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Luna is
set to
be next
sheriff
Villanueva concedes
after a sound defeat
and a term marked
by upheaval.
By Alene
Tchekmedyian
Robert Luna, a little-
known retired police chief
from Long Beach, will be the
next sheriff of Los Angeles
County after he soundly
beat the incumbent, Alex
Villanueva, who will leave of-
fice after a single term
marred by the upheaval and
discord he sowed.
With Luna holding a
commanding 20-percent-
age-point lead in the vote
count and the number of
ballots yet to be tallied
shrinking by the day, Vil-
lanueva conceded the race
Tuesday.
“I want to wish the in-
coming sheriff well,” Vil-
lanueva said at the end of a
rambling concession
speech. “The safety of the
community depends on him
succeeding.”
Saying he was “deeply
honored and humbled” that
voters had elected him,
Luna said in a statement
that his victory signaled “a
clear mandate to bring new
leadership and accountabil-
ity to the Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment.”
“I look forward to work-
ing with the talented and
courageous sworn and pro-
fessional staff of the Sheriff ’s
Department who are dedi-
cated to keeping our com-
munities safe,” he said.
Dislike for Villanueva and
his antagonistic style of rule
played out elsewhere on the
ballot as well: Measure A,
which rewrites the county
charter to give the Board of
[See Luna, A9]
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could have been
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© 2022 WSCE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2022
FORMER PRESIDENT Trump announces another run for the White House at his Mar-a-Lago estate in
Palm Beach, Fla. A Republican pollster said of Trump: “He’s obviously weaker today than he was a week ago.”
Democrat Christy Smith, losing
ground, blames her own party
to zero outside resources
With Mike Garcia to fight this battle. In fact,
I was fighting the institu-
winning blue district tional power of my own party
again, she says she got from the outset of this race,”
Smith said in a scathing se-
‘next to zero’ help. ries of remarks on Twitter.
With no help on the air-
By Seema Mehta waves and little elsewhere
and Melanie Mason from Democratic Party
committees and PACs, she
The race for a hotly said, “we didn’t stand a
contested Los Angeles-area chance.”
congressional district had Smith is no different from
not been called, but Demo- scores of other candidates
crat Christy Smith sensed who believe victory would’ve
she would end up on the los- been theirs if not for stingy
ing end. And she felt there support from Washington.
was a clear reason why. But her unusually blunt re-
“Our campaign got next marks Sunday highlighted
Christina House Los Angeles Times
CLIPPERS OWNER Steve Ballmer, shown at a groundbreaking ceremony for
the Intuit Dome, is determined to put on “a production that’s more exciting.”
Hoping to score experience
points with Clippers fans
troit Country Day School,
Owner Ballmer wants the football team wheezed
its way up a steep slope
his $2-billion arena to known simply as “The Hill”
transform the way a on the backside of the leafy
campus.
crowd takes in a game. The slog wasn’t a straight
race to the top. Instead, the
By Sam Farmer teenagers gradually plodded
to the summit by getting into
The year was 1973 and the formation and running
muggy Michigan summer plays. The loudest among
pulsed with Motown hits them, the one urging every-
5 such as “”Higher Ground” one, was right tackle Steve
and “Superstition.” At De- Ballmer, the husky son of a
the stark turn of events in
the campaign for Califor-
nia’s 27th District — a con-
test in which Democrats
were expected to mount an
all-out effort to oust incum-
bent Rep. Mike Garcia after
he barely eked out a win two
years earlier.
“This is a massive screw-
up on their end,” said politi-
cal consultant Brandon Za-
vala, who ran Smith’s 2020
campaign but did not work
on this year’s race. “We’re
looking here at a Biden
plus-12 [district] that we’re
about to hand to Republi-
cans.”
The typical postelection
Ford manager. Although he
would be too reluctant to de-
liver his valedictory speech,
Ballmer, the future chief exe-
cutive of Microsoft and
owner of the Clippers, didn’t
hold back when it came to
encouraging his out-of-gas
buddies.
“You gotta love it,” he
screamed, in what would be-
come a team mantra. “You
gotta love it!”
Fast-forward nearly 50
[See Arena, A11]
latimes.
ANALYSIS
TRUMP
RUNS
AGAIN,
UPHILL
The former president
announces 2024 bid
after being a drag on
his party in 2022.
By Noah Bierman
WASHINGTON — In an-
nouncing his candidacy
Tuesday night, former Presi-
dent Trump has reverted to
a familiar tactic — meeting
Joe Raedle Getty Images weakness with hubris.
“In order to make Ameri-
ca great and glorious again, I
am tonight announcing my
candidacy for president,”
Trump said. “I am running
because I believe the world
has not yet seen the truth
and glory of what this nation
can be.”
Trump, impeached twice
and under investigation for
trying to overturn the 2020
election, made the unprece-
dented announcement from
his gilded Florida home to
second-guessing of spend- an audience of supporters.
ing decisions has sharpened Over more than an hour, he
with Democrats exceeding vacillated between reading a
expectations in this mid- teleprompter and speaking
term election. Instead of los- off the cuff — mixing boasts,
ing control of the House in a insults, promises, griev-
rout, the party nearly held ances, threats and conspira-
the GOP to a draw, with Re- cy, including an evidence-
publicans probably now on free insinuation that China
track to have a bare-bones interfered in the 2020 elec-
majority. [See Trump, A7]
Now, it appears every
spending decision in close
races in California and McCarthy passes
across the country could
have tipped the balance first vote hurdle
enough for Democrats to Bakersfield Republican
keep House control. nominated for House
Veterans of past midterm speaker, but ascension is
[See Democrats, A8] no sure thing. NATION, A5
UC strike takes on
old-school practices
She brings home about
Workers challenge $2,700 a month after taxes
from working as an African
low pay in an era of American Studies instruc-
inflation and hope for tor and a graduate student
researcher — all while taking
nationwide change. at least two classes toward
her Culture and Theory doc-
By Grace Toohey, toral degree and raising her
Summer Lin and Anh Do
son. She said their rent is
more than $1,500 a month,
For doctoral candidate which leaves just over $1,000
and single parent Konysha a month for all other ex-
Wade, the financial struggle penses.
is daily. “It’s so, so tough,” Wade,
More than half of her 29, said. “We barely make it.
monthly earnings from her We are trying to survive on
two on-campus jobs at UC limited savings. It’s about
Irvine goes toward renting constant budgeting.”
her university apartment, Wade is one of 48,000 Uni-
where she lives with her 11- versity of California academ-
year-old son. [See Strike, A9]
Christina House Los Angeles Times
TREVOR SCHEOPNER, a graduate student re-
searcher, joins a demonstration at UCLA on Monday.
A2 W E D N E S DAY , N OV EM BE R 16, 2022
AFTER FOUR YEARS in the White House, three losing election cycles, two impeachments and one at-
tempted coup, Donald Trump again announces he’s running for president, this time in Florida, not New York.
Trump first, not America first
MARK Z. BARABAK
We’ve seen,
and heard,
this before.
The lavish
backdrop.
The yeasty
mix of hyper-
bole, lies and
grievance.
Just four minutes into
his presidential announce-
ment Tuesday night, Don-
ald Trump floated a new —
and bizarre and fantastical
— theory that meddling by
the Chinese government
cost him reelection.
Some things never, and
won’t ever, change.
What’s striking about
Trump’s early and abrupt
entry in the 2024 race is how
familiar it seemed. Not just
in its sulfurous tone and
gold-plated trappings. But
also the position the former
president finds himself in as
he tries, for an umpteenth
time, to defy expectation
and demolish the rules most
politicians live by.
When Trump glided
down the gilded escalator in
Trump Tower in June 2015,
he was generally regarded
as a novelty act, a self-in-
flated hot air balloon who
stood virtually no chance of
winning the Republican
nomination, much less the
presidency.
All this time later — after
four years in the White
House, three losing election
cycles, two impeachments
and one attempted coup —
Trump is politically back
where he started, trying
once more to convince vot-
ers he has a serious shot at
winning the presidency.
Even before the
midterm’s red mirage, there
were signs Trump was
losing his grip on the Re-
publican Party.
More than 6 in 10 parti-
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sans surveyed in a preelec-
tion NBC News poll said
they considered themselves
more supporters of the GOP
than Trump, the highest
percentage since the ques-
tion was first asked in Janu-
ary 2019.
There have been count-
less times when the over-
whelming majority of Re-
publicans were believed
ready to disown Trump.
Choose your adventure: the
sliming of John McCain and
Gold Star families; the
“Access Hollywood” tape;
the Charlottesville, Va.,
white power riot; the failed
2020 reelection bid; the
Jan. 6 insurrection.
Perhaps this time really
is different.
“It’s three elections in a
row where he has led the
party to defeat,” said Rob
Stutzman, a Sacramento-
based GOP strategist who
has long been a Trump
critic. “He has finally be-
come antithetical to his
promise, which was, ‘You’re
going to get tired of win-
ning.’ I think Republicans
may be getting tired of
losing.”
Of course, the number of
GOP faithful who pledge
their allegiance to Trump is
not insignificant. The NBC
poll put that backing at
30%; others suggest it is
somewhat larger. If, as
happened in 2016, Republi-
can support is splintered
among a large field of pri-
mary candidates, that base
could be enough for the
former president to again
win the nomination.
The first time he ran,
Trump was vastly under-
estimated, which proved
crucial to his success.
Republican rivals as-
sumed Trump would inevi-
tably fall by the wayside. So
they were reluctant to at-
tack, or even mildly criticize
PERSPECTIVES
him, lest they antagonize
Trump supporters and lose
their backing once he quit
the race. By the time they
realized their mistake, it
was too late. Trump was
unstoppable.
Will he be treated with
the same deference this
time?
The early signs suggest
not. A passel of GOP pro-
spects are planning to ap-
pear in Las Vegas on Friday
— among them the political
flavor du jour, Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis — for an
audition at the Republican
Jewish Coalition’s annual
meeting.
Some are only too
pleased to deliver their
midterm postmortems,
declare their divorce from
Trump, or both.
“There were ... a lot of
disappointments,” DeSan-
tis told reporters Tuesday
at a Florida event ahead of
Trump’s announcement.
“That’s just the reality. It
was a hugely underwhelm-
ing, disappointing perform-
ance, especially given that
[President] Biden’s policies
are overwhelmingly unpop-
ular.”
Former Vice President
Mike Pence, promoting a
new book, was cuttingly
curt. Asked in an ABC inter-
view about Trump and his
2024 plans, Pence — once
the model of unswerving
subservience — replied
crisply, “I think we will have
better choices in the future.”
It’s one thing, though, to
offer commentary and take
potshots from the confines
of a TV studio or, in DeSan-
tis’ case, to wage a thinly
veiled shadow campaign for
the GOP nomination. It
remains to be seen how
many actually declare their
candidacies and step into
Trump’s line of fire.
Experience has shown
Andrew Harnik Associated Press
the folly of dismissing the
former president or writing
him off, tempting though it
may be.
He is, at this moment,
the front-runner to claim
the GOP nomination.
“Do I expect a cakewalk?
No, not at this point,” politi-
cal analyst Stu Rothenberg
said. “But I do think he
starts with a substantial
advantage. He’s a former
president of the United
States and has a big chunk
of the party behind him.”
Whether Trump’s candi-
dacy is good for the Republi-
can Party, not to mention a
country so acutely
polarized, is a whole other
question.
Much of the tension and
hostility can be ascribed to
four relentless years of
Trump’s bombast and
belligerence; Tuesday’s
announcement served as a
reminder of just how shame-
ful and toxic he is.
In more than an hour of
Sturm und Drang, Trump
offered little that was for-
ward-looking beyond a
clutch of vague promises.
Instead, Trump flattered
himself, dwelled on old
gripes and jabbed at old
nemeses like Biden, Hillary
Clinton, Barack Obama,
Nancy Pelosi and the FBI.
There are plenty of self-
serving reasons why Trump
would run again.
Attention is his oxygen. A
presidential campaign is a
marketing opportunity to
sell even more MAGA para-
phernalia and Trump-
branded doodads. In his
mind, it may keep prose-
cutors at bay, or at least
color any possible criminal
charges Trump faces as
being politically motivated.
Never mind what’s good
for the GOP, or America.
With the former president,
it’s always Trump first.
Social Security in
GOP crosshairs
MICHAEL HILTZIK
You may
have
thought
that the
drubbing
Republi-
cans re-
ceived in the
recent
election
would have prompted party
leaders to think more warily
about promoting policies
that nauseate the voting
public.
You would be wrong. We
know this from an op-ed
published in the Wall Street
Journal under the name of
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-
Utah). The piece appeared
Nov. 10, two days after the
vote, when congressional
leadership was still up in the
air.
The smart money, how-
ever, was already wagering
that Democrats would
retain their Senate majority,
at least, and that although
the GOP might win a House
majority, it would be no-
where near as large as was
expected.
Nevertheless, Romney
again teed up the tradi-
tional, and discreditable,
Republican shibboleth of
attacking Social Security,
Medicare and Medicaid as
“entitlements” that have
been causing inflation. The
truth is that they’re nothing
of the kind, but when has
that mattered to the GOP?
With the Democrats
having retained their Sen-
ate majority, the chances of
wholesale hacking away at
these programs have re-
ceded, for the moment.
But since Republicans
have regained a majority in
the House, the possibility
that they will try to hold the
economy hostage to force
some sort of compromise on
the programs, inimical as it
might be for the general
public, still looms.
More on that in a mo-
ment. But if the outlook of
Romney, who is often por-
trayed as a “moderate” or
“reasonable” or at least
“noncrazy” Republican,
reflects that of the party’s
more centric bloc, it be-
hooves us to address it now.
Curiously, despite the
GOP’s underwhelming
performance on Nov. 8,
Romney takes an even
harder line on the social
insurance programs, and an
even more ignorant expla-
nation for inflation, than his
party colleagues.
Romney’s focus is on
federal spending, which, as
he says, Republicans have
tried to rein in for years.
“Two-thirds of federal
spending isn’t even voted on
by Congress,” he says.
“Rather, it is automatic
‘nondiscretionary’ spending
on entitlements, such as
Medicare, Social Security
and Medicaid, and on serv-
icing the debt. ... Excessive
spending not only adds to
the national debt, it is highly
stimulative and inflation-
ary. The Fed has its foot on
the brakes while the admin-
istration and Congress are
flooring the gas pedal.”
Is that so? Consider the
contradiction in these very
words: Romney says that
the spending he’s complain-
ing about isn’t even voted on
by Congress, yet he blames
the administration and
Congress for “flooring the
gas pedal.”
He explicitly links the
rise in inflation to what he
calls “the entitlement cri-
sis.” Let’s stop right there.
Spending on Social Securi-
ty, Medicare and Medicaid
isn’t a “crisis” to anyone who
doesn’t have more than
$85 million in net worth or
— as Romney did at least at
one point — six houses.
Rather, government
statistics establish that
Medicare is a lifeline for
64.5 million elderly Ameri-
cans and Medicaid provides
coverage for 83.5 million
low-income Americans
(including 7.1 million chil-
dren).
Social Security provides
retirement and disability
benefits to 65 million people.
It is the most effective anti-
poverty program in U.S.
efits tend to lag behind
inflation year after year. It’s
true that Social Security
checks will increase next
year by 8.7% thanks to the
annual cost-of-living adjust-
ment, but that’s scarcely
enough to cover an inflation
rate that exceeded 8%,
annualized, through most of
this year.
Romney employs his
fakery to argue that “some
mix of changes to revenues,
benefits and eligibility is
necessary.”
Let’s unpack this verbal
wolf in sheep’s clothing: He’s
talking about benefit cuts.
Romney’s mention of
changes in revenues is just
hand-waving — he knows
that the GOP congressional
caucus wouldn’t stand for
revenue increases because
that always means tax
increases.
That leaves changes in
benefits and eligibility. Does
anyone really think he’s
advocating increasing
benefits? Of course not; the
GOP has fought every pro-
posal to improve Social
Security benefits for years.
The most recent Repub-
lican proposal on Social
Security, introduced in 2016
by former Rep. Sam John-
son (R-Texas), would have
cut retirement benefits
almost across the board,
reduced annual cost-of-
living adjustments, and
reduced spousal and child
benefits.
Johnson would also have
raised the retirement age,
which is part of Romney’s
formula. Make no mistake:
Raising the Social Security
retirement age (which tops
out at 67 for anyone born in
1960 or later) or the Medi-
care eligibility age (cur-
rently 65) is a benefit cut.
That brings us to what
the GOP hopes will be its
leverage in any debate over
social insurance benefits:
the federal debt ceiling,
which will need to be raised
early next year to avert a
possible shutdown of gov-
ernment functions or even
an unprecedented default
on Treasury securities.
We’ve reported on this
variety of brinkmanship
before. This time, the GOP
has been getting more spe-
cific about what it expects
to achieve by holding the
economy hostage: benefit
cuts.
As we’ve mentioned, the
debt ceiling is the single
most infantile feature of U.S.
policymaking. It’s also one
of the most commonly mis-
understood. Republicans
assert that the ceiling,
which caps the Treasury’s
issuance of federal debt but
can be raised by congres-
sional vote, places a hard
limit on federal spending
and that raising it encour-
ages more waste.
That’s totally untrue.
The debt ceiling was not
originally meant as a limit
on the Treasury’s authority
to issue debt, but rather as a
way to give it more latitude
to borrow. It was enacted in
1917, when Congress grew
weary of having to vote on
every proposed bond issu-
ance, which it considered a
pain in the neck. So it chose
instead to give the Treasury
blanket authority to float
bonds, subject to a stopgap
limitation.
There isn’t a serious
economic policymaker in
Washington who holds that
a showdown over the debt
ceiling is an effective way of
reining in spending or re-
ducing the federal deficit, or
that it poses anything but a
threat to U.S. financial
stability.
Treasury Secretary
Janet L. Yellen has advo-
cated that it simply be abol-
ished. Failing to do so, she
told lawmakers in 2021,
would be “catastrophic” for
the economy.
The prospect that a
Republican caucus with its
back to the wall might try to
exploit the only weapon at
its disposal to force changes
in social insurance pro-
grams that would harm
millions of Americans
points to the need to take
the matter in hand in the
near term — specifically
during the lame duck con-
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chance for at least two years
to repeal the debt ceiling,
once and for all. Congress
should take this weapon out
of the Republican arsenal
before it’s too late.
L AT I ME S . COM
Missile kills 2 in east Poland near Ukraine
Biden says it’s unlikely
that the weapon was
fired from Russia at
the NATO member,
which is investigating.
By John Leicester
and James LaPorta
KYIV, Ukraine — Presi-
dent Biden said Wednesday
that it was “unlikely” that a
missile that killed two peo-
ple in NATO-ally Poland was
fired from Russia, but
pledged support for Po-
land’s investigation into
what it had called a “Rus-
sian-made” missile.
Biden spoke after he con-
vened an “emergency” meet-
ing of the Group of 7 and
NATO leaders in Indonesia
for consultations on the at-
tack in the eastern part of
Poland near the Ukraine
border.
“There is preliminary in-
formation that contests
that,” Biden told reporters
when asked if the missile
had been fired from Russia.
“It is unlikely in the lines of
the trajectory that it was
fired from Russia, but we’ll
see.”
A statement from the
Polish Foreign Ministry
identified the missile as be-
ing made in Russia. But
President Andrzej Duda was
more cautious about its ori-
gin, saying that officials did
not know for sure who fired it
or where it was made. He
said it was “most probably”
Russian-made but that is
still being verified.
“We are acting with
calm,” Duda said. “This is a
difficult situation.”
The U.N. Security Coun-
cil planned to meet Wednes-
day for a previously sched-
uled briefing on the situa-
tion in Ukraine. The strike in
Poland was certain to be
raised.
In their statements, Po-
land and the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization used
language that suggested
they were not treating the
A FIRE burns at a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, after a Russian missile
strike, one of at least 85 mostly aimed at energy infrastructure across the country.
missile blast as a Russian at-
tack, at least for now.
Poland’s statement did
not address the circum-
stances of the strike, includ-
ing whether it could have
been a targeting error or if
the missile may have been
knocked off course by
Ukrainian missile defenses.
A NATO statement called it
a “tragic incident.”
If Russia had deliberately
targeted Poland, it would
risk drawing the 30-nation
alliance into the conflict at a
time when Moscow is al-
ready struggling to fend off
Ukrainian forces.
Polish media reported
that the strike took place in
an area where grain was dry-
ing in Przewodow, a village
near the border with
Ukraine.
The Russian Defense
Ministry denied being be-
hind “any strikes on targets
near the Ukrainian-Polish
border” and said in a state-
ment that photos of pur-
ported damage “have noth-
ing to do” with Russian
weapons.
THE WORLD
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Polish Foreign Minister
Zbigniew Rau summoned
the Russian ambassador
and “demanded immediate
detailed explanations,” the
government said.
The strike came to light
Tuesday as Russia pounded
Ukraine’s energy facilities
with its biggest barrage of
missiles yet, striking targets
across the country and caus-
ing widespread blackouts.
Neighboring Moldova
was also affected. It re-
ported massive power out-
ages after the strikes
knocked out a key power
line, an official said.
The missile strikes
plunged much of Ukraine
into darkness and drew defi-
ance from Ukrainian Presi-
dent Volodymyr Zelensky,
who shook his fist and de-
clared: “We will survive
everything.”
In his nightly address,
the Ukrainian leader said
the strike in Poland offered
proof that “terror is not lim-
ited by our state borders.”
“We need to put the ter-
rorist in its place. The longer
WEDNESDAY , NOVEMB ER 16, 2022
ready battered by previous
attacks that destroyed an
estimated 40% of the coun-
try’s energy infrastructure.
Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin has not com-
mented on the retreat from
Kherson since his troops
pulled out in the face of a
Ukrainian offensive. But the
stunning scale of Tuesday’s
strikes spoke volumes and
hinted at anger in the Krem-
lin.
The late afternoon
strikes, just before dusk,
forced rescue workers to la-
bor in the dark and gave re-
pair crews scant time to as-
sess the damage by daylight.
More than a dozen re-
gions — among them Lviv in
the west, Kharkiv in the
northeast and others in be-
tween — reported strikes or
efforts by their air defenses
to shoot missiles down. At
least a dozen regions re-
ported power outages, af-
fecting cities that together
have millions of people. Al-
most half of the Kyiv region
lost power, authorities said.
Russia feels impunity, the “Most of the hits were re-
more threats there will be for corded in the center and in
everyone within the reach of the north of the country. In
Russian missiles,” Zelensky the capital, the situation is
said. very difficult,” said a senior
Russia fired at least 85 official, Kyrylo Tymosh-
missiles, most of them enko.
aimed at Ukraine’s power fa- He said that 15 energy
cilities, and blacked out targets were damaged and
many cities, he said. that 70 missiles were shot
Ukrainian Energy Min- down. A Ukrainian air force
ister German Galushchenko spokesman said Russia
said the attack was “the used X-101 and X-555 cruise
most massive” bombard- missiles.
ment of power facilities in As city after city reported
the nearly 9-month-old Rus- attacks, Tymoshenko urged
sian invasion, striking power Ukrainians to “hang in
generation and transmis- there.”
sion systems. With its battlefield losses
Galushchenko accused mounting, Russia has in-
Russia of “trying to cause creasingly resorted to tar-
maximum damage to our geting Ukraine’s power grid,
energy system on the eve of seemingly hoping to turn the
winter.” approach of winter into a
The aerial assault, which weapon by leaving people in
resulted in at least one death the cold and dark.
in a residential building in Dutch Foreign Minister
the capital, Kyiv, followed Wopke Hoekstra took to a
days of euphoria in Ukraine bomb shelter in Kyiv after
after one of its biggest mili- meeting his Ukrainian coun-
tary successes — the retak- terpart and, from his place of
ing last week of the southern safety, described the bom-
city of Kherson. bardment as “an enormous
The power grid was al- motivation to keep standing
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Ukraine.
The strikes came as au-
thorities were already work-
ing furiously to get Kherson
back on its feet and begin-
ning to investigate alleged
Russian abuses there and in
the surrounding area.
The southern city is with-
out power and water, and
the head of the United Na-
tions human rights office’s
monitoring mission in
Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, on
Tuesday decried a “dire hu-
manitarian situation” there.
Speaking from Kyiv, Bog-
ner said her teams were
looking to travel to Kherson
to try to verify allegations of
nearly 80 cases of forced dis-
appearances and arbitrary
detention.
The head of the national
police, Ihor Klymenko, said
authorities would investi-
gate reports from residents
that Russian forces set up at
least three torture sites in
now-liberated parts of the
Kherson region.
The retaking of Kherson
dealt another stinging blow
to the Kremlin. Zelensky lik-
ened the recapture to the Al-
lied landings in France on D-
day in World War II, saying
both were watershed events
on the road to eventual vic-
tory.
But large parts of eastern
and southern Ukraine re-
main under Russian control,
and fighting continues.
In other developments,
leaders of most of the world’s
economic powers were
drawing closer to approval of
a declaration strongly de-
nouncing Russia’s invasion.
On Tuesday, Biden and
Zelensky pressed fellow
Group of 20 leaders at the
summit in Indonesia for a ro-
bust condemnation of Rus-
sia’s nuclear threats and
food embargoes. More dis-
cussion and a possible vote
will come Wednesday.
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World population hits 8 billion, U.N. says
The milestone is more
symbolic than precise,
but spotlights issues
facing fastest-growing
nations like Nigeria.
By Dan Ikpoyi
and Chinedu Asadu
LAGOS, Nigeria — The
world’s population is proj-
ected to hit an estimated
8 billion people Tuesday, ac-
cording to a United Nations
projection, with much of the
growth coming from devel-
oping nations in Africa.
Among them is Nigeria,
where resources are already
stretched to the limit. More
than 15 million people in La-
gos compete for electricity to
light their homes and spots
on crowded buses, often for
two-hour commutes each
way in this sprawling mega-
city. Some Nigerian children
set off for school as early as
5 a.m.
And over the next three
decades, the West African
nation’s population is ex-
pected to soar even more:
from 216 million this year to
375 million, the U.N. says.
That will make Nigeria the
fourth-most populous coun-
try in the world after India,
China and the United
States.
“We are already over-
stretching what we have —
the housing, roads, the hos-
pitals, schools. Everything is
overstretched,” said Gyang
Dalyop, an urban planning
and development consult-
ant in Nigeria.
The U.N.’s Day of 8 Billion
milestone Tuesday is more
symbolic than precise, offi-
cials are careful to note in a
wide-ranging report re-
leased over the summer that
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far-right and religious gov-
erning coalition in the 120-
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as the world’s most populous nation by next year, according to U.N. projections.
makes some staggering pro-
jections.
The upward trend
threatens to leave even more
people in developing coun-
tries further behind, as gov-
ernments struggle to pro-
vide enough classrooms and
jobs for a rapidly growing
number of young people,
and as food insecurity be-
comes an even more urgent
problem.
Nigeria is among eight
countries that the U.N says
will account for more than
half the world’s population
growth between now and
2050 — along with fellow Af-
rican nations Congo, Ethi-
opia and Tanzania.
“The population in many
countries in sub-Saharan
Africa is projected to double
between 2022 and 2050,
putting additional pressure
on already strained re-
Jewish left-leaning parties
— long the champions of ne-
gotiations with the Palestin-
ians — suffered major losses
in the Nov. 1 election.
The surging popularity of
a right-wing alliance once on
the fringes of Israeli society
helped propel Netanyahu’s
political comeback even as
he stands trial on corruption
charges.
Lawmakers burst into
applause as Netanyahu took
the stage for a photo with
not exclude him from the
proceedings.
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the Nov. 2 California section,
a column and accompanying
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longed to the Jesuit order for
50 years and has been a
priest for 38 years.
sources and challenging
policies aimed to reduce
poverty and inequalities,”
the U.N. report said.
It projected that the
world’s population will reach
about 8.5 billion in 2030,
9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.4 bil-
lion in 2100.
Other countries with the
fastest growing populations
are Egypt, Pakistan, the
Philippines and India, which
is set to overtake China as
the world’s most populous
nation next year.
In Congo’s capital, Kin-
shasa, home to more than
12 million, many families
struggle to find affordable
housing and pay school fees.
While elementary pupils at-
tend for free, older children’s
chances depend on their
parents’ incomes.
“My children took turns”
going to school, said Luc
other party leaders after the
ceremony.
The 25th Knesset was
sworn into office with trum-
pets and choral music just
hours after a Palestinian as-
sailant went on a deadly
rampage in an Israeli-con-
trolled industrial zone in the
occupied West Bank, killing
three Israelis and wounding
three more before being shot
dead.
Netanyahu’s likely right-
wing coalition partners have
vowed to act more aggres-
sively against Palestinian
attackers and protect Isra-
elis. Itamar Ben-Gvir, an
ultranationalist lawmaker
who appears set to receive a
position in the next govern-
ment, called Tuesday’s at-
tack “a wake-up call” that
proves “only an iron fist will
stamp out terrorism.”
President Isaac Herzog
appealed for national unity
in his speech after the coun-
try’s five divisive elections,
saying Israelis are “ex-
hausted from the infighting
and its fallout.”
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Kyungu, a Kinshasa truck
driver and father of six. “Two
studied while others waited
because of money. If I didn’t
have so many children, they
would have finished their
studies on time.”
Rapid population growth
also means more people vy-
ing for scarce water re-
sources and leaves more
families facing hunger as cli-
mate change increasingly af-
fects crop production.
“There is also a greater
pressure on the environ-
ment, increasing the chal-
lenges to food security that
is also compounded by cli-
mate change,” said Dr. Sri-
nath Reddy, president of the
Public Health Foundation of
India. “Reducing inequality
while focusing on adapting
and mitigating climate
change should be where our
policymakers’ focus should
“Now, the responsibility
lies first and foremost with
you, the public’s elected rep-
resentatives,” he said. “Re-
sponsibility to try to wean us
off this addiction to never-
ending conflicts.”
Herzog also called on
the elected representatives
to safeguard the rights
of Israel’s minorities who
fear the next government co-
alition — expected to be
overwhelmingly male, reli-
gious and right-wing — will
roll back the achievements
of its predecessor on issues
such as the environment,
LGBTQ rights and funding
for the Arab population.
“There are also commu-
nities, and especially minor-
ities, who are fearful that
their needs will not be on
the agenda,” he said. “You,
the public’s elected repre-
sentatives, must give this
your consideration and keep
them in your sights too.”
In his speech after
the swearing-in, caretaker
Prime Minister Yair Lapid
was blunt.
LAT IMES. C OM
be.” an,” the report found.
Still, experts say the big- There are also important
ger threat to the environ-
ment is consumption, which
cultural reasons for large
families. In sub-Saharan Af-
is highest in developed coun- rica, children are seen as a
tries not undergoing big
population increases.
blessing and as a source of
support for their elders —
“Global evidence shows the more sons and daugh-
that a small portion of the ters, the greater comfort in
world’s people use most of retirement.
the Earth’s resources and Still, some large families
produce most of its green- “may not have what it takes
house gas emissions,” said to actually feed them,” says
Poonam Muttreja, executive Eunice Azimi, an insurance
director of the Population broker in Lagos and mother
Foundation of India. “Over of three.
the past 25 years, the richest “In Nigeria, we believe
10% of the global population that it is God that gives chil-
has been responsible for dren,” she said. “They see it
more than half of all carbon as the more children you
emissions.” have, the more benefits. And
According to the U.N., the you are actually overtaking
population in sub-Saharan your peers who cannot have
Africa is growing at 2.5% per as many children. It looks
year — more than three like a competition in vil-
times the global average. lages.”
Some of that can be attrib- Politics also has played a
uted to people living longer, role in Tanzania, where for-
but family size remains the mer President John Magu-
driving factor. Women in fuli, who ruled the East Afri-
sub-Saharan Africa on aver- can country from 2015 until
age have 4.6 births, twice the his death in 2021, discour-
current global average of 2.3. aged birth control, saying
Families become larger that a large population was
when women start having good for the economy.
children early, and 4 out of 10 But his successor, Samia
girls in Africa marry before Suluhu Hassan, appeared to
they turn 18, according to reverse government policy
U.N. figures. The rate of teen in comments last month
pregnancy on the continent when she said birth control
is the highest in the world — was necessary to avoid over-
about half of the children whelming the country’s pub-
born last year to mothers lic infrastructure.
under 20 worldwide were in Even as populations soar
sub-Saharan Africa. in some countries, the U.N.
Still, any effort to reduce says rates are expected to
family size now would come drop by 1% or more in 61 na-
too late to significantly slow tions.
the 2050 growth projections, The U.S. population is
the U.N. said. About two- about 333 million, according
thirds of it “will be driven by to U.S. Census Bureau data.
the momentum of past The population growth rate
growth.” in 2021 was just 0.1%, the low-
“Such growth would oc- est since the country was
cur even if childbearing in to- founded.
day’s high-fertility countries
were to fall immediately to Ikpoyi and Asadu write for
around two births per wom- the Associated Press.
“We need this house to be “It is allowed, and some-
a place that Israelis look up times even required, to re-
to,” he said, “not a place they open for debate the division
are ashamed of and of powers,” he said. “But we
ashamed of its representa- must do so through listen-
tives.” ing, through open dialogue,
The new parliament re- through respectful dis-
places one of the most col- course — and fairly.”
orful and diverse in Israel’s The number of Arab law-
history, which had an all- makers has plummeted to
time high of 36 women and a its lowest level in two dec-
small Arab Islamist party in ades, the Israel Democracy
the government coalition for Institute reported, with just
the first time in history. 10 Arab parliament mem-
This Knesset has just 29 bers out of 120.
women. Its 23 new lawmak- Balad, a Palestinian na-
ers mostly come from Ne- tionalist party, failed to
tanyahu’s Likud Party and make it into parliament,
the alliance of far-right partly a result of low voter
parties known as Religious turnout among Israel’s Arab
Zionism. minority.
Religious Zionism has Meretz, a left-wing party
proposed a plan to limit the that supports Palestinian
powers of Israel’s judiciary, statehood, also dropped out
which the party accuses of of parliament entirely.
unfairly favoring the politi- In his speech, Herzog
cal left. said the party “will be
In an apparent reference missed.”
to the suggested over- The Labor Party, which
haul, Herzog reminded the ruled Israel for its first two
parliament of the impor- decades, barely scraped into
tance of Israel’s checks and parliament with just four
balances. seats.
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THE NATION

