After critics blast move to pay L.A. recovery czar $500,000, he’ll do it for free — Faced with fierce criticism over her chief wildfire recovery officer’s planned salary of $500,000 for 90 days of work, Mayor Karen Bass reversed course Saturday evening and said Steve Soboroff would receive no compensation. David Zahniser, Dakota Smith and Julia Wick in the Los Angeles Times$ — 2/9/25
The Marxist Mayor “hired” an extremely wealthy developer to redo the Palisades. The goal? To recreate this wealthy area as a slim, with massive affordable housing projects and lots of vacant land—so that property owners lose their land.
Grenell Calls Out Bass-Appointed L.A. Fire Recovery Chief for $500K 3-Month Salary: ‘Gross, Offensive’
Olivia Rondeau, Breitbart, 2/8/25 https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/08/grenell-calls-out-bass-appointed-la-fire-recovery-chief-500k-3-month-salary-gross-offensive/
Ric Grenell, President Donald Trump’s Envoy for Special Missions, slammed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s (D) fire “recovery czar” for his large three-month salary of $500,000 paid by charity groups.
Bass announced former L.A. police commissioner Steve Soboroff as the head of the rebuilding efforts following the devastating fires that destroyed homes and businesses and claimed at least 29 lives over a three-week period.
Soboroff will be “paid $500,000 over three months, with funding coming from charitable groups,” the Los Angeles Times reported.
Real estate executive Randy Johnson, who worked with Soboroff in developing the ritzy Playa Vista neighborhood in the Westside area of L.A., will receive $250,000 from charity groups over the 90-day period as he helps with the recovery efforts.
Grenell, a longtime Trump ally, blasted the news on X:
“He’s getting paid $500,000 for 3 months of work? And they call this a charity,” the former ambassador said. “Gross. Offensive.”
Grenell himself toured the destruction with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, Mayor Bass, and other officials earlier this week, Breitbart News reported.
“I’m getting paid $0 – as are many people,” he continued in his post. “It’s a good thing there will be strings on the Federal money for California.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed two bills Friday approving $50 million to fight Trump’s policies — after returning from the White House, where he asked the president for federal aid money.
Soboroff has already gotten himself in the headlines by claiming that half of the laborers necessary for construction work in the fire-damaged areas could be “deported” by immigration enforcement.
The recovery chief did tell Breitbart News that he wants to “work with Trump” on rebuilding.
This info needs to spread like a soft pat of butter, because if word gets out, it will bury Bass when she runs for reelection, nor will it stop with her. It could throw a much-needed monkey wrench in any and every liberal’s chances of The Big Orange’s mayor’s chair EVER again.