April 1, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (04/01) - Senator Cory Booker has been speaking on the Senate floor for over 18 hours. Sales tax in LA County is officially 9.75%. Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the LA County Board of Supervisors voting on possibly taking over LAHSA. John recounts an encounter with a homeless man.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Now we are Is he still talking?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's a different senator now. He yielded for a question,
and so another senator's given him some help.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
All right, that's how he takes his breaks. We're talking
about Corey Booker. He's this nutball senator from New Jersey
who has been babbling on the Senate floor for eighteen hours,
probably more than that now, right, Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And this is not.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
A philipbuster, because philibusters are when a senator won'tsp talking
so he can block a bill from being voted on,
and it's try to gain leverage against the other party
and they never work. But he's just giving a speech
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and he started around seven o'clock last night, and it's
an anti Trump tirade eighteen hours worth because they can't
figure out what to do. Trump has blown through like
a tornado, you know, with one hundred or two hundred
executive orders. He's affecting so many different issues. They don't
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know how to stop him. The public is behind Trump
on a lot of these issues, with a few glaring exceptions,
but it's really a revolution. And you know, they've tried
all these other public relations tactics.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean, you know, they're blown up tesla's.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And they're they're they're dropping f bombs that their public appearances.
So finally, Corey Book, I thought, well what if I
start talking and I never stopped.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
He's talking. Now, he's talking. Now let's bring him. This
is live.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Parents who are struggling to take care of their parents
and their children, who rely on Medicaid because a parent
has Alzheimer's and a child has a disability. They're trying to.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Make it all work.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
But yet they're shackled in fear because they see this
is his nineteenth hour to a House Committee Energy and
Commerce was to find eight hundred and eighty billion dollars
of cuts to the programs that they are relying on.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
How do you get to nineteen hours where the material
like how do you organize it's liberated?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
He must be repeating some things by the terrify because
whatever he said at three in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Exactly dealing with well, he's had senators asking questions and
he can tell them like prompts.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, half renters in this country and I were both
local leaders.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
This sounds fascinating too, doesn't How many people were watching
he told me.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Paying So this is this audio is directly from Senator
Corey Booker's Twitter account, x account, whatever you wanna call it.
They're currently including US five hundred and thirty four point
seven thousand people watching.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I say, that's so a little bit of twisted non Christian.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
This gets half a million paper Huh.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I wonder if anybody has been watching since he started.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
You're connected to your community.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I don't even think his family members would.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Watch, you know, people that are struggling.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, what's the point of this. Eventually he's going to
stop or he's going to drop dead, and then what.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Because he's probably gearing up to run for president.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So yeah, he ran back in PAP but I forget
twenty sixteen or twenty twenty twenty twenty Maybetial Ruin.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I forget President doing his promise.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But he only lasted about five minutes to make their lives.
He lasted about as long as Kamala Harris did that year. Twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, Trump is calling his terriff's Liberatye he got nowhere.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I mean, I don't know what's going to remember when
he runs again.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Liberated from the bully neighbor that is Donald Trump. Do
you think Greenland feels liberated?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Greenland?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's right, there's a burning issue feels liberated.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
There's fifty seven thousand people in.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Greenland universities that are cutting ANIH funding, that are cutting
the scientific research that will cure the diseases in the future,
that will alleviate suffering that now aren't allowing.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh I guess we're all going to die.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
They're not hiring, they're slashing the number of engineering students
that they're allowing in because they're terrified because this president
is menacing in direct costs.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Huh is that liberation?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
See tomorrow is the Trump proclaimed liberation day because he's
going to unleash these tariffs on foreign countries trying to
import their products here. And Trump has said that these
countries put tariffs on our on our products, and that
it's unfair. Their tariffs are much higher than ours. So
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he wants to at least equalize and and put this
at least the same amount of because it's like a tax. Uh,
so that that people buy more American products, so we
have more American factories and more American jobs. I have
no idea if that's going to work or not, but
that that's what he's doing. And so that's what's triggered
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these the last few minutes of Corey Booker's rampage. So
he did this at seven o'clock at night, and every
once in a while another senator comes in and just
talks for a few minutes, ends with a question, and
then Booker pops up back. I guess he had a
snack or soda, and that's rice to go.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
To the restroom.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I for some reason, left wing progressive people love symbolic nonsense.
I mean, he's been in he's been in office a
number of years now. His party ran the House and
the Senate, and they had the presidency for two years.
And they still had the Senate and the presidency the
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last two years before Trump got re elected they could
have done whatever they wanted, and a lot of stuff
they ignored, like the border. In fact, they intentionally exacerbated
the illegal alien problem. A lot of stuff they did
turned out to be a disaster, you know, spending trillions
of extra dollars that had to be printed or borrowed,
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caused crazy inflation. You had your chance, you had your chance,
and you blew it badly, and you got repudiated by
much of the nation.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And now you're completely out of power.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You have you don't have the House, you don't have
the Senate, you don't have the presidency. Supreme Court is
stacked against you. Most of the governorships are Republican, majority
of the legislation, the legislative bodies in the States are Republican.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's it's it's the big wipeout.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's like when the asteroid hit the Earth and the
dinosaurs went extinct. You know, Trump, Trump was the asteroid.
You guys are the dinosaurs. You got to you got
to regenerate yourselves. And you can't keep selling woke nonsense.
Nobody wants to hear the woke nonsense anymore. That's said
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pathetic nineteen years and we'll check on it. In on
him a case and if he goes thump right, just
make sure you get that audio. I want to hear
him when he hits the ground. You got it, all right?
