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Foreign. Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. I was next to Spencer Pratt in Pacific Palisades on January 7 this year when he announced that he was running for mayor of Los Angeles. There were a lot of people in the crowd, a lot of Palisadians who had lost their homes and Spencer's work, shining a light on the fraud and unfair practices of the city and state in terms of really helping fire victims and helping families get permits to rebuild. He was met with applause because even though it might have been or seemed like a single issue at the time, in that moment, his candidate has morphed into something much greater. And you know, there are a lot of people who are moved into politics because of single issues, and Spencer Pratt may be that person. But I have to tell you, having gone across the country, I'm on tour right now on my Enemies of Freedom tour. And you know, whether or not it's the Midwest in Nebraska or Salt Lake City or Vegas, people are paying attention to this race because the city of Los Angeles is being taken over by progressives the way New York and Chicago and Seattle have been. And there are a lot of people who are very concerned that progressivism will spread throughout the country and throughout the Democrat party to the point where, you know, traditional moderate Democrat ideas no longer resonate with a very loud minority of the party who will ultimately control it. So who is going to control Los Angeles? Right now? Spencer Pratt is controlling this race. And that is because he feels, rightly so, that Karen Bass and her horrible policies were the cause of Pratt and his family losing both their homes. His family home with his wife, Heidi. Remember Spidey? Yes. And his parents also lost their home in the Palisades, as did pretty much everyone I know. As you know, I've had a home of the Palisades for 24 years. My girls were born at a hospital in Santa Monica and took them home to the Palisades where they spent their time in elementary school before we moved back and forth between New York and Los Angeles and pretty much everything they have known from their childhood has burned down. And there's a lot of sadness and a lot of pain still with people in our community because there are people there who, you know, we. We've always heard about the millionaire next door. There are a lot of people like that. There are a lot of ingenuity of hard working people. Some of them are wealthy, some of them are not at all and moved into condominiums in order to access the good public schools that used to exist. In the Palisades. And you know, there are people who just wanted to live in a part of Los Angeles that felt safer because saf so much of it, including Santa Monica, which is not part of Los Angeles, that is its own city, but you know, it's a part of Southern California. It's a part of the Los Angeles area that has been overrun total blocks by homeless drug addicts who are basically running the streets and making once really vibrant parts of those cities unlivable. Venice is the same way. So the Palisades was always a safer, quieter enclave. And yes, there were some rich people there in the fancy parts of the Palisades, the Riviera. But then there were parts like my neighborhood where there were families who worked really hard and a lot of them bought homes a few decades ago. Some people have several neighbors who inherited homes from parents or grandparents. And many of those burned to the ground. So Spencer Pratt in that moment tapped into the frustration which hasn't gone away because I know, I think one person who has actually moved back into their home on my street because she paid for the remediation herself, because the government and the insurance companies have absolutely failed everyone. And you cannot imagine the enormous number of people who are being forced into litigation with their insurance companies, and rightly so, because these bastards aren't paying out, they're not paying claims, they're not honoring the policies. And whatever insurance you think you have right now, your insurance company will find a way, if you ever have to make a claim, especially on something like a wildfire or natural disaster, they will find a way of skirting around it and blaming you. And you know, delay, deny, defend, that is, that's exactly what they're doing to these residents. So, you know, Spencer Pratt looks at that. He learned a lot about the issues. He invited various politicians to come to the Palisades. He's been on with Adam Carolla several times. Adam Carolla has done some incredible work sort of highlighting the burned down properties in Malibu and the Palisades. And there are people there who used to be Democrats, who are now not necessarily political. They're just angry because their policies are running out in terms of being able to rent a home for what they thought was a short period of time so they could get permits, get a settlement and move back in. That is not happening. I think I know one other person on a street about a mile away and they are starting to frame their home. But so many of these families are completely underserved. And that is the. It's just a microcosm of the poor governance in Los Angeles. Don't go anywhere more. Kennedy saves the world right after this. Everywhere I go, people ask, can Spencer Pratt win At the rate he's going now, yes, he