Vice President Kamala Harris ceremonially swore in Karen Bass as Los Angeles' first elected female Black mayor.
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Striking a tone of unity, Bass said the many, disparate arms of government must come together to confront homelessness.
To move in a new direction “we must have a single strategy” that brings together government, the private sector and other stakeholders,” Bass said, speaking in a downtown theater near City Hall.
She said if people link arms rather than point fingers, lives will be saved. She called that “my mission” as mayor.
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All while being investigated for corruption. Unreal
insane
SHE WILL DO NOTHING, EXCEPT RAISE TAXES FOR RELECTION FOR HER ,JUST WAIT AND SEE 😁😁😁!!!!!
Please don’t expect anything to change.
You are wrong… more free stuff and more crime…
The only thing that’ll change is her pockets!!!
With democrats you can expect nothing to ever change and nothing to ever improve Jamiah71
@Ron S With democrats things will only change for the worse Republicans are a change for the better Start voting republican
It will change it will get worse
Well, Chicago, New Orleans, DC, Atlanta, and all the other wonderful, safe cities already had the same, so I can only hope we see such bold leadership with skyrocketing violent crime rates and finger-pointing.
@You are Trippin you cant even back anything up you say,every dem run city has the worst crime,worst schools,worst corrupt politicians,that when they suck they cry about the right or trump,now your crying about elon musk,lol. and i dont care about the right.but you dems are on drugs
@Jaewon Sung right.. Republican states are high in the high crime murder rate…but he doesn’t know that all he wants to do is blame blacks for his folks inept failures at running the Country 😅😅😅😹😹
@Jaewon Sung other way around? Have you used your eye balls? Or brain? Dem cities are the worst crime ridden garbage you can breed. Anti gun but pro criminal
tell me what is wrong with this country right now. you keep saying it but wont tell us what it is,thats the dem way,blame blame blame. tell me what great things black are doing ,for example,in chicago
@hounddog2952 WATERMELONIQUA?
VP laughing is definitely a bad sign…. Black lives Splatter
I stopped caring about “first black” this “first female” that…just do a good job. It’s about merit, not identity.
The woke movement sees everything through the lens of race and gender. It is a hive mind mentality.
Exactly … the fact she’s block and female shouldn’t have been a note. How about her qualifications? What has she done in her previous role? Liberal media sure loves touting on about race
Actions speak louder than words
People keep making the same mistakes. So sad for cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Houston, and Atlanta and New York. Great American cities that are crumbling because of liberal leadership and polices. This is on the voters. You did this. You did it again.
@Wrex1 Kettles Smh my my my
It doesn’t matter who you vote for, what matters is who counts the votes
@Lovely K lol ok
Eric Garcetti didn’t fix it. So Karen Bass inherited this mess. Give her a chance.
@C Dubya 😂🤣 yeah right. Like I hoped for Lori Lightfoot in Chicago . Garcetti was another Democrat liberal Mayor empty suit. Karen Bass is a phony radical Democrat liberal. She is likely to be even worse than Garcetti
Do people not feel due to todays climate getting positions due to race is becoming an issue? As a black man, if I got promoted at my job due to my race I would feel pretty embarrassed
@C Dubya It aint about race it’s about party. When she leaves the office someday LA will still be the same hell hole it has been for years. Nothing is ever accomplished in dem cities because their mayors are too busy repaying favors and or playing favorites to the woke crowd.
No time to do the people’s business when you got that kind of agenda.
@scanman 67it always broils down to insults and insinuations. This doesn’t compute. I am too far advanced for my huge brain to understand the low brow insults. I send you love, hugs and kisses. 😘
@BlueAlien No you didn’t insinuate anything demeaning in your chirps. See that’s what I’m talking about. You don’t even analyze your comments. Keep plowing your field the same way, cupcake! Sunshine and rainbows, right back at you.
@C Dubya nice you can copy and paste Wikipedia
@BlueAlien
How naïve. Her voters picked her for one or all of three reasons, her skin color, her gender, and/or her party affiliation.
I’d bet the farm that she makes everything worse….but she gets far richer.
It sure must suck that all these firsts end up being absolute train wrecks. Talk about leaving behind a legacy. 😂
I repeat: First BUSINESSMAN to be President. …whose Legacy will be that of Destroying Democracy
@james chan He didnt promote censorship or ban people he didnt like. Thats what democrats do and theyre destroying democracy.
They want the chaos and destruction, they can buy it on the cheap and sell it for tons of $$$ later
@Pyramanager Another Ignorant declaration. Stop embarrassing yourself.
It is going to be exciting to see a continued deterioration for the city and people of LA. Well done.
