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Roxanne Hoge Urges GOP Help as Bass Funds Match Program

8/25/2026

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Los Angeles County GOP Chair Roxanne Hoge urged Republicans to send help to California, citing corruption.
Mayor Karen Bass announced a six-to-one taxpayer matching program, turning $5 donations into $35.
Hoge said the matching program is legal under a 1990 public-financing law later expanded by the council.
Social-media users called Bass’s taxpayer-matched donations illegal, grotesque, and insane.

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Los Angeles County GOP Chair Roxanne Hoge urged Republicans to send help to California, citing corruption.
Mayor Karen Bass announced a six-to-one taxpayer matching program, turning $5 donations into $35.
Hoge said the matching program is legal under a 1990 public-financing law later expanded by the council.
Social-media users called Bass’s taxpayer-matched donations illegal, grotesque, and insane.