(Inside California Politics) — Reality TV celebrity Spencer Pratt sat down with Inside California Politics host Nikki Laurenzo in Los Angeles this week to discuss his campaign to lead the state’s largest city.
Pratt focused on homelessness, often criticizing Karen Bass. A recent poll showed that 51% of voters are undecided about the mayoral race as the incumbent mayor struggles to generate enthusiasm in her reelection campaign.
“They’re not undecided,” Pratt said. “They’re just not aware of me yet. They’re waiting to hear from the campaign that says, ‘We are sick of what’s happened to Los Angeles and this has to stop.’”
Pratt said he aims to stop what he describes as fraud and corruption in Los Angeles, telling Laurenzo he wants to audit the “homeless industrial complex” and crack down on encampments — “misdemeanors are going to be trending again in Los Angeles.”
“I’m going to do everything that none of these candidates will do — or are even talking about doing,” he said.
He repeatedly attacked the incumbent mayor’s record on homelessness in the one-on-one interview.
“You had your chance. You’re done,” Pratt said. “It’s time to go visit — back to Cuba, go check out Havana, Mayor Bass. Go back to Ghana. You’re done in LA.”
(Bass traveled as part of a U.S. delegation to Ghana in January 2025; she was in the country when the Palisades fire broke out. She traveled to Cuba in the 1970s as a young activist.)
To address the city’s budget woes, Pratt said he wants to bring more accountability to the process.
“The money is there,” he said. “It’s being spent — I don’t want to say criminal, but these are criminals,” adding that he believes 99% of homelessness-focused nonprofits are criminals.
Pratt vowed to fire the entire fire and police commissions.
“The only people I can’t wipe out is the city council,” he said. “But I will make these city council members accountable to their constituents.”
Pratt is a Republican, though the L.A. mayoral race is nonpartisan. He said Angelenos are angry at the current state of the city. Pratt wouldn’t weigh in on the governor’s race, saying that “L.A. has what it needs right now.”
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