May 8, 2024 • 28 mins
California Republican Assembly Leader James Gallagher comes on the show to talk about the CA Supreme Court hearing a case regarding the Taxpayer's Protection Act. Gavin Newsom says there was a record high spent in tourism spending. More on the insane demands coming out of the Chicago Teachers Union. Global Warming is a very minor issue to the average American.
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It's John Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt Radio. Excuse me, now,
we told you the other day we had Howard. We
did Jarvis on, he's been dead. We met John goopaul
On from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Boy, if we
get Award Jarvis on, huh, that'd be a show. We
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had John coupaul on from the Howard Jarvis Association, and
he told us about this big deal court case that's
gonna that's being heard by the California Supreme Court, and
it's a proposition that's supposed to be on the ballot
in November, which would give the public the final say
on statewide tax increases, among other things, and the right
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Now you know the legislature has a two thirds majority
plus plus plus, and you have Governor news them and
they can pass any taxes they want. They can pass
taxes all day and night. We got no way to
stop them unless this initiative wins in November, and then
we could stop them by demanding a popular vote on
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the tax and that's how we can defeat it. So
let's get the Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher on and
to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
James, Yeah, John, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Good?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
To be with you? And I was just going to say,
John Koupaul channels the spirit of Howard Jarvis and definitely
here in the Hall of the Sacramento, but you know
throughout the state, and I think rightfully you know is
pointing out that Howard Jarvis would be rolling in his
grave at what Gavin Newsom and his Democratic cohorts are
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trying to do in taking this initiative off the ballot.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Now, the hearing was supposed to be this morning. Did
that happen? They were going to hear orgument.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, it was oral arguments. So they argued before the
Supreme Court today. You know, the governor and his cronies
arguing that we shouldn't have the right to vote on
this initiative in November, and of course Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
Association and others, their attorneys arguing that, hey, you know
that this is already qualified. People have signed, you know,
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the petition to put this on the ballot, and it
needs to go on and them the ballot.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So Newsom's crowd is claiming this is unconstitutional, and I
know we had John Coupaul who completely dismissed that that concept.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Of course, it's constitutional.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Of course the public can revise something like this and
demand to vote on taxes. I'm sure. I know we're
used to stand. Are you aware of how the hearing
turned out, if the judges indicated sympathy to one side
or the other.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I've just heard about it. I haven't actually watched the
arguments yet, but some of the feedback that I've gotten
is that they think that perhaps the court, you know,
is maybe more siding with the people here and that
this should go on the ballot. I hope that is
the case. But you know, look, a lot of these
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justices were appointed by Gavin Newsom or Democrats. Uh, and
it's you know, it is very concerning to many that
the court may take a very political turn and go
along with you know, the supermajority of Democrats who don't
want to see this on the ballot. I hope that,
I really hope that's not the case. I mean, I
hope that's not the case, you know, for the status
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of our democracy here in California. And I mean, let's
be just honest, Gavin Newsom is full of crap. I mean,
the guy goes out and preaches to us about democracy
all the time and how he's saving democracy, and then,
you know, on the other hand, he's trying to deprive
you of your right to vote on you know, protecting
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yourself against higher tax increases in the state. On the
other hand, he fast tracks, you know, legislation of the
floor with seventy two hours. Notice that he's negotiating backdoor
rooms using non disclosure agreements. You know, you know, this
is the kind of stuff this guy does in practice
while he preaches to us about the need for democracy.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I can't think of anything that should be more important
for the public to vote on than deciding how much
money they can confiscate from us. Because they were already
the highest tax state in the nation and it gets
worse and worse, and all we're asking is the option,
but to stop to it.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Make it stop.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Pretty to make it stop?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It doesn't guarantee that will stop. It just gives us
the right to vote on it. That's what I don't understand.
Why can't we vote on stopping this this bloodshed that
is going on in the state.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What are they so scared of, you know, with people
voting right, I mean, I think it's because they know
in November, I think there's going to be a big,
you know, pushback. You know, the voters are tired of
the high cost of California, and they're tired of the
high taxes, tired of the crime that's gotten out of control,
you know, the homelessness that you know, Gavin Newsom says
he's solving at the same time it's increased by you know,
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thirty two percent spending billions of our taxpayer dollars, twenty
four billion dollars spent on homeless programs that are not working.
