January 16, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (01/16) - Attorney Roger Behle comes on the show talk about a lawsuit filed on behalf of Pacific Palisades residents that Roger represents against the LADWP. Why doesn't California and LA do anything to be proactive about wildfires if they are the ones who keep pushing the climate change agenda? More on the lack of resources firefighters had to fight the fires in LA.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Much to cover next seven We're gonna give Way one
thousand dollars and we're also going to I'm gonna read
a little piece written by Andy Caldwell the California Globe.
It's something we've discussed a lot, and he goes through
all the things that Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass did
not do, comparing it to the rhetoric of what they
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say should be done. It shows you what a fraud
Bass and Newsom are and why they both should be
removed immediately, because what they say and what they do
is is such a there's such a gap in that
it's life threatening and it threatens your homes and neighborhoods
because there's so much they don't do. We'll talk about that.
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We have discussed extensively this shocking Santa Anez Reservoir, which
is sitting in the middle of Pacific Palisades, empty one
hundred and seventeen million gallons it holds and it has
been unfilled for at least the last year. The story
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they tell is that the cover there was a tear.
The water was getting contaminated with bird droppings and everything
else that falls from the sky, and so they drained it,
closed it. They should have repaired it in a month.
A year later, they still haven't fixed it, and so
there were there was not one hundred and seventeen million
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gallons available for the firefighters. Imagine that one hundred and
seventeen million gallons DWP. Genis Kines runs it another person
who needs to be fired. We're not going to let
up on these people. They need to go. Excuses, No
more debates, no more arguing, no more spin. Don't want
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to hear your side of the story.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Go.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You failed fatally. People died, thousands of homes burned to
the ground. You failed horribly because of what you did
and what you didn't do. Let's talk to Roger Bailey. Now,
he is an attorney and he knows what happens in wildfires.
His own family lost their home in twenty twenty, and
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he's representing a group of survivors of the Palisades fire
suing LADWP over the water issues, including this whole Santa
Inez Reservoir controversy. Roger Bailey, Welcome, How are.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You hi, John? Hi, Thanks for having me John.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Thanks afternoon. Oh yeah, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
What what have you learned about this now infamous Santa
Inez Reservoir.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, I first want to begin by saying that as
we begin talking to people from the Palisades community that
lost their homes, one after the other kept telling the
same story that the firemen would arrive and would say,
I think I can save your house, and they tie
into the local hydrant that was in the area and
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discover there was no water, and they, without fail said
I'm sorry, I can't do anything. And this is story
after story after story, and again we have nothing but
the best to say about the firefighters. They were there
trying to do their job, trying to save house.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yes, they tried like hell, but they weren't given water.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Exactly right, And the response from the government thus far
has been, well, you know, it wouldn't have made a difference.
I wouldn't have exactly Not true.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Because I am reading stories about people who were able
to hose down their homes with their garden hose and
they were able to save their house of course it
would make a difference.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
One hundred and seventy.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Million gallons would have made a big difference for a
lot of people. Not everybody, but would have made a
significant difference.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Even if it's saved one home or ten homes, or
reduce the damage to fifty homes. That water should have
been there, should have been made available to the firefighters
they were basically had both cut hands side behind their back,
weren't able to do their job, and people lost everything
as a result. And we're going to get answers to
that in the case. That's what we're doing here, where
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first of all, making sure people have what they need
in this first phase. As you noted, my family lost
its home in twenty twenty. I lived through this. There's
an initial phase of shock and then you turn that
to anger and then action. And we're going to get
answers to these folks.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Uh, what if they responded how they responded rather the DWP.
Have they sent you so a letter, have they met
with you? They have some kind of complicated excuse? Are
they denying everything?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Nothing other than what you've read in the media, the
same thing I've read. It's under investigation. I mean, as
you know, Newsom's got his own investigation going. He said
it was deeply troubling and it likely impaired firefighters ability
to fight the fire. So nothing formal from the DWP yet,
which will be forthcoming, probably within the next thirty days,
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we'll get something formal from him.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I mean, what insiders union people are saying is it
should have taken a month to fix the tear in
the cover.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It could have been done internally, and instead they put
this thing out to bid, and it took months and
months and months, and finally November they finally signed a contract,
and of course two months later we have the fire
and nothing was done. The reservoirs sat empty.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
What I don't understand is they always talk about with
climate change and fire season all year round. It seems
like they would have reacted as if this was a
big emergency one hundred and seventeen million gallons suddenly not
available in an oncoming fire season. How did they not react,
working twenty four hours a day with triple time for
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the cruise to get it done.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, the other thing we've heard is that Well Palisades
wasn't a high fire prone area. But I don't know
whether you realize this, but neighboring Malibu in the last
ninety years has had over thirty wildfires.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
To say that Palisades isn't fire prone is ridiculous. Those
of us that have lived here our whole lives know
every fall and early winter the santanas blow in inevitably
there's wildfires, and knowing that should have prompted them to
have this completely repaired by the summertime.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That's the latest they, like you said, thirty fires in Malibu. Pacific.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Palisades and Malibu run into each other. They blend into
each other. That's nonsense. There was a fire in the
Brentwood area a few years ago, the Getty Fire, that
is right adjacent to the Palisades as well. We had
the bel Air fire back in nineteen sixty one. That's
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just the next town over from Brentwood.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Of course, that's all high fire danger. They know this.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
See, that's what makes me crazy. They're blatantly lying. They're
just lying, claiming, oh, wouldn't have made a difference. That
is garbage and nonsense. And the idea that it's not
a high fire area. I mean, I can't believe what
they're saying. Shameless.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It is agreed. Those of us that, like I said,
that have lived hered know everywhere in southern California is
susceptible to wildfire. Everybody, I don't care where you are,
you're vulnerable for a wildfire. And that puts the government
in the position of having to take steps to protect
the people. Period, end of story.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's all the Santa Monica Mountains. It's dense brush, dense
forest land, lots of fire hazards in the area.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I mean there are a lot of vagrants living up
in those hills.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
All right, Just well listen, you need anything, you need
more publicity. You're getting stonewalled in some way. You let
us know. Okay, we'll put you right back on.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I really appreciate it, John, and you know we're all
fans of the show and appreciate the covers you've done.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well. Thank you, and we're on your side here, So
you just let us know.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Roger Bailey, one of the attorneys representing some Palisades Pacific
Palisades residents, the preposterous liars that they are one hundred
and seventeen million gallon empty reservoir. It would make it different.
