Per Bloomberg TV: Musk backs billonaire developer Caruso for LA Mayor

[JohnSJ]

https://www.yahoo.com/now/musk-backs-billionaire-developer-caruso-145846558.html

"Elon Musk is backing billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso for mayor of Los Angeles, a rare political endorsement by the world’s richest man.

“Los Angeles is fortunate to have someone like Rick Caruso running for mayor. He’s awesome,” Musk wrote on Twitter Friday.

A dozen candidates are on the June 7 primary ballot for mayor, with Caruso and US Representative Karen Bass leading in polls. If no candidate gets more than 50%, the two top vote-getters face off in November. Caruso was a long-time Republican who registered as a Democrat in January before entering the non-partisan mayoral race.

Caruso, 63, is making his first run for political office. He’s campaigning to tackle LA’s surging homelessness and crime, vowing to create 30,000 beds for the unsheltered while hiring 1,500 additional police and 500 sanitation workers to clean up the streets.

He’s flooded media with ads, lending his campaign $33.5 million of his $3.7 billion fortune built from developing luxury malls, apartments and hotels.

Musk, now a resident of Texas, lived in Los Angeles for several years, putting his four homes in the posh Bel Air district on the market in 2020 after tweeting that he planned to unload “almost all physical possessions.”

He endorsed Democrat Andrew Yang in the 2020 race for president, joking in a tweet that the businessman would be “our first openly goth president.”

[Lovie777]

1. Oh shit . . ....

Caruso in his heart is a Republcian trying to appear as a Democrat. His commericals are everything Democrats would approve of.

[brooklynite]

5. His policies aren't wildly different from Democrat Karen Bass...

Both focusing on dealing with crime and addressing the homelessness problem.

[Budi]

6. Bass's policies were ALWAYS public service focused.

Caruso just bought himself a high dollar slick campaign ad writer to compete with her accomplishements & policies.
It's the old Lipstick on a Pig ..ism.

Its not what they say, its what their record of service shows.

He's not even in the same policy game as Bass.
I can't believe this has to be explained.

[JohnSJ]

9. Exactly

[tenderfoot]

11. He's a Richard Riordan redux - Republican posing as a Democrat

Just like that current Bozo mayor of NYC.

[Karadeniz]

2. Knee jerk reaction: I'm pretty sure I've had quite enough of real estate developers in govt....

[Budi]

4. No kidding! Billionare real estate developers are THE PROBLEM

Now he's vowing to solve homelessness that his high end property developments helped create.

[Budi]

3. Wow. Billionares backing billionares

"Caruso was a long-time Republican who registered as a Democrat in January before entering the non-partisan mayoral race.

Caruso, 63, is making his first run for political office."

Long time billionare Republican Registered as Dem in January.
Endorsed by billionare Musk who just recently denounced his 'DEM' affiliation & endorsed all things Trump.

Democrats really need to restrict who runs on our Party Name. Requiring minimum 5 years prior Party affiliation in order to run as a Democrat, thus having access to funding & email voter lists.

THAT WOULD ELiMINATE A LOT OF FREELOADING SABOTEURS.

Jfc

[Dorian Gray]

7. Oh look

all the rich people are banding together: Musk, Paltrow, Kardashian. KOOL.

[zappaman]

8. Already Voted for Bass

It's impossible to escape Caruso here.
All over the airwaves constantly and 2-3 mailings EVERY day.
Hopefully he won't get enough to win outright and there will be a run-off

[JohnSJ]

10. +++