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Danielle Sinay
Aug 12, 2021
Caitlyn Jenner’s campaign for governor hasn’t gotten off to a great start.
Jenner, whose campaign is reportedly already in debt, kicked off her statewide bus tour with a stroll through a homeless encampment — which was somehow appropriate, considering her strange and privileged preoccupation with California’s homeless population. Earlier this month, she told KRON 4 that she wanted to move the state’s homeless community — consisting of over 60,000 people — to “big open fields.”
In May, the former Olympian told Fox News host Sean Hannitty that the homelessness crisis was causing her friends to move. “My friends are leaving California,” she said. “Actually, my hangar — the guy right across, he was packing up his hangar and I said, ‘Where are you going?’ And he says, ‘I’m moving to Sedona, Arizona. I can’t take it anymore. I can’t walk down the streets and see the homeless.’”
Thus, Jenner’s saunter through a Venice Beach homeless encampment — whilst criticising them — as a campaign event seems fitting.
Caitlyn Jenner is walking by homeless encampments in LA and criticizing them as part of a campaign event. https://t.co/iCwUq00HbV— The Recount (@The Recount) 1628791271
“I was already seeing, you know, campers. Where do they get these dilapidated campers?” Jenner asks the crowd in a judgmental tone.
In a follow-up video, a critic can be heard protesting Jenner’s exploitative press tour. “You’re coming down with white lily promises, of what? You’re not the answer,” she said. “We’re talking about people! Human beings on the sidewalk! Where are you gonna put them?”
A protester criticizes Caitlyn Jenner's tour of the homeless encampments in Venice, CA: "We're talking about peopl… https://t.co/S9wIeMj0kR— The Recount (@The Recount) 1628791400
Jenner had no reply, though did speak to the press following her parade through the streets. ”We have to reclaim our public space. We have to regulate our public space,” she said.
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