May 30, 2025 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (05/30) - John dives deep into the explosive federal case against LA’s homelessness-industrial complex, where Judge David Carter is investigating billions in missing funds meant for housing and treatment. Guest Jamie Paige explains how LA’s homeless programs only reached 4-6% of their goals while taxpayers are on the hook for $90,000 per day in city attorney fees. John exposes Mayor Bass’s evasive appointees, hints that the whole system could go into receivership, and breaks down the shocking testimony that’s largely gone unreported by the local media. Plus, John covers SFC Sen. Scott Wiener’s push to bulldoze single-family neighborhoods and the scandalous exit of LA’s Animal Services GM Staycee Dains after a disturbing incident involving a dog in Costa Mesa.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Are you welcome to
the show. It's good that you're here. How are you?
I'm just handy.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I'm fine? You look dandy? I look dandy.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, like handy?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yes you do. You got a pink and blue outfit.
On today, We're gonna get right into this. Two rounds
of the moistline coming up after three o'clock, and we're
going to start here with Jamie Page from the West
Side Current. We talked to Jamie yesterday at this time
because that hearing before the federal Judge David Carter is
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now ongoing, and uh, it's looking into where billions of
dollars went that was meant to combat homelessness. We've spent
many billions over the years with little results, and in fact,
it's gotten worse in a lot of ways. And it's
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one of the most perplexing and infuriating things about life
in La City and County is that the homeless have
fouled our streets and our public places, and the city
and the county taxes us. Unfortunately, the voters agree to
these taxes and the money disappears. There's been a lawsuit
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by the LA Alliance for Human Rights, which includes a
lot of business interests who are trying to force the
city in county to do something. A lot of the
controversy surrounds LASA, the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, and
we're going to talk now to Jamie Page because they're
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getting top city officials. They're being forced to testify before
Judge Carter. He's running his own show here. This is
not a trial in the sense of you have a
jury and they're trying to determine guilt in regards to
a crime. This is more like an investigation to see
where the money went and whether the judge ought to
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turn over the whole operation to an outside receiver, an
outside person entity. Let's get Jamie paige on.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Great job explaining it, Hi, John, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's not easy to explain, but you've been writing great
stories for the West Side Current. One quick question before
we get into the meat of what's been happening in
the last day or two is Karen Bass. Has she
testified or will she testify anytime soon?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
So Karen Bass was subpoena along with some of the
council members. But the opposite side, the city attorneys who
were hired, filed a motion to quash the subpoena. So
we should find out within the next hour or so
if the judge is going to grant that or deny it.
I've been told on background that it will probably be granted,
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which means the mayor will not have to testify.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And on what basis does she not have to testify
since she's in charge? Do you know?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
That's a good question, and they're not explaining the details
to us about that, although I have heard that the
city plans to appeal this evidentiary hearing. And it's very
evident when you're in the court, every single question that
Ellie Alliance asks a witness on stand is objected to.
So this is this is going to be a very
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long drawn out case, and at times it becomes very
confusing because a witness will go to answer a question
and an objection will will be made and so we
then the judge needs to either as you know, overrule
or overrule their objection, So then they have to go
through this conference of kim they answer it or not.
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Is this privileged information? So Matt Zevo who's been on
the stand since Tuesday, has been going through the lion's
share of the testimony. But this should have been wrapped
up the first day. But because of this being drawn out,
we're kind of all last night here in wait till
seven pm. That's very unheard of.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So this is a lawsuit by LA Alliance for Human
Rights against city and the county and the uh they
have eleven attorneys I read? Is that true? Yeah, a
city in county has eleven attorneys.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Well, the city and here's here's.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
A city has eleven attorneys.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well the first day eleven so two of their own,
but they hired a high profile law firm to come
into the case. Just a couple hours and we're just
doing loose math here thinking this is probably a taxpayer.
This is costing taxpayers. It's got to be like ninety
grand a day that we're talking about. How these attorneys
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and the West Side Regional Alliance for Councils just filed
a request to see if they can get the retainer
information for to see what we are paying us.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They must have a lot to hide the city. When
you hire eleven attorneys to run.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Doubling down, tripling down, not enough that we lost two
billion dollars. Now we're going to pay at least one
hundred thousand, if not more.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I think o J only had eight attorneys. This is
quite the collection, all right. So let's start with Matt Zabo.
He is give me his title.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
He's a he's a city administrative officer, city administrative officer,
and that he's got the duty of following where the
money is going in and out.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Essentially, he's the accountant. He's the city's accountant. So so yes,
at the end of the day, all the seats go
through him. Although he has testified that even though he
gets reports, it's up to the owner of the report
LASA in this case, to put together a full report.
So yesterday on the stand he was testifying about how
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if the information isn't in report that LASA gave them,
he doesn't have it either.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And you wrote about these performance metrics they call them
from LASSA, and it looks like whatever the performance metrics
were in all these different categories, they fell way way short.
Can you talk about that?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Well, not only did they fall short, it's also important
to highlight that it in some cases that LASA just
did not do the reporting on it. So we have
some you know, KPIs that we all look at when
we're trying to figure out if something works or not.
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And in this case, it was the data completeness go
and they were supposed to hit a goal of ninety
five percent, So that means all the data that comes in,
they're supposed to compile it and then turn it over.
LASA just chose not to report on it. And that
was the back and forth between the attorneys as asking, well,
you are the keeper of this information, so did you
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ask for it when you did not get it, So
we have loss of refusing to get to take the
information or report on it, and then we have the
city just not asking the follow up questions of where
is it all right?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So there was a twenty five percent goal regarding placing
homeless people in permanent housing, goal twenty five percent. Apparently
LASA only reached four percent. The goal was twenty five
percent of homeless to get substance abuse treatment and they
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only hit six percent. Mental health needs twenty five percent
was the goal? Six percent four percent? Yeah, Rather so
in all these categories it was twenty five percent was
the goal, which to me isn't a very high goal.
I mean seventy five percent they never expected to reach.
And in these cases it's four percent for permanent housing,
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six percent for substance abuse, four percent for mental health needs.
This is a huge, gigantic failure. You're talking about roughly
ninety five percent of the population not getting housing, not
getting mental health treatment, and not getting a drug treatment.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yeah, and all of this came out in the audit.
