By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
The woman leading the charge of local government around organizing the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games has lost her rebid election and will be replaced in mid-December by a city council member.
Current Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has been a cheerleader for the Games and the transformational impact they can have on the city, while incoming mayor Nithya Raman has been more of an LA28 skeptic, as the Games were among the big talking points in the race.
Among Raman’s major platform points as a councilperson relating to the 2028 Olympic Games were:
She has criticized the city’s arrangement with the LA28 organizing committee. As a city councilperson, she voted against the agreement in 2021 and the $2.63 billion Los Angeles Convention Center expansion, fearing the liability it would create for taxpayers. She has promised to reduce “street homelessness” by 50% and eliminate long term encampments before the opening ceremonies. Specifically, she says she will move away from the Inside Safe model that converts underutilized hotels and motels into stable shelter or permanent housing, instead moving toward rental subsidies and permanent housing alternatives. Raman has called to replace police chief Jim McDonnell, which Bass warned could destabilize preparations. In August, Raman introduced a motion to require that before the Games could declare any surplus, the city would have to be reimbursed for its expenses. That motion was sidelined. Read more about how the financial status of the Games as it relates to this election from The Sports Examiner here.Raman is an urban planner by trade, which will also impact how she sees Games planning.
The race was a contentious one: 13 of the 14 other council members backed Bass, and none of Raman’s council colleague’s endorsed her. That means that Raman won’t necessarily have an immediate mandate to enact all of her platform promises.
Raman currently has about a 54.8% to 45.2% lead in the vote in a non-partisan election. While there are still about 13,000 votes to be counted, Raman has an insurmountable lead of almost 107,000 votes.
Raman will take office on December 14.
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