electorate in the general election - larger, younger, more diverse. There’ll be a significantly different L.A. And it doesn’t necessarily mean that Karen Bass is going to lose in November.” San Franciscans are not about to start electing Republicans. “This was one case specific to one individual. “It doesn’t mean that Democrats around the state are ready to throw out liberals,” he says. But they want to see criminals prosecuted.”īinder thinks too much can be made of the San Francisco results. “Voters will support rehabilitation more than punishment for low-level, nonviolent crime.
Tuesday’s voting “means that Bass has to have a strong platform about addressing crime,” says San Francisco-based Democratic pollster David Binder.
Karen Bass in the race to replace Mayor Eric Garcetti. mayor’s race: Rick Caruso, Karen Bass headed to November runoffīillionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso holds a narrow lead over U.S. Karen Bass in the race for the two November runoff spots.Ĭalifornia L.A. George Gascón, a liberal reformer who once was San Francisco D.A.Ĭaruso has built his mayoral campaign - the billionaire’s first bid for elected office - on a promise to control crime and clean the streets of homeless people. It seems certain to provide momentum for a second effort to recall L.A. politics is hot fodder for speculation among political junkies. What the San Francisco recall means for L.A. For them it doesn’t make any sense to vote. “There’s no confidence in elected officials. mayoral and San Francisco recall elections. Hopelessness was a major reason for the low voter turnout Tuesday, Sragow believes - not merely because the primary was terribly boring, except perhaps for the L.A. “People are just fed up and beyond anger,” Sragow says. So many recidivists and dangerous people have been let out on the street. in winter and found that “most voters are fearful, petrified, for their own safety.
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Sragow, who publishes the California Target Book, which monitors congressional and legislative races, says he conducted a series of focus groups around L.A. “For most voters, those needs and priorities never change.” mayoral race should remind the party that “its fortunes fade when officeholders ignore the concerns and needs of the vast majority of working Americans who wake up in the morning wanting to pay their bills, send their kids to good schools and live and work in a safe place. And if they don’t see that, and are perceived as making excuses for bad guys, they’re going to pay a price.”įormer Democratic strategist Darry Sragow says that the combination of Boudin’s recall and real estate developer Rick Caruso’s strong showing in the L.A. But they’re elected to put bad guys behind bars. can carry out the job with some compassion. They’re not elected to make excuses for some murderer because potty training was hard, or he was bullied in school. They are not elected to be criminal justice reformers. South adds: “The reason we call district attorneys ‘prosecutors’ is because that’s their job. Chesa Boudin is recalled after a bitter and pricey campaign amid rising fears over crime and homelessness. California San Francisco voters recall progressive D.A.
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