LA GOP Leader Cries ‘Send Help’ After Karen Bass Campaign Video Stuns Taxpayers [WATCH]

A viral campaign pitch from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has turned a city financing rule into a national spectacle, prompting Los Angeles County GOP Chair Roxanne Hoge to plead with Republicans to “send help.”

Her warning is blunt: outsiders still do not grasp how deeply California Democrats have embedded their power into government, as reported by Fox News.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Hoge addressed the stunned reaction to Bass promoting public matching money for her mayoral campaign.

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“The rest of the country doesn’t understand what we’re living under here,” Hoge said.

Hoge argued that California progressives have not merely pushed questionable political practices; they have written them into law.

“What normal people consider cheating or weirdness in the electoral process? It’s all in the rules [here].”

Bass told viewers that “when you donate to our campaign, the city can match your donation 6 to 1,” and added, “If you donate $5, the city turns it into $35.”

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For taxpayers already watching Los Angeles struggle with crime, homelessness, fires, and failing basic services, the sales pitch landed like a brick.

The mayor explained that “thanks to LA’s super match program, every qualified donation from Los Angeles residents is matched six to one by the city.”

In plain English, public money can multiply a qualifying private campaign donation six times.

Bass said her campaign faced a reset after the mayoral primary, where Republican candidate Spencer Pratt attracted significant support.

She declared that “we had to start over from scratch,” before urging supporters, “So, we need you to rush in your matching donation right now, to help fuel this campaign.”

The video quickly drew outrage across social media. Conservative activist Billboard Chris asked, “How is it legal to take money from Los Angeles taxpayers to fund your own re-election campaign?”

Commentator Matt Van Swol was equally stunned, writing, “Can someone please explain to me like I’m 5 years old how this is not COMPLETELY illegal?????” Author Michael Shellenberger offered a shorter verdict: “This is grotesque.”

Los Angeles doctor and political commentator Houman David Hemmati also erupted over the arrangement.

“Why on EARTH are LA City taxpayers, who can’t even afford to clean up their streets or have water in their fire hydrants, forced to match contributions to Bass’ Mayoral reelection campaign 6:1?!? … HUH?! Insanity!”

Despite the public fury, Hoge explained that the program is legal under Los Angeles law.

Voters approved public campaign financing in 1990, and the City Council later expanded that system into the current six-to-one arrangement, complete with donation limits and eligibility requirements.

Hoge said the proposal originally sounded harmless enough to voters.

“Voters passed something that sounded so good; they always sound so good at the beginning. Public financing matching funds for campaigns on a one-to-one basis. That seems great, right?”

The program now applies beyond the mayoral contest, including campaigns for seats on the Los Angeles City Council.

Hoge noted that those races “Have many active [Democratic Socialists of America] members currently sitting and running.”

For Hoge, Bass was broadcasting the same warning California conservatives have heard from entrenched political interests for decades. “And that is, ‘Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown. Don’t try to go against City Hall,’” she said.

Hoge pointed to Pratt as proof that a basic message of competence and common sense can still energize voters.

“We saw Spencer Pratt mount a very strong argument for sanity and good governance. It wasn’t partisan, what he was saying. It was pure common sense, and they rose up because they were threatened.”

She also rejected the tired assumption that conservatives should surrender America’s most populous state to the progressive machine.

“California is totally worth fighting for because it is an absolute gem,” Hoge said, comparing its controlling political culture to people who would “gleefully would reach into the shower and change the temperature while you’re having a bath.”

Addressing Republicans, Hoge said, “We belong to the leave me alone party.”

She added, “California, being in the West, is the ultimate place where you should be free to write your own story. And that, I think, is the number one thing people have to remember,” before repeating her urgent plea: “They need to send help.”

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