Henry Mantel

Former candidate for Los Angeles City Council, District 5. Tenants' Rights Attorney, raised in LA, fighting to make LA affordable, walkable, and beautiful.

[Henry Mantel @HenryForLA]

Why is LA broken?

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

VoteHub projects Scott Colom to win the Mississippi U.S. Senate election.

[Henry Mantel @HenryForLA]

ICE needs to be abolished. There's no reforming this.

[Katie Benner @ktbenner]

ICE agent who fatally shot an immigrant in Maine talked of foreign bloodlines, denounced noncitizens and more, according to emails
My story w.@AlexandraBerzon
https://t.co/ofCD3vg6K4

[Henry Mantel @HenryForLA]

@Punished_HIMBY @adamjohnsonCHI Allow me to introduce you to something called Single-Family Zoning. https://t.co/TROIXRwPRG

[Henry Mantel @HenryForLA]

@Punished_HIMBY @adamjohnsonCHI Do you know that gentrification happens because in most cities it's outright illegal to build more housing in rich white neighborhoods?

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

NEW: The @nytimes confirms that ICE deliberately electronically "disappeared" tens of thousands of people in detention and ordered contractors to refuse to reveal where they're held to family or lawyers.

30% of all immigrants detained in ICE jails now have their location hidden.

[Henry Mantel @HenryForLA]

@adamjohnsonCHI Opposing more dense housing getting built in the middle of a climate and housing crisis (both of which disproportionately affect BIPOC) is racist and backwards, regardless of the reasoning. A solution isn't a bad thing just because rich people might make money off of it.

[Henry Mantel @HenryForLA]

@adamjohnsonCHI Look, I don't like agreeing with the Worst People on Earth on anything, but I'm also serious about solving the climate and housing crises, and local bureaucracies and bad environmental policy are massive hurdles to doing so. That's just the reality of it.

[The Housing Action Coalition @HACdotorg]

LA is slipping out of reach. Today we’re launching #LAWithinReach and asking Mayor-elect Nithya Raman to commit to a clear plan to build more homes.

Watch our short film about neighbors living this crisis 👇
https://t.co/1bKhFAyGcI

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Split screen at Capitol Hill today:
Hakeem Jeffries is arguing that he should be the leader of the Democrats — and then, as the current leader, he couldn’t get enough Democrats to show up to impeach Pete Hegseth

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Democrats should not vote to fund a single dollar for this illegal, immoral and strategically catastrophic war

[Henry Mantel @HenryForLA]

We really should limit how long campaigns are allowed to last. Politicians win an election and then start fundraising for re-election a week later, it's ridiculous.

[coco 🌹 @linneaugury]

there's like, 7-9 months before the first presidential primary debates. that feels so soon wtf

[Bussit baby @bussit_bbLA]

Melrose, Hollywood Blvd, Broadway in DTLA and 6th street in Koreatown would BOOM if pedestrianized WELL* (with proper investment and infrastructure)

[Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP) @LTGetsPolitical]

If this kind of triangulated and incrementalist approach is what defines the historic opportunity earned by Dems, we will be facing down an extraordinarily terrifying future right-wing project. This defeatist view must be forcefully repudiated at all costs.

[Lindsey P. Horvath @LindseyForLA]

Los Angeles has never been a place that dreams small. But for too long, our County government has moved too slowly, failed to meet the moment, and allowed bureaucracy to stand in the way of progress.
 
I fight everyday to reform our government because I believe the people of Los Angeles deserve better — a government that works for them, delivers real results, and is accountable to the people it serves. 
 
That’s why I’m running to become Los Angeles County’s first elected County Executive.

This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a government that finally meets the scale of our challenges and the ambition of our people. From making Los Angeles more affordable and ending homelessness, to protecting our communities and responding urgently to crises, we need bold, unified leadership that puts progress over politics and people over process. 

The future of Los Angeles is ours to write. I'm running because I'm ready to fight for it — and together, we're going to build it.

[L.A. Material @LAMaterialNews]

EXCLUSIVE: Lindsey Horvath is officially running for L.A. County CEO.

The county supervisor shepherded the passage of Measure G, a voter-approved measure that created the very office she is now seeking.

@sherlyholmes has the full story: https://t.co/6VyLrkiH8y

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

JON STEWART: “They're already like, "Chuck Schumer deserves a lot of credit" — Chuck Schumer fought tooth and nail against half of these people… he does not understand the urgency of the moment and what the future demands.” https://t.co/f9SphbgTET

[The Basin @TheBasinLA]

Corporate money had a very bad year in LA

10 companies put $8.2 million behind Karen Bass, John McKinney and Tim Gaspar. All three lost

CD9 is still a toss-up with outside groups putting $2.75 million behind Jose Ugarte there

[Henry Mantel @HenryForLA]

Making two of the least popular Democrats in the country the face of the Democratic Party for the next two years is a bad idea, even if they weren't both sellouts.

[Drunk Lib Shill #SaveMassEffect @drunklibshill]

This is so dumb it might work