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Socialists on city council oppose clean playgrounds for city kids

A bedraggled adult man sleeping underneath a slide on a playground. 

A soiled mattress and a jumbled pile of boxes and blankets alongside a community center in a park. 

Blue plastic tarps covering tents on the sidewalk, blocking children as they walk to and from school.

These are the horrific scenes of urban neglect captured by The California Post in recent reporting. 

And they would continue, or grow worse, if some members of the LA City Council had their way.

Four socialist members of the council — Ysabel Jurado, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martínez, and mayoral candidate Nithya Raman — voted last week against a measure to allow the city to enforce anti-camping rules in public spaces in Venice.

It is a curious sort of socialism that allows public property to be defaced and destroyed,........

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