LA County wants another sales tax hike

And very happy Tuesday to you at 12.06 in the West. It's the John Phillips show. Mr. Randy Wings and Culver City. John today, the LA County Board of Supervisors is considering putting a proposal on the June ballot to increase the sales tax yet again this time because of federal funding cuts and some of that money that they want to raise is going to bail out Barbara Ferrer. Next slide. I've lost track at how many tax increases are going to be on the ballot. Let's review for a second. We know that the SEIU wants the wealth confiscation tax on the statewide ballot. We know that there's going to be a tax in the Bay Area for transit. We know that the firefighters in the City of Los Angeles want a tax on that ballot. We know that there are bonds that are in the works. And now the County of Los Angeles wants a tax increase too. This would be a 50 cent tax hike on the June ballot, which would put LA County's tax rate for sales tax at 10.25%, which apparently you have to change state law to get it to go any higher than that. And for some of the cities in the county that have already jacked up their sales taxes, I actually heard this as a quote from Catherine Barger at the board meeting this morning. Palmdale in landcaster would have the highest sales taxes of any city in the entire country. Quite frankly, and this would be to generate money to give to the bride of Satan. Some of it would go to health services. Some of it would go to backfill cuts to Medicaid, but yes, 10% of the money they raise is going to the Department of Public Health, which is facing funding cuts. I wonder why? Yeah. And this is I assume to finance NARCAN to put in the libraries and tampons to put in the men's rooms. That was our some of the programs that Barbara Ferrer's Department funds. We give thousands and thousands of dollars through county, state and federal grants to organizations like homeless healthcare, Los Angeles, that have a storefront in Skid Row where they pass out meth pipes. You're paying for those meth pipes. Don't forget about her vulgar tweets that are so obscene. We can't even describe them on the radio. Yeah, usually around pride, the social media team who's probably paid better than we are at Department of Public Health get real creative. I wonder if those ideas are pitched to Ferrer or she's the one that comes in with all the kinky ideas. You should have seen all the posts she made during the monkeypox epidemic. Oh, I remember those, but we can't call it that anymore. Now we call it MPOX. All right, we have more details on this proposed tax in the county of Los Angeles for more here, CBS LA. LA County voters may be asked to approve another sales tax increase this June. This tax hike would be used to cover federal healthcare funding cuts. CBS LA political reporter Tom Wade is live in the newsroom and Tom political experts say it might be a tough sell. Yeah, that's right. We're to make political experts say there may be tax fatigue out there. You don't say I'm exhausted just listing them all. Well, and you only got to a few of them. There's so many more that are being considered at gross receipts tax. The city and county of San Diego want a sales tax hike because they couldn't get one two years ago. It is non stop. Well, this is a worthy cause, though, Randy, because we don't raise these taxes. How do you expect to pay for abortions for transgendered women? I have tech issues. LA County supervisors will take up this issue tomorrow. It's a half-cent sales tax increase. And if supervisors do approve this measure, it then goes to voters. But it will be a steep hill to climb. The tax increase can only pass with a two-thirds vote. Because this isn't one of these crooked citizens initiatives. This would be something that the board puts on the ballot. So good luck with that. And you know what? We can hate on the board all we want. If it weren't for the dummies that approve this, that go and get behind that curtain in the voting booth and vote for things like this. We wouldn't have to worry about it. Measure A in the 2024 election was a doubling of the homeless sales tax in LA County. And voters in LA saw the zero progress with the homeless in the county and said, yes, let's double that tax and make it permanent. Because the original tax was sold as if we increased your taxes for 10 years. We will solve homelessness. That didn't happen. You do realize we would live in the best state in the nation. If we didn't collectively have suicidal ideation every time we went into the voting booth. Health care crisis LA County supervisors say they have no choice but to ask voters to approve a half-cent sales tax increase is Barbara Ferrer taking a pay cut. Babs, what do you have to say for yourself? Next slide. I mean, if there's belt tightening at the Department of Public Health because of federal funding cuts, do we really need to be paying her $600,000 a year? That's good pay for someone who passes out crack pipes on Skid Row. I have a hard time