L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti May Be Taking His Abysmal Performance on the Road as Ambassador to India. | Human Events
Word on the street is that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti may take his years of failed leadership on the road as Ambassador to India for the Biden administration. If that s the case, it means Mayor Garcetti won t have to answer the many questions arising from the Homeless Mecca his policies have created such as whether L.A., now mired in squalor and a multi-level humanitarian crisis, will be ready to host the Olympics in 2028.
[Garcetti] has very little to show for this impeccable pedigree, however.
Garcetti has been in city government for 20 years, eight of which were at the city s helm. Prior to city government, he taught diplomacy at the University of Southern California and world affairs at Occidental College. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and studied ethnicity and nationalism at the London School of Economics. His father is former L.A. District Attorney Gil Garcetti. He has very little to show for this impeccable pedigree, however.
Garcetti has served as the 42nd and current mayor of Los Angeles since 2013. His policy and leadership failings remained mostly off the national stage, however, until 2019, when the story broke on local news was picked up nationally by shows such as Tucker Carlson. L.A. Ignores Piles of Trash and Rats That Could Be Causing Typhus Outbreak. Seemingly all of a sudden, a full-fledged environmental, health, humanitarian, and security crisis could be seen everywhere60,000 people were living rough the equivalent of a mid-size town in the second-largest city in the United States.
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A Rhodes Scholar! No doubt we will get the chance for a meet and greet, hear him speak, and to give money. I can’t wait.