May 9, 2024 • 32 mins
LA School Police Association President Gil Gamez comes on the show to talk about LAUSD parents calling for more police on campuses. More on parents calling for police on LAUSD campuses. Jon Coupal comes on the show to talk about the Taxpayer's Protection Act. The 10 most obese states in America.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
By the way, I had to turn off five of
the seven televisions. Why because I came in here and
it was sensory overload. There were seven TVs on seven
different stations, all flashing.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
A lot of it was daytime talk show nonsense.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
I told you it's first of all, it's just too
it's way too distracting for you, even if they were
on shows that you like.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well, I can't watch seven shows that I like at once. Yeah,
well that's true.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I mean what, I really don't get this.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's not for you, Well, Fri, it's for who.
Speaker 7 (00:50):
Somebody else asked if they can have more.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They asked for seven TVs.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
I don't know if they asked for seven. They asked
for more, that's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And they ended up with seven.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
But you know what you could do right when before
you open your mic, you could turn the TVs off.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, that was a project ray and I had to
figure that out. That took about five minutes.
Speaker 7 (01:10):
Really just did turn them off.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, I can't recreate what happened, but you know, they
I wish Eric would have gotten I think we ended
up changing all the channels at the same time.
Speaker 7 (01:21):
Yeah, I know it is.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Hard to change channels on the TVs, that's for sure.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
I just assumed it was easier just turn them off.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I just don't get the quantity here. But let's let's
move on.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
They had they had a killing of a teenager near
Washington Prep High School in South LA back in April,
and it's because in parts security guards I didn't want
to do anything to get in the way of the
fight that was happening. There's a lot of parents who
were angry and scared after that happened, and they're angry
and scared in general because ever since they cut back
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on armed police officers, there's more shootings, there's more stabs,
there's more drugs, there's just a lot more violent trouble
going on at some of the schools. It's a failed experiment.
It's one of the remnants of this well. The original
decision was in twenty twenty that's all you have to know.
Every stupid idea came out of the year twenty twenty.
(02:18):
We're going to talk with Los Angeles School Police Association
president Gilgamazon. Now, Gil Am I saying your last name right?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Yeah, Gomez? Close enough?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That was good, Gomaz, Okay, thanks for coming on here.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I mean, basically, they took in what volunteers off the
street to replace the police.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
So you said we were defunded. Sometime around twenty twenty,
they took a quarter of our I'm sorry, one third
of our budget twenty five million dollars. They put it
into a program called BESTAP and they're using a few
million dollars of this BETAP money to hire security guard
companies to provide what's called safe passages. Many of them
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wear yellow shirts. Washington High School, there was three of
these beef stapped yellow shirt people, probably good people, that
were supposed to provide safe passages, and multiple fights happened
right in front of them, and one young man, an
eighteen year old young man student, got attacked by like
ten different students beating them, kicking in the head. He
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probably would have could have died or at least wind
up with some sort of great bodily injury, and this
kid had a gun on him. He pulled his gun
out and shot an individual. He shot three shots and
killed a fifteen year old child, right in front of
these security guards who they are not trained. They're in
way over their head, they don't even have any authority
to do anything. One of them actually said, I'm not
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doing anything. Blah blah blah, called the blah blah blah police,
and ten seconds later, this poor child got killed. Horrible, horrible,
because it's not their fault. They weren't trained, they don't
know how to do the job. They're in way, they're
in way over their heads.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You're quoted is saying some of these people are former prisoners.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
You know, a couple months ago, one of these individuals
from a group called Baby Brothers Against Banging You probably
a very good program, you know, in their own right.
He comes to a board meeting and said he did
twenty years of a thirty the life sentence and now
he's out, and now he's working on campuses, walking around unescorted,
trying to help kids. Tell him to go to class.
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I mean, it's one thing for him to work with
a police officer or administrator or something like that. But
just given a radio and allowed to be walking around
campus unescorted is ridiculous. But they get away with it
because they are not LA unified employees. They are a subcontract.
So if they're a subcontract, the district does not incur
any liabilities.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
So they think, oh well, yeah, test that out with
a lawsuit. All right, So they slashed the police budget
by a third. You end up with more shootings, more stabbings,
more drugs, more incidents. Overall.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
This is a disaster.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I mean, doesn't the experiment.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
The experiment failed right now as we speak, Fairfax High School.
If you drop by there, you'll see multiple police cars
there right now because an individual was caught selling drugs
and once they didn't administrate a search, he had a
loaded semi automatic handgun on his person right now as
we speak. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And who thinks this is a good idea?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Anybody left in the school administration or on the school
board who thinks this is all working out?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Fine?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
You know what? You can hear some of them sound
like they're doubling down, like, well, maybe these groups aren't
implemented properly. We need to help them somehow. It's kind
of hard to admit that you made a mistake, but
we have to. And if we don't admit that we
made a mistake and we don't try to rectify the problem,
more children will end up being shot, beaten, or worse.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Is it true? The crime went up two hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Violent crime at two hundred percent on and around campuses,
and that's only the crime that was reported. Because now
you have less people willing to report crime because they
don't want to. They don't want their schools to sound
like that they're overly violent because the police are gone.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Sentinel Sentinel deaths have gone way up.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Fentannel death very sad, very sad. It's it's uh, it's
the latest trend right now, and it trickle down to
the young kids. And kids are dying, some of them
on our campus.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I don't I don't get this.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You've got shooting, stabbings, gang fights on campus and nobody
in the administration wants to bring the police. I mean,
not enough people in the administration want to bring the
police back. I don't understand. They want the kids to die.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
You know, point fingers. At the UTLA Teachers Union, they
trained a group of young students to push. I've seen
them being trained at UTLA headquarters to push to defund
the police. And they're the shield and the spear of
the teachers union to push to defund the police. To
ask them, ask the utile A president why they don't
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want police on campus.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So the teachers Union doesn't want it. The administrators do.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
The union does not want what.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The teachers are. The union is made up of teachers.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Yes, the teachers do not have control. The union has controlled.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well, it's enough teachers gathered together, they can force these
union leaders out.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They just never do.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
You sound like you're stearring something up right now?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But yeah, yeah, no, they're cowardly. I've heard that all
my life. All it's not the union, it's the teachers. No,
it's the teachers. It's their union. And they're the ones
who voted these people in and by extension they approve
of their policies.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And I don't know that the teachers don't want.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
To die program.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Yes, it sounds like they should go into your program.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, I know. I rarely hear.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
The only time I hear from teachers going well, you know,
we're not all what you say, Okay, we're not all
what you say, but there's not enough of you who
are courageous enough to tell these union leaders to go
to hell and get out of town.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I mean, I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I cannot believe this because it's nothing worse than murders
and stabbings and sentinel deaths and gang fights.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You've hit the limit on all the damage you can do.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
From union president to whatever union president for UTLA is listening, Yes,
we need to refund our police department. We need to
get back into the business of protecting children so that
children could go to feel safe enough to go to school,
study and graduate. That's the way it works.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
How much did they cut?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
How much did they cut? A third of our budget
was twenty five million dollars. And in this visa program
they actually now there's they got funded again. So there's
over fifty million dollars in this program. And so these
little impromptu security companies know that there's money to be
made if they just get a little company together, go
through the procurement process with the LA Unified School District.
