On Election Day, Nobody Knows Anything

By Daniel Guss

@TheGussReport - At 6:43 pm on Election Day in 2016, Frank Luntz was one of the highest-profile political pollsters in America and tweeted his emphatic call that Hillary Clinton would soon be the next President of the United States. 

How today's election turns out in Los Angeles or anywhere else is at-best anyone's guess.

But to see who I think will wind up as the next Los Angeles Mayor, City Controller et al, jump on over to my Substack, where I also predict the outcomes for control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

And don't forget to vote!  

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

By Daniel Guss

@TheGussReport - This is your chance, Los Angeles.   

If you're fed up with what you see, experience and expect from LA City Hall, now is your chance to punch-back good and hard, or forever stop complaining about it.

In my new Substack column, I outline the roots of corruption that demand LA's next City Controller be as independent from City Hall as possible.  The only candidate who fits that bill is CPA Kenneth Mejia.

It is a rare instance where this column concurs with the LA Times Editorial Board.

On top of that good news, Mejia is also the only candidate with actual auditing experience and published plans for using data to improve the City.  In fact, he even volunteers at the deeply troubled LA Animal Services.

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

By Daniel Guss

@TheGussReport - Los Angeles City Council is more responsible than any other government for the hideous conditions on the ground which have intensely bled into surrounding communities.  

If it has accomplished anything good of late, or even in recent years, shoot me a note; I am not aware of a single praiseworthy and thorough endeavor. Not-a-one.

At any rate, lying, neurotic Mayor Eric Garcetti, aka Mayor Yoga Pants, will soon be gone after more than 21 disastrous years in LA City Hall.

For this and many other reasons, fixing LA starts by flanking it with grown-ups from somewhere other than the government to serve as a check and balance system to its immense failures, corruption, waste and its once again exposed deeply rooted racism.

My suggestion?

For starters, cast votes next week for Mayor Rick Caruso and Controller Kenneth Mejia, both of whom come from somewhere other than government.  While they may at first seem like polar opposites, in fact, they are the best available starter kit that a fed-up LA needs most.

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Paul Koretz (Finally) Deletes Racists' Endorsements - But What About His Own Racist, Homophobic Comments?

By Daniel Guss

The fallout continues in response to vicious and cackling racist comments in a recorded conversation between LA City Council President Nury Martinez, Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Leon and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera.

But one desperate LA politician still clings to some of their endorsements like Rose to Jack in Titanic.  And just as in the movie, this political embrace didn't make it to dawn.

Find out who we're talking about by jumping over to my Substack.

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Koretz's Corruption Continues - How Best Friends Keeps Ripping Off LA; Desperate Lawmaker's Latest Ploy

By Daniel Guss

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This column has for years reported that uber-wealthy Best Friends Animal Society continually rips off the people of Los Angeles with City Hall's blessing despite consistently raking in more than $50 million in annual revenue.

The media, mayors, controllers, commissioners and councilmembers, especially the embattled Paul Koretz, look the other way while homeless and lost animals at Los Angeles Animal Services, LAAS, suffer.

Koretz, responding to an media inquiry from this column last week, wrote, "I haven't seen your evidence (about another contractual breach by Best Friends).  I would find that interesting."

But Koretz has gone silent since seeing that evidence.

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LA Times Whines Its Owners' Biases Interfere w/Newspaper's Biases

By Daniel Guss

@TheGussReport - That's no fake headline from satire outlets The Onion and The Babylon Bee.  It's the highly predictable, real-life drama playing out at the Los Angeles Times and it is delicious a/f, as explained this week by Politico.

Talk about a bad LA marriage!

In 2018, when Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong pursued the portion of the Times that he didn't already own, he and its staff deluded themselves about life with more of one another in it.

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