LOS ANGELES — Rep. Karen Bass has go the archetypal pistillate elected politician of Los Angeles, defeating billionaire developer Rick Caruso who waged the astir costly run successful the city’s history.
The six-term congresswoman volition pb a metropolis simmering with choler implicit the rising outgo of living, homelessness and caller displays of corruption and racism astatine City Hall.
She is the 2nd Black idiosyncratic to triumph the mayor’s spot successful Los Angeles, which has a painfully divisive past demonstrated astir precocious by leaked audio of 3 City Council members utilizing racist and disparaging connection arsenic they discussed manipulating voting districts.
Caruso, a existent property developer present registered arsenic a Democrat, dropped much than $100 cardinal of his idiosyncratic luck connected the campaign.