As the year wraps up, Rick could’ve spread $104 million on holiday cheer, the way he did on Thanksgiving, when he handed out turkeys to crime victims in South Los Angeles. The following scenarios are impossible in the real world — but, hey, so is a big guy on an airborne reindeer sled.
This month, he could buy 13,500 courtside center seats for the Dec. 13 Lakers game against the Boston Celtics at Crypto.com Arena. He could give out 8,068,269 matinee tickets at the Grove for “The Fabelmans,” a Steven Spielberg tale about the unflagging love between a striving son and his imperfect fatherFormer Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso hugs son Greg Caruso after voting at Boyle Heights Senior Center.
The $5-million commitment Caruso’s foundation has made to Operation Progress, a nonprofit in Watts aiming to put neighborhood kids on the path to college, looks like a pittance. So does the $3 million the foundation has donated to Para Los Niños, which helps kids on Skid Row.
GustavoArellano Such a joke of a paper. How people read your BS is a majored problem with LA. No wonder your readership is in the tank. Losers
GustavoArellano A private citizen spent 100M$ on whatever he wanted. More than ONE BILLION of LA Countys budget funded by YOU the taxpayer goes to aid 40k homeless people living in the street. Where is that article ? This is why journalism has become the bottom of the barrel profession. 🗑️
GustavoArellano Had he had won the election his value would be far greater than the Miral 104 million that was spent. Our city will now be in shambles.
GustavoArellano LA Times is a disgrace. This writer lives in OC!! He has no right to speak for Angelenos. Caruso has given $130 mi to LA impoverished areas. Not good enough for those taking free USC degrees ?! Go back behind the Orange Curtain & stop being puppet to Chinese owners.
GustavoArellano Que vergüenza leer esta basura. En vez de enfocarte en los $130M que Rick ha donado a las colonias mas pobres de LA, demonizas a un hombre destacado que ha sido un pilar de su comunidad. Que has hecho tu mas que sacar rabia y envidiar los demás? HATER LOSER CHIPONYOURSHOULDER
GustavoArellano As impressive as this list of alternative ways to spend $104m is, something tells me that RickCarusoLA is better with money than the author of this piece.
GustavoArellano something tells me that anyone dumb enough to publish this joke of an article is the type of person who runs out and buys surf shark because he saw an influencer pitch it
GustavoArellano Despicable and disgraceful!!!! Shameful LA times! Your article is both mean spirited and lacks any integrity or truth. Rick Caruso his campaign and his family deserve accolades for the time, hard work and yes,hard earned money put into this campaign to try to turn our city around
GustavoArellano Did GustavoArellano go to some kind of journalism home school? What was going through his head when he came up with this 'article?'
GustavoArellano Can't wait for GustavoArellano's scintillating follow-up article that lets us know how many AAA batteries Caruso could've bought. I hope this column is satire.
GustavoArellano The fact that GustavoArellano writes articles like this reflects poorly on the LATimes for hiring him. Get your act together.
GustavoArellano Can someone check GustavoArellano's credentials? I'm having trouble believing he made it all the way to age 16 before dropping out of school.
GustavoArellano if the writer of this article ever needs to work a side hustle as a birthday party clown, he could just print this article out and use it for a resume
GustavoArellano this is the kind of nonsense that made me end my LATimes subscription a year ago. can you clowns put decent content out for once?
GustavoArellano everyone knows that RickCarusoLA carves out affordable housing sections in his new developments, right?
GustavoArellano This is why no one will ever take the LATimes seriously. RickCarusoLA donates 20% of his profits to the community, and they still have to find a reason to criticize him
GustavoArellano so the point of this post is what.. to remind people that Caruso lost? it's not like anyone forgot. Caruso earned his money and can spend it the way he likes
GustavoArellano This is ridiculous & very typical Times crap. In addition to over $130 million provided to Watts students for 3rd through college educations, & families for nutritional & other support; the entire Caruso family have given of their time and talents to support less fortunate
GustavoArellano Exactly that’s the real story here the money could have been used better! Your article was on point! A good read too! Thank you 😊
GustavoArellano did GustavoArellano submit the draft for this in crayon? as someone who has benefitted from Caruso's donations, all I can say is that this piece stinks. do some research
GustavoArellano this article stupid for lots of reasons, but the absolute stupidest thing about it is the way it gives people the impression that RickCarusoLA doesn't do a lot for LA. read up on the man. he has all kinds of foundations. yall need to read up
GustavoArellano my high school paper wouldn't have printed this journalistic travesty. i'm absolutely stunned that the LA Times would run this. there's a reason people say the paper of record is the new york times
GustavoArellano this for real? with all the electricity people wasted loading this garbage column on their phones and computers, we probably given gustavoarellano enough shock therapy to make him write something less stupid
GustavoArellano i guess people should be asking some hack for permission before spending their own money from now on
GustavoArellano guess it's always something. doesn't matter that rickcarusola was an Operation Progress founding member or that he's on the Para Los Ninos board (puts 3500 underprivileged kids through school) or has like 1000 other philanthropic donations.. this clown still comes after him
GustavoArellano 'how i'd spent someone else's money,' by someone who would never have that kinda money
GustavoArellano not sure gustavoarellano appreciates how much money rickcarusola has. you know he's a billionaire, right? you know the difference between a billion and 100m? it's about a billion. rick already sponsors so many charities. you should be ashamed of this clown article
GustavoArellano i'm tryna see a counterpoint article from rickcarusola that explains what he'd buy with gustavoarellano's annual income. he'd probably just write 'lunch'
GustavoArellano gonna go out on a limb here and say $104 million wouldn't be enough to pay for the kind of tutoring GustavoArellano would need to give him a mind good enough to be a real journalist. this man seriously just turned 7 division problems into an article.