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I believe some them have good intentions, but intentions that
does not keep people safe.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
No, no, if a guy has a gun, your good
intentions is not going to stop the bullet.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
You know, the road to hell is paid.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yes, but that's one of the truest statements ever.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
All right, well, Gil, this is eye opening. Thank you
for coming on.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
This is Los Angeles School Police Association President Gil Gamez,
and you heard him. A third of the police budget
was cut for the school campuses and now crime, violent
crime is up two hundred per fentanyl, fentanyl death stabbings,
multiple gang fight shootings, everything. What an absurd experiment this
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has been. Thanks Gil for coming on with us.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh, we'll continue.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Tebram Gee, why do people, if they get a few
dollars take their kids to private schools in LA?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I can't imagine why.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Coming up in what about ten to fifteen minutes, we're
going to have John Coopaul from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
He was in the courtroom yesterday when the California Supreme
Court heard the case as to whether we can get
to vote in November to block statewide tax increases. There
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is a proposition that has gotten enough signatures to make
the ballot in November, and if it makes the ballot
and passes, then whenever the legislature and the governor pass
a tax, a state tax, we can veto it or
approve it, it goes to the public vote.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And Newsom and.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
The legislature is so panicked by this that they tried
to pre empt the case by going directly to the
cal California Supreme Court to say in advance, this is unconstitutional.
You can't have the public voting on statewide tax increases,
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and it's preposterous. John Coopaul is going to explain all
this coming up, but I'm hoping that they at least
let us vote on this, and you know, if the
court wants to clean up a detail here or there
after the fact, but it's our right to vote on taxes.
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And I apparently this is polling well. The idea of
giving the voters the final say, I don't understand, and
nobody can explain to me why most of the public
is against much of the nonsense coming out of Sacramento.
Then why do they have this better than seventy percent
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super majority that leans themmocratic.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
How does that work been going on for years?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
The progressive Democrats have this outsized power pushing ideas that
few people actually agree with. And two of those ideas
we've just talked about in the last half hour. And
I guess it is just a lack of courage or
lack of energy on the part of normal people to
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rise up and say enough of this crap. I mean,
you just heard, you just heard Gilgemez, he's the LA
School Police Association president. And after that stupid nervous breakdown
that everybody had in twenty twenty, we defunded the LA
School Police. What a nightmare many LA school campuses are.
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But God, the carnage. I'll tell you how bad the
carnage has been. At the end of the twenty nineteen
school year, there were twenty three hundred incidents on LA
campuses of fighting or physical aggression. After they defunded the
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police and replaced them with security guards in yellow shirts,
the number of violent incidents doubled. It's almost forty six hundred.
So went from twenty three hundred to forty six hundred
in four years. The only changes they slashed the police
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budget by a third, defund the police, get the cops
off the campuses, okay, have adding more shootings than ever before,
more stabbings than ever before, more fighting, gang fighting, mayhem,
terror going on. Not to mention drugs. Fentanyl crime went
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up two hundred percent hundred after they defunded the police.
What an ft up policy?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
This is?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
What an incredibly stupid, ridiculous policy.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
This is.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
And it's led by the teachers' union. They got a
whack job named cessantly Mayar Cruz who pushes this nonsense
leading the union. They've got idiot board members, an idiot superintendent.
How do you double the number of physical violence incidents
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in four years after defunding the police.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Why would you do this? And they hired these.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Security agencies, And these security agencies are hiring former convicts
convicted of violent crimes. That's the security. But they're given
these yellow shirts. What's with yellow shirts? Ambassador vests instead
of armed police. This will never work anywhere. It's an
incredibly stupid, failed progressive idea. And look how many kids
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have been shot at, stabbed at, beat up? Who wants that?
And when the parents complain they're told to shut up?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Boy boy? Oh you know?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
And like I said the other day, most of the
kids do not meet math and reading comprehension levels. Most
of them are not proficient in math and reading. But
they are getting shot and stabbed in record numbers to
complete complete failure. And you know there should be no
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debate anymore, no debate, Just tell these people to shut
up and move out. Get out, get out of town,
get out of the city, get out. All right, we
come back, John Coopaul, Gavin Newsome. You know, mister democracy
doesn't think the California public has the right to vote
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on tax issues. Really, that's what the man saving democracy thinks.
