March 3, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/03) - Guatemalan nationals connected to a human smuggling ring were arrested by ICE in LA. There were more than 1,000 fire hydrants broken in LA as of two weeks ago and the LAFD didn't tell the LADWP. 7,000 people say they were sexually abused by LA County employees. Coyotes are killing seals in the Bay Area.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty you're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're gonna have Carl Demayo
on the Republican Assemblyman from San Diego next hour.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Last week, he exposed at.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
A budget hearing he's on the budget subcommittee, that Gavin
Newsom and the Democratic leaders were spending twenty five million
dollars allegedly on some kind of COVID workplace fund.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And it turns out it was a total scam.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
He found out it was seventy six political activist organizations
who were getting slush fund money.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And as soon as.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The Democratic Assembly Speaker Robert Reevis heard what Carl was exposing,
he kicked Carl off the committee. And what Carl exposed
is true. Newsom and Revis, we're spending twenty five million
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dollars on a slush fund to enrich seventy six left
wing political organizations and lying that it was COVID money
and there's no need to be spending anything on COVID anyway.
But they weren't. Because there's no need to spend money
on COVID, they weren't. They were blowing the money on
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things like ballot harvesting. So it's a major scandal. And
Robert Reeves, the Democratic Assembly leader, kicked a mile off
the committee, which is why none of the other Republicans
ever brought this stuff up. They knew, they knew this
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stuff was going on, but they were afraid, and Tomio
wasn't afraid. All right, we'll talk to Carl coming up.
And by the way, this is one tiny little sliver.
There is a huge, overwhelming amount of corruption and theft
and moneylaws going on. Sacramento is a is a criminal
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money laundering and theft operation funded by your tax money.
Eventually everyone's going to get it. Eventually they will. They're
you know where I think much of the country has
figured out. That's what Washington, DC is about. It's a
big corrupt theft and money laundering operation. We'll get to
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that at three o'clock hour. Here's something that's been going on, Yeah,
that sanctuary city policy here in Los Angeles that Karen
bass is so enamored with. Federal agents today arrested two
men from Guatemala, Eduardo Domingo Renojes Matul and Cristobal Mehehi
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Mahea Shaj. They are accused of You're not going to
believe this moving twenty thousand illegal immigrants, the largest human
smuggling operation in the United States, twenty thousand illegal immigrants
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based here in LA. There's your sanctuary city, huh. The
acting US Attorney Joseph mcdonnely said, the smuggling organizations have
no regard for human life. Their conduct kills. The indictment
and arrests have dismantled one of the country's largest and
most dangerous smuggling organization. And there's one guy still at large.
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He's described as a lieutenant in the smuggling operation. His
name is Helmer obispo Hernandez. Last week he threatened to
cut the head off of a federal agent. Yeah, but
we give him sanctuary here in Los Angeles. Karen Bass
gives sanctuary to a guy who wants to cut a
federal agent's hat off. Those other two other guys they
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charged jose pakstor ox Lage. He's actually prison in Oklahoma
a car crash two years ago that killed seven illegal aliens,
including five from the same family.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
See, this is what they do.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
They smuggle these poor people over and some of them
die brutal deaths. But it's all protected by Carrot Vass's
sanctuary city policy. Renoje Mattoul, whose nickname is Turco, was
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the ringleader. He worked with others in Guatemala who had
charged migrants fifteen to eighteen thousand dollars for safe passage
to the US, and then they were charged again once
they got here to be transported to other cities across
the country.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Moved to at least twenty states. In Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Migrants who did not pay were held hostage in a
stash house in Los Angeles, but they all had sanctuary protection.
You imagine that these characters were holding many hostages in
a stash house.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We didn't do anything about it. Here.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
In one incident last year, the ringleader again, his name
is Eduardo Domingo Renojes Matul, he called the mother of
a migrant that he was holding hostage. This was a
woman and threatened that she would come home in a
box if the smuggling fees weren't paid. That's Renaj Matoul
protected by Karen Vass's sanctuary policies. And they're still looking
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for the guy who wants to cut the Homeland Security
officer's head off. Yeah, this makes for a a safe
and healthy community.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That the that the you know, this is this is
what she she's She's so monstrously dangerous. She's gotten away
for so long with her sweet little grandma smile, but
her policies are so atrocious. I still can't get over
the last segment that she seemed to have no curiosity
about the fires at all. I hope tomorrow is going
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to be crazy. I really do, because tomorrow I don't
know what time, but but Kristin Crowley is going to
face her uh face the city council. She's going to
appeal her firing. Now I think she gets to make
a statement. I mean, I haven't I haven't seen too
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many of these. So she gets to make a statement,
and uh the council, the council is probably gonna want
to do this quickly. Most of the councils against her.
But well, I hope she I hope she goes scorched
to earth and just tells the truth that Bass and
the city council wildly underfunded the police department, and that
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Bass showed no interest in the fire, never poked her
head up. Just dis beard Africa, see it the President's calling.
President Biden wants me in Africa. Okay, it's all right,
we'll just watch the palisades burn.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Karen, no problem.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And Crowley, of course has plenty of blame on her
shoulders too, clearly from these text messages. In fact, if
nobody knew what they were doing, nobody was prepared, nobody
knew what to do. They were quickly overwhelmed. They all
need to go. They really all need to go, and
not replaced by the b team that's currently inhabiting the
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city council and the rest of the bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
There's got to.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Be like an outside change here and start running things normally.
These people are human disasters, every one of them. In fact,
as long as we're on this subject, today's bombshell story
from the La Times. The fire Department, again run by
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Kristin Crowley, did not tell the DWP that a thousand
fire hydrants were broken. A thousand fire hydrants were broken,
and Crowley never told Jennie Kinonie is about it? What
do these people do all day? What are they doing? Hey?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
John, I have a little info on Crowley for tomorrow.
