Anyone seen Rick Caruso? So shocked he’s not stepping up to help with the #Homeless crisis in #LosAngeles 🙄
#HomelessnessInCA #LosAngelesMayor #RickCaruso

Anyone seen Rick Caruso? So shocked he’s not stepping up to help with the #Homeless crisis in #LosAngeles 🙄
#HomelessnessInCA #LosAngelesMayor #RickCaruso

#RickCaruso thanked his Korean American supporters at a meeting in #Koreatown yesterday -- He says "I promised #LosAngeles that I won't go back to running the Grove. I will follow that promise. Wherever I will go, I will think and work for the 'City of Angels'": https://news.koreadaily.com/2022/12/12/society/generalsociety/20221212204618676.html

If anyone knows what #GustavoArellano's Mastodon handle is, please let me know. He's always such a delight to read, and his latest, pitch-perfect column puts into perspective just how much money #RickCaruso spent on his mayoral campaign -- "About a third of #KarenBass’ $292-million plan to house 17,000 homeless people."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-27/rick-caruso-mayors-race-104-million-campaign-spending

#LAMayor #Billionaires #Billionaire #LosAngeles #LALife #CityLife #Urbanism #Inequality #EconomicInequality #Homelessness

A Los Angeles billionaire spent $100m on an election bid. Could it have helped the city’s housing crisis?
Experts say the amount spent on the failed campaign would not have been enough to build adequate affordable homes..#LA..#mayor...#RickCaruso https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/17/los-angeles-billionaire-100m-election-campaign-housing-crisis

Sweet! But I don't think #RickCaruso is going to go gently into that good night. #KarenBass #LAMayor https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/16/rep-karen-bass-defeats-billionaire-to-win-la-mayors-race-00068102

There are a lot of things I didn’t like about #RickCaruso - he didn’t understand the job for which he was running, he was a Republican who donated to anti-choice causes until like five minutes before declaring, his paternalistic and white savior-esque ads with children of color… So I’m happy he won’t be mayor of #LosAngeles for all those reasons, but also it always pleases me when someone who thinks they can buy anything and anyone is shown they actually cannot.

#KarenBass beat #RickCaruso to become the next mayor of #LosAngeles! The billionaire developer wasted around $100 million of his own money for his failed bid. Lol

Not sure about the final number, but #RickCaruso spent at least around $100 million of his own money to become mayor of #LosAngeles and it looks like a waste. Lol. It shouldn’t be this close, given that he is a billionaire developer who was a Republican who donated to anti-choice causes until basically five minutes before the election, but I’ll take it.

As of 3:54 PM local time, #KarenBass is up on #RickCaruso 50.78% to 49.22%. If things keep trending this way with Bass increasing her lead—as it did in the primary—Bass will become the next mayor of #LosAngeles https://results.lavote.gov/#year=2022&election=4300

RT @latimes@Twitter.com

One of Caruso's first tenants to pay in bitcoin may be Elon Musk, who operates a store selling Tesla cars at the Americana in Glendale.

“I haven’t talked to Elon about it,” Caruso said. “He may be the first, as a pioneer, to pay his rent in bitcoin.”

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1379879702320480256

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Now you can pay rent in bitcoin, at least at mall magnate Rick Caruso’s apartments:
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-04-07/rick-caruso-bitcoin-rent-grove-americana

#Bitcoin :bitcoin: #BTC #Merchant #Payments #RickCaruso #CarusoProperties #TheGrove #BrandCenter