{"id":820284,"date":"2021-09-27T13:43:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=820284"},"modified":"2021-09-27T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:43:45","slug":"karen-bass-announces-bid-to-be-los-angeles-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karen-bass-announces-bid-to-be-los-angeles-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Bass Announces Bid To Be Los Angeles Mayor"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fkaren-bass-announces-bid-to-be-los-angeles-mayor%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=820284&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<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"40.777003484321\">\n<p>Democratic Rep. Karen Bass of California announced Monday that she is running to be Los Angeles\u2019 next mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Bass, who represents an LA-area seat, said on Twitter that she was \u201crunning with my whole heart,\u201d adding a link to her campaign website.<\/p>\n<p>Bass, the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, has become one of the highest-profile members of Congress. She was one of the lead negotiators throughout the bipartisan <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/tim-scott-police-reform-deal-has-to-come-june-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police reform<\/a> talks, and she was among the finalists to be President Joe Biden\u2019s running mate last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.18125\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With my whole heart, I\u2019m ready. Let\u2019s do this \u2014 together.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m running for mayor.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CLkJfFddHT\">https:\/\/t.co\/CLkJfFddHT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karen Bass (@KarenBassLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarenBassLA\/status\/1442521023908360192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Our city is facing a public health, safety and economic crisis in homelessness that has evolved into a humanitarian emergency,\u201d Bass said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joeygarrison\/status\/1442522618037358598\">statement<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve spent my entire life bringing groups of people together in coalitions to solve complex problems and produce concrete change \u2014 especially in times of crisis.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/15\/karen-bass-criticizes-defunding-the-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Karen Bass: \u2018Defund the Police\u2019 Is \u2018Probably One Of The Worst Slogans Ever\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her announcement comes almost three months after Biden nominated <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/03\/los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-tells-city-time-cancel-everything-coronavirus-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Garcetti<\/a>, L.A.\u2019s current mayor, to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-07-09\/la-mayor-garcetti-nominated-us-india-ambassador-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American ambassador to India<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bass has not said whether she will stay in Congress while she runs for mayor of the nation\u2019s second-most populous city. If she retires early, the move could narrow Democrats\u2019 already slim House majority.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Karen Bass of California announced Monday that she is running to be Los Angeles\u2019 next mayor.Bass, who represents an LA-area seat, said on Twitter that she &#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-820284","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\/820284","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=820284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820284\/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=820284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}