India-born leftist Nithya Raman beats incumbent Karen Bass to become LA mayor
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · North America
India-born democratic socialist Nithya Raman ousted incumbent Democrat Karen Bass to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, ending a heated race that saw the one-time allies spar over frustration with the status quo. Bass conceded to Raman in a phone call on Thursday, after the latest numbers showed Raman with 52 per cent of the vote against the outgoing mayor’s 48 per cent, with three-quarters of votes counted. Raman, 45, campaigned in the nation’s second-largest city on a platform of “pothole...
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