January 1, 2026 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (01/01) - Best Of The John Kobylt Show. Attorney and Pacific Palisades resident Saied Kashani comes on the show to talk about the latest going on with the Palisades Fire recovery and rebuilding fiasco. Spencer Pratt went after Mayor Karen Bass in a social media video. Jon Fleischman comes on the show to talk about the Capitol Annex Project in Sacramento. CA's problems are all Gov. Newsom's fault.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I Am six forty. You're listening to the John
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But we're going to talk with say Ed Kashani, who's
an attorney from the Palisades lost his home in the fire,
and like many in the Palisades, as you heard from
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the report we played before Brigida's news, they cannot believe
that the DWP is draining the reservoir a second time,
the one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir that was
drained in twenty twenty four before the fire, because the
cover was torn. Well, they put a new cover on.
Eventually it was too late, too late for to use
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the reservoir to fight fire. But now it's been torn again,
and so they're going to shut the reservoir down for
another nine months, drain it all over again. And they're
still trying to sell that this doesn't matter, except they've
come up with a backup worters for fire safety. It's
hard to keep up with this. Let's get say Ed
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Kashani on say It.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
How are you well?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's a couple of thanks for having me back. Appreciate
it makes.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
My head spin. So let me get this straight. So
they're actually draining the thing again, but they've always claimed
they would have not done any good at the fire,
but they have a backup water system this time, like
just in case.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, i'll tell you right now, that backup system, as
they describe it, isn't going to help at all. They're
talking about a ten inch diameter water line that possibly
could bring more water over the hill from Topanga. Now,
the reservoir outputs to two thirty inch diameter lines. You
cannot replace two thirty inch diameter water lines with a
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ten inch line. It just doesn't work. At least, they're
recognizing that there is a fire danger when the reservoir
is empty, so they're doing something about it. And you know,
the interesting thing is when they first put this cover
on in two thy eleven, the DWP had reports and
public meetings and they announced that the reservoir would be
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drained for a period of time. And back then the
LA Fire Department actually objected and said, we need this
reservoir for fire safety and if you drain it, there
has to be alternatives. And at the time there were
some alternatives. Well they're all gone now. The alternatives are
like the Chautauqua Reservoir. There's another reservoir which is now
closed down, not even available. So they're you know, they're
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putting the entire Palisage area at risk again over a.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Cover, and they keep insisting we have to protect drinking
water now this reservoir and correct me if I had
the dates wrong. Didn't have a cover. For over forty years,
from about nineteen seventy until twenty eleven, there was no
cover exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
This cover is, you might say, you might say, is
kind of a bureaucratic fiction. The idea is, I don't
want to get into the details and the chemistry about it,
but the idea is that having a cover enables you
to use a different type of chlorinating agent that supposedly
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is safer. But it's all nonsense. In fact, there's a epedeomologist,
epidemiologist John Instrom out of UCLA speaking of UCLA who's
been quite vocal on this and pointing out that there's
absolutely no risk caused by using ordinary chlorine and no cover.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So that's why they got the cover.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, it's not.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's probably not where they're one. It's absurd because they
drain this reservoir in early twenty twenty four, So the
Palisades went that whole year without that reservoir supplying water,
and it turns out I guess they didn't need it.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Right, Well, I'll do you one better. Not only did
they train the resk, but the DWP never told anyone
for as far as I can tell, as far as
the evidence has shown, they didn't even tell the fire department.
So there were helicopters landing at the beginning of the
fire expecting water at the reservoir, and it was empty
and worse. After they drained the reservoir, the director of
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DWP gave an announcement and he said, and I quote,
our reservoirs are full. What kind of thing to say
is that when you know that the most important reservoir
in that area is still empty at the time.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Why had they been lying so frequently for so long
before the fire? During the fire? After the fire, all
they do is lie, or at least they cover up
and withhole information. What are they doing?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I think it all goes back to these environmental these
extreme environmental extremists, I mean, the environmental extremists at the
state water Quality Board state that there's a tiny risk
of some issue of something falling into the reservoir, so
you need to cover the whole reservoir at enormous expense
and take it out of commission and put everyone at
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risk for that. Okay, that's one. Now we're hearing, as
you know, from the fire, that in order to protect
some native species of plans, oh, they were unable to
fight the fire. Probably, Well, how did that work out
for you? I mean, all those floods were destroyed anyway,
This is all.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So crazy, it really is. All the environmental extremists, it
really is. You know, you hear this, people complain about it,
and you never know if it's just hyperbole, right, it's
just people taking political shots at one another. But this
is a real thing. These environmentalists who got embedded into
the government have insane policies that kill people and destroy
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enormous amounts of real estate.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well, the worst of it is, these are people and
programs that operate behind the scenes, that pass rules behind
the scenes. None of this even goes through the legislature,
whatever you think of the legislature, at least as public
hearings in the public vote. This cover idea started with
a regulation that started in some you know, environmental bureaucracy
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that was never voted on, that never had public hearings.
It was just some decision that someone decided that if
you use this type of chlorine instead of other type
of chlorine, then somehow that I don't know, it makes
a difference to the water supply. When the first type
of chlorine has been used for over one hundred years,
was no problems.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, first first I heard of this, and now they're
going to close it down for nine months. Why do
they have to close it for nine months? They repaired
the old cover much more quickly than that.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
This work. This is what happens when you only have
one outside source to fix your cover. They deal with
a single company I won't give its name, but they're
out of San Diego actually that installs and repairs this
cover and it's only one company is a single source. Well,
guess what if your company knows that you're going to
get substantial business from repairing this cover, what's the incentive
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to do it right the first time? Isn't it easier
just to keep coming back and back and back and
repair and repair and repair. I mean, I'm not saying
they do it deliberately, but you know, I mean I
think it would be a better idea to do it
do it right the first time so it works. But
like I said, the whole idea of a cover was
never necessary. Is just an extreme environmental decision made by
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unelected bureaucrats that put everyone at risk because of their
environmental agenda.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, and we never know their name, you know, as
they passed through the battles of the system.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We don't know their name.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We know Jennie Kenones. And by the way, what does
it take to get her removed? I mean, this is
one insane, stupid decision and one insane lie after another
after another. And she's making seven hundred and fifty thousand
a year and all she's brought is devastation. How does
she survives?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And it just gave her an award for Women of
the Years?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yes, yes, the Times. The Times gave her a Woman
of the Year award.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I mean, it's it's completely ridiculous, but I mean, there's
no accountability. But look, the same people who made the
wrong decisions are the ones who are now covering up.
