LA Mayoral Elections

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movielover
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PAC-10-BEAR said:

Anarchistbear said:

Spencer f$king Pratt is going to lose.

Who's gonna clean up the poop and trash? Cause Karen Bass won't.


Not Karen Basssuuraa. She'll be chilling in Africa while Platner takes over the Robert Byrd wing of the Democrat party.

Apparently the NYT has withheld some more heinous stories about Platner.

okaydo
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PAC-10-BEAR said:

Anarchistbear said:

Spencer f$king Pratt is going to lose.

Who's gonna clean up the poop and trash? Cause Karen Bass won't.


Speaking seriously: When Bass took office, there were encampments everywhere. Everywhere! While encampments still exist, they are far, far, far, fewer than there were 4 years ago.

In March, somebody posted this video of Christopher Nolan walking his dog during the L.A. Marathon on the deserted non-touristry stretch of Hollywood Blvd during the L.A. Marathon.

I was like, "W T F is somebody like Christopher Nolan doing on that part of Hollywood Blvd?"



In the above video, Nolan is standing at the location where the American flag on the tent is in this Google Streetview image from February 2021.





Here's another Streetview image, from June 2022.




Now here's what that area looks like in September 2025 (and today). I actually was at this restaurant on Sunday.





Also, Los Angeles' homicide rate in 2025 was lower than any year of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and every previous year of the 2020s.

Sure, Bass ****ed up with the Palisades fire. But guess what? The Palisades is a tiny part of L.A.



okaydo
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okaydo said:

PAC-10-BEAR said:

Anarchistbear said:

Spencer f$king Pratt is going to lose.

Who's gonna clean up the poop and trash? Cause Karen Bass won't.


Speaking seriously: When Bass took office, there were encampments everywhere. Everywhere! While encampments still exist, they are far, far, far, fewer than there were 4 years ago.

In March, somebody posted this video of Christopher Nolan walking his dog during the L.A. Marathon on the deserted non-touristry stretch of Hollywood Blvd during the L.A. Marathon.

I was like, "W T F is somebody like Christopher Nolan doing on that part of Hollywood Blvd?"



I'm the above video, Nolan is standing at the location where the American flag on the tent is in this Google Streetview image from February 2021.





Here's another Streetview image, from June 2022.




Now here's what that area looks like in September 2025 (and today). I actually was at this restaurant on Sunday.





Also, Los Angeles' homicide rate in 2025 was lower than any year of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and every previous year of the 2020s.

Sure, Bass ****ed up with the Palisades fire. But guess what? The Palisades is a tiny part of L.A.







I used to walk through this encampment on Vine Street in Hollywood.




And here it is today.





This is what the street outside the iconic Sunset Sound Studio used to look like.






Here's what it looks like today.






Before:



After:







dajo9
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okaydo said:

PAC-10-BEAR said:

Anarchistbear said:

Spencer f$king Pratt is going to lose.

Who's gonna clean up the poop and trash? Cause Karen Bass won't.


Speaking seriously: When Bass took office, there were encampments everywhere. Everywhere! While encampments still exist, they are far, far, far, fewer than there were 4 years ago.

In March, somebody posted this video of Christopher Nolan walking his dog during the L.A. Marathon on the deserted non-touristry stretch of Hollywood Blvd during the L.A. Marathon.

I was like, "W T F is somebody like Christopher Nolan doing on that part of Hollywood Blvd?"



In the above video, Nolan is standing at the location where the American flag on the tent is in this Google Streetview image from February 2021.





Here's another Streetview image, from June 2022.




Now here's what that area looks like in September 2025 (and today). I actually was at this restaurant on Sunday.





Also, Los Angeles' homicide rate in 2025 was lower than any year of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and every previous year of the 2020s.

Sure, Bass ****ed up with the Palisades fire. But guess what? The Palisades is a tiny part of L.A.






You must not be aware they are not engaged in a facts based discussion
oski003
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Here is an article about the success and failures of the program.

https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/10/inside-safe/
okaydo
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This was posted May 23.