Everything wouldn't make a difference. The firefighters had been there, Earth,
that wouldn't make a difference. One hundred and seventy million dollars. Oh,
that wouldn't make a difference. If the mayor had been here, Oh,
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that wouldn't made a difference. Nothing would have made a difference.
Huh really, all right.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
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Speaker 2 (09:02):
One of the many, many questions that we're going to
be tackling over the coming days and weeks. Andy Caldwell
wrote about this in California Globe. If climate change has
created a much uh, much more frightening danger when it
comes to wildfires, now, how come the state and the
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city don't do anything or spend any money to mitigate
the problem. They're the ones who run around screaming climate change,
climate change, year round, fire season, uh and and all
you know that were there, that were all that we're
all in for all kinds of travesties and disasters. Right,
they're the ones who keep saying that, And I'll read you,
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Andy Caldwell. The fact is that the doomsayers claim that
climate change will result in greater catastrophes in the future,
we'll experience where strouts, floods and fires than ever before.
Yet what have they done to prepare? Have they built
more dams and reservoirs to alleviate floods and help us
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through the droughts?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
No, he writes, Think about that.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Think about how much climate change rhetoric and nonsense you've heard,
And they have built exactly zero dams and reservoirs. I
don't think there's a new state dam has gone up
in since the late nineteen seventies. We authorized in twenty
fourteen seven billion dollars worth of borrowing to build new reservoirs.
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Ten years later, none of them have been built.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Zero.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well, if it's such a serious problem, why wasn't that
fast tracked, he continues, writing, Have they built fuel brakes
through the wildlands?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
No, they have none.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Have they conducted regularly scheduled controlled burns.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And you know why, because environmental activists whack job mental
patients have protested, ensued every time anyone in the state
has wanted to thin out the forests. They don't even
want dead trees to be carried out. It's true, And
Newsim and Jerry Brown and all the rest of those
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little cowards gave in every time to the crazy people.
This is why progressive politics, I hope died on January
seventh in the Palisades, because that's made everything more dangerous.
No controlled burns, no fuel brakes, no dams and reservoirs.
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Here are more questions. Have they thinned the brush and
the trees and created a wider buffer zone between the
urban rural interface?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Have they deployed thousands of goats and cows into our
foothills to help manage the fuels? Let him eat the brush,
it works.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Have they compared the greenhouse gas emissions from wildfires to
that of the transportation sector that they're focusing on, claiming
it's the biggest emission source.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, how much? How much carbon was released through the
air when you burned down an entire town, burned down
almost all Pacific Palisades? How much carbon was that? Meanwhile,
what has our government done, he writes, besides spending billions
on high speed rail, tens of billions on the homeless.
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At least two homeless people in LA were detained by
law enforcement his arts and suspects. Yes, we spend billions
on the homeless who start fires, and very little on
the firefighters. Who put them out, that's me talking. Spent
millions on charging stations. They have prevented utilities from clear
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cutting through the areas which our power lines run and
then sued the Jesus out of them for the ensuing firestorms.
This leaves the utilities with little choice but to turn
off the power in the middle of the windstorm or
face the threat of bankruptcy from the ensuing lawsuits. And
what good are the charging stations that won't work people
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need the most, like when their power is cut off.
Jurggon emergency, and he goes on and on. He's been
writing about the subject for over thirty years. Progressives in
the city and county governments in our state have placed
undue emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion in their hiring
and promotional practices. Competence is lower on the list of
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priorities than ever before. Yeah, you got that right, Competence
at the bottom of the list. LA County spent more
than a bill million dollars on the homeless and what
did you get? More homeless? Millions on electric vehicles including
an electric fire truck and ev charging stations, hundreds of
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thousands on DII programs, and they cut the fire department
budget by more than seventeen million this year. He notes
a couple of particular expenditures. They spent fourteen thousand dollars
to the Gay Men's Courus of Los Angeles. Why didn't
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that money go to the fire department.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
They spent.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Money on the midnight stroll transgender cafe. That's an LA
County expense, and I didn't believe that. I mean, I
know you couldn't make it up. So I found this
story in Fox News that they've spent millions of dollars
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on these programs. The Civil and Human Rights and Equity
Department was granted one hundred thousand dollars for a midnight
stroll transgender cafe to fund housing for homeless transgender individuals
in Hollywood, not one hundred thousand dollars to the fire department.
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Maybe they could have hired a mechanic. There's one hundred
broken fire trucks in the garages of LA Fire Department.
They don't have mechanics. I see, I'm running a city
or a county and somebody comes to me and says,
got one hundred thousand dollars. You got two choices here?
You want to give it to the fire department. They
have one hundred trucks that are broken. Or do you
want to spend it on a midnight stroll transgender cafe?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
What you wanted to do?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They picked the transgender cafe and said no to the
fire department. They county also spent thirteen thousand dollars on lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and Transgender Heritage Month programs. Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars were set aside for equity and inclusion. That's all
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that's on the budget, Equity inclusion. Thus a mean two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars not for the fire department.
