Raman campaign plans to hire controversial strategy group that advised Graham Platner

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Set us as preferred Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman plans to hire the controversial progressive consulting group Fight Agency to produce television advertisements for her mayoral campaign, a spokesperson said Wednesday, drawing a quick condemnation from the rival campaign of L.A.Mayor Karen Bass.

Fight Agency is best known for its work on campaigns for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and for Graham Platner, the former Democratic primary candidate for a Maine Senate seat who withdrew after a woman claimed he sexually assaulted her.Platner denied the allegation.

That incident, which followed reporting on Platner’s troubled relationships with some women and his Nazi symbol tattoo, drew scrutiny to Fight Agency and one of its consultants, Morris Katz.Several hundred members of the leftist Democratic Socialists of America have called on political candidates and elected officials to boycott both the Fight Agency and Katz.Raman campaign officials began speaking with Fight Agency in February, a campaign spokesperson said, though they did not hire Fight Agency during the primary.

The spokesperson said that no contract has yet been signed.“We plan on working with Fight Agency,” the spokesperson said.“We understand that they had also been approached by other campaigns and committees involved in the L.A.

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A spokesperson for the Bass campaign said they never tried to hire Fight A...