Did you hear and that we're not even.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Tracking did you hear in La County this just broke
today that the homeless organizations, all those nonprofits want to
have four hundred thousand signatures. They're going to put a
measure on the ballot perhaps in November, to raise a
half said sales tax for homeless.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I had not heard that, But doesn't surprise me that
these guys want more of our taxpayer dollars. You know
that they've just completely wasted well none of it. And
we've seen actually encampment increase.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
See when I talk to people, they say, but none
of this is working. We paid billions of dollars, especially
in La City and County, billions of dollars in the
homeless situation got worse.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's one thing if it fixed the problem. It hasn't.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The problem is exacerbated, and they're still asking for more money.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Exactly. I actually had the chair of the La County
Board Supervisors in front of me and a hearing just
a couple of days ago, Lindsay Horbath, and asked her
a point blank you know, you guys did your own
audit in La County where you've built, you know, apartments
for homeless at seven hundred and thirty four thousand dollars
a unit. And I said, is that a cost effective
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use of your dollars? And she said, you know, absolutely,
it's not. Well, well that's the problem, but we want
to continue to spend in this way. Well guess what,
and you're you're telling us to spend even more money,
and you want to tax even tax people even more
for more of this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
There's a new there's a new housing development for the
homeless going up in Santa Monica right now, and the
last story was that it's costing almost a million dollars
a unit for this particular project.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I saw that. Yeah, more of the same. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And then they want more taxes or they want to
borrow more money, and they make exactly the same price
promises over and over and there is no oversight. I mean,
I mean, I couldn't believe that, you know, I was it.
The state auditor said that there's there's hardly any accounting
for the billions of dollars the state has spent for
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the last seven years.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And then when we asked them for data in the
same hearings, this happened, you know, two days ago, in
this same hearing, we asked them, hey, do you have
any data you can report to us today? Like we're
working on that, we should have something in the next
few weeks, you know, and we're going look the audit's
already shown that you have no data to back up.
You know, it wasn't even collected.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
It's it's impossibly even track how effective the prop these
product programs have been because we simply did not even
collect the data.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
They send fat checks to the nonprofits and that's it.
That's the last we hear of the money and nobody's
keeping track.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
All right, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Mean I mus to spend more money on it, so no,
not a chance. And I think the voters are going
to say that in November, and that's what they're scared of.
That's what they're scared of.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, well we got we got to slam the door
once and for all. James Gallagher, thank you for coming.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
On, no problem, Thank you, John.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
He's the Assembly Republican leader at Uba City. And uh,
well he was talking about how how Gavin Dusom is
full of crap.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well there's another story.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It's in the National Review about Newsome being full of crap,
intentionally lying making a claim about California tourism being at
a record high. Yeah, well he left something out which
changes the whole story.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
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Speaker 1 (09:18):
We just had James Gallagher on and he's the Assembly
Republican leader and we were talking about California Supreme Court
heard a case today whether in November they can put
on the ballot a proposition that would give voters the
final say on statewide tax increases a lot of tax increases.
Actually it would be, you know, legislature passes, governor signs,
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and then normally it's a tax. Well, this would say
that the public gets the last say if it makes
it through the legislature and pass the governor, then we
get to vote whether the tax takes effect or not.
And because this just happened, there isn't a lot of
news information. I do see a story from public radio
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that I've seen two stories, and it looks like judges
had differing opinions on this. They didn't seem to be
a consensus either way. The most general comment I saw
is public radio said that the Supreme Court was pressing
the attorney who's advocating that the proposition be blocked. All right,
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this is somebody named Prinsing, and he is representing the
governor and the legislature to stop this proposition. Margaret Prinsing
is their name, and that this is not good. But
the court was pressing her on why it should take
the measure off the ballot now that maybe the voters
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ought a way in see if it passes and then
have the court decide its legality, because it's a complicated
issue and they need time to look at it. Because
the argument, if you didn't hear James Gallagher talk about it,
is obviously the argument for us is, you know, we
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should have the right to do this. We have every
right to amend the laws and the constitution through the
ballot process. And Newsom and the legislature is saying, well,
you can't do a wholesale revision of the constitution. That's
not legal. And they're claiming this is so extreme. It's
a huge revigion, not an adjustment. I mean, it's a
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lot of semantics here. So some judges apparently thought it
might go too far. On the other hand, why shouldn't
the voters have a say like this? So I can't
see that any of these writers could figure out exactly
which way the court is leaning. Of course, all these
justices are from either Brown or Newsom, and there's seven
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of them. They don't always down a down the line
liberal verdict on matters. So I'm gonna have to wait
on this at least in the immediate you know, we'll
talk to John Coopaul maybe tomorrow find out what he thought,
because he was in the courtroom, all right, onto Gavin Newsom,
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because James Gallagher, the Assemblyman, said that Newsom is just
full of crap. Here is an example of Newsom being
full of crap. He made a claim that he's always
trying to do this raw, raw nonsense on California because
most of the news is bad in this state. And
he claims that there's record high tourism spending in California,
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record high, that it was one hundred and fifty billion
dollars spent, and he announced it from the Golden Gate
Bridge on Sunday, one hundred and fifty billion dollars. And
he went into a all raw, raw California, our world
renowned coastline, the world's tallest trees, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
What he didn't mention is.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Inflation is up nineteen percent in California over the last
four years, nineteen percent. And he adds to it by
raising the minimum wage on fast food restaurants, which increase
the prices of fast food. So it's nineteen percent and
rising well when you factor in the nineteen percent inflation rate.
