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- Karen Bass is seeking a second Los Angeles mayoral term after criticism over her January 2025 wildfires trip abroad.
- She launched her 2021 mayoral campaign in October 2021.
- Bass served as California Assembly speaker beginning in 2008 and won her first House race in 2010.
- A June fire at a Boyle Heights cold-storage warehouse released a rotten-meat odor and burned over a week.