Karen Bass

We are prepared. We are ready.

We're asking people to stay home, to be safe.

Definitely, our biggest concern is tremendous rainfall in a very short period of time.

The curfew set in place June 10 provided successful crime prevention and suppression efforts and protected stores, restaurants, businesses and residents.

I'm not going to leave people on the street, while we're building.

We have got to get -- people die on these streets.

Don't be so negative. We can do this.

The point is you're not going to need a tent!

get 17,000 people off the streets.

I absolutely understand that. We'll have to examine that.

her priority list, homelessness is one, two and three.

I'm going to tell you something.

In Los Angeles, 40,000 people are sleeping on the streets every day. I believe that times of inflection require reflection. And I believe it's time for Angelenos to remind ourselves where we come from and who we are. My first act as mayor…

A fair way to judge it would be encampments should be significantly down if not eliminated, and there should be housing being built, underway, at a much more rapid pace. And there should not be 40,000 people who are unhoused, that's for…

It is impossible to meet this era's declining challenges without African contributions and leaderships.

Throughout my time in Congress, I have worked to shift the paradigm from seeing Africa as a continent that is defined by crisis, conflict, poverty, and corruption, to engaging Africa as a continent with immense opportunities for robust and…

Today, I rise to talk about the nearly half a million young people in our Nation's child welfare system. Last month was National Foster Care Month, a time for our country to come together to acknowledge the half million people in our…

she is the author of the George Floyd Policing Act, which passed the House and is the basis for the president`s executive order that shows a model of how she would govern L.A.

Well, I think $40 million explains that. I mean, I actually think anybody that had $40 million would be close to me.

Forty million dollars is the reason why. I mean, he literally has spent $40 million just to catch up to me. You would think that he would have overtaken me long ago. And the police union have spent $4 million on its attack campaign. I…

There really doesn’t have to -- there really isn’t much of an explanation as I have read.

Oh, yes. Well, as of right now, neither one of us is going to get to 50 plus one.

I absolutely think that it is just straight-up sexism when it comes to my campaign, because I do have a public safety plan that has received criticism from the left, because I am recognizing that crime has increased, and it’s not time to…

I frankly think that it’s one of the reasons why the race is of national significance, because, Joy, as you know, we have spent decades trying to fight for criminal justice reform.

That is actually of great concern to me, Joy, because you are right. We are not dealing with voter suppression here, although I do think that part of the strategy around the deluge of ads, especially the negative ads, was to really…