Karen Bass likely cheated in the last election over Rick Caruso, and she will cheat again, but it’s possible that Spencer and his campaign have finally, at long last, cracked the code for how to win in this bright blue hellhole.
The magical winning formula? It’s not an election about politics. It’s about survival. Left and right don’t matter anymore. Either we continue to get chased out of our own neighborhoods by gangs, fentanyl zombies, and robbed by the city’s corrupt homeless-NGO elite, or we put a stop to it. We either get the tents off our streets, or we never will. We either keep on dying, or we start living.
No new laws are required. We simply enforce laws and homelessness disappears. “But where do these poor homeless junkies go?” Answer: wherever they want, as long as its not on the public byways of Los Angeles. Santa Monica doesn’t seem to mind being overrun by the zombies: the Third Street Promenade has plenty of room for more tents!
So to me, he’s basically a blank slate. I became aware of him immediately after the fires when he started using X to post outraged rants about the destruction of his home and Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
The fire that took his home also took my own childhood home on Via de la Paz, which we lived in until I was five, and my mother’s longtime home in Malibu. My preschool burned down (Methodist). My childhood library is gone. All the local stores I remember. An entire community in ash.