Posted on 05/21/2026 6:01:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Radical Democrat Mayor Karen Bass just admitted on camera that she’s willing to hand voting rights to non-citizens in Los Angeles.
Bass responded to a question about far-left Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez’s push to let non-citizens vote in local elections by declaring: “Well, I think we need to explore it.”
The exchange, which took place during a Politico California Playbook discussion, laid bare the Democrats’ desperate endgame.
Soto-Martínez, who has endorsed Bass, wants to rewrite the city charter to allow non-citizens – including those here illegally – to cast ballots in city council and school board races. Bass didn’t shut it down. She didn’t call it unconstitutional. She didn’t say it would destroy election integrity.
Instead, she leaned in.
Bass tried to soften the blow by claiming some cities only let “legal” non-citizens who pay taxes vote, but she quickly pivoted to defending sanctuary city policies she rammed through even after Trump’s first election.
California Bureau Chief Melanie Mason:Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez, who has endorsed you, wants to explore ways to let non-citizens vote in city elections. I know that some cities already do this, but, you know, politics is all about timing. With Donald Trump in the White House, is this the right time for Los Angeles to go down this path?
Karen Bass:Well, I think we need to explore it. Now, I’ve not seen exactly what he’s calling for. I have a little familiarity with what happens in other cities. For example, some cities will allow people to vote in city council and school board elections because they pay local taxes. But they are not necessarily undocumented. They might be here completely legally but have not finished the citizenship process. So, we’ll wait and see.
But, you know, I mean, some questioned that around sanctuary cities too. But we made that into law even though Trump had been elected. And it was because our population of vulnerable immigrants were terrified. That provided a measure of security for a minute. And no one anticipated we’d have the military roll up on us.
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It’s not as Left as people think, and also, even Liberals, and especially Limousine Liberals are fed up with the crime, homeless and drug addicts, high home and fuel prices and the constant fires...............
You always instinctively knew they would go scorched earth, didn’t you?
Next up, Section 8 Housing to be built for those same interlopers in the Pacific Palisades....laugh if you want.....it wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
Why non-citizens biatch? Voting in America is for Americans only. You want non-citizen to vote, voluntarily deport your mangy butt back to Africa. It already takes forever for you idiots to count the votes in Cauliphonya. I don’t think you idiots can handle trying to count larger numbers of votes along with all the illegal ballots you idiots scrounge from the dumpsters.
Why would any sane person want illegal aliens determining our elections? Why of course, so Demon-rats would win. Because without illegal votes they can’t.
Thank you mayor for saying the quiet part out loud…. Thats why ICE needs to be at polling places.
Sounds like Bigass can’t believe she got elected because not enough voters voted against her and all the other loco yokel scum bags.
Well, exactly. “Explore,” “have a conversation,” etc are just the code word predicate for your views “evolving” and getting to the end you already want. Works every time. See, Obama’s evolution on gay marriage for example
Bass is a total fool.
Bass is a total fool.
The fools are the voters.
Road trip!
Don’t worry, Cromwell has plans for you too
> I say we all go to LA and vote for Pratt.<
We don’t have to go there. It takes one person to get a PO Box. Thousands of us can use that address and have the ballots forwarded. Make up a name. No documentation or ID will be required.
EC
There’s a difference between legal non-citizens and illegals.
I predict a re-election win for Karen Bass - even though the best candidate for LA would obviously be Spencer Pratt.
There are too many wealthy lefties, illegals (who already vote), paid homeless votes and vote fraud for Spencer Pratt to win.
Unfortunately.
A city in Ohio tried that. A state constitutional amendment requiring citizen only voting was quickly organized and passed 77-23 in 2022.
We need a flood of white Russian immigrants to come in and vote Republican. That’ll clarify things.
Will she send ballots anywhere in the world?
They send ballots overseas to people in military and contract workers overseas.............
If an illegal alien is allowed to vote, get a driver's license, become a prison corrections officer, or police officer, get a state issued professional license, are those actions examples of compassion or are they enabling bad behavior. I think that they are enabling bad behavior. That virtue signaling in the name of “compassion” is the problem with Democratic Party positions.
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