MIND BOGGLING, SHOCKING, AND UNACCEPTABLE

As you may have heard, Mayor Bass’s Deputy Mayor of public safety Brian K. Williams has pleaded guilty to a felony after making a bomb threat. According to the HAL Turner Radio Show, Williams sent a text message to Bass and other high-ranking city officials on October 3, 2024, that he had just received a call from someone who threatened to bomb city hall, prosecutors said.

‘The male caller stated that “he was tired of the city’s support of Israel, and he has decided to place a bomb in City Hall. It might be in the rotunda,”‘ Williams wrote in the text.

He said he contacted the Los Angeles Police Department, who sent officers to search the building but did not locate any suspicious packages or devices.

Williams showed officers a call he received from a blocked number on his city-issued cellphone that he said was from the person who made the bomb threat.

The call was made by Williams himself through the Google Voice application on his personal phone, according to prosecutors.

“Mr. Williams…not only betrayed the residents of Los Angeles, but responding officers, and the integrity of the office itself, by fabricating a bomb threat,” said Akil Davis, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. “Government officials are held to a heightened standard as we rely on them to safeguard the city.”

“In an era of heated political rhetoric that has sometimes escalated into violence, we cannot allow public officials to make bomb threats,” said United States Attorney Bill Essayli. “My office will continue its efforts to keep the public safe, including from those who violate their duty to uphold the law.”

Our minds are grappling with this news about Williams. The man who Bass chose to have oversight over public safety sent in a bomb threat, and boldly continued to lie to the police and went into detail regarding the threat while making these assertions to the police over which he had oversight? Now he will undoubtedly end up in prison. This is Twilight Zone material. But there is so much more.

TOTAL DISGRACE

A well known appointee of Mayor Bass is Fire Chief Kristin Crowley who proved to the world she was completely incapable of being fire chief and made every wrong decision leading up to and during the LA fires. The result of her failure has caused untold pain and suffering for tens of thousands of Angelinos who lost their homes and everything they had in the fires. Many of them will never recover. Why did Bass choose her? What were the real reasons for her appointment? Questions that need to be answered.

THE HOMELESS ARE LEFT IN THE DUST

Another appointee of Mayor Bass was Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum. Bass personally picked Kellum to be CEO of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The two women had worked closely together on another project and were good friends. Bass declared homelessness a state of emergency and appointed herself to the commission as well. She was confirmed by a unanimous vote of the fawning, ever dutiful City Council. As is not unusual with Bass appointees, things did not work out well for Kellum. In April, Kellum resigned in disgrace and the Board of Supervisors “cut the financial cord” of the LAHSA after millions of dollars had been wasted. Is there anyone in the city who does not know that the LAHSA has been a complete failure?

But with Bass there is always more. According to City Watch, Kellum created more controversy when she signed a $2.1 million contract with a non profit where her husband held a senior position, ignoring LAHSA rules that forbid such conflict of interest contracts. Rules do not pertain to Bass appointees. Kellum’s total compensation for the year was $338,240.73. Not bad for running LAHSA into the ground while thousands of people remain homeless. As a result of Kellum’s complete failure to run LAHSA, the U.S. Attorney’s Office launched the Homelessness Fraud and Corruption Task Force to investigate potential misuse of federal funds designated for homelessness services in Southern California. A fitting end to the tenure of yet another friend of Bass being appointed to spend tax dollars on herself.

SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG

We have one appointee of Mayor Bass who not only makes a bomb threat but is so stupid he doesn’t know the first thing about hiding his tracks. Then there is appointee Denise Verret who has been exposed by the GLAZA declaration as allowing the infrastructure of the zoo to crumble while she spends donor money on throwing herself a party to the tune of over $22K. She spent thousands of dollars redecorating her offices, and hundreds of thousands on travel for herself and her staff. This is the women the City Council believed should decide the fate of Billy and Tina. Kristin Crowley was such an astounding failure as fire chief the repercussions of her inadequacy will be felt for decades. Kellum, a close associate of Bass before her appointment, went on to award herself hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax payer money while leaving the homeless to fend for themselves.

CONCLUSIONS AND QUESTIONS ABOUT BILLY AND TINA

This then displays the judgement of Karen Bass regarding her picks to run the city. It is astoundingly bad. In the light of her complete ineptitude in choosing her team members, the glaring question must be, why did the City Council lay down like doormats and defer all decisions regarding Billy and Tina to Bass and Verret who are devoid of integrity and a part of Bass’s questionable administration? Bass and Verret may very well be suspect in their decision to pay Tulsa $80K to take Billy and Tina into their zoo and breeding facility instead of sending our two elephants to a sanctuary for free. What went on behind closed doors in making this cruel and costly decision? We deserve answers. Why does the City Council not dare to stand up to these two women? It is a question we must ask again and again. And we must continue to insist that any decision made by Bass and Verret regarding the move to Tulsa is null and void and must be overturned by the City Council. One roadblock to them doing so is Marqueez Harris-Dawson, president of the City Council and another crony of Mayor Bass. How beholden is he to Bass? Does he owe her anything? Is he the reason that the City Council refused to take responsibility for the health and welfare of Billy and Tina and left the decision to Bass and Verret even though it cost the city $80K? We need answers from these people. They work for us not for Mayor Bass.

Below is all the contact information for Bass and the City Council. Bass and Verret thought sneaking Billy and Tina out in the middle of the night would shut us all up. Not a chance. Keep emailing and calling and demanding answers. Share this newsletter with friends who do not receive it and tell them to sign up on our mailing list. More protests are scheduled and the NhRP court case is coming up. We will continue to update the information as it comes in.

Email Mayor Bass at bit.ly/contactmayorbass if you live in the county of LA and at david.bright@lacity.org ATTN: Mayor Bass or anna.hovasapian@lacity.org ATTN: Mayor Bass if you live elsewhere in California, the US or out of the country. Email every day and encourage your friends to email as well.

You can leave a message for Mayor Bass at 213-978-0600

Los Angeles City Council Members Information

Ø Councilmember District 1 Eunisses Hernandez

o Email: councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org

o Phone: 213 473-7001

Ø Councilmember District 2 Adrin Nazarian

o Email: Councilmember.Nazarian@lacity.org

o Phone: (213) 473-7002

Ø Councilmember District 3 Bob Blumenfield

o Email: councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org

o Phone: (213) 473-7003

Ø Councilmember District 4 Nithya Raman