{"id":300314,"date":"2025-10-13T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/300314\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:11:10","slug":"beutner-announces-run-for-mayor-vows-to-fight-injustices-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/300314\/","title":{"rendered":"Beutner announces run for mayor, vows to fight ‘injustices’ under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former L.A. schools Supt. Austin Beutner kicked off his campaign for mayor on Monday with a video launch<\/a> that hits not just Mayor Karen Bass but President Trump and his immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n

Beutner, a philanthropist and former investment banker, uses the four-minute campaign video to describe L.A. as a city that is \u201cunder attack\u201d \u2014 a message punctuated by footage of U.S. Border Patrol agents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll never accept the Trump administration\u2019s assault on our values and our neighbors,\u201d says Beutner, a Democrat, as he stands on a tree-lined residential street. \u201cTargeting people solely based on the color of their skin is unacceptable and un-American.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll counter these injustices and work to keep every person safe and build a better Los Angeles,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to an inquiry from The Times about Beutner\u2019s video. Four months ago, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin denied<\/a> that agents were engaged in racial profiling, calling claims of people being targeted because of skin color \u201cdisgusting and categorically FALSE.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video opens by describing a major biking accident that upended Beutner\u2019s life about 17 years ago, leading him to enter public service and \u201ctake a different path.\u201d Not long after, he became Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa\u2019s \u201cjobs czar,\u201d<\/a> taking on the elevated title of first deputy mayor and striking business deals on the mayor\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

The video casts Beutner, 65, as a pragmatic problem solver, focusing on his nonprofit Vision to Learn, which provides eye exams and glasses to children in low-income communities. It also highlights his work shepherding L.A. Unified through the COVID-19 pandemic and working to pass Proposition 28, the 2022 measure supporting arts education in California public schools.<\/p>\n

Beutner, on his video, also turns his aim at City Hall, high housing costs, rising parking meter rates<\/a> and a big increase in trash pickup fees<\/a> for homeowners and smaller apartment buildings. Calling L.A. a city that is \u201cadrift,\u201d Beutner criticized the mayor\u2019s push to reduce homelessness \u2014 one of her signature initiatives. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe city spent billions to solve problems that have just become bigger problems,\u201d Beutner says. <\/p>\n

Bass campaign spokesperson Douglas Herman pushed back on the criticism, saying the city needs to \u201cmove past divisive attacks.\u201d He said violent crime is down across the city, with homicides falling to their lowest levels in 60 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Karen Bass ran for mayor, homelessness and public safety were the top concerns of Angelenos. And she has delivered in a big way,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cToday, homelessness has decreased two consecutive years for the first time in Los Angeles. Thousands of people have been moved off our streets and into housing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s more work ahead, but this administration has proven it can deliver,\u201d Herman added. \u201cMayor Bass is committed to building on this historic momentum in her second term.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beutner\u2019s video posted two days after he confirmed that he\u2019s planning to run for mayor, leveling blistering criticism at the city\u2019s preparation for, and response to, the Palisades fire, which destroyed thousands of homes and left 12 people dead.<\/p>\n

Beutner\u2019s criticism of Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown in many ways echoes the messages delivered by Bass several months ago, when federal agents were seizing street vendors, day laborers and other workers in L.A.<\/p>\n

In June, Bass said the Trump administration<\/a> was waging an \u201call-out assault on Los Angeles,\u201d with federal agents \u201crandomly grabbing people\u201d off the street, \u201cchasing Angelenos through parking lots\u201d and arresting immigrants who showed up at court for annual check-ins. Her approach to the issue helped her regain her political footing after she had faltered in the wake of the Palisades fire.<\/p>\n

In early September, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration<\/a>, agreeing that immigration agents can stop and detain individuals they suspect may be in the U.S. illegally merely for speaking Spanish or having brown skin.<\/p>\n

The high court ruling set aside a Los Angeles judge\u2019s temporary restraining order that barred agents from stopping people based in part on their race or apparent ethnicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former L.A. schools Supt. Austin Beutner kicked off his campaign for mayor on Monday with a video launch…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":300315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[151113,1582,276,2451,15168,7265,6276,2961,224,2444,5337,12176,3546,625,25467,277,4352,152821,8066,1628],"class_list":{"0":"post-300314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-beutner","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-criticism","13":"tag-homelessness","14":"tag-l-a","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-times","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-mayor","20":"tag-people","21":"tag-street","22":"tag-thousand","23":"tag-trump","24":"tag-trump-administration","25":"tag-video-launch","26":"tag-work","27":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115367738793711519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}