What we're in through right now, What we're going through
again is an evidentiary hearing, so kind of going line
by line exactly what you're doing right now and asking
the questions that should have been asked in twenty twenty
two when they settled. This lawsuit was filed in twenty
twenty the city entered into a settlement. We should be
way ahead of where we are. We're still out of
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four percent reporting and this is five years later. Those
of us who paid axes, who walk on our streets
every day see the homelessness crisis. But here we are
in a courtroom, nitpicking on a four to twenty five percent.
As you just pointed out, we should be at eighty
percent by now ninety five.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I don't understand, how do you only help four percent
of those who needed mental health treatment. You four percent.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
We don't have the beds, that's what they'll tell you
as well. And we don't have the bet.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
But where'd the billions? Gould check up by? You should
buy a lot of beds. Beds aren't that expensive.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
There was a there was a witness on stand yesterday
who does a who does tiny home villages, and she
came up with the price tag of a tiny home
village that she did in I want to say, Santa Barbara,
four hundred dollars a night for folks. And this testimony
was not allowed because it was objected so much that
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we shouldn't be comparing to other cities. But it was
still eye opening to see what we could be paying
and paying.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Us only injections. This whole thing must be excruciating to
watch and listen to.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Oh gosh, we all just look. I mean, sometimes you
hear the same answer five times because of the objections.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Can you hang out for another segment? You got time?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
All right? Yeah, we got Jamie Page on Westside Current
dot com. West Side Current, go read their stuff when
we come back. I want to find out as a
new character in this story, doctor Estimey a goonifer? Is
that how you say it? As a Deputy mayor of
Homelessness and Community Health. I didn't know there was such
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a thing, but she is. And apparently she was combative
and evasive. Well, there's a lot. There's a lot of
sketchy characters who are governing this place and a lot
of money's disappearing.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am
sixty uh.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock
and then after four o'clock John cobelt Show on demand.
That's the podcast, so anything you miss you can hear
later on posted after four o'clock. We're going to continue
with Jimmy Page, reported for the West Side Current Westside
Current dot com and she's one of the few in
LA media who's actually covering this lawsuit from a group
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called La Alliance for Human Rights. There's a lot of
business groups involved in this. They filed a suit against
the city in County trying to get them to account
for all the money that was spent on homelessness over
the last many years with nothing to show for it.
And in the first segment, we told you that LASA,
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which is the bureaucracy that oversees homelessness for the county
and city, only reported four percent of the homeless they
put in permanent housing. Only six percent of the homeless
got drug treatment, and only four percent got mental health treatment.
So on average, ninety five percent of the homeless that
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you see got no drug treatment, no mental health treatment,
or no permanent housing. Ninety five percent. And this is
after year. This lawsuit was originally filed in twenty twenty.
Let's get Jamie back on here. We have a new character,
a doctor Estima p. A Gonifer. She's the first ever
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Deputy Mayor of Homelessness and Community Health. I looked up
her bio. I don't know if any of this makes sense.
This is with Kaiser Permanente. She has a bio. Doctor
sm esme A Gonifer is committed to advancing health equity
and justice for vulnerable individuals and populations, including veterans an
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individuals experiencing homeless and incarceration. Her work amplifies these voices
through narratives, mixed methods, and community partnered participatory research to
impact health delivery innovation that addresses social determinants of health.
I mean what a stew of gobbledegook and nonsense. What
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the hell is all that about? That's what she does.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
It was confusing when she was on the stand too,
although we did learn that she got the role in
twenty four and she got it through knowing the mayor
when she was in the White House, So that's the
connection there. Although when she was being questioned and testifying,
her scope of her job was a lot more narrow
than what the LA Alliance city attorneys were trying to
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get at. You know, she's supposed to be in charge
of homelessness, but she was when I said the word combative,
she just kept coming back with, my role is to
make sure insights safe works. We weren't sure.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, you know that this LA Alliance had made a
settlement with the city several years ago, and an attorney
asked a gnifer if she ever read it, and she says,
I may have skimmed it, maybe skimmed it once. Well,
that was the agreement that the city was bound to
honor from the last round of lawsuits.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's when I became combative in court too. They kept
asking her in different ways, but this is your role.
You're supposed to be overseeing homelessness, and she tried to
separate herself from the agreements that the city came into,
and she kept saying, my job is to get them
into beds, and then the attorney would say, well, the
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whole settlement is about beds. The whole settlement is about
getting them into beds, and then her you know, coming
back to yes, but it takes a long time, and
it goes into compassion and getting to know folks and
getting them into the bed and so although that may
be her story, that's not what the settlement of a
lawsuit is, and it's all written out what someone is
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and what the requirement is.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Her gibberish here, narratives, mixed methods, community partner participatory research.
It's nobody on the planet who knows what any of
that means. And she's being asked a direct question of hey,
are you getting these people into beds? And she doesn't
know how to answer because she's lost in all this
bizarre social justice jargon.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I often heard the word it's my job to make
them feel cared for and loved in the courtroom as well, too,
So yes, that support to your.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Theory to make them feel cared for and loved. The
purpose of this is to get them off the streets.
We can't take care of their love issues. That's not possible.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And I think that the lawsuit is supposed to make
us all kind of whole as a community. Right, it's
not safe for anybody for them to be living on
the streets, whether it's medical safety or physical safety, and
the streets are dangerous. We all know that. It just
feels like the city and the county continued to resist
what could be the greatest outcome for all of us.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Well, it's such a massive failure. Did you get a
sense that the city administrative ornor Matt Zabo or this
doctor Agonafer do they care or they just care taking
the failure day to day and punching the clock. Do
they seem in any way unhappy with the non existent
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progress after all these billions of dollars? Anybody embarrassed? Anybody angry?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
My assessment is it's not about Zabo's he's our accountant, right,
although he should be fiscally responsible for us. But the
city attorney was in the courtroom yesterday, but overall the
mayor housn't showed up. I haven't seen any city council members.