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Adjusted for inflation, travel spending was down fourteen percent from
its peak in twenty nineteen, so it's not at a
record high in raw dollar figures. Yes, but because of
the nearly twenty percent inflation, travel spending was down fourteen
percent in five years, and travel related employment in the
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state is down as well. So he's lying, and he
knows that. He knows that you must use inflation adjusted figures.
We're going to when you're going to make claims like this.
You can't just use the raw dollar amount because a
dollar is now only worth about eighty cents. One hundred
million dollars is only worse worth eighty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
So it's just out and out.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Propaganda bs, horsecraft nonsense from Newsom. When we come back,
we were we were telling you yesterday that the Chicago
Teachers Union is making a big stink. They want a
new contract, they want huge races, they want all their
abortions paid for, and they want all the illegal aliens
to have some kind of shelter, and they ought to.
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They think the schools ought to be used for illegal
alien shelters. Really, and that while they're pushing for all
that the reading proficiency in eighth grade in Chicago is
twenty one percent. Nearly eighty percent of the students in
eighth grade are not at grade level or not at
grade reading level that they should be eighty percent. But
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they want their abortions paid for and housing for illegal aliens. Well,
I told you weird stuff is going to come to
LA when it comes to union leaders. We got some
weird stuff to tell you about when we come back,
because the unions were protesting. School union leaders protesting yesterday
during the LA Board of Education meeting.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
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Speaker 1 (15:33):
I am so frustrated with reading news accounts and none
of the writers. They all watch the same hearing and
none of them agree as to what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, that this this Supreme Court hearing as to whether
we're going to be allowed in November to vote on
a referendum that would give us the public the final
say on taxes after the legislature and knew some passive
tax increase we could vote yes or no on it,
and we have the final set. So, you know, I'm
reading something in Politico and I'm reading something from public Radio,
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and one of them says, oh, they're split, and the
other one says, well, the justices were pushing back on
the idea that the public should have this power. And
then I look in the San Francisco Chronicle. They got
their own third version. State Supreme Court seemed reluctant to
grant the Democrats' requests to remove from the ballot an
initiative that would require voter approval for any increase in taxes.
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So they think the court was against removing the initiative
that the people should vote on it. Three stories from
three major news publications, three writers, with three different interpretations
of what they saw and heard.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That is frustrating.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And I don't know how it's funneled in through their
biases or their editors biases or what.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
So what am I supposed to believe? Go check out
Associated Press.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, I'm sure they'll have a fourth version. They'll tell
me the hearing never happened. I don't know, you know,
John Coopaul is a realist. We'll get him on tomorrow.
He tells the truth, even when it's not something he likes.
He's with the Higher Jarvis Taxpayers Association all right. In
Chicago yesterday we spent some time on the insane demands
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of the Chicago's Teachers Union.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
They wanted massive increases.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
By the way, the Chicago's Teachers Union, that is a terrible,
terrible group of teachers. The eighth graders as an example,
in Chicago, only twenty one percent read proficiently, so they
have an eighty percent failure rate in teaching rating. And
you know, they had all these wild demands. They want
all their abortions paid for by the taxpayers. They also
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want they want illegal aliens to be housed in the
school buildings. Now here's LA. There was a LA time, says,
a massive and raucous street rally during the LA Board
of Education meeting. And the union leaders are angry with
budget cuts. Here's here's the problem. You know what nobody
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can do.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Math.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I guess one hundred percent of the people in LA
government and the Board of Education and the teachers, one
hundred percent of them failed. Math projected revenue next year
for LA schools is about nine billion. Spending is estimated
at almost eleven billion.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You got eleven billion dollars in spending on the books,
you only have nine billion dollars in revenue, so you're
gonna have to cut the budget significantly. And these idiot
union teachers are screaming and crying and threatening and stamping
their feet and waving signs and chanting rhyme.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Can you do math?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
The difference between nine billion in revenue and eleven billion
in spending is two billion, So you've got to find
two billion dollars that doesn't exist right now.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
So what's the school district supposed to do? Now?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Wonder the kids you can't do math or read. The
adults can't do math. There's nothing more to this. If
the costs are eleven billion in the revenue's nine billion,
then you got to you gotta cut two billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That's it. So there's going to be layoffs. By the way, You.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Know how this happened because they gave major wage increases
to you know, teachers and to uh bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians, teachers, aides,
every guy. Everybody got a big bump. It's it's like
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the wage increase that fast food. If everybody's going to
be making twenty bucks an hour, there's going to be
fewer people working.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
If everybody's going to get a raise.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
In the LA school system, there's going to be fewer
people working. What there's just like, not even a shred
of rationality anymore, not a shred of logic. Everything is
screaming emotion. Everything is Toddler time. Oh and you know
what triggered this, well, during the pandemic. Remember when they
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closed the schools and refused to teach anyone for a
year and a half. Joe Biden sent records amounts of
money to school districts and LA got a huge windfall.
