit
that bogee hit that cost cap every single year, which
is completely doable. Okay, So if other states can get
their killowt hour down to half of our rate, we
can certainly do it. It's it's it's a failure of
government policy. And so Democrats once again voted down the bill.
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And this is why forcing a vote is so important.
When I got up here, one of the things I
told my Republican colleagues is not only are we going
to fight, but we need to get the list of names.
We have to force them to vote yes or no
on these bills because the list of names is what
has to be presented to the voters so the voters
can actually know who to vote for and who to
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vote against in the upcoming election. And we now have
another recorded vote on electricity rates where the Democrats said, nope,
they're not going to give any any relief to working families.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And that would be reducing the taxes and the regulations.
And you know that that's that's driving up the cost
of electricity. Electricity does not have to be this expensive
in California, just like the gasoline. They choose for it
to be this expensive.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They they their policies are designed to produce high costs
because they want to manipulate you into doing what they
believe is good for society. Well, I actually think that
you should be able to afford to live in California.
And the idea that we are paying more in every
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category and energy prices, both gas and electricity have a
ripple effect. It's not just you know, the electricity that
you're paying or the gas that you're paying at the pump,
the price at the pump. Remember, with all these energy
costs and gas costs there will be a ripple effect
for food. Everything we do has to be transported, everything
we buy is transported, and so it's a ripple effect
(08:40):
of inflation across of all of California if we don't
get a handle on these energy and gasoline prices.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
All right, very good, Carl, and I am going to
find the story because I believe we just did it
yesterday on or maybe Friday. Whoever was squawking at that
Assembly committee hearing against the carb representatives and the California
Energy Commission representatives, and I'm going to see how they voted.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Jazz Meat Blank is Jazz Meat Vans. Yes, she's from
Central Valley and she's running for Congress. That's the only
reason why she did it. It's nothing but a political stunt.
But we exposed her for what she is. She's a fraud.
She's a complete phony in fraud.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
All right, we'll keep on top of it. You're doing
great work up there, Thank you, Thank you. All right,
Carl Demiel, the Assembly Republican. We will tell you about
those who tried to create a ruckus against the California
Air Resources Board chairwoman and then it looks like backed
away and voted down or hid from reversing the sixty
(09:44):
five cent gas tax increase and refused the proposal to
reduce electric and utility rates. We'll get into all that next.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
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Speaker 1 (09:58):
Forty Fine for Friday is eight seven seven moist eighty
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talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. And you heard it here.
You're not going to get this news anywhere else. We
had Carl Tomay on the Republican Assembly woman. Assemblyman, excuse me,
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been reading too many stories about those trans athletes. Carl
produced a bill and dared the Democrats to vote against it.
It's Assembly Bill twelve. It would reverse the sixty five
cent gast axe hike that the California Air Resources Board
is laying on us with their new Low Carbon Fuel
(10:40):
Standard regulation sixty five cent increase. This is on top
of the two oil refineries that are closing. That now
has some Democrats freaking out because they're believing the predictions
by USC's Michael Mache that eight fifty gallon gas is coming,
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and it's coming within the next year and a half.
So Carl tried to ease their pain and say, hey,
here's a bill. This reverses the sixty five cent gas
tax hike for the low carbon Fuel standard. But the
vote went nowhere. It lost thirty nine to eighteen. Although
it does seem that some of these people were either
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absent or they decided to abstain. Some of them are
getting cowardly where they don't want to vote on a
bill if they know for sure it's going to fail,
but they don't want their name on blocking the bill.
And then the second one is a proposal to reduce
electric and utility rates. Again, we pay double the electricity
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of the rest of the country. I think we're paying
thirty cents to kill a lot hour. Rest of the
country is paying fifteen cents to kill a lot hour.
And it's solely because of regulations and taxes from the
California A leedgeislature and governor. So in this case, Carl's
proposal would reduce the rates, and forty nine forty nine
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Assembly people said no, keep the high electric rates, keep
the utility rates. Coming up. In about five minutes, we're
going to have, well, actually about ten minutes after Dever's news,
we're going to have Senate Transportation Vice Chairman Tony Strickland
on because what the Democrats did agree to spend money
(12:34):
on was seven hundred thousand dollars to study high speed rail. Seriously, well,
first of all, there's nothing to study because there is
no high speed rail. There's nothing to see here, but
they want to study it at seven hundred thousand dollars.
