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BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT ON TWITTER - The Azul is singing the blues these days as it discovers capitalism isn't always a home run. Dodger Stadium - Photo: California by Choice Until ...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/05/dodgers-brand-slammed.html

@THEGUSSREPORT - A column that I wrote last year, "Honest Services Fraud - How City Hall Rigged Its Herb Wesson Vote," detailed how sleazy LA City Hall can get when it wants a certain outcome, ...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/05/karen-basss-city-hall-is-already-rigged.html

@THEGUSSREPORT on Twitter - LARRY GROSS, a holdover appointee of disgraced former LA Mayor ERIC GARCETTI, has been using covert, private email accounts to conceal city business and to also confi...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/05/exclusive-bass-commish-using-hidden.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT on Twitter - With apologies to rockers ELVIS COSTELLO and NICK LOWE as I riff on their hit song title, but what's so scary 'bout truth, transparency and integrity�...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/05/las-paranoid-paralyzed-governments-part.html

By Daniel Guss @THEGUSSREPORT on Twitter - We are 18 months from election day 2024 with a deafening silence from local politicians and media who spent years grandstanding about how California a...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/05/politicians-media-suddenly-silent-on.html

@THEGUSSREPORT on Twitter - A few levels down the City Hall policy food chain, below City Council, the Mayor, Controller and City Attorney, still further down from the lobbyists, unions, departm...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/05/did-these-la-officials-violate-federal.html

@THEGUSSREPORT ON TWITTER - On Tuesday, a prominent Los Angeles attorney who had been nominated by Mayor KAREN BASS to serve on the uber-mundane LOS ANGELES CITY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM (L...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/05/bass-pick-backs-out.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT ON TWITTER - Words not matching actions are once again all the rage at LA City Hall. When former L.A. Mayor RICHAD RIORDAN passed away in April, those with who...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/05/hogwash-and-hypocrisy.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT ON TWITTER - The Los Angeles Police Department finds itself in a genuinely catastrophic and dangerous situation, of which it is the sole architect with no good op...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/04/karma-identity-crisis-at-lapd.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT ON TWITTER - An amusing part of watching wonky and tedious government meetings is when agitating gadflies such as Zuma Dogg, Wayne Spindler and the late John Wals...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/04/in-thick-of-bribery-scheme-mark-ridley.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT ON TWITTER - Paternalistic racism is back in fashion at LA City Hall.  Did it ever really go away? This week, while voters in Council District 6 hold a primary t...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/04/white-power-grab-krekorian.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT on Twitter - Stylish merch and insular, politicized law enforcement is how the Los Angeles Police Department loses the youth branding war, its officers and the fut...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/03/last-week-at-lapd-is-why-young-people.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT ON TWITTER - The Los Angeles Police Department, LA's thin blue line, lost track of the big, bold lies it told on behalf of the Los Angeles Fire Department in cove...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/03/lapd-scrambles-to-cover-up-its-cover-up.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT  on Twitter - During a presentation on March 8th celebrating International Women's Day, LA City Hall's most powerful women posed for photos and made inspiring com...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/03/lafd-command-staffer-made-homicidal.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT - Last week, The Guss Report got its second-highest readership traffic since moving to the Substack platform, when I EXCLUSIVELY EXPOSED A RECENT TEST CHEATING SCAN...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/03/lafd-cheating-is-tip-of-iceberg.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT - Back in October, The Guss Report BROKE THE STORY about a sexual harassment investigation at the LAFD in which its likely next chief, ARMANDO HOGAN, was accused ...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/03/another-lafd-scandal-and-city-hall.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT - A Reseda storefront that appeared to be a weight loss clinic may have actually been an underground illegal casino operation, according to the LAPD, whose investig...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/02/burglary-exposes-possible-underground.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT - Last week, I had productive dialogues with several Los Angeles politicians.  My rule for engaging is simple: conversation or respond directly to emailed question...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/02/one-la-politicians-request.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT - LA City Hall has carved for itself an ignominious place in the recent annals of local political history. Some of its politicians went, or are headed, to federal...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/02/scandal-scarred-city-hall-remains.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT - At 2am on Monday morning, Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) veep JERRETTA SANDOZ was on Fox News Channel perpetuating a debunked story about socialist ...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/02/hugo-soto-martinez-deserves-apology.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT - However many people lose their lives on the streets of Los Angeles on any given day, it is easy to see them as statistics, perhaps as a coping mechanism. Numbers...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-random-street-death-becomes-vivid-and.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT - Former Los Angeles Mayor ERIC GARCETTI won't be going to India as U.S. Ambassador any time soon. President JOE BIDEN's recent re-re-nomination of him just a f...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/01/shade-and-fraud-why-eric-garcetti.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT - Chaos and death keep showing-up in SHERMAN OAKS, almost as frequently as the sunrise, while LA City Councilmember NITHYA RAMAN keeps dodging this column's direc...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/01/another-day-another-death-but-only.html

BY DANIEL GUSS @THEGUSSREPORT - Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Deputy ARMANDO HOGAN has abruptly retired from the agency during an ongoing investigation into sexual harassment allegations t...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/01/exclusive-top-bass-candidate-for-lafd.html

@THEGUSSREPORT - Well, it's time for disgraced former LA City Councilmember JOSE HUIZAR to face the music in federal court, and boy did the hard-working feds have an orchestra prepared, as he for...

http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2023/01/jose-huizar-ill-be-talking-about-his.html