In this monologue, Dennis Prager (Speaker A) attacks Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for her handling of the Pacific Palisades post‑wildfire rebuilding effort. He frames the initiative as part of a broader “Agenda 2030”/Green New Deal agenda that seeks to redesign the neighborhood from the ground up, stripping residents of representation. Prager alleges that Bass has hired Hagerty Consulting—a firm whose former lead recovery consultants, Walter Malnick and Mark O’Mara, pleaded guilty in 2022‑2023 to defrauding New York City’s Hurricane Sandy relief funds. He argues that hiring these individuals demonstrates Bass’s incompetence and the left’s disregard for taxpayers, suggesting the rebuilding plan is a politically driven transformation rather than a practical response to disaster. Throughout, Prager uses charged language, rhetorical repetition, and a dismissive tone to portray the effort as a top‑down, ideologically motivated scheme that will cost taxpayers heavily while offering no real benefit to the affected community.
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What we're seeing from the left is nothing less than Agenda 2030 in Los Angeles. So they're going to build this council in order to figure out how they should rebuild LA or Pacific Palisades 2.0. That's what they're doing. And they're going to force it down these people's throats. These people have no representation. If you voted for Gavin Newsom, And Karen Bass, you really have no representation. You shot yourselves in the foot. This writer writes about how expensive do you think it'll be to rebuild a small deck on the back of a Pacific Palisades home, um, uh, once a, a panel of experts gets together to redesign the entire neighborhood from the ashes up instead of just bringing builders in? He says this shouldn't surprise us though. Two weeks ago, uh, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass planned to rebuild The Palisades in her own image, led by philanthropist, philanthropist, chief recovery officer and former LAPD Commissioner Steve Soboroff. They'll hire, quote, an outside consultant to handle a significant building rebuilding contract for areas devastated by this month's Palisades fires. That's Karen Bass, the clueless Karen Bass. Now, if you think that Karen Bass is special, If you think Karen Bass is capable of handling such a thing, hat tip, bright fart right here, my formerly fingerprinted fingertips. Former lead recovery consultants at Hagerty Firm hired by Bass pleaded guilty to stealing disaster funds. That's right, two former disaster recovery experts at Hagerty Consulting, which LA Mayor Karen Bass appointed to lead rebuilding efforts after the recent wildfires, pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to defrauding New York City of Hurricane Sandy relief funds. Now, those people— most people with a brain would have said, if you're in government, I'm sure most Republicans would have said that, okay, so these people, you're telling me these guys just pled guilty in 2022 and 2023 for defrauding New York City of Hurricane Sandy relief funds? I don't want them anywhere near my government. Karen Bass, on the other hand, let's hire them. Those are the people for us. All right, so Walter Malnick, who had been hired as a contractor for Evanston, Illinois-based Hagerty Consulting firm, accused in 2022 of having claimed lodging reimbursements to which he was not entitled and of making false statements to investigators. Malnick was described in a press release by another firm as having, quote, managed New York City's post-Sandy $15 billion recovery program, close quote. While at Haggerty, he has since evidently retired from the industry. Another then-Haggerty consultant, Mark O'Mara, was accused of claiming more than $250,000 worth of reimbursements to which he was not entitled and of trying to destroy evidence. Both pleaded guilty for reaching plea agreements. Now I could go through all the details, but let me just spare some of the details here because they get, uh, they get pretty wonky. Yeah, these people are the people that Karen Bass, uh, hired to help her rebuild LA. Yeah, yeah. Um, Green New Deal, Agenda 2030. You think the left cares about defrauding you, ripping you off? They don't give a flip about you, and they never have. They never will. They want to fundamentally transform America. And fundamentally transforming America means shut up and listen. It really does. It really does. It means shut up and listen.