When we come back. What is wrong with people? The
taxes went up today? The sales tax went up today,
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a new tax, a new tax that has no expiration date,
and the majority of Los Angeles County voters approved of
this back in November, and today it kicks in.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What is wrong with you? It's for homelessness of all things.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Really, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
John Cobelt coming up after one point thirty. Michael Monks
from KFI News. The LA County Supervisors were voting today
whether they were going to create their own homeless agency
because the current homeless agency LASA, is a big failure
and people are just stealing money left and right. Oh
what a coincidence. Today's the first day of the new
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sales tax, which is supposed to go to LASA among
of their homeless agencies here in the city and in
the county.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Do you believe that in November the.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Majority of voters voted for a new tax because a
quarter sent homeless sales tax was going to run out,
so they voted yes on a half sent permanent sales
tax to replace it. They couldn't let the quarter sent
thing run out. Now it's half sent and there's no
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expiration date on it, and it's for homelessness. And four months,
five months after that vote, we find out La County
wants really nothing to do.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
With LASA because it's corrupt because they steal the money.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Funny how they didn't have this debate in this vote
before election day before Measure A passed, they get the
and a few months later, oh good, we got this
new pot of money. We could finance this new boondoggle,
another oversight agency. But you know, you may know this
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stuff because you listen to the show every day. You
listen to CAFI every day. But there's a lot of
lost souls out there in Debor's news. A little while ago,
I heard a couple of people interviewed by a reporter.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You want to play that again, Well, we voted for.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
It, then I guess we're just going to have to
do it, you know.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
But with the prices of everything going up now, we
didn't anticipate that when we voted for this, here's somebody else.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
I don't know what we can do about it, but
it needs a change because, I mean, things are already
expensive as it is.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
In a second, the inflation has been roaring for about
three years four years now. Oh, we didn't know the
prices were going to go up. The prices had been
going up. Prices are up like twenty thirty percent and more.
What do you mean we need to know the prices
were going up.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I just wonder how many people when they're voting, if
they really understand they if they really, if they really
get that prices you're voting for an increase that this
is a sales tax. It's going to stay forever.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
We're one of the highest taxed states in the nation.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
And in La County they voted to increase the sales
tax for homelessness of all things.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
How many stories have been out and I.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Know we don't have much of a media, but for
God's sakes, read something.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I mean, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
One of the dominating stories locally, if you're paying attention,
is that this agency the city they lost two and
a half billion dollars. In other words, they don't know
where it went. They can't account for it, it was spent,
but they don't know on but.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
LASA.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And we have a federal judge investigating David o'carter and
he's been holding hearings and he ordered an outside audit
because he the judge, doesn't understand where the money's going,
so he authorized the audit. And he still doesn't know
where the money's going because they couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
So I think the tax should be null and void.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It should be.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
These people going, I don't know what we could do
about it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Why don't you start a petition to repeal the tax.
That's what you do about it. You've been defrauded, you've
been conned. The money is stolen. The woman running LASA,
which is the City County Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority,
The woman who runs it is Valicia Adams Kellum. She
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gave a two million dollar contract to her husband's nonprofit.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
What else do you need to know? Do you need
any other.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Information than the woman running the agency shuffled shuffled over
two million dollars to her husband's outfit.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
We need a class action lawsuit so that we can
get the money back.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I'm astonished because this has been going on now for
eight years we passed these homeless taxes. There was a
city tax and a county tax eight years ago. Everything's
gotten worse. That's been well publicized. All you have to
do is use your own eyes. Just use your own eyesight.
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Even their counts, which I don't trust, still generally produces
increases from year to year. Why would you give this
beast more money? What's wrong with you? I'm trying to understand.
Is it just colossal ignorance.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
I think that when you have Mayor Bass and other
officials saying, oh, well, you know, the programs are working,
more people are going into shelters or tiny homes or
what have you. So we need more money to continue
this and get more people off the street. Because when
you talk about homeless in Los Angeles, it's pulling on
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people's heartstrings. As I said yesterday, people feel that if
they say no, I'm not gonna I don't want I
don't want to give more money for the homeless, that
other people will think that you're a horrible, horrible person.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Why why do you want Well, it's amazing how people
feel than they have this desire. I want to be
known as a good person. I'm going to vote, so
I can think of myself as a good person. I
am compassionate. I worry about humanity. You're not helping these people.
The money doesn't go to them. With all the money
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we've thrown at it, they all should be indoorsed somewhere
or transfer for it out of the county. It the
money is stolen by the nonprofits and by the government agencies.
It is in fact, well Valicia Adams Kellum, they had
a lossa She was supposed to appear in court before
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Judge Carter. She wasn't available. Why she was in Boston.
She was on a trip. Like Karen bash is in Africa,
Adams Kellum is in Boston, Kyle Fart, Ricardo Lara is
in is in Columbia. Instead of going to a Senate
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insurance hearing, all they do is travel and charge you.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
But John, we had people that didn't want Gascon to
be recalled, right, yeah, until it got so bad that
he lost the election. So something has to be so
profound so that really people have to really open their
eyes and then they're going to say, oh wait, oh wait,
we're paying more money at the store so that we're
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helping the homeless. But oh but the homeless. Oh, the
people don't know. Not everybody's listening to your show.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, and that's just just awful. You know, they should be.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Well because I don't think a lot of people understand
or even know that there's all this millions of dollars
are missing.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, yeah, hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean two
and a half billion, two and a half billion, big.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Billion billion dollars are missing.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And the judge calls in Karen Bass, It's like, there's
two and a half billion dollars missing. Oh, I don't know.
We got Michael Munks coming in next. Because the La
County Supervisors are voting to create their home, their own
homeless agency because they think loss of is a lost cause.
