During a recent appearance on CNN, Democrat Karen Bass, the incumbent candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, was pressed about her failure to deal with the city’s massive homeless problem, an issue she campaigned on fixing.
According to the interviewer, she told Jake Tapper in 2023 that she would have the issue dealt with by 2026, but as he notes, she is not even close.
FOX News has details:
Karen Bass grilled over broken homelessness promise, blames bureaucracy for slowed progressLos Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was grilled about her past promise to end street homelessness in the city, but admitted in an interview released Wednesday that she unfortunately fell far short of that goal.Bass, who is running for re-election, did an interview with CNN at the St. Vincent Behavioral Health Campus, formerly a hospital, that is being transformed into a facility for mental health, addiction treatment and housing for the homeless. Los Angeles is one of many cities in California that have become known for homelessness.Anchor Elex Michaelson asked, “So, when you talked to Jake Tapper in 2023, you said that your goal was to end street homelessness in LA by 2026. It’s now 2026 and we haven’t ended it. How are you so off?””We haven’t ended it,” Bass agreed. “Basically when I said that, it was at the beginning of my term. I am very committed to achieving that goal. I didn’t anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience, but I am prepared to take those on now.”She went on to argue that Los Angeles had made a choice in past decades to not address homelessness and focus solely on building, noting she has fast-tracked many affordable housing units.”So, basically, the policy of LA City and LA County was we could accept street homelessness as long as we were building. We didn’t anticipate the problem metastasizing,” she said. “In my three and a half years, for the first time, two years in a row, street homelessness has decreased in our city. There hadn’t been a decrease before.”
Watch the clip below:
I know that Spencer Pratt seems like a longshot, but I just don’t understand how Karen Bass keeps her job. Between this issue and her handling of the wildfires, and the lack of rebuilding, she really deserves to be fired.
Pratt must keep hammering Bass and repeating the same message: Karen Bass let the city burn down and is now standing in the way of reconstruction. Vote for me and let’s get to work rebuilding.
The viral videos for his campaign are very effective. I don’t think these two are even official campaign videos but they’re very good.
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