Posted on 02/09/2025 5:24:24 AM PST by hardspunned
LOS ANGELES: The guy Mayor Bass hired as the Pacific Palisades Recovery Czar is getting paid $500,000 for three months of work. His job is to build the plan and she's going to hire additional consultants to do the rest of the work. Steve Soboroff is best known for his tweet about Trump's supporters being too white. Previously he ran the Parks and Rec Commission - expect good things Los Angelinos. š¤£
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LA MAYOR SCRAMBLES AFTER BACKLASH OVER $500K WILDFIRE CZAR PAYOUT
Mayor Karen Bass just did a humiliating U-turn after public outrage over paying wildfire recovery czar Steve Soboroff a staggering $500,000 for 90 days of work - all funded by mysterious charities.
Bass now claims Soboroff and his deputy Randy Johnson (set to earn $250,000) will work for free.
Furious critics, including Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, called the payouts āobsceneā and āinfuriatingā.
Source: LA Times
$500,000? Not bad. Itās good work, if you can get itā¦.lol.
JUST IN: Steve Soboroff, the developer @MayorOfLA @KarenBassLA appointed as Rebuilding Czar gave a 48 min Q&A to talents agents at @unitedtalent & I got the video.
Highlights here:
1ļøā£Construction $ because 1/2 workers deported soon.
2ļøā£Building bigger will ātake a long timeā & āI donāt know if Iām more worried about [your housekeepers] than Iām worried about you.ā California Community Foundation will be paying housekeepers.
3ļøā£ājust because the DWP says your waterās safe, have someone test it before you move back in.ā āDonāt bathe your baby in it.ā
4ļøā£āWeāre gonna rebuild, not reimagineā. 5000 homes gone in Palisades.
5ļøā£Talent agent said āThe city of LA has been so difficult with permitting. Everything has been a joke. The whole process of permitting in the city of LA needs to beā¦ā Soboroff got mad and said āI thought you said this wasnāt going to be political! I want you on the bus to yes.ā
Probably said a few things he may not have said in public. Thinks construction workers will be deported. Assumes everyone has a full time housekeeper there & the money to privately test their water because @LADWP canāt be trusted (oops!).
The one reassuring comment was he said to rebuild ānot reimagine.ā That goes against @GavinNewsom @KarenBassLA plan to āreimagineā Palisades with focus on āequity and sustainabilityā (we know what that means).
https://x.com/houmanhemmati/status/1885194997471064569?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA
I have a feeling the U-turn had more to do with USAID funding being locked up than public outrage.
Don’t they have county commissioners or city councils that have to approve spending like this. I’d bet there are people who are willing to volunteer to put things right.
LA MAYOR SCRAMBLES AFTER BACKLASH OVER $500K WILDFIRE CZAR PAYOUT
Mayor Karen Bass just did a humiliating U-turn after public outrage over paying wildfire recovery czar Steve Soboroff a staggering $500,000 for 90 days of work - all funded by “mysterious charities.”
Bass now claims Soboroff and his deputy Randy Johnson (set to earn $250,000) will work for free.
Furious critics, including Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, called the payouts āobsceneā and āinfuriatingā.
Source: LA Times
Just a ‘wager’....by April, they admit the construction crew problem is major, and that they have a Chinese contractor ready to fly in 30k Chinese construction workers (on a work-permit).
B A$$ just spreading the wealth of taxpayer confiscated money.
BTTT

Qualified for zilch, entitled black princess Bass learns she has a 3 point lead in reelection race.
these scumabgs like bass continue to try thier scams even when they are found out.
Heard on the street: The LA Mexicans started the fires to rid the city of white people
Which means the government will pay NGOs with taxpayer money and the NGOs will pay this guy -- with taxpayer money. Those NGOs will help pick who gets the contracts -- their buddies. The contracts will be very bloated with Cali taxpayers getting very little bang for their buck. It's the Cali way, hence the high speed rail project.
As Cali goes, so the country goes which as we're finding out, our fedgov has gone the Cali way for years.
Yes, and that includes the multi-millionaire Soboroff. He and his “assistants” should be volunteering their time.
Please define working for free in Communist terms.
It’s just the start of the massive waste of money that’s coming
The figure is overstated—because the mayor’s kickback should be deducted.
Bass now claims Soboroff and his deputy Randy Johnson (set to earn $250,000) will work for free.
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“Free?”, I said “Fee”.
That is a good payout. Don’t forget, the goal is to rezone the entire area for apartments and deny re-building permits to anyone trying to restore their private house.
That can be done in 3 months. Regulations have already been issued telling many (former) homeowners that they cannot rebuild on their burned lot and must, instead, build low income housing with multiple units. It they refuse CaCaLand gov’mt will use eminent domain to seize their burned lots at a price fixed by the state. The state will then put up apts using only union labor and owned only by politicos.
They have similarly issued regs to many counties in the state requiring all existing houses to remove all vegetation around their buildings — at their expense. This, in the minds of the MSM singing its praises, is supposed to keep a fire from racing up a hillside at 50mph.
CaCaLand gov’mt deliberately let brush accumulate so that wildfires will rage. They have been doing that for decades. I’m beginning to suspect they limited water and hired illegals to set the fires.
Didn’t think commie trash could do long term planning like that.
Steve Soboroff, yet another racist secularJew.
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