Los Angeles. July 13 2026.
City government in Los Angeles is charged with corruption and abuse of federal funds. Does anyone in the government care? Of course not!!!!!
TO CITY CLERK. PLEASE PROVIDE CONTACT INFO FOR THE MAYOR KAREN BASS OFFICE AND STAFF. A link will suffice. REFERENCE:
Today’s date is Sunday, July 12, and what follows is a fictional interview with Mayor Karen Bass, city of Los Angeles.
ME: Mayor, I want to start off with, you are the mayor of the city, aren’t you?
MAYOR : Yes, I am the mayor of the city; I believe that is true.
ME: Okay, mayor, so… I want to address the… housing services in the City of Los Angeles. Have you read the City of Los Angeles Municipal Code, definition of Housing Services? (LAMC Sec. 151.02, Definition of Housing Services).”
MAYOR: I don’t know if I have or not. I think I have. I think that is true.
ME: Okay, Mayor. Well, let me… ask you, do you understand that the definition of housing services…
MAYOR: Uh, yes, uh, duh, duh. D U H. I don’t know. I don’t know.
ME: Okay, so let me ask you, uh… if the definition includes housing services, “including… but not limited to”. Have you read that section?
MAYOR: Uh… I don’t know. I don’t know what that section means. I don’t know what “including, but not limited to” means.
ME: Okay, Mayor, thank you very much. Um, so I would say that, including, but not limited to, means, uh, an intercom, as well as, uh… parking, which would be handicap parking, and which is the subject of this complaint, is handicap parking. And, uh, the subjects of the complaint would be an accessible unit, an indoor monitor for the intercom system, and, um, a unit door viewer. Now, what I wanted to know, Mayor, is whether you are aware of what the word “accessible” means?
MAYOR: Uh, I’m not sure what that word means, but I have heard of it.
ME: Okay, well, the word “accessible” is related to the city’s obligation to make sure these buildings, most of them, at least, comply with the disability requirements under the ADA, the FHA, and also any city building codes. Were you aware that the intercom system, the unit door peephole, and the handicapped parking, are you aware that those are Los Angeles building code requirements?
MAYOR: Duh, duh, duh. I was not aware of that.
ME: Okay, so, this is a complaint that went before… the City Department of Civil and Human Rights and Equity. Wow, that sounds pretty important, Mayor, doesn’t it?
MAYOR: Duh, duh, duh. I don’t know.
ME: Well, anyway, civil human rights, human rights to what? I don’t know, civil rights. I don’t know if that civil rights would be the discrimination laws. So, is this department handling discrimination laws on the local level, in terms of federal and state requirements? Or does this department have some type of separate requirements that is kind of unknown to the public? And I don’t know what human rights means, and I don’t know what equity means. I have an opinion of what equity means, but equity means some type of fairness, some type of equal treatment, I think. So, I’ve given you information on the essence of this complaint, which is the handicap parking stall, the unit door accessible wheelchair height peephole and the intercom interface in the unit for the tenants to use. Now, does this sound like this is a equity problem here, a matter of fairness, to all tenants and all tenants be treated in equal matter, and does the civil and human rights and equity department have any authority over civil and human rights and equity? If they do have authority, what would be their authority, Mayor? Case DIS0002519.
MAYOR: I don’t know. I duh, um, I, I have to think about it, because I don’t know.
ME: So is that department just in the role of taking a questionnaire, or do they represent that they actually have enforcement power?
MAYOR: I will have to check.
ME: Okay, let’s move on a little bit. Now. Have you heard of the state Unruh Act, under Civil Code sections 51 52. Have you heard of that, Mayor? Because that’s an act that requires action on the part of the city government. The city government cannot engage in any type of discrimination or retaliation against those in the protected categories, like race, sex, disability. The city government cannot engage in arbitrary discrimination. Have you heard of that law?
MAYOR: Duh, duh. I have not heard of that law. But I will look it up.
ME: Okay, so this complaint was in reference to a private owner and building that receives the government HUD and Section 8 funding, and yet the complaint was dismissed by your city government department. And I’m just trying to figure out why your city government department didn’t exert any authority over these Section 8 monies in connection with this privately owned property? Does this not sound like corruption to you that this government-funded property is not accessible to those with disabilities? Why is your code enforcement department not able to cite this property? Uh, have you, are you, are you aware of, uh, Section 8 funding? Do you know what that is?
MAYOR: Duh, I believe it’s some type of federal program?
ME: Well, good, Mayor. Good, because you’re aware that the city, uh, hands out section 8 monies… to, uh, to properties. You are aware of that, aren’t you?
MAYOR: Duh, duh, duh, no, don’t know.
ME: Now, my question is, the civil and human rights department, civil and human rights and equity department, they have, do they have any authority to restore housing services that are being denied to Black and Latino tenants, and if they do have the authority, or don’t have the authority, is that stated, in their, uh, advertisement and their internet website?
MAYOR: Uh, duh, duh. I don’t really know, I don’t really know.
