There are 69 trillion people running for 27 billion elected positions in Los Angeles this year. Half of them have invaded your eyes and ears with advertisements the moment you take your first breath in the morning so that we won’t take too much time with the spiel up top.
It is worth noting that most of the candidates around the city and the county talk about using political power to house people, protect renters, build more affordable housing, and make the police and the sheriff’s department accountable for their actions. These are all political positions that would seem too radical even a couple of years ago. It’s almost like the constant push of a broad array of local activist groups over the past couple of years has been working to pressure local politicians to use their political power for something besides getting kickbacks from real estate developers.
Here’s a rundown of the people who want you to vote for them.
Garcetti is (Still maybe. Possibly.) going to be Biden’s ambassador to India, so somebody’s got to be mayor of L.A. in his place.
This is a primary election, so if one of the candidates wins more than 50% of the vote, they win the election. Still, if nobody wins more than 50% of the vote, the two candidates who got the most votes will have to face each other again in the general election on November 8.