The nation’s second most-populous city has become a graveyard for rising Democrats’ political careers.
. The political trajectory of the office may not weigh heavily on Bass — a former speaker of the California Assembly and longtime community activist who is not seen as someone hoping to parlay the job into a higher office.
John Shallman, a political consultant who worked closely with former Los Angeles mayors Richard Riordan and James Hahn, called the position “a thankless job that tends to end careers more than it starts.” One of the biggest political obstacles for Los Angeles mayors is a sprawling network of local and regional leaders who don’t always share the same goals. Shallman likened each member of the 15-person City Council to a mini mayor with a distinct
“The mayor of Los Angeles has to be someone who is comfortable in every community, and she is,” he said in an interview. “No one has a track record of working across racial lines that she has. So as painful as this period is, I won’t say that it’s changed the dynamics of what the qualifications are for the next mayor.”
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