So the city Council is going to meet at ten
tomorrow morning. Yeah, and Crowley her hope. Well whatever her appeal,
her appeal, yeah, is the last thing on the agenda.
But we will break in. We will go to it
live as soon as we have.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, are they gonna is there gonna be audio and
TV code?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I'm sure we have Michael Monks that's going to be there,
and I would assume that all the local TV stations
and I'm sure the LA City Council Facebook page.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
But we are on it, and we are gonna.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, she's got nothing to lose, she should she should go.
And that's this is what I would do. Of course,
I don't think I would be this incompetent. But but
between Bass, mar Keith, Harris, Dawson, Canoniez, there's there's a
lot of targets here. The lady run in the emergency center.
Go read the text, Go to ABC seven their reporter
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had the uh had the news.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Go read some of the texts.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You get the idea totally incompetent, totally inept, overwhelmed, useless,
zero zero zero zero. All of them. Tell you about
the fire hydrants. Can you imagine, let's say you're running
the fire department. You know there's a thousand fire hydrants.
Would you tell the d WP, since they have a
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role here, would you tell them? We'll talk about it
we come back.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You can follow us at John Cobilt Radio on social media.
So everything I'm about to tell you is true. If
you haven't heard about this, you're not going to believe this.
But this is from Channel two KCBS and also the
Los Angeles Times. The LA Fire Department, the DWP has.
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The DWP has jurisdiction over fire hydrants, but they pay
millions of dollars to the fire department to do the inspections.
So the fire department is supposed to do the inspections,
see which hydrants are broken, report back to the DWP.
There were more than one thousand five fire hydrants broken.
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This is as of mid February. This is as of
two and a half weeks ago. A thousand fire hydrants broken.
The Los Angeles Fire Department didn't tell the DWP about
any of them. Who runs the Los Angeles Fire Department?
Uh oh, Kristin Crowley, right, a thousand fire How do
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a thousand fire hydrants break? And the DWP doesn't hear
about how does that happen? There must be a fire
hydrant bureau at the at the fire department.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I was going to say, aren't these checked repeatedly? I
mean this is such an important I mean so important.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
If the fire hydrants are busted, there's no way to
put out the fire, obviously. You see how this happened
for those idiots out there, and you know there's still
a couple of trolls online.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Are you a ralli? There's nothing you.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, right, reservoir empty, thousand fire hydrants don't work. Nobody
deployed that morning at the spot where they had a
fire six weeks, six days earlier.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
All right, I wouldn't it matter.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I'm guessing it's somebody in Karen Bass's office and they
write under pseudonyms and they go on these neighborhood these
next door apps, right, and people are upset obviously because
there's thousands of people without homes and slides of them
are destroyed. So they go on the next door app
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to talk about it, and there's this troll maybe it's
Karen Bass yourself under an assumed name. It starts fighting
with them, claiming that Bass is not to be blamed
for anything. And the smart thing to do is to
not respond because it it that can't be a real person,
No sane person could possibly have that opinion. This is
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not a debate of a point, but they start and
then people start yelling at the guy whoever it is. Uh.
The fire department discovered the damage to the hydrants during
inspections in the months before the Palisades fire. So some
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of these hydrants were in the Palisades. Remember, the firefighters
had low water pressure, you know it really it wasn't
the empty reservoir wasn't going to make a difference, you know,
because of the low water pressure.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Low water pressure came from the.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Broken hydrants that the fire department did not flag and
tell to the DWP. February twelfth is when Channel two
reported that there was one thousand, three hundred and fifty
fire hydrants that needed repairs. Some of them had been
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flagged as early as January of twenty twenty four, a
year ago. They have been sitting busted for a year,
but those.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Were reported, No, they were not reported.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Some of these repairs were flagged by the fire department,
but nobody told the DWP.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So this thirteen hundred and fifty fire hydrants. That's the
fire department saying, hey, these are broken.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But they didn't tell the DWP to get the DWP
a chance to go fix them.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yes, okay, and by the way, this was publicly available information.
Channel two got it from the fire department through a
public records request. Now inside the DWP, the Channel two
report was met with surprise and alarm. The DWP relies
on the Fire Department to conduct annual inspections of the
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sixty six thousand fire hydrants, so this has to go
on every day. In August, DWP got an annual report
from the Fire Department documenting the status of the hydrants.
None were flagged as requiring repairs. Sixty six thousand fire hydrants.
None of them were broken according to the Fire department.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Okay, question about these fire hydrants, I mean, I guess
maybe moving on in the future, but none of them.
So they don't have an automatic alert that would go
and alert DWP that there's a problem with the fire
with hydrants.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That is a great point.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
It's like it's like for all the smart devices we
have now exactly and when something's not working in your house.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Fire hydrants, I mean fire hydrants, you.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Would think, and.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
This is coming from Genie Kenonis, who's trying to save
her rear end, so she is now going public and
blaming the fire department. Since the Palisades fire happened, the
DWP has said repeatedly, we don't have any records of
damaged hydrants, and it turned out they were telling the truth.
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They didn't get the report from the fire department until
February fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Two days after Channel two did the story.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
So Channel two does the story and somebody at the
fire department go, oh, yeah, you know, here's the list.
One thousand, three hundred and fifty. Think about that. One
three hundred and fifty hydrants in the city busted in August,
they said zero Keinonias spoke at the board of what
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are Empower.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Commissioners this week.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
The report received on the fourteenth was completely different than
the report we received in August, and Selmo Collins' Chief
of Water Operations says any assertion that the Department of
Water and Power received information about damage and didn't do
anything regarding the hydrants as incorrect. Well is the thing
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why Kristin Crowley's not going to survive tomorrow because she
is as culpable as Karen Bassier and as Genie kinnonians
all three of these women have to go. Chief Crowley's
having no comment until the meeting. I hope they all
devour each other.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I hope somebody is going all around la and checking
all the fire hydrants because again, what we're in March, Yeah, right,
summer is going to be here before we know it.
