April 29, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (04/29) - There are going to be controlled, scientific burns taking place in Pacific Palisades as investigators look into the cause of the fire in January. The Santa Ynez Reservoir in Pacific Palisades is out of service again. Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the LA County workers' strike. 2 federal judges who lost their homes in the Palisades Fire are suing LADWP over the lack of preparedness and lack of response by LADWP.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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is much today that you don't want to miss. Let
me give you a quick rundown. Michael Monk's coming on
from CAFI News at one thirty because the the the
lazy loser county government workers in Los Angeles are having
a strike and some of them are gathering.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Where are they gathering?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Downtown La, Downtown La, Yeah, okay, And I saw they
were literallying down in the street, a few of them,
some of the more over fed members of county government.
Oh you saw.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
No, I actually didn't pay attention to their weight.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, I was thinking, how many officers are going to
pick up this one. There was one lady there who
really is must be a well paid government worker, or
she spends a lot of time at lunch, and I
think she needed about six cops to drag her away.
And they're all belligerent and angry, and they're exactly what
you think government workers look like, by the way, They're
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just a bunch of slops and they got these angry demeanors.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And I don't know how they've been wronged in life.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You chose to be a government worker, maybe you feel
unappreciated and downtrodden or overworked or I don't know, do
they have to show up in the office now, Maybe that's.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
What put Yeah, a lot of people do not like
working in the office. They're upset that they can't continue
to work from home.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So that's what put them in the bad mood. They're
at fifth in Freemont, at least they were. And anyway,
Michael's going to come on and tell us with that
a's forty eight hour strike. It's one of those performances
that everyone seems to like to put on these days.
Two o'clock though, you're gonna want to hear the Lancaster
mayor Rex Paris. Last week, he announced that he had
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a fix for the homelessness issue, hand out free fentanyl
to the homeless.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You think I'm harsh.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's an elected official, and I agree with him. They
had a hand out free feneryl. I mean they're already.
San Francisco basically does, and so does LA. We give
them all kinds of paraphernalia, and we allow the fentanyl
to be sold. We allowed it for the last ten
years to come over the border. I mean, just billions
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of dollars worth of fentanyl after three o'clock. And coming
up in just a minute, we're going to talk about
the cent Inez Reservoir. It is out of service again.
The cent Inez Reservoir is the notorious empty hole in
the Palisades. Because I also realized that I will be
in business forever until I fall over dead, because only
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idiots work in government, whether they're elected officials or bureaucratic
leaders or these things blocking traffic in downtown LA. You
just really have a lot of load to mid double
digit IQs, and they're in charge of this vast expensive apparatus,
whether it's city, county, or state government. And you know,
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it's no wonder things are the way they are. But
I see, like this oversized woman deciding to spend I mean,
today's a taxpayer paid work day, and she's decided, because
she's not not getting enough of her fair share, that
she's going to dump her large rear end in the
middle of the road and block traffic. I'm thinking, who
hired her? It's our fault. It's our fault for paying
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for this government. Speaking of going back to work, I
didn't know this till today. And we're going to talk
about this later on as well. The state government still
hasn't required people to go back to work. Newsome put
out a notice yesterday that July one they have to
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go back to work. So it's over five years since
the pandemic shutdown.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Over five years and.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
These lazy, lousy government workers on the state level still
don't show up.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So that's why.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Everybody's pissed going on strike. Okay, so oh that's ahead. Now, God,
where do I start here? Okay, I don't understand this story,
but this broke last night. It looks like tonight in
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Pacific Palisades, the government is going to start a fire. Yes,
the government will start a fire tonight to try to
figure out how the original fire was ignited t Mescal
Ridge Trail between Skull Rock and Green Peak. If you're
familiar with that area. Well, all those people moved out,
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there's nobody left familiar with the area. And they want
to They want to figure out the exact point of
origin and how during a massive windstorm it raced from
the hills to the ocean. I'm reading from the La
Times now they want to know. I mean, the question
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is answered within the sentence. How during a massive windstorm
it raced from the hills to the ocean. Well, it's
because there was a massive wind storm. I don't understand that.
Am I missing something? Investigators hope it will help them
determine the exact point of origin and how during a
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mass of windstorm it raced from the hills to the ocean.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
How is setting another fire going to do that?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
We don't have one hundred mile an hour winds tonight,
and what's left to burn? By the way, I think
the first fire pretty much took care of everything.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Right. It looks like.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They're not confident in the age. I just talked about
this yesterday, this trial balloon that has been floating around
for four months now, that it was a reignition of
a New Year's Day fire early morning New Year's Day,
supposedly a bunch of teenagers went up to that trail
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launched fireworks and that started the fire, which was about
twenty four acres. It was put out and the fire
department said that they did everything to make sure it
wasn't going to reignite. They were very careful about it,
So it sounds like they don't they're not convinced it
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was a reignition of the old fire. Now, remember, the
fire may have started in two different places, one on
the trail, and as attorneys have discovered in their investigation
representing Palisades homeowners, there may have been a second ignition
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point when the first fire caused electrical poles to collapse,
bringing wires down on to dry brush that hadn't burned yet,
and when the wires came down, they were electrified. This
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may have been one of the many sins the DWP committed.
Not only did they have an empty one hundred and
seventeen million gallon reservoir so there was no water up
out the fire, but they didn't turn off the electricity
to those wires, and that those wires had been turned
off for years. Then they were turned back on shortly
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before the fire, and it may have ignited a second
fire that night, but the first fire, if it's not,
if it's if it's not electrical wires, and if it's
not a reignition of the first New Year's Day fire,
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what else is there?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Was it a vagrant?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Was it somebody who did not take advantage of Karen
Vass's inside safe program?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Hard to believe. Can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I've always suspected it was, and I know it is
Karen Vassis's policy and fire department policy to never admit
that an individual fire was caused by a vagrant. I
mean we I know reporters who have said that you
start asking questions of fire officials while fire is being
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put out, you start asking about, oh, I can't talk
about that now.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Are not a lot of comment on that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
So they've had a shutdown on any conversation related to
vagrants starting fires. Now, you know, every six months or
so we get an official statistical portrait, and more than
half the fires in La City are started by crazed
mental patient vagrants, some of them on purpose, some of them.