So he took a case to the Supreme Court in
advance of the vote, not after the vote goes through,
in advance of the vote. This is a referendum that
could be on the ballot in November that allows us
the final say on a statewide tax increase after the
legislature and the governor. We could say no, and Newsom says,
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I can't have that. We'll talk to John Coopaul from
Howard Jars Taxpayers Association because he was there for the case.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
We're on every day from one until four and if
you miss it, go for the podcast post it after
four o'clock John Cobilt's show on demand. One story we've
been following the last few days and really forever in
a way, is the California Supreme Court has a case
before it now as to whether we can vote in
November to block state taxes that are passed by the
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legislature and the governor. The Democrats have a super majority
in the legislature, so they can pass any increase they want.
Newsom can sign anything he wants. What do we do?
The rest of us are victimized. So there's a ballot
initiative and it's got enough signatures it should be on
in November. That says, well has to go for one
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more review before the voters, and the voters have to
finally approve it or not approve it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
And new sub.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Administration is having a fit saying that's not constitutional. So
it's before the Supreme Court to get the decision before November.
And let's go to John Coopaul from the Howard Jarvis
Taxpayers Association, Because John, you said you were going to
be in the courtroom to watch this.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I was in the courtroom. I was sitting at the
council table. I did not present the case myself. We
had a very excellent attorney for the name of Tom
Hilltech who presented the case to an outstanding job. And
I think the take and we don't know. It's very
difficult to predict what a court is going to do,
but I think we were very encouraged by the questions
that the justices ask of the attorney for the Legislature
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and the governor. I think to ask the court to
remove a duly qualified initiative from the ballot is really
a bridge too far. I think the court understands the
gravity of that request, and underlying it all is the
rather weak argument that they have to take it off
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the ballot. They argue that it is somehow an impermissible
revision of the Constitution rather than just an amendment, and
all the case law really counters that theory. So I
think this was throwing something up against the wall to
see if it sticks. I'm encouraged. Again, I'm not going
to make a prediction, but I was encouraged by the
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fact that I think all the justice is at one point,
we're asking good questions of both sides. So if my
take on this is if the court rules on the
law and the facts of this case, we should easily win.
Now again that comes to the big caveat, But I think,
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I think we can look forward to having the Taxpayer
Protection and Government Accountability Act on the ballot in November.
And I think one of the reasons that the governor
and the legislature are so nervous is because they know
how popular it will be.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
How popular is it? Have you done polling on it?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
We've done all kinds of polling. One of the keystone
protections is the ability of voters to approve or reject
any state wide tax increase. Remember, you know, one provision
of Proposition thirteen back in nineteen seventy eight was to
require that a statewide tax get a two thirds vote
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of each house of the legislature. And for many years,
for decades, that was a sufficient enough protection because we
had some fiscal conservatives in the legislature. Well we don't anymore.
Well we do, but not. The other side has a
super duper majority, as I call it, and so they
are able to ramrod through very unpopular taxes. And of course,
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the granddaddy of all unpopular taxes was the gas tax.
Does anyone believe that had the gas tax been submitted
to the voters that they would have approved it. Absolutely not.
So this is just one more check on a supermajority
in the legislature, and it is completely consistent with the
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powers of direct democracy that we've had since the early
nineteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Well, it seems like a debate over whether something is
an amendment or revision. That's quite esoteric, and I don't
want to get into it here, but I don't know
exactly how you slice those two words so thinly that
you can make an argument that one is more more
serious than the other.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
One is clearly more serious one. Generally speaking, a revision
would be like a wholesale rewriting of the whole constitution.
That would clearly be a revision. Or or if you
said we're going to abolish the judiciary and give all
judicial power through the legislature, that would be a fundamental
restructuring of our system of government. The tax Payer Protection
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Act doesn't do that because the power to legislate is
a shared power between the people and the legislature, So
there's no shift of power. It's just because the legislative
power is one power, but it is a shared power.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Right because they've always been able to put on the
ballot a tax for voter approval, or to repeal a tax,
which happened not that long ago. So the idea of
people voting on taxes directly at the ballot box, there's
very recent examples of that. I mean, we just had
an attented gas tax repeal, and we did repeal Schwarzenegger
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taxes I think twenty ten or so we did.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We did so. In fact, the area of taxation is
one of the most common areas that is addressed by initiative,
referendum and recall. So so in fact, recall some people
have been recalled because of votes on tax issues. So
you know, it is it was a stretch for them.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
To bring so we do someone was doing is they
were exaggerating what was going on here by turning an
amendment into a revision, when a revision would have to
have far more serious consequences than what this is attempting
to do.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
That is absolutely true. And the other thing is I
just think this lawsuit was ill advised from a political perspective,
because I think it gives the optics are bad. These
are the same people who claim they want to protect democracy.
They're always talking about we have to protect democracy, and
yet this effort, this lawsuit, is an effort to prevent
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the voters of the state of California from voting on
a duly qualified initiative. I would say that somewhat hypocritical.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Now, it sounded like a couple of the judges said,
because there's there's a number of provisions and this is
not the time to get into all of them. But
it made it sound like, well, maybe after the vote,
we could strike this provision or that provision. You see
that likely to happen, that if this thing passes, maybe
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they'll do a piecemeal attack on it.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That I think they may analyze it on an individual basis,
But where would be fine with that, because we believe
that when they're even when they're analyzed separately, that it
would survive. For example, there was a big discussion over
fees versus taxes. Again, we don't want to get into
the weeds on that one, but we're comfortable with what
the What the Taxpayer Protection Act does is not nearly
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so draconian as is being argued by groups like the
League of californ the Cities, And in fact, after this
thing passes, we're more than one to go into court
and say all these things that they claim, this parade
of horribles and end of Western civilization, it's just not true.
So even if the court would indicate, they're going to
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keep it on the ballot, but we're going to reserve
the right to address these provisions later. That's fine with
us because we're comfortable enough with the clarity and what
this does that even if they wait till later, we'll
still win, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
John, Good work, John Coopaul Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, and
the decision should come win.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Sometime in June. The earlier the better because we really
have to ramp up the campaign.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah, all right, hopefully it'll be on the ballot November.
