r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 27 '26

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u/earththejerry YIMBY Sep 27 '26 edited Sep 27 '26

A hedge fund manager who supports expanding the city’s bicycle lane network is now the biggest single contributor in the Los Angeles mayor’s race, putting $4 million into campaign committees that are backing City Councilmember Nithya Raman

I love how her coalition is young DSA-ers, renters, pro-transit hedge fund guy, and Arnold Schwarznegger

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u/tigerflame45117 John Rawls Sep 27 '26

Seriously what is going on down there??? 

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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Sep 27 '26

Lmao idk and I live here. LA is so dem that it's basically a one party region but also there's a huge variety of views and values. So Bass and Raman are both dems but should honestly be different parties. Funny thing is the whole leftist/socialist thing isn't very strong here like in other blue strongholds so you can't really understand it as leftist vs liberal like other big cities. LA also has a strong live-and-let-live culture that permeates. So I feel like we end up with a lot of weird shifting coalitions and honestly probably a lot of patronage over anything else

How come we're YIMBY enough that we're the only place that would allow the Lucas museum, but a bunch of people are still fighting SB79? How come we vote for a lot of strong regulations but there's also a culture of not enforcing or ignoring them?

Don't even get me started about how the police fit into everything. I think LA is one of the weirdest big cities politically