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Oh they're cooking fires, Yeah, okay, you ought to be
cooking in the woods. That's a good idea. Anyway, Tonight
they're going to start another fire and it might last
till third I don't understand how this works. I don't
understand how recreating the fire is going to tell them
how it started. I think it is self evident that
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the fire spread because of the wind. I'm just I'm
completely baffled by this. But it's getting all the headlines.
The US government has been investigating the Palisades Fire for
four months. We'll continue. I got to tell you about
the reservoir. There's going to be a lot on the
reservoir today because the reservoir is getting drained again. They're
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starting the fire again, and they're draining the reservoir again.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
PTSD all over again.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Four months and they haven't moved an inch in determining
and either getting the reservoir back in operation or determining
what started this thing, because they don't want to admit
it was a homeless guy.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's why you're listening to.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
On co Belt on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Michael Munks coming up after two thirty to talk about
the big road block in downtown LA today. County County
workers not working today because they're all pissy they want
more and more and more of your tax money. Unfortunately,
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a lot of the tax money is to pay off
the victims of the county workers who used to rape
the UH detention center children for the last forty years. This,
this is what county workers do, right. These are these
are These are people who are in the detention system.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
They're supposed to track, you know, the the guy, the
the young criminals, the youthful criminals, the rookies, right, the
rookies coming through the system. And boy, what they did
sexually to these boys and girl garrels for decades. It's
costing the county four billion dollars. Well, you also got
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a billion dollars I think in the county money to
go for the fire cleanup in Altadena and the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So a lot of money's spoken for.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But to a government worker, to the large government workers
who are blocking traffic, they don't care. They just want more. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme,
and don't make me show.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Up for work.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So we'll get into that with Michael Monks. Now on
the reservoir issue, you know the one hundred and seventeen
million gallon empty reservoir. There was no water to put
out the Palisades fire because there were tears in the
cover that floats across its surface. When they discovered the tears,
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they closed, They drained the reservoir, and it was closed
for over a year. Should have taken a month, should
have taken one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, ended up
costing over a million dollars. Nobody explains why, and nobody
forces the DWP to explain why. Genis z is the
dope who runs LEDWPH. Here's a report from ABC seven
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Josh Haskell. If you play cut number three.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Since January seventh, we've been telling you about the Santa
Inez Reservoir. It's located in the hills of Pacific Palisades.
It is meant to help with a redundancy in the
water system, fire suppression, and also allow helicopters to land
here at the reservoir in order to serve the entire
area of Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It has been.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Closed now for over a year because of a tear
in its cover, and recently we learn that repairs they
are still underway. There's water back in the Santa Enez
Reservoir in Pacific Palisades as seen from are seven. But
it's not where it's supposed to be. It's on top
of the cover rather than underneath it. Thanks to addition,
small tears and pinhole sized leaks that the company doing
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the repairs missed. They were identified recently by LEDWP while
the one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir was being refilled.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I'm not going to tell a person that lost their
homes in the Palisades that it wouldn't have made a difference.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Three and a half months since the Palisades fire destroyed
nearly seven thousand structures and killed twelve people, the now
infamous reservoir in the hills of Pacific Palisades remains out
of service because of these new leaks.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Unfortunately, they are going to have to drain it again
and that is going to take a couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I know that is frustrating.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
I am frustrated as well.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Gus Corono works for the union that represents LEDWP employees.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
They're supposed to have everything in place prior to them
draining it, the contract, the material ready to go, so
that the outages or the drainage is minimal. Why weren't
the people that didn't get this reservoir up and running
quickly and hell responsible.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
The fact that the reservoir was offline at the time
of the Palisades fire has prompted multiple lawsuits against LEDWP
and numerous investigations, including one ordered by Governor Newsom. Back
in January of twenty twenty four, LEDWP noticed a tear
in the floating cover after heavy rains, which.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Is when it was taken offline.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
What was estimated to cost eighty nine thousand dollars was
subject to the city charter's competitive bidding process, even though
it was a single source contract, meaning the company that
installed the cover back in twenty twelve, lay Field Group
was the only one who could do the repairs and
the only bid that came in.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
It wasn't until November of twenty twenty four, nine months
later that the contract was finalized for one hundred thirty
thousand dollars and grew to two hundred sixty one thousand
dollars in February of this year. I Whenness News was
granted access to the reservoir by LEDWP to observe the
repairs last month.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
They basically sat on it, and they failed to do
what they were supposed to do based on their own policies.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Now, in a statement, LEDWP called it troubling that the
outside contractor didn't detect the leaks after they finished the repairs.
They said, this is a frustrating setback, and they're working
as quickly as possible to return the Palisades reservoir to service.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So, Josh, when will the LADWP be able to refill
the reservoir?
Speaker 6 (16:21):
So they're saying mid to late June that they think
that's when over returned to service. They are also, not
surprisingly exploring options to maybe replace that troublesome cover.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So wait a second, it's the same cover they were
just trying to fix it. The company is Layfield Group.
They installed the floating cover, if I heard that story correctly,
when they installed the original cover in twenty twelve. It
was in the contract though only they could replace it. Well,
if that's in the contract, why did they delay it
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for a year to have a competitive bidding process. The
contract outlawed a competitive breeding process. There was not supposed
to be one. And same week that they found out
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this cover was still torn with holes and they have
to drain the reservoir again, it was about a quarter field.
We got this clip of the idiot who runs the LEDWP,
Genie Kenon. Yes, this is what she said at a
DWP meeting April April twenty second.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Well, I like to start.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
By highlighting the commons that Commissioner Cat says and wishing
everybody happy Earth They we have us of April ten
and you exhibit in the lobby at the museum space
called Sustainability at lee WP A Greener Tomorrow. This new
multipanel Vivid was created in celebration of.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Eight months she wished everybody a happy earth Day and
starts telling everybody about a Happy earth Day exhibit. She's
the one who left the reservoir empty. She's the one
who never fixed the cover.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Nobody's talking about the fires anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Oh, I know that's just poof.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Just went up and smoke the whole issue, Happy earth Day.
