As the voters deliver their ballots to neighborhood drop-off sites and others wait to vote in person Tuesday, Times reporters fanned out across the city to ask residents whom they planned to support for mayor.<\/p>\n
Here is a sample of what voters said about their preferred candidate.<\/p>\n
\u2018The other choices were not worth my vote\u2019<\/p>\n
Steven Travers
57
Glassell Park
Self-employed<\/p>\n
Voter Steven Travers told The Times that he didn\u2019t feel like there were many options for him in the mayoral election this year, except for the incumbent Karen Bass.<\/p>\n
Shopping at Vons in Echo Park, Travers said, \u201cJust what I\u2019ve seen of her, and you know, the way she speaks, she seems to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess she\u2019s done an OK job since she\u2019s been the mayor,\u201d Travers said. \u201cThe people she\u2019s running against, I mean, there\u2019s really nobody else that I think I would want to be in that position.\u201d<\/p>\n
This decision to vote for Bass, despite the wide field of options, came down to how she had handled homelessness in the city and Travers\u2019 neighborhood of Glassell Park, where there had been homelessness issues \u201cfor a period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The issue, Travers said, has been lessened and \u201ccertain areas things are getting a little bit cleaned up. And I\u2019m assuming that she\u2019s, you know, part of that whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Travers also said that \u201canybody involved in politics in Los Angeles\u201d seems to always talk about homelessness \u201cmore than anything else\u201d and that Bass \u201cseems to be trying to maybe do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simply put, \u201cThe other choices were not worth my vote,\u201d Travers said.<\/p>\n
Looking for a more humane L.A.<\/p>\n
Zorah Archie-Winston
22
View Park
Recent USC graduate<\/p>\n
Zorah Archie-Winston said that she\u2019s probably voting for Nithya Raman for mayor.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I had to choose, like, right now, I think I\u2019m leaning more towards Raman,\u201d Archie-Winston said.<\/p>\n
One of the main reasons for that, she said, is Raman\u2019s personality and the humanity she brings to the table.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old View Park resident said that the unhoused population is something she feels very passionately about, and she believes Raman shares that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could have, like, a lot more of a compassionate view on the unhoused population and those adjacent,\u201d Archie-Winston said.<\/p>\n
She said she\u2019s been following along with Raman\u2019s journey on the L.A. City Council and looks forward to seeing what the candidate could do as mayor, especially for tenancy rights.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there are a lot of resources and things that are really inaccessible to those who are struggling to live in L.A. for one reason or another, and I think that\u2019s something Raman will be able to help with,\u201d Archie-Winston said.<\/p>\n
\u2018He might be our only saving grace\u2019<\/p>\n
Ann Raljevich
66
Westchester
Medical biller<\/p>\n
Ann Raljevich, a 66-year-old medical biller, says Spencer Pratt could be the city\u2019s hero in the mayoral race.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he might be our only saving grace,\u201d said Raljevich, of Westchester. <\/p>\n
Under the city\u2019s current leadership, Raljevich tells The Times, she said she hasn\u2019t seen change in the city. She said she still sees the same unkempt streets, drug addicts around town and high sales taxes.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing in the medical field \u2014 the drugs bring on the schizophrenia and bring on all the other things, and I mean, I see it when I drive in and out of town,\u201d Raljevich said. \u201cI see it everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raljevich said she also admired that Pratt was from Southern California and graduated from USC.<\/p>\n
She said the fact that he hasn\u2019t directly declared a political party affiliation shows that he doesn\u2019t care what people think and is just here to do the job.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe never really came out to say whether he\u2019s a Republican or a Democrat,\u201d Raljevich said. \u201cHe\u2019s just for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the voters deliver their ballots to neighborhood drop-off sites and others wait to vote in person Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[141277,12858,1409,1493,68814,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,4415,36877,141630,32081,141278,45763,141629,4486,141628],"class_list":["post-344723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ann-raljevich","tag-bass","tag-city","tag-homelessness","tag-l-a-resident","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mayor","tag-pratt","tag-preferred-candidate","tag-raman","tag-steven-travers","tag-times-reporter","tag-traver","tag-vote","tag-zorah-archie-winston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}