As we reported, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass did an interview with MS NOW's Jonathan Capehart and attacked Spencer Pratt for "tapping into a general sense of anger that people have."
No kidding, the voters are angry because she and the other Democrats have been such failures in solving the various issues plaguing the city.
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Even with the very friendly setting of MS NOW, Bass still managed to reveal why people shouldn't vote for her. She was asked by Capehart what she would do in a second term that she wasn't able to do in the first. Her answer shows what a festival of fail Democrats truly are.
Karen Bass is asked what she wants to finish in a second term.
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Her first response is to say there is huge problem with criminals stealing copper wire, that puts out city street lights.
Solution?
Finish installing tens of thousands of new taxpayer-funded solar street lights. pic.twitter.com/mlqvPocpsl
Bass said there was a problem in Los Angeles of people stealing copper wire from the streetlights, so the streetlights were going out all the time. Her idea was to replace them with solar streetlights. She said there were about 60,000 that they could replace, and they were replacing about 200 of them a month.
So let's think about that a second.
Her first thought in that clip is not to talk about stopping people from stealing the copper wire, capturing the folks behind it, or prosecuting them. It was to say how she can spend even more money to replace the lighting system. How much is that going to cost the taxpayers, and what companies are going to benefit from that?
The city wants property owners to pony up the money.
Ballots have started arriving in mailboxes asking Los Angeles voters to pass a fee increase to fix streetlights broken or damaged by copper wire thieves.
The special ballot is being sent citywide to more than 550,000 property owners, and it contains the specific amount calculated for the property. If passed, this could tack on hundreds of dollars in fees for these property owners. [...]
There will be two public hearings at city hall on the proposed assessment: one on May 20, and the other on June 2.
Ballots are due before the close of that June 2 hearing.
One would think that the better course would be to figure out to whom the copper wire was being sold, then to cut off and track down the people involved. Well, that's assuming you don't cut the force that's trying to figure it out.
[I]n 2024 the Los Angeles Police Department launched a specialized unit called the Heavy Metal Task Force to track down thieves. The force led to more than 300 arrests but was disbanded last year due to budget cuts, LAist reported.
Oh. So don't empower the police to figure it out, but do ask the voters for more money.
Then how long is this new replacement idea going to take? Bass said the plan involved 60,000 streetlights, and they were installing "a couple of hundred a month." That sounds incredibly slow, and if they continued at the same pace, it would take them about 25 years to replace them all. According to their announcement in March, however, they said they intend to have it done over the next two years.
The agreement between the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and the Bureau of Street Lighting (BSL) will invest hundreds of millions of dollars, through a phased approach, to assess and install up to 60,000 street lights across the city over the next two years.
Somehow I doubt that. They're going to have to step up the pace.
Then I have another question for Bass: What happens when the thieves decide that those solar systems look inviting to swipe as well? What if they want the solar elements or the lithium batteries? Is she just going to continue to demand more money from the taxpayers without ever addressing the real problem?
Then, too, there are actually 220,000 street lights citywide – the announcement said: "an estimated 60,000 are eligible to be converted to solar." So what happens to the rest when/if their copper wire gets stolen?
Of course, cracking down on crime to stop all the theft and actually solving the problem doesn't translate to more taxpayer dollars to throw around.
But this is also the woman who was talking about providing healthcare/new teeth for meth heads so they could be successful.
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Is it any wonder people are flocking to Spencer Pratt for a commonsense alternative who actually addresses the real issues that people in Los Angeles are concerned about?
