Report: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Gave City Workers ‘Rich’ Contracts Before Cutting Fire Department Budget

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-12 17:34:03 | Updated at 2025-01-16 17:07:42 3 days ago

Report: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Gave City Workers ‘Rich’ Contracts Before Cutting Fire Department Budget
Breitbart ^ | 01/12/2025 | Amy Furr

Posted on 01/12/2025 9:19:56 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) reportedly awarded government workers with major wage increases before making cuts to the city’s fire department budget.

“Mayor Karen Bass’s budget cuts to the city’s fire department, enacted just months ago amid warnings about the city’s deteriorating finances, stand out as a striking example of misplaced priorities,” The City Journal reported on Friday:

The cuts stemmed from a budget crisis triggered by her administration’s decision to reward city employees with rich contracts and benefits—even as it dismissed worries that the reductions would hurt services. “Predictions that city services will be impossible to deliver,” deputy mayor Zach Seidl told the press, “are simply false.” Few public statements have aged as poorly—or as hauntingly—as this one.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bass; budget; city; contracts; corruption; cutting; fiduciarymisconduct; firedepartment; la; mayor; misappropriation; misconduct; rich; workers

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This keeps getting worse and worse. These people are disgusting

To: ChicagoConservative27

California Style Reparations for Africans!

2 posted on 01/12/2025 9:22:08 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Deport that piggie, Marchan!!! NOW!!! Send his butt back to Colombia! He's milked America enough.)

To: ChicagoConservative27

To coin a term it’s woke lightning.

3 posted on 01/12/2025 9:24:11 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimati. )

To: ChicagoConservative27

Paying off supporters at the expense of firefighters.

4 posted on 01/12/2025 9:24:55 AM PST by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold. )

To: ChicagoConservative27

This keeps getting worse and worse. These people are disgusting

I think you are being a bit harsh. California is such a great place that screwing it up is a really hard job.

These folks have worked long and hard on this goal and they have succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations. <[p> Their compensation is commensurate with their proven ability to fully implement the Bass vision for LA and California.

5 posted on 01/12/2025 9:32:44 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )

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