{"id":30440,"date":"2026-05-11T04:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=30440"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:32:32","slug":"karen-bass-skips-final-debate-before-la-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=30440","title":{"rendered":"Karen Bass Skips Final Debate Before LA Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>This weekend her reelection campaign announced the mayor is blowing off a planned debate Wednesday night, saying \u2018it\u2019s time to move past debates\u2019\n<\/div>\n<div>\nDebates, the League of Women Voters and the Pat Brown\u00a0Institute said in a statement, are the \u201ccornerstone of democratic accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which is the why the two groups hosting the planned forum are calling an abrupt weekend announcement from Mayor Karen Bass that she was blowing off a Wednesday night debate for a trip to Sacramento \u201cdisappointing,\u201d especially given that the entire event was scheduled around her campaign\u2019s specifications, former Councilmember Mike Bonin, now with the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs, said in a public post Sunday. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DUrXFHxksn-\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;margin: 1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:99.375%;width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px);width:calc(100% - 2px)\" \/>\n<p>The debate was slated to be televised on Fox 11 between the mayor, Councilmember Nithya Raman, businessman Adam Miller, and community advocate Rae Huang. Spencer Pratt, who performed well last week in a televised debate between Bass and Raman, had a scheduling conflict, according to a statement released by the debate\u2019s hosts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Karen-Bass-debate-900x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-298480\" \/><span class=\"media-credit\">Credit: League of Women Voters\u2019<\/span><\/figure>\n<p>Instead of debating her opponents with less than a month before the Los Angeles primary, Bass will be traveling to Sacramento on a host of city business, her campaign announced Sunday. \u201cMayor Bass will be in Sacramento on Wednesday fighting for critical state funding for housing, homelessness, and Palisades recovery, and will also discuss the city and state partnership on the Olympics and World Cup,\u201d her campaign spokesperson, Alex Stack, said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Stack insisted that the \u201cpeople of LA saw twice last week that Nithya Raman and Spencer Pratt are not up to the job as Mayor,\u201d Stack added. \u201cSo it\u2019s time to move past debates.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lamag.com\/news-and-politics\/karen-bass-re-election-campaign-makes-stunning-announcement\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend her reelection campaign announced the mayor is blowing off a planned debate Wednesday night, saying \u2018it\u2019s time to move past debates\u2019 Debates, the League of Women Voters and the Pat Brown\u00a0Institute said in a statement, are the \u201ccornerstone of democratic accountability.\u201d Which is the why the two groups hosting the planned forum are &#8230; <a title=\"Karen Bass Skips Final Debate Before LA Primary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=30440\" aria-label=\"Read more about Karen Bass Skips Final Debate Before LA Primary\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Karen-Bass-Skips-Final-Debate-Before-LA-Primary.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30442,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30440\/revisions\/30442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}