All right, Thanks for coming on again with us to
explain all that you bet, John, take care all right,
John Coopaul, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. One of the few
public organizations fighting for normal people to preserve our money
that we earn. We've got more coming up.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
We've got Wade Stern coming on with us after three o'clock.
He's President of the Federated University Police Officers Association. A
lot of police officials on these on the show today
because there's all kinds of stupid progressive insanity going on. Now,
you've got forty four people who were occupying and vandalizing
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the buildings at UCLA during their stupid riot supporting Hamas.
They had all kinds of tools and guide books and
a lot of material. And George Gascones so far not
finding any felony charges against anyone. And Wade Stern is
going to talk about that. He's again president of Federated
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University Police Officers Association.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
All right, So that's coming up after three o'clock. All right.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
When I see a story like this, I can't resists.
The ten most obese states in America, Where would you
find the highest percentage of fat people in the United States?
Any guesses here? Alabama? Alabama, Jabarah. What do you think
you were looking for the highest percentage of obese people.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
I would say Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Louisiana, You guys are pretty good. Alabama is number six,
and I is he number six, no number seven, and
Louisiana is number three.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
W huh.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Forty percent of people in Louisiana are obese, not just a.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Little over it.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
It's that southern its it's fried everything right in Alabama,
it's about thirty eight percent. So that's number now the
number one most obese state you go to this day.
You look around, it's like, oh my god, look at
West Virginia is number one.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
I'm going to West Virginia in September. Are you take
some video and bring it back? I definitely will. Now
West Virginia the fat of state in the Union. Oklahoma
is second. By the way, they're all around forty percent.
These are minor statistical differences, and I don't even know
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how they can. You know, they'll say it's forty one
point three percent. I don't know how you get to
that number.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
So whatever, the methodology is, West Virginia's first, Oklahoma second,
Louisiana third, Mississippi is fourth, then Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, Indiana, Delaware,
and Kentucky. Almost entirely midwest and south, with the exception
of Delaware. The UH thirty five percent of adults in
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twenty two states were obese.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Now they have an official.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
They have official statistical method it's that body mass index.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Do you know your body.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Mass indecks I do not, and nor do I want to. Well,
I don't even weigh myself anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I saw a chart and they equate body mass index
to you know, your height and weight, and I thought
it was a little it was it was harsh for
too many people. Yeah, so I'm not sure forty. Then again,
you go out into public places outside of like outside
of Los Angeles, and you see, you know, the people
at the shopping malls or Las Vegas. The buffet table
(28:27):
can't always told me the buffet lines at Las Vegas.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
I know.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Well, what about on cruise ships people people act like
they've never had a meal before.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Three ships sank last year just because of obesity.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
You know that.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
No, I did not.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
It's true. It's always Americans. American cruise ships. Ship goes
right down, usually day two. They all have their first
dinner right that morning's.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Well, and then they lode up on the desserts.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
That ship is gone by morning.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
The midnight BFE.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
I was out of buffet in Texas over the weekend. Yeah,
a brunch buffet. Yeah, and the amount of people I
saw going back for thirds and fourths and fifths.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
It's free food. Yeah, that's what happens.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
I mean, listen, Hey, the brunch was twenty nine dollars
a pop, so that's that's pretty cheap.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Oh you okay, but when it's free on these cruises,
well yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I don't know. Two things.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
If I overa even slightly, I really feel nauseous. I
feel sick. I feel like I want to up chuck
the whole meal. I don't understand how you fit like
your third or fourth or fifth serving with that.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
A bite here, a bite there.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Really uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Secondly, you see these people and they have a really
hard time moving around and fitting into spaces. How long
do you want to put up with that? See these
guys with their their neck rolls.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
It's a struggle for some people. John, Oh it's not
it is, Oh, it is.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It is too much.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Because you know what, do you know how if you're
I don't know if you've ever dieted, but you doesn't
matter how much you exercise. You have to reduce your
caloric intake so much to lose a pound two pounds.
So people are fifty seventy five, one hundred pounds overweight.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
It's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You think, John's counting calories never come on?
Speaker 7 (30:14):
No, But I don't red meat. No, I don't think
he does.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
But I don't know if he ever has, you know,
before we knew him, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
No, never, never. I don't pay I don't pay attention
to numbers. There's something weird how the society is hung
up on all their body numbers and that they have.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Okay, but if your genes don't fit you, you don't
have to go on a scale.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
You know, you know, that's what I'm saying. You can tell, yes, Oh,
I know.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
If I'm up five pounds, I can tell, I can
tell it. I do so I don't need I don't
need to do a statistical analysis. And I always tell people,
And it's funny, how many how much resistance I get
when I say this, I go move more, eat less.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Yes, that's it, that's right. That is the recipe.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
You have to exercise more and eat less. You can't
just exercise, you have to eat.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
You don't have to bother yourself with all kinds of exotic,
weirdo diets. You don't need. You don't need ozempic, you
don't need drugs, you don't need all kinds of complex
statistical analysis.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
The way I eat and forget the bacon.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Hold your horses on that one. Really, I would rather.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, no, I'd rather just fall over dead than spend
my life raising on That's it. That's where I'm going.
In fact, I'm jumping. Somebody starts serving me Vegan food
right out the window.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Big splat. All right when we come.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Back, Uh, we cannot get We were just telling you
how the stupid asses that run the Los Angeles Unified
School District will not hire cops. They're happier with all
the shootings and stabbings on campus, well on UCLA. They're
apparently happy with rioters and vandals and people supporting terrorists
(31:58):
and Gascon. So far, no felonies I'm aware of against
these people. I mean, I saw the rioting with my
own eyes. I don't understand. Wade Stern, president of the
Federated University Police Officers Association, that union is calling on
the DA George Gascon to fire file felony charges. Good
(32:18):
luck with that, Debrah Mark Live in the KFI twenty
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty.