One hundred ninety thousand dollars was given to the Homeless
and HIV Program, which includes a syringe exchange program that
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gives sterile syringes to homeless drug addicts. You want your
fire engine fixed or do you want homeless drug addicts
to get free syringes?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You tell me which do you vote for?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Here?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
One hundred thousand dollars was put aside to pay for
Juneteenth celebrations. You could celebrate Juneteenth. Why do we have
to spend one hundred thousand dollars in tax money when
we have one hundred broken fire engines. Anybody want to
ask those questions? No, nobody wants to ask him, let
alone answer them. It just is right. We're just supposed
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to live with the insanity. It's our tax money. Maybe
they should put every line item of the budget up
for a vote, although in LA, who knows, maybe the
transgender cafe would win over repairing the fire engines. Michael
Sellenberger has a piece on this stuff. We'll talk more
coming up.
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let's turn to Michael Sellenberger, one of the few honest
journalists in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
We just had him on the other day. He's got
another piece. I uh.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I don't recommend subscriptions very often, almost never, but his
site is called public dot News, Public dot News and
boy it's it's a must read because he delves into
all the horrific dysfunction and nonsense in California government.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And he's been covering this this fire situation. And we
told you yesterday that the LA Times also a report
from a news nation, Rich McHugh, the cable TV outlet.
It's pretty clear that the the commanders in the LA
Fire Department were way late sending the troops in to
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battle the fire. It took them an hour before the
first ones showed up, and it took like over an
hour and a half before the response really got going.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
And if you remember it.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Was there was there was a Michael Valentine and his
wife were the residents at the top of the ridge
who saw the fire break out at about ten twenty nine,
and a chopper didn't show up till eleven twenty three.
And I want to stress this that they even in
the first hour, at least you could still fly planes
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and helicopters. If I hear the one hundred mile an
hour wind, excuse one more time, I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Going to blow a blood vessel.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
They were not blowing out one hundred miles an hour,
not in the early hours of the fire. All right,
not at eleven twenty three, if they had a strike team,
if they if they were on alert, Pacific Palisades is
very high fire danger. I can't tell you how many
bald faced lies from these psychotics I've heard and amplified
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by the psychotics in the media. But bath Newsom the
rest of them don't listen to this nonsense. Oh, the
mayor being here wouldn't have made a difference. Having one
hundred and seventeen million gallons wouldn't have made a difference.
Having fire hydrants working wouldn't have made it stop it.
I can't believe the level of lying that goes on now.
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Well Sallenberger says, a second firefighter has come forward to
say that quote, there wasn't sufficient funding for the pre deployment,
and I'm sure that played a role. The fire prevention
department has taken huge cuts too, and it limited their resources.
This firefighter said there was not enough mechanics, engines or
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fire stations. Remember, LA only has half the fire department
it should. It should have two firefighters for every thousand people.
It has less than one. It's missing sixty two fire stations.
It has one hundred engines, fire engines that are broken
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and not repaired. They don't have the mechanics. That's why
I go back to some of the funding choices that's
been made by Karen Bass in the LA City Council,
especially the billions of dollars on the homeless. I mean,
what's the point. What's the point of shoveling money at
homeless programs? I know what the point is to enrich
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your buddies who started those fake nonprofits. Schellenberger says LA
has been cutting the budget of the La Fire Department
for years, leading to rising response times. Here's a quote
from a firefighter. You're supposed to be en route in
thirty seconds, and you're supposed to be there in three
to five minutes. Now it's ten minutes, and on the
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extreme end, thirty minutes. How much does a fire burn
in thirty minutes versus thirty seconds If you're supposed to
show up in thirty seconds, No, you're supposed to be
en route in thirty seconds. If they had gotten to
the top of that Palisades ridge in three to five
minutes instead of an hour, how different is life today?
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Tell me it wouldn't made a difference. Of course, it
would have, but they weren't pre deployed. They didn't have
the funding, they didn't have the fire trucks, the fire trucks,
and they and the personnel they did have were not
even were sent home. Remember I told you yesterday they
were supposed to. They could have stayed for a second shift,
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and they could have sent some engines up there, and
they could have sent hundreds of firefighters, but they sent
them home.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Guess didn't want to pay the overtime.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now, he says, the response time is ten minutes all
the way to thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
The other day they had a cardiac arrest call that
took thirty minutes. There was a pediatric call two weeks ago,
and the station available was very far away, and it
took them a long time to get to that kid.
So you have a heart attack and the firefighters supposed
to show up at the ambulance and it takes a
half an hour, so you die.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Why Why?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Because we're spending billions of dollars on failed homeless programs,
why do we let them do this? The whistleblower said,
staffing an equipment shorta just create two tragedies. The first
are unnecessary deaths, and the second is the impact on
the firefighters. Schellenberger rights, they just can't make it to
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places fast enough and it's a hazard to the public.
According to the whistleblower, a family member is dying and
it's thirty minutes to show up, and then they're yelling
at the firefighters who are trying to do their jobs,
but there's not enough of them, not enough firefighters. Some
of that stuff really affects them. So the firefighters that
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do show up because they showed up late and the
person they came to save is dying, the family members
so crazy on the firemen who do show up. The
whistleblurwer goes on, nobody understands why this is going on.
Why is there no money? Why can't we pay people.
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We're eighty fire stations short. Why aren't we building them.
Why aren't we paying firefighters they're contracted wages And Schellenberger
says all of this is particularly mysterious because California is
by far the richest state in the United States and
has the highest taxes, the center of big tech, the
most profitable industry in the world, an annual GDP of
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three point eight trillion dollars. Here in California, the fifth
largest economy, the highest income tax at thirteen percent, the
highest sales tax tax at seven and a quarter percent,
and one of the highest corporate taxes is eight point
eight percent. Where is all the money going? You probably
didn't know this, but the Legislative analy Office in Sacramentos, nonpartisan,
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reported that Governor Gavin Newsom slashed funding by one hundred
and one million dollars in the twenty twenty four budget,
cutting millions for prescribed burns, forest fire monitoring, and twelve
million dollars to make homes more fire resistant. Gavin Newsom
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cut funding one hundred and one million dollars, and we
know Karen Bass cut the fire department budget by seventeen million.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
So I'm telling they're.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Running around screaming about climate change year round fire seasons.
