Sick Of The City’s Escalating Homeless Crisis, LA Residents Launch An Effort To Recall Mayor Eric Garcetti
Posted at 11:30 am on June 23, 2019 by Alex Parker
https://www.redstate.com/alexparker...nts-launch-effort-recall-mayor-eric-garcetti/
Some people don’t like Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti — or, as one critic called him, Mayor Garsh***y.
And one reason some folks are less than ecstatic fans is the city’s massive and expanding homeless problem.
Last week, CNN reported:
For LA resident Alexandra Datig, it’s time to trade Eric in for a new model. Hence her recall effort, which she discussed with City News Service:
Alexandra’s created the site www.recallthelamayor.com, which provides a ton of info about the issue as well as her reasons why Eric should be removed.
“He can’t handle the crisis,” she explained to the Los Angeles Times. “He needs to step down.”
On Wednesday, the activist appeared on Tucker Carlson to outline the situation (see the video below):
As for her Third World claim, Tucker recently welcomed historian Victor Davis Hanson, who claimed the entire state has reached Third World status (here).
Alexandra told Tucker she doesn’t wanna take any more crap (like here):
She’s filing a notice of intention with the city clerk. If approved, it’ll require over 300,000 signatures of registered city voters. Alexandra also started a Change.org petition; as of Tuesday afternoon, it had 8,000 signatures.
And now I’ll do something I virtually never do: I’ll share a personal anecdote. “How bad is the homeless situation?” you might ask.
One night while driving downtown, I turned onto a side street to nowhere and everything went dark. I guess the streetlights were out. But there was a giant crowd — what looked like maybe 1000 zombies all up and down the road, some walking and hanging out in the road. It was if they’d claimed the street as their village. And about 50 yards ahead, there lay something on my side of the two-lane street. Something that literally took up the entirety of my lane. I couldn’t quite make it out, but it looked like a tarp. As I came up slowly, I began to see that it was a bunch of blankets piled on top of one another. I creeped up to it. And there in the center of the blankets — in the center of the lane — was a woman sleeping.
She was just in bed for the night. A bed she’d made in the middle of the lane.
That’s how bad.
Alexandra Datig thinks she knows how to make it better. I hope she — or someone else who will come along with a different idea — is right.
See more on LA homelessness in the Vice News video below.
-ALEX
[Screenshot from Vice News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YrQ-YxG7Po]
Posted at 11:30 am on June 23, 2019 by Alex Parker
https://www.redstate.com/alexparker...nts-launch-effort-recall-mayor-eric-garcetti/
Some people don’t like Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti — or, as one critic called him, Mayor Garsh***y.
And one reason some folks are less than ecstatic fans is the city’s massive and expanding homeless problem.
Last week, CNN reported:
For LA resident Alexandra Datig, it’s time to trade Eric in for a new model. Hence her recall effort, which she discussed with City News Service:
Alexandra’s created the site www.recallthelamayor.com, which provides a ton of info about the issue as well as her reasons why Eric should be removed.
“He can’t handle the crisis,” she explained to the Los Angeles Times. “He needs to step down.”
On Wednesday, the activist appeared on Tucker Carlson to outline the situation (see the video below):
As for her Third World claim, Tucker recently welcomed historian Victor Davis Hanson, who claimed the entire state has reached Third World status (here).
Alexandra told Tucker she doesn’t wanna take any more crap (like here):
She’s filing a notice of intention with the city clerk. If approved, it’ll require over 300,000 signatures of registered city voters. Alexandra also started a Change.org petition; as of Tuesday afternoon, it had 8,000 signatures.
And now I’ll do something I virtually never do: I’ll share a personal anecdote. “How bad is the homeless situation?” you might ask.
One night while driving downtown, I turned onto a side street to nowhere and everything went dark. I guess the streetlights were out. But there was a giant crowd — what looked like maybe 1000 zombies all up and down the road, some walking and hanging out in the road. It was if they’d claimed the street as their village. And about 50 yards ahead, there lay something on my side of the two-lane street. Something that literally took up the entirety of my lane. I couldn’t quite make it out, but it looked like a tarp. As I came up slowly, I began to see that it was a bunch of blankets piled on top of one another. I creeped up to it. And there in the center of the blankets — in the center of the lane — was a woman sleeping.
She was just in bed for the night. A bed she’d made in the middle of the lane.
That’s how bad.
Alexandra Datig thinks she knows how to make it better. I hope she — or someone else who will come along with a different idea — is right.
See more on LA homelessness in the Vice News video below.
-ALEX
[Screenshot from Vice News, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YrQ-YxG7Po]
