From the Economy to Protests, Garcetti Lets Chaos Reign in L.A.

This has been a year of considerable unrest across the United States. The ongoing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented shutdown of economic activity, and widespread protests have created chaos for months on end, even more so when considering this is all happening during an election year. Perhaps no place in the country, however, has been turned upside down in quite the same fashion as Los Angeles.

Throughout the year, Los Angeles has felt every crisis more than any other city. Over the summer, COVID-19 tests seemed impossible to come by in the city, while data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to indicate that Los Angeles County ranks among the worst in the U.S. for total cases and deaths from the virus. Meanwhile, the city is facing a full-blown economic crisis, with unemployment hovering between 15 and 20 percent for much of the summer.

This naturally raises questions of why things have gotten so bad there. The answer, however, is simple: Mayor Eric Garcetti’s disastrous leadership ahead of and throughout the pandemic doomed the city from the start.

We are already seeing the effects of Mayor Garcetti’s failed management. Just last week, he announced that the city’s finances are in grave condition – with city revenues a jaw-dropping $200 million short of what had been budgeted – and warned that city officials should be prepared to handle layoffs.

Of course, this is more than just the result of a once-in-a-century public health crisis, it is the culmination of years of economic mismanagement and abdicated leadership. From failing on his promise to eliminate the city’s business tax to creating ever-looming budget deficits, Mayor Garcetti set the city up to fail. It is unsustainable, and the city’s economy will be feeling the pain of his failures for years after his tenure as mayor comes to a close.

Beyond that, Mayor Garcetti has allowed social protests to spiral completely out of control in recent weeks. His lax approach to handling the violence surrounding these protests has allowed them to wreak increasingly greater havoc on the city, coming to a head recently when two officers were shot in Compton, only for protestors to block the entrance to the emergency room and repeatedly yell “we hope they die.”

When considering all of this, it is no wonder why there is a growing movement to recall Mayor Garcetti and pull him from office before he can allow this chaos to grow any further.

Despite all of this, however, former Vice President Joe Biden is still bringing him close to his presidential campaign. This is a simply mind-boggling move to say the least; Mayor Garcetti has proven woefully inept at running his own city, so why would the Biden campaign want to only bring him in closer?

From completely mismanaging the city’s budget to mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and now even turning a blind eye toward violent protests, the Biden Campaign’s association with Mayor Garcetti can be seen as little more than a liability. Centrist voters will play a major role in the upcoming election and bringing Garcetti closer will only drive those voters away.

The several simultaneous crises that 2020 has presented us with have both elevated strong leaders and exposed weak ones. In every way imaginable, Mayor Garcetti has been one of the latter. Los Angeles has been left reeling at every turn, and in every instance the blame can be focused squarely on Mayor Garcetti’s failure to rise to the occasion and protect his city.

Yep. He purposefully kept the worst ADAs in the Downtown Office like any good bureaucrat would. Who wants smart attorneys around that might show the bg bosses how stupid you are? This where where you get geniuses on the case like Marcia Clarke and that other idiot who was stupid enough to ask OJ to put the glove on.

This is actually how the Mexican cartels started in Mexico!! They started small scaring people first then graduate to killing any government official who got in their way of dominance then worked their way to gunning down police and anyone who stood in their way!! I remember years ago they gunned down a couple of mayors and if I recall correctly one presidential candidate! Once the government is helpless or not wanting to control these criminals they are going to have a very DIFFICULT time pulling the rug underneath them!! THEY SMELL BLOOD IN THE WATER AND THE ARE POUNCING on the lack of action by our government!! Their numbers are multiplying and they are becoming more dangerous to control! Now saying that,The HELLywood Rich who love to drive around with socialist agendas and their fancy cars better watch out because that the next thing they'll do...carjack expensive vehicles and kidnapping those driving this fancy cars for ransom!! Believe me I know what I'm talking about!! My cousin had a small successful clothing store across the border but when the cartels started demanding la quota, monthly monthly and threatening her small children she closed shop and moved out of the city...they are ruthless and will kill you without remorse and age don't matter !! They have been known to wipe out whole families at wedding, funerals etc..cross them and your dead. Yes they'll even kill babies! THIS FOLKS IS ALREADY HAPPENING HERE!! Pandora's box has been opened and our government is unwilling to take them out!!! In some of Latin countries the governments are at the beckon call of the powerful cartels!! WE MUST DESTROY THEM BEFORE THEY DESTROY US!!

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