“What Has L.A. Leadership Actually Fixed?” - LAMag #shorts

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]What has the mayor of Los Angeles done that has made a material visual difference in her tenure?

[00:00:09]And I'm telling you, she can tick off all this stuff and then blame the fire department on things, but I haven't seen LA working well, and that's a great example. That you have a landmark that is now a drug den, and nothing's being done about it. And it's just it's it's it's sad. It is sad.

[00:00:30]>> I will tell you another I'll give you one last vignette before you talk.

[00:00:34]>> Okay, and then I'm going to tell you my city hall >> to dump your Janis Joplin story on you.

[00:00:38]Uh and this is so people understand the city of LA is a subset within the county of LA, but a lot of times because the county does not have the traditional titular head, or it does have a titular head, that people tend to think of and conflate the mayor with the county, and it's not one in the same like San Francisco. However, the county, when they were trying years ago, uh to appoint, and Kathryn Barger, who's one of the supervisors, tried to appoint uh my buddy uh Dr. Drew to the addiction homelessness um uh kind of advisory committee, where he was going to volunteer to do it. He was drummed out of that appointment, cheer leaded by the usual suspects in LA, because of his so-called views. And here you've got one of the most I think, in my opinion, and full disclosure, is one of my closest friends, and and they drove they just drove him out, and she was forced to rescind it. Speaking of the best people, can you think of somebody better to have addressed, who was the early canary in the coal mine, talking about the disease with the homeless, talking about that this is primarily a mental health issue?

[00:01:54]Yeah, I get it.