A lefty public transport nonprofit that helps socialist Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman is coming for town’s iconic palm bushes.
Streets For All has launched a social media marketing campaign “Palm bushes are a rip-off”, blasting the bushes for guzzling water, offering little shade and being harmful throughout fires and excessive winds.
“Time for LA to switch Palm Bushes with bushes that present precise shade and funky down our metropolis,” the group declared.
In a video filmed alongside Sundown Boulevard, the group laid out its case towards palms.
“Palm bushes suck at doing the one factor bushes have to do in cities: present precise shade,” the group argued.
They need town to plant extra broad-canopy bushes, equivalent to sycamores, which the group says present extra shade and assist cool metropolis streets.
Nevertheless, their proposal was rapidly roasted on-line.
“That is the worst take ever,” one X consumer fired again.
“I stay in Phoenix. I’ve seven palm bushes. I water NONE of them,” one other wrote, calling Streets For All a “Local weather Commie.”
One other responded, “yea no,” whereas others piled on with face-palm emojis and a blunt “STFU.”
Streets For All founder Michael Schneider informed The California Put up the group stands by its push to take away palm bushes.
“We imagine we should always exchange palm bushes with bushes which might be native to Southern California and supply actual shade,” Schneider stated.
Palm Tress have outlined Los Angeles for practically a century.
Throughout the Nice Despair, town launched into a large tree-planting marketing campaign that put lots of of unemployed individuals to work planting tens of 1000’s of palms as town ready to host the 1932 Olympics.
The palms helped forge the picture of Los Angeles that turned synonymous with town all over the world.
Now, practically a century later, LA is once more getting ready to host the Olympics, this time in 2028.
And Streets For All isn’t simply shouting from the political sidelines.
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The group is firmly in Raman’s nook, endorsing her bid to knock Mayor Karen Bass out of Metropolis Corridor after years of backing the councilwoman and her transportation agenda.
In its 2026 endorsement, Streets For All hailed Raman as a “citywide chief” on safer streets, pointing to her assist for bike lanes, bus shelters, quicker public transit and Measure HLA, the voter-approved mandate requiring sure street-safety upgrades when roads are repaved.
The group can also be spending cash to assist Raman take down Bass, paying for assault advertisements towards the mayor.
One advert presently operating says, “Rich individuals name Karen Bass,” and says LA wants a mayor who “doesn’t simply reply to the wealthy and highly effective.”
Schneider informed The Put up the palm-tree push was not coordinated with Raman.
“Now we have not mentioned this with Nithya,” Schneider stated.
The group’s different ambitions for Los Angeles embody a “transportation revolution,” with extra devoted bus lanes, protected bike lanes, wider sidewalks and streets that give extra space to pedestrians and cyclists.
Raman’s marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to the California Put up’s request for remark.