For example, we sought a report from the state that
claimed that the reservoir wouldn't have made any difference. Well,
who was who provided that report? That report came from
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state agencies that imposed the water regulation and the cover
regulation in the first place. In other words, three of
the agencies who wrote that report were the same agencies
that made DWP drain the reservoir. So obviously these agencies
aren't going to come back and admit, oh, we made
a mistake and you know, we let the whole city
burn down because of our environmental policy. No, they're going
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to say, well, it never made any difference, say ed, Well, obviously.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
One hundred and seventeen million gallons they claim would have
had no effect. I met a guy in the Palisades
a few weeks ago. He had a two inch hose
connected to his swimming pool, and he saved his home
and two weather homes near him watered it down well
so that they wouldn't easily burn, and they didn't the
two inch holls one to his pool.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well, my neighbor just three houses down for me, was
able to protect his house so long as there was water.
But he didn't have a pool, and that's another story.
But he didn't have a pool, he didn't have a
source of water. As long as the city supplied water,
he was able to keep his house safe. Once the
water shut off the evening of the first fire, that's
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when his house got fired and there was nothing he
would do about it. He went to firemen, firefighters, they said,
there's no waters, there's nothing we can do. By the way,
the DWP's story that houses water lines broke and and
that's why they lost pressure, that doesn't hold up either,
because many areas of the palisades, if you see them
after the fire, they were bone dry. That means the
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water means did not break and spill water over. That
means the fire got to these areas after the water
was shut off. So that story isn't going to hold
up either. Again, the only thing that's going to get
us the truth here is this pending litigation, and I'm
hoping the courts will let it go forward to the
point that we have a trial, we have witnesses, we
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have documents, all presented in the light of days so
people can see exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Sia Kashani, thanks for coming on, no problem. Thanks for
having me saied as an attorney in the Palisades lost
his home there. When we come back. Spencer Pratt, the
reality star who lost his home in the Palisades. He
has seized on Karen Bass admitting on a video podcast
that La City botched the fire response. This was the
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piece of video that is cut out of the final
version posted to YouTube. I'll play you Spencer Pratt's comments
on Twitter about this. That's next.
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at John Cobelt Radio for all the other social media platforms. Well,
we just talked with Saya Kashani, the attorney out of
the Palisades, about this. The insanity of the of the
DWP now taking the cover off the reservoir again. They're
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going to close the reservoir again for nine months. This
time they're proposing a ten inch water line from to
Panga Canyon. Reservoir has two thirty inch water lines that's
supposed to be used to fight fires. You can't replace
sixty inches of water line with a ten inch line.
That makes no sense. And they're claiming, well, they're going
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to do it for fire. Well, I thought having a
full reservoir wouldn't have made a difference in the fire.
They're so full of it. They're so absolutely full of it,
and they keep saying, well, we got to keep the
drinking water safe. Well, when they closed it in twenty
twenty four, there was no drinking water that year, and
the Palisades didn't need it. Don't you think they need
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it now? You know it's going to rain this week,
but you never know when the sant Ana wins may
hit in the summertime. All the rain now, everything could
be bone dry come July or August or September next year,
and there'll be a lot more there'll be a lot
more brush that had grown because of all the rain
we've had so far this winter. Spencer Pratt, the reality star.
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We've had him on the show. He's responding to the
Karen Bass botch comment. Just to quickly run down Karen
Bass appeared on a podcast called a Fifth Column, and
it was originally a sixty six minute podcast. The last
four minutes came after the host said goodbye to Bass
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on air, and then the video chems kept rolling and
she started talking about how La City botched the response
the La Fire Department and the video was posted in November.
At some point between November and this week, Bass's office
realized that that extra four minutes was up there and
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she was admitting that the city had screwed up badly,
and so they took it down, and the weasel who
hosted the podcast agreed to take it down, then hung
up on the La Times when he was quite it.
I got to get his name while I look for
his name. Just to remind everybody who the weasel is.
Here is Spencer Pratt on X with a post going
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after Bass Mayor.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Karen Bass just got outed for admitting that the Palisades
fire was quote botched while on a hot mic at
the end of a recent podcast. However, you can't find
that video anywhere because Mayor Bass's office demanded that they
scrubbed that footage from the internet. Well guess what. By
admitting that the Palisades fire response was botched, she just
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earned herself a subpoena from our lawyers for the Palisades
Fire lawsuit. Her stunning admission is a massive departure from the.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Ooh, we did everything we could.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
It was just one hundred miles rough winds, BS and
narrative that they've been spinning to date. But in a
moment of accidental candor, she let the truth slip, and
this mistake will cost her dearly.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
She has just.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Signaled that we were right. They did botch the fire response,
and now we have good cause to call her as
a witness. What did she mean by botched? What went wrong?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Who screwed up?
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Thanks for playing, Mayor Bass. It's time for my lawyers
to go fishing.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's great, That is great, And he's absolutely right. She
and all her stooge fire chiefs, and she's had three
of them this year, and countless other fire officials have
been insisting repeatedly, over and over again.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
We did everything we could. These were extraordinary circumstances. One
hundred mile an hour winds. There was no one hundred
mile an hour winds, nothing even close. They didn't read
six days worth of warnings from the National Weather Service
and had a a firefighters at the site of the
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original January first fire, which was still smoldering, and it
was smoldering because the ninnies in the State Park Department
went down and kicked the LA Fire Department out on
January second because they wanted to save the freaking milk
vetch plant, the milk Vetch plan. They didn't want the
firefighters stepping on the milkvetch plant. They didn't want LAFD
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bulldozers creating a fire line. And I remember another LA
time story early in the year where they had long
wanted to build a fire road out of the Palisades
up and over the mountain going to the north, and
they weren't allowed to because of the milk Vetch plan.