We're all in danger like we've never been before. And
they take wildly underfunded fire departments and cut more money
from them. They spend billions on homeless, billions on high
speed rail, billions, they paid out to fraudsterros during the
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COVID unemployment scam. I could go on, but you know
the list. By now, millions and millions of dollars on
wacky DEI programs.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Karen Bass, this.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Can't be overlooked, proposed cutting the fire department in the
coming year by another forty eight zero point eight million dollars,
almost fifty million. How could we possibly have her remain
as mayor when her intention was to cut another fifty million.
The budget should be doubled. We should have twice as
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many firefighters. We should have twice as many fire engines.
We need sixty this guy says, eighty fire stations. Now,
are we going to do that? Are we going to
all die in a fire? Because Karen Bass is woke
and Gavin Newsom is woke, and they want to shovel
the money to their crooked nonprofit homeless agents that their
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crooked friends run. Since twenty nineteen, California has spent twenty
seven billion dollars in homelessness four and a half billion dollars.
That does not include the spending on firefighting, police, or
emergency medical services for the homeless. It doesn't include the
forty billion the state spent on affordable housing. California spends
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over thirty billion a year to provide benefits and services
to illegal aliens. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So let's at add that to the list.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Thirty billion a year for illegal aliens, twenty seven billion
dollars on those vagrants and drug addicts in the street,
ten billion dollars on high speed rail, fifty billion dollars
to criminals around the world who took our COVID unemployment money.
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Why do you do this? Why do you keep voting
for these people? I'd say, I don't understand this. Nobody's
saying understands this. I don't vote for these people. I
don't understand it. I want the firefighters fully funded, the
police fully funded.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I don't want high speed rail. I don't want homeless
people giving billions of dollars. It doesn't do any good.
I don't want to legal aliens getting billions of dollars.
They don't they're not entitled, they don't deserve it.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I take a break.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Let me read more from Michael Schellenberg Schollenberger Public Dot News.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
All right, get this, you tell me what you want?
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
If you saw this on the ballot to vote on,
which do you want California spends forty one billion dollars
a year on the homeless, right, the mental patients, and
drug addicts, and legal immigrants, and climate change forty one
billion in those three categories. If we just spent two
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percent of that money, a billion dollars on LA's fire department,
it would have doubled its budget. They would have doubled
the amount of firefighters, which would get us to an
adequate level, the recommended minimum level. We'd have to double
the budget to get the minimum number of firefighters that's
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recommended by these national fire agencies. And then we could
have double the engines, double the resources. Maybe they could
fill the reservoir with water. Maybe they could build news reservoirs.
That's what you should do in a city, in a
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state with the newsom always brags about all the wealth
created in California. Well, how is it that we have
all this wealth three point eight trillion dollar GDP. He's
always bragging about that, and the highest taxes, So it's
not like we're not paying and we have no water,
no fire engines, half the firefighters, police undefunded.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Listen to this. LA spent.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Six to time six to twelve times more for an
electric fire engine than a normal fire engine. Don't know
the exact cost, but apparently electric fire engines cost six
to twelve times more.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
They bought one electric fire engine. You're not going to
believe this.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
The electric fire engine is broken and hasn't been fixed,
and said this firefighter whistleblower. Why are they spending six
million on an electric fire engine that doesn't work rather
than buy a new station. The engine went into service
for a month, it broke and it hasn't been back.
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They had to retrofit the whole fire station to charge
the engine.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Between all the work to.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
The station and the vehicle, it was six million dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Why would you spend six million dollars on one fire
engine retrofit the station. It doesn't work and they can't
fix it. That's what happened in Los Angeles. What are
we doing? You're going to keep voting for Karen Bass.
You're not going to demand a resignation. Really, you're not
going to do you should demand a resignation, and nearly
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an entire city council. I would say Tracy Park is
the only intelligent, level headed, rational person on that entire council.
She should be the next mayor, and I've told her
that a couple of times. What's going on right now,
city govern From what I'm told by sources, you just
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wouldn't believe. Everyone's covering their ass. They're holding meetings, everybody's arguing,
everybody's full of crap. Nobody's doing anything for the people.
It is completely dysfunctional. There is no help coming. They
just stand there and do their fake nonsense press conferences,
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and there's almost nobody in the press corps in LA
who challenges them. I grew up in the New York
media market as a kid, I grew up in Jersey.
I watched the New York reporters. They certainly had plenty
of disasters in New York City over the years. You
would have been from the public. They're letting the public down.
They're not doing their jobs. We pay for this everything
I just told you about, all the money that we
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paid for, the homeless population, the illegal aliens, that's all
our money. That's what you work for. They took the
money and spent it on one didn't spend it on
our fire stations. They don't spend it on the police. Instead,
they embarrassed, the police, demonize them. I hope Eric Arsetti
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rots in hell for eternity for taking that knee in
front of those terrorist groups that were protesting. Worst thing
I've ever seen in my life. And all along here
when I'm reading about the dispirited police department, the spirited
fire department, underfunded, defunded, no equipment, this and that, and
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I'm always flashed back to erk r said he'd taken
a knee. He ran LA for nine and a half years.
A lot of this extreme decay happened because of him.
I was going to say under his watch, not his watch,
because he made the decisions to make it happen because
of the contempt he had for police and firefighters. And
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Bass has the same contempt, because progressives have contempt for
those in uniform who try to protect our lives. That's
part of their sick twisted ideology. They're sick twisted religion,
contempt for the men and women who try to protect us,
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either from the bad guys or fires and other natural disasters.
And I think we should get I think we should
get from whatever source that two percent that billion dollars
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that they spend on the legal aliens and homeless people
two percent of the forty billion that they spend at
double the size of the LA Fire Department. That's what
a rational society would do. So number one, you get
rid of Karen Bass. Number two, we thought you'd get
that billion dollars out of somebody. Oh, I got when
Trump comes to town next week. Oh, we got to
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talk about that, because they want federal money reimbursed. Trump's
only going to give the money if there are strings attached,
and there should be strings attached. Talk about that. Deborah
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Much to cover next seven We're gonna give Way one
thousand dollars and we're also going to I'm gonna read
a little piece written by Andy Caldwell the California Globe.
