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Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record \u2014 our City Hall newsletter. It\u2019s David Zahniser and Noah Goldberg, giving you the latest on city and county government.<\/i><\/p>\n

Read more From the scene of South L.A.\u2019s erupting sidewalks, 5 questions for Bass and Raman<\/a><\/p>\n

Los Angeles voters have finally gotten some closure on the outstanding contests in the June 2 primary election, with City Councilmember Nithya Raman <\/b>qualifying for the runoff against Mayor Karen Bass<\/b>, and Measure ER, the countywide sales tax hike, prevailing after a week of ballot counting.<\/p>\n

With nearly all the votes counted, Angelenos are now getting a more granular understanding of the strongholds built up by each of the top three mayoral candidates.<\/p>\n

Districts that went big for Bass, Raman and Pratt<\/b><\/p>\n

Early on in the vote-counting process, it looked like Raman might not win her Hollywood Hills-based district, which stretches from Silver Lake to Reseda. In the end, she pulled out a first-place finish, securing nearly 34% of the vote compared to Bass\u2019 31%, according to Paul Mitchell<\/b>, vice president of the voter data firm Political Data Inc, who aggregated county precinct data into council districts. Spencer Pratt<\/b>, the former reality TV personality, trailed at 27%.<\/p>\n

Still, Raman\u2019s strongest support came from three districts on the eastern end of the city.<\/p>\n

Mitchell\u2019s analysis showed Raman with 45% of the vote in Council District 13, which includes all or parts of Echo Park, Hollywood and Atwater Village. She got nearly 40% in Council District 1, which takes in parts of Highland Park, Mt. Washington and Angeleno Heights. And she scored nearly 38% of the vote in Council District 14, which includes downtown, Boyle Heights and El Sereno.<\/p>\n

Those districts are represented by Hugo Soto<\/b>–Mart\u00ednez, Eunisses Hernandez<\/b> and Ysabel Jurado<\/b>, respectively \u2014 all members of Democratic Socialists of America, who all endorsed Bass instead of Raman, a DSA member herself. Raman placed first in all three.<\/p>\n

Bass found her greatest strength in the three districts that cover South L.A., coming in first in all three. Her best performance was in District 8, represented by Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson<\/b>, where she led with nearly 62% of the vote.<\/p>\n

The mayor received 45% of the vote in Council District 10, which stretches from Koreatown to the Crenshaw Corridor, and 42% in Council District 9, which stretches from the southern edge of downtown south to 95th Street.<\/p>\n

Pratt performed the strongest in the west San Fernando Valley. He was the top vote-getter in District 12, which is represented by Councilmember John Lee<\/b> and includes Chatsworth, Granada Hills and Porter Ranch. In that district, he received 39% of the vote, Mitchell\u2019s assessment showed.<\/p>\n

Pratt got nearly 37% of the vote in District 3, which is represented by Councilmember Bob Blumenfield <\/b>and includes Woodland Hills, Warner Center and Canoga Park.<\/p>\n

Pratt also led the pack in the 5th District, which takes up much of the Westside and is represented by Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky<\/b>. He had 30.7% of the vote, compared to Raman\u2019s 30.6%, according to Mitchell\u2019s analysis.<\/p>\n

Nithya Raman attacks the L.A. \u2018political machine\u2019<\/h3>\n

It was one of tougher attacks of the mayoral primary: Raman accused Bass of engaging in \u201cpay to play\u201d \u2014 making decisions that benefited certain interest groups, who then spent big on her reeelection.<\/p>\n

At her first post-election press conference Wednesday, Raman revisited that line of attack, criticizing Bass over her push to upgrade the city\u2019s Convention Center. That $2.6 billion project was approved in the middle of the city\u2019s financial crisis, when the council was contemplating major job cuts, Raman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDowntown business groups then spent over a million dollars supporting her in her reelection. Meanwhile, the city went back to voters asking them to pay more to fix their streetlights. That is the political machine at work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Pay to play was a potent issue in the 2005 election, when Mayor James Hahn<\/b> was defeated by Councilmember Antonio Villaraigosa<\/b>. At the time, federal agencies had opened corruption investigations into decisions at the city\u2019s harbor and airports, as well as the Department of Water and Power. That year, the phrase \u201cpay to play\u201d was synonymous with criminal wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

In a video acknowledging his primary defeat, Pratt said he got into the mayor\u2019s race to \u201cexpose this corrupt machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raman stopped short of such a framing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not corruption,\u201d Raman told reporters at Vista Hermosa Park. \u201cBut it is evidence that the system, and how it works, particularly the influence of money in politics, has led to some very broken priorities here in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, policy analysts warned the Convention Center project would be a financial drag from the moment it opens, consuming more than $100 million per year throughout the 2030s. Business groups and labor organizations pushed back, saying the project would help revitalize downtown while creating much needed construction jobs.<\/p>\n

The Central City Assn., a downtown-based business group that supported the Convention Center upgrade, spent about $1.6 million on efforts to reelect Bass.<\/p>\n

