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Critics say the candidate failed to lead a homelessness committee with the urgency needed to combat L.A.’s enduring crisis. Raman claims that politics were at play.
Pratt said Bass was “an assassin” and a “very skilled politician” who “made mincemeat of Nithya throughout the debate, both stylistically and substantively.”
Rahil Prakash said he created the fake poll, released under the name Median Strategies, claiming Bass had a big lead in L.A. mayoral race.
The showdown in Sherman Oaks was the first face-to-face debate since Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman emerged as the top vote-getters in the June 2 mayoral primary.
Nithya Raman’s mayoral campaign plans to hire the controversial progressive consulting group Fight Agency to shoot television advertisements, the campaign confirmed Wednesday.
Legal analysts say the motive of Median Strategies in putting out the phony poll would be a decisive factor in determining whether any laws were broken.
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The bogus poll — which the company claimed was a social media experiment — also showed Bass picking up support from most voters who supported Spencer Pratt in the mayoral primary.
Nithya Raman will lose her post as chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee just as her race against Mayor Karen Bass enters its final months.
The former reality TV star has a history of lavish spending on hotels, according to his memoir, “The Guy You Loved to Hate.”