It's something we've discussed a lot, and he goes through
all the things that Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass did
not do, comparing it to the rhetoric of what they
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say should be done. It shows you what a fraud
Bass and Newsom are and why they both should be
removed immediately, because what they say and what they do
is is such a there's such a gap in that
it's life threatening and it threatens your homes and neighborhoods
because there's so much they don't do. We'll talk about that.
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We have discussed extensively this shocking Santa Anez Reservoir, which
is sitting in the middle of Pacific Palisades, empty one
hundred and seventeen million gallons it holds and it has
been unfilled for at least the last year. The story
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they tell is that the cover there was a tear.
The water was getting contaminated with bird droppings and everything
else that falls from the sky, and so they drained it,
closed it. They should have repaired it in a month.
A year later, they still haven't fixed it, and so
there were there was not one hundred and seventeen million
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gallons available for the firefighters. Imagine that one hundred and
seventeen million gallons DWP. Genis Kines runs it another person
who needs to be fired. We're not going to let
up on these people. They need to go. Excuses, No
more debates, no more arguing, no more spin. Don't want
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to hear your side of the story.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Go.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You failed fatally. People died, thousands of homes burned to
the ground. You failed horribly because of what you did
and what you didn't do. Let's talk to Roger Bailey. Now,
he is an attorney and he knows what happens in wildfires.
His own family lost their home in twenty twenty, and
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he's representing a group of survivors of the Palisades fire
suing LADWP over the water issues, including this whole Santa
Inez Reservoir controversy. Roger Bailey, Welcome, How are.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You hi, John? Hi, Thanks for having me John.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Thanks afternoon. Oh yeah, good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
What what have you learned about this now infamous Santa
Inez Reservoir.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, I first want to begin by saying that as
we begin talking to people from the Palisades community that
lost their homes, one after the other kept telling the
same story that the firemen would arrive and would say,
I think I can save your house, and they tie
into the local hydrant that was in the area and
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discover there was no water, and they, without fail said
I'm sorry, I can't do anything. And this is story
after story after story, and again we have nothing but
the best to say about the firefighters. They were there
trying to do their job, trying to save house.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yes, they tried like hell, but they weren't given water.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Exactly right, And the response from the government thus far
has been, well, you know, it wouldn't have made a difference.
I wouldn't have exactly Not true.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Because I am reading stories about people who were able
to hose down their homes with their garden hose and
they were able to save their house of course it
would make a difference.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
One hundred and seventy.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Million gallons would have made a big difference for a
lot of people. Not everybody, but would have made a
significant difference.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Even if it's saved one home or ten homes, or
reduce the damage to fifty homes. That water should have
been there, should have been made available to the firefighters
they were basically had both cut hands side behind their back,
weren't able to do their job, and people lost everything
as a result. And we're going to get answers to
that in the case. That's what we're doing here, where
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first of all, making sure people have what they need
in this first phase. As you noted, my family lost
its home in twenty twenty. I lived through this. There's
an initial phase of shock and then you turn that
to anger and then action. And we're going to get
answers to these folks.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Uh, what if they responded how they responded rather the DWP.
Have they sent you so a letter, have they met
with you? They have some kind of complicated excuse? Are
they denying everything?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Nothing other than what you've read in the media, the
same thing I've read. It's under investigation. I mean, as
you know, Newsom's got his own investigation going. He said
it was deeply troubling and it likely impaired firefighters ability
to fight the fire. So nothing formal from the DWP yet,
which will be forthcoming, probably within the next thirty days,
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we'll get something formal from him.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I mean, what insiders union people are saying is it
should have taken a month to fix the tear in
the cover.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It could have been done internally, and instead they put
this thing out to bid, and it took months and
months and months, and finally November they finally signed a contract,
and of course two months later we have the fire
and nothing was done. The reservoirs sat empty.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
What I don't understand is they always talk about with
climate change and fire season all year round. It seems
like they would have reacted as if this was a
big emergency one hundred and seventeen million gallons suddenly not
available in an oncoming fire season. How did they not react,
working twenty four hours a day with triple time for
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the cruise to get it done.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, the other thing we've heard is that Well Palisades
wasn't a high fire prone area. But I don't know
whether you realize this, but neighboring Malibu in the last
ninety years has had over thirty wildfires.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
To say that Palisades isn't fire prone is ridiculous. Those
of us that have lived here our whole lives know
every fall and early winter the santanas blow in inevitably
there's wildfires, and knowing that should have prompted them to
have this completely repaired by the summertime.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That's the latest they, like you said, thirty fires in Malibu. Pacific.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Palisades and Malibu run into each other. They blend into
each other. That's nonsense. There was a fire in the
Brentwood area a few years ago, the Getty Fire, that
is right adjacent to the Palisades as well. We had
the bel Air fire back in nineteen sixty one. That's
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just the next town over from Brentwood.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Of course, that's all high fire danger. They know this.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
See, that's what makes me crazy. They're blatantly lying. They're
just lying, claiming, oh, wouldn't have made a difference. That
is garbage and nonsense. And the idea that it's not
a high fire area. I mean, I can't believe what
they're saying. Shameless.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It is agreed. Those of us that, like I said,
that have lived hered know everywhere in southern California is
susceptible to wildfire. Everybody, I don't care where you are,
you're vulnerable for a wildfire. And that puts the government
in the position of having to take steps to protect
the people. Period, end of story.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It's all the Santa Monica Mountains. It's dense brush, dense
forest land, lots of fire hazards in the area.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I mean there are a lot of vagrants living up
in those hills.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
All right, Just well listen, you need anything, you need
more publicity. You're getting stonewalled in some way. You let
us know. Okay, we'll put you right back on.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I really appreciate it, John, and you know we're all
fans of the show and appreciate the covers you've done.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well. Thank you, and we're on your side here, So
you just let us know.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Roger Bailey, one of the attorneys representing some Palisades Pacific
Palisades residents, the preposterous liars that they are one hundred
and seventeen million gallon empty reservoir. It would make it different.
