April 4, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (04/04) - Michael Rushford comes on the show to talk about the Democrats plan to starve Prop 36. Hack in a Dumpster. Rounds 1 & 2 of the Moist Line.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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lull in your life. We've got Michael Rushford coming on here.
(00:30):
He's been on with us frequently over the years. He's
the founder and president of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Prop.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Thirty six pasted in November. You remember that it was
the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, Theft Reduction Act. It was designed
to repeal to a large extent.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Prop.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Forty seven make theft a crime again, make public drug
use a crime again, and also for the first time,
create some serious fentinyl felonies. One of the provisions of
the drug addiction clause was you wouldn't necessarily go to
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jail or prison. You'd have a chance if a judge
decided to send you to treatment right when you go
down the treatment track instead of the prison track, Well,
the state has to fund the treatment, and.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
They're not doing that, and they're also not spending any
money from more county jail space. And Newsom in the
legislature want to undermine Prop thirty six. I guess to say, Haha,
it didn't work, and they all want it to work.
So let's talk to Michael Rushford. Michael, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I'm good, John, it's good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So I guess this was the plan all along.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Once they realized that Prop thirty six was going to
make the ballot and win big, their plan B was well,
we won't fund it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, this is not unusual. And the legislature in this
configuration where it's overwhelmingly Democrats, and they're very progressive Democrats.
When a bill comes down at least in the crime
area as far as you know, which is where we are,
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when the public goes out and says we're tired of
waiting a round for you to deal with this problem
and passes an initiative to fix it, the legislature has
for some time taken the position that they just won't
fund it and they'll starve it to death. And as
I wrote in the California Globe the other day. They
did the same thing with the three Strikes initiative years
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ago in nineteen ninety four. As soon as it passed,
we all knew it was going to put more criminals
in jail. That was why the voters voted for it.
So the state just didn't fund any more prison span
and waited until somebody sued with the ACLU and the
court ordered thirty five thousand prisoners to be released from
state prison. So it completely undermined the whole purpose of
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three strikes. And they did the same thing back in
twenty eighteen or twenty sixteen when Prop. Sixty six passed.
We helped write that thing to speed up the death penalty,
and there are several provisions in there to take away
all the bureaucratic and judge created obstacles to getting these
cases resolved. The legislature decided they were opposed to it,
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so they just decided, we won't fund it, and you
needed to appoint more judges, you need to do do
several things to make this work. They just didn't fund it,
so that initiative sits on the shelf right now. And
I'm sure the people who voted for it are going,
wait a minute, we passed this thing. It's supposed to work,
and what's happening. It's not working. And now we'll see
the same thing with Prop thirty six and a couple
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of years, people will go it didn't solve the problem. Now,
counties can do a few things. LA County and some
larger counties with bigger budgets can maybe find places to
put these thieves that they're going to arrest that actually
have a sentence that comes along with that. Maybe they won't,
but they're gonna if they use the same jail system
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they're using now in LA they're gonna have to kick
some guys out to put the new guys in. So
it doesn't really solve the problem if we don't have
the space. And that's the state's job is to step
up and help.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And there's nothing that voters.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Is there an organization that can sue on behalf of
the voters and force the state to set up treatment
programs and build the jail space.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It's almost impossible to sue the state, and so the
and again, the courts, we've got thirty years of courts
appointed by people like Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom, and
these judges don't go along with the law if they.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Don't feel like it mistakes and they win.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well. The ACLU that most of the judges that are
appointed by a newsom in Brown, which is a hell
of a lot of judges in this state, like the ACLU,
they're going to go along with them. And the Supreme
Court we have in California right now is very much
from that side of the fence. They're very much on.
So your shot at getting this stuff resolved in court
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is pretty low. You could go into the federal courts
and you'd have a little bit better shot, but not much.
So it's really up to the voters who spoke pretty
loudly last November, we want to see the crime issue
dealt with in our state. Well, the people that you
elect to the Senate and the Assembly here in California
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and who you put in the governor's office makes a
hell of a lot of difference as to whether or
not these laws will be enforced. And it's time to
start looking at your local assemblymen and finding out how
they're voting on this stuff and what kind of builds
their It's very important. It's going to have to go
down to the grassroots. Prop thirty six certainly reached the grassroots.
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A lot of Democrats voted for that, So why isn't
the Democrat controlled legislature and the governor's office interested in
forcing it. It's just not they're just not interested.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They're not normal Democrats. They're progressives, and that's like some
strange religious cult.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Correct. Correct, And that's the key here. Your standard Pat
Brown John F. Kennedy Democrat shouldn't be able to even
recognize these people. They spend all day every day when
they're in session, passing bills that most Californians don't care
about it at all. Most Californias did not vote for
SB fifty four to legalize illegal immigration in California. Most Californians,
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almost all Californias, did not vote to make our state
of sanctuary state. The legislature did it. So you know,
when you have these kinds of things happening, and it's
people that you send to Sacramento, maybe time to start
looking at who you're sending well.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Because we're blown over ten billion dollars on illegal alien
healthcare in the state exactly, but we don't have any
money for jails and for drug treatment of these addicts.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Precisely, and that's the problem. LA did something brilliant lest
last November. They kicked out George Gascone and put in
a tough prosecutor, Nathan Hakman. But Hawkman has to work
under the same laws as everybody every other DA in
the state of California. And if you look at who
gets bail. I just looked at the La County bail schedule.
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Most of these people are going to be released without bail,
no matter how tough Nathan Hawkman is. Most of them
we're going to go. Now. The good news is if
it's a violent crime, the DA can do something about it,
and that will be a big difference from gascon. Somebody
smacks you on the face down on Wilshire some afternoon
while you're coming out from lunch. That guy may go
away for a while. But the theft related crime, even
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stealing cars, you don't get bailed. You can steal Mercedes
every day for a month and you're going to be
back on the street the next day. And that's a problem.
