Los Angeles Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa has instructed city agencies to estimate costs incurred by the Occupy L.A. protesters, and said that budget cuts will likely be necessary to absorb the high costs.
Among other expense, the park in front of City Hall was completely destroyed. Repairs to the lawn are likely to exceed $400,000, and the cost for police to evict the Occupy L.A. encampment/trash dump came to over $700,000.
Expenses for removing the graffiti and obscenities from the marble walls of City Hall and the park trees and the cost of draining 3,000 gallons of water from what amounted to a small swamp in a catch basin and treating it for hazardous materials is still to be estimated. Hauling away over 30 tons of trash and debris will cost the city over $500,000 alone.Then there's the cost of incarcerating and trying those protesters who refused to leave.
It was Mayor Villaraigosa and the Democrat dominated L.A. City Council who welcomed Occupy LA,passed a resolution applauding what they were doing and allowed them to break the city's laws with impunity for two months. They only could be bothered to do anything about it when the encampment because an actual health hazard.
And now, they expect the citizens of Los Angeles to pay for their malfeasance an dereliction of the job they were elected to do.
Not only are they unworthy of staying in office, but they ought to be made to pay for cleaning up the mess they made out of their own pockets.
Simply disgraceful.
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