A Los Angeles mayoral race between incumbent Karen Bass and councilmember Nithya Raman is turning into a referendum on pace, not just policy, with Raman framing Bass as too slow to act on the city’s crises. That kind of “urgency” critique matters in LA because so many big levers on homelessness, policing, and housing are shared across the mayor’s office, council, and county, so voters are really being asked who can move a fragmented system faster. If Raman’s message lands, it could push both candidates to spell out not just what they’ll do, but which bureaucratic bottlenecks they’ll break and how they’ll measure speed. #LocalPolitics