McCarthy nominated for House speaker

Republican from
Bakersfield has his
work cut out before
he can win coveted
post in January vote.
By Nolan D. McCaskill

WASHINGTON —
House Republicans voted
Tuesday to nominate Minor-
ity Leader Kevin McCarthy
as the next speaker, putting
the Bakersfield lawmaker on
track to achieve a long-
sought ambition.
But while the GOP is on
the verge of securing a nar-
row House majority, its sur-
prisingly poor performance
in last week’s midterm elec-
tion forced McCarthy to
scramble much harder than
anticipated to keep his cau-
cus united and behind him.
Even if he wins the top job
when the new House con-
venes in January and elects
a speaker, McCarthy faces a
difficult road in corralling
the party’s factions.
In a secret ballot Tues-
day afternoon, a majority of
the participating current
House members and those Kent Nishimura Los Angeles Times
just elected supported Mc- HOUSE REPUBLICAN leader Kevin McCarthy, shown Monday, has courted his party’s right wing, which is eager to display its power.
Carthy.
He beat back an 11th- has worked to win over his Most notably, the caucus Caucus. Garcia said. But to accom- would empower Republi-
hour challenge from House party’s most conservative wants to reinstate a parlia- Rep. Don Bacon (R- plish anything, he added, cans to launch investiga-
Freedom Caucus member factions, including support- mentary process that would Neb.) told NBC News that he “we’ve got to be unified as a tions into the Biden admin-
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), ers of former President make it easier to remove a would be willing to work with team.” istration and pass messag-
who received 31 votes to Mc- Trump. speaker, the tool that ulti- Democrats to elect a moder- The flurry of activity is in- ing bills to excite the base of
Carthy’s 188. But it demon- But with the GOP set to mately led to Boehner’s res- ate Republican to the speak- dicative of how difficult it Republican voters.
strated that McCarthy has take control of the House, ignation in 2015. ership if his party can’t co- may be for McCarthy to gov- The GOP House leader-
yet to convince all his party’s the Freedom Caucus is flex- It remains unclear alesce behind a candidate. ern, with Trump-aligned ship vote came on the same
members. ing its muscles again. The whether McCarthy will sup- Some Republicans have conservatives on one side day Trump announced his
And given what is ex- historically tight-knit group port any of those demands. even lobbied Rep. Henry and moderates on the other. third campaign for presi-
pected to be a narrow House has shown itself to be highly He and his allies, howev- Cuellar of Texas, a conserva- Current Speaker Nancy Pel- dent.
majority, he will need nearly influential when Republi- er, are working hard behind tive Democrat who opposes osi (D-San Francisco) Senate Republicans are
every single GOP vote to se- cans are in power. the scenes to shore up sup- abortion rights, to switch knows the challenges well, as expected to hold their inter-
cure the 218 votes needed to Before throwing its sup- port. parties, according to the she has had to navigate be- nal leadership elections
become speaker, and later, port behind McCarthy, the Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Wall Street Journal. tween Democrats’ moder- Wednesday, though some
to pass legislation. caucus is demanding Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a Rep. Mike Garcia (R- ates and progressives with a Republicans have said it
McCarthy is eager to changes for the next Con- member of the Freedom Santa Clarita), who’s lead- narrow majority. should be postponed until
avoid a repeat of his failed gress. Caucus, said Monday on ing his Democratic challeng- With President Biden in after the Dec. 6 runoff be-
bid for the speakership in Among other things, it Stephen K. Bannon’s “War er in a race that hasn’t been the White House and Demo- tween Democratic Sen. Ra-
2015, when opposition from wants committee members Room” podcast that under- called yet, predicted Repub- crats retaining control of the phael Warnock and former
the GOP’s right-flank to directly elect their chairs mining McCarthy or seeking licans will be on the same Senate, Washington could football star Herschel
House Freedom Caucus and a requirement that a an alternative speaker was page come Jan. 3, when the see a return to gridlock, out- Walker, a Republican. That
doomed his chances after majority of House Republi- “bad strategy.” new House convenes. side of must-pass legislation race, however, will only de-
the ouster of Speaker John cans support any bill before Meanwhile, some cen- “We’re going to be able to for government funding and termine whether Democrats
A. Boehner (R-Ohio). it can be brought to the floor trist McCarthy supporters get things done regardless of raising the debt ceiling. have a 50-seat majority or a
Since then, McCarthy for a vote. are challenging the Freedom how thick our majority is,” Even a small majority 51-seat majority.

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Federal judge blocks Title 42 border policy
Health law invoked
under Trump has been
used to expel migrants
who cross into U.S.
By Hamed Aleaziz
and Cindy Carcamo
A federal judge in Wash-
ington on Tuesday vacated a
controversial border policy
known as Title 42, a public
health law invoked by the
Trump administration dur-
ing the pandemic that had
allowed border agents to
quickly turn back migrants.
The order blocks govern-
ment officials’ use of a
policy that has been criti-
cized by immigrant rights
advocates. It came just days
after the Biden administra-
tion ousted Chris Magnus,
the head of U.S. Customs
and Border Protection, who
had clashed with Homeland
Security Secretary Alejan-
dro N. Mayorkas.
Within hours of the rul-
ing, the Biden administra-
tion sought a five-week stay
of the order, arguing that it
needed time to transition
border processing. The gov-
ernment said in its filing that
the ACLU, which brought
the legal challenge against
Title 42, did not oppose the
motion.
Since the pandemic be-
gan, border agents have
used Title 42, a section of the
public health code, to rap-
idly expel would-be immi-
grants at the border. Previ-
ously, thousands of immi-
grants were able to claim
fear of being returned to
their home countries in or-
der to gain access to asylum
protections in the U.S.
U.S. Judge Emmet Sulli-
van wrote in his order that it
was unreasonable for the
government “to assume that
it can ignore the conse-
quences of any actions it
chooses to take in the pur-
suit of fulfilling its goals, par-
ticularly when those actions
included the extraordinary
decision to suspend the
codified procedural and
substantive rights of noncit-
izens seeking safe harbor.”
“As a practical matter,
this ruling does not remotely
mean that everyone who ar-
rives at the border will be
granted asylum, but it does
mean everyone must get a
hearing and that’s critical,”
said Lee Gelernt, an attor-
ney with the American Civil
Liberties Union who argued
the case against Title 42.
Voters OK overhaul of Oregon city government
With its passage,
measure will upend
how Portland is run
and its ballot system.
By Claire Rush
PORTLAND, Ore. — Vot-
ers in Portland, Ore., driven
by frustration with surging
homelessness and a desire
to make government more
inclusive, have approved a
ballot measure that will
completely reinvent City
Hall, ushering in seismic
changes that local officials
will have only two years to
put in place.
The hotly debated mea-
sure will upend almost
everything about how Port-
land is run. It will more than
double the number of City
Council members, overhaul
how voting is conducted and
dissolve a power structure
that many saw as being be-
set by mismanagement and
bureaucracy.
Previous attempts to
change the system failed,
but after the sustained
Black Lives Matter protests
in 2020 and amid a spiraling
homelessness crisis, this
time “the broader condi-
tions were really ripe for it to
pass,” said pollster John
Horvick, senior vice presi-
dent of DHM Research.
“The combination of dis-
satisfaction with the city,
plus an effectively delivered
message around inclusion in
elections — that really reso-
nated with a segment of vot-
ers,” Horvick said.
After the passage of the
measure, which will update
the city’s charter for the first
time in over 100 years, local
officials are scrambling to
assess how to revamp City
Hall by the two-year dead-
line, November 2024. They
will also have to figure out
how to juggle its multimil-
lion-dollar price tag with the
city’s other financial pri-
orities, including the con-
struction of a network of
THE FEDERAL ruling comes as the U.S. has seen an increase in migrant crossings at the border. Above, migrants in Eagle Pass, Texas.
The White House did not
immediately respond to re-
quests for comment. The
Department of Homeland
Security said in a statement
that “the United States will
continue to fully enforce our
immigration laws at our bor-
der,” and acknowledged the
Justice Department’s mo-
tion for a stay.
“The delay in implemen-
tation of the court’s order
will allow the government to
prepare for an orderly tran-
sition to new policies at the
border,” the statement con-
tinued in part. “But to be
clear, under the unopposed
motion, Title 42 would re-
main in place for some pe-
riod. During the period of
this freeze, we will prepare
for an orderly transition to
new policies at the border.
We know that smugglers
will lie to try to take advan-
tage of vulnerable migrants,
putting lives at risk.”
“We continue to work
with countries throughout
the Western Hemisphere to
take enforcement actions
against the smuggling net-
works that entice migrants
to take the dangerous and
often deadly journey to our
OFFICIALS in Portland, Ore., will have to juggle the multimillion-dollar price tag of the government overhaul
with the city’s other financial priorities, including the construction of a network of campsites for the homeless.
campsites for homeless
people.
Portland Commissioner
Mingus Mapps, who cam-
paigned against the mea-
sure, said implementing the
reforms will be like “trying to
launch to the moon” from an
idea scribbled on a napkin.
“I hope people realize
that this is not a minor re-
form or even a major re-
form,” he said. “This is a fun-
damental reimagining and
rebuilding of local govern-
ment here in Portland.”
The measure will scrap
Portland’s unusual commis-
sion form of government,
under which City Council
members act as administra-
tors of the city’s bureaus,
and replace it with the more
common mayor-council sys-
tem. It will expand the City
land borders and to address
the root causes of irregular
migration that are challeng-
ing our hemisphere as a
whole.”
The ruling lands at a time
when the administration is
facing sustained political
pressure over the rising
number of migrants arriving
at the border. In the last fis-
cal year, which ended in Sep-
tember, Customs and Bor-
der Protection recorded
more than 2 million encoun-
ters with migrants at the
border. Some of those ap-
prehensions involved mi-
grants attempting to cross
multiple times.
In recent months, an in-
creasing number of border
crossers have been asylum
seekers from Venezuela,
Cuba and Nicaragua. To
contend with this, the Biden
administration expanded
Title 42 by using the policy to
turn back Venezuelans to
Mexico in October.
Immigrant advocates
and legal experts argued
that the use of Title 42 was
forcing immigrants to try to
enter the United States
through dangerous and re-
mote areas, rather than offi-
Council from five to 12 mem-
bers, who will be elected by
voters in the districts they
represent rather by voters
citywide. The four new dis-
tricts will be “multimem-
ber,” meaning they will each
be represented by three
councilors. The mayor will
no longer serve on the City
Council, and a city adminis-
trator will be hired to over-
see the bureaus.
Logistical complexities
abound. For one, the current
City Hall building, which
was completed in 1895,
doesn’t have a big enough
chamber, or enough office
space, to accommodate the
expanded council.
“We would certainly have
to hold City Council meet-
ings in a different building,”
Mapps said. “Literally, our
cial border crossings, as
well as pushing them into
squalid, precarious living
conditions while waiting in
Mexico. The group Human
Rights First has tracked re-
ports of immigrants who
have faced kidnapping and
torture in Mexico after being
“blocked in or expelled due
to Title 42.”
In September 2021, the
administration used Title 42
to deport thousands of Hai-
tians from Texas despite
criticism from advocates
and politicians.
The administration tried
to wind down use of the pol-
icy in the spring. In the April
order that sought to end Ti-
tle 42, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention Di-
rector Rochelle Walensky
said the continued use of the
policy was unnecessary.
“Although COVID-19 con-
tinues to spread within the
United States, as a result of
the numerous tools for dis-
ease prevention, mitigation,
and treatment which have
become available over the
past two years, and the other
considerations explained
above, an order suspending
the right to introduce cov-
Craig Mitchelldyer Associated Press
City Hall building becomes
obsolete.”
The measure will also im-
plement a form of ranked
choice voting known as sin-
gle transferable vote. Under
the system, ballots are
counted in rounds with City
Council candidates needing
only 25% of the vote to win. If
a candidate exceeds that
threshold, their surplus
votes are transferred to the
next candidate ranked on
each voter’s ballot. If no can-
didate receives 25% in the
first round, the one with the
fewest votes is eliminated
and their votes are trans-
ferred to the next preferred
candidate on each voter’s
ballot.
Changing Portland’s
charter had been on the bal-
lot before — under city law, a
Dario Lopez-Mills Associated Press
ered noncitizens under 42
U.S.C. § 265 is no longer re-
quired in the interest of pub-
lic health,” she wrote in the
order.
Homeland Security offi-
cials at the time said they
had been preparing for the
end of Title 42 for months
and would respond to “irreg-
ular migration by strictly
but fairly enforcing our im-
migration laws to process in-
dividuals in a safe, orderly,
and humane manner, con-
sistent with our laws.”
A federal judge in Louisi-
ana, however, in May or-
dered the administration to
maintain Title 42. It’s un-
clear whether states such
as Arizona and Louisiana,
which brought the suit to
force the administration to
continue Title 42, will re-
spond to the ACLU order
with stepped-up legal resist-
ance.
Earlier this fall, in a pro-
test gesture against Biden
administration immigration
policies, states such as
Texas sent buses full of mi-
grants to cities including
Washington and New York.
On Tuesday, Texas Gov.
Greg Abbott tweeted that
20-person commission must
convene every 10 years to re-
view it — and it had always
failed to pass. But the most
recent charter review proc-
ess kicked off during the
summer of 2020, as protests
over the police killing of
George Floyd erupted
nightly on Portland’s streets
and a nationwide reckoning
with racism prompted con-
versations about making
government more account-
able and equitable.
The group that cam-
paigned for the measure,
Portland United for Change,
said the new system could
boost voter turnout and
make government more rep-
resentative. It highlighted
the months of listening ses-
sions held with historically
marginalized communities
LAT IMES. C OM
the ruling was “disastrous”
and Rep. Andy Biggs, an Ari-
zona Republican, tweeted
that the ruling was “a grave
mistake.”
Former Biden officials
said the ruling was an oppor-
tunity for the administra-
tion to unwind the program
as it had planned.
“It will allow the adminis-
tration to move forward on
its announcement to end Ti-
tle 42 once and for all,” said
Tyler Moran, a former Biden
White House immigration
official who left her role last
year.
Tom Jawetz, a former
lead Homeland Security at-
torney in the Biden adminis-
tration, said Title 42 could
not be justified legally as an
immigration enforcement
measure and was not a tool
for an orderly and humane
border management sys-
tem.
“For two years it has pro-
vided a way for DHS to
quickly turn people back to
Mexico or to expel them to
certain other countries, but
as the CDC recognized in
April, there’s no public
health rationale supporting
its use today,” he said.
and its endorsements from
community groups includ-
ing local chapters of the
NAACP and the American
Civil Liberties Union.
Opponents pointed out
that no other U.S. city uses
this specific voting system
for multimember districts in
City Council elections. They
also denounced the price
tag: City Hall estimates that
the transition could cost up
to $17.7 million over the next
three years, and that on-
going costs could reach
$8.7 million per year.
Critics say this money is
sorely needed to address the
city’s most pressing prob-
lems, including homeless-
ness and crime. Only two
days after election day, May-
or Ted Wheeler requested
$27 million from the City
Council to help fund the con-
struction of city-designated
campsites for homeless peo-
ple, after the council’s recent
vote to ban street camping
and create sanctioned
camping areas.
Portland United for
Change recognized that
public outreach and educa-
tion explaining how the new
system works will be vital in
the months to come. But the
group also pointed to the
wide margin of support seen
in returns so far as a sign
that many voters are open to
the changes.
“I think it just truly shows
that it was powered by the
people and for the people,”
said Sol Mora, the group’s
campaign manager. “It just
feels so exciting to know that
at a time when democracy is
under attack across the na-
tion, Portland is serving as a
model of the type of repre-
sentation that all communi-
ties can have.”
Portland will hold its first
election using geographic
districts and ranked-choice
voting in November 2024,
with the new City Council
taking office in January
2025.
Rush writes for the
Associated Press.
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At a weak point, Trump talks big and aims high

[Trump, from A1]
tion.
He framed his adminis-
tration in idyllic terms, ig-
noring criticism of how he
handled the COVID-19 pan-
demic and the dysfunction
that led to his electoral de-
feat. He painted a bleak pic-
ture of the Biden adminis-
tration, vowing to reverse
nearly everything his suc-
cessor has done.
“We were a strong nation,
and importantly we were a
free nation,” Trump said.
“But now we are a nation in
decline. We are a failing na-
tion. For millions of Ameri-
cans, the past two years
under Joe Biden have been a
time of pain, hardship, anxi-
ety and despair.”
Many of the lines were
lifted verbatim from patter
he developed over the last
six years at rallies and in
speeches. He promised the
death penalty for drug deal-
ers, vowed to dispatch fed-
eral law enforcement to
bring order to cities, de-
nounced critical race theory,
promoted trade tariffs and
portrayed illegal immigra-
tion as one of the country’s
most pressing problems.
“We have no idea who
they are and where they
come from,” he said of immi-
grants. “We have no idea
what’s happening to our
country. We’re being poi-
soned.”
Trump has been here be-
fore, perceived by oppo-
nents as vulnerable and by
allies as distracting or
worse, only to reemerge with
the help of his loyal base.
The question this time is
whether Republican lead-
ers, furious after three dis-
appointing elections in
which the GOP underper-
formed, will have the stom-
ach and the wherewithal to
thwart Trump.
“He’s obviously weaker
today than he was a week
ago,” said Whit Ayres, a Re-
publican pollster. “The real
question is how much
weaker, and we don’t know
that.”
Trump’s staying power
has become an enduring
problem for his party as he
wields outsize sway in Re-
publican primaries while
proving a drag in general
elections.
Most losing presidential
candidates leave center
FORMER PRESIDENT Trump arrives with wife Melania at Mar-a-Lago to announce his run for president.
stage, at least for a time. For-
mer President Carter, an-
other one-term president,
retreated from partisan pol-
itics. After being defeated in
the closely contested 2000
election, Democrat Al Gore
threw his energy into envi-
ronmental activism. Mitt
Romney, who lost the 2012
presidential contest, re-
made himself as a senator.
Only one president, Grover
Cleveland, served two non-
consecutive terms, more
than a century ago.
Trump, after inspiring an
angry mob to storm the
Capitol following his 2020
loss to Democrat Joe Biden,
continued to press the lie
that he won the election. He
made fealty to that lie a lit-
mus test for candidates in
Republican primaries. Yet,
many of the high-profile can-
didates he endorsed in key
swing states were rejected
by voters last week. It was a
stunning string of setbacks
for a party that was hoping
to take advantage of a favor-
able electoral environment.
“With inflation [at] a 40-
year high, crime out of con-
trol in the major cities, the
border still porous and Bid-
en approval at historic lows,
Republicans should have
run away with these elec-
tions,” Ayres said.
In his speech, Trump
conceded that the party
should have done better. But
he refused to take blame, in-
sisting his successes, includ-
ing the expectation that Re-
publicans will take control of
the House, were being un-
derappreciated.
“They say, ‘Let’s win by 40
seats,’ ” Trump said. “If you
win by two seats, be happy.”
By refusing to accept his
2020 defeat and then pres-
suring his vice president to
overturn the result, Trump
also delayed the traditional
process in which losing
parties take stock of their
policy positions and tactics
in hopes of regaining voters’
trust. The Republican Party,
which failed to win control of
the Senate and is likely to
win the House by only a nar-
row margin, is instead en-
gulfed in internal turmoil
over who is to blame and
who should lead the party in
each chamber.
Republicans see a golden
opportunity to unseat Presi-
dent Biden, who turns 80 on
Sunday and has been
dogged by low approval rat-
ings most of this year. Biden
has said he is all but certain
to run for reelection, stating
last week that he would
probably make a final deci-
sion in January after meet-
ing with family.
Trump’s advisors urged
him publicly to wait to an-
nounce his candidacy until a
Senate runoff next month in
Georgia between Sen. Ra-
phael Warnock, a Democrat,
and Republican Herschel
Walker, a Trump acolyte.
Exit polls from last week
showed why: 58% of voters
said Trump was a factor in
their votes, an unheard-of
influence for a former presi-
dent. Among Georgia voters
who said Trump was a factor
in their vote, Warnock won
57% to 41%. Walker won 55%
to 42% among people who
said Trump was not a factor.
Many voters appeared to
agree with Biden and other
Democrats that Trump’s
ideology represented a
threat to democracy. In the
national exit poll, 86% of vot-
ers said the future of democ-
racy was an important fac-
tor in their decision, with a
majority of those voters
choosing Democratic candi-
dates. Ardent backers of
Trump’s election lie, includ-
ing Arizona gubernatorial
candidate Kari Lake, lost.
The Club for Growth, an
influential conservative or-
ganization that has at times
backed Trump, on Monday
weighed in against the for-
mer president’s reboot, re-
leasing a poll showing Flor-
ida Gov. Ron DeSantis de-
feating Trump in several
Eva Marie Uzcategui Bloomberg
early primary states.
“Republican primary
voters recognize Trump’s in-
sults against Republicans as
hollow and counterproduc-
tive, and it’s taking a signifi-
cant toll on his support,” the
group’s president, former
Republican Rep. David Mc-
Intosh of Indiana, said in a
statement.
Fox News, his most im-
portant media ally, cut away
from his speech for a long
stretch, even as guests
praised it.
Internal politics are not
Trump’s only hurdle. He
also faces multiple civil and
criminal investigations, in-
cluding federal probes into
his role in the Jan. 6 insurrec-
tion and his refusal to turn
over classified presidential
records after leaving the
White House. Critics have
suggested that Trump’s
early announcement is cal-
culated to help him avoid po-
tential charges.
Trump is betting that he
can defeat potential crimi-
nal charges in the political
arena the way he’s beaten
back other investigations,
by portraying himself as the
victim of the establishment.
“I’m a victim, I will tell
you, I’m a victim,” Trump
said, decrying “the weap-
onization of the justice sys-
tem, the FBI” and the De-
partment of Justice while
pledging “to clean out the
festering rot and corruption
of Washington.”
But former prosecutors
say Justice Department offi-
cials are not likely to be influ-
enced by Trump becoming
an official candidate.
Andrew Weissmann, who
was a lead prosecutor in spe-
cial counsel Robert S.
Mueller III’s office, said that
there is no precedent for
Trump’s situation, and that
his presidential campaign
may put pressure on Atty.
Gen. Merrick Garland to ap-
point a special counsel. Even
so, Weissmann said, it will be
Garland who will have to de-
cide whether Trump should
face criminal charges.
“You don’t insulate your-
self from being charged or
the timing of it,” said Weiss-
mann, a law professor at
New York University.
Trump’s announcement
is also not likely to affect a
lawsuit by New York’s attor-
ney general that alleged
Trump and his company en-
gaged in widespread finan-
cial fraud.
His ability to win the
GOP nomination will hinge
largely on whether he keeps
his base. A YouGov poll tak-
en after last week’s elections
showed DeSantis narrowly
defeating Trump, 41% to
39%, among GOP voters in a
hypothetical primary. But
that outcome will depend on
many factors, including De-
Santis’ decision to run and
the size of a potential field.
Trump defeated 16 oppo-
nents in 2016, taking advan-
tage of the splintered nature
of the party and the inability
of his opponents to unite.
The last time, Trump
also had the advantage of
surprise — and the excite-
ment of novelty.
“I’m the first to admit
that South Carolina insiders
really missed it,” said Matt
Moore, who led the South
Carolina Republican Party,
which holds one of the earli-
est primaries, during the
2016 election. “Something
amazing was happening,
based on crowd sizes and
support for Trump. But it’s
hard to capture lightning in
a bottle twice. That was a
wild time.”
Times staff writer Arit John
contributed to this report.

