{"id":17735,"date":"2025-04-06T07:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/after-the-fires-rick-caruso-aspires-to-a-new-role-shadow-mayor-of-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T07:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:42:22","slug":"after-the-fires-rick-caruso-aspires-to-a-new-role-shadow-mayor-of-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/after-the-fires-rick-caruso-aspires-to-a-new-role-shadow-mayor-of-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Fires, Rick Caruso Aspires to a New Role: Shadow Mayor of Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Rick J. Caruso, the wealthy developer, spent $100 million to run for mayor of Los Angeles in 2022. After his decisive defeat, he stepped to the side of the public stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But this year, in the weeks and months following the devastating January wildfires, Mr. Caruso has behaved almost as if he won that election. He has been cheerleading businesses trying to reopen, offering advice to homeowners looking for help in rebuilding and assailing the woman who defeated him, Mayor Karen Bass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As Ms. Bass has faced scrutiny over her response to the fires, Mr. Caruso \u2014 with a staff of consultants and a stream of top-quality videos \u2014 has sought to present himself as something of a shadow mayor, a business executive who can lead Los Angeles out of this crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHi everybody, it\u2019s Rick Caruso, and I\u2019ve got some great news for everybody,\u201d he proclaimed the other day on Instagram, standing on a balcony overlooking the Grove, his high-end mall in Los Angeles. \u201cWe\u2019ve got some small businesses that are reopening in the Palisades and Altadena.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent weeks, he has urged administrators to reopen schools that were destroyed by the fires, told homeowners where to go to ensure that the Army Corps of Engineers clears their property and urged people to patronize the few stores that have reopened amid the rubble. The commission of civic and business leaders he created in the days after the fires, called Steadfast LA, has made a show of raising money and proposing how to rebuild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In many cases, Mr. Caruso is pushing City Hall to take steps it has already taken: Los Angeles has already begun issuing fast-tracked building permits for the Palisades and led extensive campaigns informing people of how to get debris cleared. That Instagram post was put out hours after the mayor visited the same business whose opening he was lauding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, on social media and in interviews and public appearances that often seem timed to compete with official events at City Hall, Mr. Caruso has painted Ms. Bass as being in over her head and Los Angeles as being slow to respond to the fires and their aftermath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe city needs to step up and pay for the cleanup for small business and residents who are uninsured and can\u2019t afford to clean their property,\u201d he said in a post on X. He sent an email to supporters criticizing Los Angeles for \u201cdrowning people in red tape and dragging out approvals while entire communities sit in limbo.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the same time, Mr. Caruso spoke out against an unpopular effort to recall Ms. Bass that\u2019s being led by Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy donor who was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s running mate in the 2024 presidential election. But even in opposing the recall, Mr. Caruso returned to his central criticism of the city. \u201cThis is a time when Los Angeles needs unity, not costly and expensive political distractions,\u201d he wrote <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RickCarusoLA\/status\/1902037406007853366\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in a post on X<\/a>. \u201cWe must rebuild our communities, get people back into their homes, and open businesses that have been closed or lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Caruso, 66, a former Republican and independent who changed his registration to Democratic as he prepared to challenge Ms. Bass, is now considering re-entering politics. His associates say he\u2019s deciding whether to challenge Ms. Bass or instead run for governor in 2026, when Gavin Newsom, the Democratic incumbent, will be forced to step aside because of term limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m a big believer, I have always been my whole life, that elected officials need to be held accountable and take responsibility for their actions,\u201d Mr. Caruso said in an hourlong interview from his third-floor offices next door to a See\u2019s Candies store in the Grove. \u201cThe reason I was critical during the fire is that I was absolutely astounded by the failures in leadership that resulted in thousands and thousands of homes being destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The mayor\u2019s office noted that Ms. Bass has, in fact, issued sweeping executive orders to streamline permitting, house those displaced by the fires and encourage more resilient rebuilding. Debris is being cleared. Power is back online in the fire areas under her jurisdiction and drinking water has been restored. The city issued its first rebuilding permits to homeowners less than two months after the fires \u2014 roughly twice as fast as the response to other major fires, including the Camp and Woolsey fires in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAt a time of tragic loss of life and property, it\u2019s unfortunate that he would choose to be undermining,\u201d said Zach Seidl, a spokesman for Ms. Bass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Caruso appears to be keeping his political options open as he considers a run for mayor or governor. He talks both about the fire in the Pacific Palisades, which is in the city of Los Angeles, and the fire in Altadena, which is in an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, and thus outside the mayor\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When he ran for mayor in 2022, Mr. Caruso campaigned as a manager and an executive with a successful record of building and development. It was a message that did not resonate with most Los Angeles voters: Ms. Bass drew about <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/elections\/results-california-mayor-los-angeles.html\" title=\"\">55 percent of the vote<\/a>, compared with 45 percent for Mr. Caruso. But many Republicans and Democrats suggest that after the fires, Los Angeles might be receptive to that kind of appeal from a wealthy business leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe\u2019s a get-results kind of guy, and this may be his moment,\u201d said Mike Murphy, a Republican political consultant who is a longtime friend and adviser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Mr. Caruso criticized Ms. Bass\u2019s performance \u2014 \u201cI do not have confidence in her ability to oversee the city as it goes through this massive reconstruction project,\u201d he said \u2014 he offered praise for the other officials at the front lines of the fire response. They included Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, and two members of the county board of supervisors, Kathryn Barger, a Republican, and Lindsey P. Horvath, a Democrat, whose districts were caught in the path of the blazes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Mr. Caruso, several analysts said, risks undermining the mayor\u2019s authority at a crucial moment, complicating and politicizing an already daunting rebuilding task that faces Los Angeles in the coming years and decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe optics are terrible,\u201d said Stephen Commins, a lecturer at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied the government response to disasters. \u201cI could write you a long script of everything that went wrong in the city of L.A. But jumping into the dog pile and pummeling people, or acting like you are a parallel government, is very destructive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Isaac Bryan, a Democratic state assemblyman who represents much of southwestern Los Angeles and is an ally of the mayor, criticized Mr. Caruso for the path he has taken. \u201cThis is not the moment to attack,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the moment to come together and speak with a united voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">These events are a new chapter for Mr. Caruso, who seemed convinced for most of his 2022 campaign that he was going to win the election. He was discouraged by the magnitude of his defeat, friends said, and mostly turned his attention back to his prosperous business. Ms. Bass, a well-known liberal in a Democratic-run town, had hit the ground running, secure in her popularity and the breadth of her victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the fires that swept across large parts of Los Angeles \u2014 including Pacific Palisades, the coastal enclave where Mr. Caruso owned a high-end shopping center and where two of his children owned homes \u2014 upended California\u2019s political landscape. Hours after the Palisades fire broke out, he was on the news, criticizing Ms. Bass for leaving Los Angeles to attend the inauguration of Ghana\u2019s president, despite the warnings of an incoming fire risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Shortly thereafter, he created his Steadfast LA commission. Mr. Caruso said he called Ms. Bass the day he announced its creation. \u201cShe sent me a text back, but she hasn\u2019t called me,\u201d he said. He declined to share the text, saying only that she had wished his group luck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This moment is the latest resurgence for a man who has been at the periphery of civic life in Los Angeles, the city where he was born, since Mayor Tom Bradley put him on the Police Commission in 1986. He went on to serve as its president, and to become the chair of the board of trustees at the University of Southern California, where he went to college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Should Mr. Caruso try to enter politics again, the path may not be easy, in no small part because of his history as a Republican in a city that has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.cdn.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/sov\/2024-general\/sov\/02-voter-reg-stats-by-county.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">grown increasingly Democratic<\/a> over the years and has become an epicenter for anti-Trump sentiment. Mr. Caruso and President Trump have some things in common: party-switching developers who have never made much of an effort to conceal their wealth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI have not been a supporter of Trump, but I\u2019m glad he came,\u201d Mr. Caruso said of the president\u2019s visit to Los Angeles 17 days after the fires.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an episode that would likely be reprised by opponents should he run, Mr. Caruso retained a private firefighting force that protected the outdoor shopping center he built in the Palisades. Mr. Caruso\u2019s property now stands unscorched in the midst of fields of rubble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDemocrats have sort of had it with rich businessmen who\u2019ve never spent a day in office running for high posts,\u201d said Garry South, a longtime Democratic political strategist based in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Caruso was forced to evacuate his home in Brentwood when the power went out as the fires raged and as his family members sat down to celebrate his 66th birthday. After learning the hydrants were running out of water, he said, he put in a call to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/person\/m\/elex-michaelson\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Elex Michaelson<\/a>, a reporter and host on FOX 11 Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Caruso dismissed the suggestion that his campaign of criticism against the mayor was motivated by political ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou should interpret it as the father that heard that his daughter\u2019s house just burned out and all of her dreams of raising a family there went down with it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so I just reject this notion of there was any politics to it. It was a very personal thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Laurel Rosenhall<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/05\/us\/rick-caruso-los-angeles.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick J. 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