"Do you regret cutting the fire department's budget by millions of dollars?" Karen Bass: [silence]
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"Do you regret cutting the fire department's budget by millions of dollars?" Karen Bass: [silence]
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From someone who was there:
Since I'm seeing it everywhere: I worked in LA City Hall when the budget passed. Our office voted No. But the idea that LAFD was "defunded" to increase the LAPD budget is not accurate. Both got increases due to salary hikes. LAFD's deal just happened after the budget process -- LAPD's was before.
Wrong. bsky.app/profile/aliv...
Most succinct fact-check I've read of how LA Fire Dept's budget wasn't recently cut -- in fact, the opposite -- from @politico.com. But that misinformation spread anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Nope. Read this again as to why it came 6 months after. Let me know what big words you need help with. bsky.app/profile/aliv...
Most succinct fact-check I've read of how LA Fire Dept's budget wasn't recently cut -- in fact, the opposite -- from @politico.com. But that misinformation spread anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Not true: “The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department …, so additional funding for the department was set aside … the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...
She should have stayed in LA but seems this is what happened re budget: bsky.app/profile/haye...
Since I'm seeing it everywhere: I worked in LA City Hall when the budget passed. Our office voted No. But the idea that LAFD was "defunded" to increase the LAPD budget is not accurate. Both got increases due to salary hikes. LAFD's deal just happened after the budget process -- LAPD's was before.
It's ironic that this style of "press"is part of what drives Trump to lash out at media. Reporting the truth about his criminality doesn't help. But seriously,who is this idiot & who gives a fk what Elon Musk has to say about anything? "Gotcha" journalism is annoying period. He thinks he's the story