Commentary
Mayor-elect Karen Bass certainly seems to have the credentials to get help to improve Los Angeles, that fading City of the Angels. She is a former speaker of the California Assembly and recently has been a powerful member of the U.S. House of Representatives. It also helps outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, likely the next speaker, also hail from this state. And Sen. Dianne Feinstein remains one of the most powerful members of the senior body.
Bass probably will be able to get more money from the federal and state treasuries to try to fix the city’s problems. But her campaign gave no indication she would make the tough choices to pull L.A. out of its “Slough of Despond,” to use a phrase from Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress.” The main problems:…