These government officials in Los Angeles indulge in weekly car washes — despite California's terrible drought

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published 27 August 2015

As California continues to suffer from severe drought conditions, leading the state government to limit water consumption through expensive fines, the five members of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors continue to indulge in frequent car washes at taxpayers' expense.

One supervisor, Mark Ridley-Thomas, had his vehicles washed more often than his four colleagues, actually ramping up the wash frequency for his sedan to more than three times per week after a statewide push to reduce urban water consumption by a quarter. The four other supervisors wash their cars one to two times per week, and two of them also upped the washing schedule post-water reduction orders.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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