December 11, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (12/11) - Plus, 36 states are selling gas under $3.00 - why can't California keep up? Governor Gavin Newsom admitted he doesn't know what happened to the $24 billion meant for homelessness. John Alle joins the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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If there's any way not to miss anything today, don't
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park by yourself, listen to it all. And if you
really have something else to do, you got to listen
to the podcast later. It's a rare day. We have
this much going on, so I don't want to waste
any time. There's like two new things I found just
in the last few minutes. The first thing I want
to do is tell you that at two o'clock Roger
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Bailey is coming on. Roger Bailey is the attorney who,
among other attorneys, is representing thousands of Pacific Palisades residents
over the fire, and depositions are starting. They're starting to
depose staff from the California State Parks Department.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
These are the geniuses who the day after the original
New Year's Day Wachman fire, the day after LA Fire,
was trying to clean up, mop up, put out for
good what was left of the fire.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
This is where you had the.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Hot rocks, the smoking tree stumps, the the you know,
the smoldering that was coming out of the ground. And
people from the California State Parks Department got in the way,
and among the things they insisted on it was we're
going to we're not going to allow you to use
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bulldozers to create any kind of a fire break.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Can you imagine this.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
This is while there were already forecasts of dangerous winds,
already forecasts of extreme fire danger. So State park reps
came down and started pushing the LA Fire Department firefighters
around saying no, you can't do that. And we know
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what happened. The fire reignited because it was still a
hot area. Well, Roger Bailey and we'll get into this
next hour in detail. He got as part of the
evidence that he's been able to collect texts between two
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state park two State Parks personnel on January first, and
he says weve and in one of the texts it
says we received the area avoidance maps from the state
thirty minutes ago. Palisades fire ignited right inside unavoidance area. Wow,
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it's unbelievable. And these are the texts in between two
state park employees. Second page here shows the maps with
arrows where the Lockman fire started and then the perimeter
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of the fire until it was put out. And yes,
the Palisades fire started right inside that same perimeter. So
this is proof that the Lockman fire gave birth to
the Palisades fire. This was the hot spot that wasn't
entirely out. This was the hot spot where the state
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reps came down and said, no, bulldozers can't create any
fire breaks, right, because that's what you would do. This
is all park land here. So Newsom, among his many
psychopathic lies, had insisted they didn't know about the fire.
They weren't notified. Records have come out which says false.
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State Parks was notified. In fact, they sent a rep
down in the middle of the night at four am
for the Lockman fire, and then these State park reps
made sure that LA Fire Department would disperse. And what
is written here in the texts, The red circles are
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avoidance areas. Here's exactly where the palis States fire ignited.
Bottom of the three circles on the right. Entire Lockman
burnt scar is in an avoidance area. An avoidance area
is why they sent the State park Reps down.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It means you cannot do any kind of bulldozing to.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Protect the plants like the milkvetch plant. Seriously, they kicked
out the LA Fire Department because they didn't want the
plants to damaged or destroyed, so they didn't let the
LA Fire Department through the proper cleanup the day after
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the January first fire, so it smoldered there for another
week until the winds kicked up on January seventh and
started the blaze that took out much of the Pacific
Palisades section of LA.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
It's just astonishing.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So what we've been telling you this is exactly what
happened the massive among other areas of massive incompetence, but
it was the l It's the California State Parks Reps
who did shut down the mop up.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Where's Newsome?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
He should be hiding in shame, but psychopaths don't feel
shame anyway. Roger Bailey's going to come up after two o'clock.
There's something else and I just found this right before
the show. Uh, the gas price is here in California.
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I don't know about you. I paid four forty nine yesterday,
four to forty nine a gallon in my neighborhood, which
is near the average price. I think I mentioned a
week or two ago, I noticed in some of the
comments to one of our one of our social media
posts that a guy name's John Quickman I think in
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the Colorado area, listens on the podcast and he sent
a photo of his local gas station at a dollar
eighty five a gallon five. But at the time he
posted it, he didn't put the location, and I mentioned
on the area, go we got a photo. Who we're
doing to have a location? Well, he sent the located
and when I first saw the photo, I thought, Ai,
it's doctored. It's a joke. Somebody's trying to piss me off,
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now you know.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
He he.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He gave a second photo with the full context.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You can see the gas station in its entirety dollar
eighty five price. Here are the top ten gas station
cheap fuel prices in Colorado, according to gasbuddy dot com.
Many of them are in the Denver area. There's a
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Shell station on seventy two to seventy three East Evans
Avenue in Denver, Colorado, a dollar sixty nine. A dollar
sixty nine for a gallon of gas. That's almost a
third of the price that a lot of people pay.
Here a dollar sixty nine. You think maybe it's some
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weird fluke. Some guy is draining his gas supply because
he's going out of business. Now, there's a quick trip
just down the road. Four seventy seven East Evans Avenue
in Denver, a dollar sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Look at that. By the way, the Shell station is
from an hour ago.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
There's a Costco on West ninety second Avenue in Westminster, Colorado,
dollars seventy four. Sam's Club dollars seventy four. Exxon West
one hundred and twentieth Avenue in Broomfield, Colorado. Oh, I
was there over the summer. Had relatives got married near Broomfield.
