Howard C. Mandel
Commissioner, Los Angeles Health CommissionWe identified Mandel’s voice at two meetings.
Two clips, newest first
“What I think is that you’re— that there’s no question that public financing of programs to help the homeless people are imperative.”
“If you could find that out from your internal department and let our research associates know, that’d be important for us to know. Because otherwise we can’t make plans.”
Issues Mandel raised, by number of meetings
- Homelessness and LAHSA1 meeting
Talk time, and Mandel’s other bodies
- Health Commission: talk time not compared. Seated for only 4 meetings in 12 months.
Every meeting where we identified Mandel’s voice
- Dec 8, 2025Health Commission22.8 min21:56
- Nov 10, 2025Health Commission10.5 min58:44
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged
A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Mandel was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Howard C. Mandel’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Mandel said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Mandel or of Los Angeles alone.