April 23, 2026 • 9 mins
Paul Corvino sits down with Spencer Pratt, a candidate running for Mayor of Los Angeles. Spencer William Pratt is an American reality television personality and politician. In 2007, he began dating Heidi Montag, a primary cast member of the reality television series The Hills, and came to prominence after being cast in the series
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Meet the Candidates with Division President of iHeartMedia,
Paul Corvino.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Today I'm joined by Spencer Pratt, former reality star, business
owner and now candidate running for the position of mayor
of the City of Los Angeles. Welcome Spencer, Thank.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
You so much.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I like to think of myself as the Angelino. This
running for mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Okay, because what is needed.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
To change in Los Angeles is for everyone that pays taxes.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's not for one party.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And that's why it's a nonpartisan race because there shouldn't
be a party connected to the mayor. It's why they
don't have a letter when you go and vote, doesn't
have a D or an R. What they should have
is just Los Angeles. And that's why they designed the
whole setup for mayor because I'm going to represent everyone
when I'm mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So tell me. You've got a successful career. You've been
on television, You've done other things since you've left some
of the shows you were on, which we'll talk about,
But tell me start off. I always ask everyone, why
the heck would you want this job mayor of the
City of Los Angeles. The second biggest city in the country.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I'm to be clear, I never wanted to be
a politician and I wouldn't be running for mayor if
the current mayor and the city leadership didn't let my
house burn to the ground, my parents' house burn to ground,
all my neighbor's houses burning ground, my neighbors, twelve of
them burn alive. And then after spending almost over a
(01:27):
year investigating and talking to whistleblowers and uncovering the negligence,
the corruption and the cover up at the mayor's office
that led to all of this and the after effects
of what they were doing, I was left with no choice.
When I saw that nobody was going to step up
and call out the mayor for what she's done, I
didn't have a choice. I want my two sons to
(01:49):
grow up in the Los Angeles I grew up in,
and right now the direction LA is heading, it would
be impossible. Nobody's going to want to live here.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So tell me, post television, what have you been doing
and how has that set you up? Or is going
to help you to become mayor and help you be
an effective mayor?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Regardless of what I've done posts being in the entertainment business.
What I have is common sense, and that's what's going
to make me a successful mayor. I clearly see that
everything our experience politicians have done is failing all Los
Angeles period. But what I've done personally is I started
a small business, a jewelry company, and by myself on
(02:29):
my own, how that grow into a multi million dollar
business in California in Los Angeles, which is very challenging have.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
A small business be successful.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And but what I learned from that experience is all
it's all about your team, which everybody I meet with,
all the most powerful people that now want to help
me save LA. It's about surrounding my team with the
best people. Right now, the people that are surrounding Mayor
bath team.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Are clearly the worst people.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Her own deputy mayor is in jail right now, and
he wasn't there when our house we're burning down because
he called in a bomb threat trying to blame Israel
and the Jews for something and called in a literal
bomb threat to city hall. That's who Mayor Bass in
her experience, chooses as her deputy mayor. The people I'm
going to pick want Las to succeed whatever is going
(03:18):
on right now the city Hall. The direction it's headed.
They are connected with NGOs that are laundering billions of
dollars of our tax money to increase homelessness.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What would you say is the number one issue facing
Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
For me, it starts with homelessness. Even before my house
burned down, every morning at about seven forty five am,
there was a lady cleaning her private parts in front
of the kids that we call the lapd they'd come,
they'd ask her, please stop cleaning your private parts in
front of the kids front, right in front of their
elementary school and my son's preschool across the street. Then
(03:52):
she'd go around the corner in front of Joe's barbershop,
and then she would go number two right out of
the street. This is happening all over Los Angeles. Once
we treat the mental health crisis, we treat the drug addiction,
and we actually have mandatory treatment for these people that
need help, then all of a sudden, the trickle down
effect businesses will come back. Over one hundred restaurants have
(04:13):
closed in LA.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Also, when you say treat mental health, you're talking about
getting people off the streets and getting into facilities.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Correct, not just saying we have seven hundred thousand dollars
beds available for them. Six people die a day on
the streets of the Los Angeles in the last week alone.
I've been tagged in videos in the morning showing somebody
a homeless person in a situation. By the end of
the day, I'm tagged by a different person and that
person's dead. And then Nitia Rahman was asked by Matt
(04:41):
Seedar for Fox News about the homeless encampment in her district,
she said, oh, it's in a hard to reach place.