Did she have her brain removed at some point in life?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Listen to her? She sounds like a little schoolgirl. Happy
earth Day, Happy earth Day.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Why doesn't Why isn't she being grilled? Why aren't there
any shouldn't every state hearings or federal hearings on this something.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You know how they drove out all.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Those idiot Ivy League presidents for their de I nonsense.
They all had to go and testify before Congress and
they were all embarrassed. It turned out, you know, they
were just engaging in a massive discrimination scam.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Happy Earth Day? Yeah, how about her? Happy Earth Day?
All right, I.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Gotta take you're listening to John Cobels on demand from
KFI Am six forty. Coming up after two o'clock. We've
got Rex Paris coming on. The Mayor of Lancaster hit
solution for the homeless crisis says, give them all free fentanel,
all the fentandel they want, and undoubtedly that would work. Michael, Well,
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we've got another strike here at the LA County. I
guess all the La County employees who are unionized with SCIU.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
That's exactly right, about fifty five thousand of them. And
they work in a variety of different fields. So we're
talking about the Service Employees International Union that encopasses people
at libraries, the people who manage the bathrooms at the beaches,
which might be closed right now because of this strike. Janitors,
those types of folks, healthcare workers, even mental health workers,
social workers.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
They're all in this thing.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Fifty five thousand workers on strike until seven and o'clock
tomorrow night. And it got a little out of hand
this afternoon. They were tying up traffic downtown. Yeah, they did.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
So.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
There's a board of supervisors meeting downtown today and I
think they were showing up to be present. Outside of that,
it ended up being a sizable crowd of union workers,
it looked.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
And those union workers were sizable with themselves.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yes, I saw you, all right, well, hey, you come
in here.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Hey, you know, a little walking we'll do. We'll do
them good then, and that's what they end up doing.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I didn't understand why they were sitting on the ground.
It's like, you people need to march.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Well they were marching, yeah, okaycuse started on Temple Street
and it was a little chaok down there. Anyway, Traffic
was completely disrupted, you know, and once you disrupt one
street in downtown LA, it is complete chaos on all
of the streets in downtown La.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Then they started marching, and.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
By the time they got to about fifth and figure Row,
they decided to outright block traffic. About twelve of them
sat down in the road and refused to move. The
LAPD had to declare an unlawful assembly against this union
and took all of them into custody one by one.
Eventually sighted and released them, So no like throwing them
in the back of the cruiser or anything.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But after that the protests started to break up a
little bit. Uh huh. And what is it they want?
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Well, like a lot of unions, they'd like a little
more money. And what they're saying is that they've been
working for about a month without a new contract, and
they say the management at the county is not negotiating
with them in good faith. They've only offered a well,
how do you say this, a zero percent cost of
living race and the union says you could do better
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than that, right, maybe one percent next year is what
the county has also offered.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
So they say that's not good faith bargaining that they
deserve more that. But the county says, look, did you
see what we just did today.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
We just approved a four billion dollars sex abuse settlement
for thousands of sex abuse claims in the juvenile halls foster.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Care made by other county workers. Other county workers sexually
abusing the people they were supposed.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
To take care of. That's exactly right. And this is
a four billion dollar hit that they're not writing a
check for today. They don't have like that much in
the bank somewhere. This is to impact the budget for
the county. They estimate until twenty fifty one, when I
don't know what year your show will be on the
air at that point, like that is that seventy year
anniversary or what is that? So we'll be able to
talk about it hopefully. Oh yeah, I'll be here. I
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got nothing else to do. But that's what they're saying.
It's like, look, we're having problems. Three percent cut across
all county departments proposing the upcoming budget that the county
is considering right now. Yeah, they're broke, not as bad
off as the City of Los Angeles, but this is bad.
Two billion dollar costs for the wildfires that they dealt with.
These are sizeable problems. So they're like, union, we can't
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give you anything right now. Read the room, and that
union says, come on, on the other hand, County, you
just spent two hundred and five million dollars to buy
yourselves a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles where you're going
to move the government they did that. Oh you don't
remember that? Yeah, I was just a few months ago. Right,
it's hard to keep trying. I know it is, yeah,
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because I was doing my no it's on this, Like
wait a second, that's Frank did report on that? What's
what's the latest on some of these so much you
just get you drink from the news fire hose.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, yeah, the fire kind of wiped out the memory.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
So yeah, they're working on that, and these workers are like,
come on, I mean, what's the do you already have
a home and now you're spending hundreds of millions to
buy a new home. You can give us some of
that and they're not going to try to raise taxes,
not at this point. And the other thing that's important
here is that CEO County CEO. If you see Davenport
said when she presented her proposed budget to the Board
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of Supervisors a couple of weeks ago, there are no
layoffs recommended. That's not the same story at the City
of Los Angeles, right. The unions really have some grievances
over hey, you're cutting you're cutting our ranks here. This
union at the county has not suffered any losses. But
I got the sense from the CEO's announcement that there's
no layoffs right now, you know, like maybe this time
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next year, LA.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Might have to think about that.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
So it would be hard to ask for a raise
and get it and suffer some consequences.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It looks like a lot of them don't have that
much work to do if they could spend hours standing
in the hot sun. I mean, it looks like there's
nothing pressing going on in their offices. Well, what I
would what they would tell you is the critical work
that the workers in this union do that's still going,
like emergency health services and that sort of thing. But
the non emergency, the non critical stuff that stop. I
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mean libraries, like I said, the beach bathrooms, some various
offices are limited today. And I'm sorry before before I
get run out of here, Eric I gave a sound bite.
