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Eunisses Hernandez is now leading with 71% and is ahead by 64.0 points after trailing earlier.
MacArthur Park has become a major issue in the District 1 race. Raul Claros used a weekend stay there to criticize crime, drug activity, homelessness, and park conditions while challenging incumbent Eunisses Hernandez. Recent arrests tied to city public-safety programs have kept the area in the spotlight. The news may modestly help challengers pushing a tougher public-safety message, but the effect is still unclear. It mainly raises the salience of crime and homelessness in the race.
Los Angeles City Council candidate Raul Claros is taking his campaign straight into the middle of what many residents call the city's biggest embarrassment: MacArthur Park
Rae Huang supporters say Nithya Raman is compromised. Raman’s base calls Huang a spoiler. Looming over it all: reality TV star Spencer Pratt.
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The proposal is being debated as incumbent city attorney Feldstein Soto seeks to fend off challengers in Tuesday’s primary.
While the mayor’s race is getting national attention, voters will also decide a pivotal race for Los Angeles City Council that could have profound influence on the direction of local government.
Michael Angel Alvarez, 41, a.k.a. “Diablo,” is an active 18th Street gang member and convicted murderer who is being paid with L.A. city taxpayer dollars.
Federal authorities in Los Angeles said a gang interventionist in MacArthur Park had been arrested for illegal possession of body armor by a convicted felon and alleged he was still an active member of his old crew.
Businesses want the mayoral candidates to deal with downtown’s entrenched troubles.
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