{"id":496307,"date":"2026-10-14T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496307\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:22:09","slug":"bass-and-raman-to-appear-at-downtown-la-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496307\/","title":{"rendered":"Bass and Raman to appear at downtown LA forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline<\/p>\n<p>    The Downtown Los Angeles Residents Association will host a mayoral forum Thursday night. It&#8217;s open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The details: Incumbent L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and her challenger, City Councilmember Nithya Raman, will appear separately. Each will have 40 minutes to answer questions \u201cdirectly sourced from downtown residents about the future of our neighborhood,\u201d according to an announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The backstory: Bass is seeking a second four-year term leading the nation\u2019s second largest city. Raman, a one-time Bass ally, is looking to topple her.<\/p>\n<p>Bass has said Raman is too extreme for L.A. \u2014 a \u201crisky choice\u201d for voters. Raman has countered that Bass has mismanaged the city and should be ousted.<\/p>\n<p>The event: Organizers say this is a nonpartisan community civic engagement event with a goal of helping downtown voters make informed decisions at the polls. It&#8217;s also designed to \u201censure the Mayor of LA is developing and executing a resident-centered vision for a vibrant, thriving DTLA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The forum will be held at Clifton\u2019s at 648 S. Broadway in Los Angeles. It starts at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>RSVP: Space is limited. You can <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dtlara.org\/events\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RSVP here<\/a>. RSVPs close Thursday at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline The Downtown Los Angeles Residents Association will host a mayoral forum Thursday night. It&#8217;s open to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[37945,192840,4132,64873,48,52,51,47,50,49,189478,80054],"class_list":["post-496307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-2026-election","tag-downtown-l-a-residents-association","tag-karen-bass","tag-l-a-mayor","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mayoral-forum","tag-nithya-raman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496307","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=496307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}