If you want to hear from the union president, a
union rep and a union president about what he thinks
today means.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
We hope there's some momentum.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
I'm trying to be optimistic that we move in the
right direction, but days like today let the public know
how serious we are about this fight.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
These workers risk.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
To rest because they want this message to be very
clear to LA County that.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
They got to come back and they got to do
what's right by LA County workers risked to rest, they're
sighted and released immediately.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
The charges won't stick, but it was a schedule.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
They got handcuffed and walked away, So it's good imagery
for your argument. The supervisors seem to be playing both
sides here, the elected ones, like the CEO is appointed,
she has to come up with a budget, and then
the board, you know, scrutinizes if the board, the supervisors
have said, look, we're very sympathetic to this. They deserve respect,
but not offering necessarily any concrete proposals to increase their path.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Does do any of these people do math? I'm a
big fan of math.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Like when you get to zero right and there's zero
dollars left, is like, hey, sorry, no more.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
We gave four billion to all the.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Sex perverts that we'd hired for fifty years, and we
got billions of dollars for the wildfire cleanup because you know,
nobody showed up to put it out.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I'm not a fan of math like you are, but
I can do it a little bit. And the same
thing is like, if you're staring at some increased cost
and your money's not coming in at a higher rate,
you got to make some adjust men. And that does
not include going out to eat more.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Right, And so they go and they sit in the
middle of the road. Yeah, the people I saw in
the middle of the road. Those those people ought to
be gone. They'd be fired right now because now you've
backed up traffic and made everyone who works for a
living and pays the taxes for their salaries, we're all inconvenient.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
You always have to It seems to be a strategy
here with all the various protests that we see in
l As to block a freeway or something.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I think you're not winning any friends. Now, Why and
why does the city allow it? Why don't they break
it all up? You you're supposed to have a permit.
There's a process for this. You apply for a permit
and maybe they'll let you do Sunday morning at six
am for a couple of minut That's.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
How this ended up being declared an unlawful assaying by
the police. All right, Michael Monk's very good, always a pleasure.
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh, it's a pleasure. It is a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well, he thinks it's a pleasure being on with you.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
That's hey. Look he shows up for work. Admiration for him,
and he does a lot of and he does a
lot of work. Now he works hard. Okay, yes he does.
He's the guy.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
All right when we come back, Well two o'clock, Rex
Paris is going to be on the legcaster mayor who's said,
why don't we give all the homeless people all the
free fentanel they want?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
So that should be a good conversation.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
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Speaker 1 (27:28):
It's the podcast.
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It's the same as the radio show and you can
follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio at
John Cobelt Radio. Well, I don't think i've ever seen
this before. You know, everybody in the Palisades is seemingly
suing the LADWP, including now two federal judges, both of
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them lost homes in the Palisades. Now, remember they have
decades of legal experience in deciding what responsibility one entity
may have in a particular case. And in this case,
these two judges that obviously they're not overseeing any cases
involving the fire, but they lost their homes and I guess,
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based on what they have read and seen, they think
it's ladwp's responsibility. So US District Judge Dean Pregerson, who's
on the Central District of California's court, and a second
judge VJ. Gandhi, they call him Jay. He was a
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magistrate judge in the same court. They filed a lawsuit
last week with their families excuse me. It was filed
in La Superior Court and says that the Palisades fire
was caused by both ladwp's water and power assets, specifically
the empty reservoirs and the energized power lines.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Now the power lines.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
From what I saw on a video that attorneys discovered,
I think it was one of those one of those
wildlife video cameras. I think that U see San Diego
has many of them. They may they may track fires,
they may track wildlife. I don't know, but the permanently
stationed inside wilderness areas and it picked up this U
(29:24):
shaped utility pole. It was like two poles connected with
a cross beam, and it collapsed and brought down energized
power lines which had not been energized for a number
of years. The LEDWP only recently turned them on, but
they were energized that night. And this is twelve hours
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after the fire started. LADWP did not turn off the
power to these lines. And the homes in that neighborhood
were still standing because you could see them on the video.
They all have their life heights on the street lights
are lit up as well. People had presumably at all evacuated,
but the homes weren't burning yet.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So this.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I think it's called an h pole, more like an
h than you. It collapsed, the wires hit the dry underbrush,
it was thick. Then the flames spread and burned down
those homes, and I think that's what really powered the
fire in the overnight hours, because a lot of people
were caught by surprise, including the fire department, because you
(30:37):
don't see any fire truck station up there, and this
is twelve hours later. I don't know if anybody's ever
going to tell the truth about this.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Anyway. Pregerson and Gandhi in their lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
It says, despite dire warnings by the National Weather Service
of a particularly dangerous condition red flag warning, critical fire weather,
potential for rapid fire spread, extreme fire behavior, those were
all the warnings. This is when Karen Bass saw this,
she got on the plane Africa. No immediate answer. Judge
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Gandhi said, the city must stand up and claim responsibility
and do right by the residents of Palisades. That's why
I joined the battle. He called the Palisades fire a
manifestation of risks that were widely known but ignored, and
the city needs to acknowledge that because it can't happen again. Yeah,
to these Kenonas, Karen Bass, Kristin Crowley, the deposed fire.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Chief, they've never acknowledged anything. They've never acknowledged the terrible
shape all these.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Departments were in. The fire department was in awful shape.
It was half funded. The DWP, while I mean, Kenonia's
is a complete bird brain and there ain't nothing going
on there. Happy Earth Day. Play that again, Eric, just
play the play the play the Happy Earth Day line.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Well, I'd like to start by highlighting the commons that
Commissioner Cat says and wishing everybody a happy Earth Day.
We have us of April ten and you exhibit in
the lobby at the museum space call sustainability at lee
WP a Greener Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
In celebration of Earth Month, and need like subtitles or
a translator or something. Yeah, she doesn't address the empty reservoir.
She doesn't address the power lines that were not turned off.
But she's happy to fill a buster about Earth Day
and some dopey exhibit they have that no one's going
to go see. All right, Rex Paris coming up after
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the two o'clock news, his proposal to end homelessness, give
them all free sentinel much as they want. He's not
backing down off of that. Deborah Marks live in the
CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the
show live on KFI AM six forty from one to
four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime
(33:13):
on demand on the iHeartRadio app
CAF I Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Whatever you missed, you can access the iHeartRadio app for
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moves faster. And that'll run after four o'clock. And there
(00:26):
is much today that you don't want to miss. Let
me give you a quick rundown. Michael Monk's coming on
from CAFI News at one thirty because the the the
lazy loser county government workers in Los Angeles are having
a strike and some of them are gathering.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Where are they gathering?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Downtown La, Downtown La, Yeah, okay, And I saw they
were literallying down in the street, a few of them,
some of the more over fed members of county government.