And that's because of several laws through the Brown and
Newsom administrations passed by the legislature that decriminalize these things
and eliminated bail for them. Another ballot measure doesn't make
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sense to me because we have to replace the people
that are obligated to enforce these laws, and that's the
legislature and the governor.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But they have really unraveled the whole system.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
No, no, you go ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Well, it looks we're a microcosm of what we're seeing nationally,
where you get a single federal judge in San Francisco
shutting down a policy implemented by the president nationally because
he doesn't like it, and he can get away with
it in Sacramento, and they put enough judges on the
benches around the state to where you've got individual superior
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court judges that are willing to do that, and so
you can't go battle in We're a court outfit. I mean,
we love opportunities to get into court and take these
laws down or strengthen the ones that are enforced, But
in front of judges in California, we've got a real
high hill to climb. We've got to change the politicians.
We really have to do that, and I don't want
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to wait around for ten years when we've got this
crime on the street and you've got some good das
that replace the bad ones trying to do their job.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Michael, thank you for coming on. Michael Rushford.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He's the founder and president of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Thank you, really, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
John all Right.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I mean it's I don't know what to do. Every
day we present you with what's really going on. The
real truth, and the real truth is is the legislature
and Newsome do everything to undermine what you want. Vast
majority of Californians want theft to be illegal, drug addiction
public drug used to be illegal. They want treatment for
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the drug addicts. They want to f no crimes treated
as felonies. That's what Prop thirty six does, and then
the legislature and Newsome undermine it by not funding for
more jail space for the counties, not funding drug treatment programs.
They're just they're terrible people. The progressives are terrible. They're
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very destructive, and people have got to stop voting for them.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I mean, it's.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Clear you can use your own eyes and see how
much the state and the city has degraded over the
last ten to fifteen years. When we come back round
one of the voice line, we are going to have
two rounds and we're going to have hacking a dumpster
coming up at about three thirty five, and we got
a good one. I'll give you a hint. She's got
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four names.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
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Speaker 1 (10:53):
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Speaker 2 (11:00):
We've got two rounds coming up. First round is right now.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Hey, it's Sean.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Thanks for calling the moistline.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
To bat time.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Everyone talks about Elon Musk how much money he has.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Nobody talks about Bill.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Gates and what he's done.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
He's bought up all the farm lands.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
There's got to be something going on there as criminal.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Finally, someone like David Carter is looking into this problem.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But it's not Karen Bass's fault. She wasn't aware that
she had to show up to the courtroom.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
She didn't know, just like she didn't know.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
She wasn't aware of the fire and weather warning.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Hey, Gavin, while back, you agree with Charlie Kirk about
the unfairness of biological men competing against women in sports.
A few days ago, a Republican bill was submitted on
the Assembly floor and the Democrat went totally against it.
On this you were basically silent, only commenting, well, we're
working on it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Well, worked a.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Little harder when bag in the end, you still remain
the serpent in the garden of Eden.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
It's an increase on the county terriffs and everything you buy.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
What exactly does that mean?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
A homeless tax?
Speaker 8 (12:07):
I've never heard of that before in my life.
Speaker 9 (12:09):
The crime they committed is they entered the United States illegally.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Instead of our money going to homelessness, why doesn't it
go to hospitals for children and a pretensor for different
diseases like that, to help better our future.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
Corey Bookers sitting talking on the floor for hours just
to make a point, get some pressed and cover up
that his lead security guy just got busted for bringing
a gun into the capital.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Shut them up.
Speaker 12 (12:36):
You better forget about the little sail text. During California,
you'd rarely be thinking national because everything you fucking buy
with the White House fell up with what it is
right now, it's going to break here and I hope
it does to who voted for it.
Speaker 13 (12:51):
Nobody voted for a Homeless Increase Tact. Besides the homeless
an illegal, No one wants to pay more at legging.
Speaker 11 (13:01):
I was in a Rhode Island and gas was two
sixty nine a gallon, And in Boston, near the.
Speaker 14 (13:08):
Airport, where it's supposed to be a little bit more expensive,
it was still two ninety nine. Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
What in the hell is going on in la.
Speaker 15 (13:19):
Who is in charge of loss of that put her.
Speaker 13 (13:23):
Up in jail for fraud two million.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Dollars for her husband?
Speaker 16 (13:26):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Oh my John?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Why aren't more people talking about this?
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Politicians will always need more money. Even if we threw
all of our money into these main problems homelessness, housing, healthcare, schooling,
and immigration, and we solved all the problems the next year,
they wouldn't need more money. But they're always going to
need more money solving problems this year with whatever money
they have. It's like Gildney getting off the island. It's
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never going to work. They wore there would reno show.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
They didn't set nothing off, nothing, nothing, man.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
They kept the lights on for everything.
Speaker 15 (14:00):
Man.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
That's why that thing ripped.
Speaker 13 (14:01):
Through there, not only to win and everything else. My goodness, man,
it's all a conspiracy.
Speaker 15 (14:06):
You're saying that your son said that Karly made him
say that men and girls sports was wrong?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Is this who we.
Speaker 15 (14:14):
Want to run in the country, somebody that's afraid of Charlotte?
How stupid his taxi increase in LA It's a scam.
Speaker 17 (14:24):
As you will.
Speaker 15 (14:25):
How many taxes? How many times do they have to
use that excuse for the homeless with the mental pages?
Did none of that money excuse to ever go to
help his problem?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Corey Booker spoke for over twenty five hours.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
What a waste of taxpayer money.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
He should be dozed. There was is no cognitive decline
in Biden. He's been stupid his whole life.
Speaker 13 (14:56):
Could somebody please explain to me how holesspeople and illegal
aliens receive better benefits than our United States military veterans.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I mean, what's going on?
Speaker 13 (15:06):
Drug abusers and criminals getting more money and attention than.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
People who chose to serve and protect the country we
live in. I mean, what is this? Is this opposite
world or something?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Come?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Why can't they just set up a whole new category
just for them so there'll be three groups of pathletes.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
Please hang up. Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Progressive politicians control California.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
There's three constituencies they serve.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
It's criminals, it's illegal aliens, and it's drug addicted and
mentally ill homeless people. It's the only three categories they
care about. You are just supposed to shut up and pay.
You got that when we come back. Speaking of the homeless,
this is a tremendous disaster, and we are going to
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throw one of the architects of the disaster into the
dumpster coming up.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You'll enjoy it. They deserve it.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's time for John cobil to throw in a dumpster.
