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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Dodgers Brand Slammed

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport on Twitter - The Azul is singing the blues these days as it discovers capitalism isn't always a home run....
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Karen Bass's City Hall Is Already Rigged

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@TheGussReport - A column that I wrote last year, "Honest Services Fraud - How City Hall Rigged Its Herb Wesson Vote," detailed ...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Bass Commish Using Hidden Email Accounts, Blocking Access to Public Records

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@TheGussReport on Twitter - Larry Gross , a holdover appointee of disgraced former LA Mayor Eric Garcetti , has been using covert, private ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

LA's Paranoid, Paralyzed Governments, Part 1

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport on Twitter - With apologies to rockers Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe as I riff on their hit song title, but w...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Politicians, Media Suddenly Silent On Sanctuary City LA

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport on Twitter - We are 18 months from election day 2024 with a deafening silence from local politicians and medi...
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Did These LA Officials Violate Federal Court and City Hall Rules?

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@TheGussReport on Twitter - A few levels down the City Hall policy food chain, below City Council, the Mayor, Controller and City Attorney,...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

Bass Pick Backs Out

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@TheGussReport on Twitter - On Tuesday, a prominent Los Angeles attorney who had been nominated by Mayor Karen Bass  to serve on the uber-m...
Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Hogwash and Hypocrisy

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport on Twitter - Words not matching actions are once again all the rage at LA City Hall. When former L.A. Mayor R...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Karma: Identity Crisis at LAPD

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport on Twitter  - The Los Angeles Police Department finds itself in a genuinely catastrophic and dangerous situat...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

In Thick Of Bribery Scheme, Mark Ridley-Thomas Gave This Richly Ironic Advice

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport on Twitter - An amusing part of watching wonky and tedious government meetings is when agitating gadflies suc...
Monday, April 03, 2023

(White) Power Grab: Krekorian Disenfranchises District With Only 8% White Population

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport on Twitter - Paternalistic racism is back in fashion at LA City Hall.  Did it ever really go away? This week,...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Last Week At LAPD Is Why Young People Increasingly Say ACAB

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport on Twitter - Stylish merch and insular, politicized law enforcement is how the Los Angeles Police Department ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

LAPD Scrambles To Cover-up Its Cover-up

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport on Twitter -  The Los Angeles Police Department, LA's thin blue line, lost track of the big, bold lies it...
Monday, March 20, 2023

LAFD Command Staffer Made Homicidal, Suicidal Threats During '21 Domestic Violence Attack

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport  on Twitter - During a presentation on March 8th celebrating International Women's Day, LA City Hall's...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

LAFD Cheating Is Tip Of The Iceberg

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - Last week, The Guss Report got its second-highest readership traffic since moving to the Substack platform, ...
Monday, March 06, 2023

Another LAFD Scandal and City Hall Still Lacks Proactive Transparency

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - Back in October, The Guss Report broke the story about a sexual harassment investigation at the LAFD in whi...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Burglary Exposes Possible Underground Casino

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - A Reseda storefront that appeared to be a weight loss clinic may have actually been an underground illegal ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

One LA Politician's Request

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - Last week, I had productive dialogues with several Los Angeles politicians.  My rule for engaging is simple...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Scandal-Scarred City Hall Remains Opaque, Paranoid and Bureaucratic

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport  - LA City Hall has carved for itself an ignominious place in the recent annals of local political history. So...
Monday, February 06, 2023

Hugo Soto-Martinez Deserves An Apology

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - At 2am on Monday morning, Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) veep Jerretta Sandoz was on Fox News ...
Thursday, February 02, 2023

A Random Street Death Becomes Vivid And Real

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - However many people lose their lives on the streets of Los Angeles on any given day, it is easy to see them...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Shade & Fraud - Why Eric Garcetti Should Consider Other Career Options

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - Former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti  won't be going to India as U.S. Ambassador any time soon. Presi...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Another Day, Another Death. But Only Platitudes From Nithya Raman

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - Chaos and death keep showing-up in Sherman Oaks , almost as frequently as the sunrise, while LA City Council...
Monday, January 23, 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Top Bass Candidate For LAFD Chief Retires Amid Sexual Harassment Investigation

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Deputy Armando Hogan  has abruptly retired from the agency during an ongoi...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Jose Huizar - I'll be talking about his federal plea deal today at 2pm on 790-KABC

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@TheGussReport - Well, it's time for disgraced former LA City Councilmember Jose Huizar to face the music in federal court, and boy did ...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Nithya Raman Shrugged Before Dead Bodies Piled Up

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman  spent the first few years of her time in City Hall ignoring wa...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Does 99% Of LA Have Any Rights Remaining? (Asking For 4 Million Friends)

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport  - Hello, happy new year and welcome back. I found myself unexpectedly redirecting traffic in the middle of Ve...
Friday, January 06, 2023

Introducing ................, "Total Recall Outtakes from CD-14"

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As we end the first week of 2023, the Mayor Sam Blog commences "Total Recall Outtakes from CD-14", dedicated to providing objectiv...
Friday, December 30, 2022

A Brief Final 2022 Bloggin Message ..........

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As a busy 2022 nears its appointed date with history, a certain MIA Blogger has a message regarding pending 2023 bloggin coverage of the mor...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Bass and Garcetti are Identical Cousins on LA's Housing and Homeless Efforts

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - It's like 1963 all over again! With LA Mayor Eric Garcetti  finally out of City Hall for the first time ...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Why City Hall Paid This Journalist's $10,528 Legal Tab

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport  - It is getting to be an LA tradition. The LAPD and LA City Attorney Mike Feuer cut this journalist's t...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

And Now Back To Eric Garcetti

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - Now that the mid-terms have passed, LA's hometown weenie, Mayor Eric Garcetti , may soon get a vote on ...
Tuesday, November 08, 2022

On Election Day, Nobody Knows Anything

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport  - At 6:43 pm on Election Day in 2016, Frank Luntz  was one of the highest-profile political pollsters in Amer...
Friday, November 04, 2022

LA's Chance to Punch Back: Kenneth Mejia for LA City Controller

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - This is your chance, Los Angeles.    If you're fed up with what you see, experience and expect from LA C...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Odd Couple: Why Fed-Up LA Needs Mayor Rick Caruso and Controller Kenneth Mejia

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport  - Los Angeles City Council is more responsible than any other government for the hideous conditions on the gr...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

City Hall's Past Abuses, Censorship, Lack Of Leadership Are Centerstage During Current Crisis

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - Anyone who has ever been censored by an abusive politician at LA City Hall, or anywhere else really, is lovi...

Notes From Cancerous And Chaotic LA City Hall

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - You asked, so I explored. Where is Nury Martinez's city-issued car? According to the General Services De...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

City Hall Censoring Sexual Harassment Reporting on High-Ranking LAFD Karen Bass Fundraiser

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By Daniel Guss @TheGussReport - Well that didn't last long. Despite syrupy promises of transparency and integrity by newly-minted interi...