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Speaker 4 (00:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
By the way, I had to turn off five of
the seven televisions. Why because I came in here and
it was sensory overload. There were seven TVs on seven
different stations, all flashing.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
A lot of it was daytime talk show nonsense.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
I told you it's first of all, it's just too
it's way too distracting for you, even if they were
on shows that you like.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well, I can't watch seven shows that I like at once. Yeah,
well that's true.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I mean what, I really don't get this.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's not for you, Well, Fri, it's for who.
Speaker 7 (00:50):
Somebody else asked if they can have more.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They asked for seven TVs.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
I don't know if they asked for seven. They asked
for more, that's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
And they ended up with seven.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
But you know what you could do right when before
you open your mic, you could turn the TVs off.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, that was a project ray and I had to
figure that out. That took about five minutes.
Speaker 7 (01:10):
Really just did turn them off.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, I can't recreate what happened, but you know, they
I wish Eric would have gotten I think we ended
up changing all the channels at the same time.
Speaker 7 (01:21):
Yeah, I know it is.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Hard to change channels on the TVs, that's for sure.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
I just assumed it was easier just turn them off.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I just don't get the quantity here. But let's let's
move on.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
They had they had a killing of a teenager near
Washington Prep High School in South LA back in April,
and it's because in parts security guards I didn't want
to do anything to get in the way of the
fight that was happening. There's a lot of parents who
were angry and scared after that happened, and they're angry
and scared in general because ever since they cut back
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on armed police officers, there's more shootings, there's more stabs,
there's more drugs, there's just a lot more violent trouble
going on at some of the schools. It's a failed experiment.
It's one of the remnants of this well. The original
decision was in twenty twenty that's all you have to know.
Every stupid idea came out of the year twenty twenty.
(02:18):
We're going to talk with Los Angeles School Police Association
president Gilgamazon. Now, Gil Am I saying your last name right?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Yeah, Gomez? Close enough?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That was good, Gomaz, Okay, thanks for coming on here.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I mean, basically, they took in what volunteers off the
street to replace the police.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
So you said we were defunded. Sometime around twenty twenty,
they took a quarter of our I'm sorry, one third
of our budget twenty five million dollars. They put it
into a program called BESTAP and they're using a few
million dollars of this BETAP money to hire security guard
companies to provide what's called safe passages. Many of them
(02:58):
wear yellow shirts. Washington High School, there was three of
these beef stapped yellow shirt people, probably good people, that
were supposed to provide safe passages, and multiple fights happened
right in front of them, and one young man, an
eighteen year old young man student, got attacked by like
ten different students beating them, kicking in the head. He
(03:22):
probably would have could have died or at least wind
up with some sort of great bodily injury, and this
kid had a gun on him. He pulled his gun
out and shot an individual. He shot three shots and
killed a fifteen year old child, right in front of
these security guards who they are not trained. They're in
way over their head, they don't even have any authority
to do anything. One of them actually said, I'm not
(03:44):
doing anything. Blah blah blah, called the blah blah blah police,
and ten seconds later, this poor child got killed. Horrible, horrible,
because it's not their fault. They weren't trained, they don't
know how to do the job. They're in way, they're
in way over their heads.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You're quoted is saying some of these people are former prisoners.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
You know, a couple months ago, one of these individuals
from a group called Baby Brothers Against Banging You probably
a very good program, you know, in their own right.
He comes to a board meeting and said he did
twenty years of a thirty the life sentence and now
he's out, and now he's working on campuses, walking around unescorted,
trying to help kids. Tell him to go to class.
(04:26):
I mean, it's one thing for him to work with
a police officer or administrator or something like that. But
just given a radio and allowed to be walking around
campus unescorted is ridiculous. But they get away with it
because they are not LA unified employees. They are a subcontract.
So if they're a subcontract, the district does not incur
any liabilities.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
So they think, oh well, yeah, test that out with
a lawsuit. All right, So they slashed the police budget
by a third. You end up with more shootings, more stabbings,
more drugs, more incidents. Overall.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
This is a disaster.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I mean, doesn't the experiment.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
The experiment failed right now as we speak, Fairfax High School.
If you drop by there, you'll see multiple police cars
there right now because an individual was caught selling drugs
and once they didn't administrate a search, he had a
loaded semi automatic handgun on his person right now as
we speak. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And who thinks this is a good idea?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Anybody left in the school administration or on the school
board who thinks this is all working out?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Fine?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
You know what? You can hear some of them sound
like they're doubling down, like, well, maybe these groups aren't
implemented properly. We need to help them somehow. It's kind
of hard to admit that you made a mistake, but
we have to. And if we don't admit that we
made a mistake and we don't try to rectify the problem,
more children will end up being shot, beaten, or worse.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Is it true? The crime went up two hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Violent crime at two hundred percent on and around campuses,
and that's only the crime that was reported. Because now
you have less people willing to report crime because they
don't want to. They don't want their schools to sound
like that they're overly violent because the police are gone.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Sentinel Sentinel deaths have gone way up.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Fentannel death very sad, very sad. It's it's uh, it's
the latest trend right now, and it trickle down to
the young kids. And kids are dying, some of them
on our campus.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I don't I don't get this.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You've got shooting, stabbings, gang fights on campus and nobody
in the administration wants to bring the police. I mean,
not enough people in the administration want to bring the
police back. I don't understand. They want the kids to die.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
You know, point fingers. At the UTLA Teachers Union, they
trained a group of young students to push. I've seen
them being trained at UTLA headquarters to push to defund
the police. And they're the shield and the spear of
the teachers union to push to defund the police. To
ask them, ask the utile A president why they don't
(07:03):
want police on campus.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So the teachers Union doesn't want it. The administrators do.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
The union does not want what.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The teachers are. The union is made up of teachers.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Yes, the teachers do not have control. The union has controlled.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well, it's enough teachers gathered together, they can force these
union leaders out.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They just never do.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
You sound like you're stearring something up right now?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
But yeah, yeah, no, they're cowardly. I've heard that all
my life. All it's not the union, it's the teachers. No,
it's the teachers. It's their union. And they're the ones
who voted these people in and by extension they approve
of their policies.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And I don't know that the teachers don't want.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
To die program.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Yes, it sounds like they should go into your program.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, I know. I rarely hear.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
The only time I hear from teachers going well, you know,
we're not all what you say, Okay, we're not all
what you say, but there's not enough of you who
are courageous enough to tell these union leaders to go
to hell and get out of town.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I mean, I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I cannot believe this because it's nothing worse than murders
and stabbings and sentinel deaths and gang fights.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You've hit the limit on all the damage you can do.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
From union president to whatever union president for UTLA is listening, Yes,
we need to refund our police department. We need to
get back into the business of protecting children so that
children could go to feel safe enough to go to school,
study and graduate. That's the way it works.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
How much did they cut?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
How much did they cut? A third of our budget
was twenty five million dollars. And in this visa program
they actually now there's they got funded again. So there's
over fifty million dollars in this program. And so these
little impromptu security companies know that there's money to be
made if they just get a little company together, go
through the procurement process with the LA Unified School District.