\u201cNithya Raman doesn\u2019t think we need more jobs or visitors to our hotels and restaurants that produce the tax revenues downtown generates for the entire city, so it\u2019s hard to support her,\u201d said Central City Assn. President and Chief Executive Officer Nella McOsker<\/b> in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Bass spokesperson Alex Stack<\/b> also pushed back on Raman\u2019s criticism, saying the mayor has been with \u201cevery group and industry to deliver results for Angelenos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNithya Raman can\u2019t get anything done and then attacks the same groups she sought to endorse her campaign,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pratt trailed Trump among L.A. voters<\/h3>\n

As a mayoral candidate, Pratt was dogged by questions about whether he was MAGA \u2014 shorthand for the movement that first powered President Trump<\/b> into office in 2016. The Republican had received fulsome praise from Trump-aligned figures, including podcast host Joe Rogan <\/b>and Greg Gutfield<\/b> of Fox News.<\/p>\n

Pratt downplayed his GOP ties. Still, there\u2019s one area where he definitely had some similarity with Trump: His performance with L.A. voters.<\/p>\n

Trump and Pratt both picked up roughly one out of every four votes in L.A. during their respective campaigns.<\/p>\n

Pratt, former star of MTV\u2019s \u201cThe Hills,\u201d had 25.5% of the vote in L.A., according to results posted Friday. In November 2024, Trump did a little better, receiving 26.5%, show.<\/p>\n

Trump had 369,319 votes in L.A. two years ago, compared to 976,781 for then-Vice President Kamala Harris<\/b>. By Friday, Pratt had 217,638 votes, compared to 247,242 for Raman and 292,115 for Bass.<\/p>\n

It might not be fair to compare Pratt and Trump, given that there were key differences between the elections. Pratt was competing in a primary campaign, while Trump was in a general election. The candidate pool was different as well.<\/p>\n

Trump was running in a six-way contest where Harris was his main rival. Pratt, on the other hand, was in a race featuring 13 other candidates.<\/p>\n

Although two-thirds of those candidates were complete unknowns, four of Pratt\u2019s rivals ran serious campaigns, amassing endorsements and spending significant amounts of money.<\/p>\n

State of play<\/h2>\n

\u2014 TRUMP VS. LAHSA: <\/b>The Trump Administration moved Thursday to block the embattled Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority from receiving federal funds, saying the agency was badly managed and engaged in fraud. Elected officials across the city denounced the move, while nonprofit groups also voiced alarm. \u201cThis is intended to create chaos,\u201d said Jerry Jones<\/b>, the head of the Greater LA Coalition on Homelessness, which represents groups that serve the region\u2019s unhoused.<\/p>\n

\u2014 PAYOUT PROBE<\/b>: Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman <\/b>said Wednesday that he believes four out of every five claims in the largest sex abuse settlement in U.S. history \u2014 one that resulted in a $4 billion payout by Los Angeles County\u2014 may be fake. Hochman has asked a judge to pause the sex abuse payments while he continues his criminal investigation into the plaintiffs, lawyers and therapists involved in filing the claims.<\/p>\n

\u2014 GET READY TO RUMBLE: <\/b>The showdown between Bass and Raman is going to get ugly, political experts said this week, in part because they agree on a number of big-picture political issues. Both will need to court at least some of the disaffected voters who picked Pratt in the primary.<\/p>\n

\u2014 A SCATHING SENDOFF: <\/b>As we mentioned higher up, Pratt released a video Friday that was both an acknowledgment of his primary election defeat and a vitriolic screed against Bass and Raman, his former rivals. Pratt called them \u201cmorons,\u201d \u201ccommie animals\u201d and \u201ccorrupt communists,\u201d and made clear he intends to ramp up his attacks in the coming months. \u201cI don\u2019t have campaign laws hamstringing me now. It\u2019s war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u2014 WOOING LATINOS: <\/b>Bass carried far more Latino-majority neighborhoods than her rivals in last week\u2019s primary, a Times analysis found. She carried 35 Latino-majority neighborhoods, including Boyle Heights, Pacoima and Historic South-Central. That was a 46% increase from 2022, when she won 24 Latino-majority neighborhoods in her primary against Rick Caruso <\/b>and Kevin de Le\u00f3n<\/b>, the analysis found.<\/p>\n

\u2014 EKING OUT A WIN: <\/b>The countywide sales tax hike known as Measure ER prevailed this week, with late-arriving ballots pushing the number of \u2018yes\u2019 votes just above 50%. \u201cIt\u2019s a lifesaver to carry us through the storm we\u2019re all in,\u201d said County Supervisor Holly Mitchell<\/b>, who led the push among her colleagues to get the measure on the ballot.<\/p>\n

\u2014 AN EXPENSIVE FEE-FA:<\/b> Bass was set to attend the U.S. opening game of the World Cup Friday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood after being invited by FIFA, her office said. Still, Bass wasn\u2019t exempt from the high ticket prices she criticized earlier this year. She paid $2,735 out of pocket for her ticket, a spokesperson said. On a related note, the mayor announced more than 100 \u201cKick it in the Park\u201d events where Angelenos can watch World Cup games for free.<\/p>\n

\u2014 MORE OF THE SAME: <\/b>In a break with recent history, every council member who ran for reelection this year won their race. \u201cPeople see what we\u2019re doing, and they want us to keep fighting for them,\u201d said Councilmember Tim McOsker<\/b>, who won nearly three out of every four votes in his San Pedro-to-Watts district.<\/p>\n

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