I haven't seen anybody from the city who say they
care show up to this case. There's a handful of
us in the courtroom, and to me, that's an identifier
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of who really cares about the outcome of this case,
the homelessness crisis.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Are you the only reporter covering this day?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
There's just a handful of us. I'd say about five. Yeah,
any trickle in and out, but there's yeah. I feel
like we've been the only one covering this since twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You're the only one I can find. We're raised, look too,
not that we're looking for someone else. You're doing a
great job coming on with us, but we're good. We're
kind of shocked because the whole city in county needs
to know this, and at any TV reporters show up.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I think, well, yesterday for about ten minutes, I'm not
sure I recognize her, but I'm not sure what affiliation
she's from. This should be the biggest story in Los
Angeles by far. This is the biggest story. Two point
three billion dollars that are on accounted floor in a
system that is supposed to help us solve homelessness on
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our streets, and it only gets worse year by year,
and as you pointed out yesterday, the point in time count,
there's evidence to show that the same amount of people
who died on our street is the same amount of
the number that adds up to how we got a
decrease in our count last year.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, the decrease is the two thousand plus that died.
Is the judge Judge Carter at times in these cases,
he's very pointed and very critical. Has he shown any
indication of what he thinks of the testimony in the
last few days.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
He's not in This is just my observation because I'm
also following the VA lawsuit. There's fear of an appeal,
and so he's doing what he's supposed to do as
a judge, just listening to objections and either sustaining or overruling.
That's the most we're getting from him. It's very unusual,
because yes, he is the character that we all pay
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attention to usually, but he's very restrained right now, and
I think it's because he doesn't want to see an appeal.
At the end. This is all about receivership, right It's
all about seeing somebody else take over. So I think
he wants to see that. I think, but he's got
to follow follow what he needs to do as a
judge right.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Now, this is really an abomination. Thank you very much, Jamie,
Jamie Page Westside Current dot com. Subscribe to that news
site read her articles. Thanks for coming on, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
We're on every day from one until four and then
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand and you
could listen to what you missed. Boy, That was some
report at the about the lawsuit trial going on in
Los Angeles before federal Judge David Carter. There is a
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group called let me get their name right, La Alliance
for Human Rights. It's a group of residents and business
owners who have come together to try to force the
city and the county LASA to be accountable for all
the billions of dollars they have blown on homelessness. And
it's not gotten any better. It's gotten worse, obviously. And
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Karen Vas and the alley headed Border Supervisors and all
their lackeys and parasites, just a lot of the public
constantly bogus claims bogus statistics when everybody with their own
eyes can see that this has been getting worse and
worse for ten years now. Now this lawsuit again, it's
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it's the Alliance for Human Rights. They're trying to get
the city in county to to get homeless people off
the streets. And if Judge Harder rules against the city,
then the whole system they go into receivership. An outside person,
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some outside entity is going to take it over. But
the statistics here are so damning, so infuriating, so incredibly outrageous.
Matt Zebo testified as the city administrative officer. Jamie Page
from Westside Current said, basically, he's the accountant, and he
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says the LASSA has only placed four percent of the
homeless and permanent housing four percent. And this is over
a period of many years. Only four percent got mental
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health treatment, only six percent got drug treatment. So you
add that up and ninety five ninety six percent of
the homeless never got permanent housing, ninety four percent of
those with drug problems didn't get any drug treatment, and
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six percent of those who are mentally ill never got
mental health treatment after we gave them billions of dollars.
Oh my god, I know Bill A. Saley is doing
an investigation on behalf of the federal government, because if
there's any federal money in this pot, then people ought
to be charged and put in prison, a federal prison. Uh,
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it is shocking that it's not shocking, but Gavin Newsom
ought to have the Attorney General do an investigation so
some of these people could be put in state prison.
How can you spend all these billions of dollars? I mean,
the last audit, just for the last couple of years
found two point three billion dollars not properly accounted for.
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Nobody got the mental health treatment, nobody got the drug treatment,
nobody got the housing, nobody at all. Money's gone. These
are all thieves. And then this, this, this, this, this doctor.
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She's now the deputy mayor, the first ever deputy man.
By the way, these are all Karen pass hires. Karen
Pass hired the woman who has turned LASA into this
giant sucking money pit. Remember this Valicia Callum, Adams, Valicia
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Adams Kellum, I don't know. Throw her names up in
the air and see how they fall. The Valicia Adams Callum.
Then this this other one and I never heard of
her doctor Estimate Agoniffer she's the Deputy Mayor of homelessness
and like I said, to go to go to the
website at at Kaiser and and she uh she amplifies
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voices of the homeless through narratives, mixed methods and community
partner participatory research. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Picture
of her with a big smile. Another Karen Pass. Everybody
Karen Pass hires is completely incompetent and they all have
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doctor It's this this uh estmagnon doctorate. Uh Vlicia Adams
callum who runs loss of doctorate? What what kind of
doctorates are these? And they're combative and they're evasive and
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nobody covers this. What I'm serious the people who run
the news departments in the city. This is one of
the biggest scandals the city has ever seen. Hello, one
reporter for one day, make it a lead story. You
gotta do a primetime special on this. What's wrong with you? Really?
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All the newsrooms here in Los Angeles nobody covering this.
It's billions of dollars. The number one issue. I think
over ninety percent of the public in Los Angeles says
the number one issue is the homelessness and we spend
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billions of dollars and look where it's all wasted. And
look at these these these pathetic, puny statistics, and no
one's even trying to say they're doing a good job
inside safe. That was a scam. I'm going to repeat this.
Jamie Page mentioned it. Bass has been going around claiming
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that in the last year homelessness was down by over
two thousand people. Yeah, they died. The difference between the
twenty the difference between the count last year year of
the count this year almost exactly matches the number who died.
That's the only way that Karen Bass got any homeless
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off the street. They expired, they ceased to exist. So
now you don't count. Well, they're not homeless anymore. Yeah,
you're right, got me on that one. If they're dead,
they're not homeless. They're dead. So Bass is waiting for
a bumper crop of homeless dead so her statistics look
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better next year when she runs for reelection. When she
runs for reelection, swallow that one. Who it is absolutely
beyond insane. And the city hires eleven lawyers with your
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tax money to object to every question from the attorneys
for the LA Alliance and the LA Alliance for Human
Rights is just people here in the city. It is citizens,
it is business owners, and they're trying to force the
city in the county to get the homeless people off
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the street and use the money that we paid by
the billions, and they won't do it. And when their
attorney asks appointed questions of these city bureaucrats who are
just sad, pathetic losers, objection, objection, objection. These lawyers are scum.
