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@LADOTofficial This stretch of road is already narrow, missing turn lanes, and there is 0 room to make bike lanes without a reduction of 1 traffic lane minimum. This will gridlock the area.

Updates for Pico Blvd! Check out the proposed final design for 3.5 miles of safety improvements between Crenshaw Blvd and Figueroa St. Featuring protected bike lanes, and new signals! View the final design and share your thoughts: ladot.typeform.com/pico-blvd?type…

@Susan_Shelley Please don’t forget that we just got done replacing all the lights to prevent light pollution.

Karen Bass is campaigning for her 120% increase in the streetlight assessment, which property owners are voting on until June 2. Bass has no plan to arrest copper wire thieves, only a plan to raise taxes.

@CAgovernor Giving away housing doesn’t work. Build sanitariums and drug rehab centers

California's Cap-and-Invest program is building another 380+ affordable homes in Union City, Redwood City, Oakland, and Coachella! Our bold investments and local partnerships are making historic progress confronting our decades-in-the-making housing and homelessness crises.

@greendragonhq Please explain CA. One of the highest tax rates and lowest quality of life. The. Please explain Wisconsin. Low tax rates, one of the highest quality of living

There is a direct correlation between states with higher tax rates and higher quality of life. If you want to pay 5% less in taxes but live in a place that has a life expectancy 6 years shorter, terrible public schools, failing infrastructure, bottom tier healthcare, high obesity rates and a murder rate 300% higher than be my guest. Personally, I’m happy to pay my taxes in Massachusetts knowing we have the best schools, healthcare and safety in the country.

@BillKristol How is taking out loans closing a deficit? It’s kicking the can down the road. I’m not trolling. Seriously asking.

Mamdani has proposed a balanced budget for next year, with level spending while closing a $12b deficit. Trump's budget proposal increases the deficit by about $300b, with a massive deficit next year of more than $2 trillion. Fiscal responsibility? Mamdani > Trump.

@meghan_daum Someone who doesn’t want public office like Carouso as an Advisor. The less the person wants an elected office the more I would want them in one, or an advisor role.

Question: if Spencer Pratt became LA mayor and functioned mostly as a kind of figurehead who was surrounded by a highly competent and forward-thinking team of advisors/deputies, who would be on that team? (Try to be serious, please.)

@HankeyLeone Your viewpoint on Pratt is obvious. I would like to encourage you to not try to make inferences from an image and jump to conclusions that just aren’t there. There is plenty of things you can criticize about him, but this kind of stretch hurts your credibility.

Cleaning here is a dog whistle for ethnic cleansing, and dehumanizing unhoused people. The ugliness of the billboard is intentional, to refer to the 40s and 50s when L.A. was mainly white people.

@NotBUFFY_VS @Yahir96298390 @firagawalkwthme I forgot you know his motives and have anecdotal evidence. I posed possibilities and you responded with erroneous arguments that show close mindedness and entrenchment. To disregard possibilities because they don’t fit your viewpoint is problematic at best.

@wrongyetagain @Yahir96298390 @firagawalkwthme His comments R targeted 2U. And I’ve worked on political campaigns, some heated, & NONE of them had campaign offices outside the district, let alone the city they’re running to represent. Stop making excuses 4 this grifter. He doesn’t want 2pay L.A. rent prices4 office space.

Thought people were exaggerating but no Pratt’s campaign offices aren’t even in LA county

@Yahir96298390 @firagawalkwthme Same thing as where an office is doesn’t mean anything? That’s exactly my point

@Yahir96298390 @firagawalkwthme That means absolutely nothing. Saying he has a vacation home in another state doesn’t mean he isn’t a representative of our state.

@KanaPalapala @firagawalkwthme Would love for 3 million plus angelenos to attend those. Yes editing and tertiary segments will be skewed. if good can come from it I hope to look for a positive. I already appreciate the change in debate over overarching policy conversations

@adumb_du1973 lol how do you do all your mental gymnastics to defend attacking my comment that suggests their may be reasons someone would choose to not have their campaign office in the city they are running in. No support of the candidate. Just suggesting there may be reasons.

Imagine defending a guy who said he’s gonna solve the homeless problem and then saying retarded things like “wait til he’s mayor and he’ll move his office to skid row to solve it”

@moviedouche @firagawalkwthme It wasn’t an argument. It was merely a suggestion that there may be a multitude of reasons someone might consider offices outside of the city. To belittle things outside your prerogative suggests rigidity and entrenchment. Translated: close minded behavior.

@wrongyetagain @firagawalkwthme I mean there are billboards in the main tweet so it was mentioned lol. But it’s the same for billboards or campaign offices lol. Your argument is equally stupid for both

@KanaPalapala @firagawalkwthme He’s actually already shooting and there is a provision to continue if he becomes mayor. I don’t really have a problem with that. Should hopefully provide insight into process and transparency. Still think he would most likely be ineffective, might be nice to see why if he wins

@moviedouche @firagawalkwthme No one mentioned billboards. Please don’t call things dumb if you don’t read the post and understand it. The discussion is about campaign offices. There were words with the pictures.

@wrongyetagain @firagawalkwthme That’s the dumbest excuse yet for billboards not being in LA lmao

@armando76usa1 @katieporterca Yeah it’s not really possible to allocate 3.1 billion of the 5.3 billion dollar general fund to one line item in my opinion without cuts to programs or tax increases. That’s my point. Where exactly is the $$$ going to come from? That 200,000 number is current CA res in UCs

@wrongyetagain @katieporterca 2 years at CC free- not low cost $5.3 billion in state General Fund support. This funding is to support "enrollment growth and student success." This funding will have to be enough to cover the cost of the 200K undergraduates you mention. Waste will have to be cut.

Any politician can make promises. I’m the only candidate for governor who has spent her career taking on powerful special interests for working people—and winning.

@ShadeyHoward @centristpeater @SaltyPlato You have no idea how intelligent discourse works.

@wrongyetagain @centristpeater @SaltyPlato dude, shut the fuck up. You have no idea how life works.

I'm a weird gay chef in Pittsburgh. Here's why you shouldn't vote for Spencer Pratt for mayor of LA: 1. I heard he didn't want strawberry jam on his pastry.

@BalihiMaiTai @firagawalkwthme I get that’s your opinion. I don’t necessarily disagree, but I was providing “possible reasons for not” Also LA to Mexico boarder is 2.25 hrs not 4. He also probably doesn’t need to visit that office at all or frequently

@wrongyetagain @firagawalkwthme His office should be in LA County at least. Being a four-hour drive away is not expeditious.

@armando76usa1 @katieporterca 1) community college isn’t free (low cost but not free) 2) if accepted to a UC at high school graduation it would be 4 years. 3) 200,000 residents attend UCs each year at an avg of $15,500 per. 3.1 billion is the price tag for what she is proposing.

@wrongyetagain @katieporterca California already has free two-years of college. Making it 4, won't add to the deficit. The tuition & fees students paid are over & above what UC's already get to cover basic costs of the 4 year programs even when the student already completed the first 2 at a community college.