(08:59):
I believe some them have good intentions, but intentions that
does not keep people safe.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
No, no, if a guy has a gun, your good
intentions is not going to stop the bullet.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
You know, the road to hell is paid.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yes, but that's one of the truest statements ever.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
All right, well, Gil, this is eye opening. Thank you
for coming on.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
This is Los Angeles School Police Association President Gil Gamez,
and you heard him. A third of the police budget
was cut for the school campuses and now crime, violent
crime is up two hundred per fentanyl, fentanyl death stabbings,
multiple gang fight shootings, everything. What an absurd experiment this
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has been. Thanks Gil for coming on with us.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh, we'll continue.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Tebram Gee, why do people, if they get a few
dollars take their kids to private schools in LA?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I can't imagine why.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Coming up in what about ten to fifteen minutes, we're
going to have John Coopaul from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
He was in the courtroom yesterday when the California Supreme
Court heard the case as to whether we can get
to vote in November to block statewide tax increases. There
(10:24):
is a proposition that has gotten enough signatures to make
the ballot in November, and if it makes the ballot
and passes, then whenever the legislature and the governor pass
a tax, a state tax, we can veto it or
approve it, it goes to the public vote.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And Newsom and.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
The legislature is so panicked by this that they tried
to pre empt the case by going directly to the
cal California Supreme Court to say in advance, this is unconstitutional.
You can't have the public voting on statewide tax increases,
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and it's preposterous. John Coopaul is going to explain all
this coming up, but I'm hoping that they at least
let us vote on this, and you know, if the
court wants to clean up a detail here or there
after the fact, but it's our right to vote on taxes.
(11:35):
And I apparently this is polling well. The idea of
giving the voters the final say, I don't understand, and
nobody can explain to me why most of the public
is against much of the nonsense coming out of Sacramento.
Then why do they have this better than seventy percent
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super majority that leans themmocratic.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
How does that work been going on for years?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
The progressive Democrats have this outsized power pushing ideas that
few people actually agree with. And two of those ideas
we've just talked about in the last half hour. And
I guess it is just a lack of courage or
lack of energy on the part of normal people to
(12:26):
rise up and say enough of this crap. I mean,
you just heard, you just heard Gilgemez, he's the LA
School Police Association president. And after that stupid nervous breakdown
that everybody had in twenty twenty, we defunded the LA
School Police. What a nightmare many LA school campuses are.
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But God, the carnage. I'll tell you how bad the
carnage has been. At the end of the twenty nineteen
school year, there were twenty three hundred incidents on LA
campuses of fighting or physical aggression. After they defunded the
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police and replaced them with security guards in yellow shirts,
the number of violent incidents doubled. It's almost forty six hundred.
So went from twenty three hundred to forty six hundred
in four years. The only changes they slashed the police
(13:36):
budget by a third, defund the police, get the cops
off the campuses, okay, have adding more shootings than ever before,
more stabbings than ever before, more fighting, gang fighting, mayhem,
terror going on. Not to mention drugs. Fentanyl crime went
(13:57):
up two hundred percent hundred after they defunded the police.
What an ft up policy?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
This is?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
What an incredibly stupid, ridiculous policy.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
This is.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
And it's led by the teachers' union. They got a
whack job named cessantly Mayar Cruz who pushes this nonsense
leading the union. They've got idiot board members, an idiot superintendent.
How do you double the number of physical violence incidents
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in four years after defunding the police.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Why would you do this? And they hired these.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Security agencies, And these security agencies are hiring former convicts
convicted of violent crimes. That's the security. But they're given
these yellow shirts. What's with yellow shirts? Ambassador vests instead
of armed police. This will never work anywhere. It's an
incredibly stupid, failed progressive idea. And look how many kids
(15:06):
have been shot at, stabbed at, beat up? Who wants that?
And when the parents complain they're told to shut up?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Boy boy? Oh you know?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
And like I said the other day, most of the
kids do not meet math and reading comprehension levels. Most
of them are not proficient in math and reading. But
they are getting shot and stabbed in record numbers to
complete complete failure. And you know there should be no
(15:41):
debate anymore, no debate, Just tell these people to shut
up and move out. Get out, get out of town,
get out of the city, get out. All right, we
come back, John Coopaul, Gavin Newsome. You know, mister democracy
doesn't think the California public has the right to vote
(16:01):
on tax issues. Really, that's what the man saving democracy thinks.