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These lawyers are parasitical scum. The hall operation is a sore.
The bureaucrats, the attorneys, what God, And they're not helping anybody,
and then manipulate you emotionally to pay more taxes because
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it's our brothers and sisters, remember that phony Bologna weasel,
Eric Garcetti, our fellow Angelinos who fallen on tough times,
our brother and sister Angelinos. It was lying. It's a racket.
It's a money laundering racket for everybody politically connected to
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Bass or Garcetti and everybody, and I mean everybody. Karen
Bass hires is an incompetent boob with a doctorate, which
is ingram richer. They're well educated, in competent boobs. How
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could you get a worst best of the homelessness in
Los Angeles, a problem that virtually no other city outside
of California has. This is part of the progressive disease
that's infected the state and seems to have paralyzed all
the right thinking people in this state who keep voting
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for these incredibly destructive losers and keep financing all their
ridiculous criminal policies. This is crime. You take billions of dollars,
and again they can't account for it. It's not even
written on paper where they blew the money and who
stole the money, and nobody in and by the way,
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I couldn't find anything in the La Times either, So
I don't know what's up with Patrick sun Chian, but
I couldn't find anybody assigned to this story the last
couple of days, and nobody from Channel two four seven, nine,
eleven five. I don't know. Jami Bage said she thought
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she saw one person there for about ten minutes. This
is just a travesty, absolutely travesty. All right, more coming up,
We've got some We got a lot of dog stories today.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
You don't sound happy about that. They're not good dog stories.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
No, they're not, and one of them I'm going to
be talking about my news.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
All right, you're listening to John Cobelts on demand from
KFI AM six forty coming.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Up after two o'clock. The outrages continue. There is a
horrific bill coming from that weirdo Scott Wayner, who's the
state senator up in San Francisco. It's a horrific housing bill.
It would require cities to approve buildings even if they
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were ten stories tall in single family neighborhoods if your
development is within half a mile of a bus stop.
So if you're within half a mile of a major
road like say Venora Boulevard or Wilshire Boulevard or any
of the big boulevards that have lots of bus stops,
no more single family z owing. The city would be
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forced to approve buildings that are ten stories tall, completely
destroying residential suburban neighborhoods. That communist sicko, weirdo, Scott Wiener.
We're going to talk to journalists Chris Lagras about it.
This came flying out of nowhere. Uh now, you mentioned
this story in the news. Have you seen the video
(31:23):
of this? Yeah? I did. There's a Coasta mesa animal
rescue employee, a woman that was seen on video dragging
a limp dog down the sidewalk, dragged by the leash.
Dogs not moving at all on its own, and it's
just dragged. And this is a rescue what some dogs
(31:51):
just don't get a break, you know, Priceless Pets Rescue
says Ladies a walker. So the dog wasn't walking. The
dog was absolutely motionless, and she's pulling it along the
sidewalk the way you'd pull a wagon.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Why is she doing this job if she hates animals
so much?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I don't know, Like, why would you want to do this?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I always thought that people that would work in an
animal rescue are going to be the kindest, gentlest people
that will be nice to the animals. Okay, you know
what we need to do, John, We need to drag her.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I'm going to put a leash on her.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I'm going to drag her on the sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Deborah Mark Justice, yep A, putt me in charge. Anybody
abuses animals gets exactly the same treatment as I'm with you. Uh,
Priceless Pets Rescue, Well, they hired her. Yeah, oh, and
they called the video absolutely unacceptable. Well, unacceptable is the
new cool word to use.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I think it's a little more than unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's like what a thousand people rioted last Saturday. Carabas said,
that is unacceptable. I'm sorry, that's unacceptable. Okay. She was
just so mean, mean and uncaring. If you saw her,
the look on her face, she was just dragging it
like it was, you know, a sack of groceries in
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a in a in a wagon. Why I don't know.
Why would you do that? Why would Why wouldn't you
be upset by that? Oh? Why wouldn't you?
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I think most people, most people watching this viral video
would be very upset.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
But she ends up working for the Animal Shoves yea,
and they hire her.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Well, I mean, look, you don't when you hire somebody,
you don't know every little thing that somebody's gonna do.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I don't understand why this woman would want to work
at an animal rescue.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I guess it was too much trouble for her. She
was too tired. She didn't realize she'd be walking dogs.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Too bad.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
You a pain in the ass, No digging ditches. We
don't have time now. But we will do this later
in the show. This is another horrible Karen bass Hire
and it's a woman named Stacy Danes and apparently the
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Los Angeles City animal shelters are in a total dysfunction,
total disasters. And Danes was was making two hundred and
seventy three thousand dollars a year and she was unable
to fix all the problems. The problems going on are
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things they're gonna they're gonna make What this lady was
doing in Costa Mesa seemed like parking citation. Are you
STI these are actual felonies. Yes, that's why I want
to do it later when we've got more time. But
she she tried to take over the Stacey Danes and
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she was a year as an animal services general manager
and she's gone on paid leave and then she quit
and she is now talking to the La Times about
what she saw and it is going to make you
so sick, so angry.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Do we really have to do this?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well, if we don't, it's going to go on. That's
you know, that's that is true because a lot of
people don't know what's going on in the city animal shelters,
and they don't realize just how much I guess Karen
bat Bass not only hates people, but hates animals because
she's allowed this to go on for quite some time
and hasn't taken any action against it.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
And before you go and you buy a designer dog,
like some people, go to a shelter and adopt. These
animals need you, that's my PSA.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Get them out of the La City Chess first place
you should go, because seriously, I'm not exaggerating. They're torturing animals.
Oh no story, Yeah, yeah, torturing you. Well you want
to hear one example.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Not really, but I know you're gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Apparently some of the employees routinely terrorized the dogs by
banging on their kennels and then sprang them with water
to move them back, and she said she was told
that's how we train the dogs, so it was it
was a mental torture.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Okay, you know what, these people that are torturing animals,
we're gonna put them in cages and we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
The city day. Put you in charge of this whole system.