So on the day that the tax kicks in, they
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hold a vote basically saying that yeah, this loss of
thing that you're funding.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Uh, it's as we're separating ourselves.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and
then after four o'clock whatever you missed you get on
the iHeart app. It's John Cobelt Show on demand. The
podcast same as the radio show. We have been telling
you that today is a sales tax increase day at
La County because voters, maybe not you, but somebody else
passed a half cent tax increase for homelessness because a
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quarter cent homeless tax was expiring, well not till twenty
twenty seven, but they wanted to get a jump on things,
get that half cent surcharge going now. And the day
that the tax kicks in the day that you might
actually notice it is the same day that the La
County Supervisors are.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Having a vote whether to.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Sever themselves basically from LASA, which is the dominant homeless
agency where a lot of this money is supposed to
go to. They want to create their own new agency.
Today Michael Monks is covering the story. They haven't voted yet, have.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
They They have not. They've been an executive session for
the past few hours. They only just moments ago reconvened
in the main area where they meet and they have
just taken up this issue. So I don't know if
you've watched many La County Board of Supervisors meetings, but
zero way it works is all five of them get
a chance to talk and then it opens up the
public comment, maybe a staff member delivers a presentation, so
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it might be a while, but they are taking up
this issue right now.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
What specifically are they voting on? What would they do
if this proposal passes.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
This is a motion presented by Supervisor Lindsay Horvath, who
had served on the board of the LA Homeless Services
Authority for a while and decided that it's not going well.
All of the audits are looking too bad. We've got
to do our own thing to win the trust of
the citizens and make sure that the money is being
spent accordingly as they desired, especially after voting in favor
of giving more.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
But these are the same people who pushed this new
town and at the same time they're realizing that the
agency is a disaster.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
I think the key difference, if you were to ask
the government officials, is that LASA is governed by a
board with representatives from the county and the city. It's
a joint operation, but there are no city staffers or
county staffers who are writing the checks and doing any
internal auditing. They get reports they serve on the board.
You know, they could get this information, but it's not
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day to day direct oversight and I suppose that by
bringing it in house, if it is an actual government
agency rather than a quasi government agency, there's different levels
of scrutiny.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Well, why don't do that and then ask for a
tax increase after you've proved that the money is effective,
it's going where it's supposed to.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
You know, when this issue was headed towards the ballot
in November, ahead of the vote, I had asked some
folks about elected officials, what are your concerns about voters'
concerns about the way the money has been spent, whether
it is paid off, whether there's been enough. There is
a piece of this new sales tax that vaguely refers
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to the fact that there should be more oversight and
more accountability.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I don't know exactly what that will look like yet.
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I think they have layers and layers of bureaucracy supposedly
providing oversight, and what's wrong with the people who are
actually spending the money and what happened in the two
and a half billion dollars that Judge Carter's looking for.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
He was going to say, you're sounding a lot like
Judge Carter right now, because he definitely gave them all
a tongue lashing last week and will probably do so
again when he reconvenes them all very soon. By the way,
LA City Council's meeting right now too, they're talking about
that very issue about the court case, because they've got
some loss of issues on their own agenda today that
they're talking about. LA City Council has been a little
more lukewarm towards LASSA rather than ice cold the way
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the county has been recently, so they have not determined
whether they're leaving that organization.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So the.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Is the county withdrawing from LASA.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
LASSO would still exist even in relationship to the county
right now, because there are some key areas that loss
of handles through federal funding, one of which is what
just happened the annual count of the homeless people in
the county. So that is at least one thing that
LASSO would ideally, in the views of the people creating
this new department, would still be responsible for, and hopefully
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as we listen to today's meeting, will get a clearer
idea of what they want. They hope to have a
CEO or some type of director of this new department
in place by July first.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So the county supervisors think there's a severe problem, but
the City Council La City they don't think it's that bad.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Not comprehensively. We will see where all of the supervisors
stand today. Lindsay Horvath has said it's time a supervisor
Barger co signed on this motion that she's put for.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
We'll hear from the rest of them.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They're constantly being embarrassed by these audits. The city Controller
Kenneth Mahea had an audit last year that came to
the same conclusion as David Carter. It's like there's a
lot of money missing, and it's not like it's badly spent.
It's they don't know where it was spent.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
A lot of time, they don't even know if it
was badly spent because they don't know what the outcomes
were supposed to be. What was this money for, what
was it supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Did it do that? They don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
So now the argument at the county is we will
bring this in house and we will be able.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
To answer all of those questions. That is how it
has been presented.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Are they getting new people or are they going to
take the same people out of LASA and give them
new offices and a new letterhead, and it's going to
be the same people. And why is it so hard
to keep track of this? I don't understand. It's not
that complicated. It seems like some very loose accounting was
going on. No one has alleged excuse me, you have
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I was just gonna say I will again there are
a bunch of thieves. None of these audits have said
fraud was taking place. Money is alleged officially that there
was thievery taking place. It just looks like poor accounting practices.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
No, it looks like thievery in my opinion, And you're
allowed to say that. That's right, of course.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
And hopefully what the county hopes to do is to
be able to give people like you and me and
everyone who's listening more details on where this money is going,
especially because as of today a lot more money is
going to be coming.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
They do all this it, yeah, they do all this
with a straight face.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Huh, and on the judge screaming at them, and yeah,
it's like, well, we're gonna have more accountability now, Like no,
you're not.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You haven't in ten for ten years.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Your skepticism is warranted. Your frustration is warranted. But here's
the thing about the homeless tax. It won by fifteen points.
