Opinion: Honesty is essential in Los Angeles mayor’s race
The Academy Awards are on tonight. I won’t be watching. This isn’t a protest against liberal Hollywood or wokeness or anything else. I’m simply not interested because I only saw two movies this year, and more importantly, I’m not nominated, so what’s in it for me?
With the Academy Award ratings plunging along with voter participation in local elections, both of these Los Angeles institutions face a similar challenge: how to stay relevant to a public that no longer cares? Twenty percent of the L.A. City Council has been convicted of felonies, or await trial on same. Herb Wesson — council president when pay-to-play became the court of first resort in Los Angeles — is back as an unelected member because his successor, Mark Ridley-Thomas, is awaiting his turn in the docket. Meanwhile, Congresswoman Karen Bass was the recipient of a free $90,000 doctorate from the same USC dean busted with Ridley-Thomas. Multiple DWP guilty pleas likely doom L.A.
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