Marissa Roy's lead grows over John McKinney in L.A. city attorney race, latest poll shows
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Marissa Roy has nearly doubled her lead in the race to replace Los Angeles City Atty.Hydee Feldstein Soto, even as the mayor’s race has narrowed dramatically since September, new polling showed.
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John McKinney, made significant inroads among likely Los Angeles voters in October, winnowing the number of undecideds down to 45% from 70% last month, according to a poll released this week by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by The Times.But while the race for mayor is now a dead heat, the contest for the city’s second-most-powerful elected position has widened, with Roy leading McKinney by 17 points in the final days of voting ahead of the Nov.3 election.
Some 36% of likely voters say they’ve marked their ballot for Roy or will soon, versus 19% who say they’ve bubbled in for McKinney or plan to.About 45% remain undecided — far more than are still mulling the mayor’s race, but far fewer than were on the fence a month ago.
Experts said it’s not uncommon for voters to have uncertainty about city attorney races, since few people realize the question of who should fill the office will be on their ballot and many elect not to answer.About 15% fewer Angelenos voted in the last city attorney’s contest than voted for mayor, data show.
Other cities saw a similar slump in returns.The Los Angeles city attorney controls a budget of nearly $200 million and a staff of 1,000, serving as lawyer for L.A.’s City Council and general counsel for its myriad municipal agencies.
Increasingly, city attorneys around the state also pursue so-called “affirmative litigation” against exploitative corporations or punitive federal policy — a role Los Angeles pioneered, but which Feldstein Soto ...