Leave leftists in charge, and government degenerates into a looting spree. Los Angeles County recently paid out $2 million to its CEO to settle her claim that she was harmed by a ballot measure passed by voters that would force her to run for office:

CEO Fesia Davenport had requested the settlement for what she claimed was “reputational harm, embarrassment and physical, emotional and mental distress caused by the Measure G.”

The greed of these barnacles is astonishing.

Measure G will transform the CEO job from an appointed position into an elected one starting in 2028. Voters approved it last year after most of the county Board of Supervisors placed it on the ballot.

She alleges that the wording of the proposal implies she has not provided strong leadership, thereby hurting her feelings.

She also wrote that she deserved compensation from her career as the at-will CEO being cut short by the shift to elected CEO in late 2028, which she said also would lessen how much retirement she’d earn.

Davenport is 56 years old. Note that she takes it for granted that voters would not choose her voluntarily, even in woke LA County.

With pay and benefits, she has been pulling in a staggering $810,319/year, compliments of taxpayers. For their money, taxpayers got LA County’s historic first black CEO.

On a tip from R F.

The beauty of capitalism is that it can capitalize on most anything — even the stratospheric crime rates resulting from liberal rule in California. Just ask Ray Tissan of RT Unbreakable Glass:

Rooftop Koreans had an even better technique for defending businesses from the greedy hordes of the allegedly oppressed.

On a tip from Wiggins.

The fires that local authorities allowed to get out of control in LA last winter were an opportunity for liberals not only to replace nice neighborhoods with government slums but also to rake in cash:

A star-studded concert that reported raising around $100 million for victims of the fires that rocked Los Angeles earlier this year suddenly has little to report months later, and it’s unclear whether any of that money actually made it to the thousands of victims.

Investigative reporter Sue Pascoe uncovered that much of the money, raised at the behest of California’s biggest Democrats, was quietly funneled to a plethora of nonprofits that reported giving little if any direct aid to residents who lost their homes, belongings, and loved ones in the record-breaking fires.

Fox 11 Los Angeles has the story:

A similar outrage on a greater scale was revealed when we learned from DOGE that USAID bestowed many $billions collected from taxpayers who may have thought their government was acting in their interest upon pernicious nonprofits throughout the world.

On a tip from abcanc.