Exxon a dollar seventy four. Here's another Exxon Thornton, Colorado,
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a dollar seventy four. We got a Costco at a
dollar seventy five, Another Costco at a dollar seventy five
in Arvada. Another Shell station in Westminster at a dollar
seventy seven. So I've got ten stations selling gas between
a dollar sixty nine and a dollar seventy seven in Colorado,
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in the Denver metropolitan area.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Mostly you believe this. This is and again I told
you it was dollars eighty five.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
A couple of weeks ago, a listener sent us, so
this is the steady price. This isn't a sale, this
isn't a special, this is this is, this is what
people in the Denver metropolitan area pay every day.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Dollars sixty nine. What'd you pay today? Insane? God, are
we getting screwed?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So I'm looking at the state by state prices at
gas at at triple a dot com, gasprices dot triple
a dot com. Oklahoma's average price is two thirty six,
Texas is two fifty one, Colorado's two fifty two.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And I look at I.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Look at high tax states, you know, progressive states like
Massachusetts three oh one, New York is three eleven, relatively
low compared to here, New Jersey two ninety five. Big
states Florida two eighty six, Texas two fifty one.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It's it's just shocking.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
There's thirty six states that are selling gas under three
dollars a gallon, thirty six states where gas is selling
in the twos In fact, the national average is down
to two ninety four, two ninety four, and we're in
the force. There's only three states in the forest, and
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with the highest price in the continental The United States
average here is four forty one. I paid four forty nine.
Apparently there's a there's a Modoc County up in northern California.
It's well over five dollars. I think five sixty something?
Is that crazy?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I don't know how people do this. And there's not
there's not a with a resistance in the air, nothing
not with Yeah here at Omano County, I should say
Mono County five sixty six a gallon here in California,
I got a state, I got a county by county
state price here the hell doller sixty nine in Colorado.
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That's a liberal state run by Democrats. What are we
doing here? How many times do you want to get
bent over? How many times? How many times do you
want to take it? Coming up the after one thirty,
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we are going to talk to John Alley. John Alley
owns a number of businesses Santa Monica and actually in
the MacArthur Park area, and we've got a couple of
stories to cover. One about the Santa Monica mayor who
the new one who got caught lying about her role
in trying to bring into two groups of severely ill
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severely mentally ill patients into residential neighborhoods. These are homeless people,
severely mentally ill, and there were two former nursing homes
in a residential area that this mayor, when she was
a city councilwoman, helped arrange that they would invade the
neighborhood and keep it secret from the locals. She got caught. Line,
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that's a big story. And then John Ally's going to
tell us about what has been witten, what is going
on in the MacArthur Park area with a nonprofit handling
out needles and met pipes, even though Karen Bass swore
to him that she's not going to put up with that.
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So there's a lot of good stuff coming up.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Moistline for tomorrow is
eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven moist
eighty six, or you can use the talk pack feature
on the iHeartRadio app So follow up to Monday night,
I was on CNN Alex Michaelson's new show, The Story Is,
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and we talked a lot about the exchange I had
with our Vita Martin, who's a civil rights attorney, and
we were talking about Gavin Newsom and how he got
shunned by the Trump administration when we went to Washington,
d C. Trying to allegedly get fire rebuild money. He
wants thirty four billion, And what I said on the
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show at the time was, well, if I was in
the Trump administration, why would I give this guy any money?
Because he admitted he blew twenty four billion dollars in
homeless money, he doesn't know what happened to it, can't
account for it or its effectiveness, and and other categories
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where he's blown billions of dollars, and our Vita Martin
just flat out wouldn't believe it. She said, those facts
are in facts, this is not true. And this caused
a huge reaction once we posted this thing online and
just hundreds of thousands of people have now viewed the
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I have now viewed the exchange and a lot of
commentary on it. Next day, I went to chet GPT
and you know, when you ask chet GPT a question,
you get slightly you get the same answer to do
it more than once, but depending on how you worry,
you get slight variations. So a friend of mine he
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went to chat GPT two and asked this question, does
Newsom know where the twenty four billion for homelessness went?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And chet GPT's answer was a flat out no, because
our Vieta Martin just wouldn't just didn't believe that he
actually didn't know where the money went, and admitted that
he didn't know where the money went. He admits it
because he knows politically he's bulletproof that nobody in California
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will will ever vote him out of office.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
They never have and they never will.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
In fact, he runs for president as the Democratic nominee,
he'll win California probably three to one. So he could
admit that he blew twenty four billion dollars on a program,
a massive program that didn't work, and he knows he
blew it, but hey, so what, you suckers are still going.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
To vote for me.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So chant GPT rights, No, Governor Newsom does not have
a clear accounting of where all the twenty four billion
dollars spent on homelessness went as a major twenty twenty
four state audit found California lacks consistent tracking and outcome
data for its newest programs. Yeah, this is an audit
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from the News of Administration eight of the twenty four billion.
This is leading to questions about effectiveness despite increased homelessness numbers.
