I'm John Batcher, Jeff Bliss' his Pacific Watch.

We leave the gubernatorial race and turn to the mayor's race in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is not a microcosm of anything. It's a unique city. Hence, I learned that if you work for

some parts of the Los Angeles mayor's office, you can earn $700,000 a year. What was that for, Jeff?

Good day to you.

Was that for water?

I didn't remember what the department was.

Yeah, that was the Department of Water and Power.

That's the city's municipal utility.

And you find people who work there that are making well into six figures.

And, of course, they have other bonuses and overtime structures that attach to that.

So you have this city government where not just the DWP, but other areas within the city and

county government, employees are making huge amounts of money. Now, you have first responders that

are making, you know, a quarter and almost a half million dollars.

They're working a lot of overtime and they're gaming the system all legally.

But this is a problem that's happened out of Sacramento and other places in California, in L.A., San Diego, where, you know, they're just spending money they don't have.

Let's turn to the race itself.

Karen Bass is the incumbent, and the last time we

talked about this, it looked like she was running comfortably and making public appearances and

campaigning as an incumbent, and her major challenge had dropped out, the developer.

But now there are new names to take up, and I want to go immediately to one.

You've sent me several videos, very clever.

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