And we're also going to talk to Tony Strickland about this
(12:55):
gas price situation here. This comes, as Carl said, six
months after the Democrats claim they were going to attack
the cost of living here in California, which everybody is
crushed by except you know, the wealthy billionaires in the
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tech industry up in northern California. Uh, and everybody else
is fighting it bad. We've got the most misleading statement,
and I see it repeated over and over because people
are basically monkeys and they just copy whatever the monkey
next to them says or does. Most ridiculous statement, and
Newsom is pushing this that we have the fifth fourth
(13:38):
largest economy now in the world was number five, and
that it's number four and therefore we're really rich and
wealthy and we can afford all these taxes. That is
complete total crap, bold leap, just nonsense. Much of the
wealth is tied up in tech companies and tied up
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in wealthy employees and wealthy executives of tech companies. In fact,
that's what this same left wing crowd always preaches. Income inequality. Well, yeah,
and that income inequality means that although California has the
fourth largest economy in the world, most of the people
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in California don't have much money because we have the
highest poverty rate in the nation, and everywhere from middle
class on down is struggling. I mean, I mean six
six percent of the country struggles to make ends meet
week to week. They're living week to week. Sixty percent
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of the country doesn't even have one thousand dollars in
the bank to cover an emergency, and those percentages are
probably even higher here in California. So his statement that
we're wealthy, most of the people are not wealthy. A
tiny sliver are extremely wealthy, and that tilts things and
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makes it look like we're all swimming in money. Obviously
we're not. And the biggest boulder around the necks of
so many people in this state is is gas prices
and electricity prices, and that affects the cost of food,
anything that has to be transported in this state. I
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mean today, I went to my local station, which has
the lowest price in my neighborhood, and I guess this
is as low as gas can get in my area
on the west side, four fifty nine a gallon, four
fifty nine. And I actually looked this up today because
Trump was claiming that there are places in the US
(15:49):
where you can get gas for a dollar ninety eight
or a dollar ninety nine, which I assumed he was
full of it on that, but I went to check,
and yeah, there is nobody selling it for a dollar
ninety nine. They did find a gas station in Texas
selling it for two dollars and eleven cents. Two dollars
and eleven cents, And I was looking at four point
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fifty nine today, and that's the bargain price in California.
The last time I checked the average was yesterday, it
was for seventy seven across the state. But somebody right
now is at a gas station, probably in rural Texas,
and they're pumping for two eleven a gallon. So we
are way, way, way out of whack with the rest
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of the country and it's only because, well it's two things.
They belonged to this bizarre climate religion and they're having
no effect on the climate none at all. And secondly,
they have a lot of dirty deals that they're all
profiting from this high speed rail, which we're going to
talk with Tony Strickland about next another seven hundred thousand
(16:55):
dollars to about some bogus consultant to look at the
economic impact of having a train go from Bakersfield to Merced.
We'll hear from Tony Strickland, the Republican out of Huntington Beach,
the state senator that's coming up next.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
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Speaker 1 (17:16):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock and
then after four o'clock John Cobelt on demand the podcast
on the iHeartRadio app. Among the big news today, these
the Democrats have are passing a bill to spend seven
hundred thousand dollars of your money to study high speed rail.
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Tony Strickland, who's the Republican state senator out of Huntington Beach,
objects to this and we're going to find out why. Tony,
how are you.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm good, John, How are you? Thanks for having me on?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
What is this about seven hundred thousand dollars to study what?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
You can't make this stuff up? And it's ridiculous. It's
another way to based are hardered dollars that people send
tax dollars to to Sacramento. We all know, everybody in
this building knows, as proposed, this train is not going
to be built that was promised to the people of
California from San Francisco to Los Angeles. And the spending
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is out of control. It's already over one hundred and
twenty billion dollars and climbing. And now they're saying it's
a train from Merced to Bakersfield, and they want to
study the impacts of a train from Merced to Bakersfield.
Study the impact exactly. They say, Oh, we're going to
study the economic impact of having a train from Merced
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to Bakersfield.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Okay, who's getting the contract? This is just more corruption
to me, it is It must be some politically connected
consultants and this is a gift to them.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It's an outrage. In fact, when I spoke on the
floor not only against this, but you know, I told
the members that we need to There needs to be
a serious conversation, and they're pulling the plug on this train.
