So, after all the votes were counted, the Los Angeles mayoral race is down to incumbent Karen Bass and city council member Nithia Raman. 

Spencer Pratt, we are told, entered the race too late and was unlikely to overcome the heavy Democrat party registration advantage.

Yet the question remains – as it has for at least the past four years – what does the future portend for the City of Angels?

For an answer, we need to go back to 2022, when then-U.S. Representative Karen Bass ran against billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso – and barely won.

After making the runoff against Bass in 2022, Caruso pointed out that “only a couple months ago only 6% of the people knew who I was” and that it was not “some political genius” but because “we’ve been proposing practical solutions for very complex problems” that people voted for him.

Caruso said he ran for mayor because “Angelinos were feeling left out, worried, and hopeless” about how their city was being mismanaged and were “tired of excuses from career politicians” yet still eager to help revitalize the city they loved.

A major theme of Caruso’s campaign was “a better path forward” for the city’s burgeoning homeless population, which at the time was about 42,000. It’s about 44,000 today.

Caruso said, “If we allow people to live in their own waste and die in the streets, if we tolerate corrupt officials, if we allow crime to suffocate our communities and spiral out of control, and if we don’t allow second chances for those who deserve them,” we cannot proclaim that our city is the greatest.

Rep. Bass, said Caruso, admitted that she – a career........

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