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[benji]

This might be my favorite moment because it has the energy of a mom explaining reality to a little boy.

Hasan brings up his own clash with LAPD, saying officers shot rubber bullets at him during the ICE protest.

Then he presses Raman for voting in favor of a $5 million loan to pay police overtime.

“Is this just the cost of doing business? Is this just politics?”

Raman’s answer was simply bureaucratic reality.

“When people work overtime, the city has to pay them.”

She explains that the officers had already worked the overtime, and if the city refused to pay, they would sue. Then taxpayers would end up paying the overtime plus the cost of the lawsuit.

Again, perfect snapshot of the whole interview. Hasan is demanding ideological accountability. Raman is explaining how municipal government works.

Hasan presses Raman on supporting LA’s mansion tax, then later moving to create a 15-year exemption for new multifamily housing.

He asks whether tenant organizers are wrong, or whether she is “giving developers what they want under the YIMBY label.”

Raman’s answer is basically that she was trying to save the mansion tax from a broader repeal effort.

But then she makes the larger point that public housing, social housing, and affordable housing are only producing “a few hundred units” a year in LA.

Then the line that probably drives the activist left insane.

“I will never back away from the statement that we need more market rate housing as well because the city simply cannot fund all of the housing that is needed.”

Again, this is why the interview is so revealing. Hasan is asking whether she betrayed the tenant-organizer line. Raman is explaining that a city cannot slogan its way out of a housing shortage.

Total lib, send her to the guillotine.

And after nearly 50 minutes of hardball questions, Hasan endorsed her anyway. He told his chat he wanted to give Raman a “tough but fair shake” and insisted he was not there to “disparage her.”

“She’s obviously a million times better than Karen Bass and certainly better than Spencer Pratt.”

Even Hasan’s own chat thought the interview had gone too far. He had to scold them.

“You guys treat it like it’s fucking blood sports, and it’s not good.”

Guillotine Hasan too.