understanding logic. We know. To cover massive federal cuts to health care funding by the Trump administration, retired LA County supervisor Zeb Yaroslavsky. The motive for this tax increase is understandable. I think they're trying to backfill some of the lost revenue that comes from the federal government for health care. The danger is that... Which by the way translates to the organized labor behind some of those health care unions, they want to make sure no one loses their jobs. That's what this is about. It's like the SCEIU wealth confiscation tax. That money doesn't go to the general fund. That money goes to programs that employ SCEIU members. There may be financing fatigue or tax fatigue on the part of the voters. Currently, LA County sales tax stands at 9.75%. It's even higher in some cities in the county. If the measure reaches voters, and it's gotten to a point where if you just cross over the county line from LA to San Bernardino and you go to an in and out on that side, you can tell how much cheaper the burger is because I think the sales tax in that county is still around 7%. And when they start making threats when the campaign kicks in the high gear, you can always tell where the politics are at any given time. Because back in the old days, whenever there was a tax on the ballot, they'd say, if you don't vote for this, we're going to cut police and fire. But now they go to Ghana whenever the fires come and they all support defunding the police. So now what's the threat going to be? If you don't pass this tax, we won't have the funds to provide sex change operations for half a guatamala. You're starting a little blue today. Just watch yourself. Well, they got me all worked up with this tax increase. If the measure reaches voters and is approved, LA county's baseline sales tax would rise to 10.25%. Unless you're in one of the cities that already has a higher sales tax like Palmdale and Lancaster where it's going to be in the elevenths. And then you just get kicked in the crotch over and over and over again. Supporters say it will generate a billion dollars in revenue and prevent hospitals and clinics from closing. Opponents say the when we say clinics, are we talking about like actual things that serve healthcare needs or are we talking about homeless healthcare Los Angeles? Oh yes. We need to make sure that Nithia has a new role's rise to campaign in. Opponents say the county sales tax is already too high. More taxes. Hey, it's Susan. There you go. Is a very burdensome for the people of LA county. And also it makes LA county less competitive compared to other counties. People can cross the border and shop in a county that hasn't done this. So I think all the stores, the restaurants, the fast food outlets, they all will feel the impact. This proposed sales tax if you're going to do a whole bunch of clothes shopping, you can either pay through the nose and have to deal with parking hell in century city or you go to the Irvine spectrum where the taxes are lower and there's plenty of parking for everybody. That is an excellent point that Susan just made and that you just made because they act as if well, you're not going to move to Montana if we keep raising your taxes because it's called in Montana and we know that you like to wear shorts and flip flops. Well, you're not just in competition with Montana. You're in competition with Orange County and Riverside County and San Diego County and everywhere else in California that's not as insane as LA. This proposed sales tax increase comes as one of the states largest healthcare unions service employees international union or SEIU is pushing state legislators to approve a one time tax on the state's billionaires. And by the way, this is all the it's all in the name of all these health care cuts. Well, what if they get both? What if they get the wealth tax and they get the sales tax increase? Well, that's a whole lot more money for the SEIU. Christmas comes early for the purple shirt crowd also to cover federal healthcare funding cuts. Newsom opposes that tax and last month the LA Firefighters Union announced its gathering signatures to ask voters to approve a separate half-cent sales tax increase in the city of LA. Yeah, that one's a scam because the second that one passes, the city will defund the money that usually is supposed to go towards fire. And then they're going to turn around and ask us for more money the next time. There are going to be a lot of funding measures on the ballot this. Yes, there are. So there you go. LA County considering a half-cent sales tax because of federal funding cuts to healthcare, which includes 10% of that money going straight towards Barbara Ferrer's budget. And speaking of lunatics, we have more information on the pinko running for mayor. Nithia Raman sat down for her first exclusive interview since she announced that she's running for mayor and she did not pick an easy one. She sat down for 27 minutes with NBC 4's Conan Nolan and Conan posted the whole damn thing. That