Mike Bonin

Sorry about that.

Did that with Mike Bonin.

Did that with Gascon.

Those recalls should have happened.

He's the co-author of Interest Group Influence on Preferences for New Voting Rules, Legislation in a Polarized Environment, and Resentment and Democratic Politics, the Role of Racial Resentment in a Motivating Electoral Participation.

And Mike Bonin, he's the executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at California State University, Los Angeles.

He's the host of the podcast What's Next Los Angeles and a former Los Angeles City Council member.

So thank you both so much for joining us to talk about what's been going on in Los Angeles.

And you're listening to Scholar Circle, ScholarCircle.org. I'm Doug Becker.

Today's topic, the L.A. mayoral race.

Our guests are Isaac Hale from Occidental College and Mike Bonin from California State University, Los Angeles, and a former city council member.

Now, Isaac, one of the things, particularly nationally, when this gets covered, it's always noted that Nithya Raman...

And so many people have reached out and asked me for my advice and my guidance.

And so in my meeting last night, you know, I shared my concerns about Nithya Raman and, you know, the fact that she runs in the Mike Bonin, George Gascon crowd, and what I think that means not just for Council District 11, but for the entire city, and I have two choices in front of me.

I'm going to make the pragmatic choice and vote for Karen Bass because while I have differed with her on some issues, she has generally been supportive of, uh, the progress that we have made here in Council District 11 through our partnerships on Inside Safe.

We have housed hundreds of people.

And that has certainly been the scuttlebutt around City Hall.

Um, uh, it, it, it is a very, very concerning proposition to me.

I, I certainly would remind folks here on the West Side of what it looked and felt like over here back in the days of Mike Bonin and George Gascogne, where there were just miles of rampant, lawless, chaotic encampments, where the police weren't empowered to enforce our laws, where the district attorney was looking for excuses to make on behalf of criminals instead of protecting victims from crime.

It worries me to death that that is the direction Los Angeles could be headed right on the brink of the Olympics coming in a year and a half.

Both candidates had a lot to gain and lose, with many Angelenos still undecided.

Mike Bonin is a former L.A. City Council member and executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State L.A.

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That's Mike Bonin, former L.A. City Council member and now executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State L.A. Coming up, L.A.'s public schools are losing students and that is causing big financial problems.

The state has threatened to take over if the books aren't balanced.

And Martinez described the boy as, quote, "like a little monkey," close quote.

As for the gay councilman, whose name is Mike Bonin, Martinez described him as a, quote, "little B word that rhymes with witch." De León also took a swipe at Orange County and the LA Times, saying that we Latinos need not fear, quote, "those crazies in Orange County who are pro-Trump.

It's the white liberals.

It's the LA Times," close quote.

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