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Rick Caruso: I Refused to Shake Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Hand
1HR 3M
A conversation with the billionaire and former mayoral candidate about who’s to blame for the LA fires—and how to save California.

A lot of people are wondering if things in Los Angeles would look different if Rick Caruso had won the mayoral race against Karen Bass in 2022. If he had been mayor when devastating fires began in the city last month, could he have prevented them from consuming about 40,000 acres—an area twice the size of Manhattan?

At the time Caruso ran, many quietly s…

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