When the state allocated funds for various initiatives like Project
Home Key, it failed to establish reliable systems to monitor
costs and results. This stuff is basic, by the way,
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When you have a massive program that gives out billions
systems to monitor costs and results, you have to have
had that sketched out on day one. They never bothered
key audit findings and this is April twenty twenty four.
Inadequate tracking. The state wasn't consistently monitoring the costs and
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outcomes of its vast homelessness initiatives. Increased homelessness despite billions
spent from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three, the number
of people homeless rose significantly limited effectiveness. The audit found
that only a few of the assessed programs were likely
cost effective.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
With no reliable way to know which work best.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
By the way, they got all their information from about
eight nine ten news media reports and information from the
governor's own office.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Newsom's response bullet point number one.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Newsom acknowledged the audit's findings, stating it wasn't a surprise,
So he admitted it and admitted he wasn't a surprise.
So he knew for quite some time that the twenty
four billion they were shoveling out was doing no good.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Because he has eyes.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
He can see Sacramento, the bodies piling up in the streets,
some of them dead. Newsom also vetoed a bill that
would have created a centralized tracking system for homelessness, so
he voted against tracking the money. He not only spent
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the money, he knew the money was getting wasted and
veto to bill that would track it. This is gonna
be a great presidential campaign. Boy. I I just hope
it's Democratics. Democratic opponents knock him out in the in
the first two months. All right, when we come back, yea,
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he stever ends John Alley. He's an area businessman and
among the places he has properties is Sata Monica, which
is beset by all the vagrants and mental patients. And
he also owns his businesses in the MacArthur Park area. Uh,
and that's really crazy because you could add a lot
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of criminals and gang members to the mix. Well, well,
he's going to talk about both places because the new
mayor of Santa Monica is under a lot of pressure
to get out because she lied about her role in
agreeing to have two homeless shelters in a residential neighborhood
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that we're going to house severely mentally ill people. Didn't
tell anybody in the neighborhood. She was doing it secretly
when she was a councilwoman, now she's the mayor. And
then secondly, about the MacArthur Park area, he says Karen
Bass said she was against a program that would hand
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out free needles and meth pipes. Well, it looks like
the city signed a contract with a group to hand
out free needles and meth pipes in MacArthur Park. So
John Alley will talk about all that coming up next.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from I AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
We're going to talk now with the John Alley. He's
a businessman who owns a number of properties both in
the Santa Monica area, MacArthur Park and other places as well,
and has been forced to become quite the activist because
of all the crazed homeless people that have taken over
Santa Monica and MacArthur Park. So we got two issues
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for both of those neighborhoods to talk about with him.
John Welcome, How are you good?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
John? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So Carolynterrosis with this new mayor, she's been the mayor
for like.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Three days, two days, she knew that these two.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Homeless housing properties were going to be created. She'd got
an advanced notice in an email, and she said okay, John.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Despite her saying otherwise, the records show that she knew
about it as far back as almost a year ago.
The city clerk provided twelve hundred pages of documents and
interestingly is resigning all of a sudden, but it embarrassed
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the whole city council.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Wait, wait, hold on, hold on, who's you're resigning?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
The city clerk who provides this information all of a
sudden is resigning. Just an interesting coincidence. But Perosis, who
became mayor Tuesday night, it's a rotating position, said that
the request was one of one hundreds received by the council,
and her involvement was only to bring the request to
the attention of the city. But way way back a
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year ago, she indicated in an email. Responded quote, if
you could share a draft with us, as well as
more information about the projects, that would be appreciated, They continued,
corresponding she was copied. It was held back from the
public and these facilities, like you were mentioning, were for
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severely mentally disturbed individuals. You didn't have to be sober,
you didn't have to stay more than a day, so
in and out. Not the sort of thing any community
needs anywhere in its city. And the client it was
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very interesting. She reached out, and while she was reaching out,
the client was already gaining support from Saint Joseph's Center
to run the facility. The facility would have provided much
more rent to the developer than any market rate housing
would have the council. Sources close to the council admit
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they didn't want to go public because they believed that
residents would oppose the project, and they supported it. Caroline's
the county employee. She works for Supervisor Hollyman, and she
knew of it way before August. We brought it. The
Santa Monica cousion brought it to the council's attention in
about October, but even the November before, maybe October in
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twenty four they felt no obligation to warn the community.
And she continues to favor county policies, including natal handouts
in Santa Monica parks. Their loyalties lie elsewhere. There's a
move to get them to resign. Until they do, it's
just going to be a big, big distraction to the city.
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In twenty twenty six, is it's the first time that
people have the ability to vote them out. There was
an action petition that gained overnight almost seven hundred signatures.