Ready to go.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Even through three years of war, the Ukrainians are still
always here on any Friday. We decided to throw a
hack in a dumpster, as we've been doing for many
years now. The idea if you weren't with us at
the beginning, came from the Ukrainians before they got messed
up by the Russians. They were they would turn on
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their local politicians and there was one politician I remember.
He was wearing a suit, a blue suit, and they
considered him too pro Russian, and they lifted this guy up,
true story, lifted the guy up and tossed him into
the dumpster. And week kenned and I saw that and said,
that's what we've got to do. We've got to toss
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these people into the dumpster. So when we find a
good candidate, we don't do it every week. Sometimes we
don't do it for a month. It's got to be
a special candidate, not just anyone. And we have a
special one here. Because if you've been keeping up on
the news, you don't know why we're doing this. If
you haven't, give you a quick summary the homeless. The
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homeless bureaucracy in Los Angeles County is a total scam.
It's a criminal money laundering operation. That's how I see it.
And you just have to add up a few pieces
of evidence, one line at a time. Number One, two
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audits have been done and both of them have found
that large amounts of money are unaccounted for.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Two audits.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
The latest audit from the federal judge David Carter, produced
this fascinating nugget. Two and a half billion dollars unaccounted for.
Two and a half billion dollars unaccounted for. According to
this audit, and we found this out about the same
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time that the new homeless sales tax went into effect.
There's now a half cent homeless sales tax. You're paying
for a system that lost track of two and a
half billion dollars. They're also is Judge Carter is threatening
to blow the whole system up. He doesn't want to,
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he doesn't know what he's going to replace it with.
But there's a lot of pressure. And it all centers
around the LA Housing Services Authority LASA LAHSA, which is
notorious over the last ten years as being a cesspool
of waste, corruption, abuse.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
We also found out recently that the head of LASA
a woman with four names, Alicia Adams Kellum. She's got
two first names. What do they call her Va or
va Alicia or Lisia and then you've got Adams Kellum.
So this this four named monster, actually gave away two
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million dollars to her husband's nonprofit homeless nonprofit of course,
so she's running the loss of agency. She's in charge
of sending the money out to these worthless nonprofits. And
look at that her husband got two million dollars out
of it. Her husband's nonprofit got it, so the judge
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wants to blow everything up. There's two million dollars went
from wife to husband. Here two aughtits say that there's
billions of dollars that have gone unaccounted for. And now
this week the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and
that is a collection of duds. Let me tell you,
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they've been watching this disaster for years and they haven't
cared because it's not their money. But finally they realize
they're going to be in trouble, especially with this judge
running rampant. So they held a hearing and they voted
to basically defund Lawson. The county is going to take
it over. No more county money for LASA. The city
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still wants to give money because I suspect the city
councilmen are in on the scam. I suspect that a
number of city councilmen have friends and relatives who are
earning money through their nonprofits, and so they want LAS
fully funded, right because they have a nice side income.
Because some of them went to the LA County Supervisors
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meeting begging them not to withdraw.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Hey, that's our money. What do you mean.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's gotten to the point where I think a lot
of Vlicia Adams Kellum. I think a lot of people
are looking at her funny. Because the La County Board
of Supervisors did not give her a formal speaking role.
At the hearing in which they defunded the agency, she
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had to stand in line with all the riff raft
citizenry and she was given sixty seconds. She went over time,
they gave her another thirty and then they had to
cut her off. We've spliced together her sixty and her
thirty second comments. Listen to the end where she explains
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her background what qualified her to be head of LASA.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
I am the CEO of LASA, and there's been a
lot of negative things said about LASA today. As was
said in the motion when it first released, it indicated
that much of the look back audits did not cover
the time of my leadership. But when I came on
and I met with each of you, I took on
the responsibility of the many years twenty plus years of
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system failure, particularly.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
At LASA twenty plus.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
But I made promises. One would be a reduction in
unsheltered homelessness, which we've seen now two years in a row.
To enhance transparency. I promised that we would improve our
operations and we have. We've implemented twenty new data dashboards
that provide unprecedented insight into how our system functions. The
questions you had about functions and system improvements. We can
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actually provide that data to you today and it is
on our public website and it's public facing. To improve
our contracting, we're at eighty percent. To improve provider payments,
we worked with all of you to ensure that we
would have advanced systems where we would reconcile and providers
no longer waiting months and months. We've made a lot
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of the changes that you proposed, and the oversight and
KPIs we have helped make available to EKRA is made
possible by the tremendous people that joined me at LASA
just a year ago. As I said before, this work
is very personal to me. Me and my daughter's experienced homelessness.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh there we go, and then they cut her off
and she's still shouting.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
There, but they cut off her microphone after she announced
that she was homeless. Well, when you hire a homeless
person to run a homeless agency, what do you think
is going to happen?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
It's a disaster. I think it's time we get the
Ukrainians in here. And there's been a lot of I
think we've heard enough of this later all right, Ukrainians
left her out. Get the least.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
It indicated that much of the look back audience did
not cover the time of my leadership.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Debra always gives the final blow.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
There the big raspberry waits. She's still talking in the dumpster. There,
still talking only in Los Angeles County? Would they hire
a homeless person to run a homeless agency? And then
everybody wonders why the thing is bankrupt? Two and a
half billion dollars is missing? What did you think was
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gonna happen? Why don't you hire convicted murderers to run
the prison system? Or wouldn't be surprised if that's what's
going on? You believe this two and a half billion
extra homeless tax, They defund the homeless agency, They won't
even let this lady give a speech about it, and
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then you find out that she was homeless. I mean,
it's just so absurd. I hope the judge blows everything up.
Why don't they just stop? Why don't they return all
the tax money? Repeal the taxes and just stop. And
when you see a homeless person on the street, two words,
get out. We'll give you a ride. Get out of
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the county, get out of the city. Because they can't
fix it, they don't want to fix it. They are
looting the system. They're looting the system. Politically connected nonprofits
are looting the system out.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
How the hell else do you lose two and.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
A half billion. When's everybody going to wake up? It's
a it's a criminal operation.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Whole thing.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Out, everybody out. Failed progressive experiment. A year from now.