This is absurd. We've already wasted billions of dollars. Those
money that we keep spending will be better spent on
my proposals to take that money and lower the gas
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prices for everybody in California. When we continue to raise
the gas prices every single year since Governor Newsin has
been in office, and that falls disproportioned on hard work
in California families across the state. That would be a
better way and better use of our money instead of
just wasting on this train that we know is never
going to be built.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well, what are they going to study the economic impact
of Merced to Bakersfield. I mean, there's very few people
who are traveling between Merced and Bakersfield, and they're going
to take the highway. I don't There's nothing to study
here and there's no train to study, So I don't
get it.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I couldn't agree with you more. And obviously, as proposed
to the people of California, if they would have came
up and say, hey, we want to spend one hundred
and twenty billion dollars on the train from said the Bakersfield.
My guess is that vote wouldn't have gone as well
as it did when they lie to the people of California.
They knew the money was not going to come from
the federal government, and they knew that. You know, I
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always asked the question because I was in the legislature
during that time, and I asked, well, how much is
it going to cost to go get a train ticket
from San Francisco Los Angeles One. They couldn't even answer
that question.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Because it didn't matter.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, exactly, I mean, I drive their cars. People are
going to take a point.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I realized some years ago that the the arguments that
people like you and I would discuss publicly are not
the point. The point is that they set up these
elaborate mechanisms that are nothing more than scams. They're they're
just they're just stealing money and then they're laundering the money.
And whether it's high speed rail or you know, the
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whole climate infrastructure they created, the homeless industry they created here.
You could argue with them all day and you'd be
one hundred percent right, But that was never the point.
The point was to create a revenue source, so their
friends and family and business associates and consultants and donors
can steal the money and run off with it.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, and now they're saying, oh, we have a budget deficit.
And I'll tell you, over the last ten years they've
increased spending by triple. You would think if we increase
the spending by triple, we would have better services. But
we still have homelessnesses out of control, rising crime, and
krumblin infrastructure. They are wasting money. California doesn't have a
revenue problem. It has a wastefile spending problem.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
They've had several audits of high speed rail. The last audit,
or maybe it was the next to last audit, they
couldn't find any record of where the money was spent.
There were no invoices, there were no receipts. It simply
disappeared as if you had guys stuffing it into their
to those cloth bags that robbers back in the eighteen
hundreds would carry around when they rob banks.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
How do you spend billions of dollars? And I laid
down one track of rail And that's well again, you're
you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It's you never. But if you never intended to lay
down track. Yeah, which I think is what this is about.
They never intended to and they don't care about all
the criticism. It doesn't bother them because everybody in their
group is getting is getting paid.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Well. We need a new leadership here and we need
to turn around California. I mean, we need, you know,
to bring back some common sense and what they're doing
at the federal level, we need to do here at
the state level and start, you know, have more oversight
on this wastefol spending that they're doing.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, this is this is horrible. This is just like
a fire hose spending.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Our systems need to hold each one of these legislators
accountable when they vote for a seven hundred billion dollars
a seven hundred thousand dollars study, when they keep voting,
you know, ten point two billion dollars to keep this
project going. I'm hopeful that the people of California will
hold these legislators accountable. Come next to November.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Let me ask you one more thing unrelated by but
in the past week, members of the Democrats on the
Transportation Committee have been criticizing members of CARB One of
them asked for the resignation of the CARB chairwoman because
they they are starting to believe the eight dollars and
fifty cent gas prediction from Michael MChE of USC Is
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that real or is that show for the TV cameras?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
No, I think it's real. I also called for the
President Card to step down. I also called for making
more of those decisions give them away from the Air
Resources Board, things like the Coast of Commission, because there's
no accountability when it comes to these unaccountable boards are
making huge decisions for California. It'd be better to have
those decisions made in the legislature. So for example, if
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you don't like the job I'm doing as a state center,
you can vote me out. But these unaccountable boards are
wreaking havoc on a hardworking California families, and they admitted
that they don't even put into question the cost of
their regulation. They've even admitted that, yeah, I saw that
it will be it will be eight dollars a gallon,
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you know, with two refineries setting down and we keep
increasing the gas tax, people can't afford these decisions.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Are they going to do something to stop this, to
try to help change whatever needs to be changed so
that refine those refineries don't shut down, stop these price increases,
get rid of cars power. I mean, are they really
going to do it? Are they just getting nervous with I.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Think more and more of my colleagues are getting nervous
because they're hearing from their constituents and they're trying to deflect.
And the start of this year they said, oh, we're
going to have this discussion on affordability, and we're going
to have affordability session. At the same time, they're now
proposing new tax increases to keep health care for illegals.