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A8 W E D N E S DAY , N OV EM BE R 16, 2022
Losing Democrats question party spending
[Democrats, from A1]
elections cautioned that
such armchair quarterback-
ing misses the whole picture
of how parties decide where
to devote resources.
“In hindsight in any elec-
tion, the easiest thing to say
is, ‘I wish I had done more of
X,’ ” said Jesse Ferguson, a
Democratic strategist and a
former top official for the
Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee. “The
hardest thing is, ‘I would’ve
done less of Y’ in order to pay
for it.”
Smith’s woes under-
scored a particular chal-
lenge for candidates running
in the Los Angeles media
market, where reaching vot-
ers via television can be pro-
hibitively expensive. In a
year when Democrats were
playing defense all across
the country, the party opted
to stay out of Los Angeles’
broadcast market entirely —
a decision that reverberated
through closely watched
congressional races.
In Orange County, Dem-
ocrat Jay Chen was outspent
by roughly $5 million, ac-
cording to AdImpact, a firm
that tracks TV and digital
ads, in his unsuccessful bid
to unseat GOP Rep. Mi-
chelle Steel, who got millions
of dollars of assistance from
the House GOP campaign
arm and allied outside
groups. GOP Rep. Young
Kim had around $500,000
more in advertising than her
Democratic challenger, Asif
Mahmood, whom she easily
defeated.
Democratic Rep. Katie
Porter, who remains locked
in a close contest with Re-
publican challenger Scott
Baugh in Orange County,
also got no advertising help
from the House’s Demo-
cratic campaign committee,
although her commanding
fundraising meant she had
plenty of funds to outspend
her opponent.
In Riverside County, Will
Rollins, the Democrat who
challenged incumbent Re-
publican Rep. Ken Calvert,
had a slight advantage on-
air, but his unexpectedly
narrow loss made some al-
lies wonder whether more
party help could’ve made a
difference.
“With greater investment
from the party leadership,
Democrats could have
flipped the [seat]. We hope
the close nature of this race
leads to a meaningful invest-
ment in this district — and
in breakthrough candidates
like Will — moving forward,”
the liberal nonprofit group
A GOP
defeat in
Nevada
accepted
Challenger Adam
Laxalt congratulates
Sen. Catherine Cortez
Masto after close race.
associated press
LAS VEGAS — The Re-
publican challenger to
Democratic Sen. Catherine
Cortez Masto in Nevada on
Tuesday conceded that he
had lost, saying in a state-
ment that although the race
was very close, he won’t con-
test the result.
“I am confident that any
challenge of this election
would not alter the ultimate
outcome,” Adam Laxalt said
in a tweet that campaign ad-
visor Robert Uithoven con-
firmed was authentic.
Laxalt, who had the vocal
endorsement of former
President Trump, said he
called Cortez Masto to con-
gratulate her on her victory.
The Associated Press called
the race on Saturday, declar-
ing Cortez Masto the winner.
Cortez Masto’s cam-
paign did not immediately
respond to messages about
Laxalt’s concession. It came
a week after the Nov. 8 elec-
tion.
The vote count took sev-
eral days partly because of
the mail voting system cre-
ated by the Legislature in
2020 that requires counties
to accept ballots post-
marked by election day if
they arrive up to four days
later. Laxalt had an early
lead that dwindled after
late-counted ballots came in
from the state’s population
CHRISTY SMITH, campaigning in Stevenson Ranch, couldn’t afford TV ads in L.A. in her bid for Congress.
Square One said in a state-
ment.
The Rollins and Mah-
mood campaigns declined
to comment about party
spending decisions. A Chen
spokesman praised the
Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee for its
help reaching the district’s
multicultural voters, includ-
ing with digital advertising
in Vietnamese, Korean and
Mandarin. “While the out-
come in this race fell short of
what we had hoped for, the
DCCC ... was an engaged
partner,” spokesman Orrin
Evans said.
Los Angeles was one of
the most expensive media
markets in the nation even
before a flood of advertising
for the city’s mayoral race
and statewide gaming initia-
tives pushed prices higher.
Sheri Sadler, a veteran
Democratic media buyer,
said the market was so ex-
pensive that she didn’t place
ads in L.A. for state control-
ler candidate Malia Cohen.
“You have to have a war
chest in L.A.; that’s just the
way it is,” Sadler said, add-
ing that the effectiveness of
broadcast ads is declining as
viewing habits change.
“The prices keep going up
and the ratings keep going
down,” she said.
Drew Godinich, a Demo-
cratic strategist, said such
costly media markets can
“act as protective bubbles
for incumbents.”
“I AM confident that any challenge of this election
would not alter” the outcome, Adam Laxalt tweeted.
centers in Las Vegas and
Reno.
Cortez Masto’s win, along
with Democratic Sen. Mark
Kelly’s victory in Arizona,
gave Democrats a 50-49 edge
in the Senate. Along with
Vice President Kamala Har-
ris’ tiebreaking vote, the
party will retain control of
the chamber no matter the
result of next month’s
Georgia runoff between
Democratic Sen. Raphael
Warnock and Republican
candidate Herschel Walker.
Cortez Masto, the first
Latina to serve in the Sen-
ate, was considered the
most vulnerable Demo-
cratic senator in the
midterm elections, and the
Republican Party had high
hopes of flipping the seat.
She raised far more mon-
ey than Laxalt, but had to
weather an onslaught of at-
tack ads funded by national
GOP groups. Cortez Masto
spent nearly $47 million
through mid-October, ac-
cording to OpenSecrets, a
nonprofit that tracks cam-
paign finances and lobbying.
Laxalt spent nearly $13 mil-
lion during the same time.
Cortez Masto, the state’s
former two-term attorney
general, focused her cam-
paign on threats to abortion
access nationwide and
worked to court the state’s
Spanish-speaking residents
and hourly wage earners.
She pointed out her support
of a permanent pathway to
citizenship for “Dreamers”
and regularly visited union
“For challenger candi-
dates, it’s a high barrier to
entry — the cost of first
defining yourself positively,
and then defining your op-
ponent, is nearly prohib-
itively expensive,” said Go-
dinich, who worked for the
DCCC in California in 2018.
Nowhere was the party’s
absence more acute than in
the 27th Congressional Dis-
trict, which includes Santa
Clarita, the Antelope Valley
and parts of the San Fer-
nando Valley. The once-sol-
idly GOP region has grown
more Democratic as Los An-
geles residents moved there
for affordable housing. Re-
districting — the every-dec-
ade redrawing of congres-
sional maps following the
census — made the district
even bluer by excising con-
servative Simi Valley.
Garcia handily beat
Smith in a special election in
2020 and by just 333 votes for
a full term later that year. In
that election, Smith, along
with the DCCC and House
Majority PAC, which is affili-
ated with Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-San Francisco),
spent nearly $10 million.
Soon after winning re-
election, Garcia joined 146
other House Republicans in
objecting to the full counting
of electoral college votes in
January 2021 an effort to
overturn Biden’s win in the
presidential election. The
vote came just hours after
supporters of then-Presi-
John Locher Associated Press
halls and workers groups.
Laxalt, also a former
state attorney general, lost a
bid for governor in 2018. He
co-chaired Trump’s failed
campaign in Nevada in 2020
and spent months leading
efforts in the media and in
courts to challenge the re-
sult as fraudulent.
He insisted that ineligi-
ble and dead voters cast bal-
lots, that laws adopted by
the Democratic-led Legisla-
ture to send mail-in ballots
to every active voter invited
fraud, and that Republican
observers were prevented
from seeing ballot counting
or challenging signatures on
mail-in ballots.
Only a case to keep some
Las Vegas-area polling
places open until people in
line had cast ballots briefly
survived court scrutiny. Like
all the others, it was later
dismissed.
Laxalt told the AP more
than a year ago that he was
preparing to mount legal
challenges to the outcome of
the 2022 vote.
“I entered this arena for
my family and those all over
Nevada and America who
believe our country is
headed in the wrong direc-
tion,” Laxalt, an attorney,
said in his statement Tues-
day. He said he will “return
to private life and private
practice.”
“This race and the 2022
election cycle didn’t go as we
hoped,” he said, “but I am
proud of the race that we
ran.”
Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times
dent Trump overran the
Capitol on Jan. 6.
Garcia maintained a con-
servative voting record: He
opposed impeaching Trump
for his role in the insurrec-
tion, voted against citizen-
ship for “Dreamers” and co-
sponsored legislation that
would have in effect banned
abortions nationwide.
But he also worked on is-
sues tailored to the district,
particularly regarding mili-
tary families and veterans —
a potent issue in a region
with deep ties to the armed
forces and the aerospace in-
dustry. His ads highlighted
his background as a former
Navy fighter pilot and fo-
cused on fiscal issues such as
lowering taxes.
Smith, in an interview,
said she lacked the money to
tell voters about his record, a
message she believes could
have tipped the race.
“Absolutely, it would
have made a difference,”
she said, adding she had got-
ten “hammered” by outside
Republican groups’ TV ads.
With the possibility that
the district would be “the
tipping point to hold the
House,” Smith said on Twit-
ter, “the utter lack of invest-
ment made no sense.”
Smith also faulted na-
tional Democrats for re-
cruiting former Navy intelli-
gence officer John Quaye
Quartey to run against her
in the primary. (Quartey’s
campaign declined to com-
4 Idaho students killed in
‘targeted attack,’ police say
The group was found
dead with knife-type
wounds in housing
near a university.
associated press
BOISE, Idaho — Four
University of Idaho students
found dead in an off-campus
home were targeted, and the
killer or killers used a knife
or other “edged weapon” in
the attack, police said Tues-
day.
The Moscow Police De-
partment made the an-
nouncement in a news re-
lease, adding that investiga-
tors were working to estab-
lish a timeline to re-create
the victims’ activities before
they were found dead Sun-
day. Police said the killings
probably occurred in the
early-morning hours, and
the bodies were found about
noon.
The students’ deaths
were considered to be “an
isolated, targeted attack
and there is no imminent
threat to the community at
large,” according to police,
who earlier said evidence
from the scene led them to
believe there was no broader
risk. Police provided no in-
formation about that evi-
dence or why they believe
the victims were targeted.
Autopsies expected to be
completed this week could
provide more information
about how the victims were
killed.
Investigators were “fol-
lowing all leads and identify-
ing persons of interest” in
the case, the news release
said. Monday night, Police
Capt. Anthony Dahlinger
told the Idaho Statesman
that officers were searching
for a suspect.
Police discovered the stu-
ment on the issue, as did the
DCCC.) Smith said she and
her allies had to spend heavi-
ly in the primary to defeat
Quartey, who ultimately re-
ceived single-digit support.
Garcia and GOP groups
spent over $7 million on ad-
vertising between Labor
Day and election day, while
Smith spent less than $1 mil-
lion; Democratic allies spent
under $50,000 on digital ads,
according to AdImpact.
This year, the House Ma-
jority PAC initially booked
$3.3 million in television
time in Los Angeles, but can-
celed it, as they did in other
races around the country. A
spokesman for the commit-
tee did not respond to a re-
quest for comment.
The DCCC never booked
a dime. A spokeswoman said
the committee faced unprec-
edented spending by Re-
publican groups.
“We had to make tough
calls and fully invest in the
candidates we believed
could not only get close, but
win difficult races in Califor-
nia and nationwide,” said
Maddy Mundy, a DCCC
spokeswoman.
The National Republican
Congressional Committee
and the Congressional
Leadership Fund, which
spent heavily promoting
Garcia, did not respond to
requests for comment. Nor
did Garcia’s campaign.
As of Tuesday evening,
the race had not been called
dents’ bodies just before
noon Sunday as they re-
sponded to a report of an un-
conscious person at a home
steps away from the Mos-
cow, Idaho, campus. The vic-
tims were identified as
Ethan Chapin, 20, from Con-
way, Wash.; Madison Mogen,
21, from Coeur d’Alene,
Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20,
from Avondale, Ariz.; and
Kaylee Goncalves, 21, from
Rathdrum, Idaho.
The university canceled
classes Monday and said ad-
ditional security staffers
were available to walk stu-
dents across campus if
needed during the remain-
der of the week.
Still, the lack of informa-
tion about the cause of
deaths — and the fact that
police have said there is no
one in custody — prompted
many students to leave cam-
pus early, days before the
Thanksgiving break was
scheduled to begin.
A vigil for the slain stu-
dents originally scheduled
for Wednesday evening has
been postponed until after
Thanksgiving break, Uni-
versity of Idaho spokesman
Kyle Pfannenstiel said in an
email Tuesday.
In an earlier memo, Uni-
versity of Idaho President
Scott Green urged uni-
versity employees to be em-
pathetic and work with stu-
dents who decided to leave
classes to spend time with
their families.
“Words cannot ad-
equately describe the light
these students brought to
this world or ease the depth
of suffering we feel at their
passing under these tragic
circumstances,” Green
wrote.
The police said anyone
with information should
contact the department and
asked that people respect
the privacy of the victims’
LAT IMES. C OM
by the Associated Press. Re-
publicans remained on the
cusp of capturing the House
majority, needing only one
more win.
Garcia declared victory
the day after the election
and applauded Smith for
“jumping in the ring again.”
While Smith has not con-
ceded, she acknowledges
that overcoming Garcia’s
lead is unlikely. She said in
an interview that she felt it
was important to speak out
before the race is called.
“I wanted to put the nar-
rative out at a time when
hopefully it didn’t seem like
sour grapes,” Smith said.
“Regardless of the outcome
of this particular race, I still
have a responsibility as a
Democratic leader in the
state to highlight areas
where we could be doing bet-
ter.”
Jacob Rubashkin, an
analyst with Inside Elec-
tions, a nonpartisan cam-
paign newsletter, said he
was sympathetic to Smith,
but he also recognized why
national Democrats pulled
back.
“You have to consider,
any Democrat that’s losing
any Democratic district,
that is being won by a Re-
publican despite Joe Biden
carrying it by double digits,
has to be considered a
missed opportunity,” he
said. “But I’m not surprised
at all by this result.”
He said Smith’s history in
the district explained the
party’s decisions.
“I think Democrats took
a look at 2020, when Joe Bid-
en won the [district] by 11
points or so — they spent
$10 million to support
Christy Smith trying to beat
Mike Garcia. Then she came
up just short. Then they
looked at how her campaign
was going over the summer.
And they triaged. They de-
cided that the money was
better spent elsewhere,”
Rubashkin said.
The grousing about
missed opportunities is
ironically a product of
Democrats’ success, be-
cause any single race could
be decisive in the closely
fought battle for the House
majority, said Ferguson, the
DCCC veteran.
“In a narrow election, the
postmortem is a bunch of
‘woulda, shoulda, coulda.’ In
a wave election, the post-
mortem is a bunch of
‘welp,’ ” he said. “In a land-
slide election, there’s no
handwringing about what
minor changes might have
made a difference.”
family and friends.
Brian Nickerson, the fire
chief of the Moscow Volun-
teer Fire and EMS Depart-
ment, said police were the
first to arrive at the home.
The first responders from
the fire and EMS depart-
ment didn’t go inside or
transport anyone from the
scene, Nickerson said.
The city of Moscow is a
close-knit college town nes-
tled in the rolling hills of
north-central Idaho, about
80 miles southeast of
Spokane, Wash.
The university said
Chapin was a freshman and
a member of the Sigma Chi
fraternity, and Kernodle was
a junior majoring in market-
ing and a member of the Pi
Beta Phi sorority. Mogen
was a senior also majoring in
marketing and a member of
Pi Beta Phi, and Goncalves
was a senior majoring in gen-
eral studies and a member of
the Alpha Phi sorority, the
university said.
The university also had a
different hometown listed
for Chapin and Kernodle
from the towns listed in the
Moscow Police Department
release. The school said
Chapin was from Mount Ver-
non, Wash., and Kernodle
from Post Falls, Idaho.
Shortly after Moscow po-
lice announced the homi-
cide investigation, students
at the University of Virginia
were told to shelter in place
after police said a gunman
shot fellow students on a bus
as they returned from a field
trip. The shooting left three
members of the school’s
football team dead and two
other students injured.
The shooting touched off
an intense manhunt Sun-
day, and authorities an-
nounced Monday that a sus-
pect, Christopher Darnell
Jones Jr., had been appre-
hended.
L AT I ME S . COM
Villanueva concedes; Luna to be sheriff
[Luna, from A1]
Supervisors the power to fire
a sitting sheriff, looks likely
to pass overwhelmingly,
with about 70% of voters ap-
proving it so far. Supervisors
put the measure to voters af-
ter years spent battling with
Villanueva.
The results were a re-
sounding rebuke of Vil-
lanueva’s four chaotic years
in office — a tenure during
which he morphed from an
upstart candidate buoyed
by the support of prog-
ressive voters into a conser-
vative, combative lawman
who clashed endlessly with
elected officials and others
who oversee him and the de-
partment.
Luna’s victory means an-
other turnover in leadership
for the Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment, which will see its
fourth sheriff since Lee Baca
resigned eight years ago
amid a federal corruption
probe that ultimately sent
him to prison.
Luna is expected to be
sworn in as the county’s 34th
sheriff in a ceremony next
month. He inherits a large,
unwieldy law enforcement
agency — one of the nation’s
biggest — that runs a net-
work of jails and patrols
swaths of the sprawling
county with stations from
Lancaster to Catalina Is-
land.
It is an organization that
historically has operated in
the shadow of the Los Ange-
les Police Department but is
equal both in size and the
role it plays in public safety.
Luna will deal with long-
standing problems and the
fallout from recent scandals
that erupted during Vil-
lanueva’s watch.
After decades of neglect,
the county’s jails will present
Luna with no shortage of
problems, as they have his
predecessors.
Treatment for the thou-
sands of mentally ill people
housed in the facilities is
woefully insufficient, while
the facilities in general are
badly outdated.
Controversial shootings
and other misconduct con-
tinue to be issues as well.
The Board of Supervisors
recently agreed to pay $47.6
million to settle several
lawsuits alleging excessive
force or negligence by sher-
iff ’s deputies. The payouts
included $8 million for the
family of Andres Guardado,
UC strike challenges long-held pay practices
[Strike, from A1]
ic workers — including post-
doctoral scholars, graduate
teaching assistants and re-
searchers — who walked off
the job this week in a strike
billed as the largest at any
academic institution in his-
tory.
The work stoppage aims
to challenge long-held labor
practices at the UC and
other universities across the
country, which have come
under growing scrutiny for
how graduate workers and
academic employees are
paid in an era of rising infla-
tion and growing union
activism.
These workers perform
much of the teaching, grad-
ing and research across the
state’s most prestigious
public university system.
In some ways, the strike
underscores the growing
economic strains low-wage
employees are facing, par-
ticularly in places like Cali-
fornia where the cost of liv-
ing is high.
“People are already fac-
ing high rents and difficulty
making ends meet on the
type of pay they have,” said
Paula Voos, a professor at
the Rutgers School of Man-
agement and Labor Rela-
tions.
“This is a time in which
there’s a lot of organizing
and a lot of strikes, espe-
cially by younger, lower paid
workers who have been tak-
ing it on the chin for a while.”
Significantly increasing
compensation for academic
workers would definitely al-
ter the budgets of big uni-
versities like the UC, where
high tuition is already a big
issue.
But strikers argue Cali-
fornia has an opportunity to
deal with the economic ineq-
uity — and set a better exam-
ple for other universities.
“The university prides it-
self on our world-class re-
search, yet it’s not evident in
the paychecks it issues us,”
said UC Irvine doctoral can-
didate Edward Mendez. “We
don’t earn enough to live in
the cities where these
schools are.”
Union leaders are asking
SHERIFF ALEX VILLANUEVA , joined by his wife, Vivian, accepts defeat Tuesday during a news conference at the Hall of Justice in L.A.
whose killing in 2020 by a
deputy prompted large pro-
tests.
Perhaps Luna’s most im-
mediate challenge will be
moving the department be-
yond the turmoil caused by
Villanueva’s combative ap-
proach.
He will need to rebuild
the department’s ties to
public agencies across the
county and the city of Los
Angeles that Villanueva sys-
tematically ruptured by at-
tacking other elected offi-
cials whom he said were part
of an overly liberal “weap-
onized political machine”
that allowed homelessness
and crime to flourish. At the
top of that list were the
county supervisors, who
control the sheriff ’s budget
and clashed fiercely with Vil-
lanueva, as well as the Civil-
ian Oversight Commission,
which the supervisors ap-
pointed to watch over the
Sheriff ’s Department.
Supervisor Hilda Solis
said Tuesday that she looks
forward to the board estab-
lishing a collaborative rela-
tionship with Luna.
“We didn’t have one with
ACADEMIC WORKERS rally for better pay and benefits Tuesday at UC Irvine. Union leaders want to see all
graduate student workers earn a base salary of $54,000, more than double the average current pay of $24,000.
for large wage increases for
academic workers, noting
that housing costs on and
near many UC campuses
have continued to rise, mak-
ing the majority of their
members “rent-burdened,”
or spending more than 30%
of their income on rent.
They want to see all grad-
uate student workers — who
are teaching assistants and
tutors — earn a base salary
of $54,000, more than double
these workers’ average cur-
rent pay of about $24,000, ac-
cording to the union.
For postdoctoral employ-
ees, the union has called for a
minimum salary of $70,000,
which would be, on average,
a $10,000 increase, said
Rafael Jaime, a UCLA doc-
toral candidate and presi-
dent of United Auto Workers
Local 2865, which represents
19,000 teaching assistants,
tutors and other academic
workers on strike
Surveys by the UAW
found that 92% of graduate
this sheriff,” Solis said. “Mr.
Luna’s going to have to come
in, get things together, re-
form it and make people
understand that this is a job
— everyone needs to have
your trust.”
Sean Kennedy, a member
of the Civilian Oversight
Commission, said he ex-
pects that Luna will reverse
course from the “controver-
sies and stonewalling and at-
tempts to intimidate over-
sight officials” under Vil-
lanueva.
“I hope our new sheriff is
going to embrace civilian
oversight so that we can
work together and reduce
the deputy shootings and
implement long overdue 21st
century policing reforms,”
Kennedy said.
Still unresolved are crim-
inal investigations the Sher-
iff ’s Department opened
into some of Villanueva’s
most ardent critics that led
to widespread accusations
that he was abusing the
power of the office to attack
adversaries. California’s at-
torney general has taken
over those investigations
and is looking into the mis-
workers and 61% of postdoc-
toral scholars were rent-bur-
dened.
“We need help,” Wade
said as she joined her fellow
graduate student workers
and other academic employ-
ees on the picket line for the
second day in a row. “We’re
doing work that’s supposed
to be contributing to the
larger society — to liberate
and to illuminate.”
UC officials have offered a
salary scale increase of 7%
the first year for certain
graduate student workers
and 3% each subsequent
year — an offer that union
leaders say falls short.
Ryan King, a University
of California system spokes-
person, said UC believes its
current offers are sufficient.
He noted most of these grad-
uate employees are working
part time while earning a
graduate degree.
“Compensation is just
one of the many ways in
which they are supported as
conduct claims.
And lawsuits by top-
ranking sheriff ’s officials al-
leging Villanueva covered up
an incident in which a depu-
ty kneeled on the head of a
jail inmate remain open.
The oversight commis-
sion, meanwhile, is holding
public hearings into gang-
like groups of deputies that
have operated in the depart-
ment for decades. Vil-
lanueva came under fire for
his handling of the problem,
both downplaying its seri-
ousness and claiming to
have taken decisive steps to
address it.
He has also rebuffed
subpoenas from the com-
mission to answer questions
about the groups and other
problems under oath.
Luna, who headed the
Long Beach police for seven
years before retiring last
year, campaigned as the lev-
el-headed alternative to Vil-
lanueva, promising to work
collaboratively with the
county officials and depart-
ment watchdogs Villanueva
chose to make into enemies.
But he has remained
largely unknown outside
students during their time
with the university,” King
said.
But for Safa Hamzeh, a
second-year international
doctoral student in UCLA’s
history department, that
baseline salary is far from
sufficient.
She said she makes
about $24,000 annually
working as a teaching assist-
ant and lives in an apart-
ment in the Palms provided
by UC housing, paying
$2,000 a month, split with a
roommate. Because of her
visa, she said she’s limited
from taking on additional
work.
To pay for food, she ap-
plied for CalFresh, known
federally as the Supplemen-
tal Nutrition Assistance
Program, in order to get $100
to buy groceries at Kroger
stores with her roommate.
But even that wasn’t enough
to cover the rising cost of
groceries due to inflation,
she said.
S WEDNESDAY , NOVEMB ER 16, 2022
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times
Long Beach and, as an out-
sider to the Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment, he’ll face the challenge
of winning over a rank and
file that grew to appreciate
Villanueva’s brash style.
During the pandemic, for ex-
ample, Villanueva refused to
enforce the county’s vaccine
mandate — a move widely
cheered by deputies.
Despite his relative ob-
scurity to most L.A. County
voters, Luna was long con-
sidered the front-runner in
the race. Villanueva’s show-
ing in the June primary — he
received 31% of the vote —
was considered a poor result
in a race that historically has
favored the incumbent.
Luna finished second in the
primary, receiving 26% of the
vote.
In his concession speech,
Villanueva returned to a
well-rehearsed grievance he
has relied on heavily during
his time in office and on the
campaign trail that elected
officials, The Times and oth-
ers conspired to concoct a
“false narrative” about him
as an ineffective and ethi-
cally compromised leader.
“The whole thing on the
Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times
“I watched as grocery
prices kept going up,” she
said. “And that’s a thing that
you need to do every week.”
Hamzeh was on the
picket line Tuesday at
UCLA, especially calling for
the university to drop the
$15,000 nonresidential tu-
ition fees that graduate stu-
dent workers like her often
face — though now she has a
fellowship that covers it.
“This is the strongest tool
we have against the admin-
istration,” Hamzeh, 26, said.
“When we are striking, we
are not grading, we are not
attending sections, we’re not
attending lectures, we’re not
holding office hours. When
that happens, the entire ed-
ucation progress stops. …
When we strike, you can see
that we do most of the work
because all of the work
stops.”
Mendez at UCI said he
wasn’t able to join the picket
line Tuesday — despite his
interest — because of his
A9
deputy gangs was literally a
campaign strategy,” he add-
ed.
He mounted a defense of
his time as sheriff, portray-
ing himself as a lone figure
willing to stand up to en-
trenched interests and cor-
ruption. He reviewed once
again what he said were his
top accomplishments, in-
cluding kicking immigration
agents out of the jails, outfit-
ting deputies with body
worn cameras and launch-
ing a wage theft task force.
“I remember a politician
that I met early on ... they
told me, well, you can be a re-
former, or you can be re-
elected,” he said. “I’m proud
to say I’m a reformer. I have
no desire to abandon ... my
principles just to get re-
elected.”
At the end, when it was
time to make clear that he
was, in fact, conceding de-
feat, the normally stoic Vil-
lanueva choked up. His wife,
Vivian, a retired veteran of
the department who played
an outsize role in her hus-
band’s administration,
joined him at the podium
and patted him on the back.
newborn baby’s nap sched-
ule. The first-generation col-
lege student working toward
his doctoral degree in visual
studies at UC Irvine said he
and his wife looked into uti-
lizing campus childcare, but
they couldn’t afford the
$2,000 monthly fee — some-
thing unionized workers
would like to see reimbursed
for graduate and academic
employees, like Mendez.
“I want to make sure that
people don’t have to sacri-
fice their lives to go to grad
school — and to get on the
career path they want,”
Mendez, 30, said.
He pointed to the UC’s
massive budget, which he
said doesn’t correlate with
the small payments to work-
ers like him. He said while
working on his dissertation,
he teaches an introductory
English class, earning about
$25,000 for nine months of
classroom instruction, prep
work, responding to emails,
office hours and grading.
He said both he and his
wife supplement their day
jobs — for him by co-editing
the film section of a maga-
zine based in New York, and
for her, entering the gig
economy filling Instacart or-
ders.
Jaime said it isn’t rare to
hear about graduate stu-
dent workers and other aca-
demic workers struggling to
make ends meet, trying to
find supplemental jobs de-
spite being already over-
worked.
He said it’s especially
painful to see the UC chan-
cellors receive six-figure
raises earlier this year, which
the Board of Regents said
was to provide “fair and com-
petitive” compensation —
something Jaime hasn’t
seen apply elsewhere.
“When it comes to grad
student workers and post-
docs, for some reason that’s
not translating to them,”
Jaime said.
“We’ve seen a pattern
over the years as public uni-
versities have become more
and more privatized, the val-
ue that scholars and re-
searchers provide have been
increasingly undervalued.”
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Audit questions UCI professor’s spending
Neurologist has repaid
$400,000 he used to
buy cameras. Critics
ask why there were no
serious consequences.
By Melody Petersen
Yi-hong Zhou was work-
ing as a research scientist at
UC Irvine’s medical school
in April 2014 when she re-
ceived a strange question
from the university’s equip-
ment managers: Could she
confirm she was using a
$53,000 camera in her lab?
Zhou replied that she’d
never seen such a camera
and didn’t understand why
the department of neurolog-
ical surgery would need any-
thing of the kind. She didn’t
receive much of an answer,
she recalled.
But five years later, the
circumstances behind the
curious email snapped into
focus when another depart-
ment member met Zhou in a
parking lot and handed her a
shopping bag filled with re-
ceipts detailing the pur-
chases of more than $400,000
in photography equipment,
including 14 cameras and 46
lenses. All had been pur-
chased by Frank P.K. Hsu,
the department’s chair.
An audit launched in re-
sponse to Zhou’s subse-
quent whistleblower report
concluded that Hsu, who
makes $1.2 million a year,
purchased the camera
equipment with university
funds, often using “suspi-
cious” or “unauthorized”
means, according to the
auditors’ report.
The auditors discovered
that Hsu had a personal
website on which he had
hundreds of photos for sale,
some priced at hundreds of
dollars.
But the report remained
sealed, away from public
view, until Zhou contacted
The Times and a reporter
Consumer debt jumps as lenders’ rates rise
Households added
$351 billion in the
third quarter, mostly
in home loans. Credit
card balances surge.
By Alexandre Tanzi
and Jonnelle Marte
U.S. household debt
climbed at its fastest annual
pace since 2008 in the third
quarter, with credit card bal-
ances surging even as inter-
est rates that lenders charge
to consumers hit a multi-
decade high.
Data released Tuesday
by the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York show that
American households add-
ed $351 billion in overall debt
last quarter, taking the total
to $16.5 trillion, according to
data released Tuesday by
the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York. That’s an increase
of 8.3% from a year earlier,
the most since a 9.1% jump in
the first quarter of 2008. The
debt figures aren’t adjusted
for inflation.
Most of the latest in-
crease came in mortgage
debt, by far the biggest liabil-
ity on household balance
sheets. It rose by $282 billion
in the third quarter, and by
$1 trillion from a year earlier,
Musk’s Mars ambitions are cited in Tesla pay plan trial
Board wanted to make
sure he paid sufficient
attention to carmaker,
chairwoman testifies.
By Russ Mitchell
The chair of Tesla’s board
of directors testified in court
Tuesday that Chief Execu-
tive Elon Musk’s dream of in-
terplanetary travel played a
role in the extraordinarily
rich pay package the board
granted him in 2018.
Musk “needed to pursue
his goal of one day achieving
interplanetary travel,” Tesla
Chair Robyn Denholm testi-
fied in Delaware Chancery
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FRANK P.K. HSU, chair of UC Irvine Medical School’s neurological surgery department, is shown in Paris in
2015 wearing a camera strap with the logo Phase One — the camera brand of four of his most pricey purchases.
asked administrators about
the outcome of their investi-
gation. It was only after the
university provided a copy to
The Times that Zhou herself
was able to read it.
Hsu declined to speak to
The Times or answer ques-
tions.
Tom Vasich, a UCI
spokesman, said Hsu had
now repaid the university
$404,000 — the value of pur-
chases questioned by the
auditors.
“The university took ap-
propriate corrective mea-
sures,” Vasich said.
Two experts questioned
whether the university’s re-
sponse was sufficient.
CREDIT CARD debt grew last quarter — at the highest rate in 20 years — with
balances rising 15% from a year earlier. Above, at a store in Alhambra in August.
to $11.7 trillion. Mortgage and
home equity debt combined
are up by $2 trillion since the
pandemic began.
Credit card debt also in-
creased — at the highest
rate in 20 years — with bal-
ances rising 15% from a year
earlier. The surge comes as
the average interest rate on
card borrowing has climbed
Court. But, she said, the
board wanted to ensure he
paid sufficient attention to
Tesla. Asked for more detail,
she said, “Quite honestly, I
don’t know how much it
costs to do any interplane-
tary travel.”
Musk is scheduled to tes-
tify Wednesday.
Tesla is being sued in the
Chancery Court of Delaware
by stockholders who say the
board was not independent
of Musk but instead was
under his thumb when it of-
fered a pay incentive plan
worth as much as $55 billion.
Board members have testi-
fied that Musk exercised no
control over the board’s de-
cision. Under law, the
board’s decision must be in-
BUSINESS
If the same unauthorized
purchases had happened at
a private company, said
Michael Josephson, head of
the Josephson Institute of
Ethics in Playa del Rey, the
employee “almost certainly
would be fired.”
“When the consequences
are nothing more than, ‘Oh,
you got caught so say you’re
sorry and give it back,’ ”
Josephson said, “it sends the
wrong message.”
“The consequences
should be significant
enough that somebody in a
similar situation would say
it’s not worth it,” he said.
Liz Hempowicz, an ex-
pert on whistleblower pro-
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above 19%, the highest in
data going back to the
mid-1980s, according to
Bankrate.
With prices up more than
8% from a year earlier as of
the quarter’s end, it’s “un-
surprising” that credit bal-
ances are increasing, Fed re-
searchers wrote in a blog
post. “The real test, of
dependent of the pay-plan
recipient.
Musk’s No. 1 rank on
Bloomberg’s list of the
world’s wealthiest people is
based on an estimated $185
billion in personal wealth.
Denholm was also asked
how much she knew about
Musk’s compliance with a
consent decree Musk signed
in 2018 with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
Her answers were vague.
The consent decree arose
from fraud charges Musk
faced after tweeting that a
deal had been struck with
Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund
to take Tesla private. Musk’s
tweet caused a surge in Tes-
la’s stock price; the SEC de-
termined the claim to be
tections at the Project on
Government Oversight, said
administrators should have
looked into the purchases
when Zhou first raised ques-
tions with administrators
about the missing $53,000
camera in 2014.
“When you get away with
something once, it becomes
much easier to keep doing it
if you think nobody’s paying
attention,” she said.
Zhou worked in the de-
partment from 2006 until
late 2013, focusing on re-
search into brain tumors.
She then moved to the de-
partment of general surgery,
continuing to work in her
lab.
course, will be to follow
whether these borrowers
will be able to continue to
make payments on their
credit cards,” the research-
ers’ post said.
Delinquency rates are
currently low by historical
standards, as many house-
holds saw their finances
cushioned by pandemic
false and accused Musk of
stock manipulation.
Under the decree, Musk
is required to run any tweets
that are “material” to Tesla
past a designated attorney.
In an earlier deposition,
Musk said he would send
such tweets to the attorney
and wait for an answer. If no
answer came, he would post
the tweet. He said he didn’t
recall ever receiving a re-
sponse to his tweet permis-
sion requests, and couldn’t
remember how long he’d
wait before posting.
The judge asked Den-
holm directly whether she
was aware that Musk was
posting tweets after waiting
for some unspecified time.
“No, I was not aware of
Reuters / Alamy Stock Photo
She too believes that Hsu
should have faced more seri-
ous consequences in light of
the auditors’ findings. In her
view, Hsu’s actions raise
questions about his judg-
ment and his fitness to care
for patients or teach UCI’s
medical students.
“He used state funds as
his piggy bank,” she said.
“He is setting a bad example
for these future doctors.”
Hsu’s stated reason for
purchasing the photogra-
phy equipment was to create
a multimedia center for use
in training residents and
community outreach. He
told the auditors that when
he was hired to lead the neu-
stimulus payments and sav-
ings during the lockdown.
Still, there are signs of
“disparate impacts of infla-
tion” in the debt data, the
Fed researchers wrote.
Credit card balances in-
creased more for borrowers
ages 30 to 59 and for those in
lower-income areas. Those
groups now owe more than
they did in December 2019.
By contrast, borrowers ages
60 to 79 and those in higher-
income areas still have bal-
ances that are below pre-
pandemic levels, the re-
searchers found.
In addition to incurring
more credit card debt,
Americans are also tapping
into their home equity to
help meet spending needs.
For the second consecutive
quarter, balances on home
equity lines of credit in-
creased.
Auto loan balances rose
by $22 billion in the third
quarter and are now above
$1.5 trillion, roughly double
the figure a decade ago.
With payments and inter-
est on student loans frozen
during the pandemic, car
debt is on track to overtake
education debt as the sec-
ond-biggest liability for U.S.
households, after home
mortgages.
Tanzi and Marte write for
Bloomberg.
that,” she said.
The lawsuit alleges that
the performance-based
stock option grant was nego-
tiated by the compensation
committee and approved by
Tesla board members who
had conflicts of interest be-
cause of personal and pro-
fessional ties to Musk, in-
cluding investments in his
companies. It also alleges
the shareholder vote ap-
proving the compensation
plan was based on a mislead-
ing proxy statement.
The proxy wrongly de-
scribed members of the
compensation committee as
“independent,” the suit says.
The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
rological surgery depart-
ment in 2012 he received ver-
bal authorization from the
dean to create the media lab,
adding that the offer excited
him because he was an avid
amateur photographer.
The auditors asked Hsu
why he had purchased so
many cameras and lenses
for a media lab that was not
yet operational. He told
them that each purchase
had “a specific business pur-
pose.”
In their report, the audi-
tors noted that no media lab
ever materialized. They con-
cluded that Hsu “could not
reasonably explain or pro-
vide a business purpose for
the extraordinary amount of
expensive cameras.”
The dean who hired Hsu,
as well as the medical
school’s current dean, both
told the auditors that they
“had no knowledge” of a
neurosurgery media lab, the
report said.
After reading Hsu’s ex-
planation in the auditors’ re-
port, Zhou noted that more
than $100,000 of the equip-
ment was shipped directly to
Hsu’s Irvine home and that
he had posted dozens of
photos on Instagram show-
ing him using the cameras
on vacations and personal
photo shoots, such as one
showing a female model re-
laxing on a couch with a
cocktail.
Asked whether the uni-
versity had taken any other
action against Hsu beyond
the repayments, Vasich said
he could not discuss person-
nel issues because of privacy
laws.
“None of these policy vio-
lations has had any impact
on Dr. Hsu’s surgical prac-
tice,” he said.
Hsu initially told the
auditors that he did not have
a photography business, the
report said. He later
changed his story, acknowl-
edging that he was selling
photos, but said he “does not
sell much” and that “it was
just for fun.”
University of California
policy states that employees
cannot use university re-
sources for private gain.
Josephson said he be-
lieved it was “outrageous”
that the university had not
done more to ensure its pro-
fessor was not misusing
funds.
Zhou, who is now retired
from the university, said she
would like to know why the
dean’s office did not stop the
purchases when she first
raised questions in 2014. In
operating her lab, she said,
she was required to get ap-
proval from the dean’s office
for any purchase of $20,000
or more. She noted that Hsu
made five purchases of cam-
eras that exceeded that
amount.
According to her docu-
ments, Hsu’s purchases be-
gan in 2012, shortly after he
was hired.
Zhou said she had grown
frustrated in recent years as
she repeatedly asked UC
Irvine administrators how
they had handled the de-
tailed evidence she had pro-
vided in her whistleblower
complaint.
In August 2020, a UCI em-
ployee in charge of investi-
gating the complaints sent a
letter, saying that auditors
found the purchases vio-
lated university policy and
that the case had been re-
ferred to management.
Then there was silence.
Vasich said there was no
requirement that the dean’s
office approve purchases of
$20,000 or more when Hsu
bought the cameras.
Despite the deans telling
auditors that they had no
recollection of approving the
media lab, the department
has since moved ahead with
it. Vasich said the media lab
recently became opera-
tional.
Until Hsu took down
many of the photos, his In-
stagram account showed
him using the cameras on
trips to countries including
Japan, Australia and Italy,
as well as on the beach in
Crystal Cove State Park.
In 2015, a Reuters journal-
ist took a photo of Hsu in
Paris, outside Notre Dame,
with a camera slung across
his shoulder. The strap was
emblazoned with the logo
Phase One — the camera
brand of four of his most ex-
pensive purchases.
The journalist asked Hsu
that day whether the
strengthening U.S. dollar
against the euro had made a
difference to his trip. He an-
swered that it had made him
want to spend more money.
L AT I ME S . COM
Ballmer has pored over details for arena
[Arena, from A1]
years and Ballmer, wearing a
construction helmet and
bright yellow safety vest,
stood in front of a different
hill, a severe concrete incline
reaching to the heavens.
This will become the “Wall of
Sound,” a central feature of
the glistening new home in
Inglewood he’s building for
his NBA team. This section
of the Intuit Dome will be an
unbroken swath of 51 rows
from floor to ceiling, a peak
of pandemonium cleverly
teetering above the visitors’
bench.
“We want a little more in-
tensity on that side,”
Ballmer, 66, said clapping
his hands with the unbridled
glee of that Country Day kid.
The $2-billion arena,
scheduled to open in sum-
mer 2024, is located at the in-
tersection of Prairie Avenue
and Century Boulevard,
across the street from SoFi
Stadium.
To understand the proj-
ect and what made it what it
is — its design, scope, ambi-
tion — you have to under-
stand Ballmer. And if you
want to truly understand
Ballmer — to see what made
him who he is and what he
wants to achieve — look no
further than this arena.
Ballmer, whose passion
for the Clippers and basket-
ball, in general, is boundless,
wants to do everything he
can to change that reputa-
tion of the late-arriving,
early-departing Los Angeles
fan, so all arrows point to
keeping them in their seats.
That means creating as
much convenience as pos-
sible — including no-line,
grab-and-go concession
stands — and finding that
ideal balance between inten-
sity and comfort.
“I was tortured by leg-
room versus how tight to
make the bowl,” he said.
“Legroom hurts intensity.
Because just think about it,
it pushes you back to have
more legroom. If you want to
go steep with legroom, then
it’s really tall steps that a lot
of people struggle with.”
In the end, Ballmer de-
cided the people at the top of
the arena should have the
same amount of legroom as
the fans who paid more to be
closer to the action.
What’s more, from the
construction to the day-to-
day operation, Ballmer is de-
termined to make the build-
ing the most environmen-
tally friendly of its kind.
As he toured the site re-
cently, as he does every few
weeks, Ballmer met with the
hundreds of construction
workers, shaking hands,
asking questions, studying
renderings on a tablet com-
puter and shooting video on
his phone to send to family.
“Keep driving it hard,
man,” he told one group af-
MARKET ROUNDUP
Stocks rise on new inflation data
associated press
Stocks rose Tuesday on
Wall Street after more signs
that the nation’s punishin-
gly high inflation may be fall-
ing faster than expected.
The Standard & Poor’s
500 index climbed 0.9%, or
34.48 points, to 3,991.73,
though it went on another
unsettling ride to get there.
A flare-up of worries
about the war in Ukraine
caused a brief pullback in
markets during the after-
noon, forcing the S&P 500 to
swing from an early gain of
1.8% to a loss of 0.1% before it
recovered.
The Dow Jones industrial
average veered from a gain of
450 points to a loss of 216 be-
fore closing at 33,592.92, up
56.22 points, or 0.2%. The
Nasdaq composite led the
market with a gain of 1.4%, or
162.19 points, to close at
11,358.41.
When Wall Street opened
for trading, the overall mood
was ebullient as stocks
bounced after the latest
data suggesting that infla-
tion continues to cool from
its summertime peak.
A meeting between the
presidents of the world’s two
largest economies also
raised hopes for an easing of
U.S.-Chinese tension after
analysts called it better than
expected.
The S&P 500 touched its
highest level in two months,
while Treasury yields eased
on hopes that a slowdown in
inflation could mean the
Federal Reserve’s bitter,
economy-crunching medi-
cine could taper as well.
But the gains for stocks
disappeared after reports
that what appeared to be
THE INTUIT DOME , which is scheduled to open in 2024, will be the first time the Clippers have an arena
built specifically for them. It will have a 4K, 38,375-square-foot halo-type video board suspended from the roof.
‘Everything’s a step. It’s one step toward taking our place
on the main stage in terms of L.A. basketball.’
ter autographing their Clip-
pers flag, sounding like that
high school kid cheering his
teammates up The Hill.
“You’ve got a lot of work to
do.”
This will mark the first
time the Clippers have an
arena built specifically for
them, and their owner be-
lieves that will help them
move closer to equal footing
with the Lakers.
“Everything’s a step,”
said Ballmer, who bought
the team in 2014. “It’s one
step toward taking our place
on the main stage in terms of
L.A. basketball. There’s no
question, we have zero
championships and the
other guys in town [have]
lots.
“We’re going to have to
prove to people that we care
super much about our fans.
We can’t be ambiguous. We
have to put on a production
that’s more exciting.
“At the end of the day,
what we’ve got to give people
is great teams that win
championships. There’s no
substitute for that. But at
least in our own building,
we’re not playing on the
worst nights. If you look at
our [Crypto.com Arena]
schedule, when it’s ‘Monday
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crossed into Poland, which is
a member of NATO.
Prices for crude oil
jumped as stock prices fell,
an indication that traders
were building bets for after-
shocks from an escalation in
the war in Ukraine. Beyond
the human toll, a worsening
war could cause surges in
prices for oil, gas and other
commodities that the region
produces, which could wors-
en inflation.
Stocks then recovered
and began climbing anew as
the afternoon progressed.
“Inflation is still top of
mind and market moving,”
said Nate Thooft, senior
portfolio manager at Man-
ulife Investment Manage-
ment. “Anything that poten-
tially swings the inflation
story, the market is keen to
react.”
Such sharp hourly
swings for stocks have al-
most become the norm on
Wall Street this year, as high
inflation and interest rate
hikes by the Federal Reserve
have heightened fears and
triggered knee-jerk reac-
tions.
Through Tuesday’s
swings, technology stocks
continued to lead the way on
Wall Street.
S TEVE B ALLMER ,
Clippers owner
Night Football,’ we play. It’s
not when the Lakers or
Kings play. ”
Ballmer is quick to point
out he’s not an architect or
construction expert, nor
was he a software designer
at Microsoft. But he knows
how to carry out a vision.
“I remember when we did
our Xbox product,” he said.
“Somebody said, ‘What
would we want the cover of
Time magazine to look like?’
We did that on the front end
of the project to help us get
really crisp about what the
vision is.”
It was with that spirit
that Ballmer and his team of
architects and designers
traveled all over the world —
paying particular attention
to college and NBA venues
— with the goal of creating
an iconic building that
caters to the true basketball
fan. The idea is to put the
game itself front and center,
rather than constructing a
glitzy gathering place that,
by the way, also hosts
basketball games.
“It’s almost like you have
to see a basketball game at
[Duke University’s] Camer-
on Indoor,” Clippers general
manager Michael Winger
said. “You have to see a base-
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changes in interest rates, as
rises in rates hit hardest
those stocks seen as the
most expensive, most risky
or most likely to take the
longest to yield big growth.
Chipmaker Nvidia rose
2.3% and Apple gained 1.2%.
Traders have been paring
their bets for how big a hike
the Fed will announce at its
next policy meeting in De-
cember.
Such speculation started
in earnest after a report last
week showed that inflation
at the consumer level slowed
more than expected in Octo-
ber.
On Tuesday, hopes rose
further after a separate re-
port showed inflation at the
wholesale level eased to 8%
in October from 8.4% a
month earlier. That was
even better than the 8.3%
economists were expecting.
“The improvement is
simply encouraging,” said
Mark Hackett, chief of in-
vestment research at
Nationwide.
The yield on the two-year
Treasury fell to 4.34% from
4.40% late Monday. The yield
on the 10-year Treasury,
which influences mortgage
rates, fell to 3.76% from
ball game at Wrigley Field.
And we want to be one of
those places. You have to see
a basketball game at the In-
tuit Dome to see what Steve
has done here.”
Sometimes, providing a
different experience means
leaving out elements that
some fans might expect.
“We made some deci-
sions that some people will
like, some may not,” Ballmer
said. “One of the things peo-
ple are doing now is having
more open social spaces
where you can sort of gander
at the game and mix with
friends. We don’t have any of
those. I want people in their
seats.”
That means there will be
199 countdown clocks
throughout the building to
remind fans when a timeout
is ending so they won’t miss
the action. It also means
there will be some type of
sensor that detects when
fans are in and around their
specific seat.
“If we know that you’re
near your chair — near your
chair means you’re probably
cheering — maybe we’ll pop
you with a reward if we figure
out you’re in your chair at a
certain time,” Ballmer said.
He and his design team
are tinkering with the idea of
building directional buttons
into the armrests of the
chairs — up, down, left, right
— so they can conduct polls
during a game or crowd-
source specific sections for
information.
“If fans in a certain area
say it’s too hot or too cold,
we’ll scan what the fans ex-
press and then adjust the
temperature based on that,”
he said.
Ballmer, whose net worth
is estimated in the range of
$80 billion to $100 billion, is
the wealthiest owner of any
American sports franchise.
He could build whatever
type of arena he wants. But
his goal with the Intuit
Dome is not to wow people
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with Jetsons-type technol-
ogy. He wants to use tech in a
purposeful way that creates
conveniences and helps
maintain the crackling elec-
tricity of the experience.
Just as the Rams and
Chargers have at SoFi,
Ballmer’s arena will feature
a halo-type video board sus-
pended from the roof. The
Clippers say the 38,375-
square-foot 4K display will
“feature more replays, more
videos and more advanced
stats than any scoreboard in
the world.”
Lumen Field, home of the
Seattle Seahawks, is in the
Guinness Book of World Re-
cords for having the loudest
crowd roar of any outdoor
stadium. Ballmer, who once
reportedly ripped his vocal
cords shouting “Windows!
Windows!” at a Microsoft
sales meeting, is looking to
create the NBA’s version of
that.
“We’ve done acoustic
models of the building,” he
said. “We looked at putting
in some panels but it only got
us one more decibel under
the sound models. It’s of
great importance. How low
can we bring the ceiling?
That gives more intimacy
and more of a sense of noise.”
So, while he wants his
players to raise the roof,
Ballmer also has looked for
ways to lower it. It’s all about
getting the Clippers fans be-
hind the team in a full-
throated way.
“I never played basket-
ball, let alone at the pro lev-
el,” he said. “But I can’t
imagine it feels good when
all the seats are empty at the
beginning of the game or be-
ginning of the third quarter.
Now that does happen.
There’s traffic in L.A. It’s go-
ing to happen more in L.A.
and all that, but we can do
what we can do.”
Long before he was able
to buy a sports team,
Ballmer got a taste of what
was involved in running one.
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When he was a student at
Harvard, he was head man-
ager of the football team, a
coveted position that back
then was pretty much a gold-
en ticket to Harvard Busi-
ness School. At one of his re-
unions, he delivered a
speech titled, “Everything I
needed to know in business,
I learned as a Harvard foot-
ball manager,” and it was
only partly tongue-in-cheek.
“You learn logistics,” he
said. “Coach tells you, ‘Keep
us on schedule. Let me know
what’s going on. Keep the
players moving. Plan the
buses. Make sure the hotels,
the meals, everything’s in
good shape.’ ”
Although Ballmer
earned $12 per game keeping
stats for the Harvard
basketball team, his football
gig was unpaid. Not surpris-
ingly, he attacked both jobs
with gusto.
Recalled Steve Kaseta, a
defensive end and captain
on that 1976 Harvard team:
“Steve was so good at the
job. Part of his skill set is the
ability to multitask and have
a really good sense of all of
these moving parts.”
One of those moving
parts was Ballmer’s trem-
bling voice, which fluttered
like the butterflies in his
stomach when he first stood
to address the players.
“I remember the first
time doing it my voice
cracked,” he said. “You’d get
out there, and the manager’s
not exactly what you’d call
the most respected guy.
‘HeY eVeryBody, LiSteN
uP…’ My voice is just crack-
ing.”
Years later, when he was
at Microsoft, Ballmer came
up with an interesting
method of staying on track
in his speeches.
“I would write my first
two or three bullet points on
the back of my hand,” he
said. “I don’t think I ever
looked at them. It was like
comfort food.”
At Detroit Country Day,
Ballmer had been named
valedictorian but, because
he wasn’t keen on making
public speeches, asked that
the honor be given to his
more loquacious buddy,
Bryan Schefman.
“I don’t know if he was
shy or just didn’t want the
limelight, but he definitely
didn’t want to stand up in
front of everyone and give a
speech,” said Schefman,
now a lawyer in Bloomfield
Hills, Mich. “I was very ex-
cited and extremely grate-
ful. But Steve didn’t want to
stand out. He wanted all of
us to be together, and we
were a very tight class.”
Jerry Hansen, Ballmer’s
high school calculus teacher
and junior varsity football
coach, still has his former
student’s ear. The two play
golf together in Michigan
when they get a chance. And
the longtime teacher
weighed in on what became
an important element of the
arena.
Said Ballmer: “He kept
saying to me, ‘Don’t forget
the little guys! Don’t forget
the guys in the upper bowl!’
… So I had to make sure the
upper bowl was good. We
really wanted to say, ‘Hey,
you may not be able to sit as
close to the court, but that
doesn’t mean you have to be
uncomfortable.’ Normally
people cram up there. We’ll
have the same-sized seats.”
Ballmer wants his arena
to be basketball’s answer to
Camden Yards or Lambeau
Field. A bucket-list item for
bucket lovers.
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Villanueva leaves behind a