And we know what that means.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, the Santa Ana winds will blow yep. Each year,
the DW pay pays the fire department two and a
half million dollars. By the way, that comes from the
money we pay for what are in power. That's that's
my bill and your bill. Yeah, two and a half
million dollars goes to the fire department to carry out
the inspections and file the reports. They did the inspections,
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they didn't do the reports.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And semol Collin and said, in twenty twenty one we
only got five hydrants that needed to be repaired. In
twenty twenty two, three hundred and seventy five. Well that's
not logical.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah, something doesn't make sense there.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And then what it goes down to zero and now
it's back up the one thousand, three hundred and fifty.
Here is Joe Romalo, chief of Communications for the DWP.
The idea that somehow there were thirteen hundred and fifty
hydrants was completely news to us. One hundred and twenty
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of the hydrants were listed as dry, some had broken valves,
some had a bent, tight or damaged stem. More than
one hundred were leaking, some were blocked by vegetation. They're
just all really bad at what they do. They're just
they're they're stupid, they're lazy, they're incompetent, and everybody's going, well,
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I don't know, here's a genius. Neurit cats a commissioner
on the DWP. Seems like getting a thousand repairs hal
at once is not that helpful for our teams in
terms of ensuring that they're done. What thanks neurate hire
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for intelligence. If you hire for IQ, things have a
better chance of working out. You hire vegetables, it's not
gonna be so good.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
After four o'clock. We posted online It's John Cobelt Show
on demand. The podcast, same as the radio show, actually
goes a little quicker because they cut everything on a
debor's news out a well by then it's not news anymore.
So that's true unless you want to stay and do
live news up days.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
No, no, no, I've been here.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
All right, all right, I thought there's an opportunity there. Anyway,
after four o'clock you can hear it. Now, got the
news again at three and then Carl Demile coming on
the Republican assemblyman. Boy, he's caused a big rock us
up in Sacramento doing that. It was something that nobody
in either party has ever done before at a budget hearing.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
And he's on the budget subcommittee. Well, he was on
the committee. You'll see what happened.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Carl Demio said, Hey, there's twenty five million dollars for
some COVID workplace outreach program.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
What the hell is that?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, he investigated and found out it's a slush fund
to pay off seventy six left wing activist groups who
do all kinds of political nonsense. Had nothing to do
with the COVID safety workplace. It was just a flush
slush fund paying off political buddies. And as soon as
he went public with the information, Robert Reevis the Democratic
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Assembly speaker he runs the Assembly. Revis kicked Tomo off
the committee for telling the truth and exposing the corruption,
which I assume Revis was aware of. Right, well, we'll see.
We're gonna talk to Carl Demo coming up. This is
just a little tiny pebble. I mean, the whole mountain
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of corruption is it really is overwhelming. You think the
stuff in Washington, I said this last week. The Washington
stuff is extremely bad. You're gonna see it's gonna be
worse and worse. It's gonna be hundreds of billions, trillions
of dollars of waste and fraud. But I think on
a percentage basis, I think you're gonna find someday that
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Sacramento and Los Angeles are even worse that much. Most
of the money is going for waste and fraud. And
this is just a little This is a grain of
sand in the ocean. Now, as if there aren't enough troubles,
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this is a real thing. La County has another huge
payout that potentially could be so big. La County may
go bankrupt. This is a real deal here. The San
Francisco Chronicle turns out, for decades, since the nineteen fifties,
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for some reason, whoever was running La County hired people
who liked to abuse children physically and sexually. They could
be in foster care, juvenile detention, any County program where
children were being housed or supposedly cared for. Seven thousand
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people have sued. There was an Assembly bill a few
years ago which extended the age limit to fire to
file child sex abuse claims from age twenty six to
age forty, and opened a three year window for people
to file lawsuits even if the allegations were older than that.
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And that window closed at the end of twenty twenty two,
and there was a rush of lawsuits in the weeks
before the deadline. And now there's seven thousand people who
say they were sexually abused, sexually abused by La County employees.
Why is there so much desire on the part of
government workers to have sex with young children? Why is
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this such a compulsion, Why so many government workers here?
Seven thousand, seven thousand children violated over the years by
people hired paid with tax money. We paid for all
these perverts. And the LA County lawyers, the county's panicking.
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The lawyers say, if all those cases were to proceed
to a verdict, the liability could be in the tens
of billions of dollars and bankrupt the county. Even if
the county agrees to settle all the cases, projected liability
is in the billions of dollars, and then they can't
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do anything else.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
They don't have money for the wildfires. Oh, this is rich.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The lawyers say it would impede La County's ability to
combat homelessness. The county has no ability to do that.
You could take away all their money and the homelessness
will be the same. In fact, the more money they
put in, the worse it's gotten. The county has a
forty nine billion dollar budget, so you could see.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
This. This is overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Now, there's a lawyer named Roger Booth who's representing eighty clients,
and he says public institutions often make dramatic claims, it's
part of the game. But there's a director of government
finance research at the University of Illinois, Deborah Carroll. She
says it's very possible that La County could go bankrupt
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because of the sheer number of claims against the county,
and the county's finances.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Are pretty bad to begin with.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You know, the wildfires is going to cost a tremendous
amount of money, and with other things going on, you know,
the Trump is threatening to cut aid to California governments.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Oh wow, I might have.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
To get rid of your sanctuary city obsession. And she
says it would be very difficult for LA to cover
this kind of massive liability. The state would have to
bail them out. The state doesn't have any money. Ventura
County said they're in trouble too, and they've been fighting this,
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this whole concept of allowing sex abuse victims to file
lawsuits decades after the abuse took place, and opening up
these special windows. You know, after that whole me Too movement,
the left wing legislatures raised each other, who's going to.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Who's going to.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Allow the most victims to get some kind of compensation?
