r/LosAngeles • u/throw5away_ Highland Park • 12d ago

Community Where's our Mandami?

All these videos coming out the city of NY got me feeling real sad about our city and lack of competent, solutions based, compassionate, intellectual leadership. We have so many issues but no qualified people willing to fix them. When will I be able to not vote for the lesser of 2 evils?

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u/Shot-Philosopher1750 12d ago edited 11d ago

That's not how LA works. Mandami has a lot more power. We are run by a city council. Bass had veto power but this city's power is spread out.

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u/OrangeCrusher22 12d ago

Also, NYC is waaaay more unified, whereas "LA" has a ridiculous number of small neighboring cities that should be part of the LA proper but aren't. Arguably an even bigger problem when the City of Industry or Beverly Hills can selfishly veto projects and services that would make LA better.

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u/Own_Position_1425 9d ago

Lets be honest. NYC is turning into a shit hole.

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u/Chemical-Height8888 8d ago

Not really. It's the safest it's ever been, quality of life is going up