
You should not be writing in Pratt. You should not be leaving it blank.
You should be voting for Karen Bass, because yes—remarkably—Nithya Raman would be worse than Karen Bass, which speaks volumes about what type of mayor Nithya would be.
Nithya supports defunding the police; she refused to vote to add officers to LAPD this year—which are desperately needed.
Bass negotiated LAPD raises, supported hiring additional officers, and has the endorsement of the Los Angeles Police Protective League.
Nithya Raman is also on record in debates saying she wants to keep the open-air drug markets—you know, the program where my tax dollars go to distributing 125,000 syringes annually.
Karen Bass has promised to end this.
Karen Bass also supported the federal operation in MacArthur Park earlier this year that resulted in 18 drug-related arrests and an October crackdown in Skid Row that targeted gang-affiliated distributors.
Nithya Raman would not support those things as mayor.
Regarding homelessness, Karen Bass has supported expanding restrictions on camping in certain public spaces, including near schools. Nithya Raman repeatedly opposed expansions of those restrictions.
Nithya Raman also has a concerning history of dramatically shifting positions—including on police funding, encampment restrictions, and Measure ULA (the city's real estate transfer tax).
Additionally, Nithya Raman has obvious ties to the DSA, while Karen Bass is more closely aligned with the Democrat establishment (already bad enough—not as bad as the DSA).
So yeah, I get Karen Bass is a failed mayor. I get this is a choice between dumb and dumb and shit and shittier.
But I’ll take the dumb and the shit over the dumber and the shittier any day.
Don’t waste your vote.
Vote for Karen bass for mayor.
The time to offer a protest vote or make your voice heard in that way is in the primaries; the general elections is for choosing the lesser of two evils.