*Spencer Pratt, the popular reality TV personality, has joined the race to be the next Los Angeles mayor. Announcing his campaign on Wednesday at a “They Let Us Burn” rally to mark the first anniversary of the deadly Palisades fire, Pratt, a Palisades resident, blamed the current leadership system for the city’s woes.
“The system in Los Angeles isn’t struggling, it’s fundamentally broken,” he quipped. “It is a machine designed to protect the people at the top and the friends they exchange favors with while the rest of us drown in toxic smoke and ash.”
The TV personality has always been at loggerheads with the current city and state leaders, including the governor, Gavin Newsom, the current LA mayor, Karen Bass, and Janisse Quiñones, who runs the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. He has always blamed Quiñones for last year’s fire tragedy and the mismanaged rebuild plan.
Pratt has personal reasons to be sour on the current administration; after all, he and his fellow reality television personality, Heidi Montag, lost their home in the fire. But that wasn’t all: his parents too lost their home. Pratt has since been a more vocal critic, accusing officials of all sorts of shortcomings, from several years of poor vegetation management by the state to deficiencies in the fire department and its leadership.
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“It could be due to lack of budget, lack of knowledge, or simply DEI,” Pratt stated concerning the fire department.
Ric Grenell, a Republican former diplomat, has already endorsed Pratt for the mayoral seat. Grenell is also the current interim head of the Kennedy Center and runs Fix California, a group that seeks to bring more conservative lawmakers into state government.
But Pratt will still have to fight it out in a crowded field of candidates, including Bass, the current mayor. Others are Austin Beutner, the former superintendent of the LA Unified School District; community organizer Rae Huang; and potentially Rick Caruso, the wealthy businessman who unsuccessfully ran against Bass for the mayoral seat in 2022.
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