It'll still be a failed progressive experiment two years from now,
three years from now, unless people start electing differently. I mean,
you're paying you're paying almost a ten percent sales tax.
Some towns are paying eleven percent.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What's what's wrong with you? What's wrong with people? And gas?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
By the way, in California today, the average is four
dollars and ninety four cents for ninety four. And let's
see in Mississippi two seventy five. How about that two
dollars and twenty cents difference. And let's see New Jersey
three oh five, Massachusetts is two ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Texas is two eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
We are at four ninety four because that is another
criminal operation. The state is taking that tax money and
it is fun to get to green energy nonprofits. Nonsense
like that. The whole state is made up of these
agencies and these nonprofits that are looting billions of dollars
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and they're getting wealthy.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
When we come back round two of the Moistline.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We have the second round of the Moistline coming up
KFI AM six forty John Cobelt's show here is round two.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Hey, it's Sean, thanks for calling the Moistline.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
To about time.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
Most of the people that report there in poverty are
not living up systems.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You know that they're.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
Still getting money on the side.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
They're fine, and.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
They're going to keep going that way because they get.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Free money and it's going to keep continuing to benefit
all of the people that want to just use the system.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
A message for the La County Board of Supervisors. So
there's lots of thing. You're going to terminate it, you're
going to start.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Your own bureau.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
But yet you're going to hire people from that that've
lost accountability of millions and millions of dollars and you
think they're going to be reliable to do it again. Uh,
that's not the way it should go. You have to
reconfigure that. That's not going to happen. It's going to
happen all over again.
Speaker 15 (27:39):
John, you are right on the money.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
It's a bunch of losers. They give presentations of everything
they do, but when it comes to delivering the services,
they do not come through with them.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Never.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Never.
Speaker 13 (27:54):
I was just thinking that maybe something that homeless money
should go to the fire department because of how much
time is them putting out the fires started by the
homeless and dealing with medical issues with the homeless. I
think that'd be a good way to boost a part
apartment budget a little bit to increase their manpower.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Best part about this whole deal and all these people
coming out writing these books on Biden.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
That's how stupid he makes.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Gavinism was calling Joe Biden the masterclass.
Speaker 11 (28:19):
Yeah right, she knew her husband was not capable of
running for presidency and let him do this. She should
be shamed and everyone should know this about her.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I'm a killer, so million dollars to her husband foundation
or whatever the atacity I tell you.
Speaker 17 (28:38):
I know I'm not the first to come up with
this theory, but you got to wonder how much of
her homeless crisis over the last ten years. There's a
slow whittling result of so many jobs getting shipped overseas,
and a lot of people don't have jobs and they
just drift off.
Speaker 15 (28:53):
They will never be a deep sake of Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I cannot generally the gibberish that stills.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Out of his mouth.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Nice to see California and Harry on the DEI nonsense.
For governor. We have a choice of Javier Barcaria and
Camel Harris. He was the worst Health and Human Services
director in history, and she was the worst DP in history.
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Holy?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Gavin Newsom's word salad is almost as bad as Kamala's. Man.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That was painful.
Speaker 16 (29:27):
The we that gave away all these jobs are the
wealthy corporations that found the chief labor overseas much more
profitable to them and to be sent spread over the
American worker.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
That's who the we are.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Yeah, the new sales tax and getting rid a loss
of Karon dash is running around and saying more money,
more money, more money, money for her.
Speaker 14 (29:51):
So I like the way Trump has lowered the price
of only eggs and everything else is going up with
all these mediotic harems. Kind of a businessman would do that.
Do you know how long it would take our country
to be able to make a manufacturing place again for
cars and stuff? It would cost us too much.
Speaker 17 (30:10):
We have unions.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
What a bunch of stupid out Thank you for leaving
your message.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Please hang up, goodbye. There you go. Second round of
the moist Line conways here.
Speaker 18 (30:20):
Hey, now we got Michael Monks coming on, also Alex Michaelson,
John Decker, who's our White House correspondent, live from Capital
where well the Caps play the Blackhawks and so no,
but he's trying to get an interview. You know it
might be Ovechkin might break the record tonight, Gretzky's record,
And so we're trying to get Ovechkin to come on
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if he breaks Wayne Gretzky's goalscoring record, is that right? Yeah,
So he's gonna be live inside in the Washington. Was
it the Capitol Dome? I believe it was a Capitol
One Center Capital One Center. Well, that's a good name
for it, Capital One Center in Washington, d C. He
might break Wayne Gretzky's records huge. And then also we
have a ton shrup coming on. We'll try to figure
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out who's gonna win the sanity to Derby tomorrow? Does
us think you're earlier the four billion dollars that we
all have to pay out now because of these a
holes gonna I don't know what where the light is
at the end of the tunnel here there is done. Yeah,
there is no light, but at least we're all going
down together. They're borrowing money that they can't pay back
till twenty fifty one. That's the first time I've seen
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that year in print, twenty fifty one. And I've never
seen a lawyer saying we had to back off so
we wouldn't bankrupt the county. It's true they could have
gotten eight billion. Yeah, and they had to back down.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, the attorneys took it easy on the county, right,
But that's who's running this as whole.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
You know, people like that and nobody gets pissed.
Speaker 17 (31:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
The will the supervisors resign over this? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
They should have resilted it's forty years worth of supervisors
allowed this to go on, and they never should have
made this deal.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
No, you're right.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I mean this set of supervisors to sign off on
a four billion dollar deal.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
We don't have the money. Doesn't it exist?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Right?
Speaker 18 (32:00):
And where was the LA Times and the press and everybody?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
You know, nobody.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I looking into all the seven thousand kids get sexually attacked.
Speaker 18 (32:09):
Nobody knew, and nobody in LA knew. Yeah, I find
that hard to believe. It's impossible. Yeah, some light for
a Friday.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, Grozer's got the news and he's live in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're on from one until four o'clock and then after
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late this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow, all weekend long. You should
always have the podcast ready to fill any downtime, any
lull in your life. We've got Michael Rushford coming on here.
