Go vote, particularly if you live in LA

There are a bunch of extremely tight races in LA!! You should vote in them. I am unable to vote for any of the LA City specific races, like Mayor, because I live in Culver City, a separate municipality which is nearly completely surrounded by the city. I spend the vast majority of my waking hours every single day in LA-the-City, however, so the outcome of those races are particularly important to me. If you're voting for mayor, I think you should vote for Nithya Raman. She is not actually a socialist, but she does deeply understand transit. I am not quite a single-issue voter, but I'm close to it - aside from overturning Prop 13 at the state level and instituting a major campaign to build public housing (something no electable politician is genuinely trying to do at the moment), I think that the fastest way to mitigate everyday human misery in this city is to increase transit service and accompanying residential density. Transit is an urgent need, and the quality of transit we get…

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