ALT “Here in Los Angeles, this election is about change too. A city that was engineered over the last few decades to resist change. And the people right here who said enough is enough. Because for too long our broken and unjust status quo has convinced Angelinos that this is the best that we can do. Our city became a place where we became so used to saying no, we forgot how to say yes. The result: LA stopped being a place where we could build things, where we could open things, where we could film things, where we could create things. We stopped asking when the sidewalk would be fixed and started planning our commute around it. We stopped asking why the permit took two years to get approved and started assuming that's just how it works here. We watched friend after friend, family after family leave because they couldn't afford to stay here anymore. And we all talked about it as if these things were completely out of City Hall's control. That's the cynicism that started to take over this c