(00:30):
He's been on with us frequently over the years. He's
the founder and president of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Prop.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Thirty six pasted in November. You remember that it was
the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, Theft Reduction Act. It was designed
to repeal to a large extent.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Prop.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Forty seven make theft a crime again, make public drug
use a crime again, and also for the first time,
create some serious fentinyl felonies. One of the provisions of
the drug addiction clause was you wouldn't necessarily go to
(01:09):
jail or prison. You'd have a chance if a judge
decided to send you to treatment right when you go
down the treatment track instead of the prison track, Well,
the state has to fund the treatment, and.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
They're not doing that, and they're also not spending any
money from more county jail space. And Newsom in the
legislature want to undermine Prop thirty six. I guess to say, Haha,
it didn't work, and they all want it to work.
So let's talk to Michael Rushford. Michael, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I'm good, John, it's good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So I guess this was the plan all along.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Once they realized that Prop thirty six was going to
make the ballot and win big, their plan B was well,
we won't fund it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, this is not unusual. And the legislature in this
configuration where it's overwhelmingly Democrats, and they're very progressive Democrats.
When a bill comes down at least in the crime
area as far as you know, which is where we are,
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when the public goes out and says we're tired of
waiting a round for you to deal with this problem
and passes an initiative to fix it, the legislature has
for some time taken the position that they just won't
fund it and they'll starve it to death. And as
I wrote in the California Globe the other day. They
did the same thing with the three Strikes initiative years
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ago in nineteen ninety four. As soon as it passed,
we all knew it was going to put more criminals
in jail. That was why the voters voted for it.
So the state just didn't fund any more prison span
and waited until somebody sued with the ACLU and the
court ordered thirty five thousand prisoners to be released from
state prison. So it completely undermined the whole purpose of
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three strikes. And they did the same thing back in
twenty eighteen or twenty sixteen when Prop. Sixty six passed.
We helped write that thing to speed up the death penalty,
and there are several provisions in there to take away
all the bureaucratic and judge created obstacles to getting these
cases resolved. The legislature decided they were opposed to it,
(03:37):
so they just decided, we won't fund it, and you
needed to appoint more judges, you need to do do
several things to make this work. They just didn't fund it,
so that initiative sits on the shelf right now. And
I'm sure the people who voted for it are going,
wait a minute, we passed this thing. It's supposed to work,
and what's happening. It's not working. And now we'll see
the same thing with Prop thirty six and a couple
(03:58):
of years, people will go it didn't solve the problem. Now,
counties can do a few things. LA County and some
larger counties with bigger budgets can maybe find places to
put these thieves that they're going to arrest that actually
have a sentence that comes along with that. Maybe they won't,
but they're gonna if they use the same jail system
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they're using now in LA they're gonna have to kick
some guys out to put the new guys in. So
it doesn't really solve the problem if we don't have
the space. And that's the state's job is to step
up and help.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And there's nothing that voters.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Is there an organization that can sue on behalf of
the voters and force the state to set up treatment
programs and build the jail space.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It's almost impossible to sue the state, and so the
and again, the courts, we've got thirty years of courts
appointed by people like Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom, and
these judges don't go along with the law if they.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Don't feel like it mistakes and they win.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well. The ACLU that most of the judges that are
appointed by a newsom in Brown, which is a hell
of a lot of judges in this state, like the ACLU,
they're going to go along with them. And the Supreme
Court we have in California right now is very much
from that side of the fence. They're very much on.
So your shot at getting this stuff resolved in court
(05:26):
is pretty low. You could go into the federal courts
and you'd have a little bit better shot, but not much.
So it's really up to the voters who spoke pretty
loudly last November, we want to see the crime issue
dealt with in our state. Well, the people that you
elect to the Senate and the Assembly here in California
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and who you put in the governor's office makes a
hell of a lot of difference as to whether or
not these laws will be enforced. And it's time to
start looking at your local assemblymen and finding out how
they're voting on this stuff and what kind of builds
their It's very important. It's going to have to go
down to the grassroots. Prop thirty six certainly reached the grassroots.
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A lot of Democrats voted for that, So why isn't
the Democrat controlled legislature and the governor's office interested in
forcing it. It's just not they're just not interested.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
They're not normal Democrats. They're progressives, and that's like some
strange religious cult.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Correct. Correct, And that's the key here. Your standard Pat
Brown John F. Kennedy Democrat shouldn't be able to even
recognize these people. They spend all day every day when
they're in session, passing bills that most Californians don't care
about it at all. Most Californias did not vote for
SB fifty four to legalize illegal immigration in California. Most Californians,
(06:47):
almost all Californias, did not vote to make our state
of sanctuary state. The legislature did it. So you know,
when you have these kinds of things happening, and it's
people that you send to Sacramento, maybe time to start
looking at who you're sending well.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Because we're blown over ten billion dollars on illegal alien
healthcare in the state exactly, but we don't have any
money for jails and for drug treatment of these addicts.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Precisely, and that's the problem. LA did something brilliant lest
last November. They kicked out George Gascone and put in
a tough prosecutor, Nathan Hakman. But Hawkman has to work
under the same laws as everybody every other DA in
the state of California. And if you look at who
gets bail. I just looked at the La County bail schedule.
(07:37):
Most of these people are going to be released without bail,
no matter how tough Nathan Hawkman is. Most of them
we're going to go. Now. The good news is if
it's a violent crime, the DA can do something about it,
and that will be a big difference from gascon. Somebody
smacks you on the face down on Wilshire some afternoon
while you're coming out from lunch. That guy may go
away for a while. But the theft related crime, even
(07:59):
stealing cars, you don't get bailed. You can steal Mercedes
every day for a month and you're going to be
back on the street the next day. And that's a problem.