Oh you saw.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
No, I actually didn't pay attention to their weight.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, I was thinking, how many officers are going to
pick up this one. There was one lady there who
really is must be a well paid government worker, or
she spends a lot of time at lunch, and I
think she needed about six cops to drag her away.
And they're all belligerent and angry, and they're exactly what
you think government workers look like, by the way, They're
(01:29):
just a bunch of slops and they got these angry demeanors.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And I don't know how they've been wronged in life.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You chose to be a government worker, maybe you feel
unappreciated and downtrodden or overworked or I don't know, do
they have to show up in the office now, Maybe that's.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
What put Yeah, a lot of people do not like
working in the office. They're upset that they can't continue
to work from home.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So that's what put them in the bad mood. They're
at fifth in Freemont, at least they were. And anyway,
Michael's going to come on and tell us with that
a's forty eight hour strike. It's one of those performances
that everyone seems to like to put on these days.
Two o'clock though, you're gonna want to hear the Lancaster
mayor Rex Paris. Last week, he announced that he had
(02:17):
a fix for the homelessness issue, hand out free fentanyl
to the homeless.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You think I'm harsh.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's an elected official, and I agree with him. They
had a hand out free feneryl. I mean they're already.
San Francisco basically does, and so does LA. We give
them all kinds of paraphernalia, and we allow the fentanyl
to be sold. We allowed it for the last ten
years to come over the border. I mean, just billions
(02:45):
of dollars worth of fentanyl after three o'clock. And coming
up in just a minute, we're going to talk about
the cent Inez Reservoir. It is out of service again.
The cent Inez Reservoir is the notorious empty hole in
the Palisades. Because I also realized that I will be
in business forever until I fall over dead, because only
(03:08):
idiots work in government, whether they're elected officials or bureaucratic
leaders or these things blocking traffic in downtown LA. You
just really have a lot of load to mid double
digit IQs, and they're in charge of this vast expensive apparatus,
whether it's city, county, or state government. And you know,
(03:29):
it's no wonder things are the way they are. But
I see, like this oversized woman deciding to spend I mean,
today's a taxpayer paid work day, and she's decided, because
she's not not getting enough of her fair share, that
she's going to dump her large rear end in the
middle of the road and block traffic. I'm thinking, who
hired her? It's our fault. It's our fault for paying
(03:53):
for this government. Speaking of going back to work, I
didn't know this till today. And we're going to talk
about this later on as well. The state government still
hasn't required people to go back to work. Newsome put
out a notice yesterday that July one they have to
(04:13):
go back to work. So it's over five years since
the pandemic shutdown.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Over five years and.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
These lazy, lousy government workers on the state level still
don't show up.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So that's why.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Everybody's pissed going on strike. Okay, so oh that's ahead. Now, God,
where do I start here? Okay, I don't understand this story,
but this broke last night. It looks like tonight in
(04:49):
Pacific Palisades, the government is going to start a fire. Yes,
the government will start a fire tonight to try to
figure out how the original fire was ignited t Mescal
Ridge Trail between Skull Rock and Green Peak. If you're
familiar with that area. Well, all those people moved out,
(05:12):
there's nobody left familiar with the area. And they want
to They want to figure out the exact point of
origin and how during a massive windstorm it raced from
the hills to the ocean. I'm reading from the La
Times now they want to know. I mean, the question
(05:37):
is answered within the sentence. How during a massive windstorm
it raced from the hills to the ocean. Well, it's
because there was a massive wind storm. I don't understand that.
Am I missing something? Investigators hope it will help them
determine the exact point of origin and how during a
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mass of windstorm it raced from the hills to the ocean.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
How is setting another fire going to do that?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
We don't have one hundred mile an hour winds tonight,
and what's left to burn? By the way, I think
the first fire pretty much took care of everything.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Right. It looks like.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
They're not confident in the age. I just talked about
this yesterday, this trial balloon that has been floating around
for four months now, that it was a reignition of
a New Year's Day fire early morning New Year's Day,
supposedly a bunch of teenagers went up to that trail
(06:43):
launched fireworks and that started the fire, which was about
twenty four acres. It was put out and the fire
department said that they did everything to make sure it
wasn't going to reignite. They were very careful about it,
So it sounds like they don't they're not convinced it
(07:07):
was a reignition of the old fire. Now, remember, the
fire may have started in two different places, one on
the trail, and as attorneys have discovered in their investigation
representing Palisades homeowners, there may have been a second ignition
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point when the first fire caused electrical poles to collapse,
bringing wires down on to dry brush that hadn't burned yet,
and when the wires came down, they were electrified. This
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may have been one of the many sins the DWP committed.
Not only did they have an empty one hundred and
seventeen million gallon reservoir so there was no water up
out the fire, but they didn't turn off the electricity
to those wires, and that those wires had been turned
off for years. Then they were turned back on shortly
(08:14):
before the fire, and it may have ignited a second
fire that night, but the first fire, if it's not,
if it's if it's not electrical wires, and if it's
not a reignition of the first New Year's Day fire,
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what else is there?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Was it a vagrant?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Was it somebody who did not take advantage of Karen
Vass's inside safe program?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Hard to believe. Can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I've always suspected it was, and I know it is
Karen Vassis's policy and fire department policy to never admit
that an individual fire was caused by a vagrant. I
mean we I know reporters who have said that you
start asking questions of fire officials while fire is being
(09:19):
put out, you start asking about, oh, I can't talk
about that now.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Are not a lot of comment on that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
So they've had a shutdown on any conversation related to
vagrants starting fires. Now, you know, every six months or
so we get an official statistical portrait, and more than
half the fires in La City are started by crazed
mental patient vagrants, some of them on purpose, some of them.
