23 Dec 2020
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti vetoed a plan backed by black and Latino members of the City Council to redistribute money cut from the police Tuesday because he said it was too focused on everyday needs and not on the “call of history.”
The plan, which was originally passed 13-2, included funding to trim trees, improve parks, and repair sidewalks in poor neighborhoods. The mayor told the
Los Angeles Times that the proposal was too focused on “business as usual.”
In June, as the city was under curfew and the National Guard was on the streets, Garcetti acceded to a demand by Black Lives Matter activists to defund the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) by $150 million, more than 10% of the budget.
22 Dec 2020
Lockdown and shutdown decrees ostensibly issued for public health purposes are “destroying lives,” noted Dave Rubin, host of the Rubin Report, in an interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on Sunday at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, FL.
Marlow invited Rubin, a Californian and Los Angelino, to compare California’s lockdown with the relative openness of Florida. Partial transcript below.
MARLOW: Describe the difference [between California and Florida], because it’s not like the state of California is doing better with the virus than Florida is.
RUBIN: Well, that’s the irony. I mean, if lockdowns worked, if crushing all of these businesses making sure we didn’t go outside, as Eric Garcetti, our mayor, said, canceling everything if any of this worked, wouldn’t we be seeing numbers dropping? Bottoming out? We’d be down here. We would have flattened that curve. Remember when we wanted to flatten the
Mayor Garcetti issued a rare last-minute veto Monday evening, rejecting a city council spending plan to distribute $88.8 million to a range of projects in all 15 council districts.
In an accompanying letter, Garcetti said far too many of the proposed expenditures do not meet the demands of the moment or the call of history.
He said the council should go back to the drawing board and prioritize investing in solutions for:
racial justice and income inequality
jobs for city workers from vulnerable communities facing furloughs and layoffs
alternatives to policing like a pilot program featuring mental health specialists responding to non-violent 9-1-1 calls.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has vetoed a proposal backed by the City Council to spend money diverted from the Los Angeles Police Department’s budget on an array of services, including sidewalk repairs.
Employing a veto power that he rarely uses, Garcetti called for the money to be focused on addressing racial justice and income inequality, avoiding layoffs and more.
“Far too many of the proposed expenditures do not meet the demands of the moment or the call of history,” Garcetti wrote in a letter to the council late Monday about its proposal.
Some council members criticized Garcetti’s action, saying the mayor didn’t give any feedback on the spending plan before Monday.
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