Everything wouldn't make a difference. The firefighters had been there, Earth,
that wouldn't make a difference. One hundred and seventy million dollars. Oh,
that wouldn't make a difference. If the mayor had been here, Oh,
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that wouldn't made a difference. Nothing would have made a difference.
Huh really, all right.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI sixty.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
One of the many, many questions that we're going to
be tackling over the coming days and weeks. Andy Caldwell
wrote about this in California Globe. If climate change has
created a much uh, much more frightening danger when it
comes to wildfires, now, how come the state and the
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city don't do anything or spend any money to mitigate
the problem. They're the ones who run around screaming climate change,
climate change, year round, fire season, uh and and all
you know that were there, that were all that we're
all in for all kinds of travesties and disasters. Right,
they're the ones who keep saying that, And I'll read you,
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Andy Caldwell. The fact is that the doomsayers claim that
climate change will result in greater catastrophes in the future,
we'll experience where strouts, floods and fires than ever before.
Yet what have they done to prepare? Have they built
more dams and reservoirs to alleviate floods and help us
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through the droughts?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
No, he writes, Think about that.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Think about how much climate change rhetoric and nonsense you've heard,
And they have built exactly zero dams and reservoirs. I
don't think there's a new state dam has gone up
in since the late nineteen seventies. We authorized in twenty
fourteen seven billion dollars worth of borrowing to build new reservoirs.
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Ten years later, none of them have been built.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Zero.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Well, if it's such a serious problem, why wasn't that
fast tracked, he continues, writing, Have they built fuel brakes
through the wildlands?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
No, they have none.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Have they conducted regularly scheduled controlled burns.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And you know why, because environmental activists whack job mental
patients have protested, ensued every time anyone in the state
has wanted to thin out the forests. They don't even
want dead trees to be carried out. It's true, And
Newsim and Jerry Brown and all the rest of those
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little cowards gave in every time to the crazy people.
This is why progressive politics, I hope died on January
seventh in the Palisades, because that's made everything more dangerous.
No controlled burns, no fuel brakes, no dams and reservoirs.
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Here are more questions. Have they thinned the brush and
the trees and created a wider buffer zone between the
urban rural interface?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Have they deployed thousands of goats and cows into our
foothills to help manage the fuels? Let him eat the brush,
it works.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Have they compared the greenhouse gas emissions from wildfires to
that of the transportation sector that they're focusing on, claiming
it's the biggest emission source.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, how much? How much carbon was released through the
air when you burned down an entire town, burned down
almost all Pacific Palisades? How much carbon was that? Meanwhile,
what has our government done, he writes, besides spending billions
on high speed rail, tens of billions on the homeless.
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At least two homeless people in LA were detained by
law enforcement his arts and suspects. Yes, we spend billions
on the homeless who start fires, and very little on
the firefighters. Who put them out, that's me talking. Spent
millions on charging stations. They have prevented utilities from clear
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cutting through the areas which our power lines run and
then sued the Jesus out of them for the ensuing firestorms.
This leaves the utilities with little choice but to turn
off the power in the middle of the windstorm or
face the threat of bankruptcy from the ensuing lawsuits. And
what good are the charging stations that won't work people
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need the most, like when their power is cut off.
Jurggon emergency, and he goes on and on. He's been
writing about the subject for over thirty years. Progressives in
the city and county governments in our state have placed
undue emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion in their hiring
and promotional practices. Competence is lower on the list of
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priorities than ever before. Yeah, you got that right, Competence
at the bottom of the list. LA County spent more
than a bill million dollars on the homeless and what
did you get? More homeless? Millions on electric vehicles including
an electric fire truck and ev charging stations, hundreds of
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thousands on DII programs, and they cut the fire department
budget by more than seventeen million this year. He notes
a couple of particular expenditures. They spent fourteen thousand dollars
to the Gay Men's Courus of Los Angeles. Why didn't
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that money go to the fire department.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
They spent.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Money on the midnight stroll transgender cafe. That's an LA
County expense, and I didn't believe that. I mean, I
know you couldn't make it up. So I found this
story in Fox News that they've spent millions of dollars
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on these programs. The Civil and Human Rights and Equity
Department was granted one hundred thousand dollars for a midnight
stroll transgender cafe to fund housing for homeless transgender individuals
in Hollywood, not one hundred thousand dollars to the fire department.
(15:27):
Maybe they could have hired a mechanic. There's one hundred
broken fire trucks in the garages of LA Fire Department.
They don't have mechanics. I see, I'm running a city
or a county and somebody comes to me and says,
got one hundred thousand dollars. You got two choices here?
You want to give it to the fire department. They
have one hundred trucks that are broken. Or do you
want to spend it on a midnight stroll transgender cafe?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
What you wanted to do?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They picked the transgender cafe and said no to the
fire department. They county also spent thirteen thousand dollars on lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and Transgender Heritage Month programs. Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars were set aside for equity and inclusion. That's all
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that's on the budget, Equity inclusion. Thus a mean two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars not for the fire department.
