In the latest round of absolute insanity from the woke left, a socialist city councilwoman in Los Angeles who is so woke that she is to the left of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, led the opposition to an ordinance that will clear out and clean out a homeless encampment in the city known for being a spot where violent incidents occur.
The leader of the opposition is Democratic Los Angeles Councilwoman Nithya Raman. She was one of just four “no” votes on a motion put forth by Councilwoman Traci Park to declare an anti-camping zone in Venice, California. Eleven council members voted yes. A nice beach town, Venice has been swamped by a veritable flood tide of homeless encampments, and the residents, who pay sky high taxes for the privilege of living there, are irate.
That fury broke into the open as residents sounded off on Raman, who is currently trying to unseat LA Mayor Bass, over her “no” vote on clearing out the encampment, as they see it as a betrayal and as the sort of thing likely to utterly destroy their nice little town on the beach as the homeless problem metastasizes.
Such came out as they spoke to KTTV reporter Matthew Seedorf about the matter. One resident, for example, commented on the sort of awful violence coming out of the homeless encampment and the anarchy it is causing in the neighborhood, saying, “It was absolutely crazy. I watched a guy get shot and killed across the street.”
Another noted that those in the encampment have been presented with a great many alternatives and have simply rejected them time and time again, saying, “These are individuals that have been offered alternatives again and again and again and are choosing to remain encamped on our streets.”
Even Mayor Bass, known for her far-left beliefs and far-left governance, found the “no” vote on the anti-camping, anti-vagrancy legislation to be utterly abominable. Her office said, in comments to FoxLA, “This is who she is. Councilmember Raman opposes the law prohibiting encampments next to schools and has voted against hundreds of cleanups. This is just another example of her taking us backward.”
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Angrily responding, Raman pretended to be just against duplicate laws that cause compliance difficulty, rather than being against the measure itself, though her other comments bely that. “This part of 41.18 duplicates laws we already have to regulate camping and, at best, succeeds in moving homelessness around a neighborhood,” Raman said.
Defending her far-left stances and views on city management in Los Angeles, Raman told the Los Angeles Times that the city needs to dramatically change how it does things, saying, “Over the last few months in particular, I’ve really begun to feel like unless we have some big changes in how we do things in Los Angeles, that the things we count on are not going to function anymore.” That might be true, but it needs a shift to the right, not a further leftward lurch into disastrous anarchy.