Ev Boyle

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[Ev Boyle @evboyle]

Spent a couple hours digging into LA Councilmember Gil Cedillo's campaign contributions and wow, the things this guy is getting away with in broad daylight are insane. Not surprised there's an active FBI probe of our City Council. A short 🧵 (TLDR: vote for @EunissesH!)

[Elizabeth Chou @reporterliz]

I've had to summarize so many elected officials speeches... and ugh. I'm so glad Kenneth Mejia is in this game now. (Sorry speech writers...)

[Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA]

Karen Bass’s campaign spokesperson:

“ETHNIC SOUNDING LAST NAMES.”

[Fan of Major Events Paul Krekorian (parody) @PresKrekorian]

Karen asked me to make a new diss track, but refuses to post it. She said I didn't understand the assignment.

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

Padilla is an anti-housing politician who bragged to me about getting an affordable housing project reduced from 6 stories to 3 stories. She also said that broken street lights allow her constituents to better see the stars.

And worth saying: no one has been more vindictive and petty ever since Nithya had the audacity to challenge Bass for mayor, and by extension, all the council members who decided to eat shit and pretend Bass is doing a bang up job.

Which explains why this "endorsement" is so warmed over. Oh the mayor is reachable by phone? Awesome. The city is falling apart.

[Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA]

So basically people who worked for Karen resigned and immediately started running “independent” groups that spent big money on Karen’s reelection.

This shit is illegal but Karen’s people don’t care.

[Nithya Raman @nithyavraman]

LA has spent four years asking: Where is our mayor?

When I’m mayor, you won’t have to ask.

LA deserves a city that shows up for us. A Los Angeles that loves us back. Let’s go get it.

[Nithya Raman @nithyavraman]

Over 100 environmental leaders have signed an open letter denouncing Chevron’s support for Karen Bass and condemning Big Oil’s attempt to influence Los Angeles elections.

It’s no surprise that one of the biggest polluters in LA County is supporting my opponent. Every local environmental organization has endorsed my campaign. As mayor, I’ll focus on climate resilience and emergency preparedness, expand park space, plant 100,000 trees before the Olympics, ban oil drilling within City limits, reduce dependence on imported water, and improve air quality.

Read all the signed names at https://t.co/dRp5h7HbeV

[Nithya Raman @nithyavraman]

Mayor Bass keeps dodging the question: Why is the LAPD collaborating with ICE?

[Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA]

Karen Bass is trying to create racial friction to help her reelection efforts.

Nithya correctly praised Special Order 40 implemented under Gates that prevented LAPD officers from questioning people for sole purpose of determining immigration status.

Bass is treating Black people like we’re stupid in hopes of activating Black people to get to the polls for her. It’s not just cynical, it’s shameless.

[Ev Boyle @evboyle]

@ShawnaNonna @breed_full Artists shouldn’t say anything at all? You might want to look up the definition of art. You might also look into The Beatles, Picasso, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Johnny Cash, et al. Artists generally have something to say.

[Ev Boyle @evboyle]

@spencerpratt "Double LAPD" with what money? Serious question. The City is broke and had a $1 billion deficit last year. We already spend nearly half of our general fund on LAPD, at the expense of every other city department and service (including firefighters!).

[It's politics @uspolitics1111]

Nithya Raman is getting better and better at this

[Nithya Raman @nithyavraman]

For your consideration: A mayor who will fight for LA, every day.

Catch this ad on NBC tonight, before and after the Emmys.

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

In this story, I briefly call out Bass' nonsense excuse for firing LA's chief heat officer and collapsing its Climate Emergency office. Much more detail here from Marta Segura, the fired chief heat officer: https://t.co/jbQsDxWtXl

[Kenneth Mejia, CPA @kennethmejiaLA]

We need a Mayor who won't sell Los Angeles to the highest campaign donors, who welcomes transparency and accountability, and who will ensure basic city services are properly funded, NOT CUT.

We need a Mayor who will meet THIS MOMENT.

VOTE for Nithya Raman for LA Mayor! 💚

[Unrig LA @UnrigLA]

Running an anti-taco stand campaign for Mayor of LOS ANGELES.

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

A story that should make your blood boil. LA has lost 57,000 jobs in film and TV during the four years Karen Bass has been mayor. But it still took Mayor Bass almost THREE YEARS to appoint a film czar. Now shows set in Los Angeles are being shot in ... New Jersey.

In the debate last night, the mayor talked about how much she wants to do as mayor, after four years of being the mayor. Homelessness is up, the population of the city shrinking, we're not paving roads because the city can't build a ramp for less than 50 grand, and we're WAY behind on the city's own plan to build new housing even as the mayor caves to NIMBYs to try to fight development all over LA.

So Bass spends the night pandering to a small group of mostly white and wealthy homeowners in Sherman Oaks. But those homeowners are ALSO angry about rising homelessness and declining services which are in fact downstream of their policy preferences! It's a farce.

The fundamental question for LA is: who will govern with the urgency and aggressiveness that reflects the actual scale of the emergency in this city? Bass hasn't. Nithya would.

https://t.co/UHmi4HI4gU

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Arellano: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass lost last night's debate against Nithya Raman. Badly https://t.co/e4eQykzVHh

[Nithya Raman @nithyavraman]

It’s moving, but where are the people?

This project was supposed to open over three years ago and is almost $1 billion over budget. What went wrong?

The project’s contractor, LINXS, has essentially been extorting the city for years. Now Mayor Bass’ Airport Commissioners are making YOU pay for it by tripling fees on Uber and Lyft rides.

[Mar Vista Voice @marvistavoice]

I mean, whar business does the Sherman Oaks HOA have hosting the first mayoral debate? Literally who are those people?