BREAKING: Los Angeles has elected its first Black woman as mayor.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Karen Bass defeated billionaire developer Rick Caruso in a contest that took place amid multiple City Hall scandals, an out-of-control homeless crisis and rising crime. https://t.co/45Tyihf25V
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 17, 2022
So I guess Caruso switched from Republican to Democrat before becoming a mayoral candidate and spent $100 million of his own money. Thoughts and prayers.
— Allen Strickland Williams (@TotallyAllen) November 13, 2022
Apprehended!
For weeks Officers saturated the area & conducted stakeouts using night vision goggles without success. Recently, the homeowner moved a security camera to the area of the yard where the items were located, and the suspect was observed on video. Please watch this video to see if you can identify the suspect.
I’m working on a deadline and kind of pissed away the day, so no kindness post tonight. I’ll try again tomorrow.
This is an open thread…
Steve in the ATL
I’m in Minneapolis for work and noticed that the Dropkick Murphys are playing around the corner from my hotel, so of course I am going! Doesn’t bode well for my 8 am meeting….
pacem appellant
I was worried about this race. I thought the City Council chaos would drag Bass down, but it dragged both of them equally. Congratulations Mayor-elect Bass!
Baud
Congratulations to Bass!
Another Scott
Excellent news! Congratulations and much success to the new Mayor.
Cheers,
Scott.
Scout211
I posted Bass’s win in a thread downstairs and I am so glad you front paged this historic win. She is first woman to be elected mayor of Los Angeles. Congratulations to her!
thruppence
was helping a MAGAish customer today and he said “after this election I’ll never vote again” and I thought great, tell all your friends to do the same
mrmoshpotato
Can we get some context on this?
TaMara
@mrmoshpotato: You obviously can’t see the embedded video:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1863391544019191
dlwchico
Open thread so you gotta see this pup. With sound.
https://twitter.com/dog_rates/status/1593040971096535040
cain
reddit on /r/politics claims that the GOP has won the house by 5 votes? Can someone verify? 5 votes.. I hope we get some more flips through special elections to lower that number. The best will be 1 vote margin and the house can’t do shit without Democrats – of course there will be a lot of investigations and of course the media will be asking Biden about bipartisanship and how he is going to work with Republicans. Lol – I love how it is how Biden has to not the other way around. The white house will need to be prepared for all kinds of bullshit. Alas.
HumboldtBlue
Sticking with California political news:
Darkrose
@HumboldtBlue: Oh please let DiFi retire!
Baud
@HumboldtBlue:
We’d be down one vote in the House until the special election, but it probably won’t make much of a difference.
narya
@Baud: In some ways the timing would be perfect. It’s going to be wacky in the House, I suspect, and, as you note, one vote isn’t going to matter early on. And I would love to see Schiff in the Senate.
Matt McIrvin
@cain: The media just called the 218th House race, which means the Republicans have a bare majority. Right now, going by where the remaining races are leaning, the eventual count looks like it’s most likely going to be R 221 / D 214. So the Republicans would be three and a half votes over, effectively. More than a one-vote margin, but small enough that one can imagine enough votes being peeled off to stop some things.
edit: I think the “5 votes” referred to are the ones they needed to gain to get to 218.
Brachiator
@HumboldtBlue:
Pressure doesn’t work that way. That is, Newsom has moved people up, but does not appear to bend to lobbying or pressure.
I live in Los Angeles County, not the city, but I applaud the outcome electing Bass as mayor. However she and Caruso agreed on many issues so the city would have done okay had he won.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: You are making the right choice.
mrmoshpotato
@TaMara: I can see it. But I don’t know where this is, or what commotion that animal was causing.
karensky
@TaMara: Coyote
Jackie
@Darkrose: We’ll, she’s not going to be the Senate president pro tem! It looks like MY Senator will be!
“Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) “will likely be the first woman to serve as Senate president pro tempore, a position that would place her third in line for the presidency,” the Seattle Timesreports.
“Murray will also likely chair the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, controlling the federal purse strings and directing billions of dollars of spending.”
Political Wire
Scout211
More California news. The Orange County 5:00 vote drop today is in Katie Porter’s favor.
She now has a lead of 6,920. 51.37% to 48.63%. Good news today.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Brachiator: They did not agree on transit, Caruso would have been a disaster as far as expanding subways and light rail. Sort of the anti-Biden as far as trains. Kind of odd, given he has trains at both Americana and The Grove.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: I think that’s the first time you’ve ever said that about Steve in the WTF.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: very happy. One of my students was really sweating this one
Omnes Omnibus
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: Musically, he and I are usually in agreement. Also, I believe that we are the only small college fratboy, law-talking types around here.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus: some others went to small colleges but weren’t in frats or law school
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: Right, it’s pretty niche.
ETA: I always figured you for a Sage Hall person.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@zhena gogolia: I went to big schools, but also no frat or law stuff.
In other news, I’m probably buying a new camera(Sony A7iv) tomorrow.
Bill Arnold
@TaMara:
Ah. I have facebook blocked. All of it, including all known facebook trackers. (Personal choice; I do not like tracking.)
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus: two years. Trever and plantz before that
Omnes Omnibus
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: I know little about cameras, but I figure that if you are getting mentioning it, it’s probably a good one. So, congrats and have fun with your new toy.
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: I knew it!
ETA: Kohler, then Trever/Brokaw (weird year), Ormsby, and finally Delt House.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: It is their entry level full-frame camera, but what I can swing. It will be much better for low light shots, kind of what I’m known for around these parts.
Kent
@Baud: When does the new LA mayor get sworn in? Presumably Bass can serve in Congress until then if necessary? At least go out and vote if her vote is needed.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Kohler, just got one of their faucets.
