From homelessness to crime, who's best suited to fix L.A.'s problems? Congresswoman KarenBass and businessman RickCaruso faced off tonight in a contentious debate. The candidates and their two very different visions for the city - Tonight at 11 from ABC7
The two candidates for Los Angeles mayor both used "crisis" when asked to describe the state of the city in one word, as Rep. Karen Bass and developer Rick Caruso made their pitch to be the person to fix it during a debate ahead of the November election at the Skirball Cultural Center.
"What we have done for too long is we have put people in shelters," Bass said. "Now the shelters have become so dangerous, people don't even want to be in the shelters and are choosing to be outside on the street." Bass said she would extend it while offering support to mom-and-pop landlords, while Caruso would make changes to it, implying that some people were using the moratorium to cheat their way out of paying rent.
Caruso was appointed in 1985 by then-Mayor Tom Bradley to the commission overseeing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. He has also served on the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners and Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission. Bass criticized Caruso -- who registered as a Democrat in January after previously being a Republican and having "no party preference" -- for flipping parties. Caruso said he has always been socially liberal and left the Republican Party in 2019 because it didn't reflect his values, noting his support for Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Gov. Jerry Brown.
The candidates also traded digs at each over controversies involving USC and a recent burglary at Bass' home in which two of her guns were stolen.
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