But the pandemic money ran out and there's not new
pandemic money coming. So what they did is they took
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the extra and all that money was bogus money, right,
It was printed money, borrowed money, wasn't real money. And
now it's run out and it's been spent, and they're
two billion dollars in the hall. Dumbasses, If you're going
to spend all the extra money, and they weren't even teaching,
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The teachers were laying rolling around on the sofa dressed
in their robes and underwear and fuzzy slippers doing zoom teaching.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, that was effective.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And one of the one of the biggest nuts is
the United Teachers LA president Sicily Mayar Cruz.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I remember her.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
She was claiming parents who wanted the schools reopened during
the pandemic were racists. Okay, I don't know what planet
she inhabits. And she claims that there's billions in the bank,
and you're shortchanging students. Most of the students can't read
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or right. You and your bad teachers are short changing
the students.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Just unbelievable. More coming up.
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Speaker 1 (22:49):
You know I've mentioned before that just trying to find
an accurate news story on what happened at that Supreme
Court hearing today on whether we have the right to
veto tax increases that the legislature and the governor pass right.
There's want to get an initiative on the ballot and
we should vote on it in November, and Newsom is
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trying to stop us from voting on it and went
to the Supreme Court. And the more I read now
I just read another story, it looks like the Supreme
Court is going to let this be on the ballot
and then they'll figure it out later. Okay, But it
took like four articles until I found one that just
laid out plane if there was support or opposition to
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this going on the ballot. And if you think it's
hard to figure out what's going on because so much
of the news is skewed or wrong or stupid, let
me tell you how much have you heard about global
warming the last few years? Probably too much? Right, It
turns out it's a very very minor issue for most Americans.
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Most people don't care about it. In fact, Gallup just
did a twenty twenty four survey about what's the most
important issues that Americans.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Are dealing with, and.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It ranks eighteenth out of twenty issues polled according to
Pew Research, and according to Gallup, it's twelfth out of fourteen,
twelfth out of fourteen according to Gallup, eighteenth out of twenty.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
For Pew, people aren't interested in it.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
They agree that they're probably is global warming going on,
but they don't think it's going to be a big deal.
They're burned out by decades of these hysterical warnings because
nothing ever really happened. Fifty five percent do not think
global warming will pose a serious threat in their lifetime.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Here's an interesting question.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
They asked Americans whether they'd personally be willing to spend
ten dollars in extra cash each month to end global warming.
All right, it's a question, Well you spend ten dollars
a month to end global warming? Only thirty nine percent
said yes. The rest said no, go away, get out
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of here. Well, because they know the money's going to
get blown on nonsense anyway. So like, like I keep
telling you all these issues, you know, progressive issues. You know,
it's it's like it's like five, six, seven, eight percent
of people are are passionate about them. Most people don't
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care or or they're against the issues outright. It's just
all these people are in the media, and half of
them are in politics, or they're Hollywood celebrities, or you know,
they run the schools, they're all the professors. So these
are all people with megaphones. These are all people who
can garner attention easily. Meantime, the rest of normal America,
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most of them are worried about the economy and inflation,
and now they're worried about terrorism because they see what's
running around the college campuses. Those are all the terrorist
wannabes to come and immigration. In fact, global warming is
not even a major issue when Gallop listed specifically environmental problems,
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So even in its own category of environmental issues, global
warming didn't do well. It ranked behind drinking water pollution,
river pollution, and soil contamination. They absolutely don't believe the
most alarmist view of global warming. Only four percent of
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Americans believe it. So there's actually, there's actually really But
the problem is is we've got like a ridiculous, insane,
progressive whack job governor. He and the legislature have engineered
all these taxes and all these regulations and all these
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mandates to get rid of gas powered cars. And it's
all in the name of the climate hysteria that much
of the public rejects.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
They think of the climate's warming.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
It's like, so what, which is what I've always thought
most I grew up in the Northeast, and I lived
in Chicago, places where it can be bitter cold for
a long time. Nobody I know who lives in bitter
cold climates, and I have a lot of friends who do.
