{"id":1436006,"date":"2022-04-13T16:59:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436006"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:59:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:59:57","slug":"la-democrats-are-buying-their-way-to-leadership-and-practicing-voter-suppression-says-mayoral-candidate-craig-greiwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-democrats-are-buying-their-way-to-leadership-and-practicing-voter-suppression-says-mayoral-candidate-craig-greiwe\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Democrats Are \u2018Buying Their Way\u2019 To Leadership And Practicing \u2018Voter Suppression,\u2019 Says Mayoral Candidate Craig Greiwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fla-democrats-are-buying-their-way-to-leadership-and-practicing-voter-suppression-says-mayoral-candidate-craig-greiwe%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=1436006&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><\/div>\n<p>Mayoral candidate for Los Angeles Craig Greiwe claimed Democrats in the city are \u201cbuying their way into leadership\u201d and practicing \u201cvoter suppression\u201d after he and other candidates were excluded from a pivotal ABC7 debate.<\/p>\n<p>The debate was organized by executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State University Los Angeles, Raphael Sonenshein, and the League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-04-12\/l-a-mayoral-candidates-demand-to-be-included-in-cal-state-l-a-debate\">according<\/a> to the Los Angeles Times. The debate will air live on ABC7 on May 1, but the organizers are only allowing five of the 12 candidates to take the stage, the Los Angeles Daily News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2022\/04\/12\/la-mayoral-candidates-left-out-of-debates-blast-organizers\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the excluded candidates gathered on the CSULA campus Tuesday where they claimed that, despite qualifying to be on the ballot for the 2022 mayoral election, Sonenshein and the LWV are practicing \u201cvoter suppression\u201d and purposefully excluding candidates from the essential airtime they deserve in the run-up to the mayoral election, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLA democrats are buying and manipulating their way to leadership as the city collapses around them,\u201d mayoral candidate Craig Greiwe told the Daily Caller. \u201cMoney should not decide an election. Institutions should not decide an election. Voters should decide an election,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CcOQEFcPZ84\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">posted<\/a> to his social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CcQ_9jpJAte\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe people of this city are desperate for change, and desperate for their fair share of resources. They are desperate to get rid of all the career insiders who have been making the same empty promises for decades,\u201d Greiwe said at a press conference Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CcQ_9jpJAte\/\">shared<\/a> to his social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of giving the people of Los Angeles what they are begging for, Cal State, Raphael Sonenshein, and the League of Women Voters have unilaterally organized a debate using phony criteria so they can control the narrative,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>The criteria used by Sonenshein included \u201cpublicly available polling data, media coverage, endorsements, and fundraising,\u201d according to Greiwe, \u201cbut he didn\u2019t request any of that data from the campaigns excluded from the debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greiwe and candidate Gina Viola said that Sonenshein and the League of Women Voters were engaging in \u201cvoter suppression,\u201d according to the LA Times, with Greiwe saying they had \u201ccreated an uneven playing field,\u201d despite the League\u2019s claim that their \u201cprimary function is voter education and ensuring fair elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/11\/los-angeles-mayor-rick-caruso-karen-bass-crime\/\">current front-runner<\/a> for the mayoral position is billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/22\/williams-tubbs-transgender-child-abuse-two-year-sentence-enough-la-district-attorney-george-gascon\/\">(RELATED: Convicted Child Molester\u2019s 2-Year Sentence \u2018May Not Be Enough,\u2019 Says Los Angeles DA George Gascon)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Los Angeles saw a 30% reduction in crime during my time as President of the Police Commission. I\u2019ve done it before, and I will do it again as your Mayor. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CarusoCan?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CarusoCan<\/a>\u2060 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UUGti9XXHY\">pic.twitter.com\/UUGti9XXHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rick J. Caruso (@RickCarusoLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RickCarusoLA\/status\/1512538721819660293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Caruso\u2019s success thus far has been tied to his focus on crime, a leading issue for Angelenos as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/16\/crime-spikes-and-lapd-tells-los-angelenos-just-be-a-victim\/\">crime rates<\/a> have risen consistently for the last two years. Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/28\/la-mayor-eric-garcetti-housing-costs\/\">consistently ignored LA\u2019s crime surge<\/a> and blamed the mass exodus of LA citizens on high housing costs, while simultaneously claiming that \u201ctoo many people want to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaruso spent something like $10 million on his campaign in a 5-week period and failed to convert a single undecided voter,\u201d Greiwe told the Caller. A recent poll showed that 39 percent of voters in LA remain undecided, according to the LA Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayoral candidate for Los Angeles Craig Greiwe claimed Democrats in the city are \u201cbuying their way into leadership\u201d and practicing \u201cvoter suppression\u201d after he and other candidates were excluded from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436006","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\/1436006","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\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436006\/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=1436006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}