＂Karen Bass Is A MARXIST＂ - L.A. Councilwoman Goes SCORCHED EARTH Over Police Budget Cuts
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Summary
L.A. City Council passes a budget that trims police and fire spending. So as if that place is getting safer and safer, they decide to trim some more to make the place even more unsafe. The $13.9 billion budget limits new hiring in the LAPD and fire department to 60 employees, far below Mayor Karen Bass s proposed $480 and 227.
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California, L.A. City Council passes budget that trims police and fire spending.
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So as if that place is getting safer and safer, they decide to trim some more to make the place even more unsafe.
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Rob, if you got the clip, the L.A. City Council approved a $13.9 billion budget on Friday,
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reducing Mayor Karen Bass's proposed public safety spending and trimming layoffs from $1,600 to roughly $700,
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we are in one of the most difficult financial crises that the city has seen in decades.
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So every department put in an effort to make sure the city could stay afloat.
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The budget limits new hiring in L.A. Department, L.A. Police Department to 240 officers and fire department to 60 employees,
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far below Bass's 480 and 227, facing a nearly $800 million deficit.
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The budget restores funding for programs like the Cultural Affairs Department and Streetlight Repairs,
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while Matthew Szabo, the City Administrative Officer, warned in March that L.A.
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faces a fiscal crisis due to a surge in legal settlements, lower-than-expected tax collections, and mounting personal costs.
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Billionaire developer Rick Caruso criticized the cuts, asking, look around you, do we need less firefighters?
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And noting, now we all have the lowest, now we have, we will have the lowest amount of police per capita in the history of the city.
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This is the city council meeting where they're discussing lower, I'm sorry, where they're discussing the budget.
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And there's a city council person who goes off on the council for even considering the budget.
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She goes, I mean, it's a four-minute clip, but I can play it a little bit faster, but she goes scorched earth on the council.
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Council President, at the start of this budget process, we made a promise to maintain core services and minimize impacts to Angelenos.
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But this budget doesn't reflect those promises.
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It's bloated with homeless spending, a bottomless pit, and taxpayer boondoggle that doubles down on failure year after year.
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And frankly, at this point, it's just embarrassing.
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Hundreds of millions of dollars on bridge homes and home keys and interim housing sites,
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and no one can even tell us which ones are operational and which ones aren't or how many beds we have.
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Spending a million and a half dollars per door to build micro units of housing to give away to homeless drug addicts
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when the vast majority of our own city employees can never afford a condo at that price.
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Literally no one is able to account for the billions we flushed down the toilet,
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the county wisely pulling out, while we're over here at the city completely unprepared
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and so unable to manage our own homeless affairs that we're about to be placed in receivership by a federal judge.
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I don't think we should agree to spend another penny on homelessness
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until we as a full council, not just the few of you who get invited into the conversation,
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have the chance to chime in and actually cast a vote on whether we're finally getting a divorce from Lhasa
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and what the future of homeless services delivery looks like in L.A.
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But instead of fixing that mess, what did we decide to go after?
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After all, we literally just witnessed in January with our own eyes
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how desperately in need they are with literally half the staffing and funding they should have
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There are still 100 rigs sitting over at the boneyard,
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but we're sitting here unable to say yes to the mechanics that we need to fix them.
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We're shrinking LAPD in favor of expanding other programs that haven't been effective,
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and we're doing it right on the cusp of major world events
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and in the midst of a crime and homelessness crisis while our residents continue to be victimized
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in a city where the former deputy mayor just pled guilty to calling in bomb threats to City Hall.
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Going after our neighborhood councils, the people who volunteer their time
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to help guide us and do good things in our neighborhood and in our city.
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All of our residents and taxpayers, all they want is a fully funded police and fire department.
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They want the streetlights to work, and they want their kids to be able to play at the local park
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without having to step over drug and trash camps.
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We are down rabbit holes of spending on things that no one cares about.
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We haven't eliminated the price gouging that we do to ourselves.
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I'm describing what I see based on her policies and her history.
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But guess what happens, Vinny, on June 2nd, 2026?
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The mayor election in L.A. will be June 2nd, 2026.
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We are now one year from the election, and one year for the election, suddenly Karen Bass
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wakes up in the morning and walks into City Hall with exactly what these people have been asking for,
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what Tracy Park and people have been asking for.