deeply damaged department
W
ith all due respect and
sincere congratulations to
former Long Beach Police
Chief Robert Luna, who
won the race for Los An-
geles County sheriff, this election was never
really about him.
It was about incumbent Alex Villanueva,
a man who in his tumultuous four years as
leader of the nation’s largest sheriff ’s de-
partment has oscillated between goofy cari-
cature and dangerous loose cannon.
In an era of pandemic lockdowns, racial
justice protests, increasing violence and at-
tacks against democracy, precisely when
Los Angeles County most needed a mature
and reassuring public safety official, Vil-
lanueva was just another barrel of gasoline
on a smoldering fire. His tenure is a virtual
how-not-to handbook for leadership.
He leaves to Luna a department in per-
haps worse condition than when Lee Baca
stepped down in 2014 amid investigations
into deputies’ abuse of jail inmates and be-
fore Baca’s conviction and imprisonment on
obstruction charges.
He leaves a department with diminished
authority, because other county leaders did
not trust him; a diminished budget, because
he could not manage it properly; and dimin-
ished respect, because he misused his
power to go after anyone he saw as conspir-
ing against him, including his constitutional
policing advisors, his closest aides, the
Board of Supervisors, the inspector general,
the Civilian Oversight Commission, the
county chief executive officer and any num-
ber of journalists. He leaves deputies who,
because of Villanueva’s insolent style of
leadership, are more resentful than ever of
the public they serve and the other elected
officials who lead the government that em-
ploys them.
The pervasive narrative that he was a
walking, talking bait-and-switch — that he
campaigned as a progressive reformer but
moved to the right once elected — is off-
base. As a candidate in 2018 Villanueva
made clear, to anyone who would listen, who
he was and what he wanted. He was another
in a long line of deputies and mid-level staff
more focused on intradepartmental griev-
ances than service to the public. Too many
supporters on the left heard only what they
wanted to hear: that he was a Democrat,
that he was Latino, that he would do a more
thorough job than the incumbent in ousting
federal immigration agents from the jail,
that he would right past department
wrongs.
He leaves a lesson for voters: Pay atten-
tion to more than labels and slogans. Elec-
tion mistakes can be corrected, but there
are steep costs.
Some of Villanueva’s antics, like his raid
on the homes of County Supervisor Sheila
Kuehl and Civilian Oversight Commissioner
Patti Giggans, were so shocking that they
obscure a basic truth: Most of L.A. got off
easy. A majority of county residents don’t
live in areas patrolled by the Sheriff ’s De-
partment, and have not been sent to jails
staffed by sheriff ’s deputies. They vote for
the sheriff but are not directly affected by
him, even when he strays from his jurisdic-
tion, as, for example, during his self-aggran-
dizing trip down the Venice Boardwalk last
year.
There are other sheriffs in other counties
around the nation who share Villanueva’s
grandiose notions about their supposedly
inherent and unparalleled powers, and they
wield them even more irresponsibly — for
example, by threatening to unilaterally seize
voting machines or confiscate library books,
or indeed do anything that strikes them as
LOS ANGELES County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, pictured in 2021, conceded the
Nov. 8 election to Robert Luna on Tuesday.
contrary to their own perception of law and
order.
Los Angeles County doesn’t have a politi-
cal culture that would tolerate such a move
from the right, nor does Villanueva have the
political savvy to pull it off. But his trans-
gressions were bad enough, and they go be-
yond bogus criminal investigations. Al-
though he didn’t create sheriff gangs and
didn’t invent bad shootings of suspects,
both problems festered on his watch.
Candidates with more popular appeal
and more talent than Villanueva could pose
an even more serious danger, and any num-
ber of charlatans better attuned to Los An-
geles might have won reelection. Vil-
lanueva’s ineptitude helped the county
dodge a bullet.
Luna’s talent is of a different nature. As
an appointed police chief in Long Beach,
he’s used to working with others to achieve
common public safety goals, and as a former
police officer he respects a chain of com-
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
mand. He does not harbor illusions about
so-called constitutional sheriffs being the fi-
nal law-and-order authority, ahead of the
federal government and other local elected
officials.
But L.A. County residents should harbor
no illusions that, with Luna in and Vil-
lanueva gone, everything at the Sheriff ’s De-
partment will now neatly fall into place.
Luna will have a bigger task than just lead-
ing the department. He must rescue it, per-
haps even reinvent it. He must grapple with
a decentralized culture that not only toler-
ates station-based sheriff gangs but encour-
ages them. And he must do it at a time in
which more questions will be raised about
whether L.A. County sheriffs should be
elected and whether the same agency that
runs the jails should also patrol the streets.
Luna has done L.A. County a public serv-
ice by challenging Villanueva. He will need
to call on all his leadership skills and experi-
ence to navigate the difficult tasks ahead.

