LA is a raging dumpster fire of homelessness, methamphetamine addiction, crime, and general malaise. In its upcoming mayoral election, the choices are stark, whether to remain in Hell or to climb out.
On Angelenos’ primary ballot there is only one candidate with a plan to escape the underworld, Spencer Pratt. Spencer for hire is a former reality television star whose home was destroyed in the Palisades fire.
Spenser For Hire was an 80s detective procedural starring Robert Urich. While not a dead ringer for its star, Spencer Pratt does share Urich’s masculine aura and affable persona. Pratt is showing he’s as tough as the television gumshoe as well.
His sense of humor and common-sense alone distance him from his humorless and senseless main opponents, Mayor Karen Bass and Nithya Raman.
Bass is the current mayor, and it does not strain credulity to state she will not be joining MENSA any time soon. She was sipping wine in Ghana when the Palisades fires took Pratt’s and so many other’s homes. Her Inside Safe homelessness initiative has cost millions with no perceptible change in homelessness other than how it is counted. Her support for a program that provides teeth for meth addicts gives some insight into her intellect. LA is still burning, but it does so with a sparkling smile.
Nithya Raman is a city councilmember and a Democratic Socialist, whatever that is. She has been a supporter of Mayor Bass in the past, even endorsing Bass for mayor last January prior to jumping into the race herself. Raman’s support for Bass was as much as Brutus was a fan of Caeser.
There is no longer any way to distinguish between a Democrat and a Socialist and for that matter few noticeable differences between Raman’s and Bass’ platforms.
These are two perfect examples of “throw another log on the fire” politicians who don’t want to extinguish the conflagration but rather are content to watch it burn. They do not seek to change policy or administration but want it to continue until the last ember ebbs.
The same tired ideas, the same identity politics, the same class warfare, and tax the rich slogans that look good on a wall at the community center, but as policy have failed spectacularly to improve the life of anyone, except politicians.
Los Angeles has elected Democrats to the Mayor’s Office since 2001. The last Republican mayor, Richard Riordan, was first elected in 1993. His successors, Hahn, Villagraiso, Garcetti and Karen Bass have all been big “D” Democrats, which is to say DUMB.
Under Dem Dumbo leadership LA has remained among the nation’s cities with the highest poverty rates. LA poverty, according to the US Census, has changed little since 2000, stubbornly sitting at 20%. The only thing stable in one of the nation’s most unstable cities is its poverty.
Don’t worry, the same group of people who cooked up the ‘War on Poverty’ in 1964 are still using its failed policies and ideas to ensure poverty never decreases and thus their actual war on taxpayers never ends.
Spencer Pratt isn’t beholding to any party or politician. He is not the product of political patronage or party machine politics. He is man whose eyes have seen, and whose family has suffered at the hands of an indifferent and corrupt government. A life-long LA resident who sees a future of promise, not one of empty platitudes and pain.
Why is he running?
Pratt simply says, “I’m not a politician. I’m a husband and father who watched my home burn because the system failed us. We don’t need more government programs. We need common sense, accountability, and a mayor that shows up for everyone.”
Pratt says that status quo politicos such as Bass’ and Raman’s claims that LA is out of money, or that its citizens aren’t taxed enough, is antithetical to reality. “You’re taxed on your income, you’re taxed on your gas, you’re taxed on your property, you’re taxed out the ass. Every single expensive transaction you endure is taxed.…but we have plenty of money in this city, it’s just being stolen.”
As for homelessness, Pratt doesn’t mince words, “Los Angeles doesn’t have a homelessness problem, we have a DRUG problem. The DEA will tell you that over 90% of the homeless population in LA are hardcore illicit drug users. Cartels are operating in the open, forcing addicts to traffic drugs, and murdering them when they don’t meet their quota.”
Pratt’s entire campaign is an expression of open hostility toward the city leader’s failed policies that ignited and fed LA’s inferno. He is using truth and rationality to expose the deceptions and fraud of LA’s funeral pyre builders.
Spenser, the TV detective said, “There are no heroes, only good men doing the best they can with the cards they were dealt.”
Spencer Pratt is doing the best he can with the deck stacked against him.
Spencer Pratt for hire as LA Mayor.
He may not win, but we can hope. Hope is all LA has left.
Stephen Piccirillo © 2026