That was a story from US January or February. But yeah,
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they botched it. Of course they botched it. They had
nobody there.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Bass admitted it, and I hope she gets nailed by
the attorneys, but that's going to be a fight, because
she never wanted to admit to losing two billion dollars
in homeless money, and she hired fifteen attorneys at text
expense to keep her from testifying in front of a
federal judge. Fifteen attorneys. They created so much delay that
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the other side gave up. So how many attorneys are
they going to fight Spencer Pratt and the rest of
the Palisades residents with? Twenty five thirty five? By the way,
the name of the host of the Fifth Column is
Matt Welch. He was the weasel who hosted the show
and the ninnies in Bass's office. Why are they so
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beholden to her? She abandoned the city, people died, sixty
eight hundred buildings burned. She abandoned the city. She defunded
the fire department. What are these staff members? This is
your life? And then they call up Matt Welch and
bully him to take down the last four minutes of
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the podcast and he does it.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Wow, I don't get how the world works anymore. Okay,
we've got more coming up on the John Cobelt Show.
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We are going to now talk with John Fleischman. He's
got a website, so does Itmatter dot com. He's a
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political writer and a commentator. And there is a story
that has been bubbling in the background. We've covered it
some because there's only one reporter in the whole state
trying to find out the truth, and her name is
Ashley Zavala for Channel three and Sacramento KCRA. And this thing,
like I said, for all the people just beside themselves
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with anger and fury over Trump using private money to
build that ballroom and Wasshington, we got Newsome spending over
a billion dollars on something called the State Capital Annex project.
It's a new large section of the state Capitol over
a billion dollars, but nobody really knows how much it's
going to cost or when it's going to be built.
There's a tremendous amount of secrecy, a lot of non
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disclosure agreements, and it looks like a big stinking boondoggle
that nobody wants to acknowledge. So we'll talk with John
Fleischman about this. John, how are you.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I'm doing fine, John, And you're not kidding, you know.
Gavin Newsom was very quick that he went on X
to call the expansion of the White House the knockoff
Versailles and really let Donald Trump have it while he's
got his own crazy thing going on at the Capitol.
The ballroom expansion that the White House is estimated to
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cost around four hundred million dollars, and as you pointed out,
it's all coming from private money. But here in California
they're like massively expanding the state capitol like and the
last budget was one point one billion, but no one
thinks that's even going to come close to what it's
actually going to cost. There's no one in charge, no
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one will say what it actually costs. And this is
my favorite part. There's over two thousand people working on
this project, and the government has had every single person
from the lawyers down to the construction workers, signing legal
non discrollosure agreements so that they cannot talk to the
media or anyone else. About what they're doing and how
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much it costs. It's completely nuts. Newsom obviously has approved
the funny because he signed the budget bills that include
the money. And as you said, Ashley's of all of
the reporter from KCR TV and Sacramento has been on
this thing, but she's been the only one and so
there's been virtually no disclosure about this thing. And it's
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absolutely boggers. I mean, it's I mean, I wish that
I know this is radio, but you know, if you
go to I'm sure your website, if you go to
so doesntmatter dot com, my piece has photos. It's just
it's like.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
They're building the taj Mahal.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
It's he's building his own Versailles at the same time
that he's trying to criticize the president.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
And it's it's it's it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Hypocrisy.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
And it's even better they they it's leaked out that
they have built this new structure of the building with
secure secret corridors that will allow the politicians to move
all around the Capitol without ever having to come out
to where the media or the public are.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
So it's like they're.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
They're literally creating this own little kind of like honeycombed
secret capital structure.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
At the cost.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I mean, they're.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Spending more than on this than you would spend to.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Build like an NBA stadium.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And what's going to be what's going to be inside
this annis.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Well, supposedly it's just more office spaces, more rooms for
all these legislators to work out of. It's it's literally
a physical manifestation of the Grote enlargement of California state government.
You have to have a bigger capital because we're spending
more money and doing more stuff, and it's just and
again there's literally you know, it's not like the held
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at press conference and said, Hi, I'm the architect.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
We're building this up.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Here's the charts, here's what it's going to be, or
here's what it's going to cost. Ashley wrote an entire
story of the millions and millions and millions of dollars
they're spending, importing granted from like Italy to put into
the capitol.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I mean, we're paying at porn that we're paying for
that Italian granted.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah, but we don't know how much we're paying for it,
because anybody that could tell us is been locked down
with the non disclosure agreement and has been told delb
sou that if they disclose anything, and I've never even
heard of such a thing. And you know, literally after
years of covering this, Ashley like a week ago, got
some of.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
These legislators that are in charge of this to go on.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Her program where they proceeded to tell everybody exactly nothing.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
And so the whole thing is crazy.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
And so I think it's going to be one more
of those questions that people are like, Okay, you really
want this guy to be the president of the United States.
It's completely nuts. Although you know, maybe you know, the
whole thing is just crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
He walks, He actually says out loud, it's a taxpayer,
I'd like to know what it costs. Well, you know
what it costs. You signed the bill authorizing the budget.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Oh not only that, Not only that, but he has
appointed his office has appointed there's a three member group
that oversees all of this, somebody from the state Senate,
a senator, somebody from the state Assembly, and.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
The governor's representative.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
So while he's telling us I'd like to know how
everything's spent, his representative is in every meeting, making every decision.