Burnspbesq
As billionaire real estate developers go, Caruso isn’t all that bad. But he treated the USC Board of Trustees like lackeys, and rammed through the catastrophically bad hire of Carol Folt as President. The wrong guy for a job that resembles herding cats.
Omnes Omnibus
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: Same folks. We had sinks in every room. At seven floors, it was the tallest building on campus.
Kent
@Burnspbesq: What is wrong with Folt? She is completely off my radar. Is it the decision to join the Big-10?
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus: wow. Kohler is bizarre. It was all women in my day
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: I told the tale of my old faucet yesterday, it is quite amazing what a difference a faucet that actually outputs sufficient water makes, the drainage* from the sink actually works pretty well now.
*If you don’t have sufficient water coming into the sink, shit builds up in the drainage pipes and you have to clean out the trap every few months. A fact my landlord never seems to have grasped
ETA: I should note that I splurged a bit and got one of the faucets that it touchless, they’re mighty cool.
Burnspbesq
@Kent:
Folt was an unmitigated disaster at UNC. She’s tone-deaf on racial issues, and the school was in danger of losing its accreditation over phony-baloney courses for football and basketball players.
As a member of the Trojan Family (JD), I almost vomited when I heard she’d been hired.
FelonyGovt
I’m thrilled. I’m not in the City of Los Angeles proper but obviously what happens there affects the suburbs a great deal.
My admiration for Karen Bass stems from the time her office helped a client of mine, who was her constituent, with a government contract problem. (DiFi’s office never even answered us.)
Caruso blanketed the airwaves with ads. I found it hard to believe that people were about to fall for ANOTHER real estate developer with absolutely no political experience… glad they didn’t!
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Burnspbesq:
My roommate’s dad was in that family, the rest of the family went to UCLA, including his step-daughter who married a Bruin football player(kicker).
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: Coed by floor, mostly. One, two, four, and six were female. Three, five, and seven were male.
Burnspbesq
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA:
I had a classmate in law school who was a Bruin romantically involved with a Bruin kicker. Not the same people, I assume.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@FelonyGovt: I follow a thread over at skyscraper.com on DTLA development, it was kind of funny that a poster with an anti-TFG signature line was saying “we need to have change, what do we have to lose”. I’m thing ‘dude, did you read your own sig line?”.
Congrats to Mayor-Elect Bass.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
At story about the New Orleans PD doing their job and not some scandal. Maybe the worm is turning.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Burnspbesq: I don’t think she went to law school.
HumboldtBlue
@Kent:
Is it the decision to join the Big-10?
I don’t see that going through. The mere fact it was announced like it was a done deal caught a lot of people (me) off guard, and I just don’t see the UC Regents allowing a UC school to decamp to a Midwest-Eastern hybrid league.
It’s an absurd proposition on its face, even for USC, and the logistics of schlepping athletes across the country to compete instead of locally or regionally is going to be a big pressure point.
I guess it’s an attempt to outstrip the SEC, which dominates football and that revenue stream, while the PAC 12 has always been a center for Olympic sports, I mean, UCLA’s excellence across sporting disciplines is unmatched, but I just don’t see how it’s going to happen.
barbequebob
@karensky:
I live nearby in next town. We have lots of coyotes out here although most people have learned how to co-exist with them. But, it is “off season” on Cape Cod, we have lots of police and not too much for them to do at this time of year.
barbequebob
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Orleans, MA, Cape Cod
TaMara
@barbequebob: My old stomping grounds. There were no coyotes when I was a kid there. But we did have deer come right up to our door and waaaay too many skunks.
SpongeBobtheBuilder
@Omnes Omnibus:
Wait? Are their Lawrentians in our midst? or is there some other campus with Trevor, Plantz, Kohler, and Brokaw?
James E Powell
@narya:
Schiff is fine, I’d rather see Katie Porter (unless we can get her on the supreme court).
James E Powell
As I mentioned in a comment (yesterday, I think), Karen Bass winning does some to restore my faith in voters. I was worried that the almost non-stop TV ads would overwhelm the electorate. If you were watching sports for the last two months, you would see between 7 & 15 Caruso ads each night. Several different ones, filled with the kind of bullshit that normies seem to like, all very well produced.
Thank you LA!
James E Powell
@James E Powell:
How did I end up in moderation? Did I screw up the email address?
agorabum
LA County’s powerful Board of Supervisors is all women (5 of 5) and now the City of LA has a woman mayor. LA might be the most female-empowered spot in the US at this point.
zhena gogolia
@SpongeBobtheBuilder: OMG another Lawrentian?
Tehanu
Maybe the coyote didn’t like the decorations in the yard. I wish the video showed them so I can tell if the coyote had good taste or not.
Omnes Omnibus
@SpongeBobtheBuilder: Are you another?
@zhena gogolia: Terrifying, huh?
SpongeBobtheBuilder
@Omnes Omnibus: Yep, LU ‘87! A history major who did NOT go to law school!
SpongeBobtheBuilder
@Omnes Omnibus: yep. ‘87, a history major who did NOT go to law school.
Omnes Omnibus
@SpongeBobtheBuilder: I’ll just say we probably bumped into one another at some point. I was a year ahead of you.
schrodingers_cat
@James E Powell: She struggled to win her own seat. Her whiteboard schtick is popular on social media but that popularity doesn’t always translate to statewide popularity with the electorate.
Miss Bianca
@dlwchico: way late to this thread, as usual, but my first Siberian Husky Sovay would do that. We’d be walking down the street and someone would say “Hello” and she would yodel, “Hey-YO-WO-WO” in response. Both hilarious and somewhat scary, in that I realized she likely understood way more English than I did Siberian.