LETTERS
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to the Los Angeles County Will it require on-the-job- tion, now is not the time to
Sheriff ’s Department, the training? continue outdated, extrava-
fourth-largest local policing Meetings will be con- gant subsidies on the shoul-
agency in the U.S. Add in the ducted by people who don’t ders of the people least able
jails and court system, and even know Robert’s Rules of to bear them.
it’s almost too much to Order and could turn into Pedro J. Pizarro
comprehend. shouting matches. That will Rosemead
That only five people are not fix anything in Los The writer is president
in control of this needs to Angeles. It will just create and chief executive of Edi-
change, and the sooner the unnecessary chaos. son International.
better. To paraphrase Winston
Charles L. Churchill: Yes, our system is ::
Freeman Jr. the worst system, except for
Baldwin Hills all the others. I’m mystified by the
Jerry Concha latest CPUC proposal re-
:: Sylmar garding rooftop solar.
It’s a vast improvement
The folks who suggested :: from the previous one, but it
Los Angeles needs an in- still would have a damp-
spector general or public We could fix the corrup- ening effect on getting solar
advocate are uninformed. tion and casual racism in onto more roofs, an impor-
The city government al- L.A. city government fairly tant part of meeting our
ready includes such a post: quickly if Angelenos paid as climate change goals.
city controller. much attention to the City I’m concerned by how
Illustration by Jim Cooke Los Angeles Times The controller is not just Council as they do to the the public might perceive
a financial auditor, but also Dodgers. this CPUC proposal. It gives

More districts, more representation has the ability to look in

every dark corner to review
the quantitative and quali-
Patrick Frank
Venice
one a strong reason to not
trust government, espe-
cially unelected officials. It
Re “10 ideas for fixing Los Angeles,” Opinion, Nov. 13, and “Why L.A. needs a larger City tative performance of city reflects poorly on the Gov.
Council,” editorial, Nov. 13 government. Notably, the
controller also has sub-
State solar rules Gavin Newsom’s adminis-
tration.
must change
I
poena power to force peo- The CPUC should urge
agree with your editorial on increasing the number of L.A. City Council members.
ple, when necessary, to utilities to make rooftop
However, with cynicism about government running rampant in recent decades, many provide information. The Re “State revises solar solar part of their capital-
voters might think that adding politicians will contribute to more of the same. controller is directly elected incentive plan,” Nov. 11 improvement budgets.
The reality is different. by the people. Utilities should do this
With more council members, the number of residents that each one represents will be Why don’t more people Your article propagates rather than developing
reduced. This will make them more accessible and reduce the cost of getting elected, mak- understand the capacity of the solar industry version of remote solar and wind
ing it easier for candidates without “establishment” backing to organize a grassroots effort. the role to shine the light? the “big lie” that the growth farms, which require build-
The smaller the district, the less a candidate’s political connections and financial backing Because most city control- of rooftop solar in California ing environmentally de-
will matter. lers choose not to exercise hurts the business model of structive transmission lines
their full power, largely investor-owned utilities to population centers.
Smaller districts will also dilute the individual power of council members. More coali-
because they are creatures like Southern California They could lease these
tion-building and compromise will be required to get things done. Currently, council mem-
of the same system they are Edison. installations. This makes
bers have an incredible amount of power and insufficient checks and balances. supposed to be inspecting. Reforming outdated environmental and financial
A larger council will also provide the opportunity for greater diversity. Smaller districts Cary Brazeman incentives for rooftop solar sense, and could result in
will provide better opportunities for more groups to successfully elect candidates from their Los Angeles is a much larger threat to massive savings for utilities
communities, bringing their priorities and aspirations to the halls of city government. The writer ran for L.A. solar industry giants, evi- on transmission line main-
Jeffrey Prang, Baldwin Hills city controller in 2013. denced by their more than tenance and wildfire risk.
The writer is the elected assessor of Los Angeles County. 20% stock price gains im- Dennis Lees
:: mediately after the new plan Encinitas
was announced — because
If you believe in partici- behind other large cities in trators — akin to asking the One idea for “fixing Los the proposal’s reforms did
patory and inclusive democ-
racy, you have to agree that
the County, State, and U.S.
with respect to the ratio
fox how to guard the hen-
house — and progressive
Angeles” was to replace the
City Council with a citizens
not go far enough.
Reforming net energy
Old and sharp
L.A. needs a larger and between council members community activists. This is assembly picked by lottery. metering will not affect the Re “A modern-day Harry
much more representative and residents. As we ap- a very narrow opinion pool. The assembly would be profitability of investor- Truman,” letters, Nov. 13
City Council. proach the third decade of Where are the neighbor- “representative of the city owned utilities because they
When I led community the new century, this Com- hood council presidents, the by race, ethnicity, gender, don’t earn a profit based on I disagree with the writer
outreach and engagement mission recommends that philanthropists, the busi- age, sexual orientation, retail electricity sales; they who said elderly leaders
for the L.A. City Council the City expand the number ness leaders? Surely they national origin, class, neigh- earn a return, authorized by should retire. Benjamin
Redistricting Commission of Council Districts to meet have some ideas worth borhood and just about any the California Public Util- Franklin was 70 years old in
last year, what I heard from the needs of a complex and publishing too. other factor we like.” ities Commission (CPUC), 1776. I think that senior
Angelenos across El Pueblo changing society.” Let’s have Part Two, How do we develop the for building, operating and citizen had “new and inno-
was reflected in one of the Rafael Gonzalez please! groups from which we will maintaining the electric vative ideas.”
commission’s recommenda- El Monte Kathleen Barreto draw the citizens council? grid that serves utility cus- We can only save democ-
tions: The writer is a board Culver City By asking for volunteers? tomers. racy and the planet by being
“The Los Angeles City member for the advocacy Who has the time to attend Without significant more inclusive.
Council’s structure, in tan- group Community Coali- :: all meetings involved? reform to California’s net Amy Litton
dem with unique geo- tion. Suppose a developer energy metering regula- Costa Mesa
graphic, demographic, and What’s really needed is a working on a needed hous- tions, households without
sociopolitical landscapes, :: larger Board of Supervisors. ing project has a disagree- rooftop solar — primarily
impedes the descriptive and There are only five super- ment with the Planning renters, lower-income HOW TO WRITE TO US
substantive representation Of the 10 “civic leaders” visors for a county of almost Commission, which adheres households and seniors — Please send letters to
of all Angelenos. Expanding you consulted for ideas on 10 million residents and to the city’s General Plan. will continue to pay hun- letters@latimes.com. For
the number of Council how to fix L.A., half are more than 4,000 square Will the appeal be heard by dreds of dollars more on submission guidelines, see
Districts is necessary..... current or former politi- miles. That’s ridiculous. people who have never even their electric bills each year. latimes.com/letters or call
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back Herschel Walker
With Senate control decided, the
runoff election is more about what
kind of Black man voters are
comfortable putting in office.
LZ GRANDERSON
You’ll have to get used to
Black people being in
charge.
That’s the closing re-
mark from “A Soldier’s
Play,” which won the 2020
Tony Award for best play
revival. According to play-
wright Charles Fuller, who died last month,
his refusal to drop the line is the reason it
took 38 years for the Pulitzer Prize-winning
play to make it Broadway.
Apparently producers were concerned
place. It would appear Duncan, who de-
spises the former president, wants Walker
to publicly declare he’s under new manage-
ment.
If you find that offensive, please know, I
do as well.
Walker’s own party is openly treating
him like a prop, with no agency of his own.
Instead of dialing Trump, I suggest
Walker ring up Michael Steele, the only
Black chairman the Republican National
Committee has had. Steele might have
something to say about being used as a Scott Bauer Associated Press
prop. REDRAWING districts is a common GOP election strategy nationwide.
He served from 2009 to 2011, coinciding
with the election of President Obama.
Years later, Ian Walters, a spokesman for
the Conservative Political Action Confer-
Gerrymandering and voter
ence, looked back at the moment when the
country had put a Black guy in charge and
said Republicans “weren’t sure what to do.”
“We elected Mike Steele to be the RNC
suppression keep the South red
chair because he’s a Black guy,” Walters
said in 2018. “That was the wrong thing to By Anjali Enjeti conservative majority, the court will prob-

white theatergoers in 1982 America
wouldn’t like it very much. Judging from
the surge in hate crimes following the 2008
election of President Obama, the produc-
ers were probably right.
I’ve been thinking about “A Soldier’s
Play” of late because of the candidacy of
Herschel Walker, who is seeking Georgia’s
Senate seat. He reminds me of the charac-
ter C.J. Memphis, a stereotypical Southern
Black man who white people know will
never be in charge. Walker might be elected
a senator, but he will never be in charge.
Not of them anyway.
This was inadvertently made clear by
Walker’s campaign manager, Scott Para-
dise, who on Monday had to ask members
of his own party to stop “siphoning money
away from Georgia” with “deceptive fund-
raising tactics.”
Apparently over the weekend, Save
America, a political action committee
connected to former President Trump,
sent an email asking donors to help Walker
win next month’s runoff election against
Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.
The problem was Save America was auto-
matically keeping 90% of those contrib-
utions unless donors clicked a second link
to allocate otherwise. Since being called
out, Save America adjusted the split to
50-50. But it wasn’t just Trump’s organiza-
tion that had that default. Similar fundrais-
ing emails connected to J.D. Vance and Ted
Budd went out after those Republicans
had already won their Senate seats in Ohio
and North Carolina.
Did I mention Walker has trailed his
opponent in fundraising since the launch of
his campaign?
Now, considering Walker first made a
name for himself playing college football,
I’m sure the Heisman winner is accus-
tomed to large organizations using his
name and likeness to make money he’ll
never touch. But come on. Even the North
Carolina Republican Party sent an email
with the same 9-to-1 ratio. It’s as if everyone
in the party was in on the boondoggle.
Well … almost everyone. Walker doesn’t
seem to be in on anything.
After the midterm elections, Geoff
Duncan, the lieutenant governor of Geor-
gia, said Walker needed to call Georgia Gov.
Brian Kemp and Florida Gov. Ron DeSan-
tis and ask for assistance. Seems like he
should call them just to make sure they’re
not using his name and likeness to siphon
money away from his campaign — but
that’s just me.
Duncan also suggested Walker’s first
call should be to Trump to ask him to “stay
home” during the runoff. Strange advice
given Trump is the reason Walker relocated
to Georgia and got in the race in the first
do.”
After Republicans rode the tea party
wave back into power following the 2010
midterm elections, they got rid of Steele.
Today the party will tolerate members of
Congress giving speeches at a white na-
tionalist event.
There is a short-sighted story line in the
national media that suggests the runoff in
Georgia matters less now that control of
the Senate has already been decided in
Democrats’ favor. I think it got more inter-
esting because the voters won’t simply be
expressing their preference for which party
should control the Senate. The runoff
election is now about deciding what kind of
Black leadership voters in Georgia are
comfortable with.
Brynn Anderson Associated Press
SENATE candidate Herschel Walker
is an unwitting pawn.
Exit polls from the midterms showed
that the only racial demographic that
supported Walker was white people, so
that’s a clue to the answer.
The clips of Walker fumbling over his
words, talking in circles and just com-
pletely making stuff up are plentiful. Some
are embarrassingly funny. Most are sad
reminders that Walker isn’t an electrifying
new voice in the conservative movement,
just a pawn in a game he’s not aware is
being played.
Much like C.J. Memphis from “A Sol-
dier’s Play.” The only difference is Memphis
didn’t carry around a fake police badge.
For every $10 sent to Trump’s Save
America in support of Walker in the Geor-
gia runoff, $9 was being kept away from the
candidate unless donors said otherwise.
He wasn’t in charge then, and if elected, he
still won’t be in charge.
Just the kind of Black leadership a lot of
white Georgians are obviously comfortable
with.
@LZGranderson
I
’ve lived in the South more than half
of my life and by now, I’ve heard just
about every stereotype about the
“Southern voter.” The Southern voter
is white, racist, uneducated and Re-
publican. They vote against their own inter-
ests and get what they deserve because
they’re too ignorant to understand the is-
sues at stake.
In the aftermath of elections, blue-state
voters threaten to disown Southern voters
and often blame them for every unsatisfac-
tory electoral outcome. These crude jabs
fail to grasp the breadth and depth of voter
suppression in the South.
Despite widespread grass-roots organiz-
ing, with each passing year, Republican
leaders succeed in enacting more laws and
rules that make it increasingly difficult to
vote, and these measures disproportion-
ately affect Black and other minority voters.
To add insult to injury, after the 2020 cen-
sus, Republican-controlled Southern state
legislatures diluted the power of minority
voters when they redrew district maps in an
even more discriminatory and partisan
manner. Thus, not only do Southern voters
face serious barriers to voting, but GOP-
gerrymandered congressional and state
legislative districts have reduced the value
of their votes.
Redistricting following the 2020 census
brought about the first new maps since the
Supreme Court, in Shelby County vs. Hold-
er, gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act’s pre-
clearance provision. Southern states with a
history of racial gerrymandering no longer
needed the approval of the Justice Depart-
ment to redraw their district lines.
After the census, in the absence of pre-
clearance, lawmakers redrew district lines
that either lumped Black and other minor-
ity voters into fewer districts or divided
them up into multiple white districts — two
techniques known as “packing or cracking.”
Voters and civil rights organizations have
filed lawsuits challenging the legality of
these new maps.
One such case involves Alabama. In Mer-
rill vs. Milligan, plaintiffs claim Alabama’s
post-census congressional map discrimi-
nates against Black people, who make up
approximately 27% of the population in a
state where only one of seven congressional
districts is majority-Black. In January, a
three-judge federal panel, including two
Trump appointees, unanimously found
that the map diluted the rights of Black vot-
ers in violation of Section 2 of the Voting
Rights Act. The state appealed the ruling to
the Supreme Court, which allowed the map
to temporarily remain in place for the 2022
midterm election. Last month, the court
heard oral arguments in the case. Given the
ably rule in Alabama’s favor.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis didn’t hold
back in the least bit in post-census redis-
tricting. He rejected Florida Republicans’
own proposed map, which already heavily
favored the red electorate. With the help of
outside right-wing consultants, DeSantis
redrew the lines even more egregiously in fa-
vor of the GOP by essentially eliminating
two Black congressional seats, the 5th and
the 10th, formerly represented by Demo-
crats Al Lawson and Val Demings, who re-
cently lost the Florida Senate race to Re-
publican incumbent Marco Rubio.
Due to a population increase from 2010
and 2020, Texas received two additional
congressional seats. Though the non-His-
panic white population and Hispanic popu-
lations are nearly equal, at around 40%, the
white population benefited from the state’s
new congressional districts, with white-ma-
jority districts growing to 16, while His-
panic-majority districts remained at 10. Few
districts in the post-census map are com-
petitive. Republicans walked away with 25
out of 38 House seats, shocking no one.
In Georgia, I’ve witnessed post-2020 par-
tisan gerrymandering firsthand. Republi-
cans redrew the 6th Congressional District
farther north into GOP territories in
Forsyth, Dawson and Cherokee counties. In
doing so, it excised my city, Johns Creek, a
bright blue dot in the former 6th district,
and tacked it onto the reliably blue 7th Con-
gressional District. Instead of re-running
for her third term in the 6th District, which
she flipped blue in 2018, Rep. Lucy McBath
challenged Democrat Rep. Carolyn Bor-
deaux for the 7th District and won. But par-
tisan redistricting ultimately caused Geor-
gia Democrats to lose a House seat.
Voters in the South, especially Black and
brown voters, know exactly what they’re up
against when they head to the polls. They
understand that Medicaid expansion, com-
mon-sense gun laws, abortion care, trans
rights and the climate crisis hang in the bal-
ance every November. But they know, too,
that new voting laws coupled with Republi-
can-drawn congressional and state legisla-
tive district maps have significantly dimin-
ished their electoral strength, making vot-
ing more challenging for them every year.
Regardless of the election results,
Southern voters remain far more dimen-
sional than their stereotypes. They are not
caricatures, but disenfranchised people liv-
ing in states that actively suppress their
fundamental right to vote. They deserve to
be defended, not disparaged.
Anjali Enjeti is the author of
“Southbound: Essays on Identity,
Inheritance, and Social Change” and “The
Parted Earth.” She lives outside Atlanta.