There was a request made of the Third Practices Commission,
and that's being looked at. It was the city clerk,
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excuse me, the City of training was negligent and not
really giving a formal opinion and delaying her response on it.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
But oh you know what, really they should all be
cleaned out of office, a whole lot of them, city clerk,
city attorney, the mayor. Here tsis this is all just
unimaginable garbage.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
It really is. If somebody has.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
An idea to bring severely mentally ill people into a
homeless housing structure. Well, first of all, they shouldn't bring
that idea. Secondly, there's got to be an open public
hearing on it. But to sneak it in through the
back door and then have terrosis. Lie, Oh, I didn't
know about this, she said, I want to refute that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
It is not true. I've known about this project.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Well, she didn't know about the project because it's in
a series of emails where she replied, when do you
need the letter of support?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Several residents brought that up in a city council meeting
and she took quote executive privilege during post comment to
refute it and say it wasn't true after she knew
And this is way after most of the council knew
about it. So she's got a serious problem on her hands,
especially since she's attorney. An attorney, the state bar will
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be looking at this, and she has a decision like
many other mayors have done in the past, several have done,
and that's resigned and let the people move on with
their business. She's very pro developer. She's seeking all the
city sites for parking, the Civic Auditorium, wants to turn
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them into housing. We don't have a housing crisis, we
have an affordability crisis, but we really have a crisis
of kaybax. And that's what's happening in Santa Monica. This
city council, except exception a very few are tied to developers, paybacks,
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contributions to their campaigns.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, and they use this.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Position as a stepping stone to higher power.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Now, whenever you have a situation and we just did
a story about something similar in Chevy At Hills, when
you have a situation where you have developers or owners
sneaking in homeless shelters may be filled with severely mentally
ill people or alcoholics, drug addicts. You have them sneaking
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it in and all the public officials are looking the
other way and lying about it. There's gotta be bribes
going on. There's gotta be money going back and forth.
Everybody's getting the kui. If you were the mayor council member,
why wouldn't you say, hold on, we're gonna have a
hearing about this, or how about no, let's not even
waste our time with the hearing.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
It's very interesting because the vice mayor is in serious
trouble as well, and he would become mayor if she resigned.
And that's an individual named Jesse Zwick, who on August
twelfth listened to the CEO of Housing Action Coalition, san
Francisco based nonprofit who spoke before the Santa Moncra City
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Council advocating for building more homes at all levels of affordability.
Three days later, guess what, the CEO signed a letter
to Zwick offering him a full time position and it's
as a director one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
a year, and he become the group's second highest paid employee.
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And this guy has a background that's not Christine. He
was a protege of Mike Bonnen, who personally was did
not run and we have Tracy Park, but he was,
and he had to resign even from that obligation because
he docksed all of the people with their addresses that
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supported Mike Bondon's recall. And then all of a sudden
he turned up and ran for Santa Monica City Council.
Very interestingly, most of his contributions came from back east.
They were non Santa Monica residents, all right, Very telling.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Hold on the line. We'll talk about the MacArthur Park
situation next. Next we got John Alley, the LA Businessman.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
John Alley, the LA Businessman is going to come back
tomorrow to talk at length about the situation at Markcarthur
Park with Karen Bass giving away. Now, what did she do?
She signed a contract. The city signed a contract with
a company called the Sidewalk Project that started in July
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to provide syringe services. And also they say sex workers
are the most marginalized people in the world and criminalization
and leaves them vulnerable to predators. So this is a
company who's all in favor of drug addicts and prostitutes.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Sex work is work.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And she had said clearly in the past that she
is against having free needles, free syringes being and free
pipes being given out at MacArthur Park. And then John
ally found out that there's actually a contract to do
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specifically that, I mean, this stuff is crazy. The sidewalk
project that they have, they have some kind of meetup
center in the park for a thousand women and gender
expansive participants and we're spending tax dollars on this. It's
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just you can't nobody could make this up because nobody would.
They're the thought of this in the past. Yeah, it's
with Stacy d It's called Sidewalk Project. And when John
Alley spoke to Bass, she said she opposed needle and
meth pipe distributions in parks and said to John that
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he could quote her on that. And then it turns
out that she signed a contract to do exactly that,
provide syringes and allow this group to have gender expansive
what sex workers gathering together in MacArthur Park. That's a
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good environment for the.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Kids, huh. Anyway, it's obviously very detailed.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
We're just short on time, and John Ally's going to
come back tomorrow to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
All right.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I have Roger Bailey coming up next. There's so much
craziness going on, there's just no room for it all.
Roger's the attorney representing the Palisades fire victims. He and
other attorneys and there's thousands of victims. Obviously. Well, they
got texts between California State park representatives and in the
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texts were maps about avoidance areas adjacent to the Palisades
where both fires started.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
This is where the State Park Reps came.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Down and told the LA Fire Department to get out
that they can't use bulldozers to build a fire line
after the first fire, and then it rekindled and became
the Palisades Fire Area avoidance maps. The fires ignited inside
the avoidance area because it was still hot ground, hot
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tree stumps, hot rocks, still smoldering, still smoke, and they
couldn't use the bulldozer.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You know why, to.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Protect plants, Yes, like the milkvetch plant. Everything you've heard
is true. It's that bad, it's that that's it. It's insane.