And everybody understands why. But I don't think anybody knew
there were seven thousand of them here in La County.
Seven thousand people still alive.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And I.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's astonishing that that many sick, oh, perverts, because when
you're when you're forcing sex on children, it's obviously violent,
it's obviously a sick obsession. How did we end up
getting thousands of these people in county government over the years.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
How could that be? Some of the other.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Some other judgments are coming in San Francisco had to
pay four and a half million dollars to two students
high school they were sexually abused by the school's former
athletic director. Oakland had to pay a half million dollars
for a student to set a school employee molested and
threatened her, going back to the nineteen seventies. It's just
a trickle right now, But there's gonna be the damn
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is gonna break. This is what the government employees do.
They go after troubled kids and they sexually violate them,
and then when they go home, they go home to
their families and their kids, and we end up employing
them all. That's probably why they wanted the jobs too.
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That's why they take That's why they take jobs. Who
really wants to work with troubled kids unless you had
this sexual desire. I mean, that's a tough job to do,
all right. Carl de Meyo coming on after four o'clock.
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He got kicked off the Budget committee for telling the truth.
He found some ridiculous COVID twenty five million dollars. COVID
workplace funding project turns out to be massive, stinking cesspool
of a slush fund for left wing political activist groups.
He got kicked off by the idiot Robert Reeves, who's
the Assembly speaker. That's all coming up after two when
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we come back.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I believe I have I have an animal story.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
And we're gonna have Carl Demyo on Carla Bio kicked
off the budget committee. He's a Republican assemblyman at a
say Diego and he's joined the budget committee and he's
making a ruckus. He's pointing out how much money is
getting wasted. And on Friday he discussed the twenty five
million dollars for some strange COVID nineteen workplace outreach program
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and he said, well, what is this? And it turns
out to be a massive slush fund that the Democratic
legislators use to pay seventy six different left wing political
organizations nonprofits. It's just out and out corruption.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And once.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Carl start talking about it, Robert Reefis, the Assembly speaker,
freaked out and kicked.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Kick Carl off.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
The committee five o'clock on Friday, which is when they
do things like that hoping the media doesn't notice.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So we'll talk about that, all right. I promised you
an animal story. He did.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I didn't exactly know how to pitch this to you
because it starts out as a terrible story.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I don't like terrible.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It's really terrible, terrible, but there is a conclusion to it.
Do you remember this has gone on for almost ten
years in northern California. Do you remember when baby harbor
seals were washing on shore and they were missing their heads? No? Yes, yes,
I remember this. Carcasses of headless baby harbor seals. They
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started washing up on the coastline and for years the
rocks near Fort Bragg spattered with blood because the bodies
had been dragged along the rocks. There were tracks in
the sand. Somebody was killing the baby seals. And this
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goes back to twenty fifteen, and the seals were all
appearing on the same stretch of beach. Each showed signs
of massive hemorrhaging around the head and neck, puncture wounds
in the skull. They'd been hunted down. And the sightings
kept increasing, you know, because they always do seal counts right,
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And they said they couldn't figure out, like who's doing this?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Is it an animal? Is it a person?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Is And by twenty twenty three they put a camera
out there, a timed camera trap. Took them that long
to do that, Yeah, and they thought maybe we'd have
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to run this camera for months or years. But in
two nights on an April evening in twenty twenty three,
a coyote came onto the screen, hauling one of the
pupps through the brush, its eyes glowing in the darkness,
it circled its prey for gnawing off its eggs oh gosh,
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and digging in for the meal its brain. Ew John
coyotes liked to eat seal brains, and that is why
these maybe seals were washing up dead headless blood all
over the rocks. There's now a report in the journal
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Ecology describing how wide spread the hunting behavior is, and.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
One kill means many meals.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four of these researchers
documented fifty nine of these of these kills across three
sites in northern California, Marin County. They were sort of sneaky.
They would try to approach, and this is the coyotes
trying to approach larger groups of seals and then grabbing
the slowest or the closest one, killing them with bites
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to the back of the head. And they'd lug the
body around, find a place for safe keeping so god
wouldn't get washed away by the tide, and then they'd
snack on the rest later. They would like have a
little brain now, a little more brain later.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Okay, John, we get it.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And going for brains might seem unusual, but it's a
matter of convenience. And they've seen this before. Hyenas do this,
wolves in Alaskan, British Columbia, and this is widespread behavior.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Is So if they had put a camera back in
twenty fifteen, I don't know, maybe we wouldn't have so
many baby seals murdered. That's right, Okay, So when that
happens again, remember to put a camera.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Took them eight years to think of it camera.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
I know, I'm surprised coyotes. I mean, I don't know.
I mean, I know some dogs like to get wet.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
You think that's right, that's why you be wary walking
your dog. I am every day, not letting your cats
out of the house. Don't leave a baby unattended, all right,
because very obvious the brains taste good. That's what the
seals like. You think my you think my diet?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
It is awful? Right?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Yeah, I do, Actually, I know you do.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
All right? That coyote that's worse.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Are we're comparing yourself to a coyote?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Now, okay, a carnivore? The predator.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Oh, you're a predator too, imator?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Carl Demayo is coming on. He got you got kicked
off the Budget committee in Sacramento because he told the truth.
They're spending twenty five million dollars on a slush fund.
