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Also:

artappraiser — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:45:00 +0000

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Also:

LA COUNTY HAS A NEW SHERIFF: Former Long Beach police chief Robert Luna will be the next sheriff of Los Angeles County after Alex Villanueva conceded the race one week after the election https://t.co/zrdH24vqqY pic.twitter.com/D5h9bb12gb
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) November 16, 2022

A.P. has called it for Bass:

artappraiser — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:36:43 +0000

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A.P. has called it for Bass:

BREAKING: Los Angeles has elected its first Black woman as mayor.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Karen Bass defeated billionaire developer Rick Caruso in a contest that took place amid multiple City Hall scandals, an out-of-control homeless crisis and rising crime. https://t.co/45Tyihf25V
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 17, 2022

Someone had a good site that

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:58:30 +0000

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Someone had a good site that showed margins and the lean of outstanding ballots in different precincts. Alas...

only 67% of the vote counted

artappraiser — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:02:48 +0000

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only 67% of the vote counted as of Sunday morning; as the local reporter says it's basically a "deadlock" right now

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/los-angeles-mayors-race-karen-bass-surges-into-lead/

as is the race for sheriff

Rick Caruso, a billionaire

artappraiser — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:37:30 +0000

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Rick Caruso, a billionaire developer who has spent $100 million of his own money on the campaign, leads Rep. Karen Bass by less than 3,000 votes in the race to represent Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the country. https://t.co/xTteg28s7t
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) November 11, 2022

I was in both LA and SF in

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:01:11 +0000

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I was in both LA and SF in 2019 -- downtown LA was scruffier than ever before, Frisco i couldn't wait to get off the street to dive into an unsatisfying boring yuppie bar, then head back to my motel. Both cities felt in trouble, before the George Floyd protests. But the first reaction to problems, the breaking point, isn't necessarily the best. It just boiled over. After a few months most saber people tapered back on the extreme solutions. But they triggered a lot of radical responses as well.

I thought the recall where Arnie got into office was pretty crappy, but i think he governed as a pretty sane and practical governor, no heavy theological party schtick. Perhaps Bloomberg in the same way. This guy seems the "back to the knitting" type, which would be greatly appealing. If someone can restore basic modest results-oriented approaches to governing, and not the DeSantis or others' "I am the 2nd coming of Jesus", people may follow.

The Newsom vs. DeSantis thing

artappraiser — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:44:36 +0000

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The Newsom vs. DeSantis thing is related. Florida's cities are not seen as falling apart by the elites who live in them. You'll eat a lot of culture warring to have that. (Even perhaps poor refugees flown to Martha's Vineyard...where's the outrage? well after all, eventually they got taken care of, didn't they?)

“There’s just no room for

artappraiser — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:33:38 +0000

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“There’s just no room for ideological bullshit, because it’s affecting us in the here and now,” a startup founder with deep ties in Hollywood told me. She, too, was backing Caruso.

"After George Floyd, we all had passion for what we thought were the right things, but then it became impossible to have candid conversations about things like race relations, crime, equality,” the startup founder told me. “It felt like a game of gotcha if you misspoke, even if your intentions were in the right place.”

“Two years ago, I couldn’t have voted for him,” Lysa Heslov told me, referring to Caruso. Heslov was the director of the 2017 documentary “Served Like a Girl,” about female veterans; her husband, Grant Heslov, had produced “Argo” and co-written, with George Clooney, “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

But since then, she and others said, there had been a tectonic shift. Everything had gotten worse—the crime, the homelessness, the feeling that the city was spiraling, that the bottom was falling out from under it.

Everyone in L.A. has had that moment when something awful and crystallizing happens. Perhaps it was the UCLA graduate student stabbed to death in a furniture store. Or the college student shot and killed near USC. Or the 12-year-old in Wilmington struck by a stray bullet.

For many in Hollywood, it came on December 1, 2021, when a robber—a repeat offender—broke into the Beverly Hills home of Nicole Avant’s parents. He shot Avant’s 91-year-old mother in the back, killing her—and later, according to court records, laughing and bragging about it. He did not expect to spend the rest of his life in prison; he figured Gascon’s office would be lenient. (He was wrong.)

The message was like this neon billboard hovering over the city, the Hills, the tennis courts and Michelin-star restaurants: You can live in a beautiful neighborhood several freeway stops from the poor and the violent. You can wall yourselves off with gates and security systems. You can even hire a personal security guard, as Avants’ parents had. And it still doesn’t matter.