So he took a case to the Supreme Court in
advance of the vote, not after the vote goes through,
in advance of the vote. This is a referendum that
could be on the ballot in November that allows us
the final say on a statewide tax increase after the
legislature and the governor. We could say no, and Newsom says,
(16:23):
I can't have that. We'll talk to John Coopaul from
Howard Jars Taxpayers Association because he was there for the case.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
We're on every day from one until four and if
you miss it, go for the podcast post it after
four o'clock John Cobilt's show on demand. One story we've
been following the last few days and really forever in
a way, is the California Supreme Court has a case
before it now as to whether we can vote in
November to block state taxes that are passed by the
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legislature and the governor. The Democrats have a super majority
in the legislature, so they can pass any increase they want.
Newsom can sign anything he wants. What do we do?
The rest of us are victimized. So there's a ballot
initiative and it's got enough signatures it should be on
in November. That says, well has to go for one
(17:23):
more review before the voters, and the voters have to
finally approve it or not approve it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
And new sub.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Administration is having a fit saying that's not constitutional. So
it's before the Supreme Court to get the decision before November.
And let's go to John Coopaul from the Howard Jarvis
Taxpayers Association, Because John, you said you were going to
be in the courtroom to watch this.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I was in the courtroom. I was sitting at the
council table. I did not present the case myself. We
had a very excellent attorney for the name of Tom
Hilltech who presented the case to an outstanding job. And
I think the take and we don't know. It's very
difficult to predict what a court is going to do,
but I think we were very encouraged by the questions
that the justices ask of the attorney for the Legislature
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and the governor. I think to ask the court to
remove a duly qualified initiative from the ballot is really
a bridge too far. I think the court understands the
gravity of that request, and underlying it all is the
rather weak argument that they have to take it off
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the ballot. They argue that it is somehow an impermissible
revision of the Constitution rather than just an amendment, and
all the case law really counters that theory. So I
think this was throwing something up against the wall to
see if it sticks. I'm encouraged. Again, I'm not going
to make a prediction, but I was encouraged by the
(18:58):
fact that I think all the justice is at one point,
we're asking good questions of both sides. So if my
take on this is if the court rules on the
law and the facts of this case, we should easily win.
Now again that comes to the big caveat, But I think,
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I think we can look forward to having the Taxpayer
Protection and Government Accountability Act on the ballot in November.
And I think one of the reasons that the governor
and the legislature are so nervous is because they know
how popular it will be.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
How popular is it? Have you done polling on it?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
We've done all kinds of polling. One of the keystone
protections is the ability of voters to approve or reject
any state wide tax increase. Remember, you know, one provision
of Proposition thirteen back in nineteen seventy eight was to
require that a statewide tax get a two thirds vote
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of each house of the legislature. And for many years,
for decades, that was a sufficient enough protection because we
had some fiscal conservatives in the legislature. Well we don't anymore.
Well we do, but not. The other side has a
super duper majority, as I call it, and so they
are able to ramrod through very unpopular taxes. And of course,
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the granddaddy of all unpopular taxes was the gas tax.
Does anyone believe that had the gas tax been submitted
to the voters that they would have approved it. Absolutely not.
So this is just one more check on a supermajority
in the legislature, and it is completely consistent with the
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powers of direct democracy that we've had since the early
nineteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Well, it seems like a debate over whether something is
an amendment or revision. That's quite esoteric, and I don't
want to get into it here, but I don't know
exactly how you slice those two words so thinly that
you can make an argument that one is more more
serious than the other.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
One is clearly more serious one. Generally speaking, a revision
would be like a wholesale rewriting of the whole constitution.
That would clearly be a revision. Or or if you
said we're going to abolish the judiciary and give all
judicial power through the legislature, that would be a fundamental
restructuring of our system of government. The tax Payer Protection
(21:24):
Act doesn't do that because the power to legislate is
a shared power between the people and the legislature, So
there's no shift of power. It's just because the legislative
power is one power, but it is a shared power.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Right because they've always been able to put on the
ballot a tax for voter approval, or to repeal a tax,
which happened not that long ago. So the idea of
people voting on taxes directly at the ballot box, there's
very recent examples of that. I mean, we just had
an attented gas tax repeal, and we did repeal Schwarzenegger
(21:59):
taxes I think twenty ten or so we did.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We did so. In fact, the area of taxation is
one of the most common areas that is addressed by initiative,
referendum and recall. So so in fact, recall some people
have been recalled because of votes on tax issues. So
you know, it is it was a stretch for them.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
To bring so we do someone was doing is they
were exaggerating what was going on here by turning an
amendment into a revision, when a revision would have to
have far more serious consequences than what this is attempting
to do.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
That is absolutely true. And the other thing is I
just think this lawsuit was ill advised from a political perspective,
because I think it gives the optics are bad. These
are the same people who claim they want to protect democracy.
They're always talking about we have to protect democracy, and
yet this effort, this lawsuit, is an effort to prevent
(22:58):
the voters of the state of California from voting on
a duly qualified initiative. I would say that somewhat hypocritical.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Now, it sounded like a couple of the judges said,
because there's there's a number of provisions and this is
not the time to get into all of them. But
it made it sound like, well, maybe after the vote,
we could strike this provision or that provision. You see
that likely to happen, that if this thing passes, maybe
(23:28):
they'll do a piecemeal attack on it.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That I think they may analyze it on an individual basis,
But where would be fine with that, because we believe
that when they're even when they're analyzed separately, that it
would survive. For example, there was a big discussion over
fees versus taxes. Again, we don't want to get into
the weeds on that one, but we're comfortable with what
the What the Taxpayer Protection Act does is not nearly
(23:54):
so draconian as is being argued by groups like the
League of californ the Cities, And in fact, after this
thing passes, we're more than one to go into court
and say all these things that they claim, this parade
of horribles and end of Western civilization, it's just not true.
So even if the court would indicate, they're going to
(24:15):
keep it on the ballot, but we're going to reserve
the right to address these provisions later. That's fine with
us because we're comfortable enough with the clarity and what
this does that even if they wait till later, we'll
still win, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
John, Good work, John Coopaul Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, and
the decision should come win.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Sometime in June. The earlier the better because we really
have to ramp up the campaign.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah, all right, hopefully it'll be on the ballot November.
