Poll shows Roy holds lead in L.A. city attorney race but most voters still undecided
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Marissa Roy has a lead in the race to replace Los Angeles City Atty.Hydee Feldstein Soto, who lost her seat in a historic primary rout this spring, new polling shows.
Among likely Los Angeles voters, Roy leads by 10 percentage points over her rival, Los Angeles County Deputy Dist.Atty.
John McKinney, following the pair’s shocking electoral upset in June, according to a poll released last week by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by The Times.The spread closely mirrors City Councilmember Nithya Raman’s breakaway lead in her bitter fight to unseat Mayor Karen Bass, who has outraised her for months.But that’s where the similarities end.
The mayor’s contest has been called a “knife fight” for its no-holds-barred campaigning.It has also drawn sustained — and occasionally sensational — national attention since Raman’s buzzer-beating entrance in February.
By contrast, the city attorney’s race remains all but unknown: More than two-thirds of likely voters are still undecided, versus about a third who remain uncommitted in the mayor’s contest, polling showed.L.A.’s top litigator commands a budget of nearly $200 million, plays a role in shaping city ordinances, and wages court battles on behalf of the public.
The city attorney also prosecutes misdemeanors — a job most other cities keep separate.Each year, the office weighs some 120,000 violations, deciding whether to file charges and how to pursue them.
More recently, city attorneys across the country have championed activist litigation, spearheading suits against the Trump administration, among others.Yet, few local voters know the job exists, and fewer still know the candidates by name.
Seventy percent of likely voters said they had no opinion of either McKinney or Ro...