You really should. Yeah, I'll straighten things out, all right.
We'll get to that later next hour. Chris Lagrau coming
up next. He's a journalist. Boy. There's so many, so
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On today, We're gonna get right into this. Two rounds
of the moistline coming up after three o'clock, and we're
going to start here with Jamie Page from the West
Side Current. We talked to Jamie yesterday at this time
because that hearing before the federal Judge David Carter is
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now ongoing, and uh, it's looking into where billions of
dollars went that was meant to combat homelessness. We've spent
many billions over the years with little results, and in fact,
it's gotten worse in a lot of ways. And it's
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one of the most perplexing and infuriating things about life
in La City and County is that the homeless have
fouled our streets and our public places, and the city
and the county taxes us. Unfortunately, the voters agree to
these taxes and the money disappears. There's been a lawsuit
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by the LA Alliance for Human Rights, which includes a
lot of business interests who are trying to force the
city in county to do something. A lot of the
controversy surrounds LASA, the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority, and
we're going to talk now to Jamie Page because they're
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getting top city officials. They're being forced to testify before
Judge Carter. He's running his own show here. This is
not a trial in the sense of you have a
jury and they're trying to determine guilt in regards to
a crime. This is more like an investigation to see
where the money went and whether the judge ought to
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turn over the whole operation to an outside receiver, an
outside person entity. Let's get Jamie paige on.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Great job explaining it, Hi, John, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's not easy to explain, but you've been writing great
stories for the West Side Current. One quick question before
we get into the meat of what's been happening in
the last day or two is Karen Bass. Has she
testified or will she testify anytime soon?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
So Karen Bass was subpoena along with some of the
council members. But the opposite side, the city attorneys who
were hired, filed a motion to quash the subpoena. So
we should find out within the next hour or so
if the judge is going to grant that or deny it.
I've been told on background that it will probably be granted,
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which means the mayor will not have to testify.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And on what basis does she not have to testify
since she's in charge? Do you know?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
That's a good question, and they're not explaining the details
to us about that, although I have heard that the
city plans to appeal this evidentiary hearing. And it's very
evident when you're in the court, every single question that
Ellie Alliance asks a witness on stand is objected to.
So this is this is going to be a very
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long drawn out case, and at times it becomes very
confusing because a witness will go to answer a question
and an objection will will be made and so we
then the judge needs to either as you know, overrule
or overrule their objection, So then they have to go
through this conference of kim they answer it or not.
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Is this privileged information? So Matt Zevo who's been on
the stand since Tuesday, has been going through the lion's
share of the testimony. But this should have been wrapped
up the first day. But because of this being drawn out,
we're kind of all last night here in wait till
seven pm. That's very unheard of.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So this is a lawsuit by LA Alliance for Human
Rights against city and the county and the uh they
have eleven attorneys I read? Is that true? Yeah, a
city in county has eleven attorneys.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Well, the city and here's here's.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
A city has eleven attorneys.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well the first day eleven so two of their own,
but they hired a high profile law firm to come
into the case. Just a couple hours and we're just
doing loose math here thinking this is probably a taxpayer.
This is costing taxpayers. It's got to be like ninety
grand a day that we're talking about. How these attorneys
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and the West Side Regional Alliance for Councils just filed
a request to see if they can get the retainer
information for to see what we are paying us.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
They must have a lot to hide the city. When
you hire eleven attorneys to run.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Doubling down, tripling down, not enough that we lost two
billion dollars. Now we're going to pay at least one
hundred thousand, if not more.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I think o J only had eight attorneys. This is
quite the collection, all right. So let's start with Matt Zabo.
He is give me his title.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
He's a he's a city administrative officer, city administrative officer,
and that he's got the duty of following where the
money is going in and out.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Essentially, he's the accountant. He's the city's accountant. So so yes,
at the end of the day, all the seats go
through him. Although he has testified that even though he
gets reports, it's up to the owner of the report
LASA in this case, to put together a full report.
So yesterday on the stand he was testifying about how
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if the information isn't in report that LASA gave them,
he doesn't have it either.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And you wrote about these performance metrics they call them
from LASSA, and it looks like whatever the performance metrics
were in all these different categories, they fell way way short.
Can you talk about that?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Well, not only did they fall short, it's also important
to highlight that it in some cases that LASA just
did not do the reporting on it. So we have
some you know, KPIs that we all look at when
we're trying to figure out if something works or not.
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And in this case, it was the data completeness go
and they were supposed to hit a goal of ninety
five percent, So that means all the data that comes in,
they're supposed to compile it and then turn it over.
LASA just chose not to report on it. And that
was the back and forth between the attorneys as asking, well,
you are the keeper of this information, so did you
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ask for it when you did not get it, So
we have loss of refusing to get to take the
information or report on it, and then we have the
city just not asking the follow up questions of where
is it all right?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So there was a twenty five percent goal regarding placing
homeless people in permanent housing, goal twenty five percent. Apparently
LASA only reached four percent. The goal was twenty five
percent of homeless to get substance abuse treatment and they
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only hit six percent. Mental health needs twenty five percent
was the goal? Six percent four percent? Yeah, Rather so
in all these categories it was twenty five percent was
the goal, which to me isn't a very high goal.
I mean seventy five percent they never expected to reach.
And in these cases it's four percent for permanent housing,
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six percent for substance abuse, four percent for mental health needs.
This is a huge, gigantic failure. You're talking about roughly
ninety five percent of the population not getting housing, not
getting mental health treatment, and not getting a drug treatment.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yeah, and all of this came out in the audit.
What we're in through right now, What we're going through
again is an evidentiary hearing, so kind of going line
by line exactly what you're doing right now and asking
the questions that should have been asked in twenty twenty
two when they settled. This lawsuit was filed in twenty
twenty the city entered into a settlement. We should be
way ahead of where we are. We're still out of
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four percent reporting and this is five years later. Those
of us who paid axes, who walk on our streets
every day see the homelessness crisis. But here we are
in a courtroom, nitpicking on a four to twenty five percent.