ME: Now, recently, there was a case before the, uh, civil rights department and, uh, a gentleman named, city employee named, uh, Thomas Scott. And there’s no indication that he used the McDonnell Douglas burden shifting in his so-called investigation. Now, I assume it’s an investigation. I haven’t been told it’s not an investigation by Thomas Scott or his department. What I have been told by other sources that your department doesn’t have any authority to investigate. So I’m just trying to figure out why they represented that they have authority to investigate, and yet they don’t have authority; they can’t say, well, this happened or that happened. They don’t have any authority. Um… Could you answer, Mayor, why, if housing services are being denied and using federal Section 8 money, your discrimination department is not able to take any type of action to enforce the city building code?
MAYOR: Duh. Duh. I don’t really know the answer to that question.
ME: Now, the, uh, Department of Disabilities claims that they can’t release any information that’s in the file; they can’t release to the public; they’re claiming confidentiality. Isn’t it true that many of the documents that were given to the department on disability were already a matter of public record, either being in lawsuits against the city, or they were in council agenda items that were posted to the internet by the city clerk’s office I’m wondering why these documents that were already before the public domain; why city employee Thomas Scott would get away with actually misrepresenting to the record that these documents are entitled to some type of confidentiality. The claimant has already made a public release of the documents, which you and Scott are aware of. And the claimant has given permission for the documents to be released to the Public. Could you explain that to me, Mayor Bass, because it just seems like the city has used this to protect discrimination and protect the landlords from scrutiny, from tenants and from the government. And I can’t understand why you would want landlords not to be scrutinized by city government when really that is the purpose of city government and the housing department to scrutinize these landlords. So how can you scrutinize somebody when you have closed the file and will not open it to examination, and under the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting rule, you even refuse the complainant opportunity to rebut the position of the owner and the city working in concert? Can you answer that, Mayor?
MAYOR: Duh. I don’t really know, I don’t really know.
ME: Do you feel, Mayor, that tenants are entitled to know what the conditions are when they live in these buildings that are government funded? Should they be able to find out what the landlord wants or does not want in these buildings? And that if the landlord has a secret conversation, which is a secret conversation behind closed doors, type of situation with the civil rights department, which has your name on the letterhead, Mayor, are they entitled to have these types of secret meetings away from their purview of the public?
ME: Uh… D U H. I do not know.
ME: So, is your office able to give me a list of documents that are in the public domain, documents that Mr. Scott has said are entitled to confidentiality, and cannot release due to privacy? Can you indicate to me that any of those documents that you claim are entitled to privacy are already a matter of public record? Can you indicate to me that Mr. Scott will be releasing copies of those documents that are already in the public record, that he’ll be releasing them to myself and the public? Can you answer that question, Mayor? Without waiver here, I can understand possibly redacting parts of documents, but I can’t see that the government has justified not releasing the entire file? Shouldn’t the discriminatory conduct of the apartment building owner be able to be questioned by tenants and applicants as part of the city public record?
MAYOR: Duh, duh. Duh. I don’t know. I don’t know the answer to that.
ME: Okay, mayor, just one more question. Your interviewer, uh, city employee, Thomas Scott, claims that, uh, he feels there was no discrimination based on medical condition. It doesn’t seem like, for the record, he indicated what the medical condition was, and he doesn’t indicate what the response of the city, uh, Section 8, or HUD, doesn’t indicate what the response was of the property owner. And he did not give the complainant a fair opportunity to rebut those allegations, and in fact, he’s not even given a copy of what the owner’s position was. So my question to you is, Mayor, since you’re the mayor of the city, are you able to determine what was the response of the Section 8 HUD private owner, receiving government assistance? What was his response to these, uh, these complaints of medical condition and disability discrimination? What was the owner’s response? So that the public coming into these buildings and properties can have a fair opportunity to know what the conditions are. And this complaint involves denial of wheelchair height peephole, denial of handicap parking stall, and denial of Intercom unit connection, or interface. Isn’t the city mandate to ensure there is accessible housing services? Isn’t the building code a matter of public record? So is this what tenants can expect under your secret reign of terror, Mayor Karen Bass?
MAYOR: Duh. I don’t really know, I don’t know. I’ll have to look into that.
This has been a fictional interview with Mayor Karen Bass, City of Los Angeles. Today’s date is July 12th, 2026. Thank you very much. (This has been a history of Los Angeles government based on government documents. https://cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2026/26-0785_PC_M_06-09-2026.pdf. 26-0785 CIVIL RIGHTS, EQUITY, IMMIGRATION, AGING, AND DISABILITY
COMMITTEE REPORT relative to the appointment of Abigail Marquez as permanent General
Manager of the Community Investment Department. THIS MATTER IS OPPOSED due to the
City government’s abuse of federal funds, evidenced by lack of enforcement of accessibility
building codes, and housing discrimination against Black, Latino, and disabled tenants.) (This is a History of Los Angeles City government document, linked to the Public.)
LA Rent Control (RAC) and Permits (LADBS) 