And that's because of several laws through the Brown and
Newsom administrations passed by the legislature that decriminalize these things
and eliminated bail for them. Another ballot measure doesn't make
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sense to me because we have to replace the people
that are obligated to enforce these laws, and that's the
legislature and the governor.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But they have really unraveled the whole system.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
No, no, you go ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Well, it looks we're a microcosm of what we're seeing nationally,
where you get a single federal judge in San Francisco
shutting down a policy implemented by the president nationally because
he doesn't like it, and he can get away with
it in Sacramento, and they put enough judges on the
benches around the state to where you've got individual superior
(08:57):
court judges that are willing to do that, and so
you can't go battle in We're a court outfit. I mean,
we love opportunities to get into court and take these
laws down or strengthen the ones that are enforced, But
in front of judges in California, we've got a real
high hill to climb. We've got to change the politicians.
We really have to do that, and I don't want
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to wait around for ten years when we've got this
crime on the street and you've got some good das
that replace the bad ones trying to do their job.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Michael, thank you for coming on. Michael Rushford.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He's the founder and president of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Thank you, really, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
John all Right.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I mean it's I don't know what to do. Every
day we present you with what's really going on. The
real truth, and the real truth is is the legislature
and Newsome do everything to undermine what you want. Vast
majority of Californians want theft to be illegal, drug addiction
public drug used to be illegal. They want treatment for
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the drug addicts. They want to f no crimes treated
as felonies. That's what Prop thirty six does, and then
the legislature and Newsome undermine it by not funding for
more jail space for the counties, not funding drug treatment programs.
They're just they're terrible people. The progressives are terrible. They're
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very destructive, and people have got to stop voting for them.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I mean, it's.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Clear you can use your own eyes and see how
much the state and the city has degraded over the
last ten to fifteen years. When we come back round
one of the voice line, we are going to have
two rounds and we're going to have hacking a dumpster
coming up at about three thirty five, and we got
a good one. I'll give you a hint. She's got
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four names.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Six forty Voiceline on Fridays eight seven seven Moist eighty
six is the number and a call.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
We've got two rounds coming up. First round is right now.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Hey, it's Sean.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Thanks for calling the moistline.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
To bat time.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Everyone talks about Elon Musk how much money he has.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Nobody talks about Bill.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Gates and what he's done.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
He's bought up all the farm lands.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
There's got to be something going on there as criminal.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Finally, someone like David Carter is looking into this problem.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But it's not Karen Bass's fault. She wasn't aware that
she had to show up to the courtroom.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
She didn't know, just like she didn't know.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
She wasn't aware of the fire and weather warning.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Hey, Gavin, while back, you agree with Charlie Kirk about
the unfairness of biological men competing against women in sports.
A few days ago, a Republican bill was submitted on
the Assembly floor and the Democrat went totally against it.
On this you were basically silent, only commenting, well, we're
working on it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Well, worked a.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Little harder when bag in the end, you still remain
the serpent in the garden of Eden.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
It's an increase on the county terriffs and everything you buy.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
What exactly does that mean?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
A homeless tax?
Speaker 8 (12:07):
I've never heard of that before in my life.
Speaker 9 (12:09):
The crime they committed is they entered the United States illegally.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Instead of our money going to homelessness, why doesn't it
go to hospitals for children and a pretensor for different
diseases like that, to help better our future.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
Corey Bookers sitting talking on the floor for hours just
to make a point, get some pressed and cover up
that his lead security guy just got busted for bringing
a gun into the capital.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Shut them up.
Speaker 12 (12:36):
You better forget about the little sail text. During California,
you'd rarely be thinking national because everything you fucking buy
with the White House fell up with what it is
right now, it's going to break here and I hope
it does to who voted for it.
Speaker 13 (12:51):
Nobody voted for a Homeless Increase Tact. Besides the homeless
an illegal, No one wants to pay more at legging.
Speaker 11 (13:01):
I was in a Rhode Island and gas was two
sixty nine a gallon, And in Boston, near the.
Speaker 14 (13:08):
Airport, where it's supposed to be a little bit more expensive,
it was still two ninety nine. Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
What in the hell is going on in la.
Speaker 15 (13:19):
Who is in charge of loss of that put her.
Speaker 13 (13:23):
Up in jail for fraud two million.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Dollars for her husband?
Speaker 16 (13:26):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Oh my John?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Why aren't more people talking about this?
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Politicians will always need more money. Even if we threw
all of our money into these main problems homelessness, housing, healthcare, schooling,
and immigration, and we solved all the problems the next year,
they wouldn't need more money. But they're always going to
need more money solving problems this year with whatever money
they have. It's like Gildney getting off the island. It's
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never going to work. They wore there would reno show.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
They didn't set nothing off, nothing, nothing, man.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
They kept the lights on for everything.
Speaker 15 (14:00):
Man.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
That's why that thing ripped.
Speaker 13 (14:01):
Through there, not only to win and everything else. My goodness, man,
it's all a conspiracy.
Speaker 15 (14:06):
You're saying that your son said that Karly made him
say that men and girls sports was wrong?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Is this who we.
Speaker 15 (14:14):
Want to run in the country, somebody that's afraid of Charlotte?
How stupid his taxi increase in LA It's a scam.
Speaker 17 (14:24):
As you will.
Speaker 15 (14:25):
How many taxes? How many times do they have to
use that excuse for the homeless with the mental pages?
Did none of that money excuse to ever go to
help his problem?
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Corey Booker spoke for over twenty five hours.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
What a waste of taxpayer money.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
He should be dozed. There was is no cognitive decline
in Biden. He's been stupid his whole life.
Speaker 13 (14:56):
Could somebody please explain to me how holesspeople and illegal
aliens receive better benefits than our United States military veterans.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I mean, what's going on?
Speaker 13 (15:06):
Drug abusers and criminals getting more money and attention than.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
People who chose to serve and protect the country we
live in. I mean, what is this? Is this opposite
world or something?
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Come?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Why can't they just set up a whole new category
just for them so there'll be three groups of pathletes.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
Please hang up. Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Progressive politicians control California.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
There's three constituencies they serve.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
It's criminals, it's illegal aliens, and it's drug addicted and
mentally ill homeless people. It's the only three categories they
care about. You are just supposed to shut up and pay.
You got that when we come back. Speaking of the homeless,
this is a tremendous disaster, and we are going to
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throw one of the architects of the disaster into the
dumpster coming up.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You'll enjoy it. They deserve it.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's time for John cobil to throw in a dumpster.