One hundred ninety thousand dollars was given to the Homeless
and HIV Program, which includes a syringe exchange program that
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gives sterile syringes to homeless drug addicts. You want your
fire engine fixed or do you want homeless drug addicts
to get free syringes?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You tell me which do you vote for?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Here?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
One hundred thousand dollars was put aside to pay for
Juneteenth celebrations. You could celebrate Juneteenth. Why do we have
to spend one hundred thousand dollars in tax money when
we have one hundred broken fire engines. Anybody want to
ask those questions? No, nobody wants to ask him, let
alone answer them. It just is right. We're just supposed
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to live with the insanity. It's our tax money. Maybe
they should put every line item of the budget up
for a vote, although in LA, who knows, maybe the
transgender cafe would win over repairing the fire engines. Michael
Sellenberger has a piece on this stuff. We'll talk more
coming up.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
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let's turn to Michael Sellenberger, one of the few honest
journalists in the world.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
We just had him on the other day. He's got
another piece. I uh.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I don't recommend subscriptions very often, almost never, but his
site is called public dot News, Public dot News and
boy it's it's a must read because he delves into
all the horrific dysfunction and nonsense in California government.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And he's been covering this this fire situation. And we
told you yesterday that the LA Times also a report
from a news nation, Rich McHugh, the cable TV outlet.
It's pretty clear that the the commanders in the LA
Fire Department were way late sending the troops in to
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battle the fire. It took them an hour before the
first ones showed up, and it took like over an
hour and a half before the response really got going.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
And if you remember it.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Was there was there was a Michael Valentine and his
wife were the residents at the top of the ridge
who saw the fire break out at about ten twenty nine,
and a chopper didn't show up till eleven twenty three.
And I want to stress this that they even in
the first hour, at least you could still fly planes
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and helicopters. If I hear the one hundred mile an
hour wind, excuse one more time, I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Going to blow a blood vessel.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
They were not blowing out one hundred miles an hour,
not in the early hours of the fire. All right,
not at eleven twenty three, if they had a strike team,
if they if they were on alert, Pacific Palisades is
very high fire danger. I can't tell you how many
bald faced lies from these psychotics I've heard and amplified
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by the psychotics in the media. But bath Newsom the
rest of them don't listen to this nonsense. Oh, the
mayor being here wouldn't have made a difference. Having one
hundred and seventeen million gallons wouldn't have made a difference.
Having fire hydrants working wouldn't have made it stop it.
I can't believe the level of lying that goes on now.
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Well Sallenberger says, a second firefighter has come forward to
say that quote, there wasn't sufficient funding for the pre deployment,
and I'm sure that played a role. The fire prevention
department has taken huge cuts too, and it limited their resources.
This firefighter said there was not enough mechanics, engines or
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fire stations. Remember, LA only has half the fire department
it should. It should have two firefighters for every thousand people.
It has less than one. It's missing sixty two fire stations.
It has one hundred engines, fire engines that are broken
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and not repaired. They don't have the mechanics. That's why
I go back to some of the funding choices that's
been made by Karen Bass in the LA City Council,
especially the billions of dollars on the homeless. I mean,
what's the point. What's the point of shoveling money at
homeless programs? I know what the point is to enrich
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your buddies who started those fake nonprofits. Schellenberger says LA
has been cutting the budget of the La Fire Department
for years, leading to rising response times. Here's a quote
from a firefighter. You're supposed to be en route in
thirty seconds, and you're supposed to be there in three
to five minutes. Now it's ten minutes, and on the
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extreme end, thirty minutes. How much does a fire burn
in thirty minutes versus thirty seconds If you're supposed to
show up in thirty seconds, No, you're supposed to be
en route in thirty seconds. If they had gotten to
the top of that Palisades ridge in three to five
minutes instead of an hour, how different is life today?
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Tell me it wouldn't made a difference. Of course, it
would have, but they weren't pre deployed. They didn't have
the funding, they didn't have the fire trucks, the fire trucks,
and they and the personnel they did have were not
even were sent home. Remember I told you yesterday they
were supposed to. They could have stayed for a second shift,
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and they could have sent some engines up there, and
they could have sent hundreds of firefighters, but they sent
them home.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Guess didn't want to pay the overtime.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now, he says, the response time is ten minutes all
the way to thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
The other day they had a cardiac arrest call that
took thirty minutes. There was a pediatric call two weeks ago,
and the station available was very far away, and it
took them a long time to get to that kid.
So you have a heart attack and the firefighters supposed
to show up at the ambulance and it takes a
half an hour, so you die.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Why Why?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Because we're spending billions of dollars on failed homeless programs,
why do we let them do this? The whistleblower said,
staffing an equipment shorta just create two tragedies. The first
are unnecessary deaths, and the second is the impact on
the firefighters. Schellenberger rights, they just can't make it to
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places fast enough and it's a hazard to the public.
According to the whistleblower, a family member is dying and
it's thirty minutes to show up, and then they're yelling
at the firefighters who are trying to do their jobs,
but there's not enough of them, not enough firefighters. Some
of that stuff really affects them. So the firefighters that
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do show up because they showed up late and the
person they came to save is dying, the family members
so crazy on the firemen who do show up. The
whistleblurwer goes on, nobody understands why this is going on.
Why is there no money? Why can't we pay people.
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We're eighty fire stations short. Why aren't we building them.
Why aren't we paying firefighters they're contracted wages And Schellenberger
says all of this is particularly mysterious because California is
by far the richest state in the United States and
has the highest taxes, the center of big tech, the
most profitable industry in the world, an annual GDP of
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three point eight trillion dollars. Here in California, the fifth
largest economy, the highest income tax at thirteen percent, the
highest sales tax tax at seven and a quarter percent,
and one of the highest corporate taxes is eight point
eight percent. Where is all the money going? You probably
didn't know this, but the Legislative analy Office in Sacramentos, nonpartisan,
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reported that Governor Gavin Newsom slashed funding by one hundred
and one million dollars in the twenty twenty four budget,
cutting millions for prescribed burns, forest fire monitoring, and twelve
million dollars to make homes more fire resistant. Gavin Newsom
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cut funding one hundred and one million dollars, and we
know Karen Bass cut the fire department budget by seventeen million.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
So I'm telling they're.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Running around screaming about climate change year round fire seasons.
