California insurance commissioners spent tens of thousands of people funding a “shell” campaign on luxury meals and gloves-riding trips, skipping key hearings on the state’s worsening insurance crisis.
Ricardo Lara has not officially announced a run for his high-end office Ricardo Lara has used more than $30,000 from the Lieutenant Governor’s Campaign Committee for premium meal expenses, including a $700 tab at celebrity chef restaurants, and travel to top-notch trips such as Bermuda, Paris and Bogota. According to To the standard. The report claims providers are fleeing California while the state’s top gay insurance regulators have won and dine with industry insiders. (Related: Top officials say she was stopped to tell the “truth.” The city reminds us of a taxpayer-funded investigation into glamour filming.)
“He’s a perfect example of someone not elected to this position, but he was supported by democratic institutions,” a Democratic political consultant told Standard. “He got his advantage and turned out to be abusing the office.”
Lara’s office did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Call News Foundation.
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Research shows Lala’s campaign spending included extravagant meals at high-end restaurants like Saint Laurel in Los Angeles. Jamon Iberico, sea urchins, sea urchins, $16 grapefruit, lobster salpicon and bottles of Spanish white wine were all partially billed to the Phantom Campaign Fund, which he created in 2023.
The standard could not find evidence of formal campaign announcements or news reports speculating about such plans. Sources within the state’s politics told the outlet they hadn’t heard anything about the Lala campaign either.
“They’re how they transfer their funds and keep the campaign’s war-bodied heart, whether they have a real intention to run for that office,” Sean McMorris, a researcher of the campaign ethics at Common Course Course, told the Standard. “But the public and the press have absolutely the right to question how politicians are using campaign funds on the committees they are open.”
Meanwhile, Lara missed many Senate insurance hearings to deal with the ongoing crisis in the California homeowners insurance market. Lara Skip the first state insurance hearing Fully in 2025, I choose to speak at the Bermuda Insurance Summit instead. There, most of the world’s reinsurers are based there.
“Committee Lala’s job is to ensure that California consumers make real choices rather than as a last resort, which involves going to the head of the insurance company and directly engaging with the global insurance groups that support them. statement ABC7 News to Los Angeles.
Lara’s team argues that travelling to Bermuda is work-related, but the internal disruption surrounding travel to seemingly constant taxpayer-funded exotic locations, including inexplicable junkets to places like Colombia and France, has put his priorities in question. (Related: GOP Blasts Dems to Create a Time Bomb of Wildfire Disruption and Policy Failure in California)
“As an insurance committee member, my job has always been to put consumers first. Obviously, this value isn’t continuing,” said John Garamendi, a California Democratic lawmaker who served as California’s insurance committee member in the 1990s. Separately He told ABC7 News Los Angeles.
Brian Jones, a Republican from San Diego, a minority leader in the California Senate, similarly called for “transparency and accountability from all levels of government,” highlighting the need for officials to “come and do their job” in a statement to the outlet.
October 30, 2015. Elementary school students from Los Angeles Rosewood Park, California will join California Senator Ricardola for group photos during “Health for All Kids” in Los Angeles, California on October 30, 2015 (pictured by Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Since taking office in 2019, Lara has reportedly recorded at least 46 trips abroad and logged across the US. investigation ABC7 News Los Angeles. The report reveals that almost every Senate insurance hearing has been missing since Lala took office.
California’s insurance market is becoming increasingly unstable as businesses withdraw from high-risk regions and cite unsustainable losses from wildfires and climate regulations. According to that, Lara has The reforms that emerged Like a year’s moratorium on insurance cancellations and non-renewal – critics have, including consumer watchdogs Discussed His policy allows insurers to avoid meaningful commitment to expand coverage in areas that are prone to wildfires.
Under current California Lawauthorities can maintain the campaign committee without officially taking office, but they are still seen in personal spending and disclosure rules.
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