What a beautiful city.


movielover
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Yeah, just 13,000 homes burned down while:

- she flew to Ghana
- assistant jailed
- $700,000 DEI DWP head left reservoirs empty
- reservoirs still empty
- DEI LAFD leaders ignore emergency protocols
- LAFD has massive broken equipment backlog
- LAFD underfunded
- fire maintenance de-prioritized
- overweight DEI LAFD leaders say "why do fire victims put themselves in dangerous positions?"
- fire hydrants didn't have water
- LAFD assets not pre-positioned per protocol
- 2nd (diverse) city also burned down
- Bassura knowingly left an impending dangerous conflagration instead of being a leader
wifeisafurd
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The failure to remove encampments had nothing to do with policy or Bass. As is usually the case on this forum, there is a total lack of understanding about another basic legal issue.

Politicians, police and even private parties in Los Angeles (and other areas with liberal judges across the nation) were prohibited from removing encampments by local Judge orders saying to do so violated the Eighth Amendment. These court rulings fueled the spread of homeless encampments, endangering public health and safety according to many policy makers including liberal politicians such Gavin Newson, who had the CA attorney general file friend of the court briefs in essentially every case where localities were fighting these decisions. Moreover, cities like Los Angeles faced a cottage industry of private lawsuits from activist attorneys who saw a quick way to obtaining legal fees by suing on behalf of the homeless. This led to what was a complete hands off policy against encampments by cities like Los Angeles.

In late 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities can ban people from sleeping and camping in public places. The justices, in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, overturned lower court rulings that deemed it cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment to punish people for sleeping outside if they had nowhere else to go. As the majority decision indicated in overturning a 9th Circuit decision, the
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes California and eight other Western states is where the vast bulk of America's unhoused population lives, suggesting these very lower court decisions were instead contributing to homeless encampments.

While some of the left still argue the ruling criminalizes homelessness, local leaders in places like Los Angles now have the legal tools to clear encampments and strictly enforce public camping ordinances, without interference by State and Federal judges or activist attorneys. Bass simply got lucky that the Supreme Court decision occurred on her watch.

okaydo
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movielover said:

Yeah, just 13,000 homes burned down while:

- she flew to Ghana
- assistant jailed
- $700,000 DEI DWP head left reservoirs empty
- reservoirs still empty
- DEI LAFD leaders ignore emergency protocols
- LAFD has massive broken equipment backlog
- LAFD underfunded
- fire maintenance de-prioritized
- overweight DEI LAFD leaders say "why do fire victims put themselves in dangerous positions?"
- fire hydrants didn't have water
- LAFD assets not pre-positioned per protocol
- 2nd (diverse) city also burned down
- Bassura knowingly left an impending dangerous conflagration instead of being a leader




Great, Bass sucked with the Palisades Fire. It's her defining moment. And she sucked.

As I said, that part of Los Angeles represents a small part of Los Angeles.

One thing that was repeatedly said during the wildfires was that everybody in L.A. knew somebody who lost a home in the Palisades. No, they didn't. Los Angeles is a massive city. I don't remember ever visiting the Palisades in my life. Maybe I have. Maybe I haven't. And yet I have a sibling who went to Pali High for a year, for some reason.

So the vast, vast, vast majority of Angelenos are unaffected by the Palisades wildfires, and perhaps they're sick of the outsized attention it's received over the last year and a half. And that probably explains why Bass is leading. And if the wildfires didn't happen, she would probably be reelected by now.
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I wonder how the purple haired screaming banshee Bay Area homeless advocates with their "forever jobs" (provided they make sure the homeless crisis is never solved) would react to the suggestion that Bay Area homeless consider:

To break out of homelessness, look to the following specific regions and advantages:

1. Texas (Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas)

The Draw:
Booming regional economies and the absence of a state income tax mean you keep more of your paycheck.

Cost of Living: Housing markets like San Antonio and Houston sit well below national averages.

Success Factor: Houston, for example, successfully reduced its homeless population by over 60% using a centralized, rapid-rehousing strategy that quickly connects individuals to jobs and subsidized housing.

2. Ohio (Cleveland and Columbus)

The Draw: Excellent public transit and a massive manufacturing and supply-chain hub.