GustavoArellano does this actually count as journalism these days? someone should make a blog post about how many ramen noodles we could buy with gustavoarellano's salary
GustavoArellano The smartest thing RickCarusoLA could've done with $100m is buy the LATimes and fire whatever editor approved this joke of an article by GustavoArellano. Just because you don't have the balls to really go after something doesn't make it okay to criticize someone who does.
GustavoArellano The LATimes should be ashamed of letting GustavoArellano publish this trash. Next time let us know how much $104m is in terms of chicken nuggets you clown.
GustavoArellano Way to kick a man while he's down. This is the worst, trashiest article I've ever read. 'Did you know that $100 million pays for lots of things?' Amazing journalism here.
GustavoArellano He would have made a great Mayor.
GustavoArellano How many students miss out on that USC scholarship?
GustavoArellano Or he could have saved a desperate city that needed him. He doesn’t need the power. He’s got that.
GustavoArellano Okay, LA Times, what are your profits for a year? We can figure out what that money can be used for instead of you keeping your profits. Seems fair.
GustavoArellano Stop counting other peoples money.
GustavoArellano Now what can that over 1 billion is Measure H do?
GustavoArellano usc provides free tuition to those making less than 72k
Gracias for rt!
GustavoArellano Great guy!!! He gave it a try. He could make a huge difference. And huge difference is what Los Angeles needs. Now, back to same old business as usual. Never learn.
GustavoArellano Unfortunately, he's got better plans for Los Angeles. And sadly, he had to spend this kind of money in order to run for office. Los Angeles just missed out! You watch nothing's gonna change. We all can wish, we were almost there. Probably we were, who knows. God knows & some ppl.
GustavoArellano what is the problem?, his own money. does somebody question what you do with your money? 🤪
GustavoArellano None of his business or The Commie Times.
GustavoArellano If you start this way of thinking I guess you will get a pile of SxxT in return.
GustavoArellano Stop your begging.
GustavoArellano I am constantly amazed what people without money think people with money should do with their money.
GustavoArellano Shame on you for reporting this but blacking out chinas historic protests. Y’all are not only the enemies of the American people, y’all the enemies of free people everywhere. This won’t be forgotten.
GustavoArellano What about Gavin newsome
GustavoArellano anyone that tries to fight the political machine is called selfish... just let the beast win, eh?
GustavoArellano That’s not your money!
GustavoArellano Salty even after winning and still targeting opponent. Seems weak and unproductive.
GustavoArellano I bet ol GustavoArellano loves what China is doing to its citizens right now.
GustavoArellano Or a ton of hot hookers.
GustavoArellano F L.A. Times
GustavoArellano Columnist or communist?
GustavoArellano No Gustavo, what is obscene will be the hundreds of millions Ms. Bass will overspend on utterly useless programs that won’t help Los Angeles or the homeless at all.
GustavoArellano Lmao. Garcetti makes way more than that with bribes and side deals.
GustavoArellano Earnings made in government office isn’t made by their salary. 🙄
GustavoArellano Ohhh so now you’re gonna spend his money for him…. Fucking gross! Shame on you. Garcetti should give every dollar he made back for destroying this city.
GustavoArellano I mean that’s how campaigns work and being in charge of L.A. is a big deal.
GustavoArellano the political consultants who are buying new yachts would disagree with the editorial.
GustavoArellano GARBAGE NEWSPAPER.
GustavoArellano Spoken like the communist state-run newspaper that the LA Times has been for so long.
GustavoArellano Say that about every person that runs for office
GustavoArellano He could have subsidized PCs for every LAUSD student...
GustavoArellano GustavoArellano is a pathetic, little man. He uses his race card and pretends he speaks for Latinos & Latinas...makes us look like idiots!!!
GustavoArellano Stop blaming everyone but the corrupt and lame democrat politicians who actually ruined LA.
GustavoArellano It's his money. Meanwhile, Joe Biden wastes my money every single day.
GustavoArellano Why isn’t karen bass spending her personal money as well? Why is that only a fair question to ask a rich person? And I voted for bass, have no interest in a Republican as major of LA.
GustavoArellano If he would've spent $20m on philanthropy over the last few years, he probably would've won.
GustavoArellano But the thing is,he made all that money himself and he’s feee to spend it however he wants. Not how some woke clown “journalist” thinks he should.
GustavoArellano Stop begging.
GustavoArellano No he couldn’t. The City Council won’t take people off the streets no matter how much money they get.