As you just pointed out, we should be at eighty
percent by now ninety five.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I don't understand, how do you only help four percent
of those who needed mental health treatment. You four percent.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
We don't have the beds, that's what they'll tell you
as well. And we don't have the bet.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
But where'd the billions? Gould check up by? You should
buy a lot of beds. Beds aren't that expensive.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
There was a there was a witness on stand yesterday
who does a who does tiny home villages, and she
came up with the price tag of a tiny home
village that she did in I want to say, Santa Barbara,
four hundred dollars a night for folks. And this testimony
was not allowed because it was objected so much that
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we shouldn't be comparing to other cities. But it was
still eye opening to see what we could be paying
and paying.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Us only injections. This whole thing must be excruciating to
watch and listen to.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Oh gosh, we all just look. I mean, sometimes you
hear the same answer five times because of the objections.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Can you hang out for another segment? You got time?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
All right? Yeah, we got Jamie Page on Westside Current
dot com. West Side Current, go read their stuff when
we come back. I want to find out as a
new character in this story, doctor Estimey a goonifer? Is
that how you say it? As a Deputy mayor of
Homelessness and Community Health. I didn't know there was such
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a thing, but she is. And apparently she was combative
and evasive. Well, there's a lot. There's a lot of
sketchy characters who are governing this place and a lot
of money's disappearing.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am
sixty uh.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock
and then after four o'clock John cobelt Show on demand.
That's the podcast, so anything you miss you can hear
later on posted after four o'clock. We're going to continue
with Jimmy Page, reported for the West Side Current Westside
Current dot com and she's one of the few in
LA media who's actually covering this lawsuit from a group
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called La Alliance for Human Rights. There's a lot of
business groups involved in this. They filed a suit against
the city in County trying to get them to account
for all the money that was spent on homelessness over
the last many years with nothing to show for it.
And in the first segment, we told you that LASA,
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which is the bureaucracy that oversees homelessness for the county
and city, only reported four percent of the homeless they
put in permanent housing. Only six percent of the homeless
got drug treatment, and only four percent got mental health treatment.
So on average, ninety five percent of the homeless that
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you see got no drug treatment, no mental health treatment,
or no permanent housing. Ninety five percent. And this is
after year. This lawsuit was originally filed in twenty twenty.
Let's get Jamie back on here. We have a new character,
a doctor Estima p. A Gonifer. She's the first ever
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Deputy Mayor of Homelessness and Community Health. I looked up
her bio. I don't know if any of this makes sense.
This is with Kaiser Permanente. She has a bio. Doctor
sm esme A Gonifer is committed to advancing health equity
and justice for vulnerable individuals and populations, including veterans an
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individuals experiencing homeless and incarceration. Her work amplifies these voices
through narratives, mixed methods, and community partnered participatory research to
impact health delivery innovation that addresses social determinants of health.
I mean what a stew of gobbledegook and nonsense. What
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the hell is all that about? That's what she does.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
It was confusing when she was on the stand too,
although we did learn that she got the role in
twenty four and she got it through knowing the mayor
when she was in the White House, So that's the
connection there. Although when she was being questioned and testifying,
her scope of her job was a lot more narrow
than what the LA Alliance city attorneys were trying to
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get at. You know, she's supposed to be in charge
of homelessness, but she was when I said the word combative,
she just kept coming back with, my role is to
make sure insights safe works. We weren't sure.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, you know that this LA Alliance had made a
settlement with the city several years ago, and an attorney
asked a gnifer if she ever read it, and she says,
I may have skimmed it, maybe skimmed it once. Well,
that was the agreement that the city was bound to
honor from the last round of lawsuits.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's when I became combative in court too. They kept
asking her in different ways, but this is your role.
You're supposed to be overseeing homelessness, and she tried to
separate herself from the agreements that the city came into,
and she kept saying, my job is to get them
into beds, and then the attorney would say, well, the
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whole settlement is about beds. The whole settlement is about
getting them into beds, and then her you know, coming
back to yes, but it takes a long time, and
it goes into compassion and getting to know folks and
getting them into the bed and so although that may
be her story, that's not what the settlement of a
lawsuit is, and it's all written out what someone is
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and what the requirement is.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Her gibberish here, narratives, mixed methods, community partner participatory research.
It's nobody on the planet who knows what any of
that means. And she's being asked a direct question of hey,
are you getting these people into beds? And she doesn't
know how to answer because she's lost in all this
bizarre social justice jargon.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I often heard the word it's my job to make
them feel cared for and loved in the courtroom as well, too,
So yes, that support to your.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Theory to make them feel cared for and loved. The
purpose of this is to get them off the streets.
We can't take care of their love issues. That's not possible.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And I think that the lawsuit is supposed to make
us all kind of whole as a community. Right, it's
not safe for anybody for them to be living on
the streets, whether it's medical safety or physical safety, and
the streets are dangerous. We all know that. It just
feels like the city and the county continued to resist
what could be the greatest outcome for all of us.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Well, it's such a massive failure. Did you get a
sense that the city administrative ornor Matt Zabo or this
doctor Agonafer do they care or they just care taking
the failure day to day and punching the clock. Do
they seem in any way unhappy with the non existent
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progress after all these billions of dollars? Anybody embarrassed? Anybody angry?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
My assessment is it's not about Zabo's he's our accountant, right,
although he should be fiscally responsible for us. But the
city attorney was in the courtroom yesterday, but overall the
mayor housn't showed up. I haven't seen any city council members.
I haven't seen anybody from the city who say they
care show up to this case. There's a handful of
us in the courtroom, and to me, that's an identifier
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of who really cares about the outcome of this case,
the homelessness crisis.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Are you the only reporter covering this day?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
There's just a handful of us. I'd say about five. Yeah,
any trickle in and out, but there's yeah. I feel
like we've been the only one covering this since twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You're the only one I can find. We're raised, look too,
not that we're looking for someone else. You're doing a
great job coming on with us, but we're good. We're
kind of shocked because the whole city in county needs
to know this, and at any TV reporters show up.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I think, well, yesterday for about ten minutes, I'm not
sure I recognize her, but I'm not sure what affiliation
she's from. This should be the biggest story in Los
Angeles by far. This is the biggest story. Two point
three billion dollars that are on accounted floor in a
system that is supposed to help us solve homelessness on
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our streets, and it only gets worse year by year,
and as you pointed out yesterday, the point in time count,
there's evidence to show that the same amount of people
who died on our street is the same amount of
the number that adds up to how we got a
decrease in our count last year.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, the decrease is the two thousand plus that died.
