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Oct 13 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
In the full leaked audio, Nury Martinez said she was making backroom deals with @LA28 @RamsNFL @MayorOfLA:
The “he” she refers to in the clip is Councilmember @BobBlumenfield, who is working with the same players on Olympic development. This project is down the street from the proposed @LA28 “Valley Sports Park”:
Here’s a member of the #LA28 executive board telling Blumenfield that this project is “Super exciting.” The entire marketing pitch for LA28 has been “no build Olympics” LA Times: “Rams owner Stan Kroenke has acquired a high-ris
If you’re just joining us: Ron Herrera from the tape, who compared a Black child to “statues at a plantation,” is also a member of the @LA28 executive committee

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Jul 10, 2021
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who was instrumental in securing the 2028 Summer Olympics for his city, even proclaimed, “We will make at least a billion dollars in 2028.”

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Jul 7, 2021
The Olympics don’t just harm black athletes — they rip apart black communities in Olympic host cities as well.

Let’s look at LA84 for an example. 🧵 Image
The 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles are frequently trotted out as a “best case scenario” for a host city — a profitable, efficiently run showcase of American values.

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Feb 2, 2021
Only in a state as literally sick as California would a rich dick describe Project Roomkey as a model for anything.

Truly disgusting revisionism here but not surprising.

Fuck all these people forever.
Here's Project Roomkey's status in LA, as of today:

Out of 15,000 rooms promised, 2,382 rooms are operational as of February 1.

Pretty cool national model.

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Trust every democrat to make a big deal out of partially addressing a problem they helped create.
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Jan 19, 2021
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Today is the four year anniversary of the opening of the Rio Olympics.

A year after these nightmare games took place, LA elites decided to ignore public resistance and invite the same terror here.

It turns out LA and Rio have a lot in common.

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Jul 28, 2020
36 years ago the LA 84 Olympics opened, marking a new era of police militarization, the privatization of our city, and a violent removal of poor Black & Brown people from their communities.

The LA 84 Olympics were nothing short of a war on the poor.

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