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Bass and Caruso have talked big on homelessness. Now they’re offering some details

The Los Angeles mayor’s race has been defined by candidates’ sweeping promises to get homeless people off the streets — with the most ambitious talk coming from the top two finishers in the June primary. Rep. Karen Bass, who leads developer Rick Caruso in polls, said she would place 15,000 people in tiny homes, motels, hotels, apartments and other forms …

Latinos favored Rick Caruso in the L.A. mayoral primary. But they may not swing his way in November

L.A. mayoral candidate Rep. Karen Bass speaks during a July 18 town hall with the immigrant rights group CHIRLA, which has endorsed her. “Community, door-to-door contact is way more effective.” In L.A. precincts with populations that are at least 80% Latino, Caruso got 34% of the vote in the primary, and Bass 27%, according to the Times analysis. De León, …

Bass slightly ahead of Caruso in new poll, both appear headed for mayoral runoff

Days before Los Angeles’ first open mayoral primary in nearly a decade, Rep. Karen Bass and Rick Caruso, the billionaire developer, appear headed toward a November runoff, with Bass building a small edge as the campaign moves toward a close. Bass is benefiting from strong support among women, who make up a majority of the voters likely to cast ballots, …

Mayoral candidate Kevin de León talks with campaign staff and volunteers at his campaign headquarters on Saturday. “I was at a kickoff for a youth program and a 10-year-old Latina came up to me and said, ‘Are you going to beat Caruso?’” De León told me. With his legislative record and working-class immigrant success story, De León would be leading …

Rick Caruso could soon be L.A. mayor. But he’s got no climate plan

Caruso donated to politicians opposing abortion in the past. Will that matter to L.A. voters?

Abortion became an unlikely issue in the Los Angeles mayor’s race this week after a draft opinion published Monday by Politico appeared to show that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe vs. Wade. The story paraphrased Caruso’s views on the subject, based on interviews with him: “He says he opposes abortion in most cases but would support some …

Karen Bass and Rick Caruso in dead heat, Los Angeles mayoral poll finds

Rep. Karen Bass and billionaire developer Rick Caruso, seen here during the recent mayoral debate, are currently on track for a November runoff. If the primary were today, Caruso, with backing from 24% of likely voters, and Bass, with 23%, would move to the November runoff, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co- A contest …

Rivals take aim at Caruso (and his yacht) in his first mayoral debate

Rick Caruso rebuts a point during the mayoral debate with Joe Buscaino, Kevin de León, Karen Bass and Mike Feuer on Tuesday night at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. “And they shouldn’t be denigrated for that.” De León was more blunt, saying he had worked on fighting climate change in Sacramento and on finding housing for homeless people in L.A., building up …

Good morning, and welcome to the first edition of L.A. on the Record — our new local elections newsletter. Buscaino campaign strategist Michael Trujillo sounded unconcerned about Caruso’s vast wealth, referring to the developer as the “poor man’s Michael Bloomberg,” the New York billionaire who entered the 2020 presidential race with great fanfare and quickly flamed out. — A candidate …

Rick Caruso has entered the mayor’s race. Will L.A. elect a billionaire?

Rick Caruso meets with the press Friday after filing paperwork to run for mayor of Los Angeles. Among other factors, Diaz cited the success of recent ballot measures related to housing and criminal justice reform that she said showed a preference for data-backed policy interventions aimed at root causes, rather than “penalizing people and going back to a ‘broken windows’ …