Is the judge Judge Carter at times in these cases,
he's very pointed and very critical. Has he shown any
indication of what he thinks of the testimony in the
last few days.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
He's not in This is just my observation because I'm
also following the VA lawsuit. There's fear of an appeal,
and so he's doing what he's supposed to do as
a judge, just listening to objections and either sustaining or overruling.
That's the most we're getting from him. It's very unusual,
because yes, he is the character that we all pay
(18:51):
attention to usually, but he's very restrained right now, and
I think it's because he doesn't want to see an appeal.
At the end. This is all about receivership, right It's
all about seeing somebody else take over. So I think
he wants to see that. I think, but he's got
to follow follow what he needs to do as a
judge right.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Now, this is really an abomination. Thank you very much, Jamie,
Jamie Page Westside Current dot com. Subscribe to that news
site read her articles. Thanks for coming on, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
We're on every day from one until four and then
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand and you
could listen to what you missed. Boy, That was some
report at the about the lawsuit trial going on in
Los Angeles before federal Judge David Carter. There is a
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group called let me get their name right, La Alliance
for Human Rights. It's a group of residents and business
owners who have come together to try to force the
city and the county LASA to be accountable for all
the billions of dollars they have blown on homelessness. And
it's not gotten any better. It's gotten worse, obviously. And
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Karen Vas and the alley headed Border Supervisors and all
their lackeys and parasites, just a lot of the public
constantly bogus claims bogus statistics when everybody with their own
eyes can see that this has been getting worse and
worse for ten years now. Now this lawsuit again, it's
(20:34):
it's the Alliance for Human Rights. They're trying to get
the city in county to to get homeless people off
the streets. And if Judge Harder rules against the city,
then the whole system they go into receivership. An outside person,
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some outside entity is going to take it over. But
the statistics here are so damning, so infuriating, so incredibly outrageous.
Matt Zebo testified as the city administrative officer. Jamie Page
from Westside Current said, basically, he's the accountant, and he
(21:19):
says the LASSA has only placed four percent of the
homeless and permanent housing four percent. And this is over
a period of many years. Only four percent got mental
(21:39):
health treatment, only six percent got drug treatment. So you
add that up and ninety five ninety six percent of
the homeless never got permanent housing, ninety four percent of
those with drug problems didn't get any drug treatment, and
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six percent of those who are mentally ill never got
mental health treatment after we gave them billions of dollars.
Oh my god, I know Bill A. Saley is doing
an investigation on behalf of the federal government, because if
there's any federal money in this pot, then people ought
to be charged and put in prison, a federal prison. Uh,
(22:24):
it is shocking that it's not shocking, but Gavin Newsom
ought to have the Attorney General do an investigation so
some of these people could be put in state prison.
How can you spend all these billions of dollars? I mean,
the last audit, just for the last couple of years
found two point three billion dollars not properly accounted for.
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Nobody got the mental health treatment, nobody got the drug treatment,
nobody got the housing, nobody at all. Money's gone. These
are all thieves. And then this, this, this, this, this doctor.
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She's now the deputy mayor, the first ever deputy man.
By the way, these are all Karen pass hires. Karen
Pass hired the woman who has turned LASA into this
giant sucking money pit. Remember this Valicia Callum, Adams, Valicia
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Adams Kellum, I don't know. Throw her names up in
the air and see how they fall. The Valicia Adams Callum.
Then this this other one and I never heard of
her doctor Estimate Agoniffer she's the Deputy Mayor of homelessness
and like I said, to go to go to the
website at at Kaiser and and she uh she amplifies
(23:53):
voices of the homeless through narratives, mixed methods and community
partner participatory research. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Picture
of her with a big smile. Another Karen Pass. Everybody
Karen Pass hires is completely incompetent and they all have
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doctor It's this this uh estmagnon doctorate. Uh Vlicia Adams
callum who runs loss of doctorate? What what kind of
doctorates are these? And they're combative and they're evasive and
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nobody covers this. What I'm serious the people who run
the news departments in the city. This is one of
the biggest scandals the city has ever seen. Hello, one
reporter for one day, make it a lead story. You
gotta do a primetime special on this. What's wrong with you? Really?
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All the newsrooms here in Los Angeles nobody covering this.
It's billions of dollars. The number one issue. I think
over ninety percent of the public in Los Angeles says
the number one issue is the homelessness and we spend
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billions of dollars and look where it's all wasted. And
look at these these these pathetic, puny statistics, and no
one's even trying to say they're doing a good job
inside safe. That was a scam. I'm going to repeat this.
Jamie Page mentioned it. Bass has been going around claiming
(25:46):
that in the last year homelessness was down by over
two thousand people. Yeah, they died. The difference between the
twenty the difference between the count last year year of
the count this year almost exactly matches the number who died.
That's the only way that Karen Bass got any homeless
(26:08):
off the street. They expired, they ceased to exist. So
now you don't count. Well, they're not homeless anymore. Yeah,
you're right, got me on that one. If they're dead,
they're not homeless. They're dead. So Bass is waiting for
a bumper crop of homeless dead so her statistics look
(26:29):
better next year when she runs for reelection. When she
runs for reelection, swallow that one. Who it is absolutely
beyond insane. And the city hires eleven lawyers with your
(26:52):
tax money to object to every question from the attorneys
for the LA Alliance and the LA Alliance for Human
Rights is just people here in the city. It is citizens,
it is business owners, and they're trying to force the
city in the county to get the homeless people off
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the street and use the money that we paid by
the billions, and they won't do it. And when their
attorney asks appointed questions of these city bureaucrats who are
just sad, pathetic losers, objection, objection, objection. These lawyers are scum.
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These lawyers are parasitical scum. The hall operation is a sore.
The bureaucrats, the attorneys, what God, And they're not helping anybody,
and then manipulate you emotionally to pay more taxes because
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it's our brothers and sisters, remember that phony Bologna weasel,
Eric Garcetti, our fellow Angelinos who fallen on tough times,
our brother and sister Angelinos. It was lying. It's a racket.