(09:49):
Oh they're cooking fires, Yeah, okay, you ought to be
cooking in the woods. That's a good idea. Anyway, Tonight
they're going to start another fire and it might last
till third I don't understand how this works. I don't
understand how recreating the fire is going to tell them
how it started. I think it is self evident that
(10:15):
the fire spread because of the wind. I'm just I'm
completely baffled by this. But it's getting all the headlines.
The US government has been investigating the Palisades Fire for
four months. We'll continue. I got to tell you about
the reservoir. There's going to be a lot on the
reservoir today because the reservoir is getting drained again. They're
(10:38):
starting the fire again, and they're draining the reservoir again.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
PTSD all over again.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Four months and they haven't moved an inch in determining
and either getting the reservoir back in operation or determining
what started this thing, because they don't want to admit
it was a homeless guy.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's why you're listening to.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
On co Belt on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Michael Munks coming up after two thirty to talk about
the big road block in downtown LA today. County County
workers not working today because they're all pissy they want
more and more and more of your tax money. Unfortunately,
(11:22):
a lot of the tax money is to pay off
the victims of the county workers who used to rape
the UH detention center children for the last forty years. This,
this is what county workers do, right. These are these
are These are people who are in the detention system.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
They're supposed to track, you know, the the guy, the
the young criminals, the youthful criminals, the rookies, right, the
rookies coming through the system. And boy, what they did
sexually to these boys and girl garrels for decades. It's
costing the county four billion dollars. Well, you also got
(12:06):
a billion dollars I think in the county money to
go for the fire cleanup in Altadena and the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So a lot of money's spoken for.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
But to a government worker, to the large government workers
who are blocking traffic, they don't care. They just want more. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme,
and don't make me show.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Up for work.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So we'll get into that with Michael Monks. Now on
the reservoir issue, you know the one hundred and seventeen
million gallon empty reservoir. There was no water to put
out the Palisades fire because there were tears in the
cover that floats across its surface. When they discovered the tears,
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they closed, They drained the reservoir, and it was closed
for over a year. Should have taken a month, should
have taken one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, ended up
costing over a million dollars. Nobody explains why, and nobody
forces the DWP to explain why. Genis z is the
dope who runs LEDWPH. Here's a report from ABC seven
(13:17):
Josh Haskell. If you play cut number three.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Since January seventh, we've been telling you about the Santa
Inez Reservoir. It's located in the hills of Pacific Palisades.
It is meant to help with a redundancy in the
water system, fire suppression, and also allow helicopters to land
here at the reservoir in order to serve the entire
area of Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It has been.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Closed now for over a year because of a tear
in its cover, and recently we learn that repairs they
are still underway. There's water back in the Santa Enez
Reservoir in Pacific Palisades as seen from are seven. But
it's not where it's supposed to be. It's on top
of the cover rather than underneath it. Thanks to addition,
small tears and pinhole sized leaks that the company doing
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the repairs missed. They were identified recently by LEDWP while
the one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir was being refilled.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I'm not going to tell a person that lost their
homes in the Palisades that it wouldn't have made a difference.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Three and a half months since the Palisades fire destroyed
nearly seven thousand structures and killed twelve people, the now
infamous reservoir in the hills of Pacific Palisades remains out
of service because of these new leaks.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Unfortunately, they are going to have to drain it again
and that is going to take a couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I know that is frustrating.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
I am frustrated as well.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Gus Corono works for the union that represents LEDWP employees.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
They're supposed to have everything in place prior to them
draining it, the contract, the material ready to go, so
that the outages or the drainage is minimal. Why weren't
the people that didn't get this reservoir up and running
quickly and hell responsible.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
The fact that the reservoir was offline at the time
of the Palisades fire has prompted multiple lawsuits against LEDWP
and numerous investigations, including one ordered by Governor Newsom. Back
in January of twenty twenty four, LEDWP noticed a tear
in the floating cover after heavy rains, which.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Is when it was taken offline.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
What was estimated to cost eighty nine thousand dollars was
subject to the city charter's competitive bidding process, even though
it was a single source contract, meaning the company that
installed the cover back in twenty twelve, lay Field Group
was the only one who could do the repairs and
the only bid that came in.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
It wasn't until November of twenty twenty four, nine months
later that the contract was finalized for one hundred thirty
thousand dollars and grew to two hundred sixty one thousand
dollars in February of this year. I Whenness News was
granted access to the reservoir by LEDWP to observe the
repairs last month.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
They basically sat on it, and they failed to do
what they were supposed to do based on their own policies.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Now, in a statement, LEDWP called it troubling that the
outside contractor didn't detect the leaks after they finished the repairs.
They said, this is a frustrating setback, and they're working
as quickly as possible to return the Palisades reservoir to service.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So, Josh, when will the LADWP be able to refill
the reservoir?
Speaker 6 (16:21):
So they're saying mid to late June that they think
that's when over returned to service. They are also, not
surprisingly exploring options to maybe replace that troublesome cover.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So wait a second, it's the same cover they were
just trying to fix it. The company is Layfield Group.
They installed the floating cover, if I heard that story correctly,
when they installed the original cover in twenty twelve. It
was in the contract though only they could replace it. Well,
if that's in the contract, why did they delay it
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for a year to have a competitive bidding process. The
contract outlawed a competitive breeding process. There was not supposed
to be one. And same week that they found out
(17:15):
this cover was still torn with holes and they have
to drain the reservoir again, it was about a quarter field.
We got this clip of the idiot who runs the LEDWP,
Genie Kenon. Yes, this is what she said at a
DWP meeting April April twenty second.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Well, I like to start.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
By highlighting the commons that Commissioner Cat says and wishing
everybody happy Earth They we have us of April ten
and you exhibit in the lobby at the museum space
called Sustainability at lee WP A Greener Tomorrow. This new
multipanel Vivid was created in celebration of.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Eight months she wished everybody a happy earth Day and
starts telling everybody about a Happy earth Day exhibit. She's
the one who left the reservoir empty. She's the one
who never fixed the cover.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Nobody's talking about the fires anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Oh, I know that's just poof.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Just went up and smoke the whole issue, Happy earth Day.
