Spencer Pratt Courts 100 South L.A. Voters in Bass' Former District
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Updated · Los Angeles Times · May 20
Spencer Pratt Courts 100 South L.A. Voters in Bass' Former District
5 articles · Updated · Los Angeles Times · May 20
About 100 people turned out as Spencer Pratt campaigned at a Hyde Park block party in South Los Angeles, taking his mayoral bid into a neighborhood Karen Bass once represented in Congress.
Pratt spent roughly two hours posing for photos and talking with residents but again refused to answer reporters' questions, repeating his approach from a Sherman Oaks meet-and-greet days earlier.
Broken sidewalks and Skid Row conditions surfaced as local concerns: wheelchair user Marcella Anglada pressed Pratt on impassable streets, while Jonathan and Victoriah Parker praised him for backing their animal-abuse complaint tied to Skid Row.
Food trucks, music and a barbecue-themed photo op gave Pratt a populist backdrop, and he used the event to jab at rival Nithya Raman over her since-softened proposal to ban backyard barbecues on high fire-danger days.
The stop showed Pratt trying to broaden his coalition beyond his usual base, drawing supporters from other parts of Los Angeles while testing appeal on the incumbent mayor's old turf.
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