Your last-minute guide to the L.A. city attorney's race: McKinney vs. Roy
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Set us as preferred The race for L.A.city attorney delivered a shock this spring when incumbent Hydee Feldstein Soto was ousted, an upset the likes of which hadn’t happened in nearly a century.
The pair of candidates who remain have since laid out their widely differing visions of the job.Here’s what you need to know.
California After a primary battle that ousted the incumbent, L.A.County prosecutor John McKinney squares off against Marissa Roy, a deputy attorney general with the California Department of Justice, in the race to become city attorney, a position that defends L.A.
from lawsuits and prosecutes misdemeanors.Here are the Q&As with each of the candidates.California L.A.
County prosecutor John McKinney burst into the city attorney’s race earlier this year, becoming part of a historic primary upset of incumbent Hydee Feldstein Soto.If he wins this November, he’ll complete a lifelong underdog story that began with a tough upbringing in New Jersey.
California Critics say candidate Marissa Roy, 34, lacks the ‘gravitas’ to be L.A.city attorney.
Supporters see a chance to turn the role into a progressive champion of Angelenos.Roy is leading in the race to become the next Los Angeles city attorney.She was ahead by 10 percentage points in the most recent poll conducted by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by The Times.
Still, some local voters don’t know the candidates by name.California A new poll found that California Deputy Atty.
Gen.Marissa Roy has a 10-point lead over her opponent, Deputy Dist.
Atty.John McKinney, in the race for L.A.
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