Newsom's California Parks Department. This is their policy. We'll talk
with Roger Bailey coming up next. Hey, you've been listening
to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
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to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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If there's any way not to miss anything today, don't
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park by yourself, listen to it all. And if you
really have something else to do, you got to listen
to the podcast later. It's a rare day. We have
this much going on, so I don't want to waste
any time. There's like two new things I found just
in the last few minutes. The first thing I want
to do is tell you that at two o'clock Roger
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Bailey is coming on. Roger Bailey is the attorney who,
among other attorneys, is representing thousands of Pacific Palisades residents
over the fire, and depositions are starting. They're starting to
depose staff from the California State Parks Department.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
These are the geniuses who the day after the original
New Year's Day Wachman fire, the day after LA Fire,
was trying to clean up, mop up, put out for
good what was left of the fire.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
This is where you had the.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Hot rocks, the smoking tree stumps, the the you know,
the smoldering that was coming out of the ground. And
people from the California State Parks Department got in the way,
and among the things they insisted on it was we're
going to we're not going to allow you to use
(01:47):
bulldozers to create any kind of a fire break.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Can you imagine this.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
This is while there were already forecasts of dangerous winds,
already forecasts of extreme fire danger. So State park reps
came down and started pushing the LA Fire Department firefighters
around saying no, you can't do that. And we know
(02:14):
what happened. The fire reignited because it was still a
hot area. Well, Roger Bailey and we'll get into this
next hour in detail. He got as part of the
evidence that he's been able to collect texts between two
(02:38):
state park two State Parks personnel on January first, and
he says weve and in one of the texts it
says we received the area avoidance maps from the state
thirty minutes ago. Palisades fire ignited right inside unavoidance area. Wow,
(03:03):
it's unbelievable. And these are the texts in between two
state park employees. Second page here shows the maps with
arrows where the Lockman fire started and then the perimeter
(03:24):
of the fire until it was put out. And yes,
the Palisades fire started right inside that same perimeter. So
this is proof that the Lockman fire gave birth to
the Palisades fire. This was the hot spot that wasn't
entirely out. This was the hot spot where the state
(03:45):
reps came down and said, no, bulldozers can't create any
fire breaks, right, because that's what you would do. This
is all park land here. So Newsom, among his many
psychopathic lies, had insisted they didn't know about the fire.
They weren't notified. Records have come out which says false.
(04:07):
State Parks was notified. In fact, they sent a rep
down in the middle of the night at four am
for the Lockman fire, and then these State park reps
made sure that LA Fire Department would disperse. And what
is written here in the texts, The red circles are
(04:27):
avoidance areas. Here's exactly where the palis States fire ignited.
Bottom of the three circles on the right. Entire Lockman
burnt scar is in an avoidance area. An avoidance area
is why they sent the State park Reps down.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It means you cannot do any kind of bulldozing to.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Protect the plants like the milkvetch plant. Seriously, they kicked
out the LA Fire Department because they didn't want the
plants to damaged or destroyed, so they didn't let the
LA Fire Department through the proper cleanup the day after
(05:07):
the January first fire, so it smoldered there for another
week until the winds kicked up on January seventh and
started the blaze that took out much of the Pacific
Palisades section of LA.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
It's just astonishing.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So what we've been telling you this is exactly what
happened the massive among other areas of massive incompetence, but
it was the l It's the California State Parks Reps
who did shut down the mop up.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Where's Newsome?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
He should be hiding in shame, but psychopaths don't feel
shame anyway. Roger Bailey's going to come up after two o'clock.
There's something else and I just found this right before
the show. Uh, the gas price is here in California.
(06:11):
I don't know about you. I paid four forty nine yesterday,
four to forty nine a gallon in my neighborhood, which
is near the average price. I think I mentioned a
week or two ago, I noticed in some of the
comments to one of our one of our social media
posts that a guy name's John Quickman I think in
(06:33):
the Colorado area, listens on the podcast and he sent
a photo of his local gas station at a dollar
eighty five a gallon five. But at the time he
posted it, he didn't put the location, and I mentioned
on the area, go we got a photo. Who we're
doing to have a location? Well, he sent the located
and when I first saw the photo, I thought, Ai,
it's doctored. It's a joke. Somebody's trying to piss me off,
(06:57):
now you know.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
He he.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He gave a second photo with the full context.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You can see the gas station in its entirety dollar
eighty five price. Here are the top ten gas station
cheap fuel prices in Colorado, according to gasbuddy dot com.
Many of them are in the Denver area. There's a
(07:23):
Shell station on seventy two to seventy three East Evans
Avenue in Denver, Colorado, a dollar sixty nine. A dollar
sixty nine for a gallon of gas. That's almost a
third of the price that a lot of people pay.
Here a dollar sixty nine. You think maybe it's some
(07:50):
weird fluke. Some guy is draining his gas supply because
he's going out of business. Now, there's a quick trip
just down the road. Four seventy seven East Evans Avenue
in Denver, a dollar sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Look at that. By the way, the Shell station is
from an hour ago.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
There's a Costco on West ninety second Avenue in Westminster, Colorado,
dollars seventy four. Sam's Club dollars seventy four. Exxon West
one hundred and twentieth Avenue in Broomfield, Colorado. Oh, I
was there over the summer. Had relatives got married near Broomfield.