It's a money laundering racket for everybody politically connected to
(28:18):
Bass or Garcetti and everybody, and I mean everybody. Karen
Bass hires is an incompetent boob with a doctorate, which
is ingram richer. They're well educated, in competent boobs. How
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could you get a worst best of the homelessness in
Los Angeles, a problem that virtually no other city outside
of California has. This is part of the progressive disease
that's infected the state and seems to have paralyzed all
the right thinking people in this state who keep voting
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for these incredibly destructive losers and keep financing all their
ridiculous criminal policies. This is crime. You take billions of dollars,
and again they can't account for it. It's not even
written on paper where they blew the money and who
stole the money, and nobody in and by the way,
(29:26):
I couldn't find anything in the La Times either, So
I don't know what's up with Patrick sun Chian, but
I couldn't find anybody assigned to this story the last
couple of days, and nobody from Channel two four seven, nine,
eleven five. I don't know. Jami Bage said she thought
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she saw one person there for about ten minutes. This
is just a travesty, absolutely travesty. All right, more coming up,
We've got some We got a lot of dog stories today.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
You don't sound happy about that. They're not good dog stories.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
No, they're not, and one of them I'm going to
be talking about my news.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
All right, you're listening to John Cobelts on demand from
KFI AM six forty coming.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Up after two o'clock. The outrages continue. There is a
horrific bill coming from that weirdo Scott Wayner, who's the
state senator up in San Francisco. It's a horrific housing bill.
It would require cities to approve buildings even if they
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were ten stories tall in single family neighborhoods if your
development is within half a mile of a bus stop.
So if you're within half a mile of a major
road like say Venora Boulevard or Wilshire Boulevard or any
of the big boulevards that have lots of bus stops,
no more single family z owing. The city would be
(31:02):
forced to approve buildings that are ten stories tall, completely
destroying residential suburban neighborhoods. That communist sicko, weirdo, Scott Wiener.
We're going to talk to journalists Chris Lagras about it.
This came flying out of nowhere. Uh now, you mentioned
this story in the news. Have you seen the video
(31:23):
of this? Yeah? I did. There's a Coasta mesa animal
rescue employee, a woman that was seen on video dragging
a limp dog down the sidewalk, dragged by the leash.
Dogs not moving at all on its own, and it's
just dragged. And this is a rescue what some dogs
(31:51):
just don't get a break, you know, Priceless Pets Rescue
says Ladies a walker. So the dog wasn't walking. The
dog was absolutely motionless, and she's pulling it along the
sidewalk the way you'd pull a wagon.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Why is she doing this job if she hates animals
so much?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I don't know, Like, why would you want to do this?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I always thought that people that would work in an
animal rescue are going to be the kindest, gentlest people
that will be nice to the animals. Okay, you know
what we need to do, John, We need to drag her.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I'm going to put a leash on her.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I'm going to drag her on the sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Deborah Mark Justice, yep A, putt me in charge. Anybody
abuses animals gets exactly the same treatment as I'm with you. Uh,
Priceless Pets Rescue, Well, they hired her. Yeah, oh, and
they called the video absolutely unacceptable. Well, unacceptable is the
new cool word to use.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I think it's a little more than unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's like what a thousand people rioted last Saturday. Carabas said,
that is unacceptable. I'm sorry, that's unacceptable. Okay. She was
just so mean, mean and uncaring. If you saw her,
the look on her face, she was just dragging it
like it was, you know, a sack of groceries in
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a in a in a wagon. Why I don't know.
Why would you do that? Why would Why wouldn't you
be upset by that? Oh? Why wouldn't you?
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I think most people, most people watching this viral video
would be very upset.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
But she ends up working for the Animal Shoves yea,
and they hire her.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Well, I mean, look, you don't when you hire somebody,
you don't know every little thing that somebody's gonna do.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I don't understand why this woman would want to work
at an animal rescue.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I guess it was too much trouble for her. She
was too tired. She didn't realize she'd be walking dogs.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Too bad.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
You a pain in the ass, No digging ditches. We
don't have time now. But we will do this later
in the show. This is another horrible Karen bass Hire
and it's a woman named Stacy Danes and apparently the
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Los Angeles City animal shelters are in a total dysfunction,
total disasters. And Danes was was making two hundred and
seventy three thousand dollars a year and she was unable
to fix all the problems. The problems going on are
(34:50):
things they're gonna they're gonna make What this lady was
doing in Costa Mesa seemed like parking citation. Are you
STI these are actual felonies. Yes, that's why I want
to do it later when we've got more time. But
she she tried to take over the Stacey Danes and
(35:14):
she was a year as an animal services general manager
and she's gone on paid leave and then she quit
and she is now talking to the La Times about
what she saw and it is going to make you
so sick, so angry.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Do we really have to do this?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well, if we don't, it's going to go on. That's
you know, that's that is true because a lot of
people don't know what's going on in the city animal shelters,
and they don't realize just how much I guess Karen
bat Bass not only hates people, but hates animals because
she's allowed this to go on for quite some time
and hasn't taken any action against it.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
And before you go and you buy a designer dog,
like some people, go to a shelter and adopt. These
animals need you, that's my PSA.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Get them out of the La City Chess first place
you should go, because seriously, I'm not exaggerating. They're torturing animals.
Oh no story, Yeah, yeah, torturing you. Well you want
to hear one example.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Not really, but I know you're gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Apparently some of the employees routinely terrorized the dogs by
banging on their kennels and then sprang them with water
to move them back, and she said she was told
that's how we train the dogs, so it was it
was a mental torture.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Okay, you know what, these people that are torturing animals,
we're gonna put them in cages and we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
The city day. Put you in charge of this whole system.
You really should. Yeah, I'll straighten things out, all right.
We'll get to that later next hour. Chris Lagrau coming
up next. He's a journalist. Boy. There's so many, so
many horrible stories today, Santa Pill seventy nine. It would
require cities to approve buildings ten stories in your single
(37:01):
family neighborhood if you happen to be within a half
mile of a bus stop. This is out of the
behind of Scott Wiener, that weird, evil communist Democratic State
senator from San Francisco, Scott Wiener. It's a bad idea.
He's sponsoring it. Hey, you've been listening to the John
Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live
(37:23):
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