Kris Rehl

While @hugoforcd13.bsky.social attempts to deflect accountability, we are fighting for decriminalization with URGENCY!

“I have voted against every single 41.18 motion that has come into City Council,” Soto-Martinez says in his defense during an interview with L.A. TACO at the protest.

The full story: lataco.com/soto-martine...

By Lizbeth Solorzano and @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Hugo agreed he can introduce a motion to repeal Mitch’s 41.18 zones and would be able to use his power as the CM for his district to get the votes to pass it since it only impacts CD13. If you have a different definition of power, more power to you! But I don’t feel I misrepresented a CM’s authority

Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of power - noun pow•er 1 a (1) : ability to act or produce an effect

Hi Kerry, I obviously didn’t write this article. I did further elaborate on this point in my interview and wish more of the context I shared were included in the article. I feel you are misrepresenting my words though. I didn’t say anything about “unilateral means.” That’s not how I define power.

…but he also hasn’t introduced any motions to repeal any of Mitch O’Farrell’s 41.18 zones in CD13 🤔

2026 | WGA CONTRACT DEAR MEMBERS, The Writers Guild Health Fund and Pension Plan are fundamental elements of economic security for writers. In this negotiation, writers need significant additional contributions to the Health Fund and Pension Plan to protect their solvency and ensure sustainable benefits for writers going forward. The WA's State of Our Health and Pension Plans bulletin explains the current pressures on our plans, and what we need to do to protect high-quality benefits for members when we go into bargaining with the AMPTP in March. More information on WA contract negotiations, including the prior bulletin on the state of the industry, can be found on wgacontract.org. IN SOLIDARITY, WGA NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE

One of the most frustrating things about entertainment industry union leadership is their refusal to endorse CalCare.

Single-payer health care would remove the AMPTP's greatest piece of leverage over workers in every negotiation.

Everyone in the movement knows we must abolish 41.18, LA's law that criminalizes poor people for existing in public spaces. We don't have the votes to repeal the entire law right now, so we MUST push Hugo, Eunisses, and Ysabel to repeal the 41.18 zones their predecessors created in their districts.

Taps the sign a trillion times.

will be interesting to see how DSA tries to contextualize Nithya, a politician who they twice endorsed and once censured. Even in private, Nithya has always refused to describe herself as a socialist…presumably at least in part a political calculation for a larger electorate. (Obviously pre-Mamdani)

Politics aside, jumping into the race 3 hours before the deadline and blowing up every dynamic in City Hall is an incredible stunt.

I don’t say that to be pessimistic about our future. I just don’t believe that Nithya, Rae, or any other politician will deliver the changes we need. That’s up to us.

Nithya will unquestionably be a more effective mayor than Bass. But I’ve seen enough progressives take power and completely betray their values to know how this ends. Electoralism is a parasite on movements, consumes their energy, and co-opts efforts to create real change. Just look at 2020.

Julia Wick tweet: Before Raman arrived, Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez said he would Not reconsider his endorsement of Bass if Raman got in. "Once l've made up my mind, l've made up my mind," Soto-Martinez said.

Called it in February 2024 (even if the run date was 4 years off).

Anyone supporting LA Councilmember @hugoforcd13.bsky.social’s re-election need to sit with his hypocrisy.
Sweeps destroy shelter/IDs, making it easier for ICE to abduct undocumented folks at encampments (already happening) at a time when many people can’t pay rent bc it’s unsafe to go to work.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has filed new corruption charges against embattled City Councilmember Curren Price. District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced the charges Tuesday evening in a press release. According to Hochman, Price is set to appear in court Thursday to face new charges related to accusations that he approved multimillion-dollar government contracts to local agencies which in turn then paid his wife more than $800,000. The agencies, according to the D.A.’s Office, are the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or LA Metro, and the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, or HACLA. Price has been councilmember for L.A.’s Ninth District since 2013, and was previou

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DA files new corruption charges against Los Angeles councilmember Curren Price

LA City Council strikes again

Anthony Oliveira tweet from September 2020: every single day for four years I have thought about Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gloating that you can dismantle a democracy right in front of a liberal's face piece by piece and all they'll do is convene breakout sessions and commitee meetings til the boots are in the halls.

Reminded today of this timeless adage

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But any time you hear Mayor Karen Bass, Governor Gavin Newsom, or their allies speak out against the feds, remember the truth:
They're the ones who rolled out the red carpet, welcoming ICE, Trump, and fascism to Los Angeles.

The Olympics were always going to create massive increases in surveillance and policing and have disastrous ecological impacts. That’s what happens every time a city hosts the Olympics. fordhamlawelr.org?p=1607

How will LA treat the homeless when it hosts the Olympics in 2028? The last time Los Angeles hosted, it "sterilized" the streets.

The 2028 Olympics were always going to be a nightmare for vulnerable Angelenos—sex workers, street vendors, the undocumented, the housing insecure, the unhoused, and more.
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Analysis | The 1984 Olympics fueled L.A.’s war on crime. Will the 2028 Games do the same? How the Olympics accelerated mass incarceration in Los Angeles

Despite attempts to rewrite history, the 1984 Olympics were disastrous for Los Angeles. Its legacy is police militarization and expansion, mass incarceration, and displacement.
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Los Angeles, The Not-Quite-Sanctuary City A messy electoral history of protections for undocumented Angelenos.

In late 2024, LA politicians passed a sanctuary ordinance. Instead of preparing communities for imminent ICE raids, they held press conferences to pat themselves on the back. krisrehl.substack.com/p/los-angele...

UnrigLA tweet from November 8, 2024: McDonnell is now claiming his position on immigration has evolved, but Hugo asked him about this last week and repeatedly gave him the chance to disavow his previous positions on immigration and he repeatedly declined to.

Many attribute the one-term LA Sheriff's stances on immigration as a major contributor to his 15-point loss, but McDonnell refused to distance himself from his previous actions until the actual confirmation vote.