And so once again, it's a complete pile of dog
crap right that he's literally we've seen.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
This guy before.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
He's pathologically He goes on talk radio shows, he goes
on television, and he literally says whatever he wants. And
because of all of his friends.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
In the media, this radio.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Show accepted, you know, nobody calls.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Him on it.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Well, and why he literally gets away with saying whatever
he wants?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Why so many friends in the media, the listeners and
the viewers and the readers of these media sites. They're
the taxpayers paying for this. The media's obligation should be
to its audience, to the taxpayers. Why is there obligation
to protecting newsome I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
And by the way, the Los Angeles Times, the San
Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento all of these newspapers have standing
to go sue the government over these non disclosure agreements
and get the truth out. Do you think any of
them have taken the time to sue the government over this?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, that's what I want to ask. I want to ask,
how can it be legal for them to force two
thousand people to sign non disclosure agreements over a project
that's costing over a billion dollars of tax money. And
the purpose of the building is going to be making
law in California for the public. How can we not
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have access to every detail and understand where every penny went.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Well, understand what they do in California is and this
is really it tells you something about the legislature.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Most of these invasive.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Laws that they passed that put restrictions on us or
open up the books. In almost every one of these laws,
they put boiler plate language at the end it says,
this public disclosure law shall not apply to the legislature
or the governor, and so they exempt themselves from all
these disclosure laws. But I don't think what they're doing
is legal. Hence I was saying somebody ought to sue
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them and get this information. But you know, the media
is more interested in covering his hair than they are
covering his versides.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
His verside, So.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You mentioned those major newspapers.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Make it up.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
We got to have about twenty five major television stations,
not to mention all the television networks and the cable
news channels, and nobody nobody wants to take him on.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Well apparently not, you know, So I mean I've now
written about it today and Ashley's of all of the
local Sacramento reporter has been writing about it, but it
has been virtually crickets from the state wide media, and
it's just a reminder that they do not exist to
be watchdogs on the left.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You could be sure if there was.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
A Republican governor right now or a Republican.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Legislature, they would be all over it.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
But they're too excited, frankly, as biased media people for
what the policies are that are coming out of Sacramento,
and they don't want to provide a distraction, right because
Trump is.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Spending a fraction with private money on that ballroom, and
look at all the hysteria that goes on.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Well, like we said, Gavin Newsom himself, while he is
overseeing this boondog, has the nerve to go on X
and accuse Donald Trump of building his own private Versailles.
Those are his words, those are the governor's words, and
so really laying really stupid and uh, you know, hopefully
you know.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, I don't know, you know what, does it keep talking.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Aboube America deserves Maybe America deserves this guy, and we'll
get a new governor. Although Frankly, the batch of people
running behind him don't seem to be the brightest light
bulbs in the California either.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I mean no, there's nobody home.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
At least not on the this not on the Democrat side.
All right, John, our attorney general may run.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
He'll save us.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
All right, Thanks John, Thanks for having me on, and
I'd encourage people to come visit.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So does itmatter? Dot com?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So does itmatter? Dot com? John Fleischman, He's got a
two part series on this, on this scandal, uh coming up.
Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com. She's writing about this situation.
She also put together the Top fifty California issues, like
the Top fifty Gavin Newsom disasters. I'm not going to
(28:03):
read all fifty, touch on a few of them. There
are going to be many Democratic candidates running for president
against Newsom, and they are collecting a tremendous amount of
opposition research on all this. He is going to get
pilloried like you won't believe we actually has competition for
the nomination. Okay, We've got more coming up on the
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All right, Well, we just had John Fleischmann on from
sodesitmatter dot com. One of our other favorite reporters, Katie
Grimes from California Globe. She was on with us yesterday
(29:14):
and this week she wrote a piece about the Top
fifty disasters. The top fifty disasters. Governor Gavin Newsom has
ushered into California. We should do it. We should do
a countdown. We could probably fill four hours of a countdown. Well,
here we go. I'm not going to read all fifty,
(29:35):
but the ones that some of them are old, some
of them are are newly discovered or newly rediscovered because
they're a few years old and probably everybody's forgotten. How
about this one. Just found this out a few days ago.
Under Gavin Newsom, Well, eight hundred and seventeen thousand Californians
(29:57):
left California in twenty twenty two. Eight one hundred and
seventeen thousand people left the state in twenty twenty two.
More than two hundred thousand of them were ages twenty
five or older, most of them with four year or
two year college degrees, and they went to Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida,
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and the Carolinas. Joel Kotkin, the demographicer, scholar, researcher, he
went through the numbers and you could track how many
people leave the state, how many moved to other states,
and what their socio income status is. And so what
you had here is a huge percentage of the two
(30:48):
hundred thousand net migrants lost were college educated, and he
had Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Florida into businesses have fled
to other states. That's just one number two. I talk
about this all the time, and I'll never stop talking
about it. Highest taxes in the nation, California ranks among
(31:10):
the worst for high taxes, the bottom two for worse
for individual taxes, worst gas tax, highest business tax. And
he's looking for more tax He's trying to pass a
retroactive billionaire's tax. He's going after two hundred and twenty
billionaires who live in California and it's going to make
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them pay for the past in case they leave. And
this is going to drive some of them out. In
twenty twenty, he here's another one twenty twenty, planned to
close two state prisons. He's closed five. Remember after we've
passed Prop thirty six over his objections, which made stealing
(31:57):
illegal again and drug use illegal again and created a
set of fentanyl laws. Well, he was so pissed that
it passed against his objections that he hasn't funded it.
He refuses to funder the treatment programs for the drug addicts.
(32:18):
Gavin Newsom is the first governor to make homelessness a
way of life. The number of mentally ill drug addicted
people littering the streets with thess and drug needles, tent
encampments and filth has grown dramatically. I think it's about
one hundred and eighty seven thousand in the state. He
has spent thirty seven billion dollars on homelessness in the
(32:39):
last six years, and homelessness has exploded in the state.
These are all from Katie Grimes, and I'm just getting
a fraction of them. You should go to californiaglobe dot com.
You could read the whole list. Eight to twelve dollars
gas coming. We used to have forty three refineries, We're
down to seven. Our oil production has declined by sixty
(33:03):
five percent. Our foreign imports have increased by seventy percent
or increased two seventy percent. Let's not forget the COVID lockdowns,
which destroyed thousands of businesses and destroyed the childhoods and
(33:24):
the learning capabilities of hundreds of thousands of children. He
spent four and a half million dollars on free immigration,
legal services, and of course the big whopper. He passed
a bill that guaranteed free healthcare to every illegal immigrant
(33:46):
in the state. It's costing US thirteen billion dollars now
thirteen billion. The medical program is insolvent, it's broke. What
do you do with a broke plan like that? Well,
he's going to cut medical to any poor or disabled
elderly person who has two thousand dollars in assets. So
(34:11):
if your parents or grandparents are down to their last
two thousand dollars, Newsome wants that two grand or they
don't get medical because he blew thirteen billion on illegal aliens.