was a mistake on her part. Vermont. Here's NBC 4. Good morning. A welcome to the Tom Broke on New Center here at Universal City. I'm Conan Nolan. Thanks for joining us with us is Nithia Raman, member of the Los Angeles City Council District for Silver Lake and Sino, Sherman Oaks, Rosita. She is also a really weird district because she has both parts of the valley and parts of over the hill. I don't get it. It looks like a snake. She is also a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles as of Saturday blew up the political community here with that announcement. So thank you for coming. Let's talk about that. You know, the first question is always the easiest. Why did you decide to run? You know, I have been very, very frustrated with Los Angeles over these last few months with the win. You're on the city council. I love that these people all act like they're just writing letters to the editor when they're the ones that have the power to fix what's broken and they choose not to. That council is almost entirely one party. There are separate wings in the party. But for most things, there is ideological alignment. Anything the city council wants past, they can pass. Any laws they want to change, they can change. I don't see the current mayor standing in their way. So anything that she is inditing is she's running for mayor is a failure on herself. You know, I have been very, very frustrated with Los Angeles over these last few months with the way that our city has been delivering some of the basic services. I've seen that I can't get a street light fixed for a year unless I put discretionary funds to it. We haven't paved a single mile of streets in in LA over this last year. Actually, that one's intentional. I don't know if you know about this. So in 2024, another thing that voters passed in LA city was measure HLA, which was the road diet initiative where anytime the city has to repay the road, they have to turn it into a road diet. They've got to add the bike lanes, even if it makes no sense, they got to add the bus only lanes and it gives organizations like streets for all a private ride of action to sue if they don't. The city of LA cannot afford any of those improvements because they're already broke. So they have decided the only way to survive is to not repay anything and let the roads crumble so they don't have to abide by measure HLA. And that seemed like a reasonable idea to someone calling the shots here in the insane asylum. We haven't paved a single mile of streets in in LA over this last year. We are at a moment where we're not delivering on the basics at a time when the public has trusted us with hundreds of millions of dollars to solve complex problems like our housing crisis and our homelessness crisis. And all of it's gotten worse under your watch. And before that, it got worse when you were running one of those phony, baloney organizations. And I feel like Los Angeles is really in a moment of turmoil right now. I was waiting in this mayor's race to see what people would talk about when they talk about these issues. Who was going to be entering? Let's talk about the future of Los Angeles and what it deserves. What if she has a thread going on her phone with Lindsay Horvath? Are you going to run? Are you going to run? Are you going to run? You think Rick Caruso is part of it or do you think they blocked him already? They called him a tease quite frankly. Let's talk about the future of Los Angeles and what it's seriously that whole thing last week. Maybe I will run. That was just ridiculous. I'm telling you, he's the California Ross Barrow. And ultimately, I just didn't see that conversation happening and I think it's an important conversation for us to have. And it's important to talk about the fact that we can fix this. We can fix the you're on the city council right now. We can you can't be services. The city council is the one that figures out the budget. If the priority is that you want street lights fixed, you can budget for that. If you don't have the money for it, stop putting money into Karen Bass's nonsensical hotel homeless shelter. It's not that hard. These services we can make Los Angeles work again and we can dream big for its future. So you endorse Karen Bass just about a month ago for re-election. What changed? You know, I I I've worked closely with Mayor Bass on a number of things. I'm a I'm an admire. What's the point of doing this if you're not going full knives out? No, tell us why you threw that bass back in the lake. You know, I I I I I I worked closely with Mayor Bass on a number of things. I'm I'm an admirer of hers and I helped to get her elected. She supported me in my re-election. But ultimately, I do want to say, you know, I I didn't follow traditional path into politics. I so we're starting off by not answering this question. You know, the outsiders are supposed to be the straight shooters, the ones who can tell the truth because they don't come from the machine. And this woman is answering questions