They claim it's for COVID outreach. It's actually payouts to
wacky left wing political groups. Carl Demio kicked off by
Robert Reeves, the Assembly speaker. That's next.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Got to listen to this.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
There's so much of this. Debora Mark live in the
CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the
show live on KFI AM six forty from one to
four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime
on demand on the iHeartRadio app,
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty you're listening to the John Cobel
podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're gonna have Carl Demayo
on the Republican Assemblyman from San Diego next hour.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Last week, he exposed at.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
A budget hearing he's on the budget subcommittee, that Gavin
Newsom and the Democratic leaders were spending twenty five million
dollars allegedly on some kind of COVID workplace fund.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And it turns out it was a total scam.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
He found out it was seventy six political activist organizations
who were getting slush fund money.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And as soon as.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The Democratic Assembly Speaker Robert Reevis heard what Carl was exposing,
he kicked Carl off the committee. And what Carl exposed
is true. Newsom and Revis, we're spending twenty five million
(01:00):
dollars on a slush fund to enrich seventy six left
wing political organizations and lying that it was COVID money
and there's no need to be spending anything on COVID anyway.
But they weren't. Because there's no need to spend money
on COVID, they weren't. They were blowing the money on
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things like ballot harvesting. So it's a major scandal. And
Robert Reeves, the Democratic Assembly leader, kicked a mile off
the committee, which is why none of the other Republicans
ever brought this stuff up. They knew, they knew this
(01:42):
stuff was going on, but they were afraid, and Tomio
wasn't afraid. All right, we'll talk to Carl coming up.
And by the way, this is one tiny little sliver.
There is a huge, overwhelming amount of corruption and theft
and moneylaws going on. Sacramento is a is a criminal
(02:04):
money laundering and theft operation funded by your tax money.
Eventually everyone's going to get it. Eventually they will. They're
you know where I think much of the country has
figured out. That's what Washington, DC is about. It's a
big corrupt theft and money laundering operation. We'll get to
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that at three o'clock hour. Here's something that's been going on, Yeah,
that sanctuary city policy here in Los Angeles that Karen
bass is so enamored with. Federal agents today arrested two
men from Guatemala, Eduardo Domingo Renojes Matul and Cristobal Mehehi
(02:48):
Mahea Shaj. They are accused of You're not going to
believe this moving twenty thousand illegal immigrants, the largest human
smuggling operation in the United States, twenty thousand illegal immigrants
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based here in LA. There's your sanctuary city, huh. The
acting US Attorney Joseph mcdonnely said, the smuggling organizations have
no regard for human life. Their conduct kills. The indictment
and arrests have dismantled one of the country's largest and
most dangerous smuggling organization. And there's one guy still at large.
(03:39):
He's described as a lieutenant in the smuggling operation. His
name is Helmer obispo Hernandez. Last week he threatened to
cut the head off of a federal agent. Yeah, but
we give him sanctuary here in Los Angeles. Karen Bass
gives sanctuary to a guy who wants to cut a
federal agent's hat off. Those other two other guys they
(04:03):
charged jose pakstor ox Lage. He's actually prison in Oklahoma
a car crash two years ago that killed seven illegal aliens,
including five from the same family.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
See, this is what they do.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
They smuggle these poor people over and some of them
die brutal deaths. But it's all protected by Carrot Vass's
sanctuary city policy. Renoje Mattoul, whose nickname is Turco, was
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the ringleader. He worked with others in Guatemala who had
charged migrants fifteen to eighteen thousand dollars for safe passage
to the US, and then they were charged again once
they got here to be transported to other cities across
the country.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Moved to at least twenty states. In Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Migrants who did not pay were held hostage in a
stash house in Los Angeles, but they all had sanctuary protection.
You imagine that these characters were holding many hostages in
a stash house.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We didn't do anything about it. Here.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
In one incident last year, the ringleader again, his name
is Eduardo Domingo Renojes Matul, he called the mother of
a migrant that he was holding hostage. This was a
woman and threatened that she would come home in a
box if the smuggling fees weren't paid. That's Renaj Matoul
protected by Karen Vass's sanctuary policies. And they're still looking
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for the guy who wants to cut the Homeland Security
officer's head off. Yeah, this makes for a a safe
and healthy community.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That the that the you know, this is this is
what she she's She's so monstrously dangerous. She's gotten away
for so long with her sweet little grandma smile, but
her policies are so atrocious. I still can't get over
the last segment that she seemed to have no curiosity
about the fires at all. I hope tomorrow is going
(06:28):
to be crazy. I really do, because tomorrow I don't
know what time, but but Kristin Crowley is going to
face her uh face the city council. She's going to
appeal her firing. Now I think she gets to make
a statement. I mean, I haven't I haven't seen too
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many of these. So she gets to make a statement,
and uh the council, the council is probably gonna want
to do this quickly. Most of the councils against her.
But well, I hope she I hope she goes scorched
to earth and just tells the truth that Bass and
the city council wildly underfunded the police department, and that
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Bass showed no interest in the fire, never poked her
head up. Just dis beard Africa, see it the President's calling.
President Biden wants me in Africa. Okay, it's all right,
we'll just watch the palisades burn.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Karen, no problem.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And Crowley, of course has plenty of blame on her
shoulders too, clearly from these text messages. In fact, if
nobody knew what they were doing, nobody was prepared, nobody
knew what to do. They were quickly overwhelmed. They all
need to go. They really all need to go, and
not replaced by the b team that's currently inhabiting the
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city council and the rest of the bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
There's got to.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Be like an outside change here and start running things normally.
These people are human disasters, every one of them. In fact,
as long as we're on this subject, today's bombshell story
from the La Times. The fire Department, again run by
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Kristin Crowley, did not tell the DWP that a thousand
fire hydrants were broken. A thousand fire hydrants were broken,
and Crowley never told Jennie Kinonie is about it? What
do these people do all day? What are they doing? Hey?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
John, I have a little info on Crowley for tomorrow.
So the city Council is going to meet at ten
tomorrow morning. Yeah, and Crowley her hope. Well whatever her appeal,
her appeal, yeah, is the last thing on the agenda.
