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Report: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Gave City Workers ‘Rich’ Contracts Before Cutting Fire Department Budget
Breitbart ^ | 01/12/2025 | Amy Furr

Posted on 01/12/2025 9:19:56 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) reportedly awarded government workers with major wage increases before making cuts to the city’s fire department budget.

“Mayor Karen Bass’s budget cuts to the city’s fire department, enacted just months ago amid warnings about the city’s deteriorating finances, stand out as a striking example of misplaced priorities,” The City Journal reported on Friday:

The cuts stemmed from a budget crisis triggered by her administration’s decision to reward city employees with rich contracts and benefits—even as it dismissed worries that the reductions would hurt services. “Predictions that city services will be impossible to deliver,” deputy mayor Zach Seidl told the press, “are simply false.” Few public statements have aged as poorly—or as hauntingly—as this one.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bass; budget; california; city; contracts; corruption; cutting; fiduciarymisconduct; firedepartment; la; mayor; misappropriation; misconduct; rich; workers
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This keeps getting worse and worse. These people are disgusting
1 posted on 01/12/2025 9:19:56 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

California Style Reparations for Africans!


2 posted on 01/12/2025 9:22:08 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Deport that piggie, Marchan!!! NOW!!! Send his butt back to Colombia! He's milked America enough.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

To coin a term it’s woke lightning.


3 posted on 01/12/2025 9:24:11 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimati. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Paying off supporters at the expense of firefighters.


4 posted on 01/12/2025 9:24:55 AM PST by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This keeps getting worse and worse. These people are disgusting


I think you are being a bit harsh. California is such a great place that screwing it up is a really hard job.

These folks have worked long and hard on this goal and they have succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations. <[p> Their compensation is commensurate with their proven ability to fully implement the Bass vision for LA and California.

5 posted on 01/12/2025 9:32:44 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: rdcbn1

Silly me. 😂


6 posted on 01/12/2025 9:34:38 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Corruption, corruption, corruption.


7 posted on 01/12/2025 9:34:46 AM PST by Irenic
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To: ChicagoConservative27

bttt


8 posted on 01/12/2025 9:35:38 AM PST by linMcHlp
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Over a hundred LAFD fire trucks are out of service because mechanics were fired and overtime was cut for those who remained.

Probably not enough diversity in the mechanics pool.

9 posted on 01/12/2025 9:37:47 AM PST by Drew68
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Bass may be a Marxist but she gets paid a high end capitalist salary....

As of 2023, the Los Angeles Mayor earned a salary of $304,434.

All financed by taxpayers, rich govt Salaries could include
<><>bonuses, stipends, honorariums, gratuities
<><>incentive pay
<><>expense and charge accounts,
<><>discounted gift cards,
<><>paid transportation,
<><>housing allowance,
<><>Cadillac healthcare, life insurance,
<><>dental and vision insurance,
<><>paid sick days,
<><>paid time off
<><>paid vacation time
<><>paid holidays
<><>paid student tuition
<><>401(k) employer contributions
<><>startup pensions,
<><>retirement plans with city-paid rollovers, IRA transfer


10 posted on 01/12/2025 9:40:40 AM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))
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To: Liz

Her hero, Fidel Castro, was one of the richest men on the planet.


11 posted on 01/12/2025 9:41:08 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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This keeps getting worse and worse. These people are disgusting

It's going to be interesting to observe how this all plays out.

Typically, the wealthy elites are safely insulated in their gilded palaces from the suffering amongst the peasantry inflicted by the politicians and policies they support.

It's different this time. Their gilded palaces have been reduced to ash heaps.

12 posted on 01/12/2025 9:43:17 AM PST by Drew68
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So she’s not that stupid after all?
Still no sight of any ethics or morality. But “NOT STUPID”.


13 posted on 01/12/2025 9:47:08 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

mayor bass ackwards


14 posted on 01/12/2025 9:47:18 AM PST by joshua c
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Over a hundred LAFD fire trucks are out of service because mechanics were fired


There was a report that fire trucks from out of state had to pass California emissions standards before they were allowed to get to L.A. You know, to protect the air quality.


15 posted on 01/12/2025 9:50:54 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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There was a report that fire trucks from out of state had to pass California emissions standards before they were allowed to get to L.A. You know, to protect the air quality.

Twenty years of clean air initiatives that have been totally erased by this fire.

California authorities claim these trucks were given routine safety inspections as they had just been driven across hundreds of interstate miles, which kinda makes sense except that California is governed by retards, so who the hell really knows.

16 posted on 01/12/2025 10:23:53 AM PST by Drew68
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California authorities claim these trucks were given routine safety inspections as they had just been driven across hundreds of interstate miles


And just how and why would a fire truck need a ‘routine safety inspection’ after traveling on an interstate? Were California fire trucks going to L.A. stopped for ‘routine safety inspection’?


17 posted on 01/12/2025 10:36:17 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bass should be investigated


18 posted on 01/12/2025 11:08:46 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“one for you, two for me...”


19 posted on 01/12/2025 11:10:45 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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This keeps getting worse and worse. These people are disgusting

Send B-ass back to Ghana on a leaky boat. Then burn her passport.

20 posted on 01/12/2025 12:36:58 PM PST by CDB
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