in ways that you can't even understand what she's saying. I was a mom who wanted to see better in her own neighborhood and ran for office because I saw that as a pathway for change in my area, in my district. And right now, I by the way, this is the same nonsense when he was running that Austin butiner did. He wanted to run. He wanted to take out Karen Bass, but would not say what she's doing wrong. No, and Tom Steyer is doing the same thing in the race for governor. And right now, I feel a call from Los Angeles from Angelinos for change across the entire city. I don't think they called you for change. It had to be a wrong number. For change across the entire city, I feel a sense of frustration and even despondency among Angelinos that that something is wrong in the city that things are worse than they were before. I can feel that every single day again, indictment of her current city council, which has just as much power as the mayor in this city. I can feel that every single day when I go out and talk to my constituents. And I think we need to answer that call and I feel like my loyalty is to those constituents sent in and to really answer the call for Angelinos. There was not an answer to a question. No, not even close. We're just getting started. That was two minutes and 34 seconds out of this 27 minute disaster that includes talk about her support prior for defunding the police that disaster on another voter initiative measure ULA and so much more. 500 orders a month was manageable. Embrace intelligent order fulfillment with shipstation. The only platform combined in order where else workflows inventory returns an analytics in one place. What used to take five separate tools shipstation does in one. Got a shipstation.com and use code start to try shipstation free for 60 days. 800 222 5222 is a cell phone number 1 800 222 5222. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny. Don't like show with Gmail.com. That's Johnny don't like show at Gmail.com and Randy. You're monitoring the mail bag. Mike writes in at Johnny don't like show at Gmail.com and this potential sales tax. I can LA County. John and Randy. I'm already steering many of my purchases to Kern County where it's 8.25%. It's getting close to 11% now in Burbank. Vehicles are registered to my current address and e-commerce purchases are shipped there. Presently it's a moral issue of not funding a system of homeless services that are nothing more than burning my tax money. I wish there were more people in the county that think like that, but unfortunately there are more people who think like Barbara Ferrer. PJ writes in and says join the club Santa Clara County just passed a new sales tax last November for health care goes to an effect on April. Seems appropriate for the fools of Santa Clara County that voted for it 10 cents on the dollar. The last good thing that Santa Clara did was give the Lakers Kurt Rambus. P.S. I received my safe prop 13 petition in the mail and I mailed it and sent it back. Great. Because that'll make it a lot harder to increase all these taxes. In the meantime, what do you say we make a couple of listeners very happy? Let's do that right now. 790 K. A. B. C. Welcome. The Gypsy Kings featuring Nicholas Reyes at the Grove of Anaheim on August 6th. Tickets are on sale Friday at ticketmaster.com, but right now call it number nine at one eight at eight seven ninety five two two two gets paratickets to the show tickets furnished by Neterlander concerts. Good luck. Diling. All right, let's go back to Nithia on KNBC with Colton Nolan. There were a lot of people who were going to run decided against it. Recruisso for one Austin butner was in. He had to pull out because of family tragedy. He had Lindsey Horvoth, a supervisor, she didn't run. Colleagues of yours on the council, Monica Rodriguez as well as Tracy Park. We were thinking they were going to run. Any one of them run? Would you be doing this? I think it would have depended on what they were running for. What they were doing. What are you running for again? I'm still trying to figure this out. No, this is exclusively because the opportunity presented itself. What they were trying to do where they trying to get. I saw that poll where Karen Bass says 30% support and I said I could do this. Oh yeah, she's underwater. You know more power for themselves or were they really trying to fix the issues that are plaguing Los Angeles? We need clarity and we need urgency on what's wrong and how we can move ahead and how we can meet this moment. By the way, Karen Bass's campaign account is posting every endorsement that she claims she still has from the city council, including the DSA members that might flip on her might not will see, but she posted very loudly. Hugo likes me. What do you think those votes eventually do? Good question. You know what's else was kind of embarrassing too. She posted, she got the endorsement of John Lee, the one quote Republican on the LA city council. Wait, Nithia got his endorsement? No, Karen Bass