But we will break in. We will go to it
live as soon as we have.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, are they gonna is there gonna be audio and
TV code?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I'm sure we have Michael Monks that's going to be there,
and I would assume that all the local TV stations
and I'm sure the LA City Council Facebook page.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
But we are on it, and we are gonna.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, she's got nothing to lose, she should she should go.
And that's this is what I would do. Of course,
I don't think I would be this incompetent. But but
between Bass, mar Keith, Harris, Dawson, Canoniez, there's there's a
lot of targets here. The lady run in the emergency center.
Go read the text, Go to ABC seven their reporter
(09:35):
had the uh had the news.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Go read some of the texts.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You get the idea totally incompetent, totally inept, overwhelmed, useless,
zero zero zero zero. All of them. Tell you about
the fire hydrants. Can you imagine, let's say you're running
the fire department. You know there's a thousand fire hydrants.
Would you tell the d WP, since they have a
(09:59):
role here, would you tell them? We'll talk about it
we come back.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You can follow us at John Cobilt Radio on social media.
So everything I'm about to tell you is true. If
you haven't heard about this, you're not going to believe this.
But this is from Channel two KCBS and also the
Los Angeles Times. The LA Fire Department, the DWP has.
(10:38):
The DWP has jurisdiction over fire hydrants, but they pay
millions of dollars to the fire department to do the inspections.
So the fire department is supposed to do the inspections,
see which hydrants are broken, report back to the DWP.
There were more than one thousand five fire hydrants broken.
(11:03):
This is as of mid February. This is as of
two and a half weeks ago. A thousand fire hydrants broken.
The Los Angeles Fire Department didn't tell the DWP about
any of them. Who runs the Los Angeles Fire Department?
Uh oh, Kristin Crowley, right, a thousand fire How do
(11:29):
a thousand fire hydrants break? And the DWP doesn't hear
about how does that happen? There must be a fire
hydrant bureau at the at the fire department.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I was going to say, aren't these checked repeatedly? I
mean this is such an important I mean so important.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
If the fire hydrants are busted, there's no way to
put out the fire, obviously. You see how this happened
for those idiots out there, and you know there's still
a couple of trolls online.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Are you a ralli? There's nothing you.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, right, reservoir empty, thousand fire hydrants don't work. Nobody
deployed that morning at the spot where they had a
fire six weeks, six days earlier.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
All right, I wouldn't it matter.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I'm guessing it's somebody in Karen Bass's office and they
write under pseudonyms and they go on these neighborhood these
next door apps, right, and people are upset obviously because
there's thousands of people without homes and slides of them
are destroyed. So they go on the next door app
(12:37):
to talk about it, and there's this troll maybe it's
Karen Bass yourself under an assumed name. It starts fighting
with them, claiming that Bass is not to be blamed
for anything. And the smart thing to do is to
not respond because it it that can't be a real person,
No sane person could possibly have that opinion. This is
(12:59):
not a debate of a point, but they start and
then people start yelling at the guy whoever it is. Uh.
The fire department discovered the damage to the hydrants during
inspections in the months before the Palisades fire. So some
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of these hydrants were in the Palisades. Remember, the firefighters
had low water pressure, you know it really it wasn't
the empty reservoir wasn't going to make a difference, you know,
because of the low water pressure.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Low water pressure came from the.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Broken hydrants that the fire department did not flag and
tell to the DWP. February twelfth is when Channel two
reported that there was one thousand, three hundred and fifty
fire hydrants that needed repairs. Some of them had been
(13:59):
flagged as early as January of twenty twenty four, a
year ago. They have been sitting busted for a year,
but those.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Were reported, No, they were not reported.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Some of these repairs were flagged by the fire department,
but nobody told the DWP.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So this thirteen hundred and fifty fire hydrants. That's the
fire department saying, hey, these are broken.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But they didn't tell the DWP to get the DWP
a chance to go fix them.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yes, okay, and by the way, this was publicly available information.
Channel two got it from the fire department through a
public records request. Now inside the DWP, the Channel two
report was met with surprise and alarm. The DWP relies
on the Fire Department to conduct annual inspections of the
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sixty six thousand fire hydrants, so this has to go
on every day. In August, DWP got an annual report
from the Fire Department documenting the status of the hydrants.
None were flagged as requiring repairs. Sixty six thousand fire hydrants.
None of them were broken according to the Fire department.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Okay, question about these fire hydrants, I mean, I guess
maybe moving on in the future, but none of them.
So they don't have an automatic alert that would go
and alert DWP that there's a problem with the fire
with hydrants.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That is a great point.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
It's like it's like for all the smart devices we
have now exactly and when something's not working in your house.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Fire hydrants, I mean fire hydrants, you.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Would think, and.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
This is coming from Genie Kenonis, who's trying to save
her rear end, so she is now going public and
blaming the fire department. Since the Palisades fire happened, the
DWP has said repeatedly, we don't have any records of
damaged hydrants, and it turned out they were telling the truth.
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They didn't get the report from the fire department until
February fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Two days after Channel two did the story.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
So Channel two does the story and somebody at the
fire department go, oh, yeah, you know, here's the list.
One thousand, three hundred and fifty. Think about that. One
three hundred and fifty hydrants in the city busted in August,
they said zero Keinonias spoke at the board of what
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are Empower.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Commissioners this week.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
The report received on the fourteenth was completely different than
the report we received in August, and Selmo Collins' Chief
of Water Operations says any assertion that the Department of
Water and Power received information about damage and didn't do
anything regarding the hydrants as incorrect. Well is the thing
(17:00):
why Kristin Crowley's not going to survive tomorrow because she
is as culpable as Karen Bassier and as Genie kinnonians
all three of these women have to go. Chief Crowley's
having no comment until the meeting. I hope they all
devour each other.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I hope somebody is going all around la and checking
all the fire hydrants because again, what we're in March, Yeah, right,
summer is going to be here before we know it.