That's enough for now. I'm holding on to this Katie
Grimes in the Californiaglobe dot com. You have to read
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that because there's plenty more and it just makes you sick. Okay,
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But we're going to talk with say Ed Kashani, who's
an attorney from the Palisades lost his home in the fire,
and like many in the Palisades, as you heard from
(00:22):
the report we played before Brigida's news, they cannot believe
that the DWP is draining the reservoir a second time,
the one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir that was
drained in twenty twenty four before the fire, because the
cover was torn. Well, they put a new cover on.
Eventually it was too late, too late for to use
(00:44):
the reservoir to fight fire. But now it's been torn again,
and so they're going to shut the reservoir down for
another nine months, drain it all over again. And they're
still trying to sell that this doesn't matter, except they've
come up with a backup worters for fire safety. It's
hard to keep up with this. Let's get say Ed
(01:05):
Kashani on say It.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
How are you well?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's a couple of thanks for having me back. Appreciate
it makes.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
My head spin. So let me get this straight. So
they're actually draining the thing again, but they've always claimed
they would have not done any good at the fire,
but they have a backup water system this time, like
just in case.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, i'll tell you right now, that backup system, as
they describe it, isn't going to help at all. They're
talking about a ten inch diameter water line that possibly
could bring more water over the hill from Topanga. Now,
the reservoir outputs to two thirty inch diameter lines. You
cannot replace two thirty inch diameter water lines with a
(01:50):
ten inch line. It just doesn't work. At least, they're
recognizing that there is a fire danger when the reservoir
is empty, so they're doing something about it. And you know,
the interesting thing is when they first put this cover
on in two thy eleven, the DWP had reports and
public meetings and they announced that the reservoir would be
(02:11):
drained for a period of time. And back then the
LA Fire Department actually objected and said, we need this
reservoir for fire safety and if you drain it, there
has to be alternatives. And at the time there were
some alternatives. Well they're all gone now. The alternatives are
like the Chautauqua Reservoir. There's another reservoir which is now
closed down, not even available. So they're you know, they're
(02:34):
putting the entire Palisage area at risk again over a.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Cover, and they keep insisting we have to protect drinking
water now this reservoir and correct me if I had
the dates wrong. Didn't have a cover. For over forty years,
from about nineteen seventy until twenty eleven, there was no
cover exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
This cover is, you might say, you might say, is
kind of a bureaucratic fiction. The idea is, I don't
want to get into the details and the chemistry about it,
but the idea is that having a cover enables you
to use a different type of chlorinating agent that supposedly
(03:17):
is safer. But it's all nonsense. In fact, there's a epedeomologist,
epidemiologist John Instrom out of UCLA speaking of UCLA who's
been quite vocal on this and pointing out that there's
absolutely no risk caused by using ordinary chlorine and no cover.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So that's why they got the cover.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well, it's not.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's probably not where they're one. It's absurd because they
drain this reservoir in early twenty twenty four, So the
Palisades went that whole year without that reservoir supplying water,
and it turns out I guess they didn't need it.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Right, Well, I'll do you one better. Not only did
they train the resk, but the DWP never told anyone
for as far as I can tell, as far as
the evidence has shown, they didn't even tell the fire department.
So there were helicopters landing at the beginning of the
fire expecting water at the reservoir, and it was empty
and worse. After they drained the reservoir, the director of
(04:19):
DWP gave an announcement and he said, and I quote,
our reservoirs are full. What kind of thing to say
is that when you know that the most important reservoir
in that area is still empty at the time.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Why had they been lying so frequently for so long
before the fire? During the fire? After the fire, all
they do is lie, or at least they cover up
and withhole information. What are they doing?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I think it all goes back to these environmental these
extreme environmental extremists, I mean, the environmental extremists at the
state water Quality Board state that there's a tiny risk
of some issue of something falling into the reservoir, so
you need to cover the whole reservoir at enormous expense
and take it out of commission and put everyone at
(05:05):
risk for that. Okay, that's one. Now we're hearing, as
you know, from the fire, that in order to protect
some native species of plans, oh, they were unable to
fight the fire. Probably, Well, how did that work out
for you? I mean, all those floods were destroyed anyway,
This is all.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So crazy, it really is. All the environmental extremists, it
really is. You know, you hear this, people complain about it,
and you never know if it's just hyperbole, right, it's
just people taking political shots at one another. But this
is a real thing. These environmentalists who got embedded into
the government have insane policies that kill people and destroy
(05:46):
enormous amounts of real estate.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well, the worst of it is, these are people and
programs that operate behind the scenes, that pass rules behind
the scenes. None of this even goes through the legislature,
whatever you think of the legislature, at least as public
hearings in the public vote. This cover idea started with
a regulation that started in some you know, environmental bureaucracy
(06:09):
that was never voted on, that never had public hearings.
It was just some decision that someone decided that if
you use this type of chlorine instead of other type
of chlorine, then somehow that I don't know, it makes
a difference to the water supply. When the first type
of chlorine has been used for over one hundred years,
was no problems.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, first first I heard of this, and now they're
going to close it down for nine months. Why do
they have to close it for nine months? They repaired
the old cover much more quickly than that.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
This work. This is what happens when you only have
one outside source to fix your cover. They deal with
a single company I won't give its name, but they're
out of San Diego actually that installs and repairs this
cover and it's only one company is a single source. Well,
guess what if your company knows that you're going to
get substantial business from repairing this cover, what's the incentive
(07:09):
to do it right the first time? Isn't it easier
just to keep coming back and back and back and
repair and repair and repair. I mean, I'm not saying
they do it deliberately, but you know, I mean I
think it would be a better idea to do it
do it right the first time so it works. But
like I said, the whole idea of a cover was
never necessary. Is just an extreme environmental decision made by
(07:35):
unelected bureaucrats that put everyone at risk because of their
environmental agenda.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, and we never know their name, you know, as
they passed through the battles of the system.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We don't know their name.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We know Jennie Kenones. And by the way, what does
it take to get her removed? I mean, this is
one insane, stupid decision and one insane lie after another
after another. And she's making seven hundred and fifty thousand
a year and all she's brought is devastation. How does
she survives?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And it just gave her an award for Women of
the Years?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yes, yes, the Times. The Times gave her a Woman
of the Year award.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I mean, it's it's completely ridiculous, but I mean, there's
no accountability. But look, the same people who made the
wrong decisions are the ones who are now covering up.