Nobody fears global warming. They welcome it. They would like
mild winters. I got friends who live in you know,
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Indiana and Minnesota, Upstate New York and New Jersey. They
want milder weather. It would create more farmland, they can
grow more crops. It's nothing wrong with warmer weather. Conway's
coming up next, and we've got Crozier with the news
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It's John Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt Radio. Excuse me, now,
we told you the other day we had Howard. We
did Jarvis on, he's been dead. We met John goopaul
On from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Boy, if we
get Award Jarvis on, huh, that'd be a show. We
(00:43):
had John coupaul on from the Howard Jarvis Association, and
he told us about this big deal court case that's
gonna that's being heard by the California Supreme Court, and
it's a proposition that's supposed to be on the ballot
in November, which would give the public the final say
on statewide tax increases, among other things, and the right
(01:10):
Now you know the legislature has a two thirds majority
plus plus plus, and you have Governor news them and
they can pass any taxes they want. They can pass
taxes all day and night. We got no way to
stop them unless this initiative wins in November, and then
we could stop them by demanding a popular vote on
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the tax and that's how we can defeat it. So
let's get the Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher on and
to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
James, Yeah, John, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Good?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
To be with you? And I was just going to say,
John Koupaul channels the spirit of Howard Jarvis and definitely
here in the Hall of the Sacramento, but you know
throughout the state, and I think rightfully you know is
pointing out that Howard Jarvis would be rolling in his
grave at what Gavin Newsom and his Democratic cohorts are
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trying to do in taking this initiative off the ballot.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Now, the hearing was supposed to be this morning. Did
that happen? They were going to hear orgument.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, it was oral arguments. So they argued before the
Supreme Court today. You know, the governor and his cronies
arguing that we shouldn't have the right to vote on
this initiative in November, and of course Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
Association and others, their attorneys arguing that, hey, you know
that this is already qualified. People have signed, you know,
(02:36):
the petition to put this on the ballot, and it
needs to go on and them the ballot.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So Newsom's crowd is claiming this is unconstitutional, and I
know we had John Coupaul who completely dismissed that that concept.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Of course, it's constitutional.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Of course the public can revise something like this and
demand to vote on taxes. I'm sure. I know we're
used to stand. Are you aware of how the hearing
turned out, if the judges indicated sympathy to one side
or the other.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I've just heard about it. I haven't actually watched the
arguments yet, but some of the feedback that I've gotten
is that they think that perhaps the court, you know,
is maybe more siding with the people here and that
this should go on the ballot. I hope that is
the case. But you know, look, a lot of these
(03:28):
justices were appointed by Gavin Newsom or Democrats. Uh, and
it's you know, it is very concerning to many that
the court may take a very political turn and go
along with you know, the supermajority of Democrats who don't
want to see this on the ballot. I hope that,
I really hope that's not the case. I mean, I
hope that's not the case, you know, for the status
(03:50):
of our democracy here in California. And I mean, let's
be just honest, Gavin Newsom is full of crap. I mean,
the guy goes out and preaches to us about democracy
all the time and how he's saving democracy, and then,
you know, on the other hand, he's trying to deprive
you of your right to vote on you know, protecting
(04:10):
yourself against higher tax increases in the state. On the
other hand, he fast tracks, you know, legislation of the
floor with seventy two hours. Notice that he's negotiating backdoor
rooms using non disclosure agreements. You know, you know, this
is the kind of stuff this guy does in practice
while he preaches to us about the need for democracy.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I can't think of anything that should be more important
for the public to vote on than deciding how much
money they can confiscate from us. Because they were already
the highest tax state in the nation and it gets
worse and worse, and all we're asking is the option,
but to stop to it.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Make it stop.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Pretty to make it stop?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It doesn't guarantee that will stop. It just gives us
the right to vote on it. That's what I don't understand.
Why can't we vote on stopping this this bloodshed that
is going on in the state.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What are they so scared of, you know, with people
voting right, I mean, I think it's because they know
in November, I think there's going to be a big,
you know, pushback. You know, the voters are tired of
the high cost of California, and they're tired of the
high taxes, tired of the crime that's gotten out of control,
you know, the homelessness that you know, Gavin Newsom says
he's solving at the same time it's increased by you know,
(05:32):
thirty two percent spending billions of our taxpayer dollars, twenty
four billion dollars spent on homeless programs that are not working.
Did you hear and that we're not even.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Tracking did you hear in La County this just broke
today that the homeless organizations, all those nonprofits want to
have four hundred thousand signatures. They're going to put a
measure on the ballot perhaps in November, to raise a
half said sales tax for homeless.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I had not heard that, But doesn't surprise me that
these guys want more of our taxpayer dollars. You know
that they've just completely wasted well none of it. And
we've seen actually encampment increase.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
See when I talk to people, they say, but none
of this is working. We paid billions of dollars, especially
in La City and County, billions of dollars in the
homeless situation got worse.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's one thing if it fixed the problem. It hasn't.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The problem is exacerbated, and they're still asking for more money.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Exactly. I actually had the chair of the La County
Board Supervisors in front of me and a hearing just
a couple of days ago, Lindsay Horbath, and asked her
a point blank you know, you guys did your own
audit in La County where you've built, you know, apartments
for homeless at seven hundred and thirty four thousand dollars
a unit. And I said, is that a cost effective
(06:56):
use of your dollars? And she said, you know, absolutely,
it's not. Well, well that's the problem, but we want
to continue to spend in this way. Well guess what,
and you're you're telling us to spend even more money,
and you want to tax even tax people even more
for more of this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
There's a new there's a new housing development for the
homeless going up in Santa Monica right now, and the
last story was that it's costing almost a million dollars
a unit for this particular project.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I saw that. Yeah, more of the same. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And then they want more taxes or they want to
borrow more money, and they make exactly the same price
promises over and over and there is no oversight. I mean,
I mean, I couldn't believe that, you know, I was it.
