00:00LA mayoral candidate Nitya Raman is coming under criticism for skipping votes. According to her
00:05critics, she has missed thousands of votes since she's been on the city council, and she doesn't
00:10even deny it. LA Mayor Karen Bass confronted her about missing votes in a recent debate. Raman said,
00:17yes, it's true she had missed votes, but she tried to blame Bass for that, saying that Bass had
00:21appointed her to outside committees, outside boards, and she had a lot of excuses. But the
00:26first rule of politics is to be present. Raman missed a vote last year on the Palisades Fire
00:32to attend the unveiling of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her friend and campaign donor,
00:38Mindy Kaling. It is worth mentioning that being mayor of a city is not something you can really
00:44do remotely. It's not something you can phone in. Karen Bass found that out the hard way when she
00:48was in Africa during the Palisades Fire. So if Nitya Raman wants to make her case to the voters,
00:53she's going to have to promise that she's going to do a better job of showing up for work.
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