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We will talk now to John Allen, just a moment. John is a businessman. He owns

some properties at Santa Monica, Third Street promenade in Santa Monica. And the LA Times had an

absolutely astonishing piece of journalist of garbage yesterday, where they tried to figure out why Santa Monica is broke, and they settled on everything but the top two reasons, which is rampant homelessness, and also at the crime associated with it, and also completely ignored that Santa Monica started

spiraling down quickly when the Black Lives Matter riots destroyed many businesses that

were never seen again. Between setting fires and smashing their windows and stealing all the stuff

and anything about the Black Lives Matter riots or the unbelievable sick homelessness

was not mentioned.

They want to blame everything on one police dispatcher who sexually abused 180 kids.

And it's cost the city $229 million, which is part of the issue.

But far from all the issue.

And it's the tax revenues that are down drastically because of all the reasons I mentioned.

And the L.A. Times, Salvador Hernandez, and Richard Winton simply will not print the truth.

And their bosses won't print the truth.

Their editors, they refuse to.

But you know, I looked up another L.A. Times story yesterday. I checked the writer's bio.

I always do. And she had pink hair. Yeah. Imagine being an L.A. Times journalist and you've got

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