Did she have her brain removed at some point in life?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Listen to her? She sounds like a little schoolgirl. Happy
earth Day, Happy earth Day.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Why doesn't Why isn't she being grilled? Why aren't there
any shouldn't every state hearings or federal hearings on this something.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
You know how they drove out all.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Those idiot Ivy League presidents for their de I nonsense.
They all had to go and testify before Congress and
they were all embarrassed. It turned out, you know, they
were just engaging in a massive discrimination scam.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Happy Earth Day? Yeah, how about her? Happy Earth Day?
All right, I.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Gotta take you're listening to John Cobels on demand from
KFI Am six forty. Coming up after two o'clock. We've
got Rex Paris coming on. The Mayor of Lancaster hit
solution for the homeless crisis says, give them all free fentanel,
all the fentandel they want, and undoubtedly that would work. Michael, Well,
(19:28):
we've got another strike here at the LA County. I
guess all the La County employees who are unionized with SCIU.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
That's exactly right, about fifty five thousand of them. And
they work in a variety of different fields. So we're
talking about the Service Employees International Union that encopasses people
at libraries, the people who manage the bathrooms at the beaches,
which might be closed right now because of this strike. Janitors,
those types of folks, healthcare workers, even mental health workers,
social workers.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
They're all in this thing.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Fifty five thousand workers on strike until seven and o'clock
tomorrow night. And it got a little out of hand
this afternoon. They were tying up traffic downtown. Yeah, they did.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
So.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
There's a board of supervisors meeting downtown today and I
think they were showing up to be present. Outside of that,
it ended up being a sizable crowd of union workers,
it looked.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
And those union workers were sizable with themselves.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yes, I saw you, all right, well, hey, you come
in here.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Hey, you know, a little walking we'll do. We'll do
them good then, and that's what they end up doing.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I didn't understand why they were sitting on the ground.
It's like, you people need to march.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Well they were marching, yeah, okaycuse started on Temple Street
and it was a little chaok down there. Anyway, Traffic
was completely disrupted, you know, and once you disrupt one
street in downtown LA, it is complete chaos on all
of the streets in downtown La.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Then they started marching, and.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
By the time they got to about fifth and figure Row,
they decided to outright block traffic. About twelve of them
sat down in the road and refused to move. The
LAPD had to declare an unlawful assembly against this union
and took all of them into custody one by one.
Eventually sighted and released them, So no like throwing them
in the back of the cruiser or anything.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But after that the protests started to break up a
little bit. Uh huh. And what is it they want?
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Well, like a lot of unions, they'd like a little
more money. And what they're saying is that they've been
working for about a month without a new contract, and
they say the management at the county is not negotiating
with them in good faith. They've only offered a well,
how do you say this, a zero percent cost of
living race and the union says you could do better
(21:28):
than that, right, maybe one percent next year is what
the county has also offered.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
So they say that's not good faith bargaining that they
deserve more that. But the county says, look, did you
see what we just did today.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
We just approved a four billion dollars sex abuse settlement
for thousands of sex abuse claims in the juvenile halls foster.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Care made by other county workers. Other county workers sexually
abusing the people they were supposed.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
To take care of. That's exactly right. And this is
a four billion dollar hit that they're not writing a
check for today. They don't have like that much in
the bank somewhere. This is to impact the budget for
the county. They estimate until twenty fifty one, when I
don't know what year your show will be on the
air at that point, like that is that seventy year
anniversary or what is that? So we'll be able to
talk about it hopefully. Oh yeah, I'll be here. I
(22:14):
got nothing else to do. But that's what they're saying.
It's like, look, we're having problems. Three percent cut across
all county departments proposing the upcoming budget that the county
is considering right now. Yeah, they're broke, not as bad
off as the City of Los Angeles, but this is bad.
Two billion dollar costs for the wildfires that they dealt with.
These are sizeable problems. So they're like, union, we can't
(22:38):
give you anything right now. Read the room, and that
union says, come on, on the other hand, County, you
just spent two hundred and five million dollars to buy
yourselves a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles where you're going
to move the government they did that. Oh you don't
remember that? Yeah, I was just a few months ago. Right,
it's hard to keep trying. I know it is, yeah,
(22:58):
because I was doing my no it's on this, Like
wait a second, that's Frank did report on that? What's
what's the latest on some of these so much you
just get you drink from the news fire hose.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, yeah, the fire kind of wiped out the memory.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
So yeah, they're working on that, and these workers are like,
come on, I mean, what's the do you already have
a home and now you're spending hundreds of millions to
buy a new home. You can give us some of
that and they're not going to try to raise taxes,
not at this point. And the other thing that's important
here is that CEO County CEO. If you see Davenport
said when she presented her proposed budget to the Board
(23:34):
of Supervisors a couple of weeks ago, there are no
layoffs recommended. That's not the same story at the City
of Los Angeles, right. The unions really have some grievances
over hey, you're cutting you're cutting our ranks here. This
union at the county has not suffered any losses. But
I got the sense from the CEO's announcement that there's
no layoffs right now, you know, like maybe this time
(23:57):
next year, LA.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Might have to think about that.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
So it would be hard to ask for a raise
and get it and suffer some consequences.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It looks like a lot of them don't have that
much work to do if they could spend hours standing
in the hot sun. I mean, it looks like there's
nothing pressing going on in their offices. Well, what I
would what they would tell you is the critical work
that the workers in this union do that's still going,
like emergency health services and that sort of thing. But
the non emergency, the non critical stuff that stop. I
(24:26):
mean libraries, like I said, the beach bathrooms, some various
offices are limited today. And I'm sorry before before I
get run out of here, Eric I gave a sound bite.
