The rampant homelessness in Los Angeles is not just an open sore, but an infected, oozing one that Garcetti has been claiming he would solve since he was a city council member. That’s 19 years of promises made… and ignored.
Sure, Jan.
Instead, he has majored in being the Democrat Party’s climber rather than the Mayor of Los Angeles. He spent 8 years sucking up to then-President Barack Obama about transportation funds, with forays into “discussions” about homelessness, while taking every other chance to campaign for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and then to become a surrogate for the Biden campaign in 2020, all with his sights on D.C.
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US House Representative Deb Haaland, a New Mexico Democrat, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 3, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
AP US President-elect Joe Biden selected New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland as his nominee for interior secretary on Thursday, a historic pick that would make her the first Native American to lead the powerful federal agency that has wielded influence over the nation’s tribes for generations.
Tribal leaders and activists around the country, along with many Democratic figures, cheered Haaland’s selection after urging Biden for weeks to choose her to lead the Department of Interior. They stood behind her candidacy even when concerns that Democrats might risk their majority in the House if Haaland yielded her seat in Congress appeared to threaten her nomination.
Biden’s Cabinet picks rankle progressive Democrats
17 Dec 2020 Joe Biden announces Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg as his nominee for secretary of transportation during a news conference at Delaware on Wednesday. Reuters
Andrew Feinberg,
The Independent
As president-elect Joe Biden begins to roll out the balance of his cabinet, some top Democrats are losing patience with the left flank of the party.
The former vice president rode his reputation as an avatar of the center-left to a resounding primary victory over more explicitly left-wing rivals such as Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. But since he became the Democratic Party’s de facto leader this past spring, the soon-to-be 46th president has made a concerted effort to reassure progressives that they will have a voice in an administration that will “look like America”.
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