Two days later after that's her quote to Fox. One
of those people od's and dies and guess what. The
coroner was able to reach them, put them in a
body bag. These people are reachable. They have their houses first.
All this bs that is not working. We've spent a
(05:04):
billion dollars to increase homelessness. We need to come in
similar to what San Francisco has done with Mayor LORI,
same thing. Enforce the laws and clean up these streets.
And that's what I will do. And the Deputy Mayor
already have on deck that I can't say his name,
will make sure this acts.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
See your first days in office, what's the lowest hanging
fruit to go after? Is it homelessness problem?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, first day and I was cleaning house.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
We're getting rid of all these people who have failed
US taxpayers.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So we're starting with a new team. Mayor Bass.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
When she came in, she kept the old administration's team
for nine months because she wasn't even ready to be mayor.
I'm coming in with my team day one. So everybody
who's been failing LA start packing up. Look for your
new jobs now, because you've failed US taxpayers and you
failed the six people a day that are dying on
the streets. And then, of course we're going to go
(05:57):
enforce the laws. I'm gonna put up signs all around
the city so everyone can have a nice week or
two that says no drug use allowed, no illegal encampments.
We're gonna have Laped's gonna go around warn everybody. We're
gonna let them know so it's not a shock. We're
gonna keep reminding them every day for approximately two weeks.
And then we're gonna force the law, and we're gonna
(06:18):
clean the streets, and we're gonna put criminals that torture
and abuse dogs straight to jail. We're gonna put addicts
they can't get off drugs obviously because they're addicted to
fentan al or meth. We're gonna put them in facilities
where they're gonna get proper medical treatment to help them.
And then people that are just struggling to get back
on their feet, we're gonna get them those seven hundred
and fifty.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Thousand other best when you're team.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
First off, we're gonna get rid of the people that
are involved. So how I'm gonna do this right off
the jump to know who the good people are and
the bad people I already have have it on deck.
I'm working with the Criminal Investigation Team with IRS. That
first week when I'm saying we're removing people, They're gonna
look through all these books and there may be a
couple of these NGOs that aren't criminals. Let's not say
(07:03):
one hundred percent are criminals stealing our tax may we're
gonna find the ones. We're going to audit every single one,
and we may keep some of the people that have
these NGLs, but we're gonna check their their documents make
sure they're not taking all of our tax money in
the grants and having it go to salaries versus treatment.
But who we need to get are people that care,
people that expect results from their effort. Right now, across
(07:26):
the board, whether it's sanitation, the Fire Department, LAPD, we
need people that want LA to get fixed. And that's
what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna be the guy who
has accountability, transparency. Every dollar in the City of La
will be tracked. No more of these confusing dashboards and
little statements like, oh, here's Mike.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You've running like a small business owner, like the way
you run your jewelry business.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Not to mention there's right now. Community budget advocates that
are experts in budget. They suggested three years ago to
Mayor Baths what LA needed budget wise to change the
city and get it on track. They had seven initiatives
as mayor. All seven of those initiatives I'm gonna follow.
We're gonna have an outside budget commission advisors to check everything.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
No more are we just.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Gonna say, oh, this is everybody's getting this money. When
the budget doesn't have this money. We're gonna have thirty days.
We're gonna make sure the money is for the We're
not just gonna say here's two billion dollars for the
convention center while we're.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Don't even have the money.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Just today, right now, go search there's a dead body
in the bushes in front of the convention center.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Why are we.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Spending two billion dollars to redo a convention center? If
there's dead bodies in the bushes, why don't we fix
the dead bodies before we go waste money that the
city doesn't even have on some insides when the outside
looks terrible.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So, Spencer, what sets you apart from the other candidates
that are running from mayor?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
What separates me from the other candidates? As I have
nothing to gain from this. I don't have some scam
homeless NGO to launder money too. I'm not some committed
communists who went to Cuba twenty eight times who wants
to rewrite LA and some social experiment. I just want
this great city that I grew up in to come
(09:13):
back for my kids so they can have the childhood
that this amazing place offers. I have nothing to gain
from this. I have nothing to lose. That's why I'm
willing to say all the stuff that everyone else is
scared to say. I am the reality candidate because I'm
the only one living in reality.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Once again. This is Paul Corvino, Division president at iHeartMedia
in Los Angeles, California. I'm speaking with Spencer Pratt, who
is running for mayor of the city of Los Angeles.