Exxon a dollar seventy four. Here's another Exxon Thornton, Colorado,
(08:34):
a dollar seventy four. We got a Costco at a
dollar seventy five, Another Costco at a dollar seventy five
in Arvada. Another Shell station in Westminster at a dollar
seventy seven. So I've got ten stations selling gas between
a dollar sixty nine and a dollar seventy seven in Colorado,
(08:55):
in the Denver metropolitan area.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Mostly you believe this. This is and again I told
you it was dollars eighty five.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
A couple of weeks ago, a listener sent us, so
this is the steady price. This isn't a sale, this
isn't a special, this is this is, this is what
people in the Denver metropolitan area pay every day.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Dollars sixty nine. What'd you pay today? Insane? God, are
we getting screwed?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So I'm looking at the state by state prices at
gas at at triple a dot com, gasprices dot triple
a dot com. Oklahoma's average price is two thirty six,
Texas is two fifty one, Colorado's two fifty two.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And I look at I.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Look at high tax states, you know, progressive states like
Massachusetts three oh one, New York is three eleven, relatively
low compared to here, New Jersey two ninety five. Big
states Florida two eighty six, Texas two fifty one.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It's it's just shocking.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
There's thirty six states that are selling gas under three
dollars a gallon, thirty six states where gas is selling
in the twos In fact, the national average is down
to two ninety four, two ninety four, and we're in
the force. There's only three states in the forest, and
(10:32):
with the highest price in the continental The United States
average here is four forty one. I paid four forty nine.
Apparently there's a there's a Modoc County up in northern California.
It's well over five dollars. I think five sixty something?
Is that crazy?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I don't know how people do this. And there's not
there's not a with a resistance in the air, nothing
not with Yeah here at Omano County, I should say
Mono County five sixty six a gallon here in California,
I got a state, I got a county by county
state price here the hell doller sixty nine in Colorado.
(11:15):
That's a liberal state run by Democrats. What are we
doing here? How many times do you want to get
bent over? How many times? How many times do you
want to take it? Coming up the after one thirty,
(11:37):
we are going to talk to John Alley. John Alley
owns a number of businesses Santa Monica and actually in
the MacArthur Park area, and we've got a couple of
stories to cover. One about the Santa Monica mayor who
the new one who got caught lying about her role
in trying to bring into two groups of severely ill
(12:02):
severely mentally ill patients into residential neighborhoods. These are homeless people,
severely mentally ill, and there were two former nursing homes
in a residential area that this mayor, when she was
a city councilwoman, helped arrange that they would invade the
neighborhood and keep it secret from the locals. She got caught. Line,
(12:23):
that's a big story. And then John Ally's going to
tell us about what has been witten, what is going
on in the MacArthur Park area with a nonprofit handling
out needles and met pipes, even though Karen Bass swore
to him that she's not going to put up with that.
(12:47):
So there's a lot of good stuff coming up.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Moistline for tomorrow is
eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven moist
eighty six, or you can use the talk pack feature
on the iHeartRadio app So follow up to Monday night,
I was on CNN Alex Michaelson's new show, The Story Is,
(13:19):
and we talked a lot about the exchange I had
with our Vita Martin, who's a civil rights attorney, and
we were talking about Gavin Newsom and how he got
shunned by the Trump administration when we went to Washington,
d C. Trying to allegedly get fire rebuild money. He
wants thirty four billion, And what I said on the
(13:41):
show at the time was, well, if I was in
the Trump administration, why would I give this guy any money?
Because he admitted he blew twenty four billion dollars in
homeless money, he doesn't know what happened to it, can't
account for it or its effectiveness, and and other categories
(14:03):
where he's blown billions of dollars, and our Vita Martin
just flat out wouldn't believe it. She said, those facts
are in facts, this is not true. And this caused
a huge reaction once we posted this thing online and
just hundreds of thousands of people have now viewed the
(14:23):
I have now viewed the exchange and a lot of
commentary on it. Next day, I went to chet GPT
and you know, when you ask chet GPT a question,
you get slightly you get the same answer to do
it more than once, but depending on how you worry,
you get slight variations. So a friend of mine he
(14:44):
went to chat GPT two and asked this question, does
Newsom know where the twenty four billion for homelessness went?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And chet GPT's answer was a flat out no, because
our Vieta Martin just wouldn't just didn't believe that he
actually didn't know where the money went, and admitted that
he didn't know where the money went. He admits it
because he knows politically he's bulletproof that nobody in California
(15:21):
will will ever vote him out of office.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
They never have and they never will.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
In fact, he runs for president as the Democratic nominee,
he'll win California probably three to one. So he could
admit that he blew twenty four billion dollars on a program,
a massive program that didn't work, and he knows he
blew it, but hey, so what, you suckers are still going.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
To vote for me.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So chant GPT rights, No, Governor Newsom does not have
a clear accounting of where all the twenty four billion
dollars spent on homelessness went as a major twenty twenty
four state audit found California lacks consistent tracking and outcome
data for its newest programs. Yeah, this is an audit
(16:11):
from the News of Administration eight of the twenty four billion.
This is leading to questions about effectiveness despite increased homelessness numbers.
When the state allocated funds for various initiatives like Project
Home Key, it failed to establish reliable systems to monitor
costs and results. This stuff is basic, by the way,
(16:35):
When you have a massive program that gives out billions
systems to monitor costs and results, you have to have
had that sketched out on day one. They never bothered
key audit findings and this is April twenty twenty four.
