Bass Spars with Primary Challengers at LA Mayor’s Debate
The one-hour debate will focus on housing, homelessness and public safety as Bass, Raman and Pratt compete for support.
- On Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, City Councilmember Nithya Raman, and reality television personality Spencer Pratt met at the Skirball Cultural Center for a televised mayoral debate, clashing over homelessness, public safety, and wildfire preparedness.
- Pratt criticized Bass over the 2025 Pacific Palisades fire, calling her an "incredible liar" regarding reservoir management, while Bass defended her response and blamed former Fire Chief Kristin Crowley for failing to deploy firefighters ahead of the blaze.
- Debating homelessness, Bass touted her "Inside Safe" program for reducing street homelessness by 17.5%, while Raman countered the initiative is costly and ineffective despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Citing a recent MacArthur Park operation where federal agents arrested 18 people, Bass defended efforts to restore police staffing to 9,500 officers, while Raman opposed contracts she claimed contributed to a nearly $1 billion deficit.
- Candidates are intensifying efforts before the June 2 primary, where any contender failing to secure more than 50% of the vote will force a November runoff, as recent polling indicates Bass leads with 40% of voters still undecided.
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Spencer Pratt roasts Bass for 'burning my house' at LA mayor debate
Spencer Pratt, Republican Los Angeles mayoral candidate, blasted the city’s current mayor, Karen Bass, for her response to the city’s January 2025 wildfires in the candidates’ first debate on Wednesday. “I blame this person for burning my house and my parents’ house and my town and all my neighbors’ town,” Pratt said, referring to Bass. Pratt, a former reality TV cast member who starred on the hit MTV series The Hills, launched his campaign prim…
Bass spars with primary challengers at LA mayor’s debate
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) sparred in a feisty debate with her primary challengers over how to handle wildfires, homelessness and immigration in the country’s second-largest city a month out from the mayoral primary election. “Our mayor is the CEO of the city. She sets the direction of this city. And if you are…
Spencer Pratt slugs it out over homelessness, cost of living in LA Mayor’s debate with Karen Bass and Nithya Raman
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass came under heavy attack Wednesday night as challenger Spencer Pratt and Councilmember Nithya Raman turned a mayoral debate into a full-blown showdown over wildfires, crime and homelessness.
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