Ready to go.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Even through three years of war, the Ukrainians are still
always here on any Friday. We decided to throw a
hack in a dumpster, as we've been doing for many
years now. The idea if you weren't with us at
the beginning, came from the Ukrainians before they got messed
up by the Russians. They were they would turn on
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their local politicians and there was one politician I remember.
He was wearing a suit, a blue suit, and they
considered him too pro Russian, and they lifted this guy up,
true story, lifted the guy up and tossed him into
the dumpster. And week kenned and I saw that and said,
that's what we've got to do. We've got to toss
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these people into the dumpster. So when we find a
good candidate, we don't do it every week. Sometimes we
don't do it for a month. It's got to be
a special candidate, not just anyone. And we have a
special one here. Because if you've been keeping up on
the news, you don't know why we're doing this. If
you haven't, give you a quick summary the homeless. The
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homeless bureaucracy in Los Angeles County is a total scam.
It's a criminal money laundering operation. That's how I see it.
And you just have to add up a few pieces
of evidence, one line at a time. Number One, two
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audits have been done and both of them have found
that large amounts of money are unaccounted for.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Two audits.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
The latest audit from the federal judge David Carter, produced
this fascinating nugget. Two and a half billion dollars unaccounted for.
Two and a half billion dollars unaccounted for. According to
this audit, and we found this out about the same
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time that the new homeless sales tax went into effect.
There's now a half cent homeless sales tax. You're paying
for a system that lost track of two and a
half billion dollars. They're also is Judge Carter is threatening
to blow the whole system up. He doesn't want to,
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he doesn't know what he's going to replace it with.
But there's a lot of pressure. And it all centers
around the LA Housing Services Authority LASA LAHSA, which is
notorious over the last ten years as being a cesspool
of waste, corruption, abuse.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
We also found out recently that the head of LASA
a woman with four names, Alicia Adams Kellum. She's got
two first names. What do they call her Va or
va Alicia or Lisia and then you've got Adams Kellum.
So this this four named monster, actually gave away two
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million dollars to her husband's nonprofit homeless nonprofit of course,
so she's running the loss of agency. She's in charge
of sending the money out to these worthless nonprofits. And
look at that her husband got two million dollars out
of it. Her husband's nonprofit got it, so the judge
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wants to blow everything up. There's two million dollars went
from wife to husband. Here two aughtits say that there's
billions of dollars that have gone unaccounted for. And now
this week the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and
that is a collection of duds. Let me tell you,
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they've been watching this disaster for years and they haven't
cared because it's not their money. But finally they realize
they're going to be in trouble, especially with this judge
running rampant. So they held a hearing and they voted
to basically defund Lawson. The county is going to take
it over. No more county money for LASA. The city
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still wants to give money because I suspect the city
councilmen are in on the scam. I suspect that a
number of city councilmen have friends and relatives who are
earning money through their nonprofits, and so they want LAS
fully funded, right because they have a nice side income.
Because some of them went to the LA County Supervisors
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meeting begging them not to withdraw.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Hey, that's our money. What do you mean.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's gotten to the point where I think a lot
of Vlicia Adams Kellum. I think a lot of people
are looking at her funny. Because the La County Board
of Supervisors did not give her a formal speaking role.
At the hearing in which they defunded the agency, she
(21:21):
had to stand in line with all the riff raft
citizenry and she was given sixty seconds. She went over time,
they gave her another thirty and then they had to
cut her off. We've spliced together her sixty and her
thirty second comments. Listen to the end where she explains
(21:41):
her background what qualified her to be head of LASA.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
I am the CEO of LASA, and there's been a
lot of negative things said about LASA today. As was
said in the motion when it first released, it indicated
that much of the look back audits did not cover
the time of my leadership. But when I came on
and I met with each of you, I took on
the responsibility of the many years twenty plus years of
(22:10):
system failure, particularly.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
At LASA twenty plus.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
But I made promises. One would be a reduction in
unsheltered homelessness, which we've seen now two years in a row.
To enhance transparency. I promised that we would improve our
operations and we have. We've implemented twenty new data dashboards
that provide unprecedented insight into how our system functions. The
questions you had about functions and system improvements. We can
(22:35):
actually provide that data to you today and it is
on our public website and it's public facing. To improve
our contracting, we're at eighty percent. To improve provider payments,
we worked with all of you to ensure that we
would have advanced systems where we would reconcile and providers
no longer waiting months and months. We've made a lot
(22:55):
of the changes that you proposed, and the oversight and
KPIs we have helped make available to EKRA is made
possible by the tremendous people that joined me at LASA
just a year ago. As I said before, this work
is very personal to me. Me and my daughter's experienced homelessness.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh there we go, and then they cut her off
and she's still shouting.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
There, but they cut off her microphone after she announced
that she was homeless. Well, when you hire a homeless
person to run a homeless agency, what do you think
is going to happen?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
It's a disaster. I think it's time we get the
Ukrainians in here. And there's been a lot of I
think we've heard enough of this later all right, Ukrainians
left her out. Get the least.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
It indicated that much of the look back audience did
not cover the time of my leadership.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Debra always gives the final blow.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
There the big raspberry waits. She's still talking in the dumpster. There,
still talking only in Los Angeles County? Would they hire
a homeless person to run a homeless agency? And then
everybody wonders why the thing is bankrupt? Two and a
half billion dollars is missing? What did you think was
(24:16):
gonna happen? Why don't you hire convicted murderers to run
the prison system? Or wouldn't be surprised if that's what's
going on? You believe this two and a half billion
extra homeless tax, They defund the homeless agency, They won't
even let this lady give a speech about it, and
(24:37):
then you find out that she was homeless. I mean,
it's just so absurd. I hope the judge blows everything up.
Why don't they just stop? Why don't they return all
the tax money? Repeal the taxes and just stop. And
when you see a homeless person on the street, two words,
get out. We'll give you a ride. Get out of
(24:58):
the county, get out of the city. Because they can't
fix it, they don't want to fix it. They are
looting the system. They're looting the system. Politically connected nonprofits
are looting the system out.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
How the hell else do you lose two and.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
A half billion. When's everybody going to wake up? It's
a it's a criminal operation.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Whole thing.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Out, everybody out. Failed progressive experiment. A year from now.
