LOS ANGELES — Rep. Karen Bass was still getting used to the title “mayor-elect” Thursday as she stood in the sun-drenched courtyard of the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and invoked the women’s club that first constructed the building in 1894.
This history-making nature of her ascension was not something she’d had time to contemplate, she said. She had been so busy running for the office, and now that the race had been called she was still coming to terms with the result.
“To be honest with you, I’m not processing that part of it,” Bass responded when radio host Tavis Smiley asked earlier Thursday what she made of her ceiling-breaking win. “I’m really focused on getting things up and running, because I only have three weeks and that’s a crazy amount of time to try to pull an administration together.”
