Ana Kasparian

The audit exists because so much of the money that the well, like the kind hearted people in our city voted in favor of raising their own taxes to provide more resources, more revenue to state and local government so they can actually provide help for the homeless people.

Right.

I've been doing investigative reporting about where that money actually went.

Perfect example.

Lots of these nonprofits that are scams.

One of these nonprofits, their whole purpose was to just provide a parking lot, space in a parking lot for people to place their tents.

But each space needed to have a little platform.

The city finally got pressure to go visit and see what's going on in this parking lot.

And they were supposed to provide 88 spaces for a whopping $2.3 million a year, which sounds like a lot of money for just providing a little space for someone to pitch a tent.

they weren't even operating at capacity.

Most of the spaces weren't even usable.

They didn't have the platform built, nothing.

And they weren't carrying out what they were contractually supposed to carry out.

Besides which, why are we paying nonprofits to let people pitch a tent outside?

Are we trying to help people get off the streets?

Are we supposed to get people inside?

So when people see local government malfunctioning like this, they get ideas in their head about what,

Democrats are like nationally.

And I think that's what kind of led to some of, you know, the election results in the last election.

When you see someone like Zoran Mamdani reminding people that public service isn't just about what's flashy, it's about