CRY MORE YOU YT SISSIES WE LOVE YOUR agony 😭😭😭🤣😭
@You are Trippin you should get locked up for crimes,i totally agree,i was in NY recently,they aint doing that there
@t crow bullshit my mother in law lives in New York and this mf just got 7 years for assault on an elderly person…
Ppl slip the cracks every day..like in Idaho… 4 college students butchered.. I reside in Idaho for work at the moment. White kids butchered.. Republican state Republican city
@t crow Idk why you are mad at Kamala Harris she’s Pro LE
at first, I was wholly for Karen Bass, considering the candidates’ backgrounds, and past history. But when I saw one of the debates, I saw strength in Caruso, someone with a plan and the intestinal fortitude to make it happen. My impression of Ms Bass was that of everyone’s Good and Sweet Auntie, smiling while serving you hot fresh baked cookies. But, seriously, there isn’t ONE person that can right this city, nothing will change. The rich will get richer, the poor will continue to suffer, and the city will continue to be filthy.
@glumberty1 but is it ok when politicians make rules FOR the rich and AGAINST the poor? Do you think the answer to the housing crisis is to ELIMINATE the smaller ‘Mom and Pop’ owners by creating rules, regulations and laws that greatly hinder their well being? It’s good for the Rich Developers, and will only make them richer. In the process of creating housing, RENTS WILL SKYROCKET. Good for EVERYONE, right????
So, you’re talking about voting, the ‘voice’ of the people. That’s why we’ve got people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Ted Cruz, etc, in leadership positions. That’s why people would actually support someone so totally unqualified as Herschel Walker. What matters to the people doesn’t matter to the elected leaders. Dream on.
Democrat run cities 🎤
@rselby0654
Nothing good EVER comes from that.
I cant wait to see headlines like “Highest IQ Mayor” or.. “Best Record Mayor”.
@james chan Very well. The country was heading in it’s best shape since Reagan.
@james chan I wanted Ross Perot in 1992.
@Billy Brown selfish concerns…along with Racism, Hatred and Ignorance, they all became first and foremost for the people of this country, STARTING IN 2016.
@Easy Rider Stop declaring your Ignorance.
@james chan 🤡💩 LOL 😂
Identity picks that get the job on other than their own merit and accomplishments will never improve anything in any job they get. Their poor and emotional decisions will only make things worse than ever. She is the best person for the job in all of LA? No way.
Who cares what color she is let’s just hope she does the good job
That’s wtf I’m saying
Because it’s a first. Nothing wrong with celebrating diversity
The only good job she’ll do is fattening her pockets
@SchMasHed nothing says unity like putting a bunch of different people together with nothing in common
@Bagrilla Jenkins Ah, so just keep a bunch of white men in a room and have them make all the decisions that affect the lives of people they have nothing in common with. LMFAO. Just admit you are racist.
The cackling of Kamala is embarrassing. I was driving my friend from Alabama around the city. His question, “We don’t have homeless people in Mobile, why here?”
To be fair, one reason is because large cities have programs for homeless people so they flock to them. Nobody in Mobile is giving them free food, medical checks, and other services. Mobile lacks the infrastructure to support a homeless community so they go elsewhere.
My city didn’t have a large homeless population until stupid people built a huge homeless campus on the edge of downtown that provides numerous types of services. Not only does it serve the local homeless population, but homeless people from other cities moved here or were sent here by other cities to get rid of them. Cities literally give bus tickets to homeless people to get them out of their towns, it’s a known solution.
I used to live in that area. There are countless homeless ppl in Mobile, AL and other places in MS and AL. They are just in the woods. Your friend is obviously a bit slow, or perhaps he is one of those people who overlooks issues that do not affect him. Long story short…there is a homeless problem in literally every city/town and state/territory in the USA. Ignorance of it is why the nation continues to suffer. wake up
Cannot be grateful enough that I’m not anywhere near a city or state with someone like her in charge.
Wow… if this city wasn’t fed up enough over last few years!
Ms. Bass is well qualified to deal with the problems of LA:
A Los Angeles native, Bass attended college at California State University, Dominguez Hills and the University of Southern California.
She spent her career as a social worker and community activist before seeking public office.
Before her election to Congress, Bass represented the 47th district in the California State Assembly for six years.
In 2008, she was elected to serve as the 67th speaker of the California State Assembly, becoming the first African-American woman in United States history to serve as a speaker of a state legislative body.[7][8]
She won the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2010 for her leadership during the Great Recession.[9]
Bass was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010.
She represented California’s 33rd congressional district during her first term, though redistricting moved her to the 37th district in 2012.
She chaired the Congressional Black Caucus during the 116th Congress.[10][11][12]
She also chaired the United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations and the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.