Congresswoman Karen Bass set to launch Los Angeles mayoral run in 2022. (Scientology related.)

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Congresswoman Karen Bass set to launch Los Angeles mayoral run in 2022. (Scientology related.)

Note: Bass is relevant to Scientology because she:

(1) spoke at the grand opening of the Los Angeles Ideal Org;

(2) later endorsed Scientology front-group Youth for Human Rights; and

(3) issued a "Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition" to Scientology Youth For Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam.

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Politico: Bass set to launch Los Angeles mayoral run

The California congresswoman would be an early favorite in the race.

By NICHOLAS WU and JEREMY B. WHITE
09/24/2021 11:38 AM EDT
Updated: 09/24/2021 12:27 PM EDT


Bass set to launch Los Angeles mayoral run


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Rep. Karen Bass is set to run for mayor of Los Angeles, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Her entry would immediately reshape the nascent contest to govern America’s second-largest city. While the field is still forming ahead of a 2022 vote, Bass (D-Calif.) wields broad name recognition and deep popularity among Black Angelenos and progressive activists who have urged her to run.

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Washington Post: Rep. Karen Bass plans to announce run for mayor of Los Angeles

By Sean Sullivan and Tyler Pager
Yesterday at 3:53 p.m. EDT


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...9.GIpdyB5VHEdzVJkp43or7q_CPj_TGsPCnpLGdHtD6lw






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CNN: Karen Bass plans to run for Los Angeles mayor next year

By Alex Rogers and Melanie Zanona, CNN
Updated 1:27 PM ET, Fri September 24, 2021


Karen Bass plans to run for Los Angeles mayor





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[Dotey OT]

She won't lose.

 

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Los Angeles Times: Of course, Karen Bass will run for mayor. Why settle for a gridlocked Congress

BY ERIKA D. SMITH COLUMNIST
SEPT. 27, 2021 5 AM PT


Column: Of course, Karen Bass will run for mayor. Why settle for a gridlocked Congress?





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I'd like to add that Tony Ortega reported that Bass issued the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition to Rizza Islam in January 2021, after the controversy when Bass was being vetted for VP:


Hanan and Rizza Islam get trial date for $4 million Medi-Cal fraud at Scientology rehab | The Underground Bunker


To be fair, Bass may have been unaware of Rizza Islam's connection to Scientology. Still, she issued a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition to a member of the Nation of Islam who is so anti-Semitic that he has his own ADL page, and while his felony criminal trial for fraud was pending:


Rizza Islam


I think it is safe to say that Bass may have a problem properly vetting organizations and people.

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Los Angeles Times: Rep. Karen Bass makes it official: ‘I’m running for mayor’

BY DAKOTA SMITHSTAFF WRITER
SEPT. 27, 2021 UPDATED 3:47 PM PT


Rep. Karen Bass makes it official: 'I'm running for mayor'




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To be fair to Bass, Mike Rinder has noted that you can find her statement regarding Rizza Islam here:


Hanan and Rizza Islam get trial date for $4 million Medi-Cal fraud at Scientology rehab | The Underground Bunker


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An organization serving girls in the foster care system in South Los Angeles held its annual concert in 2019 and requested certificates for individuals that they were honoring. Rep. Karen Bass is a founder and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth and has fought to protect the vulnerable and abused throughout her career. Our office provided the certificates when they were requested, using standard language on pre-printed Congressional certificates. These certificates did not in any way constitute endorsement of individual honorees. The Office of Rep. Karen Bass was at no time aware of the felony charges against Ronnie Islam. Rep. Bass, who has seen The Aftermath series, in no way supports his poisonous anti-Semitic and pro-Scientology beliefs.

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Tony Ortega now has the story:

Appeals court moves back hearing, and asks if Scientology arbitration is ‘neutral’ | The Underground Bunker

tonyortega.org

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Now for a couple of updates on our previous stories. You may have heard that Karen Bass has officially announced that she’s running for Mayor of Los Angeles. Bass is giving up a powerful seat in Congress to make a run at the post, and she’s expected to be a frontrunner in a crowded field.

We remember her best, of course, for the rumors that emerged last year that Joe Biden was seriously considering her as a running mate in 2020. But then Breitbart dug up the 2010 speech that Bass had given at the grand opening of Scientology’s Ideal Org in Los Angeles.

Her campaign put out a statement, supposedly from Bass herself, that the Scientology event was in her district so she felt obliged to attend. But we then showed that wasn’t true: At the time, she was a California Assemblywoman, and the new Ideal Org was a couple of districts away.

Bass then had to admit that the statement was incorrect, and that she hadn’t actually written it herself, but that a staffer had put it together. * * * *

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Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa endorses Karen Bass for L.A. mayor


Villaraigosa endorses Karen Bass for L.A. mayor






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