Here's the final list of candidates for L.A. city elections
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The list of candidates running for Los Angeles city and school board offices is set, with a number of incumbents facing what could be competitive primary elections on June 2.Fourteen Angelenos have qualified to run for mayor, including incumbent Karen Bass, City Councilmember Nithya Raman and former reality TV star Spencer Pratt.Seven City Council incumbents face at least one challenger, while Councilmember Monica Rodriguez is running unopposed to represent her northeast San Fernando Valley district.City Atty.
Hydee Feldstein Soto is running against three opponents — deputy attorney general Marissa Roy, human rights attorney Aida Ashouri and Deputy Dist.Atty.
John McKinney.In the race for city controller, incumbent Kenneth Mejia will battle it out against Zach Sokoloff, who is on sabbatical from his job as senior vice president of asset management at Hackman Capital Partners.California Raman would immediately pose a formidable challenge to Bass.
She was the first council member to be elected with support from the Democratic Socialists of America.For the last week and a half, workers at the City Clerk’s Office have been verifying the legitimacy of voter signatures submitted by the candidates, finishing the last batch on Friday.Gathering the required 500 signatures is relatively easy in citywide races but harder in council and school board districts.Some candidates who submitted petitions by the March 4 deadline failed to qualify because some of their signatures were deemed invalid.In each race, if no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote in June, the top two finishers will compete in a November runoff.The field of 14 for mayor narrowed significantly from the roughly 40 who filed initial paperwork on Feb.
7.The qualifiers include a game streamer, a singer-songwriter and a tech entrepreneur, as well as government veterans like Asaad Alnajjar, a longtime engineer for the ...