Los Angeles is a war zone. Smash and grab, carjackings, assaults, drugs and prostitutes—this is a city that has collapsed.
“Last week, I published a column about how Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and the Paul Krekorian-led LA City Council are defrauding the public by displacing homeless people and civic groups, including Narcotics Anonymous meetings, from recreation centers in city parks and other locations where they instead stuffed recently arrived undocumented migrants from Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba, to name a few origination points.
The priority of the L.A. Progressive Democrat leadership is to make illegal aliens comfortable—and honest citizens fearful—wanting to move. This is not a city for decent people. Criminals? Yes. Decent folks? Better move or be forced out.
| “Bass, Krekorian and Raman Ignore Desperate Angelenos Displaced by ‘Inside Safe’ Fraud” by Daniel Guss City employees who were told to lie keep making conflicting statements DanieL Guss substack, 2/6/24 https://danielguss.substack.com/p/bass-krekorian-and-raman-ignore-desperate Last week, I published a column about how Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and the Paul Krekorian-led LA City Council are defrauding the public by displacing homeless people and civic groups, including Narcotics Anonymous meetings, from recreation centers in city parks and other locations where they instead stuffed recently arrived undocumented migrants from Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba, to name a few origination points. Only seven other columns have received more traffic since this publication launched. In response, there is nothing but silence from City Hall and the deeply struggling Los Angeles Times, which in the aftermath of another mass layoff keeps trying to convince Southern California how we need them in order to “save democracy,” but still hawks little more than partisan grievance and demographics, like “Which SoCal Costcos are the ‘most Asian’?” SIDEBAR: I enjoy lumpiang gulay, or vegetable lumpia, as much as anyone, but it is a disservice to point to Costco for it, especially when the Times knows that small, family restaurants always outperform processed corporate chow. That said… City Hall and the Times could have pointed to my written allegations and my segment about them on “The John Phillips Show” on 790-KABC and what “The John Kobylt Show” had to say about them on KFI-AM 640 and say that what I represented is untrue. But they have not. They would looove to be able to discredit my allegations. Except they cannot. That’s because City Hall and the Times are desperately co-dependent, so truth be damned once again. They instead ignore the graft, the suffering and what may also be the criminality. Narcotics Anonymous Reached Out to “Cool Ranch” Paul Krekorian One group displaced by this scam is a twice-weekly Narcotics Anonymous 12-step program. At my suggestion, one of its years-clean sponsors reached out to Krekorian, his chief of staff Karo Torossian and his media relations guy Hugh Esten, who refused to respond to my inquiries. My policy is that when people who misuse power dodge pointed-but-fair-minded questions, the questions themselves may appear here. Here is what this person asked Krekorian and company about their displaced 12-step meetings: No response. I asked the same questions of Zachary Seidl, who is Bass’s Media guy, and of City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who is in the middle of a primary challenge from Deputy LA City Attorney Ethan Weaver, who just received the Los Angeles Daily News’ endorsement. (Raman, who chairs City Council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee was endorsed by the Times… shocker, right?) No response. Like the durian promoted by the LA Times, this whole thing stinks of corruption. City Employees Still Don’t Have Their Act Together The Bass-Krekorian-Raman ruse was going on across the city, at least until my exposé, which apparently triggered a good deal of panic behind the scenes, particularly when I stated that I had passed the column along to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington, in case federal funds were being misused. Checking back a few days later, some rec centers that had previously housed the undocumented migrants (who were mislabeled by city staffers as homeless Angelenos), were suddenly inaccessible and quiet. Some staffers, including those who had previously told me that Bass’s people told them to lie about who was being housed there, now said that the places were undergoing “a deep cleaning.” When they couldn’t explain what caused the need for a deep cleaning, I asked when homeless Angelenos and other displaced groups would be able to return to these locations, some said that it wouldn’t be anytime soon. When asked why, the response was that they are going to have renovations. But there was only nervous laughter to my final question. “Why would the City have a ‘deep cleaning’ PRIOR TO renovations?” A deep cleaning prior to a renovation makes no sense, which ironically tells us everything we need to know. (Daniel Guss, MBA, is a multi-award-winning journalist. In June ‘23, he won the LA Press Club’s “Online Journalist of the Year” and “Best Activism Journalism” awards. He has been City Editor for the Mayor Sam network, and a featured contributor for CityWatchLA, KFI AM-640, iHeartMedia, 790-KABC, Cumulus Media, KCRW 89.9 FM, KRLA 870 AM, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Magazine, Movieline Magazine, Emmy Magazine, Los Angeles Business Journal, Pasadena Star-News, Los Angeles Downtown News and the Los Angeles Times in its sports, opinion, entertainment and Sunday Magazine sections among other publishers.) |
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