This was not a close race, I know. So, I
mean a pretty clear majority of La County voters.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And that's not just the city, oh, I know, the
whole county. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
And I mean, if you live in a place like
Palmdale or Lancaster, your sales tax today is north of
ten maybe even eleven percent, depending on which of those
two cities that you're in. So people are going to
really want to start seeing some results.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Actually voted to monetize the thieves and give them another
burst of cash.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
And just incredible that the county will be deciding how
the city get this money. By the way, and there
is a rocky relationship between the city and the county,
specifically as it relates to homelessness. The city is often
saying that the county is not doing their part on
the mental health side of things. So it's just a bad,
bad collaboration right now, All right.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Very good, Michael Munks CAFI News, And I cannot if
you voted for this, and there must be people out
there who voted for this, You've just given more money
to the thieves. I don't understand why people do what
they do. If you starve this beast, we would stop.
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We end up the same amount of homeless anyway. Homelessness
hasn't gone down. So I give them millions and millions
of dollars. Don't give them anything. You'll have the same problems.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Alex Stone will be with us after Debra's News at
two o'clock because a teenage girl was was attacked by
a sea lion.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah, this is getting a little out of control.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
There's toxic algae blooming in the ocean and it creates
some kind of acid and the sea lions ingest the
acid and then they start going crazy and they get violent.
So there's violent sea lions loose. Alex will bring us
that story coming up. We will talk more later in
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the show about this homeless tax, because you know this
is homeless tax won by fifteen points. Fifteen points, you
know what, I.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Would love for people to call in and explain why
they voted for that.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, I would too.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I wonder if do we have people listening who vote
for taxes like this I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
I'd be surprised they're listening to your show that they would,
But I'm sure there must be a few.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You know, because it's a different debate than do you
think we ought to spend public money on the homeless?
Which I'm guessing that's why people are voting, because they
think it's a good thing to spend money on the homeless.
The real question is why do you spend money on
agencies that are thoroughly corrupt. They're stealing your money because
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they didn't know that. Have they noticed nothing's worked?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
They think.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I have talked to some people and they think that
it is getting better slowly, but surely, that it takes time. Seriously,
I have talked to people that think that Marabas is
doing a decent job with the Really with cleaning up
the homeless.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
It's okay. I got to give these people a ride.
By the way, I have a guy who set up
an encampment near my neighborhood, and he's been there a week.
In fact, I just called this morning and yelled at
some legislative Wiener to get this guy removed. He came
at us. We drove down this boulevard and there's a
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median and we're on the let me see the eastbound
side of the medium. He's on the westbound side blocking
a sidewalk. He's got a tent and he's got all
kinds of extra construction going on. It's like this sprawling
thing that he's created. He's expanded. Yeah, I can't even
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make out what it is. So it seems to me
that you're on a sidewalk. That's an ADA violation right there.
You remember when people used to be used to care
very much that those with disabilities had access in places
where they used to not remember, they made buildings, yes,
reconfigure themselves with ramps and with elevators, and the same
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thing with parking lots.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You got to a certain parking.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Lots and there's there's rows and rows of unused spaces
for disability parking.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
But nobody is thinking that way when it comes to
a homeless person that's taking up a sidewalk where you
have to go around them.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Where I am if I can't walk down that sidewalk
because the guy's crazy, My wife and I slowed down
and my wife took a picture of it, and the
guy saw us take a picture, and he picked up
something long. Might have been a broom handle, might have
been a pipe, I don't know. He picked up a
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weapon and he charged across the street.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
His side of the meeting is chasing you.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Yeah, were you guys running.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
No, we were in a car.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Oh you were in the car.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
We were in a car. But he ran across, you know,
his side of the road. Then ran across the median
that made a left, and he's chasing us down our
side of the road. We're at a traffic light. Look
in the mirror and he's waving. His piper is stick
in the air. Well.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
It wasn't nice of you to take his picture without
his permission.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, he wants he wants to sign something. He wants
to sign a waiver.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I mean, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
And and he's there for days, and other people are
are calling and complaining about it because neighbors have exchanged
photos of this guy. He's all by himself for the moment,
but it's not going to be long. This is how
a hole village starts.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Look, I want to just say I feel really bad
for people that are homeless. I really do, But I
just I don't know what the solution is. But the
solution that people think that by by right to to
a homeless organization that has lost billions of dollars is
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definitely not the answer.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
This is a failure. You wake up and tell people,
you know, to wake up.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So aggravated.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Uh, coming up after two o'clock, we're going to talk
with Alex Stone from the can if I News.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
We're not aggravated with him. He's a cool dude.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Well, I don't know, he's guy.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Toxic algae blooming in the ocean. It creates some type
of acid. The sea lines and just the acid, and
it's as if they're on acid. Then they start charging
and they when they want to eat people. And a
fifteen year old girl was bit by feel a crazed
sea line.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
You can't feel bad.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
For I really feel bad for the animals, not people, well,
not a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Yeah, it's actually it's not only the it's I don't
feel bad for a lot of these people. If there
were little videos, I wish there was videos on all
these vagrants and mental patients and we could see what
they did in their life that led them to this spot.
If you could you could see like a highlight reel
of what they've done that's.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Why they're there.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
They deserve to be there if you've done too many
bad things or too many stupid things in your life.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
But if you're meant ill and you definitely need help,
and you shouldn't be on the street, you should be
somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, they don't. Well, that's one thing the county does
not do. They don't have good mental health facilities at all.
And a lot of money has been supposedly earmarked for
that and it's disappeared, like everything else. We'll talk more
later on about all these matters, but Alex Still will
come on next about the crazed, drug addicted Sea Lions.