And you thought ‘L.A. Confidential’ was fiction

An LAPD cop colluded
with Hollywood in a 2017
sexual assault cover-up.
ROBIN ABCARIAN
New York Atty. Gen. Letitia
James’ report
about the insidious
relationship be-
tween disgraced
CBS chief Leslie
Moonves and the
Los Angeles police
commander who
tried to protect
him filled me with rage and, to be
honest, a kind of hopeless resigna-
tion.
How is it possible, in 21st cen-
tury Los Angeles, that a high-
ranking police officer swore alle-
giance to a major Hollywood fig-
ure accused of sexual assault, then
vowed to use his law enforcement
position to keep the alleged victim
quiet? What is this, 1950?
And yet that’s exactly what the
New York attorney general says a
now-retired LAPD commander
did after Phyllis Golden-Gottlieb,
a retired TV show development
executive inspired by the burgeon-
ing #MeToo movement, walked
into the Hollywood police station
in 2017 and filed a confidential
complaint that Moonves had
sexually assaulted her in 1986
when he was an executive at Lori-
mar Productions. The LAPD
identified the commander as Cory
Palka, a now-retired former cap-
tain of the Hollywood station,
after the report was released.
Palka, who had moonlighted as
a private bodyguard for Moonves
at awards shows, leapt into action,
said the report. (Neither Palka nor
Moonves responded to The Times’
request for comment on the New
York attorney general’s investiga-
tion.)
“Somebody walked in the sta-
tion about a couple hours ago and
made allegations against your
boss regarding a sexual assault,”
Palka said in a voicemail to the
senior vice president of talent
relations and special events at
CBS, Ian Metrose, that is quoted
in the report. Metrose, Moonves’
close subordinate, is still em-
ployed by the entertainment
giant, according to the Wrap.
Later, the report says, Palka
texted Metrose, assuring him that
the investigating officer would
“admonish the accuser tomorrow
about refraining from going to the
media and maintaining ‘her’ confi-
dentiality (& ... honoring the integ-
rity of the investigation.)”
Funny definition of “integrity.”
What ensued was a “repre-
hensible” cover-up, said the New
York attorney general in the news
release announcing her office’s
findings and the more than $30
million in restitution that CBS and
Moonves will pay.
Moonves and his LAPD lapdog
worked to silence Golden-Gott-
lieb, and his colleagues and the
CBS board of directors worked to
keep her complaint from becom-
ing public. All the while, mind you,
Moonves was supporting the
#MeToo movement, declaring his
company would not tolerate sexu-
al misconduct.
The report details instances of
Moonves trying to find television
roles for actresses whom he is
accused of assaulting over the
years, and of Moonves trying to
keep accusers silent by wooing
them, or their agents, with the
promise of work.
CBS executives who were
aware of multiple allegations of
sexual assault against Moonves
“intentionally concealed them
from regulators, shareholders,
and the public for months,” said
the New York attorney general’s
news release — a huge corporate
no-no.
The investigation found that
CBS had engaged in insider trad-
ing because it allowed chief com-
munications officer Gil Schwartz,
who knew about the allegations, to
sell more than $8 million worth of
CBS stock in the weeks before the
news about Moonves broke. (After
the accusations against Moonves
were made public, CBS stock fell
by nearly 11%.)
Without admitting wrongdoing
or liability, Paramount, the parent
company of CBS, agreed to pay
$28 million, most of which will go to
CBS shareholders, with $6 million
set aside for improving how the
company handles complaints
about sexual harassment and
assault. Moonves is personally
required to pay $2.5 million to CBS
shareholders.
The beginning of the end for
Moonves came in July 2018, after
the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow
reported that at least six women
had accused him of sexual miscon-
duct. Less than two weeks later,
Moonves was fired for cause and
eventually was denied a
$120-million severance payment.
“Les -I’m deeply sorry that this
has happened,” Palka wrote to
Moonves. “I will always stand with,
by and pledge my allegiance to
you. You have embodied leader-
ship, class and the highest of char-
acter through all of this. With
upmost [sic] respect ...”
Moonves, just to remind you,
was accused by Golden-Gottlieb of
grabbing her head, slamming it
into his crotch and ejaculating in
her mouth.
The LAPD has announced an
investigation into Palka’s behav-
ior, and last week, the civilian
Police Commission asked the
department’s independent watch-
dog to help guide the work.
“This is a stunning example of
what some refer to as old-school
cronyism,” said commission Presi-
dent William Briggs in a story
reported by my colleague Libor
Jany. “It goes to the heart of cor-
ruption.”
“This absolutely puts our city,
this department in a bad light
nationally, that in this day and age
that type of corrupt abuse of
power is still going on and it revic-
timizes” the victim, Briggs said.
Sometimes it feels as if this
city’s institutions are built on
ethical foundations of sand.
Maybe I am naive, but in the
last few years, I have been stunned
by the corruption around us. At
our prestigious universities, USC
and UCLA, gynecologists rou-
tinely abused their female pa-
tients. City Hall is awash in scan-
dals — bribery, corruption, racism,
sexual harassment. We are about
to say goodbye to a sheriff who has
launched criminal investigations
into his perceived enemies and
ignores the corrupt behavior
rampant in his own department.
It’s one thing for a woman who
is being assaulted by a mogul like
Harvey Weinstein to freeze in fear
and pretend to go along with a
rape in order to end the ordeal
with as little physical injury as
possible, as California First Lady
Jennifer Siebel Newsom testified
courageously this week in Wein-
stein’s Los Angeles rape trial. It’s
an entirely understandable form
of self-preservation, of survival.
And it’s why so many sexual pred-
ators think they can get away with
claiming their crimes were consen-
sual acts.
But a police officer who will-
ingly sells out a sexual assault
victim for the sake of a powerful
Hollywood executive violates not
just the individual who has
brought the complaint, but all of
us who would like to trust that an
officer’s highest duty is to protect
the public, not some sleazy Holly-
wood big shot.
I am really sorry that Golden-
Gottlieb, who died this summer,
did not live to see the reckoning of
this moment.
“We would like to think the
police are looking out for us, the
victims, and not the perpetrators,”
her son, Jim Gottlieb, told the
Associated Press. “This sounds
just like what you hear about
certain police departments being
in cahoots with organized crime.”
@AbcarianLAT
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It didn’t
have
to be
this way,
sheriff
GUSTAVO ARELLANO
Alex Villanueva
sat under
warm lights in
his home
library. He was
dressed in a
crisp, long-
sleeved shirt.
Framed photos
from his private life — his
wedding day, his children,
his younger days as a
deputy, even a picture of the
family golden retriever,
Alvin — sat on a wooden
desk.
He looked directly into a
camera. “I’m not a politi-
cian. I’m not a bureaucrat.
I’m a reformer,” Villanueva
said.
It was May 2018, a few
weeks before the primary
election, and he was record-
ing a video asking voters to
choose him as the next Los
Angeles County sheriff.
“Today, we desperately
need to reform the Sheriff ’s
Department,” Villanueva
continued. Gentle piano
music tinkled in the back-
ground. “We cannot contin-
ue down the path we’re
currently on.”
He was confident. He
came across as kind. He
called himself a progressive.
He made the runoff against
Sheriff Jim McDonnell, then
won in the general election
[See Arellano, B2]
Margin widens
in mayor’s race
Latest update again fa-
vors Rep. Karen Bass,
who leads Rick Caruso by
5 percentage points. B2
Weinstein’s defense goes on the offensive
From Siebel
Newsom, the
courage to help
every woman
ANITA CHABRIA
Jennifer
Siebel New-
som did not
have to tes-
tify against
Harvey
Weinstein.
But this
week, she did
— reminding us that sexual
assault carries its own kind
of life sentence for victims.
Siebel Newsom took the
stand Monday in the down-
town Los Angeles court-
room where Weinstein is
facing charges of multiple
sex crimes only a few min-
utes before court stopped
for a lunch break. But in
those few minutes, her pain
and humiliation seeped out
of a wound clearly still open,
17 years after it was inflicted.
Asked if she could iden-
tify Weinstein, she began to
cry. Later in the day, in
detail heartbreaking, explic-
it and profound in its ugli-
ness, she described Wein-
stein raping her in a Los
Angeles hotel room in 2005.
It was an encounter “like an
out-of-body experience,”
she said, that left her frozen
and “trying to process what
happened.”
Tuesday, she endured a
cross-examination by Wein-
stein’s lawyer, Mark Werks-
man, so brutal and bullying
that at one point, Siebel
Newsom told him, “What
[See Chabria, B5]
SPORTS ON THE BACK: Left-hander Tyler Anderson leaving Dodgers for Angels. B10
FA S T- F O O D WO R K E R S P RO T E S T
TreShawn McGuire, second from left, is joined by fellow workers and his 11-month-old son, TreShawn
Jr., to protest a bid by restaurant chains for a referendum overturning protections for fast-food workers.
On eve of regents vote, UCLA
athletes want to join with USC
By Ben Bolch
As it tries to finalize a
move to the Big Ten
Conference, UCLA has de-
veloped a strong preference
for its most despised rival.
According to a survey of
Bruins athletes, 93% said it
was important or very im-
portant to keep UCLA in the
same conference as USC,
the nemesis it will face Sat-
urday at a sold-out Rose
Bowl for a likely spot in the
Pac-12 championship foot-
ball game. Only 24% of Bru-
ins athletes said keeping
UCLA and sister school UC
Berkeley in the same confer-
ence met the same level of
importance.
JENNIFER Siebel Newsom, shown with her husband, Gov. Gavin Newsom, in
June, spent much of Tuesday fending off defense attorney Mark Werksman.
WERKSMAN, shown in July 2021, aggressively interrogated Siebel Newsom over
friendly emails she exchanged with Harvey Weinstein after he allegedly raped her.
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
UCLA and USC, shown in 2021, will play Saturday
two years before both are expected to join the Big Ten.
Rich Pedroncelli Associated Press
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
In what might go down as
one of the most monumental
days in the history of UCLA
athletics, the UC Regents
could declare their inten-
tions Thursday during a
meeting at UC San Francis-
co’s Mission Bay campus.
The agenda for that day has
been revised to add an ac-
tion item that would allow
the regents to intervene or
withdraw any objections to
UCLA’s Big Ten move in the
event there is a consensus
during the open session.
Clarity on the move is
critical for UCLA’s athletic
department with football
signing day next month and
logistics issues needing to be
sorted out well in advance of
[See Regents, B4]
Film titan’s
team tries to
sow doubts on
rape allegation
By Michael Finnegan
A day after her emotion-
ally charged testimony that
Hollywood producer Harvey
Weinstein raped her in 2005,
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
faced an aggressive interro-
gation Tuesday over dozens
of friendly emails she ex-
changed with him in the
years afterward.
Weinstein attorney Mark
Werksman sought to cast
doubt on Siebel Newsom’s
credibility by questioning
her statement that, after the
rape, it was weird and scary
to run into her assailant
from time to time at film in-
dustry events.
“I just don’t remember
any of this — sorry,” Siebel
Newsom told a Los Angeles
jury as Werksman asked her
to review each of her emails,
including some asking to
meet Weinstein for coffee or
lunch to talk about film proj-
ects.
Once one of Hollywood’s
most powerful producers,
Weinstein is on trial in L.A.
County Superior Court for
the alleged rape or sexual as-
sault of Siebel Newsom and
three other women in Los
Angeles and Beverly Hills.
Additional charges stem-
ming from Weinstein’s al-
leged rape of a fifth woman
were dismissed Tuesday af-
ter prosecutors told Judge
Lisa Lench they did not plan
[See Weinstein, B5]
B
Deputies
won’t be
charged
in fatal
shooting
Prosecutors’ decision
comes two years after
the killing of Dijon
Kizzee in South L.A.
By James Queally and
Alene Tchekmedyian
Two Los Angeles County
sheriff ’s deputies will not
face criminal charges for the
fatal August 2020 shooting
of Dijon Kizzee, whose death
in South Los Angeles
sparked days of protests and
outrage.
In a 19-page memo re-
leased Tuesday in response
to a public records request
filed by The Times, prose-
cutors said deputies Chris-
tian Morales and Michael
Garcia “reasonably be-
lieved, based on the totality
of the circumstances, that
force was necessary to de-
fend against a threat of
death when they initially
fired their weapons.”
Kizzee was killed by two
volleys of gunfire following a
traffic stop and brief foot
pursuit in the 1200 block of
West 109th Place in the West-
mont neighborhood.
Some witnesses and ac-
tivists have long alleged that
the 29-year-old was un-
armed at the time of the
shooting; however, prose-
cutors accepted Morales
and Garcia’s assertion that
Kizzee picked up a handgun
he’d dropped while running
away from deputies and
pointed it at them before
they opened fire the first
time.
While it remains unclear
whether Kizzee was close to
the weapon when the depu-
ties opened fire a second
time — video from the scene
is grainy and partly ob-
structs view of the incident
— prosecutors decided they
could not prove the second
round of gunfire was crimi-
nal, according to the memo.
No footage actually
shows Kizzee holding a
weapon. Sheriff ’s deputies
did not begin using body-
worn cameras until two
months after Kizzee was
killed.
Morales and Garcia first
encountered Kizzee when he
was riding a bicycle on the
wrong side of the road, and
they tried to stop him for a
traffic violation, authorities
have said.
Kizzee dropped the bike
and fled. Deputies caught
up to him a block away and
found Kizzee appearing
ready to surrender with his
hands wrapped in towels or
garments, according to the
memo. Instead, Kizzee
punched Morales in the face,
causing Garcia to “run in to
assist,” the memo said.
In the struggle, a hand-
gun fell to the ground, ac-
cording to the memo.
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raise fire risk
Two rounds of winds
are expected, with the
first blowing through
this morning. B3
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in Long Beach
Rex Richardson,
whose foe conceded, is
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first Black leader. B3
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Slasher is shot dead
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BASS
WIDENS
LEAD
OVER
CARUSO
By James Rainey

U.S. Rep. Karen Bass’ al-

ready substantial lead in the
Los Angeles mayor’s race
got even larger Tuesday,
with the longtime Washing-
ton lawmaker pulling more
than 5% ahead of business-
man Rick Caruso, one week
after election day.
The results marked the
fifth-straight updated vote
totals in which Bass has
gained ground on Caruso, a
trend that most election ob-
servers have said seems all
but certain to make Bass the
first woman elected mayor
in Los Angeles.
Bass now holds a 52.55%-
47.45% lead — a 36,349-vote
margin — according to the
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times L.A. County Registrar-Re-
SHERIFF ALEX VILLANUEVA , hugging his wife, Vivian, conceded Tuesday that he had lost his reelection campaign to Robert Luna. corder/County Clerk’s office.
Tuesday’s update again

Fall of a reformer that could’ve been

[Arellano, from B1]
— the first time an incum-
bent had lost the post in
over 100 years — with an
unlikely coalition that in-
cluded the deputies union,
Democratic politicians and
leftist activists. Prior to
becoming sheriff, his high-
est rank had been lieuten-
ant — relatively low on the
command chain.
I watched that ad re-
cently, then queued up
another Villanueva video,
one he released the Friday
before this election day.
This time, he stands
outside his drab campaign
headquarters in Santa Fe
Springs under an unflatter-
ing morning sun. His hands
are inside his jean pockets.
His polo shirt is unbuttoned
and untucked. Street traffic
is now his soundtrack.
This video wasn’t for
public consumption. It was
a fundraising plea to depu-
ties because their union —
which endorsed him but
had spent a paltry $1,500
this election cycle versus the
$1 million-plus of 2018 — had
“left the membership high
and dry,” according to Villa-
nueva, “and me to the fate
of fighting George Soros
and Jeff Katzenberg all by
myself.”
He looks subdued. He
looks angry. He looks
scared.
He looks beat, because
he soon would be.
On Tuesday, Villanueva
conceded that he had lost
his reelection campaign to
challenger Robert Luna.
The retired Long Beach
police chief is currently
ahead of the incumbent by
60% to 40%, a gap far bigger
than Villanueva’s 5-percent-
age-point margin of 2018.
In the past four years,
Villanueva has so torched
his department that
L.A. County voters also
overwhelmingly passed a
measure that will allow
the county Board of Super-
visors to remove a sitting
sheriff.
Villanueva’s fall from
grace is as embarrassing a
tumble as ever seen in the
annals of local politics.
Almost from the start, he
turned from historic candi-
date to a half-Puerto Rican,
half-Polish Buford T.
Justice.
And yet I can’t help but
feel sorry for the guy.
If Villanueva had stuck to
his campaign slogan from
four years ago — “Reform.
Rebuild. Restore” — he
could’ve transformed the
position of sheriff in a
county where his prede-
cessors long ruled with an
iron fist and lead bullets. He
promised to drain the
swamp in a department still
reeling from the corruption
of the Lee Baca years.
Instead, Villanueva
rewarded the swamp — and
then became the swamp
itself.
He rehired a deputy fired
by McDonnell for allega-
tions of domestic violence
against a fellow deputy, a
move a Superior Court
judge ruled was “unlawful.”
He tried to roll back reforms
to clamp down on abusive
deputies in the county jails.
He allowed the East Los
Angeles sheriff ’s station to
plaster on its windows a logo
that McDonnell had
banned. It featured the
name of a John Wayne
movie — “Fort Apache,”
which happens to be about a
lonely military outpost
surrounded by hostile Indi-
ans.
That was just the first
few months of Villanueva’s
reign.
El sheriff did follow
through on promises to
make deputies wear body
cameras while on the job
and to remove federal immi-
gration agents from the
jails. But he antagonized
the activists and politicians
who had fought for years for
those reforms.
His vows to crack down
on public corruption now
has the state attorney gen-
eral criticizing his
overreach. Instead of clear-
ing out the deputy gangs
that have plagued the de-
partment for decades,
Villanueva alternately
claimed they didn’t exist,
that he had eliminated
them, or that calling them
“gangs” was racist.
His wars against the
media — especially my
colleague Alene Tchek-
medyian — were a waste of
time. His belittling of public
officials who opposed him —
especially the L.A. County
Board of Supervisors,
whom he went after with
misogynistic language and
morning raids — was un-
founded. All these moves —
and many, many more —
eroded the coalition that
took him to victory in 2018.
The man who portrayed
himself as a lone warrior in a
worn Stetson battling an
entrenched, evil establish-
ment ended up alone.
It didn’t have to be this
way, Alex.
The one time I sat down
with you for an in-depth
conversation, I found a guy
smarter than the meathead
thug that opponents made
you out to be.
In a back room at the
Hall of Justice this past
March, your take on why
Latinos support law en-
forcement more than other
groups was spot on. Your
analysis of the bureaucracy
that plagues L.A.’s home-
lessness crisis was true. I
saw a glimpse of the re-
former that could’ve been.
“By doing what I’m do-
ing, I’m acting on principle
and I’m acting on fact,” you
told me. “What I’m not
doing is [a] calculated ‘Let
me see which way the politi-
cal winds are blowing.’ ”
But that’s what you did.
By the time we talked, you
had forsaken the pro-
gressivism that you once
espoused in favor of appear-
ances on Fox News and
fulminations against “woke”
culture.
What I expected to be a
simple conversation about
Latinos and law enforce-
ment suddenly turned into a
Rorschach test of your
worldview. Racist dog
whistles. Anger at the very
activists who made your
election possible. Decades-
old slights that had nothing
to do with modern-day L.A.
When people deride you
to me as a Trump-like
clown, Alex, I always correct
them and say you are a
Nixonian tragedy. The two
of you were working-class
kids with anti-elite chips on
your shoulders that moti-
vated you to pull off historic
upsets. Each of you had a
concern for the common
person that your opponents
will never fully grasp.
But once each of you
assumed power, Alex, those
chips that were once so
crucial to success blinded
each of you to the arrogance
and paranoia that ended
your careers.
The last thing you told
me during our springtime
conversation was, “Well,
hopefully you have a lot
more information than you
had before.”
I do — more than I
could’ve ever imagined.
You had one final chance
to redeem yourself, Alex, at
the news conference where
you conceded your electoral
loss to Luna. You could’ve
done it gracefully. Instead, it
was the same pity party
you’ve offered since the
start of your administra-
tion.
You bragged about sup-
posed accomplishments
and claimed to have “beat
back the old guard that
resisted change,” then in the
same breath insinuated
that the old guard was a
“weaponized political
machine” with a “campaign
of false propaganda” that
torpedoed your efforts. You
said “false narrative” six
times. You denied that
deputy gangs exist, which
federal judges noted had
existed decades ago. You
trashed supposed enemies
like the Board of Supervi-
sors and The Times again
and again.
You even plugged your
new Twitter account, the
one that misspells your last
name because cybersquat-
ters apparently took every
possible manifestation of
your name.
“For people who think
we’re defeated, quite the
opposite,” you said near the
end, when you finally got
emotional and your wife
came to your side with a hug
and the words, “You’ve got
this.”
You never did.
Peace out, Alex. You
should’ve paid closer atten-
tion to one of your reelection
slogans: “Bring back the
dream.”
What a Freudian slip.
You were yearning for what
could’ve been.
heavily favored Bass, with
the congresswoman from
South L.A. taking in more
than 60% of the roughly
33,000 newly counted bal-
lots.
Bass has held a roughly
60%-40% margin or better
over Caruso in every day of
vote total releases since
Thursday. That pattern
harks back to the June pri-
mary, when Caruso forged
into a 5-percentage-point
lead on election night only to
have mail-in ballots, which
are mostly counted later,
power Bass to a 7% victory
margin.
That also mirrors a na-
tional trend in which prog-
ressive Democrats like Bass
saw the bulk of their winning
votes come via the mail.
Bass is a lifelong Democrat,
while Caruso re-registered
with the party just before
this year’s election, saying
he had become disillusioned
with the GOP’s hard right-
ward shift.
The lead in the vote totals
changed hands three times
in the hours immediately af-
ter the polls closed on Nov. 8,
with Caruso holding a 2.5-
point lead on Wednesday
morning. But since then, ev-
ery new release of voting in-
formation from county offi-
cials has favored Bass, with
the congresswoman taking
the lead on Friday.
The latest update came a
day after three experts in
electoral politics said it was
hard to construct a scenario
in which Caruso, 63, could
come from behind to beat
the 69-year-old Bass.
Fernando Guerra, direc-
tor of the Center for the
Study of Los Angeles at Loy-
ola Marymount University,
said Bass was “on track to
win the mayoralty of Los An-
geles.” Raphael Sonenshein,
director of the Pat Brown In-
stitute for Public Affairs at
Cal State L.A., said the vote
totals appeared “to be mov-
ing in kind of an irrevocable
direction” in Bass’ favor.