We're all in danger like we've never been before. And
they take wildly underfunded fire departments and cut more money
from them. They spend billions on homeless, billions on high
speed rail, billions, they paid out to fraudsterros during the
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COVID unemployment scam. I could go on, but you know
the list. By now, millions and millions of dollars on
wacky DEI programs.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Karen Bass, this.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Can't be overlooked, proposed cutting the fire department in the
coming year by another forty eight zero point eight million dollars,
almost fifty million. How could we possibly have her remain
as mayor when her intention was to cut another fifty million.
The budget should be doubled. We should have twice as
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many firefighters. We should have twice as many fire engines.
We need sixty this guy says, eighty fire stations. Now,
are we going to do that? Are we going to
all die in a fire? Because Karen Bass is woke
and Gavin Newsom is woke, and they want to shovel
the money to their crooked nonprofit homeless agents that their
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crooked friends run. Since twenty nineteen, California has spent twenty
seven billion dollars in homelessness four and a half billion dollars.
That does not include the spending on firefighting, police, or
emergency medical services for the homeless. It doesn't include the
forty billion the state spent on affordable housing. California spends
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over thirty billion a year to provide benefits and services
to illegal aliens. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So let's at add that to the list.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Thirty billion a year for illegal aliens, twenty seven billion
dollars on those vagrants and drug addicts in the street,
ten billion dollars on high speed rail, fifty billion dollars
to criminals around the world who took our COVID unemployment money.
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Why do you do this? Why do you keep voting
for these people? I'd say, I don't understand this. Nobody's
saying understands this. I don't vote for these people. I
don't understand it. I want the firefighters fully funded, the
police fully funded.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I don't want high speed rail. I don't want homeless
people giving billions of dollars. It doesn't do any good.
I don't want to legal aliens getting billions of dollars.
They don't they're not entitled, they don't deserve it.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I take a break.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
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Speaker 2 (28:37):
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Speaker 1 (28:44):
All right, get this, you tell me what you want?
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
If you saw this on the ballot to vote on,
which do you want California spends forty one billion dollars
a year on the homeless, right, the mental patients, and
drug addicts, and legal immigrants, and climate change forty one
billion in those three categories. If we just spent two
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percent of that money, a billion dollars on LA's fire department,
it would have doubled its budget. They would have doubled
the amount of firefighters, which would get us to an
adequate level, the recommended minimum level. We'd have to double
the budget to get the minimum number of firefighters that's
(29:31):
recommended by these national fire agencies. And then we could
have double the engines, double the resources. Maybe they could
fill the reservoir with water. Maybe they could build news reservoirs.
That's what you should do in a city, in a
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state with the newsom always brags about all the wealth
created in California. Well, how is it that we have
all this wealth three point eight trillion dollar GDP. He's
always bragging about that, and the highest taxes, So it's
not like we're not paying and we have no water,
no fire engines, half the firefighters, police undefunded.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Listen to this. LA spent.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Six to time six to twelve times more for an
electric fire engine than a normal fire engine. Don't know
the exact cost, but apparently electric fire engines cost six
to twelve times more.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
They bought one electric fire engine. You're not going to
believe this.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
The electric fire engine is broken and hasn't been fixed,
and said this firefighter whistleblower. Why are they spending six
million on an electric fire engine that doesn't work rather
than buy a new station. The engine went into service
for a month, it broke and it hasn't been back.
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They had to retrofit the whole fire station to charge
the engine.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Between all the work to.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
The station and the vehicle, it was six million dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Why would you spend six million dollars on one fire
engine retrofit the station. It doesn't work and they can't
fix it. That's what happened in Los Angeles. What are
we doing? You're going to keep voting for Karen Bass.
You're not going to demand a resignation. Really, you're not
going to do you should demand a resignation, and nearly
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an entire city council. I would say Tracy Park is
the only intelligent, level headed, rational person on that entire council.
She should be the next mayor, and I've told her
that a couple of times. What's going on right now,
city govern From what I'm told by sources, you just
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wouldn't believe. Everyone's covering their ass. They're holding meetings, everybody's arguing,
everybody's full of crap. Nobody's doing anything for the people.
It is completely dysfunctional. There is no help coming. They
just stand there and do their fake nonsense press conferences,
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and there's almost nobody in the press corps in LA
who challenges them. I grew up in the New York
media market as a kid, I grew up in Jersey.
I watched the New York reporters. They certainly had plenty
of disasters in New York City over the years. You
would have been from the public. They're letting the public down.
They're not doing their jobs. We pay for this everything
I just told you about, all the money that we
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paid for, the homeless population, the illegal aliens, that's all
our money. That's what you work for. They took the
money and spent it on one didn't spend it on
our fire stations. They don't spend it on the police. Instead,
they embarrassed, the police, demonize them. I hope Eric Arsetti
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rots in hell for eternity for taking that knee in
front of those terrorist groups that were protesting. Worst thing
I've ever seen in my life. And all along here
when I'm reading about the dispirited police department, the spirited
fire department, underfunded, defunded, no equipment, this and that, and
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I'm always flashed back to erk r said he'd taken
a knee. He ran LA for nine and a half years.
A lot of this extreme decay happened because of him.
I was going to say under his watch, not his watch,
because he made the decisions to make it happen because
of the contempt he had for police and firefighters. And
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Bass has the same contempt, because progressives have contempt for
those in uniform who try to protect our lives. That's
part of their sick twisted ideology. They're sick twisted religion,
contempt for the men and women who try to protect us,
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either from the bad guys or fires and other natural disasters.
And I think we should get I think we should
get from whatever source that two percent that billion dollars
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that they spend on the legal aliens and homeless people
two percent of the forty billion that they spend at
double the size of the LA Fire Department. That's what
a rational society would do. So number one, you get
rid of Karen Bass. Number two, we thought you'd get
that billion dollars out of somebody. Oh, I got when
Trump comes to town next week. Oh, we got to
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talk about that, because they want federal money reimbursed. Trump's
only going to give the money if there are strings attached,
and there should be strings attached. Talk about that. Deborah
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