Democrat LA Mayor Garcetti targeted for recall

Datig’s group will need to collect more than 300,000 signatures from registered voters to trigger a recall election, according to the city clerk’s office. Datig said no money has been raised yet for the campaign.

Datig launched an online petition to recall Garcetti earlier this month and the site has gathered thousands of signatures. Those signatures don’t count toward the city’s recall process.

So from what I gather, this is so far one person announcing she wants to do a recall. She's raised no money and gained no signatures. This seems to be the new GOP thing. Just launch endless recall campaigns for anyone you don't like. I especially like Colorado:

https://www.cpr.org/news/story/colo...all-efforts-during-heated-legislative-session

The Pueblo Chieftain reported Wednesday that Pueblo West Republican Jerry Eller told a small audience “it couldn’t be easier” to start recall campaigns against the Governor and other Pueblo-area Democratic lawmakers.

“All you need is three people and you can start a recall committee,” he said.

 

If HOAs, developers, or residential property owners of any tier wanted to end homelessness it would happen overnight. A story about a government filing with a paid ideologue and the popularity threshold of a bankruptcy posting or estate auctions is not news, and a conservative hinging it on concerns about homelessness is comedically disingenuous.

 

in another thread, The Red Rocket had cut-n-pasted this convenient hit job on liberal SF,

Why can’t San Francisco’s tech culture solve the city’s social problems?

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/index.php...cannot-solve-its-homelessness-problem.286767/
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conveniently ignoring the fact that the largest city, more conservative than SF, in the same state has a bigger homeless problem

for decades LA had been sweeping the homeless problem under the rug, pretending that it doesn't exits.

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weeks before the 1984 Olympics, LA city had handed out cash to the homeless and bused them out of the City

Mayor Eric Garcetti gets under their thin skin,

Garcetti goes out of his way to publicize his Mexican/Italian/Jewish heritage,
in his many public speeches, he habitually sprinkles in flawless Spanish translations​

 

baby step

The LA County Board of Supervisors voted in favor of a proposal to identify a minimum of eight motels countywide
that could be leased out as interim housing for chronically homeless individuals.

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/vid...s-plan-to-lease-out-motels-to-house-homeless/​

 

What do they expect from the mayor. A lot of people go to Los Angeles with no prospects for a lot of reasons.

The mayor cant do anything about that or the cost of living

 

The mayor is responsible for leading a city. If a city has chronic problems it's up to the city government, led by the mayor, to figure out how to approach the problems and alleviate or resolve them.

 

Homelessness has been a problem in Los Angeles long before him. Yes he should be addressing it but this isn't a temporary problem

What should he do about the cost of living?

 

Houston has a big homeless problem amd ots much cheaper to live here. I've never heard mayoral candidates address it and the solution has been to move them out of downtown

 

America has a homelessness problem.

 

Exactly. I worked out of a labor hall that paid minimum wage for most jobs. A lot of those guys had no problems like substance abuse, worked their arses off and slept on the street

Its a bigger problem than los angeles

 

I'm repeating myself, but we need to define what we mean by "problem".

Is homelessness a problem because human beings have nothing and are living on the streets in terrible conditions? Or is homelessness a problem because I have to see smelly, dirty gross people on my way to work and they put their gross poor person hands all over my freshly detailed Maserati on the way to the office?

My impression is that a lot of people think the latter is the issue, and would be perfectly happy if the homeless were just put on a ship and sent to Indonesia or wherever with the rest of our garbage.

 

I have no clue as to what he should do as I am not involved in the LA city government or the city itself. He chose to run for mayor. No one put a gun to his head. If a city has problems, the mayor is going to be the whipping boy.

 

There are a couple of "problems"

Lack of mental healthcare and lack of wage growth. Lack of wage growth is bigger than this country in the sense that alot of it is about globalization

 

...well, what I was thinking was...

...we COULD try the Vlad Tepes method of dealing with homelessness/street-begging/poverty:

...what you do is you invite all the homeless and destitute to a big building and promise them a feast.

...and then, like, once you get all of them in there...you lock the doors and burn the place to the ground.

No more homeless! No more poor people! Problem solved! Poverty eliminated!

...and we can do it, too...
...not like there's any shortage of torches, or anybody willing to carry them...

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...arply-as-housing-crisis-deepens-idUSKCN1T609L

Homelessness in the city of Los Angeles proper, meanwhile, jumped by 16 %, according to the latest annual census by the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority (LAHSA), despite a concerted push by local officials to move more people from the streets into permanent housing.

Overall, the authority counted nearly 59,000 people sleeping on sidewalks, in makeshift tents, in abandoned vehicles or in shelters and government-subsidized “transitional housing” on any given night in Los Angeles County.

That’s the highest number documented since the agency began conducting its “snapshot” survey 10 years ago and follows a 4 percent decline in homelessness the year before.

The number in the city of Los Angeles alone, including the notorious downtown Skid Row district that ranks among the greatest concentrations of homeless in the United States, reached 36,300, the study said.

“Only New York has more people experiencing homelessness on any given night,” LAHSA Executive Director Peter Lynn said in releasing the report.

“Skyrocketing rents statewide and federal disinvestment in affordable housing, combined with an epidemic of untreated trauma and mental illness, is pushing people into homelessness faster than they can be lifted out,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said.

The homeless authority said one-third of all Los Angeles households are severely rent-burdened, meaning they spend more than half their income on rent.



fwiw

Still, the 16 % homelessness rise in Angeles County was modest compared with corresponding increases in less populous neighboring counties, overwhelmingly GOP communities -

• up 28 % in Ventura county, immediately N of LA County
• up 43 % in Orange county, where Disneyland is located, politically, aka known as Reagan country,
  
  • perhaps that's why Reagan country was flipped to the Dems in 2018,
    
    

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• up 50 % in Kern county, NE of Ventura, the home district of Kevin McCarthy, the current House Minority Leader, former GOP speaker of the House, ,

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LOL, this is so beautiful. And then they "clean" your windshield with a dirty schwala, and then you want you to pay them for their "work."

 

Let's wait until winter time; it's too hot now.