Thank you so much, Spencer.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Thank you so much. Everyone.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Don't forget to register to vote, and when your ballots
drop May fourth, signed Spencer Pratt and mail it or
drop it off. Thank you.
This is Meet the Candidates with Division President of iHeartMedia,
Paul Corvino.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Today I'm joined by Spencer Pratt, former reality star, business
owner and now candidate running for the position of mayor
of the City of Los Angeles. Welcome Spencer, Thank.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
You so much.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I like to think of myself as the Angelino. This
running for mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Okay, because what is needed.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
To change in Los Angeles is for everyone that pays taxes.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's not for one party.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And that's why it's a nonpartisan race because there shouldn't
be a party connected to the mayor. It's why they
don't have a letter when you go and vote, doesn't
have a D or an R. What they should have
is just Los Angeles. And that's why they designed the
whole setup for mayor because I'm going to represent everyone
when I'm mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So tell me. You've got a successful career. You've been
on television, You've done other things since you've left some
of the shows you were on, which we'll talk about,
But tell me start off. I always ask everyone, why
the heck would you want this job mayor of the
City of Los Angeles. The second biggest city in the country.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I'm to be clear, I never wanted to be
a politician and I wouldn't be running for mayor if
the current mayor and the city leadership didn't let my
house burn to the ground, my parents' house burn to ground,
all my neighbor's houses burning ground, my neighbors, twelve of
them burn alive. And then after spending almost over a
(01:27):
year investigating and talking to whistleblowers and uncovering the negligence,
the corruption and the cover up at the mayor's office
that led to all of this and the after effects
of what they were doing, I was left with no choice.
When I saw that nobody was going to step up
and call out the mayor for what she's done, I
didn't have a choice. I want my two sons to
(01:49):
grow up in the Los Angeles I grew up in,
and right now the direction LA is heading, it would
be impossible. Nobody's going to want to live here.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So tell me, post television, what have you been doing
and how has that set you up? Or is going
to help you to become mayor and help you be
an effective mayor?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Regardless of what I've done posts being in the entertainment business.
What I have is common sense, and that's what's going
to make me a successful mayor. I clearly see that
everything our experience politicians have done is failing all Los
Angeles period. But what I've done personally is I started
a small business, a jewelry company, and by myself on
(02:29):
my own, how that grow into a multi million dollar
business in California in Los Angeles, which is very challenging have.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
A small business be successful.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And but what I learned from that experience is all
it's all about your team, which everybody I meet with,
all the most powerful people that now want to help
me save LA. It's about surrounding my team with the
best people. Right now, the people that are surrounding Mayor
bath team.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Are clearly the worst people.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Her own deputy mayor is in jail right now, and
he wasn't there when our house we're burning down because
he called in a bomb threat trying to blame Israel
and the Jews for something and called in a literal
bomb threat to city hall. That's who Mayor Bass in
her experience, chooses as her deputy mayor. The people I'm
going to pick want Las to succeed whatever is going
(03:18):
on right now the city Hall. The direction it's headed.
They are connected with NGOs that are laundering billions of
dollars of our tax money to increase homelessness.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
What would you say is the number one issue facing
Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
For me, it starts with homelessness. Even before my house
burned down, every morning at about seven forty five am,
there was a lady cleaning her private parts in front
of the kids that we call the lapd they'd come,
they'd ask her, please stop cleaning your private parts in
front of the kids front, right in front of their
elementary school and my son's preschool across the street. Then
(03:52):
she'd go around the corner in front of Joe's barbershop,
and then she would go number two right out of
the street. This is happening all over Los Angeles. Once
we treat the mental health crisis, we treat the drug addiction,
and we actually have mandatory treatment for these people that
need help, then all of a sudden, the trickle down
effect businesses will come back. Over one hundred restaurants have
(04:13):
closed in LA.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Also, when you say treat mental health, you're talking about
getting people off the streets and getting into facilities.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Correct, not just saying we have seven hundred thousand dollars
beds available for them. Six people die a day on
the streets of the Los Angeles in the last week alone.
I've been tagged in videos in the morning showing somebody
a homeless person in a situation. By the end of
the day, I'm tagged by a different person and that
person's dead. And then Nitia Rahman was asked by Matt
(04:41):
Seedar for Fox News about the homeless encampment in her district,
she said, oh, it's in a hard to reach place.
Two days later after that's her quote to Fox. One
of those people od's and dies and guess what. The
coroner was able to reach them, put them in a
body bag. These people are reachable. They have their houses first.