For example, we sought a report from the state that
claimed that the reservoir wouldn't have made any difference. Well,
who was who provided that report? That report came from
(08:37):
state agencies that imposed the water regulation and the cover
regulation in the first place. In other words, three of
the agencies who wrote that report were the same agencies
that made DWP drain the reservoir. So obviously these agencies
aren't going to come back and admit, oh, we made
a mistake and you know, we let the whole city
burn down because of our environmental policy. No, they're going
(08:59):
to say, well, it never made any difference, say ed, Well, obviously.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
One hundred and seventeen million gallons they claim would have
had no effect. I met a guy in the Palisades
a few weeks ago. He had a two inch hose
connected to his swimming pool, and he saved his home
and two weather homes near him watered it down well
so that they wouldn't easily burn, and they didn't the
two inch holls one to his pool.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well, my neighbor just three houses down for me, was
able to protect his house so long as there was water.
But he didn't have a pool, and that's another story.
But he didn't have a pool, he didn't have a
source of water. As long as the city supplied water,
he was able to keep his house safe. Once the
water shut off the evening of the first fire, that's
(09:46):
when his house got fired and there was nothing he
would do about it. He went to firemen, firefighters, they said,
there's no waters, there's nothing we can do. By the way,
the DWP's story that houses water lines broke and and
that's why they lost pressure, that doesn't hold up either,
because many areas of the palisades, if you see them
after the fire, they were bone dry. That means the
(10:10):
water means did not break and spill water over. That
means the fire got to these areas after the water
was shut off. So that story isn't going to hold
up either. Again, the only thing that's going to get
us the truth here is this pending litigation, and I'm
hoping the courts will let it go forward to the
point that we have a trial, we have witnesses, we
(10:31):
have documents, all presented in the light of days so
people can see exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Sia Kashani, thanks for coming on, no problem. Thanks for
having me saied as an attorney in the Palisades lost
his home there. When we come back. Spencer Pratt, the
reality star who lost his home in the Palisades. He
has seized on Karen Bass admitting on a video podcast
that La City botched the fire response. This was the
(10:59):
piece of video that is cut out of the final
version posted to YouTube. I'll play you Spencer Pratt's comments
on Twitter about this. That's next.
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at John Cobelt Radio for all the other social media platforms. Well,
we just talked with Saya Kashani, the attorney out of
the Palisades, about this. The insanity of the of the
DWP now taking the cover off the reservoir again. They're
(12:00):
going to close the reservoir again for nine months. This
time they're proposing a ten inch water line from to
Panga Canyon. Reservoir has two thirty inch water lines that's
supposed to be used to fight fires. You can't replace
sixty inches of water line with a ten inch line.
That makes no sense. And they're claiming, well, they're going
(12:22):
to do it for fire. Well, I thought having a
full reservoir wouldn't have made a difference in the fire.
They're so full of it. They're so absolutely full of it,
and they keep saying, well, we got to keep the
drinking water safe. Well, when they closed it in twenty
twenty four, there was no drinking water that year, and
the Palisades didn't need it. Don't you think they need
(12:43):
it now? You know it's going to rain this week,
but you never know when the sant Ana wins may
hit in the summertime. All the rain now, everything could
be bone dry come July or August or September next year,
and there'll be a lot more there'll be a lot
more brush that had grown because of all the rain
we've had so far this winter. Spencer Pratt, the reality star.
(13:06):
We've had him on the show. He's responding to the
Karen Bass botch comment. Just to quickly run down Karen
Bass appeared on a podcast called a Fifth Column, and
it was originally a sixty six minute podcast. The last
four minutes came after the host said goodbye to Bass
(13:27):
on air, and then the video chems kept rolling and
she started talking about how La City botched the response
the La Fire Department and the video was posted in November.
At some point between November and this week, Bass's office
realized that that extra four minutes was up there and
(13:49):
she was admitting that the city had screwed up badly,
and so they took it down, and the weasel who
hosted the podcast agreed to take it down, then hung
up on the La Times when he was quite it.
I got to get his name while I look for
his name. Just to remind everybody who the weasel is.
Here is Spencer Pratt on X with a post going
(14:12):
after Bass Mayor.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Karen Bass just got outed for admitting that the Palisades
fire was quote botched while on a hot mic at
the end of a recent podcast. However, you can't find
that video anywhere because Mayor Bass's office demanded that they
scrubbed that footage from the internet. Well guess what. By
admitting that the Palisades fire response was botched, she just
(14:37):
earned herself a subpoena from our lawyers for the Palisades
Fire lawsuit. Her stunning admission is a massive departure from the.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Ooh, we did everything we could.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
It was just one hundred miles rough winds, BS and
narrative that they've been spinning to date. But in a
moment of accidental candor, she let the truth slip, and
this mistake will cost her dearly.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
She has just.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Signaled that we were right. They did botch the fire response,
and now we have good cause to call her as
a witness. What did she mean by botched? What went wrong?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Who screwed up?
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Thanks for playing, Mayor Bass. It's time for my lawyers
to go fishing.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's great, That is great, And he's absolutely right. She
and all her stooge fire chiefs, and she's had three
of them this year, and countless other fire officials have
been insisting repeatedly, over and over again.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
We did everything we could. These were extraordinary circumstances. One
hundred mile an hour winds. There was no one hundred
mile an hour winds, nothing even close. They didn't read
six days worth of warnings from the National Weather Service
and had a a firefighters at the site of the
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original January first fire, which was still smoldering, and it
was smoldering because the ninnies in the State Park Department
went down and kicked the LA Fire Department out on
January second because they wanted to save the freaking milk
vetch plant, the milk Vetch plan. They didn't want the
firefighters stepping on the milkvetch plant. They didn't want LAFD
(16:14):
bulldozers creating a fire line. And I remember another LA
time story early in the year where they had long
wanted to build a fire road out of the Palisades
up and over the mountain going to the north, and
they weren't allowed to because of the milk Vetch plan.
