Katy Perry Gets Dragged to Hell After Voting for Anti-Abortion Billionaire Rick Caruso
So-called "liberal" Hollywood elites are fawning over a right-wing donor running for Los Angeles mayor. Hmm.
Politics
It’s Election Day in America, meaning a whole lot of ostensibly liberal celebrities are putting out their one political social media post a year while telling you to vote to change the world, just as they hoard virtually all the wealth necessary for such change! Case in point: the varying Hollywood elites going to bat for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso.
As Jezebel’s Audra Heinrichs noted in June, the real estate mogul and former chair of the University of Southern California’s Board of Trustees raked in the support of big names like Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, Elon Musk, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Snoop Dogg ahead of his June primary. The support from celebrities who generally market themselves as liberal and “feminist,” even—Perry performed for Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, for instance—is pretty eyebrow-raising. Caruso poured over $100 million of his own money into his campaign, which he spent advocating for policies to further dehumanize poor and unhoused people in the city. It stands to reason that if he actually cared about addressing LA’s ongoing housing crisis, he might’ve spent that $100 million in other ways.
Further, the billionaire—who was a Republican until 2019 but is running as a Democrat—helped USC cover up the full extent of damage inflicted by a school gynecologist who sexually assaulted thousands of female students between 1991 and 2016. Caruso has a record of donating to anti-abortion politicians, and just this week, USC Caruso Catholic Center, to which Caruso donated $6 million, shared a now-deleted Instagram post opposing California’s Prop 1, a ballot measure to establish a constitutional right to abortion in the state.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