Inadequate tracking. The state wasn't consistently monitoring the costs and
(16:56):
outcomes of its vast homelessness initiatives. Increased homelessness despite billions
spent from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three, the number
of people homeless rose significantly limited effectiveness. The audit found
that only a few of the assessed programs were likely
cost effective.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
With no reliable way to know which work best.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
By the way, they got all their information from about
eight nine ten news media reports and information from the
governor's own office.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Newsom's response bullet point number one.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Newsom acknowledged the audit's findings, stating it wasn't a surprise,
So he admitted it and admitted he wasn't a surprise.
So he knew for quite some time that the twenty
four billion they were shoveling out was doing no good.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Because he has eyes.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
He can see Sacramento, the bodies piling up in the streets,
some of them dead. Newsom also vetoed a bill that
would have created a centralized tracking system for homelessness, so
he voted against tracking the money. He not only spent
(18:08):
the money, he knew the money was getting wasted and
veto to bill that would track it. This is gonna
be a great presidential campaign. Boy. I I just hope
it's Democratics. Democratic opponents knock him out in the in
the first two months. All right, when we come back, yea,
(18:32):
he stever ends John Alley. He's an area businessman and
among the places he has properties is Sata Monica, which
is beset by all the vagrants and mental patients. And
he also owns his businesses in the MacArthur Park area. Uh,
and that's really crazy because you could add a lot
(18:55):
of criminals and gang members to the mix. Well, well,
he's going to talk about both places because the new
mayor of Santa Monica is under a lot of pressure
to get out because she lied about her role in
agreeing to have two homeless shelters in a residential neighborhood
(19:17):
that we're going to house severely mentally ill people. Didn't
tell anybody in the neighborhood. She was doing it secretly
when she was a councilwoman, now she's the mayor. And
then secondly, about the MacArthur Park area, he says Karen
Bass said she was against a program that would hand
(19:39):
out free needles and meth pipes. Well, it looks like
the city signed a contract with a group to hand
out free needles and meth pipes in MacArthur Park. So
John Alley will talk about all that coming up next.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from I AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
We're going to talk now with the John Alley. He's
a businessman who owns a number of properties both in
the Santa Monica area, MacArthur Park and other places as well,
and has been forced to become quite the activist because
of all the crazed homeless people that have taken over
Santa Monica and MacArthur Park. So we got two issues
(20:24):
for both of those neighborhoods to talk about with him.
John Welcome, How are you good?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
John? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So Carolynterrosis with this new mayor, she's been the mayor
for like.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Three days, two days, she knew that these two.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Homeless housing properties were going to be created. She'd got
an advanced notice in an email, and she said okay, John.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Despite her saying otherwise, the records show that she knew
about it as far back as almost a year ago.
The city clerk provided twelve hundred pages of documents and
interestingly is resigning all of a sudden, but it embarrassed
(21:15):
the whole city council.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Wait, wait, hold on, hold on, who's you're resigning?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
The city clerk who provides this information all of a
sudden is resigning. Just an interesting coincidence. But Perosis, who
became mayor Tuesday night, it's a rotating position, said that
the request was one of one hundreds received by the council,
and her involvement was only to bring the request to
the attention of the city. But way way back a
(21:43):
year ago, she indicated in an email. Responded quote, if
you could share a draft with us, as well as
more information about the projects, that would be appreciated, They continued,
corresponding she was copied. It was held back from the
public and these facilities, like you were mentioning, were for
(22:04):
severely mentally disturbed individuals. You didn't have to be sober,
you didn't have to stay more than a day, so
in and out. Not the sort of thing any community
needs anywhere in its city. And the client it was
(22:25):
very interesting. She reached out, and while she was reaching out,
the client was already gaining support from Saint Joseph's Center
to run the facility. The facility would have provided much
more rent to the developer than any market rate housing
would have the council. Sources close to the council admit
(22:49):
they didn't want to go public because they believed that
residents would oppose the project, and they supported it. Caroline's
the county employee. She works for Supervisor Hollyman, and she
knew of it way before August. We brought it. The
Santa Monica cousion brought it to the council's attention in
about October, but even the November before, maybe October in
(23:15):
twenty four they felt no obligation to warn the community.
And she continues to favor county policies, including natal handouts
in Santa Monica parks. Their loyalties lie elsewhere. There's a
move to get them to resign. Until they do, it's
just going to be a big, big distraction to the city.
(23:39):
In twenty twenty six, is it's the first time that
people have the ability to vote them out. There was
an action petition that gained overnight almost seven hundred signatures.
There was a request made of the Third Practices Commission,
and that's being looked at. It was the city clerk,
(24:03):
excuse me, the City of training was negligent and not
really giving a formal opinion and delaying her response on it.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
But oh you know what, really they should all be
cleaned out of office, a whole lot of them, city clerk,
city attorney, the mayor. Here tsis this is all just
unimaginable garbage.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
It really is. If somebody has.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
An idea to bring severely mentally ill people into a
homeless housing structure. Well, first of all, they shouldn't bring
that idea. Secondly, there's got to be an open public
hearing on it. But to sneak it in through the
back door and then have terrosis. Lie, Oh, I didn't
know about this, she said, I want to refute that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
It is not true. I've known about this project.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Well, she didn't know about the project because it's in
a series of emails where she replied, when do you
need the letter of support?