All this bs that is not working. We've spent a
(05:04):
billion dollars to increase homelessness. We need to come in
similar to what San Francisco has done with Mayor LORI,
same thing. Enforce the laws and clean up these streets.
And that's what I will do. And the Deputy Mayor
already have on deck that I can't say his name,
will make sure this acts.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
See your first days in office, what's the lowest hanging
fruit to go after? Is it homelessness problem?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, first day and I was cleaning house.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
We're getting rid of all these people who have failed
US taxpayers.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
So we're starting with a new team. Mayor Bass.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
When she came in, she kept the old administration's team
for nine months because she wasn't even ready to be mayor.
I'm coming in with my team day one. So everybody
who's been failing LA start packing up. Look for your
new jobs now, because you've failed US taxpayers and you
failed the six people a day that are dying on
the streets. And then, of course we're going to go
(05:57):
enforce the laws. I'm gonna put up signs all around
the city so everyone can have a nice week or
two that says no drug use allowed, no illegal encampments.
We're gonna have Laped's gonna go around warn everybody. We're
gonna let them know so it's not a shock. We're
gonna keep reminding them every day for approximately two weeks.
And then we're gonna force the law, and we're gonna
(06:18):
clean the streets, and we're gonna put criminals that torture
and abuse dogs straight to jail. We're gonna put addicts
they can't get off drugs obviously because they're addicted to
fentan al or meth. We're gonna put them in facilities
where they're gonna get proper medical treatment to help them.
And then people that are just struggling to get back
on their feet, we're gonna get them those seven hundred
and fifty.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Thousand other best when you're team.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
First off, we're gonna get rid of the people that
are involved. So how I'm gonna do this right off
the jump to know who the good people are and
the bad people I already have have it on deck.
I'm working with the Criminal Investigation Team with IRS. That
first week when I'm saying we're removing people, They're gonna
look through all these books and there may be a
couple of these NGOs that aren't criminals. Let's not say
(07:03):
one hundred percent are criminals stealing our tax may we're
gonna find the ones. We're going to audit every single one,
and we may keep some of the people that have
these NGLs, but we're gonna check their their documents make
sure they're not taking all of our tax money in
the grants and having it go to salaries versus treatment.
But who we need to get are people that care,
people that expect results from their effort. Right now, across
(07:26):
the board, whether it's sanitation, the Fire Department, LAPD, we
need people that want LA to get fixed. And that's
what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna be the guy who
has accountability, transparency. Every dollar in the City of La
will be tracked. No more of these confusing dashboards and
little statements like, oh, here's Mike.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You've running like a small business owner, like the way
you run your jewelry business.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Not to mention there's right now. Community budget advocates that
are experts in budget. They suggested three years ago to
Mayor Baths what LA needed budget wise to change the
city and get it on track. They had seven initiatives
as mayor. All seven of those initiatives I'm gonna follow.
We're gonna have an outside budget commission advisors to check everything.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
No more are we just.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Gonna say, oh, this is everybody's getting this money. When
the budget doesn't have this money. We're gonna have thirty days.
We're gonna make sure the money is for the We're
not just gonna say here's two billion dollars for the
convention center while we're.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Don't even have the money.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Just today, right now, go search there's a dead body
in the bushes in front of the convention center.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Why are we.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Spending two billion dollars to redo a convention center? If
there's dead bodies in the bushes, why don't we fix
the dead bodies before we go waste money that the
city doesn't even have on some insides when the outside
looks terrible.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So, Spencer, what sets you apart from the other candidates
that are running from mayor?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
What separates me from the other candidates? As I have
nothing to gain from this. I don't have some scam
homeless NGO to launder money too. I'm not some committed
communists who went to Cuba twenty eight times who wants
to rewrite LA and some social experiment. I just want
this great city that I grew up in to come
(09:13):
back for my kids so they can have the childhood
that this amazing place offers. I have nothing to gain
from this. I have nothing to lose. That's why I'm
willing to say all the stuff that everyone else is
scared to say. I am the reality candidate because I'm
the only one living in reality.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Once again. This is Paul Corvino, Division president at iHeartMedia
in Los Angeles, California. I'm speaking with Spencer Pratt, who
is running for mayor of the city of Los Angeles.
Thank you so much, Spencer.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Thank you so much. Everyone.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Don't forget to register to vote, and when your ballots
drop May fourth, signed Spencer Pratt and mail it or
drop it off. Thank you.
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