Cost of Living: Median rent and home prices are consistently ranked among the most affordable in the nation.

3. Indiana (Indianapolis and South Bend)

The Draw: Centralized location with high employment demand in healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics.

Cost of Living: Cost of living is generally 8 to 10 percent lower than the national average, making it easy to stretch an entry-level wage.

* The San Francisco Bay Area ranks as the most expensive metropolitan region in the entire United States, driven by a regional cost of living that sits between 55% to 67% higher than the national average.
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wifeisafurd said:

The failure to remove encampments had nothing to do with policy or Bass. As is usually the case on this forum, there is a total lack of understanding about another basic legal issue.

Politicians, police and even private parties in Los Angeles (and other areas with liberal judges across the nation) were prohibited from removing encampments by local Judge orders saying to do so violated the Eighth Amendment. These court rulings fueled the spread of homeless encampments, endangering public health and safety according to many policy makers including liberal politicians such Gavin Newson, who had the CA attorney general file friend of the court briefs in essentially every case where localities were fighting these decisions. Moreover, cities like Los Angeles faced a cottage industry of private lawsuits from activist attorneys who saw a quick way to obtaining legal fees by suing on behalf of the homeless. This led to what was a complete hands off policy against encampments by cities like Los Angeles.

In late 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities can ban people from sleeping and camping in public places. The justices, in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, overturned lower court rulings that deemed it cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment to punish people for sleeping outside if they had nowhere else to go. As the majority decision indicated in overturning a 9th Circuit decision, the
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes California and eight other Western states is where the vast bulk of America's unhoused population lives, suggesting these very lower court decisions were instead contributing to homeless encampments.

While some of the left still argue the ruling criminalizes homelessness, local leaders in places like Los Angles now have the legal tools to clear encampments and strictly enforce public camping ordinances, without interference by State and Federal judges or activist attorneys. Bass simply got lucky that the Supreme Court decision occurred on her watch.

Bass, local judges, CA Attorney General, Newsom, activist attorneys.....

California Democratic Party
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movielover
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wifeisafurd said:

The failure to remove encampments had nothing to do with policy or Bass. As is usually the case on this forum, there is a total lack of understanding about another basic legal issue.

Politicians, police and even private parties in Los Angeles (and other areas with liberal judges across the nation) were prohibited from removing encampments by local Judge orders saying to do so violated the Eighth Amendment. These court rulings fueled the spread of homeless encampments, endangering public health and safety according to many policy makers including liberal politicians such Gavin Newson, who had the CA attorney general file friend of the court briefs in essentially every case where localities were fighting these decisions. Moreover, cities like Los Angeles faced a cottage industry of private lawsuits from activist attorneys who saw a quick way to obtaining legal fees by suing on behalf of the homeless. This led to what was a complete hands off policy against encampments by cities like Los Angeles.

In late 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities can ban people from sleeping and camping in public places. The justices, in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, overturned lower court rulings that deemed it cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment to punish people for sleeping outside if they had nowhere else to go. As the majority decision indicated in overturning a 9th Circuit decision, the
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes California and eight other Western states is where the vast bulk of America's unhoused population lives, suggesting these very lower court decisions were instead contributing to homeless encampments.

While some of the left still argue the ruling criminalizes homelessness, local leaders in places like Los Angles now have the legal tools to clear encampments and strictly enforce public camping ordinances, without interference by State and Federal judges or activist attorneys. Bass simply got lucky that the Supreme Court decision occurred on her watch.




They're not homeless. They're open drug bazaars, grifters, rapists, thieves, and lawless. In Los Angeles, these druggies (and some mentally ll) set fire to other drug tents, and now they use dogs to test new drug mixtures for safety.

Of course, the illegal immigrant cartel members have made powerful drugs cheap and plentiful. It's quite sad how they can tempt people when They're down or having a bad day. My dentist once had a great dental hygienist, she was married, African American, and she was having a bad day or week, stepped off BART, was offered a hard drug, and made a fatal mistake. It is incredibly sad. Her family, the dental office, patients were all affected. I read an article about this exact topic years ago. It's not that suburban kids or adults have greater will power. Inner city youth and adults are constantly around, offered, or tempted by easily accessible illegal drugs. Some suburban high schools, too, develop a rep.
DiabloWags
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When someone tells you that they received 2 ballots but cant tell you what County they voted in.