And we know what that means.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, the Santa Ana winds will blow yep. Each year,
the DW pay pays the fire department two and a
half million dollars. By the way, that comes from the
money we pay for what are in power. That's that's
my bill and your bill. Yeah, two and a half
million dollars goes to the fire department to carry out
the inspections and file the reports. They did the inspections,
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they didn't do the reports.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And semol Collin and said, in twenty twenty one we
only got five hydrants that needed to be repaired. In
twenty twenty two, three hundred and seventy five. Well that's
not logical.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah, something doesn't make sense there.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And then what it goes down to zero and now
it's back up the one thousand, three hundred and fifty.
Here is Joe Romalo, chief of Communications for the DWP.
The idea that somehow there were thirteen hundred and fifty
hydrants was completely news to us. One hundred and twenty
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of the hydrants were listed as dry, some had broken valves,
some had a bent, tight or damaged stem. More than
one hundred were leaking, some were blocked by vegetation. They're
just all really bad at what they do. They're just
they're they're stupid, they're lazy, they're incompetent, and everybody's going, well,
(18:56):
I don't know, here's a genius. Neurit cats a commissioner
on the DWP. Seems like getting a thousand repairs hal
at once is not that helpful for our teams in
terms of ensuring that they're done. What thanks neurate hire
(19:20):
for intelligence. If you hire for IQ, things have a
better chance of working out. You hire vegetables, it's not
gonna be so good.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
After four o'clock. We posted online It's John Cobelt Show
on demand. The podcast, same as the radio show, actually
goes a little quicker because they cut everything on a
debor's news out a well by then it's not news anymore.
So that's true unless you want to stay and do
live news up days.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
No, no, no, I've been here.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
All right, all right, I thought there's an opportunity there. Anyway,
after four o'clock you can hear it. Now, got the
news again at three and then Carl Demile coming on
the Republican assemblyman. Boy, he's caused a big rock us
up in Sacramento doing that. It was something that nobody
in either party has ever done before at a budget hearing.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
And he's on the budget subcommittee. Well, he was on
the committee. You'll see what happened.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Carl Demio said, Hey, there's twenty five million dollars for
some COVID workplace outreach program.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
What the hell is that?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, he investigated and found out it's a slush fund
to pay off seventy six left wing activist groups who
do all kinds of political nonsense. Had nothing to do
with the COVID safety workplace. It was just a flush
slush fund paying off political buddies. And as soon as
he went public with the information, Robert Reevis the Democratic
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Assembly speaker he runs the Assembly. Revis kicked Tomo off
the committee for telling the truth and exposing the corruption,
which I assume Revis was aware of. Right, well, we'll see.
We're gonna talk to Carl Demo coming up. This is
just a little tiny pebble. I mean, the whole mountain
(21:14):
of corruption is it really is overwhelming. You think the
stuff in Washington, I said this last week. The Washington
stuff is extremely bad. You're gonna see it's gonna be
worse and worse. It's gonna be hundreds of billions, trillions
of dollars of waste and fraud. But I think on
a percentage basis, I think you're gonna find someday that
(21:39):
Sacramento and Los Angeles are even worse that much. Most
of the money is going for waste and fraud. And
this is just a little This is a grain of
sand in the ocean. Now, as if there aren't enough troubles,
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this is a real thing. La County has another huge
payout that potentially could be so big. La County may
go bankrupt. This is a real deal here. The San
Francisco Chronicle turns out, for decades, since the nineteen fifties,
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for some reason, whoever was running La County hired people
who liked to abuse children physically and sexually. They could
be in foster care, juvenile detention, any County program where
children were being housed or supposedly cared for. Seven thousand
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people have sued. There was an Assembly bill a few
years ago which extended the age limit to fire to
file child sex abuse claims from age twenty six to
age forty, and opened a three year window for people
to file lawsuits even if the allegations were older than that.
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And that window closed at the end of twenty twenty two,
and there was a rush of lawsuits in the weeks
before the deadline. And now there's seven thousand people who
say they were sexually abused, sexually abused by La County employees.
Why is there so much desire on the part of
government workers to have sex with young children? Why is
(23:36):
this such a compulsion, Why so many government workers here?
Seven thousand, seven thousand children violated over the years by
people hired paid with tax money. We paid for all
these perverts. And the LA County lawyers, the county's panicking.
(24:00):
The lawyers say, if all those cases were to proceed
to a verdict, the liability could be in the tens
of billions of dollars and bankrupt the county. Even if
the county agrees to settle all the cases, projected liability
is in the billions of dollars, and then they can't
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do anything else.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
They don't have money for the wildfires. Oh, this is rich.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The lawyers say it would impede La County's ability to
combat homelessness. The county has no ability to do that.
You could take away all their money and the homelessness
will be the same. In fact, the more money they
put in, the worse it's gotten. The county has a
forty nine billion dollar budget, so you could see.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
This. This is overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Now, there's a lawyer named Roger Booth who's representing eighty clients,
and he says public institutions often make dramatic claims, it's
part of the game. But there's a director of government
finance research at the University of Illinois, Deborah Carroll. She
says it's very possible that La County could go bankrupt
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because of the sheer number of claims against the county,
and the county's finances.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Are pretty bad to begin with.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You know, the wildfires is going to cost a tremendous
amount of money, and with other things going on, you know,
the Trump is threatening to cut aid to California governments.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Oh wow, I might have.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
To get rid of your sanctuary city obsession. And she
says it would be very difficult for LA to cover
this kind of massive liability. The state would have to
bail them out. The state doesn't have any money. Ventura
County said they're in trouble too, and they've been fighting this,
(26:05):
this whole concept of allowing sex abuse victims to file
lawsuits decades after the abuse took place, and opening up
these special windows. You know, after that whole me Too movement,
the left wing legislatures raised each other, who's going to.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Who's going to.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Allow the most victims to get some kind of compensation?