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Debora Mark is live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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the show already this year on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Now we are Is he still talking?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's a different senator now. He yielded for a question,
and so another senator's given him some help.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
All right, that's how he takes his breaks. We're talking
about Corey Booker. He's this nutball senator from New Jersey
who has been babbling on the Senate floor for eighteen hours,
probably more than that now, right, Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And this is not.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
A philipbuster, because philibusters are when a senator won'tsp talking
so he can block a bill from being voted on,
and it's try to gain leverage against the other party
and they never work. But he's just giving a speech
(01:15):
and he started around seven o'clock last night, and it's
an anti Trump tirade eighteen hours worth because they can't
figure out what to do. Trump has blown through like
a tornado, you know, with one hundred or two hundred
executive orders. He's affecting so many different issues. They don't
(01:38):
know how to stop him. The public is behind Trump
on a lot of these issues, with a few glaring exceptions,
but it's really a revolution. And you know, they've tried
all these other public relations tactics.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean, you know, they're blown up tesla's.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And they're they're they're dropping f bombs that their public appearances.
So finally, Corey Book, I thought, well what if I
start talking and I never stopped.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
He's talking. Now, he's talking. Now let's bring him. This
is live.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Parents who are struggling to take care of their parents
and their children, who rely on Medicaid because a parent
has Alzheimer's and a child has a disability. They're trying to.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Make it all work.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
But yet they're shackled in fear because they see this
is his nineteenth hour to a House Committee Energy and
Commerce was to find eight hundred and eighty billion dollars
of cuts to the programs that they are relying on.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
How do you get to nineteen hours where the material
like how do you organize it's liberated?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
He must be repeating some things by the terrify because
whatever he said at three in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Exactly dealing with well, he's had senators asking questions and
he can tell them like prompts.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, half renters in this country and I were both
local leaders.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
This sounds fascinating too, doesn't How many people were watching
he told me.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Paying So this is this audio is directly from Senator
Corey Booker's Twitter account, x account, whatever you wanna call it.
They're currently including US five hundred and thirty four point
seven thousand people watching.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I say, that's so a little bit of twisted non Christian.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
This gets half a million paper Huh.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I wonder if anybody has been watching since he started.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
You're connected to your community.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I don't even think his family members would.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Watch, you know, people that are struggling.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, what's the point of this. Eventually he's going to
stop or he's going to drop dead, and then what.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Because he's probably gearing up to run for president.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So yeah, he ran back in PAP but I forget
twenty sixteen or twenty twenty twenty twenty Maybetial Ruin.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I forget President doing his promise.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But he only lasted about five minutes to make their lives.
He lasted about as long as Kamala Harris did that year. Twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, Trump is calling his terriff's Liberatye he got nowhere.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I mean, I don't know what's going to remember when
he runs again.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Liberated from the bully neighbor that is Donald Trump. Do
you think Greenland feels liberated?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Greenland?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's right, there's a burning issue feels liberated.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
There's fifty seven thousand people in.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Greenland universities that are cutting ANIH funding, that are cutting
the scientific research that will cure the diseases in the future,
that will alleviate suffering that now aren't allowing.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh I guess we're all going to die.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
They're not hiring, they're slashing the number of engineering students
that they're allowing in because they're terrified because this president
is menacing in direct costs.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Huh is that liberation?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
See tomorrow is the Trump proclaimed liberation day because he's
going to unleash these tariffs on foreign countries trying to
import their products here. And Trump has said that these
countries put tariffs on our on our products, and that
it's unfair. Their tariffs are much higher than ours. So
(05:14):
he wants to at least equalize and and put this
at least the same amount of because it's like a tax. Uh,
so that that people buy more American products, so we
have more American factories and more American jobs. I have
no idea if that's going to work or not, but
that that's what he's doing. And so that's what's triggered
(05:37):
these the last few minutes of Corey Booker's rampage. So
he did this at seven o'clock at night, and every
once in a while another senator comes in and just
talks for a few minutes, ends with a question, and
then Booker pops up back. I guess he had a
snack or soda, and that's rice to go.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
To the restroom.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I for some reason, left wing progressive people love symbolic nonsense.
I mean, he's been in he's been in office a
number of years now. His party ran the House and
the Senate, and they had the presidency for two years.
And they still had the Senate and the presidency the
(06:27):
last two years before Trump got re elected they could
have done whatever they wanted, and a lot of stuff
they ignored, like the border. In fact, they intentionally exacerbated
the illegal alien problem. A lot of stuff they did
turned out to be a disaster, you know, spending trillions
of extra dollars that had to be printed or borrowed,
(06:50):
caused crazy inflation. You had your chance, you had your chance,
and you blew it badly, and you got repudiated by
much of the nation.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And now you're completely out of power.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You have you don't have the House, you don't have
the Senate, you don't have the presidency. Supreme Court is
stacked against you. Most of the governorships are Republican, majority
of the legislation, the legislative bodies in the States are Republican.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's it's it's the big wipeout.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's like when the asteroid hit the Earth and the
dinosaurs went extinct. You know, Trump, Trump was the asteroid.
You guys are the dinosaurs. You got to you got
to regenerate yourselves. And you can't keep selling woke nonsense.
Nobody wants to hear the woke nonsense anymore. That's said
(07:42):
pathetic nineteen years and we'll check on it. In on
him a case and if he goes thump right, just
make sure you get that audio. I want to hear
him when he hits the ground. You got it, all right?
