{"id":797346,"date":"2026-05-15T04:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/797346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:12:13","slug":"unions-manipulate-right-wingers-and-left-wingers-in-la-mayoral-race-to-boost-bass-daily-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/797346\/","title":{"rendered":"Unions manipulate right-wingers and left-wingers in LA mayoral race to boost Bass \u2013 Daily Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned<\/a> the other day, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor\u2019s ad attacking Spencer Pratt as a godawful Republican who supports hiring thousands of new police officers is not actually meant to bring Pratt down.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s intended to boost him among Republicans and right-leaning voters. That\u2019s because the pro-Karen Bass LA County Federation of Labor wants Bass\u2019 run-off opponent to be Pratt because the political demographics of Los Angeles will make a Bass win all-but-certain.<\/p>\n

Many naive right-wingers completely missed this point because they spend too much time on X. See for example, the completely silly headline from The Western Journal: \u201cUnions\u2019 \u2018Astonishing\u2019 Attack Ad Against LA Republican Spencer Pratt Actually Helps His Case<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyway, since then, it\u2019s come to my attention that the Los Angeles Police Protective League is now doing the same thing but this time to drag down Democratic Socialist Councilmember Nithya Raman by boosting her fellow DSA\u2019er on the ballot Rae Huang.<\/p>\n

You can view the ads<\/a> here, but they hit the same note of \u201cattacking\u201d the candidate by boosting things their supporters and potential supporters would like. For instance, one ad attack Huang reads: \u201cDSA Rae Huang supports the anti-business Green New Deal.\u201d Another: \u201cDSA Rae Huang supports public investment in permanent affordable homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police union, like the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, has endorsed Bass. There is no way they are actually scared of Rae Huang since the most recent polling<\/a> shows she has 4% support. That\u2019s nowhere close to Bass\u2019 30%.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the move is to get leftists motivated just enough to want to stick it to the anti-DSA police union by voting for Huang. This is in order to steal some votes from Raman, who is neck-and-neck with Pratt for second place, with Raman at 19% and Pratt at 22% in the last poll. There\u2019s also been ongoing debate within the DSA-LA, with the varieties of leftists split on Raman versus Huang. Not being a pinko, it\u2019s all very Trotskyite versus Stalinist to me, but that friction means there are people the police union ads can hit with.<\/p>\n

(The DSA-LA recently did this really annoying thing where after much handwringing they technically \u201crecommended<\/a>\u201d Raman but specified their recommendation is not an endorsement. Can leftists do anything right?)<\/p>\n

Besides wanting to back the probable winner (Bass) who can help deliver lucrative new contracts, the police union also has reasons to spite Raman. She voted against<\/a> the last police union contract.<\/p>\n

Angelenos should be aware they\u2019re being manipulated. The police union isn\u2019t actually spending money to \u201cwarn\u201d you about Rae Huang\u2019s socialism; they\u2019re spending money to ensure Nithya Raman doesn\u2019t make the runoff. The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor\u2019s ad against Republican Spencer Pratt isn\u2019t actually concerned with Pratt.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all meant to help Bass by directing left-votes away from her biggest challenge and right-wing votes to her easiest. That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

Sal Rodriguez can be reached at salrodriguez@scng.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As I mentioned the other day, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor\u2019s ad attacking Spencer Pratt as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":797347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,1269,16837],"class_list":{"0":"post-797346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-opinion","14":"tag-opinion-columnists"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116576645562154781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797346","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=797346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}