Los Angeles's 9th City Council district

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Tell us about the race in Council District 9 to replace Curran Price.

Yeah, Council District 9 includes a lot of critical sports venues, you know, Coliseum, Galen Center, Crypto.com Arena, LA Live, Exposition Park.

And the race is between two Democrats, Jose Ugarte and Estuardo Mazariegos.

Ugarte is the establishment candidate, and Airbnb has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups supporting his campaign, and also, interestingly, thrown money into opposing Mazariegos.

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Thanks for having me.

And we should note that we did reach out to Airbnb for comment on the company's spending in Council District 9 and the mayoral race, but we did not hear back by publication time.

And finally, I wanted to talk about the two council district races on the ballot.

We're talking about District 3 and District 9.

Yeah.

Okay.

Tell me about District 3 and District 9.

Where are they? Who are

they? Yes.

He was the 80th hit and run this year on that street.

And in that district District 9 has six of the most dangerous intersections in all of Los Angeles County.

and so something should have been done by now.

That shouldn't have happened.

I think there's also this sentiment brewing underneath of Black political power being lessened, right? Because Mayor Bass, right, potentially can lose her seat.

In Council District 9, we have a district that has historically been led by Black leaders, I think over the last 60 years or so.

And the two folks running are two Latinos running to represent that district.

It is a majority Latino district.

... and that's what we're seeing in, in the CD9 too, where you have two Latino candidates going against each other.

Council District 9 here in Los Angeles, which has had Black representation traditionally always.

Yeah.

And I don't think it's accurate to call that anti-Blackness.

I- to me, it's like the population, the voting caught up to what the population, uh, statistics look like.

Because Council District 9 is overwhelmingly Latino.

Yeah.

So, uh-

It's going down to two.

There is, there is no Black candidate in the, in the, in, that even ran in Council District 9, so we will have, uh, either Eduardo Mazariegos or Jose Ugarte, uh, taking that seat.

So p- for people in, in the Black community who are very concerned about, you know, a diminishing of power, I, I think a lot of the, the, the talk about betrayal is...

A- although it's said that Rahman betrayed Bass, what I think that is sort of a, a, a substitute for an avatar for is people saying that, uh, progressives are betraying the Black community-