Perhaps it’s fitting that Karen Bass, who has turned Los Angeles into a lawless hellscape, is now being accused of breaking the law.
L.A.’s far-left mayor and resident fiddler while the city burned led a get-out-the-vote campaign over the weekend that had all the markings of electioneering, according to her opponent Spencer Pratt. The Hills star asserts that Bass documented her election law violations on social media, a little over a week before the city’s primary elections.
‘Blatant Electioneering’
On Tuesday, Pratt’s attorney filed a complaint with the Los Angeles City Clerk’s office and the state claiming Bass has violated the city’s restriction on electioneering, soliciting votes, or “speaking to voters on the subject of marking their ballot.”
“Here, as evidenced in her own social media posts, Karen Bass has violated the law by soliciting votes, holding signs asking voters to vote for her, describing the qualifications/process of casting a ballot, and engaging in blatant electioneering directly near a polling place and dropbox location,” states the letter, copied to Los Angeles Executive Officer Ruben Viramontes, and City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto.
The complaint includes the widely viewed video of Bass strolling through a gathering of supporters/sadomasochists before dropping what appears to be her ballot in an early-voting receptacle. In the campaign video, the incumbent Democrat encourages all listening to cast their ballots at voting centers and drop boxes around the city.
Bass, who has campaigned on a platform of taxpayer-funded dental work for meth addicts and a shoulder for violent illegal immigrants to cry on, thanked her supporter — people whose homes apparently didn’t burn down in the Palisades Fire — for helping her bring the campaign “to home base and win, right?!”
“I even have the babies on my side,” she cringingly says to a stroller-bound toddler whose parents forced her to carry a “Babies for Bass” sign. Bass backers chant “Four more years!” The video then cuts to several voters dropping their ballots into the same drop box.
“Well, I have to say is you should vote today. Fill out your ballot, hand it to a postal worker or come to a voting box like this,” Bass says, standing in front of smiling supporters of soaring taxes, neighborhoods in ruins, ghost town commercial and retail centers, and drug zombies in the park, “We have a few days left in this election, and we are going to take it to victory.”
Pratt’s campaign charged that “Bass is so accustomed to breaking the rules with zero accountability, she didn’t even think twice about FILMING HERSELF VIOLATING ELECTION LAW.”
“She genuinely doesn’t care about protecting our democracy, nor does she care about the rule of law,” a campaign official said in a statement to The Federalist. “That’s why she ignores terrified mothers in LA who are being victimized by rampant criminality, and that’s why she’s now cheating in the election.”
‘Spencer Is Just Mad’
A spokesman for the Los Angeles City Clerk’s Office told The Federalist that the department is currently reviewing Pratt’s complaint “to determine the appropriate course of action.”
Bass shrugged off Pratt’s complaint, taking a swing at her challenger’s viral, AI-generated ads attacking the incumbent’s leadership.
“Spencer is just mad that his supporters are AI cartoons and we have real Angelenos. We follow the rules,” Bass, or someone on her team, wrote on X.
But Pratt, a former reality TV star and political outsider who lost his home in the incompetence-fueled Palisades Fire, is moving within striking distance, according to the latest polls. Bass is very unpopular among more than half of L.A. voters. A third candidate, City Council member Nithya Raman, is a socialist and former Bass chum whose leftist credentials appear to be drawing votes from the mayor.
If none of the candidates breaks 50 percent of the vote in next Tuesday’s primary, the top two contenders will face off in November’s general election.
Pratt’s campaign asserts Bass is terrified of Pratt’s “insurgent campaign, and she’s getting more and more desperate.”
“We need to get this lawbreaker out of office,” the campaign said.
