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“Bullsh*t!” Rick Caruso Says To Bill Maher Of Potential Federal Conditions On L.A. Wildfire Aid; Ex-Mayoral Candidate Teases Another Run
The man who was almost Mayor of LA was sure talking like a candidate on HBO tonight in the ongoing fallout of the devastating LA wildfires
Before the one-on-one with Caruso, the host set the tone for Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher Season 23 premiere right near the top of the show with quips about the air quality in the LA and remarks not to “make fun of rednecks who have their home on wheels.” Still, it wasn’t all jokes in the monologue with praise to firefighters, “who saved our ass” and of course more than a fistful of barbs against the Oval Office return of Donald Trump and his MAGA gang. Naming businessman and ex-police commission President Steve Soboroff today as LA’s Chief Recovery Officer in a gig that many think should have gone to Caruso, Mayor Bass said “there’s no greater priority than getting people back home.” A week and a half after the firestorms that reduced swaths of the Palisades, Pasadena and Altadena to dust hit the City of Angels and with around 200,000 people still evacuated, Bass also insisted Friday that the city will unveil its rebuilding strategy next week. Having lost to Karen Bass by almost 10% back in the November 8, 2022 runoff with his multi-million dollar self-financed race, real estate developer and former police commission President Caruso was all over TV, the internet and social media in the early hours of the Santa Ana winds pummeled LA and fast moving fires broke out all of the vast and very dry county.
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