{"id":360434,"date":"2026-06-14T15:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360434\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:24:15","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-a-knife-fight-mayoral-race-helps-no-one-show-us-your-plans-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360434\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: A \u2018knife fight\u2019 mayoral race helps no one. Show us your plans instead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: As a Los Angeles resident and voter, I am not interested in watching a five-month \u201cknife fight\u201d between Mayor Karen Bass and Nithya Raman (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-06-10\/why-la-mayoral-runoff-is-about-to-be-knife-fight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWhy the L.A. mayoral runoff is about to be a \u2018knife fight,\u2019\u201d<\/a> June 10). What I want \u2014 and what L.A. voters deserve \u2014 is to hear each candidate lay out her vision for a term as mayor and explain how her proposals could be funded and implemented. I would like to cast my vote this fall based on a candidate\u2019s concrete goals and realism about running the city, not her capacity to insult her opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Dvora Weisberg, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: As a Los Angeles resident and voter, I am not interested in watching a five-month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13540,146658,146660,2072,16538,146657,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,63,4415,13825,79871,7755,3230,146659,7585],"class_list":["post-360434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-candidate","tag-concrete-goal","tag-dvora-weisberg","tag-editor","tag-fall","tag-knife-fight","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mayor","tag-mayor-karen-bass","tag-mayoral-race","tag-one","tag-plan","tag-realism","tag-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360434","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=360434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}