{"id":1294369,"date":"2022-02-13T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1294369"},"modified":"2022-02-13T10:25:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:25:19","slug":"billionaire-republican-turned-democrat-rick-caruso-joins-l-a-mayors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billionaire-republican-turned-democrat-rick-caruso-joins-l-a-mayors-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Republican-turned-Democrat Rick Caruso Joins L.A. Mayor&#039;s Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbillionaire-republican-turned-democrat-rick-caruso-joins-l-a-mayors-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1294369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Rick-Caruso-Getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso filed papers to join the crowded race for mayor of Los Angeles on Friday, running as a Democrat, bringing new drama to a field currently led by Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA).<\/p>\n<p>Caruso is known around town for his high-end shopping malls, such as The Grove in Beverly Hills and Palisades Village in Pacific Palisades. He has been involved in local governance issues for many years, and he is a prominent philanthropist, donating to Catholic schools.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He was once a Republican, but became an independent more than ten years ago before joining the Democrats recently.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As the&nbsp;<i>Los&nbsp;Angeles Times<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-02-11\/billionaire-developer-rick-caruso-enters-race-for-l-a-mayor\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Forbes has pegged Caruso\u2019s net worth at <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/rick-caruso\/?sh=28f2d61428fd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$4.3 billion<\/a>. \u2026&nbsp;His candidacy has drawn comparisons to that of Richard Riordan, the Republican businessman who was elected as mayor in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Caruso was a Republican for decades before switching in 2011 to no party preference. Upon changing his registration in January, he described himself as a \u201cpro-centrist, pro-jobs, pro-public safety Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even with the switch in registration, Caruso\u2019s conservative history will likely loom large over the race. The central question remains whether Los Angeles \u2014 a city that has grown far more progressive and diverse in recent decades \u2014 has the stomach to put a billionaire former Republican in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Guerra said that even a few months ago his answer would have been \u201cabsolutely not.\u201d But, he continued, \u201cthe narrative with homelessness and crime has really shifted.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Caruso\u2019s conservative past may not be enough to win Republican votes. Many remember that Caruso <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2012\/05\/16\/caruso-center-same-sex-marriage\/\">banned<\/a> boxing legend Manny Pacquiao from The Grove for his public opposition to same-sex marriage, and that he banned then-candidate Donald Trump from the property as well, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/local\/2016\/12\/08\/grove-he-won-rick-caruso-lifts-trumps-ban\/\">lifting<\/a> the ban when Trump actually won in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso filed papers to join the crowded race for mayor of Los Angeles on Friday, running as a Democrat, bringing new drama to a field &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}