Who ran the better campaign?

BY JAYNA KUKLIN News & Copy Editor

Earlier this year, billionaire businessman Rick Caruso switched parties. He is running as a Democrat for Tuesday's Los Angeles mayoral election.

Instead, vote for Karen Bass, a woman who has worked for years in politics and has the experience to lead us out of this mess.

The 2022 midterm election is coming up, and it’s time for people to get out and cast their votes.

For the first time in nearly 10 years, Los Angeles is choosing a new mayor, and its primaries include Rep. Karen Bass and Rick Caruso, a billionaire businessman.

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BY PAMELA KALIDASAN Features Editor

The election polling between Los Angeles’s mayoral candidates Rick Caruso and Karen Bass has been a close tie with Bass leading with 45 percent and Caruso with 41, according to BallotPedia.

Although it looks like Bass is taking Caruso by the upper hand, an interview with Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Oreskes and National Public by Nadra Nittle, an education reporter for 19th News on Sept. 8, 2022 explains how in 36 hours on Sept. 1915, Los Angeles Councilmember Estelle Lawton Lindsey served as the city’s acting mayor when the previous mayor before her and the city council president left town.

It’s been 107 years since, and Los Angeles has yet to elect a female mayor.

Karen Bass not only is a six-time councilmember and a Congresswoman—She also was on the shortlist to become Joe Biden’s running mate during his bid for presidency in 2020.

Bass comes from Los Angeles Congressional District 37—which is said to be one of the most diverse in California.

A column written by columnist

Sandy Banks for Politico on July 31, 2020 shows diversity through the numbers: One-quarter White and one-quarter Black, while 40% of the population there is Latino, and 8% is Asian-American.

Bass’s campaign centers on tackling homelessness in Los Angeles along with increasing public safety along with making sure women have the right to get an abortion without the state or the government intervening.

Rick Caruso, however, is a whole different story.

While his campaign centers on the same issues as Bass’s campaign, such as battling homelessness and public safety, one of the big problems that lie with Caruso is his inexperience with politics, and it shows.

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