"Pratt seems like he has the smarts to divert funds from programs that benefit illegal alien causes and needle give-a-ways to druggies to legitimate programs like Police and Fire protection." Reader comment.
"Furious Los Angeles firefighters have dumped hundreds of thousands of signatures on City Hall, demanding it raises sales taxes to cover chronic shortages across the Los Angeles Fire Department.
"LAFD bosses have warned for months they are desperately overstretched with a massive cash shortfall, and some staff are even going unpaid while pulling mammoth 48-hour shifts fighting the flames.
"But in her budget last month, Mayor Karen Bass refused to raise their funding, despite a deadly wildfire wiping out large swathes of the city last year.
"Dozens of firefighters on Tuesday morning turned up at the City Clerk’s office and handed over boxes stashed with 200,000 signatures for a ballot measure to hike the city’s sales tax.
"They want to bring the tax up by half a cent to fund more firefighters, ambulances, fire trucks, and fix up crumbling, decades-old stations.
"Firefighters say the campaign has become a last-ditch attempt to stop response times from slipping even further in the second-largest city in the US." . . . More...
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