All right, Thanks for coming on again with us to
explain all that you bet, John, take care all right,
John Coopaul, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. One of the few
public organizations fighting for normal people to preserve our money
that we earn. We've got more coming up.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
We've got Wade Stern coming on with us after three o'clock.
He's President of the Federated University Police Officers Association. A
lot of police officials on these on the show today
because there's all kinds of stupid progressive insanity going on. Now,
you've got forty four people who were occupying and vandalizing
(25:29):
the buildings at UCLA during their stupid riot supporting Hamas.
They had all kinds of tools and guide books and
a lot of material. And George Gascones so far not
finding any felony charges against anyone. And Wade Stern is
going to talk about that. He's again president of Federated
(25:51):
University Police Officers Association.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
All right, So that's coming up after three o'clock. All right.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
When I see a story like this, I can't resists.
The ten most obese states in America, Where would you
find the highest percentage of fat people in the United States?
Any guesses here? Alabama? Alabama, Jabarah. What do you think
you were looking for the highest percentage of obese people.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
I would say Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Louisiana, You guys are pretty good. Alabama is number six,
and I is he number six, no number seven, and
Louisiana is number three.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
W huh.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Forty percent of people in Louisiana are obese, not just a.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Little over it.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
It's that southern its it's fried everything right in Alabama,
it's about thirty eight percent. So that's number now the
number one most obese state you go to this day.
You look around, it's like, oh my god, look at
West Virginia is number one.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
I'm going to West Virginia in September. Are you take
some video and bring it back? I definitely will. Now
West Virginia the fat of state in the Union. Oklahoma
is second. By the way, they're all around forty percent.
These are minor statistical differences, and I don't even know
(27:18):
how they can. You know, they'll say it's forty one
point three percent. I don't know how you get to
that number.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
So whatever, the methodology is, West Virginia's first, Oklahoma second,
Louisiana third, Mississippi is fourth, then Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, Indiana, Delaware,
and Kentucky. Almost entirely midwest and south, with the exception
of Delaware. The UH thirty five percent of adults in
(27:47):
twenty two states were obese.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Now they have an official.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
They have official statistical method it's that body mass index.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Do you know your body.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Mass indecks I do not, and nor do I want to. Well,
I don't even weigh myself anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I saw a chart and they equate body mass index
to you know, your height and weight, and I thought
it was a little it was it was harsh for
too many people. Yeah, so I'm not sure forty. Then again,
you go out into public places outside of like outside
of Los Angeles, and you see, you know, the people
at the shopping malls or Las Vegas. The buffet table
(28:27):
can't always told me the buffet lines at Las Vegas.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
I know.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Well, what about on cruise ships people people act like
they've never had a meal before.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Three ships sank last year just because of obesity.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
You know that.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
No, I did not.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
It's true. It's always Americans. American cruise ships. Ship goes
right down, usually day two. They all have their first
dinner right that morning's.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Well, and then they lode up on the desserts.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
That ship is gone by morning.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
The midnight BFE.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
I was out of buffet in Texas over the weekend. Yeah,
a brunch buffet. Yeah, and the amount of people I
saw going back for thirds and fourths and fifths.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
It's free food. Yeah, that's what happens.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
I mean, listen, Hey, the brunch was twenty nine dollars
a pop, so that's that's pretty cheap.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Oh you okay, but when it's free on these cruises,
well yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I don't know. Two things.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
If I overa even slightly, I really feel nauseous. I
feel sick. I feel like I want to up chuck
the whole meal. I don't understand how you fit like
your third or fourth or fifth serving with that.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
A bite here, a bite there.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Really uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Secondly, you see these people and they have a really
hard time moving around and fitting into spaces. How long
do you want to put up with that? See these
guys with their their neck rolls.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
It's a struggle for some people. John, Oh it's not
it is, Oh, it is.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It is too much.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Because you know what, do you know how if you're
I don't know if you've ever dieted, but you doesn't
matter how much you exercise. You have to reduce your
caloric intake so much to lose a pound two pounds.
So people are fifty seventy five, one hundred pounds overweight.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
It's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You think, John's counting calories never come on?
Speaker 7 (30:14):
No, But I don't red meat. No, I don't think
he does.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
But I don't know if he ever has, you know,
before we knew him, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
No, never, never. I don't pay I don't pay attention
to numbers. There's something weird how the society is hung
up on all their body numbers and that they have.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Okay, but if your genes don't fit you, you don't
have to go on a scale.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
You know, you know, that's what I'm saying. You can tell, yes, Oh,
I know.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
If I'm up five pounds, I can tell, I can
tell it. I do so I don't need I don't
need to do a statistical analysis. And I always tell people,
And it's funny, how many how much resistance I get
when I say this, I go move more, eat less.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Yes, that's it, that's right. That is the recipe.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
You have to exercise more and eat less. You can't
just exercise, you have to eat.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
You don't have to bother yourself with all kinds of exotic,
weirdo diets. You don't need. You don't need ozempic, you
don't need drugs, you don't need all kinds of complex
statistical analysis.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
The way I eat and forget the bacon.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Hold your horses on that one. Really, I would rather.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, no, I'd rather just fall over dead than spend
my life raising on That's it. That's where I'm going.
In fact, I'm jumping. Somebody starts serving me Vegan food
right out the window.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Big splat. All right when we come.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Back, Uh, we cannot get We were just telling you
how the stupid asses that run the Los Angeles Unified
School District will not hire cops. They're happier with all
the shootings and stabbings on campus, well on UCLA. They're
apparently happy with rioters and vandals and people supporting terrorists
(31:58):
and Gascon. So far, no felonies I'm aware of against
these people. I mean, I saw the rioting with my
own eyes. I don't understand. Wade Stern, president of the
Federated University Police Officers Association, that union is calling on
the DA George Gascon to fire file felony charges. Good
(32:18):
luck with that, Debrah Mark Live in the KFI twenty
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