Karen Bass defeats Rick Caruso, in a race with some interesting twists. Bass has said her first order of business at City Hall will be to declare a state of emergency on homelessness and begin the work of getting thousands of unhoused people out of sagging tent communities and rusted RVs and into shelters. LA elects US Rep Karen Bass mayor, first Black woman in post Not sure how to interpret Council elections after that racist tape surfaced - may they be banished. In unequivocally good news Sheriff Alex Villanueva was defeated. One of the worst public servants in the nation. Good riddance
