A Random Street Death Becomes Vivid And Real
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This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.
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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.
President Joe Biden's recent re-re-nomination of him just a few weeks ago hasn't been withdrawn, but his White House - which keeps saying how important it is to have an ambassador in India - has yet to re-re-submit Garcetti's paperwork even though the second half of his term is well underway.
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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 Councilmember Nithya Raman keeps dodging this column's direct questions about a recent spike in deaths of homeless people and violent attacks by some of them upon the rest of her local constituency.
Now, yet another homeless person has died...
Raman's media flack has complained that instead of answering our direct questions, The Guss Report and Mayor Sam should quietly accept their prepared, gratuitous statement that speciously sidesteps accountability like so many Brooklyn trolley dodgers back in the day.
That approach may work in mainstream media circles, but not here, because we won't waste your time regurgitating press releases in lieu of direct questions and answers.
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By Daniel Guss
@TheGussReport - Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Deputy Armando Hogan has abruptly retired from the agency during an ongoing investigation into sexual harassment allegations that keep plaguing the LAFD.
Hogan, who newly elected mayor Karen Bass had considered for the LAFD Chief's job, was both a donor and fundraiser for her.
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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 the hard-working feds have an orchestra prepared, as he formally entered his guilty plea this morning.
Today at 2pm on 790-KABC, I'll dig into the details of his racketeering and tax evasion dirty deeds and what it is likely going to cost Huizar when he is eventually sentenced.
As the late, great KABC star Michael Jackson used to say, "do join us!"
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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 warnings about violent attacks on her constituents by homeless addicts, especially in a one-block area of Sherman Oaks. I wrote about that just the other day, also warning Raman of the dangers that some of the homeless also posed to themselves.
As usual, the lawmaker whose predecessor, David Ryu, was ousted after just one term in office, just shrugged.
Within a week, not one, not two, but three homeless people from this one block in the San Fernando Valley died on the streets of what used to be a nicer-than-average neighborhood.
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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 Ventura Boulevard last week after slamming my brakes to avoid driving over a deeply disturbed young man whose life had become so unraveled that he was rolling on the pavement and speaking incoherently in the middle of the bustling intersection.
Beyond risking his own safety, being so low to the ground, he also risked the safety of everyone else in the area, such as another driver who did not see him when quickly changing lanes to avoid the jam he had caused...once again.
I write "once again" because the man's situation became clearer when the first LAPD patrol car and LAFD ambulance rolled up.
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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 since 2001, and his newly minted successor Karen Bass in control, and a homelessness emergency declared with a lot of fanfare, it seems that the big surprise is that Bass's homeless plan is essentially the same as Garcetti's.
So they're cousins!
Identical cousins, all the way!
They laugh alike, they talk alike.
At times they even walk alike.
What a crazy pair!
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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 team yet another five-figure settlement after exposing dubious, corrupt or inept City Hall behavior that it prefers wouldn't surface.
In this instance, the LAPD refused to turn over a few public records from its Computer Assisted Dispatch (CAD) to see what the hubbub is regarding an alleged "domestic incident" at the residence of one Eric Garcetti, the Mayor of Los Angeles, aka "Little Ricky," as the late, great City Hall gadfly John Walsh used to call him.
Oh, you better believe that there's a lot more to this story, because why would the LAPD want to pay this columnist's legal tab if absolutely nothing went down at La Casa de Garcetti?
It isn't the last you'll hear about this situation.
And apparently, it won't be the last check the big wigs cut. It certainly isn't the first.
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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 America and tweeted his emphatic call that Hillary Clinton would soon be the next President of the United States.
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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 loving its City Council meetings these days.
Suddenly, the same politicians who dropped the ball in the immediate moments after the Nury Martinez - Gil Cedillo - Kevin de Leon racism scandal that erupted two weeks ago have suddenly been rendered impotent by boisterous groups, including The People's City Council.