And everybody understands why. But I don't think anybody knew
there were seven thousand of them here in La County.
Seven thousand people still alive.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And I.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's astonishing that that many sick, oh, perverts, because when
you're when you're forcing sex on children, it's obviously violent,
it's obviously a sick obsession. How did we end up
getting thousands of these people in county government over the years.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
How could that be? Some of the other.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Some other judgments are coming in San Francisco had to
pay four and a half million dollars to two students
high school they were sexually abused by the school's former
athletic director. Oakland had to pay a half million dollars
for a student to set a school employee molested and
threatened her, going back to the nineteen seventies. It's just
a trickle right now, But there's gonna be the damn
(27:35):
is gonna break. This is what the government employees do.
They go after troubled kids and they sexually violate them,
and then when they go home, they go home to
their families and their kids, and we end up employing
them all. That's probably why they wanted the jobs too.
(27:57):
That's why they take That's why they take jobs. Who
really wants to work with troubled kids unless you had
this sexual desire. I mean, that's a tough job to do,
all right. Carl de Meyo coming on after four o'clock.
(28:17):
He got kicked off the Budget committee for telling the truth.
He found some ridiculous COVID twenty five million dollars. COVID
workplace funding project turns out to be massive, stinking cesspool
of a slush fund for left wing political activist groups.
He got kicked off by the idiot Robert Reeves, who's
the Assembly speaker. That's all coming up after two when
(28:41):
we come back.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I believe I have I have an animal story.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
And we're gonna have Carl Demyo on Carla Bio kicked
off the budget committee. He's a Republican assemblyman at a
say Diego and he's joined the budget committee and he's
making a ruckus. He's pointing out how much money is
getting wasted. And on Friday he discussed the twenty five
million dollars for some strange COVID nineteen workplace outreach program
(29:18):
and he said, well, what is this? And it turns
out to be a massive slush fund that the Democratic
legislators use to pay seventy six different left wing political
organizations nonprofits. It's just out and out corruption.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And once.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Carl start talking about it, Robert Reefis, the Assembly speaker,
freaked out and kicked.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Kick Carl off.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
The committee five o'clock on Friday, which is when they
do things like that hoping the media doesn't notice.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So we'll talk about that, all right. I promised you
an animal story. He did.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I didn't exactly know how to pitch this to you
because it starts out as a terrible story.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I don't like terrible.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It's really terrible, terrible, but there is a conclusion to it.
Do you remember this has gone on for almost ten
years in northern California. Do you remember when baby harbor
seals were washing on shore and they were missing their heads? No? Yes, yes,
I remember this. Carcasses of headless baby harbor seals. They
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started washing up on the coastline and for years the
rocks near Fort Bragg spattered with blood because the bodies
had been dragged along the rocks. There were tracks in
the sand. Somebody was killing the baby seals. And this
(30:54):
goes back to twenty fifteen, and the seals were all
appearing on the same stretch of beach. Each showed signs
of massive hemorrhaging around the head and neck, puncture wounds
in the skull. They'd been hunted down. And the sightings
kept increasing, you know, because they always do seal counts right,
(31:16):
And they said they couldn't figure out, like who's doing this?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Is it an animal? Is it a person?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Is And by twenty twenty three they put a camera
out there, a timed camera trap. Took them that long
to do that, Yeah, and they thought maybe we'd have
(31:41):
to run this camera for months or years. But in
two nights on an April evening in twenty twenty three,
a coyote came onto the screen, hauling one of the
pupps through the brush, its eyes glowing in the darkness,
it circled its prey for gnawing off its eggs oh gosh,
(32:02):
and digging in for the meal its brain. Ew John
coyotes liked to eat seal brains, and that is why
these maybe seals were washing up dead headless blood all
over the rocks. There's now a report in the journal
(32:24):
Ecology describing how wide spread the hunting behavior is, and.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
One kill means many meals.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four of these researchers
documented fifty nine of these of these kills across three
sites in northern California, Marin County. They were sort of sneaky.
They would try to approach, and this is the coyotes
trying to approach larger groups of seals and then grabbing
the slowest or the closest one, killing them with bites
(32:59):
to the back of the head. And they'd lug the
body around, find a place for safe keeping so god
wouldn't get washed away by the tide, and then they'd
snack on the rest later. They would like have a
little brain now, a little more brain later.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Okay, John, we get it.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And going for brains might seem unusual, but it's a
matter of convenience. And they've seen this before. Hyenas do this,
wolves in Alaskan, British Columbia, and this is widespread behavior.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Is So if they had put a camera back in
twenty fifteen, I don't know, maybe we wouldn't have so
many baby seals murdered. That's right, Okay, So when that
happens again, remember to put a camera.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Took them eight years to think of it camera.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
I know, I'm surprised coyotes. I mean, I don't know.
I mean, I know some dogs like to get wet.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
You think that's right, that's why you be wary walking
your dog. I am every day, not letting your cats
out of the house. Don't leave a baby unattended, all right,
because very obvious the brains taste good. That's what the
seals like. You think my you think my diet?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
It is awful? Right?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Yeah, I do, Actually, I know you do.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
All right? That coyote that's worse.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Are we're comparing yourself to a coyote?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Now, okay, a carnivore? The predator.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Oh, you're a predator too, imator?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Carl Demayo is coming on. He got you got kicked
off the Budget committee in Sacramento because he told the truth.
They're spending twenty five million dollars on a slush fund.
They claim it's for COVID outreach. It's actually payouts to
wacky left wing political groups. Carl Demio kicked off by
Robert Reeves, the Assembly speaker. That's next.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Got to listen to this.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
There's so much of this. Debora Mark live in the
CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
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