Integrity.
movielover
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DiabloWags said:

When someone tells you that they received 2 ballots but cant tell you what County they voted in.

Integrity.



When some on a message board:

- posts their alleged stock investments
- asks what kind of car you drive
- what county you (I) live in
- talks about seeking out jaywalkers in his car to scare / threatening

Kinda creepy.
wifeisafurd
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PAC-10-BEAR said:

wifeisafurd said:

The failure to remove encampments had nothing to do with policy or Bass. As is usually the case on this forum, there is a total lack of understanding about another basic legal issue.

Politicians, police and even private parties in Los Angeles (and other areas with liberal judges across the nation) were prohibited from removing encampments by local Judge orders saying to do so violated the Eighth Amendment. These court rulings fueled the spread of homeless encampments, endangering public health and safety according to many policy makers including liberal politicians such Gavin Newson, who had the CA attorney general file friend of the court briefs in essentially every case where localities were fighting these decisions. Moreover, cities like Los Angeles faced a cottage industry of private lawsuits from activist attorneys who saw a quick way to obtaining legal fees by suing on behalf of the homeless. This led to what was a complete hands off policy against encampments by cities like Los Angeles.

In late 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities can ban people from sleeping and camping in public places. The justices, in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, overturned lower court rulings that deemed it cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment to punish people for sleeping outside if they had nowhere else to go. As the majority decision indicated in overturning a 9th Circuit decision, the
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes California and eight other Western states is where the vast bulk of America's unhoused population lives, suggesting these very lower court decisions were instead contributing to homeless encampments.

While some of the left still argue the ruling criminalizes homelessness, local leaders in places like Los Angles now have the legal tools to clear encampments and strictly enforce public camping ordinances, without interference by State and Federal judges or activist attorneys. Bass simply got lucky that the Supreme Court decision occurred on her watch.

Bass, local judges, CA Attorney General, Newsom, activist attorneys.....

California Democratic Party

For the record,I posted Newsom and CA Attorney General took the lead in getting legal action to overturn the legal decisions protecting encampments. I don't agree with Newsom on everything, but he was very proactive on getting rid of the homeless encampments. Just saying.
okaydo
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Los Angeles is such a beautiful city.

movielover
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Proactive? He was Gov for eight years while open drug bazaars exploded. He promoted illegal immigration, and at least in The City, Honduran illegal immigrants play a key role in distribution, just as the cartels do in SoCal. Unintended consequences.
DiabloWags
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movielover said:

DiabloWags said:

When someone tells you that they received 2 ballots but cant tell you what County they voted in.

Integrity.



When some on a message board:

- posts their alleged stock investments
- asks what kind of car you drive
- what county you (I) live in
- talks about seeking out jaywalkers in his car to scare / threatening

Kinda creepy.



When a poster is asked to tell the truth on the most basic of questions (ie. being sent 2 ballots) or as innocuous as "what car do you drive?" but disappears and is unable to answer ... there is no good faith.

And then they make up a "story" about jaywalkers that never happened as the basis for a claim that presents another poster as "threatening".

Zero good faith.
Zero credibility.

oski003
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DiabloWags said:

movielover said:

DiabloWags said:

When someone tells you that they received 2 ballots but cant tell you what County they voted in.

Integrity.



When some on a message board:

- posts their alleged stock investments
- asks what kind of car you drive
- what county you (I) live in
- talks about seeking out jaywalkers in his car to scare / threatening

Kinda creepy.



When a poster is asked to tell the truth on the most basic of questions (ie. being sent 2 ballots) or as innocuous as "what car do you drive?" but disappears and is unable to answer ... there is no good faith.

And then they make up a "story" about jaywalkers that never happened as the basis for a claim that presents another poster as "threatening".

Zero good faith.
Zero credibility.




There was zero good faith when you welched on your promise to donate 100K to Cal NIL.