3 candidates claim victory in L.A. City Council races

Soto-Martinez, Young
Yaroslavsky, McOsker
each are ahead by 10
points or more.
By David Zahniser
Three candidates for Los
Angeles City Council de-
clared victory in their races
on Tuesday, part of the big-
gest shakeup of the 15-mem-
ber council in nearly a dec-
ade.
Attorney Tim McOsker, a
onetime aide to Mayor
James Hahn, will return to
City Hall after a 17-year ab-
sence, having prevailed in
his race to succeed Los An-
geles City Councilmember
Joe Buscaino in the city’s
harbor district.
Labor organizer Hugo
Soto-Martinez celebrated
his own win, announcing he
has ousted Councilmember
Mitch O’Farrell in a Holly-
wood district.
Meanwhile, political aide
Katy Young Yaroslavsky
marked her victory over at-
torney Sam Yebri, who is-
sued a concession state-
ment Tuesday in the race to
represent part of the West-
side.
“I look forward to repre-
senting all the communities
of Council District 5 and
working with you to make
our city better no matter
who you supported in this
election,” Yaroslavsky, who
lives in L.A.’s South Carthay
neighborhood, said in a
statement.
Yaroslavsky, in an inter-
view, said she would focus in
the coming months on
homelessness — providing
more housing while also
working to keep people from
losing their homes — and on
working with county officials
to ensure that mental health
workers are assigned to
L.A.’s streets.
The latest batch of elec-
tion results showed Yaro-
slavsky had 58.5% of the
vote, compared with 41.5%
for Yebri, in the race to suc-
ceed Councilmember Paul
Koretz. McOsker, a former
lobbyist and political aide,
had 65.2% of the vote, com-
pared with 34.8% for his op-
ponent, former neighbor-
hood council member Dan-
ielle Sandoval.
Soto-Martinez had 55%
of the vote, compared with
45% for O’Farrell, a two-term
incumbent who spent 20
years at City Hall — about
half of it as an aide to Coun-
KATY YOUNG YAROSLAVSKY said she would
focus on homelessness and mental health issues.
cilman Eric Garcetti, who
became mayor in 2013.
O’Farrell, a resident of
Glassell Park, said in a state-
ment that he had poured his
“heart and soul” into serving
the district.
“Though these results
were not what we hoped for, I
am proud of the campaign
we ran, and I am proud of my
team,” he said. “We will serve
the constituents of the 13th
District until my last day in
office and ensure a smooth
transition to the new coun-
cilmember.”
Soto-Martinez, an organ-
izer with Unite Here Local 11,
the hotel and restaurant
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
workers’ union, will repre-
sent a district that covers
all or parts of Hollywood,
Silver Lake, Echo Park, His-
toric Filipinotown, Windsor
Square, Atwater Village and
other areas.
“We ran this campaign to
build community power for
workers, immigrants, the
unhoused, people of color,
young people, renters, and
all of us who have been ne-
glected by our city officials,”
said Soto-Martinez, who
lives in Hollywood. “Now,
we’re bringing this move-
ment into City Hall.”
McOsker, in his own elec-
tion statement, promised to
be “accessible, transparent,
and responsive” to the dis-
trict’s residents.
“I see this win as a man-
date not for me, but for a
community that deserves
good jobs, better wages,
clean air and water, more af-
fordable housing, effective
solutions for homelessness,
safe neighborhoods, trans-
parency in local govern-
ment, and a voice in City
Hall,” he said.
The Los Angeles County
Registrar-Recorder/County
Clerk is continuing to count
votes in L.A.’s down-ballot
contests, which will bring
five new faces to the council
next month. Several candi-
dates in those races had de-
clined to declare victory or
defeat in recent days, saying
they were waiting for more
results.
McOsker, who lives in
San Pedro, spent eight years
as a top advisor to Hahn,
first in the city attorney’s of-
fice, then in the mayor’s of-
fice. In recent years, he has
worked as a lawyer repre-
senting real estate devel-
opers, an organization that
represents hotels and the
Los Angeles Police Protec-
tive League, the union repre-
senting rank-and-file offi-
cers in the Los Angeles Po-
lice Department.
McOsker’s district com-
prises San Pedro, Wilming-
ton, Harbor City, Harbor
Gateway and Watts, as well
as the Port of Los Angeles.
Yaroslavsky, an environ-
mental attorney and aide to
county Supervisor Sheila
Kuehl, will represent a dis-
trict that consists of all or
parts of Westwood, Century
City, Cheviot Hills, Palms,
Beverlywood, Bel-Air, Pico-
Robertson, Miracle Mile,
Hancock Park and the Fair-
fax district.
Yebri told his supporters
Tuesday that he had called
Yaroslavsky to congratulate
her — and is now rooting for
her to succeed.
“While we sparred during
the campaign, Katy and I
agree on far more than we
disagree,” he said.
Votes are still being tal-
lied in the race to replace
Councilmember Mike Bonin
in a district stretching from
Los Angeles International
Airport to Pacific Palisades.
In that race, attorney Traci
Park is leading attorney Erin
Darling, by 53.5% to 46.5%.
The last time a city elec-
tion brought so much
change to the council was in
2013. That year, voters
elected six new members.
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Santa
Ana
winds
to raise
fire risk
The first of two
rounds of strong gusts
is expected to blow
through this morning.
By Gregory Yee
Southern California will
be buffeted by back-to-back
Santa Ana wind events this
week, bringing an elevated
fire risk to parts of the re-
gion.
The National Weather
Service office in Oxnard ex-
pected the first round of
high winds and low humidity
to hit Los Angeles and
Ventura counties overnight
Tuesday and into Wednes-
day. A second round is pos-
sible Saturday.
Although the region was
hit by record rainfall last
week, not all areas received
significant precipitation,
said Lisa Phillips, a meteor-
ologist with the Oxnard of-
fice.
Wednesday’s winds will
dry out grasses, and the sec-
ond round will further dry
fuels, Phillips said, priming
them for potential fires.
“Some areas did get quite
a bit of rain, but we have to
get at least 4 inches to offi-
cially end fire season,” she
said. “We’re not there yet,
unfortunately.”
A red flag warning will be
in effect from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Wednesday for western Los
Angeles County and much of
Ventura County, according
to the National Weather
Service in Oxnard.
“Further drying Wednes-
day morning into the after-
noon and continuing gusty
and potentially damaging
winds will likely support 6
hours or more of critical fire
weather conditions during
the warning period,” the
weather service said.
Meteorologists warned of
damaging winds out of the
northeast with gusts peak-
ing at 55 to 75 mph in wind-
prone mountains.
Winds are forecast to be
strongest Tuesday night
through early Wednesday
afternoon. Minimum rela-
tive humidity of 8% to 18% is
expected Wednesday morn-
ing through the early eve-
ning.
“If fire ignition occurs
there could be rapid spread
of wildfire that would lead to
a threat to life and property,”
meteorologists said.
The weather service has
also issued a high wind
warning for 7 p.m. Tuesday
to 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Northeast winds from 30
to 40 mph, and gusts up to 65
mph are expected in the
mountains of Ventura and
L.A. counties, meteorolo-
gists said.
The forecast for Sat-
urday’s wind event is still
evolving, but models show
wind speeds could be 5 to 10
mph slower than Wednes-
day’s Santa Ana winds.
Though winds over the
weekend could be weaker,
they’re still a risk, meteorol-
ogists said.
Residents should avoid
using equipment like weed
whackers, driving vehicles
over dry grasses or any ac-
tivity that could cause
sparks, Phillips said.
Strong winds and dry air
make sparks travel signifi-
cantly farther than they nor-
mally would, increasing the
risk of fire starts, she said.
A high wind warning will
also be in effect from 8 p.m.
Tuesday to 10 p.m. Wednes-
day for the valleys of San
Bernardino and Riverside
counties, the Inland Empire,
San Bernardino County
mountains, Santa Ana
Mountains and foothills,
and inland areas of Orange
County, the weather serv-
ice’s San Diego office said.
Northeast winds of 25 to
35 mph are expected with
gusts up to 60 mph, the
weather service said.
Gusts up to 70 mph are
possible below the Cajon
Pass and near the coastal
foothills of the Santa Ana
mountains.
A red flag warning has
not been issued for the In-
land Empire or Orange
County.
THE HEALTHCARE workers union SEIU-UHW has argued that pay increases are crucial to retaining em-
ployees who have felt devalued during the pandemic. Above, union members and supporters hold a rally in July.
Richardson wins election as
first Black mayor of Long Beach
His victory caps a
rapid rise in the city’s
power structure that
started in 2014.
By Alexandra E. Petri
Rex Richardson will be
the first Black mayor of
Long Beach.
He made history on
Tuesday after his runoff op-
ponent, Suzie Price, con-
ceded and cleared the path
for Richardson to become
the city’s first Black leader.
“The city is special and ...
not often you hear stories
like mine, where someone
can come here as a young
man, become the youngest
City Council member, be-
come the youngest vice may-
or … and break barriers as
the first African American
mayor,” Richardson, 39, said
in an interview Tuesday
morning. “Long Beach is a
special city like that.”
In a statement posted to
Twitter, Price, a City Council
member for the 3rd District,
said that although an un-
known number of votes re-
main to be counted, the
“trend is going in the wrong
direction for our campaign.”
“It appears that the peo-
ple of Long Beach have spo-
ken and selected Vice Mayor
Richardson as our next may-
or,” Price said in her state-
ment. “I wish him nothing
but success on the journey
ahead.”
According to the Los An-
geles County registrar’s
office, Richardson has
55.29% of the runoff vote
Tuesday morning, com-
pared to Price’s 44.71%, a dif-
Young mom’s death shocks neighbors
The finding of her
body and arrest of her
ex-husband jolt Simi
Valley community.
By Nathan Solis and
Christian Martinez
On most mornings, Ka-
rina Reyes would run into
Rachel Castillo around their
Simi Valley apartment com-
plex as the two mothers took
their children to school.
Reyes bumped into 25-
year-old Castillo and her ex-
husband, Zarbab Ali, at a re-
cent Halloween event, where
the couple dressed in Super
Mario Bros. costumes with
their sons, ages 2 and 5.
The two mothers were
planning a playdate with
their children, so it came as a
shock when police knocked
on Reyes’ door and asked if
she heard anything from
Castillo’s apartment Thurs-
day. She hadn’t.
The young mother’s dis-
appearance cast a “cloud”
over the quiet complex, ac-
cording to residents who
mingle in its tidy, green
courtyards, tennis courts
and swimming pool.
On Sunday, when Cas-
tillo’s body was found in a re-
CITY & STATE
NEW Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson, shown
Tuesday, spoke about breaking barriers in the city.
ference of 8,166 votes.
Richardson, the city’s
vice mayor and council
member for the 9th District,
said Price called him early
Tuesday to offer congratu-
lations.
Richardson said he
would announce his transi-
tion team Wednesday. “I feel
incredibly blessed and fortu-
nate to be in this position,
but I also feel ready,” he said,
describing it as a “watershed
moment” for the city.
Richardson was born on
Scott Air Force Base in
Belleville, Ill. His family en-
dured the Jim Crow laws in
the South, and his mother
integrated her school in Ala-
bama when she was 7 years
old. His parents divorced,
and Richardson was raised
by his mother.
He moved to California
when he was 11 and attended
Cal State Dominguez Hills
mote area of eastern An-
telope Valley and her ex-hus-
band was arrested at his
parents’ home in Victorville
as the primary suspect,
neighbors said they were
shocked and confused by the
death.
“She was always happy,
always smiling,” Reyes said
Monday.
Castillo was last seen
Thursday. Her mother, Rob-
yn Castillo, said that Ali
came to the apartment to
pick up his sons in the morn-
ing and that her daughter
was supposed to spend the
day working from home at
her job as a healthcare navi-
gator for a social services
agency.
But when her sister, Emi-
ly Castillo, came to the
apartment they shared, she
found “a significant amount
of blood” and signs of a
struggle, according to Simi
Valley police. Rachel Castillo
was considered a missing
person.
A day after Ali’s arrest,
the wind blew through the
nearby trees and fluttered
the flame of a candle that
had been placed among
flowers near the front door of
Castillo’s apartment. Inves-
tigators do not believe Cas-
tillo’s sons were at the apart-
ment during the incident.
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for college, where he was stu-
dent body president, before
going on to become a labor
organizer in South Los An-
geles. He began his career in
Long Beach politics as the
chief of staff to Councilmem-
ber Steven Neal.
In 2014, when he was 30,
Richardson became the
youngest member elected to
Long Beach City Council. He
made history again in 2016
when he became the city’s
youngest vice mayor at 32.
He was reelected to the
council in 2018.
Richardson was the fa-
vorite heading into the gen-
eral election, besting Price in
the primary.
In the initial results on
election night, Richardson
emerged in the lead, and his
margin expanded over the
last week.
Price was born in North
Carolina and lived in Iran
Castillo family
RACHEL CASTILLO in
an undated photo. She
and her ex-husband had
two sons, ages 2 and 5.
The apartment complex
is overlooked by the Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library
on a nearby hill and sits off
Country Club Drive in west-
ern Simi Valley. The sprawl-
ing walled community
boasts tennis courts, several
small courtyards and two-
story units in a pristine
neighborhood near a golf
course.
Around the complex,
Castillo’s missing-person
posters were still taped to
trash cans, doors and mail-
boxes.
Ali seemed nice, said
Reyes.
“I’m shocked,” she said.
“I would see her every day.”
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until she was 7 before fleeing
political violence and mov-
ing to California with her
mother. Price was not avail-
able for additional comment
Tuesday.
In a statement, she said
she was proud of her cam-
paign. “As a young kid trying
to learn a new language in a
new country, I could never
have dreamed of running for
mayor in one [of] this coun-
try’s greatest cities,” Price
said. “This is the essence of
democracy and the heart of
the American dream. I love
the city and will always work
hard to make it a better
place.”
Price, a deputy district
attorney for Orange County
who was first elected to City
Council in 2014, told the Long
Beach Post in October that
the race for mayor would be
her last political run.
Price and Richardson
were vying to replace Robert
Garcia, the first gay and Lat-
ino mayor of Long Beach.
Garcia is set to become the
first gay immigrant in the
U.S. House of Representa-
tives, after a decisive show-
ing from voters in the 42nd
Congressional District,
which includes Long Beach
and southeastern Los Ange-
les County.
Long Beach, with a popu-
lation of 470,000 people, is
the second-largest city in
Los Angeles County and is
home to the port of Long
Beach, one of the busiest
seaports in the world.
The most important is-
sues facing Long Beach have
been homelessness, housing
and crime, according to a
poll by Cal State Long Beach
taken a week before the Nov.
8 election.
The incident had left her
saddened but also more con-
siderate.
“We should take care of
each other as neighbors,”
Reyes said.
Another neighbor, who
wished to be identified only
as Luke, said he had seen Ali
with the two children at the
complex’s pool about a
month ago.
He recognized Ali when
his photo was released by in-
vestigators.
He too said he was
shocked at what police say
had occurred.
“It doesn’t make much
sense,” said another neigh-
bor who declined to be iden-
tified.
The neighbor said he
learned something had hap-
pened when police knocked
on his door Thursday night
to ask questions.
For a time, he said, there
was little information avail-
able other than that Castillo
had been reported missing.
“You could feel a cloud over
the complex,” he said.
The incident had left him
“totally shocked.”
“It’s a really good com-
munity,” he said.
Times staff writers Laura
Newberry and Harriet Ryan
contributed to this report.
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BIDS TO
BOOST
WAGES
REMAIN
IN AIR
By Emily Alpert Reyes
Workers at private hospi-
tals and dialysis clinics in In-
glewood are poised to get a
wage increase, with a mea-
sure to boost their minimum
wage to $25 an hour remain-
ing ahead as election results
continued to be tallied this
week.
The wage measure was
championed by the health-
care workers’ union Service
Employees International
Union-United Healthcare
Workers West, which has ar-
gued that pay increases are
crucial to retaining workers
who have felt devalued dur-
ing the COVID-19 pandemic.
The union has been hoping
that local measures in Los
Angeles County cities such
as Inglewood could pave the
way for a statewide increase
in wages.
“We’re thrilled that Ingle-
wood voters recognize and
value the sacrifices made by
essential healthcare work-
ers,” certified nursing assist-
ant Martha Alvarez said in a
statement released by
SEIU-UHW on Tuesday.
“Raising wages is not only
fair, but it will help attract
more workers to Inglewood
and help patients get the
care they need.”
The Inglewood measure,
Measure HC, had garnered
more than 53% of the vote as
of the latest tallies. In Duar-
te, however, a similar mea-
sure backed by SEIU-UHW
was faltering, with 63% vot-
ing no on Measure J in the re-
sults that had been counted
as of Tuesday afternoon.
Hospital groups and
other opponents argued
that the proposed increases
would unfairly single out
some facilities and not oth-
ers, creating inequities in
the labor market. They also
warned that rapidly increas-
ing pay could jeopardize
some hospitals. After local
officials voted for similar
hikes in Los Angeles, Down-
ey and Long Beach, oppo-
nents including the Califor-
nia Assn. of Hospitals and
Health Systems gathered
signatures to force the mea-
sures to be put on the ballot
instead, putting them on ice
until voters can decide.
“Voters recognized the
serious flaws in each of these
measures with voters in
Duarte appearing to over-
whelmingly reject Measure
J, while Inglewood voters are
currently supporting Mea-
sure HC by a narrow margin,
despite being one of the
most progressive cities in
the state,” said George W.
Greene, president of the
Hospital Assn. of Southern
California.
Greene said that his
group supports continued
conversations about worker
compensation at the state or
regional level, but “deeply
flawed ordinances consid-
ered city by city is bad policy
and the wrong approach.”
SEIU-UHW pointed in-
stead to spending by their
opponents, who had gar-
nered more than $1.2 million
for their campaign to com-
bat the Duarte measure by
early November, according
to campaign filings. The
union raised roughly
$600,000 to promote the
Duarte measure.
The Inglewood and
Duarte ballot measures
sought to cover a range of
employees, including securi-
ty guards, clerical workers,
nursing assistants, aides,
housekeepers, grounds-
keepers and others who
work at privately run hospi-
tals, psychiatric facilities, di-
alysis centers and clinics
that are part of private hos-
pitals.
SEIU-UHW had esti-
mated that the two mea-
sures would affect nearly 700
of their members, as well as
an unknown number of
workers who are not part of
the union.
The Duarte measure
would cover workers at the
cancer treatment center
City of Hope; the Inglewood
measure affects those at
Centinela Hospital Medical
Center and seven dialysis
clinics, according to SEIU-
UHW.
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plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you.
Your written response must be in proper legal form if find these court forms and more information at the associated with a coast-to- estimated that it would have
you want the court to hear your case. There may be California Courts Online Self-Help Center coast conference, as well as to pay an extra $4.62 million
a court form that you can use for your response. You (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law the results of a joint survey of to $5.79 million for additional
can find these court forms and more information at library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot
the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. 111 Bruins athletes con- charter flights, though that
pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver
courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or form. If you do not file your response on time, you may ducted by UCLA and the figure could be “significantly
the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the fil- University of California Of- reduced” through sched-
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do not file your response on time, you may lose the property may be taken without further warning from fice of the President. uling accommodations such
case by default, and your wages, money, and property the court. UCLA officials believe as neutral-site games and
may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to the roughly eight-figure out- shared flights for UCLA and
There are other legal requirements. You may
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want to call an attorney right away. If you do not
know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral
service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be
travel, academic support UCLA also has allocated
referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you
may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal and mental health services $2.927 million to enhance nu-
legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit services program. You can located these nonprofit will be more than offset by tritional support, providing
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fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court
of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any make between $65 million adding two dietitians and 10
be paid before the court will dismiss the case. settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in and $75 million in media part-time student workers
іAVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the rights revenue alone during to staff a snack station.
dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decider en su
contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a court will dismiss the case. its first year of conference Additionally, the school
continuacion. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 membership, with addi- would pay $1.036 million to
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su
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correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una that would likely dwarf what and expand its summer
posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar llamada telefónica no lo prolegen. Su respuesta por the Bruins would make by bridge program from 30 to
para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea
de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda remaining in the Pac-12. 100 students, allowing half of
que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un
de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en
formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta.
That should more than dou- all new athletes to enroll in
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+ made from its Pac-12 media ing to their curriculum.
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plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an at- abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible
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[Shooting, from B1]
“Kizzee bent down and
picked up the pistol. Morales
stepped back, drew his
weapon, and fired multiple
shots at Kizzee, who turned
away from Morales and fell
to the ground, substantially
out of view of the surveil-
lance camera,” the memo
read.
As Kizzee collapsed from
his injuries, both deputies
thought he was reaching for
the weapon a second time
and fired another volley, ac-
cording to the memo. Kizzee
was shot 16 times.
The Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment did not immediately
respond to questions about
Morales and Garcia’s sta-
tuses with the department.
An attorney for Kizzee’s fam-
ily did not respond to an
email seeking comment.
Dist. Atty. George
Gascón said he met with
Kizzee’s family this month to
explain the decision not to
file charges.
“My heart goes out to Mr.
Kizzee’s family for the loss of
their loved one,” Gascón
said in a statement. “As Dis-
trict Attorney, I have pri-
oritized conducting thor-
ough reviews of homicides
and shootings of civilians by
law enforcement and have
not shied away from pursu-
ing criminal charges against
law enforcement officers
when I believe the evidence
is sufficient to prove a crime
was committed beyond a
reasonable doubt.”
Kizzee had moved to the
Antelope Valley with his
mother and younger brother
to escape the gang violence
of the South Los Angeles
neighborhood where he was
born and raised. He was an
unemployed plumber at the
time of the shooting and was
visiting friends in the city the
day he was killed.
Some witnesses con-
tended Kizzee did not throw
Weinstein defense takes offensive
[Weinstein, from B1]
to move forward with those
counts.
The woman lives outside
the United States and can-
not be compelled by sub-
poena to testify, according to
people familiar with the
matter. Prosecutors have
not mentioned her at the tri-
al.
Siebel Newsom, who
sobbed on the witness stand
for hours Monday as she dis-
closed details of the alleged
rape, testified in a packed
courtroom under tight secu-
rity again Tuesday, this time
mostly under cross-exami-
nation. Her husband, Gov.
Gavin Newsom, spent both
days in a private area down
the hall.
Siebel Newsom spent
much of the day fending off
Werksman, who’d suggested
in his opening statement
last month that, if she had
not cast herself as a victim
she would be “just another
bimbo who slept with Har-
vey Weinstein to get ahead in
Hollywood.”
“What you’re doing today
is exactly what he did to me,”
Siebel Newsom said during
one round of Werksman’s
rapid-fire questioning.
“Your energy is just so in-
tense,” she told him during
Siebel Newsom shows courage on stand
[Chabria, from B1]
you’re doing today is exactly
what he did to me.”
For those of you whip-
ping out your phones to
email me that she’s acting,
that she kept in touch with
her accused rapist, that she
did this or that which proves
her a willing participant in
her own victimization —
please don’t bother. I’ve
heard it in literally every
sexual assault case I have
ever covered. In the many
years I’ve done this, I’ve
never come across a single
instance in which someone
wasn’t willing to argue, “She
asked for it.”
No one asks to be raped,
and honestly, I shouldn’t
need to say that. But every
victim who testifies in a
court of law is forced to
relive their trauma, and to
have the rest of us pick
apart their decisions and
motivations like carrion on
roadkill — a sickening but
predictable price for justice.
That secondary assault
started before Siebel New-
som raised her hand and
swore to tell the truth. In the
opening days of the trial,
Werksman described her as
“just another bimbo who
slept with Harvey Weinstein
KEDRIN KIZZEE, left, and brother Eddie Kizzee lead a march in South L.A. in August to demand charges be
filed against the two sheriff’s deputies who fatally shot Dijon Kizzee, Eddie’s son, two years earlier.
a punch at Morales, and oth-
ers said his hands were
empty when he was killed.
Latiera Irby, 29, said that she
saw Kizzee get into a scuffle
with the deputies and that
they opened fire only after
Kizzee had fallen to the
ground.
“He had nothing in his
hands,” she said around the
time of the shooting.
None of the footage
shows Kizzee holding a
weapon, but prosecutors
said images from the scene
helped validate the depu-
ties’ version of events.
“The fact that scene pho-
tos show the pistol ended up
many feet east of where
Kizzee bent down further
corroborates the deputies’
statements that he picked
up the pistol before he
turned away from them and
another.
The rape occurred in We-
instein’s suite at the Penin-
sula hotel in Beverly Hills in
September 2005, a couple of
weeks after she met him at
the Toronto International
Film Festival, Siebel New-
som said.
At the time, she was an
aspiring actor and film-
maker trying to break into
the upper tiers of the busi-
ness, and she said she’d gone
to the hotel to speak with
him about her aspirations
on several projects.
Werksman confronted
Siebel Newsom with emails
showing that, starting about
nine months after the al-
leged rape, she began send-
ing Weinstein emails seeking
to meet with him again.
“Are you free for coffee or
lunch this coming Monday
or Tues,” she wrote to Wein-
stein in September 2006,
saying she was sorry they
had missed each other that
year at the next Toronto fes-
tival.
Werksman asked why she
was seeking “to see your rap-
ist as soon as you could.”
“It was just business,”
she said. “I was probably just
trying to get advice.”
Werksman also inquired
about a May 2007 email ex-
to get ahead in Hollywood.”
Werksman went on to
describe all the women
testifying against Weinstein
as having to “lie to them-
selves ... to make what they
did consensually back then
seem like it was forced upon
them.”
Which makes Siebel
Newsom’s testimony all the
more brave, and all the more
significant, not just for this
trial, but for every woman
who has been assaulted.
Siebel Newsom could have
dodged this, refused to
enter that courthouse. The
trial would have gone on
without her, and she could
have remained a quiet foot-
note in this Greek tragedy of
hubris and corrupted
power.
Instead, she chose not
only to face Weinstein but to
face us all.
As the spouse of the
governor of the largest and
most controversial state in
the nation, everything she
testifies to will become part
of a very public legacy that is
going to follow her and
Newsom into future political
campaigns, especially as he
seeks an ever-larger na-
tional profile.
Regardless of what else
then dropped it next to his
body near the driveway
apron,” the memo read.
Although it’s unclear
whether Kizzee was still a
threat when deputies con-
tinued to fire as he lay on the
ground, prosecutors said
there is no evidence to dis-
prove the fact that he was
potentially reaching for a
gun.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva
did not comment directly on
the merits of the decision
not to prosecute the depu-
ties. But he referenced
Kizzee’s case Tuesday dur-
ing a freewheeling, griev-
ance-fueled news confer-
ence in which he conceded
defeat to former Long Beach
Police Chief Robert Luna in
his bid for a second term.
Villanueva repeated alle-
gations he had made weeks
change in which she sought
to meet Weinstein during the
Cannes Film Festival in
France.
“You actually sought out
his company at Cannes,
true?” Werksman asked.
“I guess I did,” she
replied.
Siebel Newsom de-
scribed her emails as “net-
working,” telling the jury, “I
was just hustling.”
“You were hustling with a
man you claim violently
raped you?” Werksman
asked.
The judge sustained a
prosecutor’s objection, and
Siebel Newsom did not re-
spond.
Siebel Newsom, who re-
ported the assault to police
in April 2020, testified that
she sent out hundreds of
thousands of emails and did
not recall the ones Werks-
man showed her.
Werksman also sought to
emphasize discrepancies
between Siebel Newsom’s
testimony at the trial and
the three earlier statements
she made to police, prose-
cutors and a grand jury. He
zeroed in on her confusion
over the time of night when
she left the Peninsula hotel
and the details of Wein-
stein’s physical contact with
she has accomplished or will
accomplish, there will be few
stories about her that don’t
mention this moment,
whatever the outcome may
be. As a mom, she will some-
day probably be asked by
her children to explain what
all this meant, and didn’t.
She will never escape the
truths she tells on that
stand. And no matter how
strong she is, it’s going to
hurt. I’ve seen the toll that
telling a sexual assault story
publicly takes on women
who aren’t in the spotlight,
having the details be part of
every Google search of your
name. Imagine that ampli-
fied by fame, and every
person you meet knowing
intimate particulars of your
worst moment.
There are, of course,
many brave women who
spoke out against the odds
to bring Weinstein to justice.
And there are the
journalists who doggedly
went after the story — in-
cluding New York Times
reporters Megan Twohey
and Jodi Kantor, whose
reporting helped spark the
#MeToo movement and the
film “She Said.”
But as the spouse of the
governor, Siebel Newsom
ago without evidence that
Gascón was holding back
decisions not to prosecute
Sheriff ’s Department offi-
cials in controversial police
killings and use-of-force
cases in order to harm the
sheriff ’s reelection bid. In
Kizzee’s case, he insisted
Gascón’s office had decided
not to prosecute the depu-
ties in May.
Villanueva also insisted
Gascón was hiding from the
public the fact that he would
not charge the deputies who
killed 18-year-old Andres
Guardado two years ago in
Gardena.
The sheriff also said
Gascón would not prosecute
a deputy who allegedly knelt
on an inmate’s head for sev-
eral minutes. Ironically, Vil-
lanueva himself has been ac-
cused of hiding that incident
her in the hotel room.
Her attorney, Elizabeth
Fegan, issued a statement
saying Siebel Newsom “felt
an obligation to herself, her
family and most important,
to the women who came for-
ward as well as the women
unable to speak out pub-
licly.”
“Throughout her testi-
mony she demonstrated
tremendous strength and
resolve in telling her truth
and stood fast as Weinstein’s
defense team ruthlessly
tried to discredit her,” Fegan
said.
Siebel Newsom ended
her testimony with a drama-
tic exit, after renewed ques-
tioning from a prosecutor.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Marlene
Martinez again asked Siebel
Newsom about the most ex-
plicit descriptions she had
given the day before of the
alleged rape.
Responding to final ques-
tions on whether she had
consented to two specific sex
acts with Weinstein, Siebel
Newsom twice shrieked,
“No!” then left the court-
room looking highly dis-
traught.
Times staff writer James
Queally contributed to this
report.
has an unusual burden. In
2017, she wrote an essay for
the Huffington Post that
alluded to the crimes that
she is now testifying about.
In it, she wrote that we need
more people in positions of
influence and prominence
willing to call out sexual
abuse.
“Imagine that world for
our kids,” she wrote. “Where
there are enough of us
standing proudly and loudly
for what is right that the
injustices do not happen in
the first place.”
Siebel Newsom’s testi-
mony isn’t going to fix the
world or end the patriarchy.
But by using her consider-
able clout to speak out, she
takes us one small step
closer to a place where “She
asked for it” isn’t somehow a
universally valid response to
a rape accusation.
And if my kids ask what
it means to see the first
partner of California testify
about her rape, I’ll tell them
it means no woman is safe.
But we are not helpless,
and having the courage to
speak truth to those who
commit violence upon us is
a powerful weapon — espe-
cially in the hands of a
powerful woman.
S WEDNESDAY , NOVEMB ER 16, 2022
Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times
from the public.
Such decisions, when fi-
nalized, result in the cre-
ation of a public report that
would be disseminated to
the law enforcement agency
involved, the officers in-
volved and the family of the
person on whom force was
used.
Under questioning from
a Times reporter at the early
November news conference,
Villanueva admitted he did
not have any of those docu-
ments, nor had he spoken to
the alleged whistleblower in-
side the district attorney’s
office who had provided him
the information.
The Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment did not respond to ad-
ditional questions from The
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BRICKMAN, Sidney
May 8, 1926 - November 12, 2022
Sidney Brickman, age 96, of Rancho
Palos Verdes, died on November 12,
2022. He was born in Toronto, Canada
on May 8, 1926 to Jack and Annie
Weinstein. He attended high school
in Toronto and then moved to Los
Angeles where he attended USC. He
met his wife, Barbara Sugarman at
USC, and they were married on August
2, 1953. They lived in Rancho Palos
Verdes. Sidney worked as a teacher,
principal, and Area Superintendent for
LAUSD. He was a member of Temple
Beth-El. Sidney is survived by his wife
Barbara, daughters Judith Lynn Wells
(Art), Teri Fay Feldman (Stefan), four
granddaughters, Michelle (Sammy),
Shawna (Chris), Ellie (PJ), Rachel
(Ryan) and 8 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at
Green Hills Memorial Chapel, Rancho
Palos Verdes at 2:00pm. Rabbi Cassi
Kail and Cantor Ilan Davidson will be
officiating. In lieu of flowers, please
donate to Temple Beth-El or your
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Times on Tuesday.
The Times filed a public
records request for all public
documents related to the
cases Villanueva made alle-
gations about on Nov. 3.
Thus far, the district attor-
ney’s office has turned over
only records related to
Kizzee’s death. The Times
received those documents
Tuesday morning.
Tiffiny Blacknell, a
spokeswoman for the dis-
trict attorney’s office, said
previously that Villanueva
told “many lies” during the
Nov. 3 news conference,
and dismissed the news con-
ference as a “media stunt.”
With one exception, howev-
er, she has not responded
to specific questions about
Villanueva’s allegations.
On Tuesday, another of-
fice spokesman, Greg Ris-
ling, said a prosecutor from
the office’s Justice Systems
Integrity Division made a
recommendation about
Kizzee’s case earlier this
year, which Gascón sent
back for further review.
Risling did not say when
that happened, or what the
initial recommendation
was, though the documents
related to Kizzee’s killing
had been approved for pub-
lic release on Nov. 2, the day
before Villanueva’s news
conference.
Blacknell also said prose-
cutors made a recommenda-
tion to Gascón last month in
Guardado’s case, though
she would not say what the
recommendation was.
Gascón “sent the case
back” to the integrity divi-
sion for further review,
Blacknell said, something
that rarely happened under
his predecessors. The status
of Guardado’s case re-
mained unclear as of
Tuesday.
HYMAN, M.D., Carol B.
January 21, 1923 - November 12, 2022
Carol B. Hyman, M.D., a pioneer
in the field of Pediatric Hematology
Oncology, passed away at age 99.
Carol was born on January 21, 1923,
in South Orange, NJ. She attended
Cornell University and received her
M.D. from Cornell University Medical
College in 1947. Following medical
school, Carol specialized in Pediatrics
and soon became interested in
incurable genetic diseases.
Carol met her husband, Maurice
Hyman, M.D., during her Pediatrics
residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in
New York. They moved to Los Angeles
in 1952 where Carol became the
first fellow in Pediatric Hematology
Oncology at Children’s Hospital Los
Angeles (CHLA). She was the second
doctor and first woman to practice
Pediatric Hematology Oncology in Los
Angeles.
Carol remained at CHLA following
her fellowship. She focused on
childhood leukemia and complex
genetic anemias. In 1980, she joined
the medical staff at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center, where she specialized
in thalassemia, sickle cell and other
blood disorders. She practiced there
until her retirement in her late 80s.
Carol held a tenured faculty position
at USC Keck School of Medicine for
decades and taught generations
of medical students, interns,
residents, and fellows about Pediatric
Hematology Oncology.
Carol’s career involved clinical care,
teaching, and research. She was an
internationally recognized expert in
her field actively involved on numerous
medical boards and committees.
Beginning in the 1950s, she authored
or co-authored 56 articles and book
chapters as well as many abstracts
in the medical literature and also
participated in collaborative national
and international research programs.
Carol was active in her synagogue,
Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills. She
traveled to Israel with them and had a
B’nai Mitzvah when she was 83.
Carol loved to travel, including
taking her family to Cuba to celebrate
her 90th.
After Carol’s beloved husband of 52
years, Mac, died in 2003, she enjoyed
15 years with her “good friend” Irvin
Whiteman, PhD.
Carol is survived by her three
daughters, Gayle Hyman, Madeline
Hyman (Peter Abrahams), and Celia
Hyman Landry, granddaughters Tessa
Abrahams and Erin Churilla, a great-
grandchild, nieces and nephews,
“stepdaughter” Paula Whiteman, M.D.,
and innumerable friends. In addition
to her husband and Prof. Whiteman,
Carol was predeceased by her parents,
sister, and brother.
We are grateful to Jeremy Gateman,
her wonderful trainer/physical
therapist and friend who kept her up
and walking until the end, and for
the caregivers of Rose’s Agency Home
Care and the team at Preferred Care
Hospice, Inc.
In lieu of flowers, please send a
donation in Carol’s memory to Temple
Emanuel of Beverly Hills, Rabbi
Discretionary Fund (https://tebh.
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charity of your choice.
KLAPOW, Bernard
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Falcons are revered in the nation Angels beat