The state auditor said that there's there's hardly any accounting
for the billions of dollars the state has spent for
(07:49):
the last seven years.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And then when we asked them for data in the
same hearings, this happened, you know, two days ago, in
this same hearing, we asked them, hey, do you have
any data you can report to us today? Like we're
working on that, we should have something in the next
few weeks, you know, and we're going look the audit's
already shown that you have no data to back up.
You know, it wasn't even collected.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
It's it's impossibly even track how effective the prop these
product programs have been because we simply did not even
collect the data.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
They send fat checks to the nonprofits and that's it.
That's the last we hear of the money and nobody's
keeping track.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
All right, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Mean I mus to spend more money on it, so no,
not a chance. And I think the voters are going
to say that in November, and that's what they're scared of.
That's what they're scared of.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, well we got we got to slam the door
once and for all. James Gallagher, thank you for coming.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
On, no problem, Thank you, John.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
He's the Assembly Republican leader at Uba City. And uh,
well he was talking about how how Gavin Dusom is
full of crap.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well there's another story.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It's in the National Review about Newsome being full of crap,
intentionally lying making a claim about California tourism being at
a record high. Yeah, well he left something out which
changes the whole story.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
We just had James Gallagher on and he's the Assembly
Republican leader and we were talking about California Supreme Court
heard a case today whether in November they can put
on the ballot a proposition that would give voters the
final say on statewide tax increases a lot of tax increases.
Actually it would be, you know, legislature passes, governor signs,
(09:42):
and then normally it's a tax. Well, this would say
that the public gets the last say if it makes
it through the legislature and pass the governor, then we
get to vote whether the tax takes effect or not.
And because this just happened, there isn't a lot of
news information. I do see a story from public radio
(10:05):
that I've seen two stories, and it looks like judges
had differing opinions on this. They didn't seem to be
a consensus either way. The most general comment I saw
is public radio said that the Supreme Court was pressing
the attorney who's advocating that the proposition be blocked. All right,
(10:30):
this is somebody named Prinsing, and he is representing the
governor and the legislature to stop this proposition. Margaret Prinsing
is their name, and that this is not good. But
the court was pressing her on why it should take
the measure off the ballot now that maybe the voters
(10:54):
ought a way in see if it passes and then
have the court decide its legality, because it's a complicated
issue and they need time to look at it. Because
the argument, if you didn't hear James Gallagher talk about it,
is obviously the argument for us is, you know, we
(11:14):
should have the right to do this. We have every
right to amend the laws and the constitution through the
ballot process. And Newsom and the legislature is saying, well,
you can't do a wholesale revision of the constitution. That's
not legal. And they're claiming this is so extreme. It's
a huge revigion, not an adjustment. I mean, it's a
(11:36):
lot of semantics here. So some judges apparently thought it
might go too far. On the other hand, why shouldn't
the voters have a say like this? So I can't
see that any of these writers could figure out exactly
which way the court is leaning. Of course, all these
justices are from either Brown or Newsom, and there's seven
(11:58):
of them. They don't always down a down the line
liberal verdict on matters. So I'm gonna have to wait
on this at least in the immediate you know, we'll
talk to John Coopaul maybe tomorrow find out what he thought,
because he was in the courtroom, all right, onto Gavin Newsom,
(12:19):
because James Gallagher, the Assemblyman, said that Newsom is just
full of crap. Here is an example of Newsom being
full of crap. He made a claim that he's always
trying to do this raw, raw nonsense on California because
most of the news is bad in this state. And
he claims that there's record high tourism spending in California,
(12:42):
record high, that it was one hundred and fifty billion
dollars spent, and he announced it from the Golden Gate
Bridge on Sunday, one hundred and fifty billion dollars. And
he went into a all raw, raw California, our world
renowned coastline, the world's tallest trees, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
What he didn't mention is.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Inflation is up nineteen percent in California over the last
four years, nineteen percent. And he adds to it by
raising the minimum wage on fast food restaurants, which increase
the prices of fast food. So it's nineteen percent and
rising well when you factor in the nineteen percent inflation rate.
