Letters to the Editor: $500,000 for three months' work: What was Mayor Karen Bass thinking?
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Los Angeles Times OpinionWed, February 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM UTC1 min readLos Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and her disaster recovery czar Steve Soboroff in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 27. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
To the editor: Can anyone explain how a seemingly intelligent person such as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass can also have such remarkably poor judgment? ("After critics blast move to pay L.A. wildfire recovery czar $500,000, he'll do it for free," Feb. 8)
Steve Soboroff, appointed to lead the city of L.A.'s recovery effort after last month's fires, appears to be a successful businessman. Yet Bass approved his salary of nearly half a million dollars, to be funded entirely by charitable organizations, for three months' work. Did it not occur to her that the charitable donations for that salary should go toward assisting all those folks who have lost every single thing in their lives?
Eventually, Bass reversed course and said Soboroff would work for free. But I'm not sure what was worse — Bass at first approving the salary, or Soboroff accepting it.
Talk about a race to the bottom!
Diane Lowderback, Tustin
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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And the Democratic mantra of "Just throw money at it" continues. She just got caught or I am sure it would have gone through. As AOC once opined, "You just pay for it".
This is one of those 80/20 issues Trump can clean up on. We've created an entire class of parasite that's make hundreds of thousands of dollars from batshit crazy government contracts and grants to NGOs. It's how Northern Virginia turned into some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
Why? Because it is only a 3 month job. $2,000,000 a year is a lot more!
I am actually surprised they can get an experienced CEO type for that...