got his endorsement. What the hell is wrong with him? And you know, I really do think that we can we can do that. We'll talk about the issues here in a minute, but I just want before we move on. I don't know what Karen Bass thought about this, but I can imagine it's it was not unlike, I think, Act 3 or 4 of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The Emperor of Rome enters the Senate, ends up knife in his back and he looks back and it's his friend, Abrudas, A2 Brute. Accurate. It's a little close to home, doesn't it, Nithia? I understand you talked with the mayor before you made this announcement. Can you share any of that conversation with us? You know, my I value my relationship with the mayor and sure you do. Don't you mean your former relationship with the mayor? You know, my I value my relationship with the mayor and I value our privacy as well. What I will say though that is that I don't think we should be talking about the future of Los Angeles in the context of friendships and betrayal. We need to be talking about the issues that are facing us and how we can fix them and how we can overcome them. Come on. She will not answer question. Will she? No, she's only been a politician for six years, but she's right up there with the pros. I thought she was better at politics than this. I honestly did because she is way out there on the left and managed to get reelected outright in the primary in a district that now includes a lot of homeowners in the San Fernando Valley. But when you listen to her, when you hear her give interviews, when you hear her give impromptu press conferences, she comes across as being kind of flaky. In her statement, she said, the last thing Los Angeles needs is a politician who opposed cleaning up homeless encampments and efforts to make our city safe. So that's let's talk about some of that. First, the Los Angeles police department. Oh, we're starting with probably her weakest issue. Good. First, the Los Angeles police department, do you believe that public safety, police and fires, the number one priority of municipal government? I think it absolutely is. If people don't feel safe in Los Angeles, they are not going to live in Los Angeles. They're not going to invest in Los Angeles. They're not going to work in Los Angeles. You have to make sure that safety is the backbone of the city. So why have you worked so actively against that these last six years? Boy, she is really weasily. Oh, told her this was a good idea. Okay, the whole point of being a socialist is that you just come out swinging. The answers are easy if you're a socialist. Yeah, defund the cops. Yeah, the government should own the grocery stores. Yeah, jack the tax is up. No, I never want to get rid of any of the homeless encampments. In fact, I'm not going to stop working until all of us are homeless. When you ran for office the first time, you advocated reducing the number of police officers dramatically, the LAPD that you could easily interpret that as defunding police. Oh, we have her on tape saying that she wanted to defund the police and she voted to defund the police. Do you still believe that? You know, I think we already have seen a huge drop in the number of police. I think we need to maintain. I've already demoralized them so much that I got to the number I wanted. And now that the city's not safe again, well, we'll reevaluate. You know, I think we already have seen a huge drop in the number of police. I think we need to maintain the size of our police force and grapple with the fact that even the size of our existing police force is not enough to respond to 911 calls in a timely fashion. How do we make sure that we're actually delivering on public safety results? How do we make sure that when someone calls 911, they're not unhold for an hour, that it takes hours for anyone to come for issues that people are facing? This is a huge problem. When you call for help in the city and someone doesn't come to help you or says, I can't help you, you feel a loss of faith in Los Angeles that is profound. And again, all of this is an indictment of the government that is she is a current major part of. And I think we have to respond to that. We have to make people feel safe again. Here's an emblematic issue relating to police force. The controller came out with a report on the aviation division of LAPD, essentially saying get rid of it. This is a city of 500 square miles. It's New York, for example, is 300 square miles. Do you sport that idea that aviation should go away? That helicopters shouldn't be part of the LAPD mission? You know, it's interesting when you talk about LAPD helicopters because the justification that the LAPD has provided to the city council and to decision making authorities about the utility of those helicopters, how they aid us in fighting crime is a study that is multiple decades old. Yeah, but how else are we going to get the high-speed chases? Well, they don't want anyone arrested. And if you allow them to put a helicopter up and