Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass rallied supporters phone banking for her Sunday, urging them to continue volunteering and to vote on or before Nov. 3.
“To all of you who are spending your Sunday here I am beyond grateful for the time you are putting in because we have got to get this across the finish line,” Bass said.
She said that the majority of voters would be casting ballots in the coming week.
“So we are not too late, that’s why your volunteer work now means everything,” Bass said.
In her remarks, Bass said her opponent City Councilmember Nithya Raman does not know how to build relationships with her colleagues or constituents.
“If you sit in a horseshoe with 15 people and none of them support you, what the heck do you think is going to happen with you in the mayor’s office,” Bass said.
Ayed Dukum, who was phone banking for Bass, said the top issues for him this election cycle was public safety, homelessness, and immigration.
“She stayed on top of reducing homelessness and crime across the city,” Dukum said. “She stood up to ICE when they came to Los Angeles protecting our immigrant community and overall has improved the safety and affordability in Los Angeles for the citizens as well as businesses to thrive and grow in Los Angeles.”
After her speech, Bass addressed college voters attracted to Raman’s campaign because of her affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America.
“We need to look at what is happening in our city and what our city needs right now and one: our city needs to address homelessness and affordability and I think that is one of the number one issues among young people,” Bass told Annenberg Media.
She said that young people have a “welcome place” in the campaign and her mayoral administration and touted State Rep. Sade Elhawary, who led her 2022 campaign’s youth initiatives.
“The ability to have a decent paying job, the ability to be able to afford housing and that’s what we’re working on,” Bass said. “I want the young people to know about the 10,000 units of affordable housing that is ready for occupancy right now.”