can. It might go to a runoff between him and Karen Bass. And my feeling is the more time he has to make his case between now and the election, the better it will be for him. And it's not going to be an easy road. This is a big majority Democrat stronghold, but you don't have to run as a Republican to resonate with people who have lost so much. And there's not a person in Los Angeles who doesn't know someone who lost their home. And either Pacific Palisades or Altadena. And you know, I'm one of those people whose home is compromised and we can't move back in because the insurance company won't pay for the remediation. And they're starting to blame the fire victims and they say, well, you know, maybe it was like that beforehand. No, it turns out my home wasn't covered in lead and arsenic and soot and ash a year and a half ago. It was actually pretty great. Uh, but you know, it, it's not just what happened from the fires and it, it's not just the incompetence, but the incompetence that really showed itself during the fires. From the empty reservoir to the fire trucks that went unserviced and the number of firefighters who were allowed to retire or resign without getting new firefighters to take their place. All you have to do is talk to some of the, the men and women who are on the front lines trying to battle the blaze, and they will tell you tearfully that when they went to access the hydrants, there was no water. They had no water with which to fight the fires. And, and because of that, Karen Bass, while she was in Ghana, let our town burn. Well, look at what she has done to skid row. And now we're hearing about canvassers who were paying homeless people in cash to sign them up and register them as voters so they would vote on ballot initiatives. And that, it turns out, is. Is illegal. You cannot pay people to vote. That is a no. No. So there's only one person so far who's been charged there. But that is just another example of why might they want to keep as many homeless people as possible in one place. Because that community is seen as a useful pawn and also a great generator of money for the corrupt cronyism that has taken hold not only in Los Angeles, but California in general, you know, it's like you can't make the claim that cronyism doesn't exist because you can refute that with every subject at every turn. Just look at Gavin Newsom's free diapers. And you know, Steve Hilton has gone to the drugstore and he has priced diapers and they are far cheaper than what taxpayers will be on the hook for for Gavin Newsom's free diapers, which aren't free. And in fact, it's a pretty hefty price tag that is going to his wife's good friend, the first partner of California, Jennifer Siebel Newsome. Oh my gosh, I know someone who makes diapers. So that is what Spencer Pratt is running against. It is the entire system that is flawed and it's not good enough. And I don't care how liberal you are, you cannot look around at a city and a state that has spent so much money and just take homelessness. The billions of dollars that has been spent on homelessness. Has it gotten better? No, actually it has gotten worse. The numbers have grown. And the relative number of the population of California versus the population of homeless people in California, they're maybe 12% of the population in California of United States citizens, yet they have an estimated 30% of the homeless population of the entire country. And that needle has not moved in terms of improving outcomes for the unhoused, as they like to call them. But I do hope Spencer Pratt wins, and I hope it shocks the out of the political establishment in Los Angeles and in California, because they have done such an incredible disservice not only to homeless people, not only to fire victims, but students in LAUSD who can't read, who feel unsafe, and whose families don't have the choices to move to see safer parts of the city because they have been forced to live in districts where there are very, very few choices. And with the economic immobility that follows from high taxation and high regulation, they're pretty much stuck there. And I hope those people who feel stuck, who feel unsafe, they vote against a system who has kept them there, who, you know, like the homeless population in skid row, also sees them as a pawn. You are not. You are free thinking individuals and you deserve to live in a place where you have someone who is totally non traditional stand up. And I don't give a crap if his fans are making AI commercials that his campaign then amplifies because it's a lot cheaper than the stupid, highly expensive route that politicians and in California have, have used for years using things like union dues that then go to pay the, you know, political action committees or the advertising tabs of politicians who they think will benefit them. If it is an individual using AI to get his message out and it's resonating, good, I hope it changes politics for forever because the system in Los Angeles, the system in California and the politicians who are a result of that system, they all suck and they deserve to be thrown out of office like people, people like Spencer Pratt who makes them very, very uncomfortable. This has been Kennedy Saves the World. Go Spencer. I'm Ken. Listen ad free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts and Amazon Prime. 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