When we come back. What is wrong with people? The
taxes went up today? The sales tax went up today,
(08:02):
a new tax, a new tax that has no expiration date,
and the majority of Los Angeles County voters approved of
this back in November, and today it kicks in.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What is wrong with you? It's for homelessness of all things.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Really, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
John Cobelt coming up after one point thirty. Michael Monks
from KFI News. The LA County Supervisors were voting today
whether they were going to create their own homeless agency
because the current homeless agency LASA, is a big failure
and people are just stealing money left and right. Oh
what a coincidence. Today's the first day of the new
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sales tax, which is supposed to go to LASA among
of their homeless agencies here in the city and in
the county.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Do you believe that in November the.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Majority of voters voted for a new tax because a
quarter sent homeless sales tax was going to run out,
so they voted yes on a half sent permanent sales
tax to replace it. They couldn't let the quarter sent
thing run out. Now it's half sent and there's no
(09:30):
expiration date on it, and it's for homelessness. And four months,
five months after that vote, we find out La County
wants really nothing to do.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
With LASA because it's corrupt because they steal the money.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Funny how they didn't have this debate in this vote
before election day before Measure A passed, they get the
and a few months later, oh good, we got this
new pot of money. We could finance this new boondoggle,
another oversight agency. But you know, you may know this
(10:13):
stuff because you listen to the show every day. You
listen to CAFI every day. But there's a lot of
lost souls out there in Debor's news. A little while ago,
I heard a couple of people interviewed by a reporter.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You want to play that again, Well, we voted for.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
It, then I guess we're just going to have to
do it, you know.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
But with the prices of everything going up now, we
didn't anticipate that when we voted for this, here's somebody else.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
I don't know what we can do about it, but
it needs a change because, I mean, things are already
expensive as it is.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
In a second, the inflation has been roaring for about
three years four years now. Oh, we didn't know the
prices were going to go up. The prices had been
going up. Prices are up like twenty thirty percent and more.
What do you mean we need to know the prices
were going up.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I just wonder how many people when they're voting, if
they really understand they if they really, if they really
get that prices you're voting for an increase that this
is a sales tax. It's going to stay forever.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
We're one of the highest taxed states in the nation.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
And in La County they voted to increase the sales
tax for homelessness of all things.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
How many stories have been out and I.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Know we don't have much of a media, but for
God's sakes, read something.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I mean, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
One of the dominating stories locally, if you're paying attention,
is that this agency the city they lost two and
a half billion dollars. In other words, they don't know
where it went. They can't account for it, it was spent,
but they don't know on but.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
LASA.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And we have a federal judge investigating David o'carter and
he's been holding hearings and he ordered an outside audit
because he the judge, doesn't understand where the money's going,
so he authorized the audit. And he still doesn't know
where the money's going because they couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
So I think the tax should be null and void.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It should be.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
These people going, I don't know what we could do
about it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Why don't you start a petition to repeal the tax.
That's what you do about it. You've been defrauded, you've
been conned. The money is stolen. The woman running LASA,
which is the City County Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority,
The woman who runs it is Valicia Adams Kellum. She
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gave a two million dollar contract to her husband's nonprofit.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
What else do you need to know? Do you need
any other.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Information than the woman running the agency shuffled shuffled over
two million dollars to her husband's outfit.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
We need a class action lawsuit so that we can
get the money back.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I'm astonished because this has been going on now for
eight years we passed these homeless taxes. There was a
city tax and a county tax eight years ago. Everything's
gotten worse. That's been well publicized. All you have to
do is use your own eyes. Just use your own eyesight.
(13:42):
Even their counts, which I don't trust, still generally produces
increases from year to year. Why would you give this
beast more money? What's wrong with you? I'm trying to understand.
Is it just colossal ignorance.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
I think that when you have Mayor Bass and other
officials saying, oh, well, you know, the programs are working,
more people are going into shelters or tiny homes or
what have you. So we need more money to continue
this and get more people off the street. Because when
you talk about homeless in Los Angeles, it's pulling on
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people's heartstrings. As I said yesterday, people feel that if
they say no, I'm not gonna I don't want I
don't want to give more money for the homeless, that
other people will think that you're a horrible, horrible person.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Why why do you want Well, it's amazing how people
feel than they have this desire. I want to be
known as a good person. I'm going to vote, so
I can think of myself as a good person. I
am compassionate. I worry about humanity. You're not helping these people.
The money doesn't go to them. With all the money
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we've thrown at it, they all should be indoorsed somewhere
or transfer for it out of the county. It the
money is stolen by the nonprofits and by the government agencies.
It is in fact, well Valicia Adams Kellum, they had
a lossa She was supposed to appear in court before
(15:16):
Judge Carter. She wasn't available. Why she was in Boston.
She was on a trip. Like Karen bash is in Africa,
Adams Kellum is in Boston, Kyle Fart, Ricardo Lara is
in is in Columbia. Instead of going to a Senate
(15:37):
insurance hearing, all they do is travel and charge you.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
But John, we had people that didn't want Gascon to
be recalled, right, yeah, until it got so bad that
he lost the election. So something has to be so
profound so that really people have to really open their
eyes and then they're going to say, oh wait, oh wait,
we're paying more money at the store so that we're
(16:06):
helping the homeless. But oh but the homeless. Oh, the
people don't know. Not everybody's listening to your show.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, and that's just just awful. You know, they should be.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Well because I don't think a lot of people understand
or even know that there's all this millions of dollars
are missing.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, yeah, hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean two
and a half billion, two and a half billion, big.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Billion billion dollars are missing.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
And the judge calls in Karen Bass, It's like, there's
two and a half billion dollars missing. Oh, I don't know.
We got Michael Munks coming in next. Because the La
County Supervisors are voting to create their home, their own
homeless agency because they think loss of is a lost cause.