(13:31):
Adjusted for inflation, travel spending was down fourteen percent from
its peak in twenty nineteen, so it's not at a
record high in raw dollar figures. Yes, but because of
the nearly twenty percent inflation, travel spending was down fourteen
percent in five years, and travel related employment in the
(13:55):
state is down as well. So he's lying, and he
knows that. He knows that you must use inflation adjusted figures.
We're going to when you're going to make claims like this.
You can't just use the raw dollar amount because a
dollar is now only worth about eighty cents. One hundred
million dollars is only worse worth eighty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
So it's just out and out.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Propaganda bs, horsecraft nonsense from Newsom. When we come back,
we were we were telling you yesterday that the Chicago
Teachers Union is making a big stink. They want a
new contract, they want huge races, they want all their
abortions paid for, and they want all the illegal aliens
to have some kind of shelter, and they ought to.
(14:43):
They think the schools ought to be used for illegal
alien shelters. Really, and that while they're pushing for all
that the reading proficiency in eighth grade in Chicago is
twenty one percent. Nearly eighty percent of the students in
eighth grade are not at grade level or not at
grade reading level that they should be eighty percent. But
(15:07):
they want their abortions paid for and housing for illegal aliens. Well,
I told you weird stuff is going to come to
LA when it comes to union leaders. We got some
weird stuff to tell you about when we come back,
because the unions were protesting. School union leaders protesting yesterday
during the LA Board of Education meeting.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I am so frustrated with reading news accounts and none
of the writers. They all watch the same hearing and
none of them agree as to what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, that this this Supreme Court hearing as to whether
we're going to be allowed in November to vote on
a referendum that would give us the public the final
say on taxes after the legislature and knew some passive
tax increase we could vote yes or no on it,
and we have the final set. So, you know, I'm
reading something in Politico and I'm reading something from public Radio,
(16:06):
and one of them says, oh, they're split, and the
other one says, well, the justices were pushing back on
the idea that the public should have this power. And
then I look in the San Francisco Chronicle. They got
their own third version. State Supreme Court seemed reluctant to
grant the Democrats' requests to remove from the ballot an
initiative that would require voter approval for any increase in taxes.
(16:30):
So they think the court was against removing the initiative
that the people should vote on it. Three stories from
three major news publications, three writers, with three different interpretations
of what they saw and heard.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That is frustrating.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And I don't know how it's funneled in through their
biases or their editors biases or what.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
So what am I supposed to believe? Go check out
Associated Press.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, I'm sure they'll have a fourth version. They'll tell
me the hearing never happened. I don't know, you know,
John Coopaul is a realist. We'll get him on tomorrow.
He tells the truth, even when it's not something he likes.
He's with the Higher Jarvis Taxpayers Association all right. In
Chicago yesterday we spent some time on the insane demands
(17:23):
of the Chicago's Teachers Union.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
They wanted massive increases.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
By the way, the Chicago's Teachers Union, that is a terrible,
terrible group of teachers. The eighth graders as an example,
in Chicago, only twenty one percent read proficiently, so they
have an eighty percent failure rate in teaching rating. And
you know, they had all these wild demands. They want
all their abortions paid for by the taxpayers. They also
(17:47):
want they want illegal aliens to be housed in the
school buildings. Now here's LA. There was a LA time, says,
a massive and raucous street rally during the LA Board
of Education meeting. And the union leaders are angry with
budget cuts. Here's here's the problem. You know what nobody
(18:12):
can do.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Math.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I guess one hundred percent of the people in LA
government and the Board of Education and the teachers, one
hundred percent of them failed. Math projected revenue next year
for LA schools is about nine billion. Spending is estimated
at almost eleven billion.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You got eleven billion dollars in spending on the books,
you only have nine billion dollars in revenue, so you're
gonna have to cut the budget significantly. And these idiot
union teachers are screaming and crying and threatening and stamping
their feet and waving signs and chanting rhyme.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Can you do math?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
The difference between nine billion in revenue and eleven billion
in spending is two billion, So you've got to find
two billion dollars that doesn't exist right now.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
So what's the school district supposed to do? Now?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Wonder the kids you can't do math or read. The
adults can't do math. There's nothing more to this. If
the costs are eleven billion in the revenue's nine billion,
then you got to you gotta cut two billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That's it. So there's going to be layoffs. By the way, You.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Know how this happened because they gave major wage increases
to you know, teachers and to uh bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians, teachers, aides,
every guy. Everybody got a big bump. It's it's like
(19:53):
the wage increase that fast food. If everybody's going to
be making twenty bucks an hour, there's going to be
fewer people working.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
If everybody's going to get a raise.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
In the LA school system, there's going to be fewer
people working. What there's just like, not even a shred
of rationality anymore, not a shred of logic. Everything is
screaming emotion. Everything is Toddler time. Oh and you know
what triggered this, well, during the pandemic. Remember when they
(20:25):
closed the schools and refused to teach anyone for a
year and a half. Joe Biden sent records amounts of
money to school districts and LA got a huge windfall.
