Nithya Raman

region.

And I think there have been a lot of questions about kind of the lack of leadership on issues.

And I think that's the most perplexing thing here in LA, which I think Angelenos can feel on the streets, which is just like there's a rudderlessness.

There's just a lack of

pushing.

There's a lack of urgency on the things that I feel really urgent about and that I think residents of the city feel really urgent about.

There's a lack of just kind of being out there and fighting.

Like Angelenos need a fighter at a moment when things feel really bleak here.

And to not have that fighter in City Hall, to not have that person really articulating a vision of how things could change, whether it's on the cost of housing, whether it's on our transit and safety infrastructure for our streets, whether it's on homelessness, whether it's on ICE, whatever it is.

We're just missing that kind of that leadership here in the city.

And this is an incredible place.

This is an incredible place.

It deserves that kind of leadership.

It deserves that kind of vision.

It deserves someone pushing with all of their might to push it in the right direction.

And I just...

I know I felt that absence and I don't think I'm the only one.

I really don't.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think it would take six months to a year to change it because I think it takes repeated engagement and presence in that location to address longstanding issues.