{"id":516334,"date":"2026-11-02T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/516334\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:44:17","slug":"dsa-narrowly-votes-against-rescinding-nithya-raman-endorsement-in-l-a-mayors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/516334\/","title":{"rendered":"DSA narrowly votes against rescinding Nithya Raman endorsement in L.A. mayor’s race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A national panel of the Democratic Socialists of America narrowly voted against rescinding the endorsement of Nithya Raman for Los Angeles mayor Monday, just one day ahead of Tuesday\u2019s election. <\/p>\n

The group had been considering revoking the endorsement<\/a> of the council member over her views on Israel, which some considered insufficiently tough. <\/p>\n

In a 14 to 13 vote Monday, the National Political Committee declined to revoke the endorsement that was passed by DSA\u2019s Los Angeles<\/a> chapter in September, a spokesperson for the organization confirmed.<\/p>\n

The committee had been reviewing Raman\u2019s stance on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement \u2014 known as BDS \u2014 against Israel. <\/p>\n

Some on the body believed that DSA-LA had violated \u201cR22,\u201d a DSA resolution that requires local chapters to inquire about a candidate\u2019s support for BDS before endorsing. The local chapter did not include a question about BDS on its candidate questionnaire. <\/p>\n

DSA-LA members have been canvassing across the city for Raman since the endorsement, and the local chapter\u2019s leadership opposed the stepping into the process. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re relieved that the NPC is honoring the will of our members,\u201d said Leslie Chang, a co-chair of DSA-LA.<\/p>\n

Raman\u2019s campaign didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A national panel of the Democratic Socialists of America narrowly voted against rescinding the endorsement of Nithya Raman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[188428,13540,32662,29229,29230,26686,340,64873,48,52,51,198236,47,50,49,63,198237,196407,2211,32081,198238],"class_list":["post-516334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bds","tag-candidate","tag-council-member","tag-dsa","tag-dsa-la","tag-endorsement","tag-israel","tag-l-a-mayor","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-local-chapter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-nithya-raman-endorsement","tag-npc","tag-race","tag-raman","tag-sanctions-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516334","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=516334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}