trail a bad guy in a high-speed chase, then you might catch them and she certainly doesn't want that. Might as the word there. How many of those chases lately end where they lost the guy? Well, if you're the cops, you're just thrown in the towel anyway. What's the point of risking your life going after a bad guy if you know the city doesn't want you to arrest them? I am driven by the evidence. How do we actually address safety issues now? How do we make sure that people are responsive? I want to make sure that every dollar we are investing in safety and Los Angeles is delivering results for Angelino's. And that's really, that has been my focus in my time on council and that is my focus going forward as well. I will say that you could replace the whole helicopter fleet with drones that could like you have little weapons on them to disable the vehicles. That would be fun. Oh yeah. So the LA police protective league police union believe that your election would be a disaster. Respond to that. Well, you know, I will say that I have taken tough votes in city council where I have voted against fiscal irresponsibility against labor contracts that have since bankrupted the city, including labor. Well, that's because Karen Bass thought it would be equitable to give every single department in the city arrays when she had to give the LAPD arrays because of the staffing crisis. Which department was it where she said if we don't give them a raise, then they're going to go back to robbing us again. So she Karen Bass last May had a budget presentation before she gave a budget presentation to the city council. She gave a budget presentation to Black Lives Matter and she talked about the violence interrupters, which are former gang members and ex-cons that are supposed to turn down the temperature when the gangs want to shoot each other up. And Karen Bass said we need to increase their salary from $40,000 a year to $60,000 a year because if we only pay them $40,000 a year, they're going to go back to robbing people. Sounds like they're good stewards of tax dollars that have since bankrupted the city, including labor contracts supported by the union. And that to me is not how we should be making decisions in city hall. Those unions are the biggest players in local politics. They fund local candidates. I can't make decisions based on the police union, screw the fire union, SCIU, we love you. 800 222 5222 is telephone number 1 800 222 5222. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so. Johnny don't like show at gmail.com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail.com. And Randy, you're monitoring the mailbag. Q writes in it. Johnny don't like show at gmail.com. I think Nithia is the replacement candidate for Karen Bass. The DSA and Democrat establishment L.A. have talked with each other and chose Nithia to be the one to take over. Karen Bass's support is at an all time low and any moderate candidate will take her down. Democrats will probably put all the support to Nithia and Nithia will resume the exact same policies as Karen Bass. I think that emailer is giving them way too much credit. I would be willing to lay down money saying that this was an impulsive decision that was made at the last minute because she saw opportunity. When you hear her answers in these interviews, it sure sounds like she hasn't thought any of this through. Nope. Hey, Randy, what do you say we take a call? It's going to rick and lekk ba ba ba rick hello. Hey, hey, thanks guys. I'm just curious did this councilwoman vote to reduce the amount of police and the officials? Yes, she did in 2020 in 2021. Got it. Got it. I either how idiotic or the unmitigated goal is a six-dermat go well, they know we really need to maintain the current size of our police department because we don't want people waiting on 9-1-1 for like an hour. We'll excuse me miss idiot who voted to reduce the number of police. I swear to God when I hear I'm mostly Democrats what they say my mouth drops and never fails to amaze me. I can't even know where to start to have such an idiotic comment like that after you vote to reduce the size of the police. Well, this is where they play games. They say we support public safety. What they want to do is they don't want to hire more uniform police officers. They want social workers. They want safety ambassadors. They want even 9-1-1 operators. We'll spend money on public safety but only for people and res. Well, you know, John to that I would say how does time out work for kids and look at the generation that's produced. I think maybe we'll end with that and it's supposed to just addressing the real problems, you know. All right, thank you for the call, sir. Let's go back to Nithia with Cone and Nolan. I can't make decisions based on my political future. I have to make those decisions for Angelina. Do we need to increase the the rank and file of the fire department? You know, I think I think we need to make sure that the fire department is responsive. I think the fire