GustavoArellano Bet he don’t donate his ol cloths to the goodwill either. He matchin
Gracias for RT!
political favors from karen bass?
It's not your business how a private citizen spends his own money, especially when the LA Time has covered for crimes committed by ericgarcetti and the LA Attorney office, especially when it comes to the sh!t show that is LADWP.
Patrick Soon Shiong spent $500 million to win the election for his daughter Has twice as much personal wealth as Caruso Sits on properties that could help 1000s
He spent his campaign money creating jobs in the USA
It still can. Other people have the money that Caruso spent. Do you think it vanished into thin air?
Boil down
Stop begging.
Political campaigning needs serious reform - not only because it's a corrupt system where riches and rich donors are behind everything, but because allowing all this cash to be spent trying to buy elections is a fucking moneysink even when it fails.
Well, with that money he could also pay his taxes.
Aw are the Soon-Shiong’s jealous? Did Nika throw a tantrum and say “daddy I want you to buy me a mayoral campaign! This fake position in West Hollywood is so outdated!”
This story is filed under: (A) Monday morning Quarterbacking (B) I will tell you how to spend your money, upinyourbusiness
How many billions in tax payer dollars lost on the homeless issue? High speed rail? is a partisan hack publication
Umm LA Times almost 50% voted for him. Apparently you don’t much care about choice after all.
What happened to the billions that was given to LA before RickCarusoLA ran for mayor? 🤔 Garcetti signs $11 billion budget, with nearly $1 billion for homeless crisis
What LA could've had homes for 10 million going by pre-1970s zoning laws and we wouldn't be in this housing shortage for Angelenos today, if the Dems didn't mess it up and down-zoned it to 4 million. 🤔🤪
What a waste
I think he lost because he couldn’t convince the people that he is a democrat. He may have run as a democrat but he spoke as a republican. 🤔
This is hilarious for the L.A. Times to even writing right now.😂😂😂😂😂 You are Pro-Caruso...been helping his campaign against Ms. Bass.
Could’ve bought his daughter a failing newspaper.
shoutout to LA for telling Rick Caruso, Katy Perry and others that they cannot buy elections. at least not there.
When I first ran for school board (LBUSD) the mayor gave me this advice: 'Never use your own $$ to run for office. If you can't get donations, you can't win.
Here's a thought: YOU make that kind of money and then spend it how you believe it should be spent! Stay out of other people's pocketbooks.
The new woke line is 'CaRuSo tHrEw AwAy ALL HiS MoNeY' He made himself a name in national politics, expanded his public awareness in LA, and situated himself to run again in the future if he wants - not to mention all the business/promo the campaign drove for the Grove
What does $95,000 in USC classes buy you, when you have to blame a former staffer 9 years later when you get caught lying?
It was interesting that Caruso was up, down, up but then the mail in ballots came in for Bass. It only took about 2 weeks to count too which is normal.
Failed newspaper?
according to the times, no one should run against their choice for mayor.
why hasn't the Media talked about KRBs Money, 💸💸💸💰💰💰and special interest?
Okay, now let’s talk about the richest man in LA and how he bought St Vincent’s Hospital by outbidding LA County, who could have used it for a psych hospital or homeless housing. For 3 years he has done nothing with it. He also burns a ton of money on the failing LA Times.
Man tried to save his city. Now we're going to have this lump in office. The city deserves its fate.
Now do Ukraine. What good would that money had done in your disgusting crime riddled garbage city.
What has Congresswoman Karen Bass done with BILLIONS in taxpayer dollars over the last 20 years in elected office?!?!?!? Created a 'CRISIS' in our city, her OWN WORD!!!!! So , S.T.F.U.!!!!!!! DrPatSoonShiong meridak kevrector LAcrimes LATstevelopez harriet
Now do Beto and Stacey.
So salty. Who cares, it’s his money
yea, if only caruso spent his own money as carefully and efficiently as the city of los angeles spent tax money. oh.
How much is being spent in Georgia right now?
You should also ask staceyabrams and ReverendWarnock? A lot Democrats sending a lot of money!!! How much did ftx put in? That would be to hard to investigate right, Sammy_Roth Erika_D_Smith?
How about Beto?
What is it going to cost LA and their tax players for the destruction and continued crime and homeless issues that will continue to plague LA with Karen Bass running the show? That's the better question.
It’s drugs. It’s mental health. The problem is the homelessindustrialcomplex and non profits getting way too much pay. It’s all a racket & you used to report that. 🤦🏾♀️
Beto O'Rourke raised $66 million for a failed race for Gov. of Texas. Stacey Abrams raised $85 million for a failed race for Gov. of Georgia. It is all a waste of money but the won't write a piece on Beto and Stacey.
Exactly. It’s gross.
Homelessness would be eliminated if we didn't have a ruling elite billionaire class and their childish vanity projects
A small price to pay for the power he would wield as Mayor of L.A!
This may be the best headline the Times has ever produced. 🔥🔥🔥
Every wonder what Soros could do with his money, instead of the destruction he reaps? The only reason Caruso even had to run was because Soros caused too much damage to LA
Proof that money isn't everything in politics
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