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Karen Bass put that individual in the fire department that we saw.
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And I don't know for certain her orientation where she was, but she self-describes.
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Giving you an REI tent to sleep next to a freeway, says, in a tent underneath the bridge,
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so when it rarely rains, when it does rain in L.A., you don't get rained on.
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And so talking about all this, million-dollar condos, Karen Bass was a Marxist trying to build a socialist L.A.
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But now, a year from re-election, suddenly Karen Bass, you know, gets religion and comes back with this budget.
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All of her Marxist buddies on the city council, you know what they said?
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You may be running for re-election, but we're still Marxist, and there's still more of us, and we're changing this, and we're voting the other way.
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Look, brace for impact, because I'm going to offend some people that love California.
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I don't give two shits about California at this point.
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I mean, I used to go there every summer for 10 years, and then during COVID, I stopped going.
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And to see what Los Angeles, San Francisco, California has turned into, good luck, figure it out.
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I mean, there's a part of me that's like, burn it down and start over.
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So the taxes, the cost of living, the unfortability of the housing, the homelessness, oh, excuse me, not homelessness, the unhoused, because I don't want to offend anybody right there, the budget concerns, the regulations, the mental health, the stepping over drugs and poop in the streets, the actual poop maps, the crime, the mental health, the fires almost burned on your city.
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And I'm here in Miami, and I'm like, why should I care about what you got going on at all?
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Because you want to do the same thing, you want to have the same policies, you want to elect the same officials, you want to have the same people.
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And what's the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and over again, and expecting different results?
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Excuse me if I just enjoy the free state of Florida, and love living in Miami, and wish you the best in California.
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That was very emotional and powerful and life-changing and encouraging.
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Anyway, I'll be in L.A. this weekend if you want to come check me out at the L.A.
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It's crazy when liberals start fighting liberal policies, realizing those liberal policies are what destroyed their liberal city.
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And Tracy Park is a Democrat that supported a lot of these policies, that's got the state to be in the situation that's in right now.
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Let me just read to see what her background is, because that talk she just gave was powerful.
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Okay, American politicians have certain memory.
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Having entered the race to challenge Mike O'Neill, became foreign-run to open civil rights.
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Park was raised in Downey, California, Apple Valley, California.
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Park graduated at John Hopkins University in 97.
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She had a bachelor's degree in history after Loyola Law School.
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Brooklyn starts a law firm by the public entities.
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Park entered politics in 2020 when she organized to block the city of L.A.
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from converting a Ramada Inn in her street into a housing Ramada Inn for homeless people.
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L.A. Council opened on seat to popular Mike Bonin.
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The seat became open with Aaron Darling becoming a progressive candidate in the race.
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Both Darling and Park advanced to the general election with Park narrowly beating Darling in the result.
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Park was a registered Republican before switching to Democratic Party years prior to her campaign.
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During the campaign, criticized Park for representing City of Anaheim.
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She basically said, I can't get elected as a Republican, so let me convert to a Democrat,
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but keep my same policies and mindset, and then when I'm in there, and I'm a Democrat now,
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I'm going to go scorched earth on all you idiots.
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And she's always voted not to use public dollars or make dumb decisions about homelessness.
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She voted in favor of an ordinance and measure with saying to curtail homeless encampments
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by banning sitting, sleeping, storing property within 500 feet of schools because it was people...
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It was drug addicts, and she didn't want them near schools, and they were going to use open playgrounds,
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put supplemental fencing there so that you have the school over here, and then we're going to sacrifice half of this giant playground.
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Because I know Caruso's a Republican, acting like a Democrat, just so he could potentially win.
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That's what you've got to do in order to win in California.
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Can you see what is the relationship between Tracy Park?
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I'm thinking of Alex Caruso who's playing in the NBA Finals tonight.
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There's no Republican, which I'm going to look at, I'm going to look at, I'm going to look back to Tracy Park,
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a Republican, a Republican, a Republican, a Republican, a Republican, a lifelong Republican, switch to Democrat.
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Both of them went from the Republican to the Democratic side.
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It's like the political version of being trans.
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Because you've got to make the conversion in order to get in there, and then when you're in there...
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