Of course, there's more to the story than just that.
Including this bizarre tweet from the LA Times' David Zahniser.
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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 Department, one day after resigning in disgrace earlier this month, LA City Council President Nury Martinez handed over the keys to her city-issued car, a 2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In, Modern Steel color, purchased for her for $41,551.30, including tax.
The taxpayers also covered her insurance, maintenance and gas up until then.
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By Daniel Guss
@TheGussReport - Well that didn't last long.
Despite syrupy promises of transparency and integrity by newly-minted interim City Council President Paul Krekorian in the wake of an ongoing City Hall racism scandal and stalemate with the two remaining Councilmembers who refuse to resign, ongoing efforts to relentlessly censor and retaliate against this column are in full bloom.
It's amazing what good inside sources and three recent appearances on "The John and Ken Show" on KFI AM 640 will do to stoke City Hall paranoia as it loses its grip on its secrecy habits just a few weeks ahead of a general election.
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By Daniel Guss - In response to my Substack column last night, and specific questions submitted since then, LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley issued this statement:
"The Department was made aware of allegations of misconduct and directed an investigation be conducted. The subject member is currently on paid administrative leave during the course of the investigation. As this is an active investigation, the Department will not comment further."
- LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley
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By Daniel Guss - Have it from several well-placed sources that a mucky-muck with close current ties to LA Mayoral candidate Karen Bass has a "situation" going on and it appears that powerful people don't want it known, at least not yet.
Anyway, my quickie column on this is over at my Substack. While you're there, you might as well sign up for my free newsletter. And don't forget to follow me on The Twitters @TheGussReport.
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By Daniel Guss - It looks like the geniuses at LA City Council are in a pickle.
With Nury Martinez finally realizing that she had to resign in disgrace late yesterday, Jamba Juice Mitch O'Farrell, the president pro tem, is running the show, except that his dearth of leadership is now front and center.
As I predicted on Monday, "there is precisely zero percent chance that even a single City Council meeting can move forward with so many voices calling for Martinez, Cedillo, de Leon and Herrera to resign."
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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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By Daniel Guss
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@TheGussReport - It seems that LA City Council President Nury Martinez is the head honcho ignominiously leading a racist troupe of misanthropes seemingly intend on becoming the new faces of racist LA leaders like those from yesteryear, including former LA Mayor Sam Yorty and LAPD Chief Daryl Gates.
Her pals, Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Leon, along with Los Angeles County Federal of Labor President Ron Herrera apparently bought e-tickets for that racist ride.I explain over at my free Substack. While you're there, sign-up and check out my most recent columns. And don't forget to follow me on The Twitters @TheGussReport.
Back soon.
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By Daniel Guss
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@TheGussReport - Ah, the great joys in life that we never forget.
The first time you ride a bike on your own.
How about your first kiss?
For some LA political observers, perhaps it was when the FBI slapped the cuffs on Mitch Englander, not just because the disgraced former City Councilmember wound up in federal prison, but also because he relished punching down and censoring people with legitimate concerns and pleas for help.
But I'll tell you something good: Who -- who, my friends -- may be next to join The In(dictment) Crowd?
I explain over at my free Substack. While you're there, sign-up and check out my most recent columns. And don't forget to follow me on The Twitters @TheGussReport.
Gotta go! TTYL!
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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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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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By Daniel Guss
@TheGussReport - Los Angeles wanted a far-left approach to criminal justice reform and now it has it for keeps.
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan, whose firing this column called for in 2018, today rejected the latest effort to recall District Attorney George Gascón because organizers allegedly did not provide enough signatures to make the ballot.
It's as simple as that.
While former L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley is pledging to bring Logan to court for allegedly failing to follow updated signature rejection guidelines, don't invest your time, heart or money in that effort. Logan should never have been given that power in the first place because we already knew controversy had followed him to L.A. from his earlier job in Washington State and throughout his tenure in L.A.
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