$5000
$2500
$1000
$500
What a f’in joke.
$5000
$2500
$1000
$500
What a f’in joke.
Where do you see that? I am seeing 100k purse.
what used to be decent wrote:
$5000
$2500
$1000
$500
What a f’in joke.
That's a nickel to them.
The $100k includes wheelchairs and gender bonuses.
The top four prize money released to agents today.
Total joke.
I mean, it's not a WMM and has one of the slowest CR of all USA.
Sounds about right.
LA is complete sh*thole these days. Who would want to run 26 miles through violent, homeless derelicts and millions of ripped up Amazon packages?? The Golden State no more. Gee, what changed in recent decades??
Republican administrations in both D.C. and Sacramento gutting social services and mental health care in the 80s and 90s. Subsequent Democrat leaders have been unable to restore them because of GOP obstruction, budget deficits fueled by Republican tax cuts, and their constant moaning that anything constructive is “socialism”.
To the OP’s original complaint, the McCourts don’t care because 30,000 runners and walkers will still sign up and a bunch of sub 2:12 Kenyans will happily duke it out for those prizes. It is still a big deal in L.A. and the local media will give it plenty of coverage.
Lowest Common Dominator wrote:
Republican administrations in both D.C. and Sacramento gutting social services and mental health care in the 80s and 90s. Subsequent Democrat leaders have been unable to restore them because of GOP obstruction, budget deficits fueled by Republican tax cuts, and their constant moaning that anything constructive is “socialism”.
To the OP’s original complaint, the McCourts don’t care because 30,000 runners and walkers will still sign up and a bunch of sub 2:12 Kenyans will happily duke it out for those prizes. It is still a big deal in L.A. and the local media will give it plenty of coverage.
You might just be mentally ill enough to believe that "cuts" from 30 years ago are to blame. California has been a solid blue state for well over a decade. It has the highest taxes in the country. Yet violent crime and homelessness are at previously unthinkable heights. For the first time since 1850, California lost a seat in Congressional reapportionment as residents flee the Democratic dystopia. I do hope you get the psychiatric help you need.
L.A.'s many trillion dollar businesses are an order of magnitude ahead of the rest of the world. Yet LAPD/LAFD unions sponge off of race directors and runners for over time pay.
Lowest Common Dominator wrote:
Republican administrations in both D.C. and Sacramento gutting social services and mental health care in the 80s and 90s. Subsequent Democrat leaders have been unable to restore them because of GOP obstruction, budget deficits fueled by Republican tax cuts, and their constant moaning that anything constructive is “socialism”.
To the OP’s original complaint, the McCourts don’t care because 30,000 runners and walkers will still sign up and a bunch of sub 2:12 Kenyans will happily duke it out for those prizes. It is still a big deal in L.A. and the local media will give it plenty of coverage.
Cities run by democrats for decades and yet you still blame republicans for your failed ideas? 😂
Kobbs Hessler wrote:
Lowest Common Dominator wrote:
Republican administrations in both D.C. and Sacramento gutting social services and mental health care in the 80s and 90s. Subsequent Democrat leaders have been unable to restore them because of GOP obstruction, budget deficits fueled by Republican tax cuts, and their constant moaning that anything constructive is “socialism”.
To the OP’s original complaint, the McCourts don’t care because 30,000 runners and walkers will still sign up and a bunch of sub 2:12 Kenyans will happily duke it out for those prizes. It is still a big deal in L.A. and the local media will give it plenty of coverage.
You might just be mentally ill enough to believe that "cuts" from 30 years ago are to blame. California has been a solid blue state for well over a decade. It has the highest taxes in the country. Yet violent crime and homelessness are at previously unthinkable heights. For the first time since 1850, California lost a seat in Congressional reapportionment as residents flee the Democratic dystopia. I do hope you get the psychiatric help you need.
Haven't Boston, NY and Chicago been run by Dems just as long? And those states have been blue even longer than CA. So please explain what the prize purse has to do with LA politics but not the politics of other major marathons held in large cities.
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Probably trying to scare away the international runners who prey on races like this for easy money (and likely no drug testing). Would rather see races like LA giving appearance fees to bring in top Americans.
L.A. beaches and boardwalks have 750,000 visitors per day.
2,000,000 on summer weekends.
Runners get their miles in for free (except for parking).
That's 7 to 20 Super Bowl sized crowds per day.
They don't get ripped off with race fees and $200/hr overtime pay for moonlighting cops.
If you can afford to live here, then Welcome to L.A.!
Kobbs Hessler wrote:
Lowest Common Dominator wrote:
Republican administrations in both D.C. and Sacramento gutting social services and mental health care in the 80s and 90s. Subsequent Democrat leaders have been unable to restore them because of GOP obstruction, budget deficits fueled by Republican tax cuts, and their constant moaning that anything constructive is “socialism”.
To the OP’s original complaint, the McCourts don’t care because 30,000 runners and walkers will still sign up and a bunch of sub 2:12 Kenyans will happily duke it out for those prizes. It is still a big deal in L.A. and the local media will give it plenty of coverage.
You might just be mentally ill enough to believe that "cuts" from 30 years ago are to blame. California has been a solid blue state for well over a decade. It has the highest taxes in the country. Yet violent crime and homelessness are at previously unthinkable heights. For the first time since 1850, California lost a seat in Congressional reapportionment as residents flee the Democratic dystopia. I do hope you get the psychiatric help you need.
And all you have is a stale talking point and mental health insult stolen from your right wing talker? Parroting Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage tropes is not an original idea nor an effective rebuttal to four decades of realpolitik. You are intellectually lazy but that is no surprise given your body of work.
Kobbs Hessler wrote:
LA is complete sh*thole these days. Who would want to run 26 miles through violent, homeless derelicts and millions of ripped up Amazon packages?? The Golden State no more. Gee, what changed in recent decades??
Looting a train is far more lucrative.
Los Angeles Dodger Clayton Kershaw went 10-8 with a 3.55 ERA in 2021. Way to go liberal leaders.
Not sure why a city being runned by democrats triggers some many - actually I am its because they are nuts. Can we get back to the topic at hand as the government of LA and of California have nothing to do with this prize purse. For a race that used to be just behind the US's world marathon majors this prize purse is a joke. Maybe they're hoping to get a socal local to win it? I can't imagine anyone travelling for a prize purse that small. At this point, CIM is the only serious marathon race on the entire west coast. I'm reminded of rock n roll which did the same thing. When the elites stopped showing up, the subelites started going to other races too, then the subsubelites, etc and now the race gets maybe 5000 runners down from 25,000 or something.
Everywhere else pays for extra security and still able to pay out more than Uber fare prize money. LA is joke.
Lowest Common Dominator wrote:
Kobbs Hessler wrote:
You might just be mentally ill enough to believe that "cuts" from 30 years ago are to blame. California has been a solid blue state for well over a decade. It has the highest taxes in the country. Yet violent crime and homelessness are at previously unthinkable heights. For the first time since 1850, California lost a seat in Congressional reapportionment as residents flee the Democratic dystopia. I do hope you get the psychiatric help you need.
And all you have is a stale talking point and mental health insult stolen from your right wing talker? Parroting Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage tropes is not an original idea nor an effective rebuttal to four decades of realpolitik. You are intellectually lazy but that is no surprise given your body of work.
And yet you still managed to say less than him