department certainly believes that there needs to be more fire stations and and more fire personnel. There are multiple studies. There's two studies that are in front of the city council right now on the size of the of the of the fire department that's required. And again, I think we need to Isn't the fire department in LA smaller now than it was back in the 60s when a third of the population lived here? I'll tell you, I learned this from Judge Judy. Things aren't that complicated. Usually, a simple yes or no will do if you're asked a basic question. She was asked about the size of the fire department. Should the fire department get bigger? The answer is of course, yes. We got hit with a big fire. We didn't have the personnel or the resources to adequately fight it. We need to make sure that doesn't happen again. It's an easy answer. But when you start giving a long meandering answer where you start talking about the price of T and China and all these issues that have nothing to do with anything, you are purposely trying to dodge answering the question. And again, I think we need to make sure that they're able to respond to issues. I was watching your Instagram post where you made made reference to emergency response or emergency preparedness. Was that a shot at the mayor and the police's fire? Tonin's trying everything he can to get a knife out of this girl. Good. You know, I think what has emerged over the last few months is that we could have deployed firemen to a site of a fire that had happened. That the fire department knew had happened and that we would have been on site sooner than we were at this moment. I think that kind of pre-deployment, not sending fire department personnel home, not deploying every truck possible at a time when you knew that it was going to be. Well, a lot of those trucks were in the bone yard because we didn't fix them. And we cut the budget of the fire department, despite the fact that the fire department and Tracy Park went bananas over it. They put a hiring freeze on mechanics. So they could not hire anybody to fix the trucks. An emergency that the National Weather Service warned was one of the most intense that this region had faced. Oh, see, there's where you can take a shot at Karen Bass because Karen Bass said that she didn't know about the wind. Yeah, just everyone listening to the radio and watching the television and greedy the newspaper did. This is not hard. If you're going to campaign against Karen Bass, campaign against Karen Bass, she's the incumbent. I love the fact that Karen Bass still acts like the weather was a state secret. And it wasn't, oh, I don't know, repeated on the today show by Al Roker every 30 minutes. In years, I mean, she Karen Bass admits that she's a KNX junkie. And you know what that means? That means she knew about the weather every five minutes. Well, she fits their demo. In years, I mean, that's, you need to do that kind of pre-planning. We have an apparatus in City Hall that is designed to do that. The mayor's office is supposed to be the nerve center of that. And the leadership of the fire department is supposed to lead that. I think we need to make sure that we're using that apparatus to respond with immediacy and urgency to issues. The Palisades, not part of your district. Have you met with those people there in what is your assessment of the recovery? You know, I have friends, multiple friends who lost their homes in the Palisades. And so yes, I have met with them. I have spoken to them and shared with them the how much cursing did they do at you? Probably a lot. Shared with them the incredible tragedy and trauma of what they experienced. I think recovery recovery is always going to be bumpy. It takes a long time to rebuild from natural disasters. You can see that across where these wildfires have taken place. One thing I can say, though, is that the city did not provide clarity to residents. They didn't provide a clear leader for the recovery response. They had a consultant. City council was supposed to wave the permit fees and they still haven't. Oh wait, she's on the city council. She can't say anything about that. Nope. They're doing nothing to make life easier for those poor people. They had a consulting firm that had a very little clarity on what they were actually supposed to be providing for residents, making sure that residents of the Palisades understand what you're supposed to be doing for them is crucial to making sure that they feel supported. Let's move on to homeless. Oh boy, I don't even want to get into that one yet. But there is so much more of this interview. I have the entire thing posted on today's California report. You can watch Conan Nolan's 27-minute interview with Nithya Rahman, randewangradio.substac.com. 500 orders a month was manageable. Embrace intelligent, order fulfillment with shipstation. The only platform combined in order management where else workflows inventory returns an analytics in one place. 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