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Hollywood money begins to flow into committee backing Karen Bass in mayor’s race
Billionaire Rick Caruso has already put hundreds of thousands of {dollars} towards tv adverts, and is predicted to vastly outspend his opponents within the Los Angeles mayor’s race.
However supporters of Rep. Karen Bass have launched an impartial expenditure committee to assist the longtime officeholder compete with Caruso’s wealth.
The newly shaped committee reported elevating practically $270,000 within the final two weeks, in accordance with disclosure varieties filed with the Metropolis Ethics Fee. This group was integrated final month and is named Communities United for Bass for LA Mayor 2022.
That complete included $125,000 every from Hollywood producer-director J.J. Abrams and his spouse, Dangerous Robotic Productions co-CEO Katie McGrath, in accordance with disclosure filings.
Beginning 90 days earlier than an election, campaigns and impartial committees are required to file disclosures of donations over $1,000 inside 24 hours of receiving them. The election is June 7.
The committee can be receiving help from DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, a longtime Bass backer who has dedicated to giving at the least $250,000, in accordance with sources conversant in the matter, although his contribution has not but appeared in public filings. Katzenberg and a few of his key advisors are additionally serving to make calls to potential donors, the sources stated. A Katzenberg consultant declined to remark.
Unbiased expenditure committees are prohibited from coordinating with campaigns. Donors to impartial expenditure committees aren’t sure by the $1,500 restrict for citywide races, and can provide as a lot as they want.
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Abrams and McGrath are longtime Democratic donors who even have given extensively to charitable causes, together with the Neighborhood Coalition, which Bass helped discovered and ran earlier than working for the state Meeting. In 2015, they hosted a fundraiser for Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who had additionally led the Neighborhood Coalition and is now a key supporter of Bass.
A consultant of McGrath and Abrams declined to remark. The expenditure committee’s chair, Morgan Miller, didn’t reply to a request for remark.
“We’re a various coalition of voters devoted to electing Karen Bass as our subsequent mayor,” the committee stated in a press release. “We’re dedicated to creating Los Angeles a greater place for all and firmly consider this workplace can’t be purchased by anybody.”
(In a press release, Caruso senior marketing campaign advisor Lex Olbrei stated: “It’s not stunning that particular curiosity politicians who’ve raised hundreds of thousands from company pursuits are being propped up by a particular curiosity Washington, D.C., tremendous PAC.”)
Abrams and McGrath have been among the many individuals working in Hollywood who gave on to Bass’ marketing campaign, which raised practically $2 million final 12 months after she acquired into the race in September. They included actors Felicity Huffman, Donald Glover and Jennifer Garner — together with Katzenberg, who has lately grow to be extra politically engaged on homelessness points, and his spouse, Marilyn.
Metropolis Councilman Kevin de León’s mayoral bid can be receiving help from an impartial expenditure committee, which is being funded by a neighborhood union, and has raised $250,000 to again the previous state senator and a number of other candidates for Metropolis Council. This committee final week reported spending round $35,000 to distribute mailers in help of de León.
Additionally final week, the Ethics Fee stated Caruso had already “made or incurred bills” for his marketing campaign that exceed $3.3 million. In consequence, different candidates, most of whom have agreed to just accept public matching funds for his or her campaigns, will likely be permitted to spend larger quantities than beforehand allowed.
Katzenberg has been a serious participant in nationwide Democratic politics for years, giving closely to the likes of Hillary Clinton and President Obama. Contribution data present that Katzenberg additionally has been giving regionally, donating $50,000 in 2017 to the marketing campaign for Measure H, which raised taxes to pay for social companies that assist Los Angeles County’s homeless inhabitants.
A 12 months earlier, he contributed $100,000 to Mayor Eric Garcetti’s marketing campaign for Measure M, the half-cent gross sales tax to help public transit and transportation applications.
In 2013, Katzenberg put greater than $101,000 into the trouble to elect Wendy Greuel — who labored with him at DreamWorks — as mayor.
Final summer season, Katzenberg met with quite a few native elected officers and aides who work on homelessness coverage within the run-up to a vote to impose new anti-camping guidelines, which might enable town to take away encampments which might be close to key public amenities, similar to libraries and homeless shelters, as soon as presents of housing have been made.
