Mayoral candidates Bass and Raman crisscross L.A. on final weekend before the election
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Set us as preferred Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and her challenger Nithya Raman darted across the city over the weekend, foraging for votes as the clock ticks down before Tuesday’s election.The former allies, and now competitors, took veiled shots at each other as they each hit multiple campaign stops Sunday morning, with both attending church services and other events.Bass’ first stop Sunday morning was at South L.A.
Cafe, where she spoke with alumnae of the Divine Nine, a group of historically Black fraternities and sororities.She then did a hit on the KBLA radio station.“You know who I am.
I am the same person as I have been,” Bass said, citing her roots in South L.A., where she was a community organizer as a young adult.“No matter what position I have held, this community — my community — has always been front and center of the work that I have done.”Woodrow Bailey, a 63-year-old University of Southern California grad who was a member of Phi Beta Sigma, said he knew Bass when she was working at her nonprofit Community Coalition in the 1990s, just down the street from where South L.A.
Cafe now stands.His long relationship with Bass made him confident in her leadership“I understand what she’s trying to accomplish here,” Bailey said.After the event Bass left to attend Mass at four churches and one Sikh temple.
She also planned to cast her ballot Sunday.Raman started the day in Boyle Heights at Dolores Mission Catholic Church.The council member has spent significant time in Boyle Heights following the Lineage fire, which burned down a massive cold food storage facility, sending noxious smoke into the heavily Latino neighborhood.Raman attended Mass at 9 a.m.
then chatted with parishioners in English and Spanish and grabbed food from a taco stand set up in the church’s courtyard.Children splashed in...