That was a story from US January or February. But yeah,
(16:37):
they botched it. Of course they botched it. They had
nobody there.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Bass admitted it, and I hope she gets nailed by
the attorneys, but that's going to be a fight, because
she never wanted to admit to losing two billion dollars
in homeless money, and she hired fifteen attorneys at text
expense to keep her from testifying in front of a
federal judge. Fifteen attorneys. They created so much delay that
(17:07):
the other side gave up. So how many attorneys are
they going to fight Spencer Pratt and the rest of
the Palisades residents with? Twenty five thirty five? By the way,
the name of the host of the Fifth Column is
Matt Welch. He was the weasel who hosted the show
and the ninnies in Bass's office. Why are they so
(17:33):
beholden to her? She abandoned the city, people died, sixty
eight hundred buildings burned. She abandoned the city. She defunded
the fire department. What are these staff members? This is
your life? And then they call up Matt Welch and
bully him to take down the last four minutes of
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the podcast and he does it.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Wow, I don't get how the world works anymore. Okay,
we've got more coming up on the John Cobelt Show.
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We are going to now talk with John Fleischman. He's
got a website, so does Itmatter dot com. He's a
(18:34):
political writer and a commentator. And there is a story
that has been bubbling in the background. We've covered it
some because there's only one reporter in the whole state
trying to find out the truth, and her name is
Ashley Zavala for Channel three and Sacramento KCRA. And this thing,
like I said, for all the people just beside themselves
(18:55):
with anger and fury over Trump using private money to
build that ballroom and Wasshington, we got Newsome spending over
a billion dollars on something called the State Capital Annex project.
It's a new large section of the state Capitol over
a billion dollars, but nobody really knows how much it's
going to cost or when it's going to be built.
There's a tremendous amount of secrecy, a lot of non
(19:18):
disclosure agreements, and it looks like a big stinking boondoggle
that nobody wants to acknowledge. So we'll talk with John
Fleischman about this. John, how are you.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I'm doing fine, John, And you're not kidding, you know.
Gavin Newsom was very quick that he went on X
to call the expansion of the White House the knockoff
Versailles and really let Donald Trump have it while he's
got his own crazy thing going on at the Capitol.
The ballroom expansion that the White House is estimated to
(19:49):
cost around four hundred million dollars, and as you pointed out,
it's all coming from private money. But here in California
they're like massively expanding the state capitol like and the
last budget was one point one billion, but no one
thinks that's even going to come close to what it's
actually going to cost. There's no one in charge, no
(20:11):
one will say what it actually costs. And this is
my favorite part. There's over two thousand people working on
this project, and the government has had every single person
from the lawyers down to the construction workers, signing legal
non discrollosure agreements so that they cannot talk to the
media or anyone else. About what they're doing and how
(20:32):
much it costs. It's completely nuts. Newsom obviously has approved
the funny because he signed the budget bills that include
the money. And as you said, Ashley's of all of
the reporter from KCR TV and Sacramento has been on
this thing, but she's been the only one and so
there's been virtually no disclosure about this thing. And it's
(20:52):
absolutely boggers. I mean, it's I mean, I wish that
I know this is radio, but you know, if you
go to I'm sure your website, if you go to
so doesntmatter dot com, my piece has photos. It's just
it's like.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
They're building the taj Mahal.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
It's he's building his own Versailles at the same time
that he's trying to criticize the president.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
And it's it's it's it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Hypocrisy.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
And it's even better they they it's leaked out that
they have built this new structure of the building with
secure secret corridors that will allow the politicians to move
all around the Capitol without ever having to come out
to where the media or the public are.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
So it's like they're.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
They're literally creating this own little kind of like honeycombed
secret capital structure.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
At the cost.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I mean, they're.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Spending more than on this than you would spend to.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Build like an NBA stadium.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And what's going to be what's going to be inside
this annis.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Well, supposedly it's just more office spaces, more rooms for
all these legislators to work out of. It's it's literally
a physical manifestation of the Grote enlargement of California state government.
You have to have a bigger capital because we're spending
more money and doing more stuff, and it's just and
again there's literally you know, it's not like the held
(22:12):
at press conference and said, Hi, I'm the architect.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
We're building this up.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Here's the charts, here's what it's going to be, or
here's what it's going to cost. Ashley wrote an entire
story of the millions and millions and millions of dollars
they're spending, importing granted from like Italy to put into
the capitol.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I mean, we're paying at porn that we're paying for
that Italian granted.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Yeah, but we don't know how much we're paying for it,
because anybody that could tell us is been locked down
with the non disclosure agreement and has been told delb
sou that if they disclose anything, and I've never even
heard of such a thing. And you know, literally after
years of covering this, Ashley like a week ago, got
some of.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
These legislators that are in charge of this to go on.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Her program where they proceeded to tell everybody exactly nothing.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
And so the whole thing is crazy.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
And so I think it's going to be one more
of those questions that people are like, Okay, you really
want this guy to be the president of the United States.
It's completely nuts. Although you know, maybe you know, the
whole thing is just crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
He walks, He actually says out loud, it's a taxpayer,
I'd like to know what it costs. Well, you know
what it costs. You signed the bill authorizing the budget.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Oh not only that, Not only that, but he has
appointed his office has appointed there's a three member group
that oversees all of this, somebody from the state Senate,
a senator, somebody from the state Assembly, and.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
The governor's representative.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
So while he's telling us I'd like to know how
everything's spent, his representative is in every meeting, making every decision.