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Several residents brought that up in a city council meeting
and she took quote executive privilege during post comment to
refute it and say it wasn't true after she knew
And this is way after most of the council knew
about it. So she's got a serious problem on her hands,
especially since she's attorney. An attorney, the state bar will
(25:24):
be looking at this, and she has a decision like
many other mayors have done in the past, several have done,
and that's resigned and let the people move on with
their business. She's very pro developer. She's seeking all the
city sites for parking, the Civic Auditorium, wants to turn
(25:44):
them into housing. We don't have a housing crisis, we
have an affordability crisis, but we really have a crisis
of kaybax. And that's what's happening in Santa Monica. This
city council, except exception a very few are tied to developers, paybacks,
(26:04):
contributions to their campaigns.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, and they use this.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Position as a stepping stone to higher power.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Now, whenever you have a situation and we just did
a story about something similar in Chevy At Hills, when
you have a situation where you have developers or owners
sneaking in homeless shelters may be filled with severely mentally
ill people or alcoholics, drug addicts. You have them sneaking
(26:30):
it in and all the public officials are looking the
other way and lying about it. There's gotta be bribes
going on. There's gotta be money going back and forth.
Everybody's getting the kui. If you were the mayor council member,
why wouldn't you say, hold on, we're gonna have a
hearing about this, or how about no, let's not even
waste our time with the hearing.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
It's very interesting because the vice mayor is in serious
trouble as well, and he would become mayor if she resigned.
And that's an individual named Jesse Zwick, who on August
twelfth listened to the CEO of Housing Action Coalition, san
Francisco based nonprofit who spoke before the Santa Moncra City
(27:16):
Council advocating for building more homes at all levels of affordability.
Three days later, guess what, the CEO signed a letter
to Zwick offering him a full time position and it's
as a director one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
a year, and he become the group's second highest paid employee.
(27:37):
And this guy has a background that's not Christine. He
was a protege of Mike Bonnen, who personally was did
not run and we have Tracy Park, but he was,
and he had to resign even from that obligation because
he docksed all of the people with their addresses that
(28:01):
supported Mike Bondon's recall. And then all of a sudden
he turned up and ran for Santa Monica City Council.
Very interestingly, most of his contributions came from back east.
They were non Santa Monica residents, all right, Very telling.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Hold on the line. We'll talk about the MacArthur Park
situation next. Next we got John Alley, the LA Businessman.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
John Alley, the LA Businessman is going to come back
tomorrow to talk at length about the situation at Markcarthur
Park with Karen Bass giving away. Now, what did she do?
She signed a contract. The city signed a contract with
a company called the Sidewalk Project that started in July
(28:50):
to provide syringe services. And also they say sex workers
are the most marginalized people in the world and criminalization
and leaves them vulnerable to predators. So this is a
company who's all in favor of drug addicts and prostitutes.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Sex work is work.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And she had said clearly in the past that she
is against having free needles, free syringes being and free
pipes being given out at MacArthur Park. And then John
ally found out that there's actually a contract to do
(29:33):
specifically that, I mean, this stuff is crazy. The sidewalk
project that they have, they have some kind of meetup
center in the park for a thousand women and gender
expansive participants and we're spending tax dollars on this. It's
(29:56):
just you can't nobody could make this up because nobody would.
They're the thought of this in the past. Yeah, it's
with Stacy d It's called Sidewalk Project. And when John
Alley spoke to Bass, she said she opposed needle and
meth pipe distributions in parks and said to John that
(30:18):
he could quote her on that. And then it turns
out that she signed a contract to do exactly that,
provide syringes and allow this group to have gender expansive
what sex workers gathering together in MacArthur Park. That's a
(30:40):
good environment for the.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Kids, huh. Anyway, it's obviously very detailed.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
We're just short on time, and John Ally's going to
come back tomorrow to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
All right.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I have Roger Bailey coming up next. There's so much
craziness going on, there's just no room for it all.
Roger's the attorney representing the Palisades fire victims. He and
other attorneys and there's thousands of victims. Obviously. Well, they
got texts between California State park representatives and in the
(31:15):
texts were maps about avoidance areas adjacent to the Palisades
where both fires started.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
This is where the State Park Reps came.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Down and told the LA Fire Department to get out
that they can't use bulldozers to build a fire line
after the first fire, and then it rekindled and became
the Palisades Fire Area avoidance maps. The fires ignited inside
the avoidance area because it was still hot ground, hot
(31:48):
tree stumps, hot rocks, still smoldering, still smoke, and they
couldn't use the bulldozer.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
You know why, to.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Protect plants, Yes, like the milkvetch plant. Everything you've heard
is true. It's that bad, it's that that's it. It's insane.
Newsom's California Parks Department. This is their policy. We'll talk
with Roger Bailey coming up next. Hey, you've been listening
to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
(32:16):
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