Billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass will square off in a November runoff in their costly race to become Los Angeles’ next mayor, with the two far ahead of the rest of the primary field.
“This is a great night because so many people have gone to the voting booth and they sent a message: We are not helpless in the face of our problems,” Rick Caruso told supporters gathered at the Grove, his shopping mall in the Fairfax district. “We will not allow the city to decline. We will no longer accept excuses.”
As the early front-runner in the campaign and a longtime Democratic office holder, Bass campaigned as a coalition builder who could leverage her connections in Sacramento and Washington to bring more resources to L.A. The election will determine who succeeds Mayor Eric Garcetti, who won the maximum two terms and is scheduled to leave office in December. President Biden has appointed Garcetti to serve as ambassador to India, but his confirmation has stalled in the U.S. Senate. A runoff will take place if no candidate receives a simple majority of the votes cast in the primary.
He recalled the home where his father grew up and where his diminutive grandmother, Josephine, was the boss.
She would win if she looked less utilitarian, and more fashion forward. Ethos pretty much there, logos yeah she has that, but her pathos needs an industry stylist. Her duds are bad to the bone My cousin is a stylist for example. Do it KarenBassLA .
Tells you everything you need to know about Caruso. “Caruso, a onetime Republican turned Democrat, pledged to shake up the status quo and make City Hall more efficient, while hiring substantially more police and moving rapidly to clear away homeless encampments.” 😡
I've been told that Caruso gets sad when you call him a billionaire developer.
Only so costly because he’s trying to buy his way in