But the pandemic money ran out and there's not new
pandemic money coming. So what they did is they took
(20:46):
the extra and all that money was bogus money, right,
It was printed money, borrowed money, wasn't real money. And
now it's run out and it's been spent, and they're
two billion dollars in the hall. Dumbasses, If you're going
to spend all the extra money, and they weren't even teaching,
(21:10):
The teachers were laying rolling around on the sofa dressed
in their robes and underwear and fuzzy slippers doing zoom teaching.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, that was effective.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And one of the one of the biggest nuts is
the United Teachers LA president Sicily Mayar Cruz.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I remember her.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
She was claiming parents who wanted the schools reopened during
the pandemic were racists. Okay, I don't know what planet
she inhabits. And she claims that there's billions in the bank,
and you're shortchanging students. Most of the students can't read
(21:59):
or right. You and your bad teachers are short changing
the students.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Just unbelievable. More coming up.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
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(22:39):
what's on the bottom of the white point? Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
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Cobelt Radio. Thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You know I've mentioned before that just trying to find
an accurate news story on what happened at that Supreme
Court hearing today on whether we have the right to
veto tax increases that the legislature and the governor pass right.
There's want to get an initiative on the ballot and
we should vote on it in November, and Newsom is
(23:11):
trying to stop us from voting on it and went
to the Supreme Court. And the more I read now
I just read another story, it looks like the Supreme
Court is going to let this be on the ballot
and then they'll figure it out later. Okay, But it
took like four articles until I found one that just
laid out plane if there was support or opposition to
(23:32):
this going on the ballot. And if you think it's
hard to figure out what's going on because so much
of the news is skewed or wrong or stupid, let
me tell you how much have you heard about global
warming the last few years? Probably too much? Right, It
turns out it's a very very minor issue for most Americans.
(23:55):
Most people don't care about it. In fact, Gallup just
did a twenty twenty four survey about what's the most
important issues that Americans.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Are dealing with, and.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It ranks eighteenth out of twenty issues polled according to
Pew Research, and according to Gallup, it's twelfth out of fourteen,
twelfth out of fourteen according to Gallup, eighteenth out of twenty.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
For Pew, people aren't interested in it.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
They agree that they're probably is global warming going on,
but they don't think it's going to be a big deal.
They're burned out by decades of these hysterical warnings because
nothing ever really happened. Fifty five percent do not think
global warming will pose a serious threat in their lifetime.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Here's an interesting question.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
They asked Americans whether they'd personally be willing to spend
ten dollars in extra cash each month to end global warming.
All right, it's a question, Well you spend ten dollars
a month to end global warming? Only thirty nine percent
said yes. The rest said no, go away, get out
(25:18):
of here. Well, because they know the money's going to
get blown on nonsense anyway. So like, like I keep
telling you all these issues, you know, progressive issues. You know,
it's it's like it's like five, six, seven, eight percent
of people are are passionate about them. Most people don't
(25:42):
care or or they're against the issues outright. It's just
all these people are in the media, and half of
them are in politics, or they're Hollywood celebrities, or you know,
they run the schools, they're all the professors. So these
are all people with megaphones. These are all people who
can garner attention easily. Meantime, the rest of normal America,
(26:06):
most of them are worried about the economy and inflation,
and now they're worried about terrorism because they see what's
running around the college campuses. Those are all the terrorist
wannabes to come and immigration. In fact, global warming is
not even a major issue when Gallop listed specifically environmental problems,
(26:31):
So even in its own category of environmental issues, global
warming didn't do well. It ranked behind drinking water pollution,
river pollution, and soil contamination. They absolutely don't believe the
most alarmist view of global warming. Only four percent of
(26:51):
Americans believe it. So there's actually, there's actually really But
the problem is is we've got like a ridiculous, insane,
progressive whack job governor. He and the legislature have engineered
all these taxes and all these regulations and all these
(27:12):
mandates to get rid of gas powered cars. And it's
all in the name of the climate hysteria that much
of the public rejects.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
They think of the climate's warming.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
It's like, so what, which is what I've always thought
most I grew up in the Northeast, and I lived
in Chicago, places where it can be bitter cold for
a long time. Nobody I know who lives in bitter
cold climates, and I have a lot of friends who do.
Nobody fears global warming. They welcome it. They would like
mild winters. I got friends who live in you know,
(27:45):
Indiana and Minnesota, Upstate New York and New Jersey. They
want milder weather. It would create more farmland, they can
grow more crops. It's nothing wrong with warmer weather. Conway's
coming up next, and we've got Crozier with the news
live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've
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