#534 - Even the Mayor Says L.A. Isn’t Well Governed (w/ Karen Bass)

• Not safe at home, mayoral edition

• “The guns were decades old”

• The Trump/Mamdani bromance

• The administration’s historic post-fire response

• “You’re walking down the street, you happen to look Latino, or somebody hears you speak Spanish. A car rushes up in front of you. Masked men jump out with rifles and throw you in the car”

• What does “sanctuary city” actually mean?

• Like, no really, what does it mean?

• “You know, that’s a good question”

• “There’s a number of people who have literally disappeared”

• ICE effect on restaurants: Worse than COVID

* Trump effect on border: Closed

• “The Future of the Democratic Party Is Local”

• You lost me at L.A. being governed worth a damn

• Fire rebuilding? “I understand that people are angry”

• Me, 10 years ago: “Affordable-Housing Problem Lies, in Part, with Government”

• “The insurance industry … has been devastating a lot of homeowners”

• The heavily regulated insurance industry, you mean?

• “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn”

• Why prevent Palisades homeowners from rebuilding duplexes?• “Don’t take your lot and turn it into a five-story apartment building”

• “We want to get affordable housing built in this city, but I think that if you impose it on a neighborhood, then you will have hardcore NIMBYs”

• “I didn’t appreciate that, because they were getting ready to change low-income areas, wipe out the single-family homes, and turned it into massive apartments”

• “I’m protecting them from the predations of private developers”

• She really did almost become vice president

• “I love podcasts…. Maybe I wanted to become a newscaster”

• What Karen Bass learned from Angela Davis

• About those eight trips to Cuba

• “What fascinated me about Cuba is that they provided free health care to their population, and free education”

• The LAUSD’s construction boom for non-existent students

• “We could always put more money in our schools”

• “Judge me by how fewer encampments you see on the street. Judge me by crime decreasing. Judge me by affordable housing units being built”

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