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Los Angeles is in competition with Chicago to be the nation’s most corrupt city.
"Apparently, if the DWP budget has a surplus of money, it is supposed to hand that money over to the City … but instead, DWP tried to hold that money hostage to get the City Council to approve another rate increase. That's the old news. The current story focuses on upcoming legislation aimed at preventing DWP from repeating that offense. It isn't the legislation that is so interesting … it is the underlying story that makes me shake my head.....Let me rephrase that. The City and DWP conspire to extort money from the public and now there is legislation to prevent one of the coconspirators from extorting the other by withholding their partner's share of their ill gotten gains."
Thieves stealing from thieves--and both thieves are government. No where in this corruption is the public represented, just stolen from and lied to, by elected officials.
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"Apparently, if the DWP budget has a surplus of money, it is supposed to hand that money over to the City … but instead, DWP tried to hold that money hostage to get the City Council to approve another rate increase. That's the old news. The current story focuses on upcoming legislation aimed at preventing DWP from repeating that offense. It isn't the legislation that is so interesting … it is the underlying story that makes me shake my head.....Let me rephrase that. The City and DWP conspire to extort money from the public and now there is legislation to prevent one of the coconspirators from extorting the other by withholding their partner's share of their ill gotten gains."
Thieves stealing from thieves--and both thieves are government. No where in this corruption is the public represented, just stolen from and lied to, by elected officials.
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