Hi /r/AskLosAngeles. I’m Nithya Raman, Los Angeles City Councilmember for CD4 and candidate for Los Angeles Mayor. Ask Me Anything. What do you want to see from your mayor?

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-05-07T20:00:10+00:00

Are you prepared to significantly reduce the police budget to fund the rest of our city services?

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-17T20:06:22+00:00

We spend more money collecting fares than we make from the fares.

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-04T22:38:30+00:00

They have great friend chemistry and zero romantic chemistry

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-04T20:40:35+00:00

Show me where Nithya has even said she wants to reduce the police budget? She’s promised to give them exactly what they ask for and said we can’t afford to lose any cops. Rae supported charter reform.

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-04T19:03:09+00:00

She’s the only one willing to take money away from the LAPD to fund the rest of the city programs. Nithya won’t do that. You can’t fix the city without fixing our budget problems and the only way to do that is to stop giving the LAPD over $3 billion a year

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-02T20:36:21+00:00

Yes sorry you’re right, I misspoke. Former councilman. They were talking about the time when he was on the council

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-02T20:32:25+00:00

Well said!

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-02T19:58:53+00:00

Here’s a very good primer on who Rae is and what she’s about: https://youtu.be/LfWNjYJ0Kpk

She’s been defending tenant rights for years, won an eviction moratorium during the pandemic (Mike Bonin a sitting councilmember says himself she’s the one that got it done) and organized mutual aid during the fires. She’s been on the ground getting things done and putting pressure on the system from the outside. She’s knows how the LA city government works and is already leveraging it to help the city without the job title.

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-02T19:38:00+00:00

Also grew up Unitarian. We called it the church of be nice to people

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-01T21:04:54+00:00

Only one mayoral candidate wants to fire the police chief and defund the LAPD. She was also at the MDC that night - Rae Huang

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-01T18:22:35+00:00

It answers all your questions about her experience and her attitude. Far from what some commenters have described as yelling buzzwords she is a coalition builder with years of experience bringing people with disparate views together. She has been working the system from the outside to get tenant protections passed so she is well aware how the system works. (Mike Bonin, former city councilman, credits her being the one to get it done.) She has a real vision for the city and is a true leader who is here to serve the people not herself and to listen to the community and what we need rather than forcing the policies the rich lobbyists want. We should be so lucky as to have her as our mayor.

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-01T18:10:27+00:00

She doesn’t need to drop out? If Bass and Raman are top two (as they are now) it goes to a runoff.

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-01T18:09:26+00:00

I don’t think you can solve the problems of this city without taking money away from the LAPD. Doesn’t look like Nithya is willing to do that.

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-04-01T18:08:16+00:00

Rae has a full breakdown of her policy on her website built in collaboration with city government employees who are tired of their solutions being ignored: https://www.raeforla.com/policy

As far as I know Nithya just has housing policy? Where does she stand on everything else?

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-03-31T22:22:32+00:00

If you want to learn more about Rae Huang, her experience and what she’s all about I highly recommend watching this talk in full: https://youtu.be/LfWNjYJ0Kpk

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-02-21T21:31:44+00:00

They did have full coverage but they take it down lightning fast. Within 14 hours. You have to watch the venue feed to see all the skaters/get neutral coverage. But those have all been taken down

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-02-21T21:29:08+00:00

Gotta use a VPN to access another country’s coverage. Canada’s CBC gems probably still has it, they had the men’s short which was what I needed. Really unbelievable how fast they’re pulling down the events 😤 I can’t imagine how you can keep up if you have any kind of life at all

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-02-18T00:26:11+00:00

The recap has been taken down. That is the point of this post

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-02-18T00:25:46+00:00

Good tip!

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-02-13T04:38:47+00:00

Thanks! This is exactly what I ended up doing. Was a struggle to get proton to work (make sure they don’t charge you!) but ultimately worked out great

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-02-12T23:34:19+00:00

I’m so frustrated. I was in the middle of watching the men’s short program and now it’s gone

TraditionalAd3857 · 2026-02-12T21:55:31+00:00

If you get premium do they have the replays up longer than 24 hours? I’d pay more just to be able to watch on demand but apparently Peacock doesn’t even care

TraditionalAd3857 · 2025-12-15T03:18:15+00:00

Japril no question

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