Southwest Mountain States Regional Council of Carpenters

Uh, you know, you, you will, you will see the mayor and you will see Councilwoman Raman and you'll see them on social media and maybe a little bit of advertising from them, but it's gonna get dwarfed by, uh, by the independent expenditures.

And, uh, in one corner we have the carpenter's union, the Southwest Regional Carpenters, uh, and Aaron Sosnick, a, uh, a, a hedge fund manager who has invested heavily in Los Angeles politics, uh, in the past several years, particularly on mass transit and on road safety issues.

Uh, and in the other corner we have the Police Protective League and, uh, we have a promise of a significant contribution from Airbnb, and we have, uh, some of the, some of the other labor unions in Los Angeles through the County Federation of Labor.

So we've got Sosnick and Streets For All and the carpenters, which are pro-Raman, anti-Bass, and then you've got the police union and, uh, uh, those, the Airbnb, which are pro-Bass, anti-Raman, and they're gonna be spending big.

We're talking about two Democrats who are a- at least on a, in broad strokes very similar in policy-wise.

Uh, and to have this contentious, expensive, bitter race just seems a little nonsensical.

So maybe, you know, like w- what's at stake here? What's, what's really going on? Why does Airbnb and the, uh, uh, and the police union and the, the Carpenters and Unite Here, w- what, what are they fighting over really? What are they really worried about?

That- that's a, that's a damn fine question because w- w- when you think about it, the, the, the groups that are spending money actually do have a reason to be-