So on the day that the tax kicks in, they
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hold a vote basically saying that yeah, this loss of
thing that you're funding.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Uh, it's as we're separating ourselves.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and
then after four o'clock whatever you missed you get on
the iHeart app. It's John Cobelt Show on demand. The
podcast same as the radio show. We have been telling
you that today is a sales tax increase day at
La County because voters, maybe not you, but somebody else
passed a half cent tax increase for homelessness because a
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quarter cent homeless tax was expiring, well not till twenty
twenty seven, but they wanted to get a jump on things,
get that half cent surcharge going now. And the day
that the tax kicks in the day that you might
actually notice it is the same day that the La
County Supervisors are.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Having a vote whether to.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Sever themselves basically from LASA, which is the dominant homeless
agency where a lot of this money is supposed to
go to. They want to create their own new agency.
Today Michael Monks is covering the story. They haven't voted yet, have.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
They They have not. They've been an executive session for
the past few hours. They only just moments ago reconvened
in the main area where they meet and they have
just taken up this issue. So I don't know if
you've watched many La County Board of Supervisors meetings, but
zero way it works is all five of them get
a chance to talk and then it opens up the
public comment, maybe a staff member delivers a presentation, so
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it might be a while, but they are taking up
this issue right now.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
What specifically are they voting on? What would they do
if this proposal passes.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
This is a motion presented by Supervisor Lindsay Horvath, who
had served on the board of the LA Homeless Services
Authority for a while and decided that it's not going well.
All of the audits are looking too bad. We've got
to do our own thing to win the trust of
the citizens and make sure that the money is being
spent accordingly as they desired, especially after voting in favor
of giving more.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
But these are the same people who pushed this new
town and at the same time they're realizing that the
agency is a disaster.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
I think the key difference, if you were to ask
the government officials, is that LASA is governed by a
board with representatives from the county and the city. It's
a joint operation, but there are no city staffers or
county staffers who are writing the checks and doing any
internal auditing. They get reports they serve on the board.
You know, they could get this information, but it's not
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day to day direct oversight and I suppose that by
bringing it in house, if it is an actual government
agency rather than a quasi government agency, there's different levels
of scrutiny.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Well, why don't do that and then ask for a
tax increase after you've proved that the money is effective,
it's going where it's supposed to.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
You know, when this issue was headed towards the ballot
in November, ahead of the vote, I had asked some
folks about elected officials, what are your concerns about voters'
concerns about the way the money has been spent, whether
it is paid off, whether there's been enough. There is
a piece of this new sales tax that vaguely refers
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to the fact that there should be more oversight and
more accountability.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I don't know exactly what that will look like yet.
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I think they have layers and layers of bureaucracy supposedly
providing oversight, and what's wrong with the people who are
actually spending the money and what happened in the two
and a half billion dollars that Judge Carter's looking for.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
He was going to say, you're sounding a lot like
Judge Carter right now, because he definitely gave them all
a tongue lashing last week and will probably do so
again when he reconvenes them all very soon. By the way,
LA City Council's meeting right now too, they're talking about
that very issue about the court case, because they've got
some loss of issues on their own agenda today that
they're talking about. LA City Council has been a little
more lukewarm towards LASSA rather than ice cold the way
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the county has been recently, so they have not determined
whether they're leaving that organization.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So the.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Is the county withdrawing from LASA.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
LASSO would still exist even in relationship to the county
right now, because there are some key areas that loss
of handles through federal funding, one of which is what
just happened the annual count of the homeless people in
the county. So that is at least one thing that
LASSO would ideally, in the views of the people creating
this new department, would still be responsible for, and hopefully
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as we listen to today's meeting, will get a clearer
idea of what they want. They hope to have a
CEO or some type of director of this new department
in place by July first.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So the county supervisors think there's a severe problem, but
the City Council La City they don't think it's that bad.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Not comprehensively. We will see where all of the supervisors
stand today. Lindsay Horvath has said it's time a supervisor
Barger co signed on this motion that she's put for.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
We'll hear from the rest of them.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They're constantly being embarrassed by these audits. The city Controller
Kenneth Mahea had an audit last year that came to
the same conclusion as David Carter. It's like there's a
lot of money missing, and it's not like it's badly spent.
It's they don't know where it was spent.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
A lot of time, they don't even know if it
was badly spent because they don't know what the outcomes
were supposed to be. What was this money for, what
was it supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Did it do that? They don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
So now the argument at the county is we will
bring this in house and we will be able.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
To answer all of those questions. That is how it
has been presented.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Are they getting new people or are they going to
take the same people out of LASA and give them
new offices and a new letterhead, and it's going to
be the same people. And why is it so hard
to keep track of this? I don't understand. It's not
that complicated. It seems like some very loose accounting was
going on. No one has alleged excuse me, you have
(22:38):
I was just gonna say I will again there are
a bunch of thieves. None of these audits have said
fraud was taking place. Money is alleged officially that there
was thievery taking place. It just looks like poor accounting practices.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
No, it looks like thievery in my opinion, And you're
allowed to say that. That's right, of course.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
And hopefully what the county hopes to do is to
be able to give people like you and me and
everyone who's listening more details on where this money is going,
especially because as of today a lot more money is
going to be coming.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
They do all this it, yeah, they do all this
with a straight face.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Huh, and on the judge screaming at them, and yeah,
it's like, well, we're gonna have more accountability now, Like no,
you're not.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You haven't in ten for ten years.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Your skepticism is warranted. Your frustration is warranted. But here's
the thing about the homeless tax. It won by fifteen points.