Zero good faith.
Zero credibility.
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I've seen graphs like this before.
DiabloWags
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oski003 said:

DiabloWags said:

movielover said:

DiabloWags said:

When someone tells you that they received 2 ballots but cant tell you what County they voted in.

Integrity.



When some on a message board:

- posts their alleged stock investments
- asks what kind of car you drive
- what county you (I) live in
- talks about seeking out jaywalkers in his car to scare / threatening

Kinda creepy.



When a poster is asked to tell the truth on the most basic of questions (ie. being sent 2 ballots) or as innocuous as "what car do you drive?" but disappears and is unable to answer ... there is no good faith.

And then they make up a "story" about jaywalkers that never happened as the basis for a claim that presents another poster as "threatening".

Zero good faith.
Zero credibility.




There was zero good faith when you welched on your promise to donate 100K to Cal NIL.

Zero good faith.
Zero credibility.


Please feel free to post the "promise" that you claim that I welched on ... instead of constantly barking.

Yawn.

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How did a blue city only increase votes for Nithya by mail, without increasing votes for Karen Bass?
DiabloWags
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The same way Spencer Pratt got zero votes?
oski003
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DiabloWags said:

oski003 said:

DiabloWags said:

movielover said:

DiabloWags said:

When someone tells you that they received 2 ballots but cant tell you what County they voted in.

Integrity.



When some on a message board:

- posts their alleged stock investments
- asks what kind of car you drive
- what county you (I) live in
- talks about seeking out jaywalkers in his car to scare / threatening

Kinda creepy.



When a poster is asked to tell the truth on the most basic of questions (ie. being sent 2 ballots) or as innocuous as "what car do you drive?" but disappears and is unable to answer ... there is no good faith.

And then they make up a "story" about jaywalkers that never happened as the basis for a claim that presents another poster as "threatening".

Zero good faith.
Zero credibility.




There was zero good faith when you welched on your promise to donate 100K to Cal NIL.

Zero good faith.
Zero credibility.


Please feel free to post the "promise" that you claim that I welched on ... instead of constantly barking.

Yawn.




Sure, I will post this for the second time. Please reply with your 100K NIL donation screenshot.

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DiabloWags said:

The same way Spencer Pratt got zero votes?

For a certain time period, with respect to Raman's numbers, Karen Bass was getting zero votes too?
movielover
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PAC-10-BEAR said:

DiabloWags said:

The same way Spencer Pratt got zero votes?

For a certain time period, with respect to Raman's numbers, Karen Bass was getting zero votes too?


Number three candidate doubles her incoming vote numbers, and the MAYOR and HOUSEHOLD NAME, POC, FEMALE, and INCUMBENT... magically drops her incoming vote take by 50%?

Impossible.
movielover
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Eric Holder helped rig the system.



movielover
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PAC-10-BEAR
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Apparently Nithya Raman has a big group of supporters that only like to vote by mail really late in the process.
PAC-10-BEAR
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I'm hearing Nithya Raman came in third in her home Council District 4 (CD-4) and underperformed against Bass and Pratt.
okaydo
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PAC-10-BEAR said:

I'm hearing Nithya Raman came in third in her home Council District 4 (CD-4) and underperformed against Bass and Pratt.


Raman was actually my City Council member. Was is the key word. Then they redistricted her to strip her 40% of her consituents, in an effort to oust her. Then she won re-election with her new constituents.

She's been a very polarizing figure...but she's a survivor.

okaydo
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It's kinda crazy that a city that went 70.1% for Kamala Harris and 26.5% for Donald Trump isn't interested in another reality TV Republican.


Anarchistbear
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Dems screwed up again not fixing it for Pratt and instead pitting a D insurgent against the establishment. When will they learn?
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Anarchistbear said:

Dems screwed up again not fixing it for Pratt and instead pitting a D insurgent against the establishment. When will they learn?


In some ways it's better for Republicans to not have anyone advance to the general for governor or LA Mayor. The left will win both generals easily against a right leaning candidate. Means the left has to battle itself and spend more money that it doesn't have. Steyer would be the thorn in that slightly as he's spending his own money. In LA, establishment dems vs dem socialists could turn ugly.
 
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