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LOS ANGELES: The guy Mayor Bass hired as the Pacific Palisades Recovery Czar is getting paid $500,000 for three months of work.
X ^ | 2/8/25 | amuse

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. 🤣

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: california; corruption; fiduciarymalfeasance; fiduciarymisconduct; grifter; karenbass; lafires; misappropriation; pacificpalisades; palisadefire; stevesoboroff; thegrift
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Not one federal dollar to these woke grifters. ā€œall funded by mysterious charitiesā€, mysterious no more! Trump needs to name a Federal Wildfire Prevention and Recovery czar to go to LA and end the stupidity.

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 ā€œobsceneā€ and ā€œinfuriatingā€.

Source: LA Times

1 posted on 02/09/2025 5:24:25 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

$500,000? Not bad. It’s good work, if you can get it….lol.


2 posted on 02/09/2025 5:25:56 AM PST by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: hardspunned

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:

1ļøāƒ£Construction $ because 1/2 workers deported soon.
2ļøāƒ£Building bigger will ā€œtake a long timeā€ & ā€œI don’t know if I’m more worried about [your housekeepers] than I’m worried about you.ā€ California Community Foundation will be paying housekeepers.
3ļøāƒ£ā€just because the DWP says your water’s safe, have someone test it before you move back in.ā€ ā€œDon’t bathe your baby in it.ā€
4ļøāƒ£ā€We’re gonna rebuild, not reimagineā€. 5000 homes gone in Palisades.
5ļøāƒ£Talent agent said ā€œThe 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 ā€œI thought you said this wasn’t 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 can’t be trusted (oops!).

The one reassuring comment was he said to rebuild ā€œnot reimagine.ā€ That goes against @GavinNewsom @KarenBassLA plan to ā€œreimagineā€ Palisades with focus on ā€œequity and sustainabilityā€ (we know what that means).

https://x.com/houmanhemmati/status/1885194997471064569?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA


3 posted on 02/09/2025 5:26:03 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for theā€œPutin Stoogeā€ libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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I have a feeling the U-turn had more to do with USAID funding being locked up than public outrage.


4 posted on 02/09/2025 5:27:59 AM PST by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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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.


5 posted on 02/09/2025 5:28:13 AM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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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 ā€œobsceneā€ and ā€œinfuriatingā€.

Source: LA Times


6 posted on 02/09/2025 5:28:32 AM PST by Liz
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To: hardspunned

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).


7 posted on 02/09/2025 5:29:21 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: hardspunned

B A$$ just spreading the wealth of taxpayer confiscated money.


8 posted on 02/09/2025 5:29:26 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: hardspunned

BTTT


9 posted on 02/09/2025 5:36:00 AM PST by nopardons
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Qualified for zilch, entitled black princess Bass learns she has a 3 point lead in reelection race.

10 posted on 02/09/2025 5:40:51 AM PST by Liz
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these scumabgs like bass continue to try thier scams even when they are found out.


11 posted on 02/09/2025 5:41:00 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Liz

Heard on the street: The LA Mexicans started the fires to rid the city of white people


12 posted on 02/09/2025 5:57:36 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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$500,000 for 90 days of work - all funded by mysterious charities

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.

13 posted on 02/09/2025 6:03:21 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: Twotone

Yes, and that includes the multi-millionaire Soboroff. He and his “assistants” should be volunteering their time.


14 posted on 02/09/2025 6:03:38 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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Please define working for free in Communist terms.


15 posted on 02/09/2025 6:18:17 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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It’s just the start of the massive waste of money that’s coming


16 posted on 02/09/2025 6:21:44 AM PST by butlerweave
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The figure is overstated—because the mayor’s kickback should be deducted.


17 posted on 02/09/2025 6:25:00 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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Bass now claims Soboroff and his deputy Randy Johnson (set to earn $250,000) will work for free.
= = =

“Free?”, I said “Fee”.


18 posted on 02/09/2025 7:39:42 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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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.


19 posted on 02/09/2025 7:44:17 AM PST by bobbo666
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his tweet about Trump's supporters being too white

Steve Soboroff, yet another racist secularJew.

20 posted on 02/09/2025 7:49:37 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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