This was not a close race, I know. So, I
mean a pretty clear majority of La County voters.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And that's not just the city, oh, I know, the
whole county. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
And I mean, if you live in a place like
Palmdale or Lancaster, your sales tax today is north of
ten maybe even eleven percent, depending on which of those
two cities that you're in. So people are going to
really want to start seeing some results.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Actually voted to monetize the thieves and give them another
burst of cash.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
And just incredible that the county will be deciding how
the city get this money. By the way, and there
is a rocky relationship between the city and the county,
specifically as it relates to homelessness. The city is often
saying that the county is not doing their part on
the mental health side of things. So it's just a bad,
bad collaboration right now, All right.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Very good, Michael Munks CAFI News, And I cannot if
you voted for this, and there must be people out
there who voted for this, You've just given more money
to the thieves. I don't understand why people do what
they do. If you starve this beast, we would stop.
(24:36):
We end up the same amount of homeless anyway. Homelessness
hasn't gone down. So I give them millions and millions
of dollars. Don't give them anything. You'll have the same problems.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Alex Stone will be with us after Debra's News at
two o'clock because a teenage girl was was attacked by
a sea lion.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah, this is getting a little out of control.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
There's toxic algae blooming in the ocean and it creates
some kind of acid and the sea lions ingest the
acid and then they start going crazy and they get violent.
So there's violent sea lions loose. Alex will bring us
that story coming up. We will talk more later in
(25:28):
the show about this homeless tax, because you know this
is homeless tax won by fifteen points. Fifteen points, you
know what, I.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Would love for people to call in and explain why
they voted for that.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, I would too.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I wonder if do we have people listening who vote
for taxes like this I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
I'd be surprised they're listening to your show that they would,
But I'm sure there must be a few.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You know, because it's a different debate than do you
think we ought to spend public money on the homeless?
Which I'm guessing that's why people are voting, because they
think it's a good thing to spend money on the homeless.
The real question is why do you spend money on
agencies that are thoroughly corrupt. They're stealing your money because
(26:27):
they didn't know that. Have they noticed nothing's worked?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
They think.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I have talked to some people and they think that
it is getting better slowly, but surely, that it takes time. Seriously,
I have talked to people that think that Marabas is
doing a decent job with the Really with cleaning up
the homeless.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
It's okay. I got to give these people a ride.
By the way, I have a guy who set up
an encampment near my neighborhood, and he's been there a week.
In fact, I just called this morning and yelled at
some legislative Wiener to get this guy removed. He came
at us. We drove down this boulevard and there's a
(27:12):
median and we're on the let me see the eastbound
side of the medium. He's on the westbound side blocking
a sidewalk. He's got a tent and he's got all
kinds of extra construction going on. It's like this sprawling
thing that he's created. He's expanded. Yeah, I can't even
(27:33):
make out what it is. So it seems to me
that you're on a sidewalk. That's an ADA violation right there.
You remember when people used to be used to care
very much that those with disabilities had access in places
where they used to not remember, they made buildings, yes,
reconfigure themselves with ramps and with elevators, and the same
(27:58):
thing with parking lots.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You got to a certain parking.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Lots and there's there's rows and rows of unused spaces
for disability parking.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
But nobody is thinking that way when it comes to
a homeless person that's taking up a sidewalk where you
have to go around them.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Where I am if I can't walk down that sidewalk
because the guy's crazy, My wife and I slowed down
and my wife took a picture of it, and the
guy saw us take a picture, and he picked up
something long. Might have been a broom handle, might have
been a pipe, I don't know. He picked up a
(28:32):
weapon and he charged across the street.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
His side of the meeting is chasing you.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Yeah, were you guys running.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
No, we were in a car.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Oh you were in the car.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
We were in a car. But he ran across, you know,
his side of the road. Then ran across the median
that made a left, and he's chasing us down our
side of the road. We're at a traffic light. Look
in the mirror and he's waving. His piper is stick
in the air. Well.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
It wasn't nice of you to take his picture without
his permission.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, he wants he wants to sign something. He wants
to sign a waiver.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I mean, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
And and he's there for days, and other people are
are calling and complaining about it because neighbors have exchanged
photos of this guy. He's all by himself for the moment,
but it's not going to be long. This is how
a hole village starts.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Look, I want to just say I feel really bad
for people that are homeless. I really do, But I
just I don't know what the solution is. But the
solution that people think that by by right to to
a homeless organization that has lost billions of dollars is
(29:44):
definitely not the answer.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
This is a failure. You wake up and tell people,
you know, to wake up.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
So aggravated.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Uh, coming up after two o'clock, we're going to talk
with Alex Stone from the can if I News.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
We're not aggravated with him. He's a cool dude.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Well, I don't know, he's guy.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Toxic algae blooming in the ocean. It creates some type
of acid. The sea lines and just the acid, and
it's as if they're on acid. Then they start charging
and they when they want to eat people. And a
fifteen year old girl was bit by feel a crazed
sea line.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
You can't feel bad.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
For I really feel bad for the animals, not people, well,
not a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Yeah, it's actually it's not only the it's I don't
feel bad for a lot of these people. If there
were little videos, I wish there was videos on all
these vagrants and mental patients and we could see what
they did in their life that led them to this spot.
If you could you could see like a highlight reel
of what they've done that's.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Why they're there.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
They deserve to be there if you've done too many
bad things or too many stupid things in your life.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
But if you're meant ill and you definitely need help,
and you shouldn't be on the street, you should be
somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, they don't. Well, that's one thing the county does
not do. They don't have good mental health facilities at all.
And a lot of money has been supposedly earmarked for
that and it's disappeared, like everything else. We'll talk more
later on about all these matters, but Alex Still will
come on next about the crazed, drug addicted Sea Lions.
(31:26):
Debora Mark is live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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