And so once again, it's a complete pile of dog
crap right that he's literally we've seen.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
This guy before.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
He's pathologically He goes on talk radio shows, he goes
on television, and he literally says whatever he wants. And
because of all of his friends.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
In the media, this radio.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Show accepted, you know, nobody calls.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Him on it.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Well, and why he literally gets away with saying whatever
he wants?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Why so many friends in the media, the listeners and
the viewers and the readers of these media sites. They're
the taxpayers paying for this. The media's obligation should be
to its audience, to the taxpayers. Why is there obligation
to protecting newsome I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
And by the way, the Los Angeles Times, the San
Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento all of these newspapers have standing
to go sue the government over these non disclosure agreements
and get the truth out. Do you think any of
them have taken the time to sue the government over this?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, that's what I want to ask. I want to ask,
how can it be legal for them to force two
thousand people to sign non disclosure agreements over a project
that's costing over a billion dollars of tax money. And
the purpose of the building is going to be making
law in California for the public. How can we not
(25:12):
have access to every detail and understand where every penny went.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Well, understand what they do in California is and this
is really it tells you something about the legislature.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Most of these invasive.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Laws that they passed that put restrictions on us or
open up the books. In almost every one of these laws,
they put boiler plate language at the end it says,
this public disclosure law shall not apply to the legislature
or the governor, and so they exempt themselves from all
these disclosure laws. But I don't think what they're doing
is legal. Hence I was saying somebody ought to sue
(25:45):
them and get this information. But you know, the media
is more interested in covering his hair than they are
covering his versides.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
His verside, So.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You mentioned those major newspapers.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Make it up.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
We got to have about twenty five major television stations,
not to mention all the television networks and the cable
news channels, and nobody nobody wants to take him on.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Well apparently not, you know, So I mean I've now
written about it today and Ashley's of all of the
local Sacramento reporter has been writing about it, but it
has been virtually crickets from the state wide media, and
it's just a reminder that they do not exist to
be watchdogs on the left.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You could be sure if there was.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
A Republican governor right now or a Republican.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Legislature, they would be all over it.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
But they're too excited, frankly, as biased media people for
what the policies are that are coming out of Sacramento,
and they don't want to provide a distraction, right because
Trump is.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Spending a fraction with private money on that ballroom, and
look at all the hysteria that goes on.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Well, like we said, Gavin Newsom himself, while he is
overseeing this boondog, has the nerve to go on X
and accuse Donald Trump of building his own private Versailles.
Those are his words, those are the governor's words, and
so really laying really stupid and uh, you know, hopefully
you know.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, I don't know, you know what, does it keep talking.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Aboube America deserves Maybe America deserves this guy, and we'll
get a new governor. Although Frankly, the batch of people
running behind him don't seem to be the brightest light
bulbs in the California either.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I mean no, there's nobody home.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
At least not on the this not on the Democrat side.
All right, John, our attorney general may run.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
He'll save us.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
All right, Thanks John, Thanks for having me on, and
I'd encourage people to come visit.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So does itmatter? Dot com?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So does itmatter? Dot com? John Fleischman, He's got a
two part series on this, on this scandal, uh coming up.
Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com. She's writing about this situation.
She also put together the Top fifty California issues, like
the Top fifty Gavin Newsom disasters. I'm not going to
(28:03):
read all fifty, touch on a few of them. There
are going to be many Democratic candidates running for president
against Newsom, and they are collecting a tremendous amount of
opposition research on all this. He is going to get
pilloried like you won't believe we actually has competition for
the nomination. Okay, We've got more coming up on the
John Cobelt Show.
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All right, Well, we just had John Fleischmann on from
sodesitmatter dot com. One of our other favorite reporters, Katie
Grimes from California Globe. She was on with us yesterday
(29:14):
and this week she wrote a piece about the Top
fifty disasters. The top fifty disasters. Governor Gavin Newsom has
ushered into California. We should do it. We should do
a countdown. We could probably fill four hours of a countdown. Well,
here we go. I'm not going to read all fifty,
(29:35):
but the ones that some of them are old, some
of them are are newly discovered or newly rediscovered because
they're a few years old and probably everybody's forgotten. How
about this one. Just found this out a few days ago.
Under Gavin Newsom, Well, eight hundred and seventeen thousand Californians
(29:57):
left California in twenty twenty two. Eight one hundred and
seventeen thousand people left the state in twenty twenty two.
More than two hundred thousand of them were ages twenty
five or older, most of them with four year or
two year college degrees, and they went to Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida,
(30:24):
and the Carolinas. Joel Kotkin, the demographicer, scholar, researcher, he
went through the numbers and you could track how many
people leave the state, how many moved to other states,
and what their socio income status is. And so what
you had here is a huge percentage of the two
(30:48):
hundred thousand net migrants lost were college educated, and he
had Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Florida into businesses have fled
to other states. That's just one number two. I talk
about this all the time, and I'll never stop talking
about it. Highest taxes in the nation, California ranks among
(31:10):
the worst for high taxes, the bottom two for worse
for individual taxes, worst gas tax, highest business tax. And
he's looking for more tax He's trying to pass a
retroactive billionaire's tax. He's going after two hundred and twenty
billionaires who live in California and it's going to make
(31:33):
them pay for the past in case they leave. And
this is going to drive some of them out. In
twenty twenty, he here's another one twenty twenty, planned to
close two state prisons. He's closed five. Remember after we've
passed Prop thirty six over his objections, which made stealing
(31:57):
illegal again and drug use illegal again and created a
set of fentanyl laws. Well, he was so pissed that
it passed against his objections that he hasn't funded it.
He refuses to funder the treatment programs for the drug addicts.
(32:18):
Gavin Newsom is the first governor to make homelessness a
way of life. The number of mentally ill drug addicted
people littering the streets with thess and drug needles, tent
encampments and filth has grown dramatically. I think it's about
one hundred and eighty seven thousand in the state. He
has spent thirty seven billion dollars on homelessness in the
(32:39):
last six years, and homelessness has exploded in the state.
These are all from Katie Grimes, and I'm just getting
a fraction of them. You should go to californiaglobe dot com.
You could read the whole list. Eight to twelve dollars
gas coming. We used to have forty three refineries, We're
down to seven. Our oil production has declined by sixty
(33:03):
five percent. Our foreign imports have increased by seventy percent
or increased two seventy percent. Let's not forget the COVID lockdowns,
which destroyed thousands of businesses and destroyed the childhoods and
(33:24):
the learning capabilities of hundreds of thousands of children. He
spent four and a half million dollars on free immigration,
legal services, and of course the big whopper. He passed
a bill that guaranteed free healthcare to every illegal immigrant
(33:46):
in the state. It's costing US thirteen billion dollars now
thirteen billion. The medical program is insolvent, it's broke. What
do you do with a broke plan like that? Well,
he's going to cut medical to any poor or disabled
elderly person who has two thousand dollars in assets. So
(34:11):
if your parents or grandparents are down to their last
two thousand dollars, Newsome wants that two grand or they
don't get medical because he blew thirteen billion on illegal aliens.
That's enough for now. I'm holding on to this Katie
Grimes in the Californiaglobe dot com. You have to read
(34:32):
that because there's plenty more and it just makes you sick. Okay,
we've got more coming up on The John Cobelt Show. Hey,
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