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Editorial: Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor

These are pessimistic days in Los Angeles. In focus groups, surveys and polls, the same themes keep surfacing: Residents are angry and frustrated by the continued human suffering of the homelessness crisis. They’re dissatisfied with their quality of life. They’re worried about having money to pay their rent or mortgage,…

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Rick Caruso’s campaign spending tops $23 million in LA mayor’s race

LOS ANGELES — With six weeks remaining before the primary, Rick Caruso’s Los Angeles mayoral campaign has already spent more than $23 million — an astronomical sum that will likely dwarf the combined spending of the other candidates in the field.

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Michael Hiltzik: Rick Caruso's useless tax disclosure shows that he thinks LA voters are idiots

Have voters gotten their fill of billionaire businessmen keeping their personal finances secret while asking for the public's trust in fiscal matters?

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‘A metastasizing crisis’: can Karen Bass end street encampments in LA?

The mayoral candidate tells the Guardian she will treat homelessness as a ‘natural disaster’ but critics are skeptical her plans will solve our vast emergency

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LA mayoral candidate Rick Caruso says he paid $1.6M in income tax over 5 years, but won’t release returns

LOS ANGELES — Rick Caruso has released information on the taxes that he and his businesses paid over the last five years but — unlike most other major candidates in the race for mayor — the billionaire businessman’s finances and tax rate remain a secret because of his unwillingness to…

Los Angeles Times

LA mayoral hopefuls court Asian Americans, the city's fastest-growing ethnic group

LOS ANGELES — In November, Kevin de León convened a press conference for the Korean-language media.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: When big money enters the LA mayor’s race

Billionaire developer Rick Caruso joined the race to be Los Angeles’ next mayor just eight weeks ago, and with the help of $10 million from his own fortune he’s catapulted into first place.

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Lesser-known Los Angeles mayoral candidates demand to be included in Cal State LA debate

LOS ANGELES — It is a dilemma often faced by debate organizers — where to draw the line between “major” and “minor” candidates.

Los Angeles Times

Karen Bass and Rick Caruso in dead heat, LA mayoral poll finds

LOS ANGELES — Voters upset over crime and a seemingly limitless geyser of cash have propelled Rick Caruso to the front of the race for mayor, reshaping the contest and offering Los Angeles a stark contrast between the billionaire developer and his chief rival, Rep. Karen Bass.

Los Angeles Times

Rick Caruso has loaned his campaign $10 million. It’s upending the LA mayor’s race

LOS ANGELES — To paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, the very rich are different from you and me: They can bankroll their own campaign for mayor.

Los Angeles Times

From LA mayoral candidates Karen Bass and Rick Caruso, sharply divergent views of city and how it should be run

LOS ANGELES — U.S. Rep. Karen Bass and businessman Rick Caruso showed up to Tuesday night’s Los Angeles mayoral debate with two sharply different messages — about leadership and, to an extent, the current state of the city.

Los Angeles Times

Latino voters can't be ignored. LA mayoral candidates are working to earn their votes

LOS ANGELES — When Antonio Villaraigosa ran for mayor of Los Angeles in the early 2000s, some were not ready for a Latino to lead the city.

Los Angeles Times

Hollywood money begins to flow into committee backing Karen Bass in mayor's race

LOS ANGELES — Billionaire Rick Caruso has already put millions of dollars toward television ads, and is expected to vastly outspend his competitors in the Los Angeles mayor's race.

Los Angeles Times

Karen Bass is running for LA mayor as a progressive. But some activists are frustrated

LOS ANGELES — For some of L.A.'s most outspoken left-leaning activists, the first sign of trouble came when U.S. Rep. Karen Bass unveiled her plan for ending homeless encampments on the city’s streets and sidewalks.

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‘Feeling of fear’: LA mayor hopeful Bass vows tough crime stance

LOS ANGELES — Karen Bass, an early frontrunner for Los Angeles mayor, said she would get tough on crime and reform policing to address a spike in violence across the U.S.’s second-largest city.

Los Angeles Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorses Rep. Karen Bass for LA mayor

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed her “colleague and friend” Rep. Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayor’s race on Monday, characterizing Bass as a coalition builder who fights for social and economic justice.

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'Race is wide open': New LA mayoral poll shows Bass and De León in close proximity

LOS ANGELES — A new poll shows a different shape of the Los Angeles mayoral race than previous polling, with no commanding front-runner.

Los Angeles Times

Karen Bass takes early lead in LA mayor's race, poll finds

LOS ANGELES — Voters would advance Rep. Karen Bass to the November runoff by a wide margin if the Los Angeles mayoral primary were today, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times.

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House members are using proxy voting for reasons far beyond its original intent

WASHINGTON — Rep. Karen Bass voted by proxy in the House last week as she filed paperwork in Los Angeles to run for mayor. Rep. Mo Brooks did the same to campaign for a Senate seat, tweeting a picture of himself shaking hands with Alabama Republicans.

Los Angeles Times

Rick Caruso has entered the LA mayor’s race. Will the city elect a billionaire?

LOS ANGELES — Rick Caruso, the billionaire developer of the Grove and other luxury properties, has officially jumped into the contest to become Los Angeles’ next mayor, shaking up a race that to this point has been led mostly by Democratic elected officials.

Los Angeles Times

US Rep. Karen Bass takes in nearly $2 million to lead LA mayoral rivals in early fundraising

LOS ANGELES — U.S. Rep. Karen Bass raised nearly $2 million after launching her campaign in the fall to become Los Angeles’ next mayor, demonstrating an early base of support and enthusiasm as she far outpaced her rivals in the crowded field.

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Steve Lopez: LA needs a real homeless plan we haven’t heard before

OK, here we go.

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Kamala Harris and the American vote: Here’s what she’ll (hopefully) bring to the table

Joe Biden painted himself into a corner.

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