CalMatters Commentary: California’s largest city, Los Angeles, is a study in social and economic crises but politicians are lining up to become its next mayor.
The Los Angeles City Council will vote Wednesday on whether to suspend Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas from office. Ridley-Thomas was indicted last week on federal bribery and conspiracy charges stemming from his time on the county Board of Supervisors.
It’s difficult to understand why any rational person would want to be mayor of Los Angeles, California’s largest and in many ways most troubled city.
As the city’s economic and social woes mount – especially a horrendous homelessness crisis – the mayor for the past eight years, Eric Garcetti, is try
Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas was suspended from office by a divided City Council Wednesday, hours before he entered a not-guilty plea to federal bribery and conspiracy charges stemming from his time serving on the county Board of Supervisors.