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Biden Tells Hurricane Survivors, ‘We Will Be There With You’
During his speech at the White House on Wednesday, President Joe Biden spoke about the hurricane Helene recovery efforts saying he expects to ask congress for additional funding to the affected states.
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Good morning. It’s not just a catastrophic storm. It’s a historic, history-making storm. Communities are devastated. Loved ones waiting, not sure if their loved ones are OK. They can’t contact them because there’s no cellphone connections. Many more folks displaced with no idea when they’ll be able to be returned to their home, if ever, if there’s a home to return to. I’ve directed my team to provide every available resource as fast as possible to your communities to rescue, recover and to begin rebuilding. In addition to FEMA, it includes the Federal Communications Commission to help establish communications capability. The National Guard, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Defense are going to provide all the resources at its disposal to rescue and assist in clearing debris and delivering life-saving supplies. So far, that’s over 3,600 personnel deployed. That number is growing by the day. As president, I’ve seen firsthand the devastating toll that disasters like this take on families and communities. I’ve been on the ground in many disaster areas since I’ve been president. I’m here to tell every single survivor in these impacted areas that we will be there with you as long as it takes.
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“I’m not feeling my best right now about where we are on Kamala Harris in a place like Michigan,” Slotkin told donors during a virtual campaign event with Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker last Wednesday, according to Axios.
“We have her underwater in our polling,” Slotkin added, according to audio Axios obtained from the event.
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Latest polling shows former President Donald Trump closing in on Harris in the key battleground states of both Michigan and neighboring Wisconsin. Harris received 48% of support among likely Michigan voters in a New York Times/Siena College poll this week, while Trump garnered 47% support in the poll — effectively locking the pair in a tie well within the poll’s margin of error.
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The Axios article noted that if Trump secures votes from the Sunbelt States across the southern portion of the U.S., he would only need to win either Michigan, Wisconsin or Pennsylvania to declare victory. While Harris’ easiest path to victory is locking down Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Trump won Michigan in his 2016 election against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by a 0.23% margin. President Biden won by 2.78% in the state in 2020 when he faced off against Trump.
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Slotkin, who has served in the U.S. House since 2019, announced her Senate run last year after Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow said she would not seek re-election. Her remarks that Harris is “underwater” in Michigan could have been campaign rhetoric to drum up donations, but the campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s inquiry for additional comment on the campaign event.
Fox News Digital also reached out to the Harris campaign for comment on the report, but did not receive a reply.
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CBS News is hosting the debate between Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — two vice presidential hopefuls facing each other Tuesday night.
The two will champion their running mates — former Republican President Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris — as part of their final pitch to voters, just over a month from election day.
Vance, known for his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” served in the Marine Corps before moving to San Francisco and working as a venture capitalist. He returned to his home state of Ohio, where he was elected senator in 2022.
Walz was born in Nebraska and moved to Minnesota as an adult. He served for 24 years in the Army National Guard and as a high school teacher and football coach. He served as a representative in Congress for 12 years before being elected to two terms as governor of Minnesota.
The two will meet at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York for the debate. No audience will be present.
When is the debate?
The debate begins at 6 p.m. PDT.
It will run for 90 minutes, with two four-minute breaks.
How can I watch it?
CBS will be airing the debate on all of its platforms — the CBS Television Network, Paramount+, CBS News 24/7, CBSNews.com and YouTube.
Most other major networks will air the simulcast of the debate.
Who are the moderators?
CBS News anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell, along with “Face the Nation” moderator and chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan will moderate.
How will it work?
In the previous two presidential debates — the first between Trump and President Biden and the second between Trump and Harris — the mechanics of the debate became a heated topic between the two campaigns.
The network said that moderators “reserve the right to turn off candidate microphones.” Otherwise, both candidate microphones will be live.
Each candidate will get two minutes to answer and two minutes to respond to a question. They’ll each get one minute for rebuttals.
Moderators will not fact-check live, but the New York Times reported that CBS plans to have a QR code displayed prominently throughout the debate. The code will send viewers to CBS’ website, where CBS journalists will be fact-checking in real time.
Vance won a coin toss and chose to give the final closing statement.
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