You know, they they just don't get it. At the
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end of the day, these people are out of step
with reality and they're out of step with everyday people
in their districts. Because I always say, even Democrats in
their district are not these crazy people that are the
two thirds majority.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
No, No, there's a huge disconnect there. Well, Tony Strickland,
State Senator, thank you very much for coming on.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I think thank you so much for having me. I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
He's the vice chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, and
the legislature is passing a bill seven hundred thousand dollars
of your money to study high speed rail to see
what the economic impact is from Bakersfield to Merced Seriously
to somebody. Some consultants who donated money to someone are
(25:38):
making getting a big payday out of this. We'll have
more coming up.
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We are going to talk with John Heisman. He writes
the Flash Report online and he had a piece today
that's going to again affect your life. The South Coast
(26:11):
Air Quality Management District a while back, they had this
idea to ban any new gas powered water heaters and
furnaces in southern California that would affect seventeen million people.
They would have prohibited gas powered water heaters and furnaces
in new construction by twenty twenty six and then mandate
(26:34):
electric replacements by twenty twenty seven. They ended up with
a huge storm of blowback from anyone who owned a home,
rented a space, businesses, industry groups, thirteen thousand letters flooded
in and so they revised it, but they still want
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to charge you for you have a gas water heater.
Fifty dollars for a water heater, one hundred dollars for
a gas space heater. And this is what the manufacturers
would be hit with. And then eventually five hundred and
two hundred and fifty dollars for the space and water heaters,
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and the plan goes on from there. This is the fanaticism,
the climate fanaticism, trying to they belonged to this weird
religious cult. They're having no effect on the climate. They
also are trying to steal money from us, and they're
trying to tell us what to do and control us,
what kind of heater we can have, how we could
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power that heater anyway, John Fleischman is going to come
on about the South Coast Air Quality Management District. You
remember a few weeks ago I told you about the
guy who worked at the Harvard Medical School Morgue, Yes, yeah,
remember at Harvard. Obviously, at medical schools, a lot of
people donate their bodies to science, right, so that the students,
(28:07):
the doctors can do experiments and learn well. The manager
of the Morgue Cedric Lodge. He has pleaded guilty. He
was stealing the body parts. If you remember, I do, yes, Well,
he's now pleaded guilty to interstate transport of stolen human remains.
(28:28):
It turns out he and his wife, what a lovely couple.
They had a business going and they were taking the
remains home and then reselling them. They lived in New Hampshire,
so they would drive over the border, which led to
some of these crimes interstate transport of stolen human remains. See,
by living in New Hampshire, they'd lived in Massachusetts, there'd
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be fewer crimes that they would be charged with.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Can you imagine if that was one of your family member's.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Nobody knows where they are now. I mean he just
sold them. Yeah, it was like a brokerage service.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
I mean, come on, no morals, no values, morals and values.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Well, that's just not a thing anymore.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You must have been born in the old century.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah, I must. I mean, that's that's just that's rude.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
So he uh, he would remove organs, right, I guess,
like livers and pancreas's hearts. Also, he'd remove their brains.
He would skin them he'd cut off their hands. He
would he would steal their faces. I guess he would
(29:40):
skin and peel off the face. I don't know what
you would do with that.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
You you're selling the skin for graphing. You burn victims.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
We're really cheap facelifts. Don't get a facelift from a
guy in an alley. I have some ideas, Uh, dissected heads.
He was selling heads and other parts, and I don't
want to know what the other parts were.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
How much did he make? Do we know?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
No, I don't know, but his his uh, the FBI,
the postal service and postal service. Well, yeah, I guess
he was packing up the heads and the skin and
the faces and mailing.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And wait, but wait a second.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Don't you have to be alive, you know, on a
respirator or you know, some other artificial way of keeping
you alive, and you your your body parts have to
be harvested and then sent on ice and rushed.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, ever needs it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I guess this is when this was not for media transplants.
Maybe there's people who have collections, so.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It's not to save lives.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I mean, it's not that he's making money on the
black market, and then people are gonna.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Know these were people who just wanted a collection, a trophy, sure,
like maybe a trophy case, like you have your golden mics.
Somebody else has livers, livers from around the world.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
There's no There are a lot of weirdos in this world.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
There are there are coming up. We're gonna have John
Fleischman on the South Coast Air Quality Management District Management District.
They tried a gas powered water heater ban and a
gas furnace band and everybody got angry with them. So
now they have a new idea. To explain this new idea,
(31:43):
John Fleischman, he writes the Flash Report online. We'll talk
to him next. Deborah Mark is live in the KFI
twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
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