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LA mayor's race tied at 40 percent as police union spends millions

Los Angeles police union filings show more than five million dollars spent against Councilmember Raman since the primary; the poll has her tied with Bass.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe Los Angeles mayor's race is tied, forty percent for Karen Bass and forty for Nithya Raman, with nineteen percent still undecided, according to a Berkeley IGS and Los Angeles Times poll.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentCampaign finance filings show the police union has spent over five million dollars opposing Raman since the primary.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWalt Szymanski owns a lock shop in Van Nuys. Walt, does that number mean anything on your block?

  4. Walt SzymanskiYes. Not that I'm political, but five million dollars is a lot of windows.

  5. Walt SzymanskiSomebody smashed mine last month, and I'm holding ticket number forty-one at the station.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentForty-one. How long have you been waiting on that one?

  7. Walt SzymanskiMost of an afternoon, and then they said come back.

  8. Walt SzymanskiNot that I'm political, but that union found five million dollars for ads and couldn't find me a clipboard.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBass says four years under Raman would be a tremendous amount of chaos. So is that how your block sees it?

  10. Walt SzymanskiI've had chaos. It's a broken window and a form.

  11. Walt SzymanskiNot that I'm political, but I'd like whoever wins to know the line starts at the front desk.

  12. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRaman was eleven points ahead in September, tied now. So the undecided voters are basically in your line.

  13. Walt SzymanskiNineteen percent, sure. Not that I'm political, but by now they've been there longer than me.

  14. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWalt, you've been very patient, so I'll ask you straight: who are you voting for?

  15. Walt SzymanskiI'm still holding number forty-one. Whoever wins, I assume it's called next.

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  1. L.A. mayoral runoff pits Karen Bass against Nithya Raman · The Washington Post
  2. Bass warns of chaos if Raman wins LA mayor race · New York Post
  3. LA mayor's race tied at 40 percent as police union spends millions (this story)

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