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Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Spencer Pratt blasted LA Mayor Karen Bass’ “performative proclamations” after she announced her so-called brand new enviromental plan for the city.
The reality star turned mayoral candidate slammed Bass’ agenda which includes slashing greenhouse gas emissions and changing how LA residents live/travel in the city, among other recycled ideas that have been in place in the city for years.
“There is a multi-front environmental assault that is devastating the health of Angelenos that she has ignored and exacerbated,” Pratt told The California Post, pointing to the “drug zombie encampments throughout the city” which he said Bass has refused to remove.
“Vagrants are responsible for more than 1/3rd of ALL city fires, often burning toxic waste in heavily populated areas of the city. They also dump human waste directly into storm gutters, which leads to frequent closures of Los Angeles beaches due to toxic levels of dangerous bacteria.”
The reality star admitted EV’s are great but said that “they don’t help the environment when you have a Mayor who allows them to burn up into a toxic heavy metal poison cloud.”
“I want Angelenos to walk more, but it’s tough to do that when you have to step over human feces everywhere. You can’t have a walkable city when you have a Mayor who allows drug zombies to overrun the public streets and make them unsafe.”
When it comes to the mayor’s rehashed plan for the city to have things like 100 percent clean energy by 2035, Pratt said that he wants to reduce consumption and emissions too, but said the city has “far more potent and preventable environmental threats” to deal with “like fires and vagrants, that are being completely disregarded by incompetent and malicious politicians like Karen Basura and Nithya Raman.”
The reality star also pointed to the millions of square feet of aerosolized toxins that were released in the air when his and thousands of homes in the Pacific Palisades burned down, because he said Bass and the City Council “cut the LAFD budget and staffing to 1960’s era levels.”
“Firefighters and residents who endured the fire tested with alarmingly elevated levels of mercury, lead, cadmium, and beryllium poisoning in their blood.”
“Until we tackle these immediate public health threats and eliminate the menace of blight and negligence in the city, these performative gestures are worthless,” the statement added.
“Karen is simply trying to distract from her destruction of the city that Angelenos see (and smell) every day; we’re not fools.”
On Thursday, Bass stood outside the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys and pitched her plan as a major leap forward, despite the fact that many headline targets have actually been underway since 2019.
City Hall says the plan builds on the so-called LA “Green New Deal” introduced by former mayor Eric Garcetti in 2019, and includes more than 50 actions across 14 broad objectives.
However, even marquee pieces of the plan, including phasing out urban oil drilling and slashing emissions from the Port of Los Angeles, have long been city policy.
The California Post reached out to the mayor’s campaign for further comment.
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