Councilwoman’s Reaction To Crowley's Firing (02/24)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (02/24) - LA City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez comes on the show to talk about why she is standing Kristin Crowley after Mayor Karen Bass fired Crowley as the LAFD Chief. More on the backlash Mayor Bass has been facing since firing Kristin Crowley as the LAFD Chief. There is fire debris washing up all over LA beaches. An employee of Mayor Karen Bass was caught on a hidden camera saying Bass knew about the weather and fire warnings.
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| 0:00.0 | KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the IHeart Radio app. |
| 0:06.0 | We are on every day from 1 until 4 o'clock. |
| 0:08.8 | And then after 4 o'clock, whatever you missed, John Cobalt's show on Demand on the IHeart app. |
| 0:14.6 | We're going to have a lot about, a lot of more officials are reacting now to Karen Bass and her comments last week with Alex |
| 0:23.0 | Michelson on Fox 11 and elsewhere where she claimed she frankly wasn't aware of the fire |
| 0:31.1 | warnings. Among other things she said, she then fired Kristen Crowley, the fire chief |
| 0:36.9 | on Friday. |
| 0:38.7 | And there are some people on the city council who would like to override that firing, and they can. |
| 0:46.8 | There's 15 members on the city council. |
| 0:49.0 | If 10 of the 15 agreed that Crowley's job should be saved, they could override Bass's order. And we're going |
| 0:56.3 | to talk to Monica Rodriguez because she is trying to convince other council members to do exactly |
| 1:01.4 | that. She's a council member of the 7th District. Monica, welcome. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:08.7 | And what towns do you represent so people know? |
| 1:12.9 | I represent the communities of North Hills, Mission Hills, Silmar, Pekwima, Shurlundah, |
| 1:22.5 | Shadow Hills, and Latuna Canyon. |
| 1:25.5 | It wasn't a quiz. |
| 1:26.9 | I just wanted people to know what part of the city you Canyon. All right. It wasn't a quiz. I just wanted people to know what part of the city you represent. |
| 1:31.4 | All right. |
| 1:31.8 | Monica, you're trying to get 10 votes together to overturn the firing. |
| 1:38.4 | Why do you think Crowley's job ought to be saved? |
| 1:41.9 | Well, first of all, the chief has to want to appeal the mayor's decision |
| 1:46.4 | before we can take that item up. But I just believe that the findings of what the mayor |
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