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LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman was accused by the city's police union of pledging to push socialist policies that would defund the police, close jails, and escalate the city's drug problem.
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Tom Saggau, spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL), told the Daily Mail that voters 'should not be fooled by' the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
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Saggau accused Raman, a Democrat, of pledging to co-govern the city with DSA's LA branch and push its agenda from City Hall, should she be elected.
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'Nithya Raman agreed to co-govern with the DSA, and the actual DSA policy demands listed on their website are quite scary,' Saggau said.
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DSA-LA has a laundry list of demands posted on their website, including 'Decommission facilities like Men’s Central Jail' and 'Reject efforts to expand domestic anti-terrorism laws that target protestors'.
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Saggau said Los Angeles voters should not be fooled by DSA activists, who he claims disguise their true intentions and implement additional policies once in power.
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'Seizing private homes, seizing small businesses, defunding and abolishing the police, and allowing dangerous homeless encampments next to schools, daycares and parks,' are just some of the proposals the spokesman referenced.
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Raman, a 45-year-old councilmember, was endorsed by the DSA for the November 3 election against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.
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Nithya Raman was accused by the Los Angeles Police Protective League of pledging to co-govern the city with Democratic Socialists of America LA
'Nithya Raman was endorsed by the DSA-LA after being required to explicitly pledge to participate in the DSA-LA program to run as a Democratic Socialist,' said the LAPPL
The LAPPL echoed Saggau's accusation of her co-governing with the socialist party in a pamphlet sent to 100,000 homes across the city.
'Nithya Raman was endorsed by the DSA-LA after being required to explicitly pledge to participate in the DSA-LA program to run as a Democratic Socialist,' reads the booklet.
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The police union cited how the DSA proposed expropriating 'privately owned housing,' while expanding public ownership of businesses such as grocery stores and restaurants.
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This week, Raman voted against $100,000 being used to help the LAPD participate in the Joint Regional Intelligence Center, which helps federal and local agencies share information about terrorist threats, according to the New York Post.
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However, she also voted 'yes' to $320,000 in federal funds to be used for de-escalation training for 450 new recruits joining the city's police department.
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'They are wolves masquerading as sheep, skilled at misinformation and distraction,' Saggau told the Post.
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'Make no mistake, they are playing a long game designed to embed a socialist regime in Los Angeles.
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'She and her socialist supporters want to talk about anything and everything except the actual policy demands listed on the socialists' website.
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The Daily Mail has reached out to Raman and the DSA for comment.
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Raman is facing off against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the Los Angeles Mayoral election
The police union claimed Raman will push the DSA-LA's agenda which includes policies such as defunding the police, closing jails and decriminalizing drug use
The DSA has found recent success in elections, notably with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, despite the group supporting controversial policies.
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Among DSA-LA's demands on its website are also proposals to redirect police funds, and a desire to 'reduce the number of sworn personnel and replace sworn personnel with civilian employees for traffic enforcement and mental health interventions.
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Decriminalizing drug use is another controversial policy DSA-LA supports.
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Its website also calls for an end to 'collaboration with ICE.
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Saggau told the Post that the union hosted voter focus groups that were presented with the socialist group's policies.
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The spokesman said voters had strong, and even visceral reactions, specifically after learning about the proposed seizure of private property.
'Once people figure 'expropriate' means they could lose their house, everything gets real,' Saggau said.
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Raman has been backed by the DSA since 2020, when she was first elected as a councilmember, the Post reports.
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The organization also supported her successful reelection campaign in 2024.
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She was described as a dues-paying member in the organization's voter guide, according to the outlet.
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As a councilmember, Raman also agreed with the DSA in opposing an anti-camping rule that prohibits encampments within 500 feet of schools.
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At a debate in 2024, Raman said she did not think children were any safer with a tent having to be 500 feet away.
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'I don't think a kid's going to be safer because a tent is 500 feet away from a school, it's like, whatever,' said the candidate.
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A poll from Thursday by Impact Research found an extremely close race, with Raman at 37 percent of the vote and Bass at 38 percent, while 26 percent remained undecided.
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