We Have the Money, It’s Just Being Stolen
An Audit-First Plan to Stop the City Hall Heist
The number one question that everybody has for me when they hear my plans is: “How can we do that, Spencer? We don’t have the money!” Let me clue you in on a little secret. We have the money…it’s just being stolen.
You pay COUNTLESS tax dollars. You’re taxed on your income, you’re taxed on your gas, you’re taxed on your property, you’re taxed out the ass. Every single expensive transaction you endure is taxed. Yes, hundreds of restaurants have shut their doors thanks to Karen Bass and Nithya Raman, businesses are fleeing their terrible leadership, so revenue is decreasing, and I will turn that around…but we have plenty of money in this city, it’s just being stolen.
Follow the Money
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Receipt 1
Our Streets Are a Mess
Every day, people pop tires, their suspension is shot, all because our streets are left in utter neglect and disrepair. These are beyond just potholes that have busted open under the negligence of Karen Bass…these are Bassholes. But people ask “how can we fix the Bassholes? We don’t have the money.” We do have the money, it’s just being stolen.
I met with the truckers who used to do this work, paving our roads…until Karen Bass came in. They used to do 600 miles of paving before Karen, and now they do just 60 miles. Karen Bass only does a fraction of the Basshole repairs that they did before her.
Why? In her first year, she stole $100 million from the street maintenance budget and gave it to the NGOs profiting off of homeless drug addicts. We have the money, it’s just being stolen.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES DEPT. OF STREET SERVICES- STREET MAINTENANCE BUDGET $100,000,000
- DIVERTED TO HOMELESS NGOS -$100,000,000
- MILES PAVED (PRE-BASS) 600 mi
- MILES PAVED (NOW) 60 mi
- BASSHOLES REMAINING COUNTLESS
TOTAL STOLEN $100,000,000 -
Receipt 2
What about public safety?
We have less firefighters today than we had in the 1960’s, and yet the population of LA has doubled. But people ask “how can we hire more firefighters? We don’t have the money.” We do have the money, it’s just being stolen.
Right now, LAFD engines are so overwhelmed with responding to overdoses and rubbish fires, medicals and arson fires coming entirely from the addicts on our streets. Because of Karen Bass’ policies with the city attorney, LAFD has to send out an ambulance AND a Type 1 engine to every overdose, every sprained ankle, every tooth ache. They are sending those big red trucks that you see fighting fires, all to shove Narcan up a homeless guy’s nose.
Those engines each chew up 30 gallons of diesel per day on unnecessary runs. Across the department, we are wasting over $7 million dollars every year on wasted fuel — not to mention all the wear and tear on engines that should’ve been retired to Mexico ten years ago, now breaking down, crashing, leaving us all in danger.
Before the Palisades Fire, the fire chief warned Karen Bass that they were dangerously underfunded and unable to keep Angelenos safe. What did Karen Bass do? She cut the fire department budget by $17 million dollars and gave it to…you guessed it, NGOs profiting off of homeless drug addicts. We have the money, it’s just being stolen.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES LAFD — OPERATIONAL LOSSES- LAFD BUDGET CUT -$17,000,000
- WASTED FUEL (ANNUAL) $7,000,000
- DIESEL PER ENGINE / DAY 30 gal
- FIREFIGHTERS ADDED SINCE 1960 0
- POPULATION GROWTH SINCE 1960 2x
TOTAL WASTED $24,000,000+ -
Receipt 3
The Homeless Industrial Complex
People ask “how can we treat the homeless? We don’t have the money.” We do have the money, it’s just being stolen.
Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have sunk billions of dollars into “the homeless problem,” but it’s all being wasted on dubious NGOs that increase drug use, hand out needles and crack pipes, and actually give drugs to the addicts on the streets of LA.
A developer bought a property for homeless housing at $11 million. Days later, the city paid him $27.3 MILLION. A $16 million dollar flip. No new carpets. No pool addition. Just straight up fraud. And this is just one of many projects that need to be audited and eliminated.
We have the money, it’s just being stolen.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES HOMELESS HOUSING ACQUISITION- DEVELOPER PURCHASE PRICE $11,000,000
- SOLD TO THE CITY $27,300,000
- NEW CARPET NONE
- POOL ADDITION NONE
- DAYS HELD BEFORE FLIP A FEW
TOTAL STOLEN $16,300,000
As your Mayor, I will get you your damn money back. I will audit EVERY city program. Every department is going to show all of us their books. We will have forensics auditors come in and track down every last dollar. We have the money, it’s just being stolen.
It’s like inverse Robin Hood. Government is stealing from YOU and making themselves rich. Money that could go to lowering your rent, cleaning your streets, keeping you safe. You paid it, it’s your tax money, it should be working for YOU.
Prattman is coming to get it back.
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