If you want to hear from the union president, a
union rep and a union president about what he thinks
today means.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
We hope there's some momentum.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
I'm trying to be optimistic that we move in the
right direction, but days like today let the public know
how serious we are about this fight.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
These workers risk.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
To rest because they want this message to be very
clear to LA County that.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
They got to come back and they got to do
what's right by LA County workers risked to rest, they're
sighted and released immediately.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
The charges won't stick, but it was a schedule.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
They got handcuffed and walked away, So it's good imagery
for your argument. The supervisors seem to be playing both
sides here, the elected ones, like the CEO is appointed,
she has to come up with a budget, and then
the board, you know, scrutinizes if the board, the supervisors
have said, look, we're very sympathetic to this. They deserve respect,
but not offering necessarily any concrete proposals to increase their path.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Does do any of these people do math? I'm a
big fan of math.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Like when you get to zero right and there's zero
dollars left, is like, hey, sorry, no more.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
We gave four billion to all the.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Sex perverts that we'd hired for fifty years, and we
got billions of dollars for the wildfire cleanup because you know,
nobody showed up to put it out.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I'm not a fan of math like you are, but
I can do it a little bit. And the same
thing is like, if you're staring at some increased cost
and your money's not coming in at a higher rate,
you got to make some adjust men. And that does
not include going out to eat more.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Right, And so they go and they sit in the
middle of the road. Yeah, the people I saw in
the middle of the road. Those those people ought to
be gone. They'd be fired right now because now you've
backed up traffic and made everyone who works for a
living and pays the taxes for their salaries, we're all inconvenient.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
You always have to It seems to be a strategy
here with all the various protests that we see in
l As to block a freeway or something.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I think you're not winning any friends. Now, Why and
why does the city allow it? Why don't they break
it all up? You you're supposed to have a permit.
There's a process for this. You apply for a permit
and maybe they'll let you do Sunday morning at six
am for a couple of minut That's.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
How this ended up being declared an unlawful assaying by
the police. All right, Michael Monk's very good, always a pleasure.
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Oh, it's a pleasure. It is a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well, he thinks it's a pleasure being on with you.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
That's hey. Look he shows up for work. Admiration for him,
and he does a lot of and he does a
lot of work. Now he works hard. Okay, yes he does.
He's the guy.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
All right when we come back, Well two o'clock, Rex
Paris is going to be on the legcaster mayor who's said,
why don't we give all the homeless people all the
free fentanel they want?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
So that should be a good conversation.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
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Speaker 1 (27:28):
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Speaker 2 (27:29):
It's the same as the radio show and you can
follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio at
John Cobelt Radio. Well, I don't think i've ever seen
this before. You know, everybody in the Palisades is seemingly
suing the LADWP, including now two federal judges, both of
(27:52):
them lost homes in the Palisades. Now, remember they have
decades of legal experience in deciding what responsibility one entity
may have in a particular case. And in this case,
these two judges that obviously they're not overseeing any cases
involving the fire, but they lost their homes and I guess,
(28:13):
based on what they have read and seen, they think
it's ladwp's responsibility. So US District Judge Dean Pregerson, who's
on the Central District of California's court, and a second
judge VJ. Gandhi, they call him Jay. He was a
(28:34):
magistrate judge in the same court. They filed a lawsuit
last week with their families excuse me. It was filed
in La Superior Court and says that the Palisades fire
was caused by both ladwp's water and power assets, specifically
the empty reservoirs and the energized power lines.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Now the power lines.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
From what I saw on a video that attorneys discovered,
I think it was one of those one of those
wildlife video cameras. I think that U see San Diego
has many of them. They may they may track fires,
they may track wildlife. I don't know, but the permanently
stationed inside wilderness areas and it picked up this U
(29:24):
shaped utility pole. It was like two poles connected with
a cross beam, and it collapsed and brought down energized
power lines which had not been energized for a number
of years. The LEDWP only recently turned them on, but
they were energized that night. And this is twelve hours
(29:48):
after the fire started. LADWP did not turn off the
power to these lines. And the homes in that neighborhood
were still standing because you could see them on the video.
They all have their life heights on the street lights
are lit up as well. People had presumably at all evacuated,
but the homes weren't burning yet.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So this.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I think it's called an h pole, more like an
h than you. It collapsed, the wires hit the dry underbrush,
it was thick. Then the flames spread and burned down
those homes, and I think that's what really powered the
fire in the overnight hours, because a lot of people
were caught by surprise, including the fire department, because you
(30:37):
don't see any fire truck station up there, and this
is twelve hours later. I don't know if anybody's ever
going to tell the truth about this.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Anyway. Pregerson and Gandhi in their lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
It says, despite dire warnings by the National Weather Service
of a particularly dangerous condition red flag warning, critical fire weather,
potential for rapid fire spread, extreme fire behavior, those were
all the warnings. This is when Karen Bass saw this,
she got on the plane Africa. No immediate answer. Judge
(31:17):
Gandhi said, the city must stand up and claim responsibility
and do right by the residents of Palisades. That's why
I joined the battle. He called the Palisades fire a
manifestation of risks that were widely known but ignored, and
the city needs to acknowledge that because it can't happen again. Yeah,
to these Kenonas, Karen Bass, Kristin Crowley, the deposed fire.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Chief, they've never acknowledged anything. They've never acknowledged the terrible
shape all these.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Departments were in. The fire department was in awful shape.
It was half funded. The DWP, while I mean, Kenonia's
is a complete bird brain and there ain't nothing going
on there. Happy Earth Day. Play that again, Eric, just
play the play the play the Happy Earth Day line.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Well, I'd like to start by highlighting the commons that
Commissioner Cat says and wishing everybody a happy Earth Day.
We have us of April ten and you exhibit in
the lobby at the museum space call sustainability at lee
WP a Greener Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
In celebration of Earth Month, and need like subtitles or
a translator or something. Yeah, she doesn't address the empty reservoir.
She doesn't address the power lines that were not turned off.
But she's happy to fill a buster about Earth Day
and some dopey exhibit they have that no one's going
to go see. All right, Rex Paris coming up after
(32:51):
the two o'clock news, his proposal to end homelessness, give
them all free sentinel much as they want. He's not
backing down off of that. Deborah Marks live in the
CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the
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