POLITICO: ‘An earthquake’: Nithya Raman’s rise jolts LA’s political establishment

“Pick your descriptor — it was a monsoon, an earthquake, a leveling, a restructuring. It was all of the above,” said Kurt Petersen, co-president of the hospitality union UNITE Here Local 11, one of few major labor groups to back Raman. “The political class of Los Angeles was absent at the Nithya Raman party because they were all with the incumbent … [But] even though every city councilperson said they were standing with Karen Bass, not very many of the people they represent followed them to the polls.