It'll still be a failed progressive experiment two years from now,
three years from now, unless people start electing differently. I mean,
you're paying you're paying almost a ten percent sales tax.
Some towns are paying eleven percent.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What's what's wrong with you? What's wrong with people? And gas?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
By the way, in California today, the average is four
dollars and ninety four cents for ninety four. And let's
see in Mississippi two seventy five. How about that two
dollars and twenty cents difference. And let's see New Jersey
three oh five, Massachusetts is two ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Texas is two eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
We are at four ninety four because that is another
criminal operation. The state is taking that tax money and
it is fun to get to green energy nonprofits. Nonsense
like that. The whole state is made up of these
agencies and these nonprofits that are looting billions of dollars
(26:30):
and they're getting wealthy.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
When we come back round two of the Moistline.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We have the second round of the Moistline coming up
KFI AM six forty John Cobelt's show here is round two.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Hey, it's Sean, thanks for calling the Moistline.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
To about time.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
Most of the people that report there in poverty are
not living up systems.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You know that they're.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
Still getting money on the side.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
They're fine, and.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
They're going to keep going that way because they get.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Free money and it's going to keep continuing to benefit
all of the people that want to just use the system.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
A message for the La County Board of Supervisors. So
there's lots of thing. You're going to terminate it, you're
going to start.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Your own bureau.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
But yet you're going to hire people from that that've
lost accountability of millions and millions of dollars and you
think they're going to be reliable to do it again. Uh,
that's not the way it should go. You have to
reconfigure that. That's not going to happen. It's going to
happen all over again.
Speaker 15 (27:39):
John, you are right on the money.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
It's a bunch of losers. They give presentations of everything
they do, but when it comes to delivering the services,
they do not come through with them.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Never.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Never.
Speaker 13 (27:54):
I was just thinking that maybe something that homeless money
should go to the fire department because of how much
time is them putting out the fires started by the
homeless and dealing with medical issues with the homeless. I
think that'd be a good way to boost a part
apartment budget a little bit to increase their manpower.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Best part about this whole deal and all these people
coming out writing these books on Biden.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
That's how stupid he makes.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Gavinism was calling Joe Biden the masterclass.
Speaker 11 (28:19):
Yeah right, she knew her husband was not capable of
running for presidency and let him do this. She should
be shamed and everyone should know this about her.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I'm a killer, so million dollars to her husband foundation
or whatever the atacity I tell you.
Speaker 17 (28:38):
I know I'm not the first to come up with
this theory, but you got to wonder how much of
her homeless crisis over the last ten years. There's a
slow whittling result of so many jobs getting shipped overseas,
and a lot of people don't have jobs and they
just drift off.
Speaker 15 (28:53):
They will never be a deep sake of Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I cannot generally the gibberish that stills.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Out of his mouth.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Nice to see California and Harry on the DEI nonsense.
For governor. We have a choice of Javier Barcaria and
Camel Harris. He was the worst Health and Human Services
director in history, and she was the worst DP in history.
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Holy?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Gavin Newsom's word salad is almost as bad as Kamala's. Man.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That was painful.
Speaker 16 (29:27):
The we that gave away all these jobs are the
wealthy corporations that found the chief labor overseas much more
profitable to them and to be sent spread over the
American worker.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
That's who the we are.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Yeah, the new sales tax and getting rid a loss
of Karon dash is running around and saying more money,
more money, more money, money for her.
Speaker 14 (29:51):
So I like the way Trump has lowered the price
of only eggs and everything else is going up with
all these mediotic harems. Kind of a businessman would do that.
Do you know how long it would take our country
to be able to make a manufacturing place again for
cars and stuff? It would cost us too much.
Speaker 17 (30:10):
We have unions.
Speaker 11 (30:11):
What a bunch of stupid out Thank you for leaving
your message.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Please hang up, goodbye. There you go. Second round of
the moist Line conways here.
Speaker 18 (30:20):
Hey, now we got Michael Monks coming on, also Alex Michaelson,
John Decker, who's our White House correspondent, live from Capital
where well the Caps play the Blackhawks and so no,
but he's trying to get an interview. You know it
might be Ovechkin might break the record tonight, Gretzky's record,
And so we're trying to get Ovechkin to come on
(30:43):
if he breaks Wayne Gretzky's goalscoring record, is that right? Yeah,
So he's gonna be live inside in the Washington. Was
it the Capitol Dome? I believe it was a Capitol
One Center Capital One Center. Well, that's a good name
for it, Capital One Center in Washington, d C. He
might break Wayne Gretzky's records huge. And then also we
have a ton shrup coming on. We'll try to figure
(31:03):
out who's gonna win the sanity to Derby tomorrow? Does
us think you're earlier the four billion dollars that we
all have to pay out now because of these a
holes gonna I don't know what where the light is
at the end of the tunnel here there is done. Yeah,
there is no light, but at least we're all going
down together. They're borrowing money that they can't pay back
till twenty fifty one. That's the first time I've seen
(31:23):
that year in print, twenty fifty one. And I've never
seen a lawyer saying we had to back off so
we wouldn't bankrupt the county. It's true they could have
gotten eight billion. Yeah, and they had to back down.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, the attorneys took it easy on the county, right,
But that's who's running this as whole.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
You know, people like that and nobody gets pissed.
Speaker 17 (31:43):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
The will the supervisors resign over this? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
They should have resilted it's forty years worth of supervisors
allowed this to go on, and they never should have
made this deal.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
No, you're right.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I mean this set of supervisors to sign off on
a four billion dollar deal.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
We don't have the money. Doesn't it exist?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Right?
Speaker 18 (32:00):
And where was the LA Times and the press and everybody?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
You know, nobody.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I looking into all the seven thousand kids get sexually attacked.
Speaker 18 (32:09):
Nobody knew, and nobody in LA knew. Yeah, I find
that hard to believe. It's impossible. Yeah, some light for
a Friday.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, Grozer's got the news and he's live in the
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