[Qatar, from B10]
Dodgers for
household, irrespective of their
social or tribal status, enjoyed the
presence of falcons around them.
Falcons would be considered
left-hander
part of the family.”
More than 1.2 million people
are expected to flood Qatar be-
Anderson
tween Sunday and Christmas for
soccer’s World Cup, the global [Anderson, from B10]
championship of a sport that was pass the annual value he would get in a
little appreciated in the country longer contract on the open market.
just a generation ago. Falconry, However, the Dodgers decided before
however, has been the national last Thursday’s deadline to extend it.
sport since long before Qatar be- According to one person with knowl-
came a nation. edge of the situation, Anderson re-
And it’s a cultural touchstone mained undecided until Tuesday
Qataris are eager to share with afternoon’s deadline to accept the of-
visitors. fer.
Falconry in the Middle East In the end, he got the security of a
goes back more than 5,000 years multiyear contract from the Angels,
and was introduced to the sandy who have signed pitchers to multiyear
Arabian peninsula that became Lujain Jo Associated Press contracts in consecutive offseasons
Qatar by humble Bedouin tribes. KHODR ALLAH , a Pakistani resident of Qatar, holds his gyrfalcon at the Souq Waqif Falcon after failing to do so the previous seven
Nomadic people used the birds to Hospital in Doha. The services available for falcons there rival those available for humans. winters.
hunt prey such as the Houbara Signing Anderson could round out
bustard, a large, fast bird that has gone from something Bedouins gene-sequencing machines and ab Uprisings: What Everyone the Angels’ rotation if they plan to
been hunted so aggressively it is did to put food on the table to a equipment for performing endo- Needs to Know,” said the atten- move forward with Shohei Ohtani,
now an endangered species in status symbol, with princes and scopies and processing blood, fe- tion and investment Qatar has Patrick Sandoval, Reid Detmers and
Qatar. emirs competing to buy or raise cal and kidney samples. The staff devoted to falconry is important José Suarez.
The skills the Bedouin learned the best birds, some of which are of nearly two dozen, most of for a young country seeking an Two-way star Ohtani over the last
while hunting eventually became valued in the millions. whom are foreign-born, can han- identity and a place on the world two seasons has pitched in a six-man
the basis for the sport still prac- It also has caused the occa- dle more than 200 services from stage. rotation. Asked whether Ohtani
ticed in Qatar. But if that sport sional diplomatic rift. Members cosmetic procedures such as It’s why a 71⁄2-ton, 40-foot steel would be comfortable pitching on
hasn’t changed over the cen- of Qatar’s ruling Al-Thani family beak adjustments and feather re- and aluminum statue of a fear- shorter rest, Ohtani’s agent Nez
turies, just about everything else were arrested three years ago and placements to invasive surgery, some-looking — if kitschy — fal- Balelo said at the general manager
about falconry has. charged with stalking precious Alkarkhi said. con was installed last year out- meetings in Las Vegas last week:
It’s no longer a pursuit for birds during a falcon-hunting trip On a recent summer morning, side the departures terminal of “Shohei Ohtani on a five-man rota-
humble tribal people, for exam- to Pakistan in 2019. Four years be- veterinarians and technicians in Doha’s international airport. tion, I think he’s becoming more and
ple, but rather a hobby for the fore that, 26 Qataris, including white lab coats, or green and blue And it’s why the city’s trendy more comfortable. He’s realizing what
rich — which, in Qatar, is just members of the ruling family, medical scrubs with the circular Katara Cultural Village has he can and cannot do.”
about everyone since the coun- were kidnapped at gunpoint logo of the Souq Waqif Falcon staged an annual falcon exhib- Anderson joins a pitching staff
try’s citizens have the highest while hunting falcons and held Hospital on the left breast, bus- ition each September since 2017, that ranked ninth in the majors with a
per-capita income in the world for 16 months before being re- tled between spacious examina- drawing more than 180 compa- 3.77 ERA. Based on the year Ohtani
and pay nothing for electricity, leased in Iraq following complex tion rooms and counters topped nies from 20 countries to promote had on the mound — 15-9 record in 28
land, water or health care. negotiations that also included with computers and high-pow- the sport and the culture that starts, a 2.33 ERA, 219 strikeouts —
Falcons are the fastest mem- the evacuation of civilians from ered microscopes. One man, surrounds it. Anderson could be the Angels’ No. 2
bers of the animal kingdom, ca- war-torn Syria. wearing a yellow leather glove as “You have falconry, you have starter.
pable of speeds of more than Protecting the investments of protection against razor-sharp dates, you have pearls,” Gelvin The Angels at least will have a vet-
240 mph during dives. And prized royals and commoners explains talons, carried a falcon down one said, ticking off three ancient pil- eran pitcher coming in after starting
birds, many of which are impor- why hospitals such as Alkarkhi’s of the wide hallways. lars of regional culture that pre- for a full season. Of the young pitchers
ted to Qatar, are sold in markets treat as many as 150 falcons a day. Because the three-floor facil- date the establishment of any Ar- in this year’s rotation likely to be on
or through private dealers for During the peak season, from ity is subsidized by Sheikh ab Gulf countries. “All these next season’s list, Sandoval has the
tens of thousands of dollars. September to February, the fal- Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Qa- states, they’re brand new. So most experience with 2.149 years of
“The preference depends on con perch in the hospital’s wait- tari’s ruler, Alkarkhi said hospital what they have to do is invent service time (63 games and 56 starts
the genes,” Alkarkhi said. “One ing room frequently becomes so visits can cost as little as $5. some sort of past. since his debut in 2019).
cannot judge the preference of crowded it needs a waiting room But the royal treatment “It’s called in the historical
one over the other, so the owners of its own. doesn’t stop with health care. A profession the invention of tradi- Roster additions
of farms that crossbreed must “They are part of the family. If Saudi prince once bought indi- tion. You pick a tradition and you The Dodgers added prospects Di-
choose the distinctive character- anything happens to [them], vidual seats on a commercial say: ‘Hey, we’re Scottish, so there- ego Cartaya, Michael Busch, Andy
istics of the bird before proceed- they take it to the hospital for a flight for 80 of his falcons. At least fore we’re going to wear kilts. And Pages and Jonny DeLuca to their 40-
ing to breed it. check-up and necessary serv- four Middle Eastern airlines — that’s really going to be impor- man roster, protecting them from the
“Qatari falconers have very ices,” Alkarkhi, who has a mas- Qatar, Emirates, Etihad and tant for us because that’s what Rule 5 draft. The Angels selected the
good knowledge about falcons ter’s degree in avian pathology Royal Jordanian airways — allow our national identity is.’ [Or] contracts of pitching prospects
and their diseases.” from the University of Baghdad, falcons to fly in the main cabin of ‘We’re Qataris, therefore falconry Kolton Ingram and Jose Soriano.
The equipment used in the said of his clients. their planes, provided they have a is important for us.’ It’s actually The Angels also designated three
sport, such as four-wheel-drive The hospital, which opened in ticket and a passport to prove part and parcel of the state- relievers for assignment: Touki Tous-
vehicles and radio monitors, can 2008, could hold its own against they aren’t being stolen. building process that’s going on.” saint, Nash Walters and Rob Zas-
cost hundreds of thousands any modern medical facility for UCLA history professor Which is another way of saying tryzny. The final open spot likely re-
more, which is why falconry has humans, boasting X-ray and James Gelvin, author of “The Ar- it’s not just for the birds. mains for Anderson.
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NHL STANDINGS
WESTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE
Pacific W L OL Pts GF GA Metropolitan W L OL Pts GF GA
Vegas 13 4 0 26 62 42 New Jersey 13 3 0 26 60 39
KINGS 10 7 1 21 61 63 N.Y. Islanders 11 6 0 22 57 43
Seattle 8 5 3 19 52 45 Carolina 10 5 1 21 50 43
Edmonton 9 7 0 18 59 58 N.Y. Rangers 8 6 3 19 52 48
Calgary 7 6 2 16 47 50 Philadelphia 7 6 3 17 41 48
San Jose 6 9 3 15 52 63 Washington 7 9 2 16 51 58
Vancouver 5 9 3 13 58 70 Pittsburgh 6 7 3 15 56 57
DUCKS 5 10 1 11 45 70 Columbus 5 9 1 11 43 65
Central W L OL Pts GF GA Atlantic W L OL Pts GF GA
Dallas 9 5 2 20 60 43 Boston 14 2 0 28 65 35
Winnipeg 9 4 1 19 43 33 Toronto 9 5 3 21 50 46
Colorado 8 5 1 17 51 38 Florida 9 6 1 19 53 48
Minnesota 7 7 2 16 43 47 Tampa Bay 9 6 1 19 54 53
Chicago 6 6 3 15 38 46 Detroit 7 5 4 18 46 53
Nashville 7 8 1 15 42 52 Montreal 8 7 1 17 48 53
Arizona 6 8 1 13 40 54 Buffalo 7 9 0 14 59 57
St. Louis 6 8 0 12 34 50 Ottawa 5 9 1 11 51 53
Note: Overtime or shootout losses worth one point.

RESULTS
AT DUCKS 3 Ryan Strome scored the winning goal in overtime for the
Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press Ducks, who stopped a three-game losing streak.
DETROIT 2 (OT)
DUCKS CENTER Isac Lundestrom shoots past Red Wings center Oskar Sundqvist during the first period of
the Ducks’ 3-2 overtime win. Center Ryan Strome scored the game-winner with 49 seconds left in OT. AT TAMPA BAY 5 Alex Killorn scored from the left circle on a two-on-one
DALLAS 4 (OT) play at 3:43 of overtime, lifting the Lightning to the win.

DUCKS 3, RED WINGS 2, OT NEW JERSEY 5 Jack Hughes scored twice, and the Devils extended their

Ducks end losing streak Detroit..............................1

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mond), 7:12 (pp). 2. DUCKS, McTavish 2 (Henrique,

0 — 2
1 — 3
FIRST PERIOD: 1. Det., Berggren 1 (Hronek, Ray-

Fowler), 17:47 (pp). Penalties—Carrick, DUCKS (Inter-

ference), 5:48. Sundqvist, DET (Cross Checking),
AT MONTREAL 1
TORONTO 5
AT PITTSBURGH 2
VANCOUVER 5
winning streak to 10 games. Vitek Vanecek had 25 saves.
The Maple Leafs’ John Tavares scored his 400th goal, and
Matt Murray had 34 saves in his return to Pittsburgh.
Bo Horvat had a goal and two assists as the Canucks
his first goal for his new team with Strome shoving home 17:06. AT BUFFALO 4 ended a skid at three. The Sabres have lost six straight.
SECOND PERIOD: 3. Det., Rasmussen 2 (Perron,
DUCKS 3 with 46 seconds left in regu- his fifth goal of the season. Sundqvist), 19:25. Penalties—Rasmussen, DET AT FLORIDA 5 Carter Verhaeghe scored twice in the final minutes for the
DETROIT 2 (OT) lation to force overtime for “Sometimes in three-on-
(Tripping), 2:18. White, DUCKS (Tripping), 11:05.
THIRD PERIOD: . DUCKS, Klingberg 1 (Fowler, Ze- WASHINGTON 2 Panthers, who improved to 5-1-1 at home this season.
the Ducks, who then made three, you’ve got to dive- gras), 19:13. Penalties—Strand, DUCKS (Tripping),
associated press 5:01. Seider, DET (Slashing), 6:00. Raymond, DET AT COLUMBUS 5 Vladislav Gavrikov scored at 3:14 of overtime, and the
an opportunistic scoring bomb them and see if you (Roughing), 6:50. Benoit, DUCKS (Hooking), 10:04. Blue Jackets sent the Flyers to their fourth straight loss.
Raymond, DET (Hooking), 11:54. PHILADELPHIA 4 (OT)
play to earn only their fifth can get a turnover, and it just OVERTIME: 5. DUCKS, Strome 5 (Zegras), 4:10.
Ryan Strome scored on a victory of the season — still hit my glove,” Strome said. Penalties—None. AT NASHVILLE 2 Matt Duchene scored a goal and assisted on another to
pass from Trevor Zegras none in regulation. “We deserved it, though. For SHOTS ON GOAL: Det. 13-10-5-5—33. DUCKS 10-9- MINNESOTA 1 power the Predators’ victory. Juuse Saros made 32 saves.
9-2—30. Power-play conversions—Det. 1 of 4. DUCKS 1
with 49 seconds left in over- After a backhand clear- all the stuff we’ve dealt with of 5. SAN JOSE 5 The Sharks scored four goals in the third period to pull
GOALIES: Det., Husso 5-2-3 (30 shots-27 saves).
time and the Ducks ended a ing attempt by Detroit’s Ty- for the last little while, I DUCKS, Gibson 3-8-1 (33-31). Att—15,198 (17,174). AT VEGAS 2 away and pick up their third consecutive victory.
three-game losing streak ler Bertuzzi accidentally hit thought we brought a good T—2:35.
with a 3-2 victory over the Strome in front of the net, effort tonight.” TODAY’S GAMES
Detroit Red Wings on Tues- Zegras and Strome ex- Mason McTavish scored fewest points in the NHL, KINGS at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Ottawa, 4 p.m.
day night. ecuted a back-and-forth a power-play goal for the and John Gibson stopped 31 St. Louis at Chicago, 4:30 p.m.
John Klingberg scored passing game that ended Ducks, who are tied for the shots in his third victory.

STANDINGS
Standings have been arranged to reflect how the teams will be
determined for the playoffs. Teams are ranked 1-15 by record. The top
six teams in each conference qualify for the playoffs. Teams seven
through 10 will participate in a play-in tournament with the top-
Clippers rally from 25 down but can’t prevail
seeded play-in team meeting the lowest qualifying play-in team. The
next-lowest qualifying team would play the second, etc. Head-to-
head competition is the first of several tiebreakers, followed by con- [Clippers, from B10]
ference record. (Western Conference divisions: S-Southwest; P-Pa-
cific; N-Northwest; Eastern Conference divisions: A-Atlantic; C-Cen- rim.
tral; S-Southeast). The basketball bounced and
WESTERN CONFERENCE ended up in the hands of Clippers
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk. forward Robert Covington. But as
1. Portland 10 4 .714 6-4 N1 he tried to get possession of the
2. Denver 9 4 .692 1
⁄2 7-3 N2 ball, he lost it out of bounds.
3. Utah 10 6 .625 1 6-4 N3 “I was fouled on that play,” Cov-
4. Dallas 8 5 .615 11⁄2 7-3 S1 ington said. “Simple as that.”
4. Phoenix 8 5 .615 11⁄2 6-4 P1
And that was it for the Clippers.
They were left shaking their
6. Memphis 9 6 .600 11⁄2 5-5 S2
heads at the off-balance shot Mav-
7. New Orleans 8 6 .571 2 5-5 S3
ericks star Luka Doncic made as
8. Sacramento 7 6 .538 21⁄2 7-3 P2
the 24-second clock was running
out late in the fourth quarter. Don-
9. CLIPPERS 8 7 .533 21⁄2 6-4 P3 cic had kept the ball from going out
10. Golden State 6 8 .429 4 4-6 P4 of bounds and threw up a 29-foot
10. Minnesota 6 8 .429 4 4-6 N4 three-pointer, the ball setting into
10. Oklahoma City 6 8 .429 4 5-5 N5 the net for a 102-98 Dallas lead with
13. San Antonio 6 9 .400 41⁄2 3-7 S4 27.6 seconds remaining.
14. LAKERS 3 10 .231 61⁄2 3-7 P5 That shot gave Doncic 35 points
15. Houston 2 12 .143 8 1-9 S5 to go along with 11 rebounds.
It was essentially the back-
EASTERN CONFERENCE
breaker for the Clippers, who actu-
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk.
ally took a five-point lead in the
1. Boston 11 3 .786 8-2 A1 fourth quarter after falling behind
2. Milwaukee 10 3 .769 1
⁄2 7-3 C1 by 25 late in the first half.
3. Atlanta 9 5 .643 2 6-4 S1 “To come back and take the
4. Cleveland 8 5 .615 21⁄2 6-4 C2 lead against a good team like this
5. Washington 8 6 .571 3 5-5 S2 just talks about our character and
6. Toronto 8 7 .533 31⁄2 5-5 A2 what we’re trying to build here,”
7. Indiana 6 6 .500 4 6-4 C3 Lue said. “So, like I said, they got
7. Miami 7 7 .500 4 6-4 S3 the victory, but we kept competing.
7. Philadelphia 7 7 .500 4 6-4 A4 So, I like to see that.”
7. New York 7 7 .500 4 4-6 A3 Already without Kawhi Leon-
ard yet again because of his right
11. Chicago 6 8 .429 5 4-6 C4 knee management, the Clippers
12. Brooklyn 6 9 .400 51⁄2 5-5 A5 lost starting guard Luke Kennard
13. Orlando 4 10 .286 7 4-6 S4 because of a strained right calf.
14. Charlotte 4 11 .267 71⁄2 2-8 S5
Kennard was called for a foul
early in the first quarter and looked
15. Detroit 3 12 .200 81⁄2 2-8 C5
to be in discomfort, limping back to
the Clippers’ bench with about
TUESDAY’S RESULTS nine minutes left. He eventually
Dallas 103, CLIPPERS 101 New Orleans 113, Memphis 102 untucked his jersey and walked LM Otero Associated Press
New York 118, Utah 111 Portland 117, San Antonio 110 back to the locker room. THE CLIPPERS’ Reggie Jackson looks to pass from the floor as he’s defended by the Mavericks’
Sacramento 153, Brooklyn 121
The Clippers got back reserve Spencer Dinwiddie in the first quarter. Dallas blew a 25-point lead but pulled out a 103-101 win.
TODAY’S GAMES point guard John Wall, who missed
Favorite Line Underdog Time the team’s 122-106 win Monday was not nearly enough for a Clip- grew into a 54-29 deficit late in the said Batum, who had 22 points.
at Washington 5 Oklahoma City 4 p.m. night in Houston for left knee man- pers team in need of offense. second quarter, forcing them to try “But you can’t put yourself in that
Minnesota 5 at Orlando 4 p.m. agement, but things still got worse George faced double teams all to play catch-up. The Clippers shot position. I know it’s against a good
at Charlotte 2 Indiana 4 p.m. for the Clippers after Kennard was game, the Mavericks (8-5) limiting just 34.4% from the field in the first team with a great player. It can be
Boston 21⁄2 at Atlanta 4:30 p.m.
injured. him to 13 attempts from the field. half and turned the ball over 12 tough on the road to try to produce
at Toronto OFF Miami 4:30 p.m.
at Milwaukee OFF Cleveland 5 p.m.
Wall was strong off the bench, He hit seven of those and finished times. a win. We almost did it. Almost
at New Orleans OFF Chicago 5 p.m. finishing with 17 points, six re- with 23 points, seven rebounds and They outscored the Mavericks pulled it out. But we gotta get a bet-
at Dallas OFF Houston 5:30 p.m. bounds and four assists. Paul six assists. 33-15 in the third quarter to get ter start. You need to [do] a better
at Denver OFF New York 7 p.m. George attempted just four shots The Clippers (8-7) fell into a 15- back into the game. job than [that] and don’t be down
at Phoenix OFF Golden State 7 p.m. in the first half, making two, and it point hole in the first quarter that “I would love to win it tonight,” 25 on the road.”

MAVERICKS 103, CLIPPERS 101 Pelicans 113, Grizzlies 102 Knicks 118, Jazz 111 Trail Blazers 117, Spurs 110 Kings 153, Nets 121
STATS
CLIPPERS MEMPHIS NEW YORK SAN ANTONIO BROOKLYN
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T LAKERS PPG RPG APG
George ..............41 7-13 8-8 0-7 6 4 23 Brooks ..............37 6-18 5-6 0-2 1 3 19 Barrett ..............37 5-18 8-14 0-3 4 2 18 Kel.Johnson .......34 6-14 4-5 0-5 5 1 20 Durant ..............30 8-15 11-11 0-4 6 2 27 James 24.9 8.8 6.9
Morris Sr. ..........36 7-11 3-4 0-3 4 1 18 Jackson Jr. .........25 3-14 1-2 2-6 0 1 7 Randle ..............31 5-11 3-3 1-5 1 2 15 Sochan .............26 2-3 2-2 0-4 4 5 6 O’Neale.............24 1-4 0-0 0-2 1 1 3
Zubac ...............32 0-2 3-4 2-7 4 5 3 Adams ..............12 1-2 0-2 2-5 1 3 2 Hartenstein ........22 1-4 0-0 2-9 1 4 2 Poeltl ................31 14-17 3-5 5-14 5 3 31 Claxton .............17 3-5 0-0 0-1 1 3 6 Davis 24.3 11.2 2.5
Jackson.............25 3-7 0-0 0-4 2 0 6 Konchar ............36 4-6 0-0 2-8 2 4 9 Brunson ............34 10-20 4-4 1-3 8 5 25 Jones................22 1-6 0-0 0-2 9 1 2 Harris................20 1-7 1-1 0-1 1 0 4 Walker 16.5 2.5 1.7
Kennard ..............2 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 Morant ..............36 13-27 8-11 3-8 4 1 36 Reddish ............33 7-13 3-3 0-1 1 1 19 Vassell ..............35 7-15 3-3 0-2 2 3 21 Sumner .............21 4-9 9-9 0-1 1 3 18
Batum...............26 7-7 1-2 1-5 0 3 22 Clarke ...............33 6-12 2-2 4-13 3 1 15 Quickley ............25 5-10 0-0 0-3 2 5 13 Bates-Diop ........26 5-7 0-0 3-4 2 1 10 Curry ................23 3-6 2-2 0-3 3 3 9 Westbrook 16.3 5.5 7.2
Wall..................26 6-11 4-6 0-6 4 4 17 Aldama .............24 3-6 1-2 1-7 1 3 8 Sims.................24 5-7 1-1 8-13 2 5 11 Richardson ........24 2-7 0-0 0-1 5 2 4 Thomas .............20 4-8 3-4 0-2 3 0 12 Brown 9.5 5.1 .8
N.Powell ............18 2-10 0-0 0-2 1 1 5 T.Jones ..............19 1-4 0-0 0-1 3 0 3 Toppin...............18 3-4 0-0 1-6 4 1 9 McDermott.........17 2-8 1-1 0-0 0 3 6 Simmons...........20 5-7 1-2 0-5 3 0 11
Mann................14 1-1 0-0 0-3 1 2 2 Roddy ...............14 1-3 0-0 0-1 1 1 3 Rose.................13 3-6 0-0 0-0 3 0 6 Bassey ..............16 3-4 0-0 2-5 1 5 6 Watanabe ..........19 4-8 0-0 1-2 1 2 11 Reaves 8.5 3.2 1.6
Coffey ...............10 0-0 2-2 0-0 1 5 2 Totals 38-92 17-25 14-51 16 17 102 Totals 44-93 19-25 13-43 26 25 118 Roby...................5 2-4 0-1 1-1 0 1 4 Duke Jr..............13 2-3 0-0 0-0 1 2 4
Covington ............5 1-2 0-0 0-2 0 1 3 Totals 44-85 13-17 11-38 33 25 110 Edwards ............12 2-4 1-2 2-3 0 1 6
Gabriel 4.7 2.5 .7
Shooting: Field goals, 41.3%; free throws, 68.0% Shooting: Field goals, 47.3%; free throws, 76.0%
Totals 34-64 21-26 3-40 23 27 101 Three-point goals: 9-35 (Morant 2-6, Brooks 2-9, Three-point goals: 11-32 (Toppin 3-4, Quickley 3-6, Sharpe..............12 2-4 2-2 0-3 3 1 7 Nunn 4.7 1.5 1.3
Clarke 1-1, Roddy 1-2, Aldama 1-3, Konchar 1-3, T.Jones Reddish 2-5, Randle 2-6, Brunson 1-4, Hartenstein 0-1, Shooting: Field goals, 51.8%; free throws, 76.5% Mills ...................4 1-1 0-0 0-2 1 0 3
Shooting: Field goals, 53.1%; free throws, 80.8% Ryan 4.7 1.3 .3
Three-point goals: 12-28 (Batum 7-7, Covington 1-2, 1-4, Jackson Jr. 0-7). Team Rebounds: 11. Team Turn- Rose 0-1, Barrett 0-5). Team Rebounds: 9. Team Turn- Three-point goals: 9-29 (Vassell 4-8, Kel.Johnson Totals 40-81 30-33 3-29 25 18 121
George 1-3, Wall 1-3, Morris Sr. 1-5, N.Powell 1-5, Jack- overs: None. Blocked Shots: 8 (Jackson Jr. 5, Clarke 3). overs: 2. Blocked Shots: 3 (Hartenstein, Randle, Red- 4-9, McDermott 1-5, Bates-Diop 0-1, Jones 0-1, Roby Shooting: Field goals, 49.4%; free throws, 90.9% Beverley 4.6 3.7 3.0
son 0-3). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: None. Turnovers: 11 (Morant 3, Adams 2, Clarke 2, Jackson Jr. dish). Turnovers: 12 (Brunson 4, Randle 4, Reddish 2, 0-1, Richardson 0-4). Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turn- Three-point goals: 11-28 (Watanabe 3-5, Mills 1-1, Sharpe
2, Brooks, Konchar). Steals: 6 (Morant 3, Aldama, Barrett, Rose). Steals: 10 (Quickley 4, Brunson 3, overs: None. Blocked Shots: 5 (Sochan 2, Bassey, 1-1, Curry 1-2, Thomas 1-2, Edwards 1-3, O’Neale 1-4, Sumner Christie 3.1 2.6 .5
Blocked Shots: 2 (Zubac 2). Turnovers: 21 (George 10, 1-4, Harris 1-5, Durant 0-1). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers:
Wall 3, Batum 2, Covington 2, Jackson 2, Coffey, Zubac). Brooks, Konchar). Technical Fouls: Brooks, 00:09 sec- Hartenstein, Reddish, Sims). Technical Fouls: Knicks, Poeltl, Vassell). Turnovers: 19 (Kel.Johnson 4, Poeltl 4, Jones 3.0 2.7 .3
ond. 3:27 third. None. Blocked Shots: 3 (Durant, Edwards, Thomas). Turnovers:
Steals: 8 (George 2, Morris Sr. 2, Batum, Jackson, Ken- Vassell 4, Bassey 3, McDermott 2, Roby, Sochan). 17 . Steals: 5. Technical Fouls: None.
nard, Wall). Technical Fouls: None. NEW ORLEANS UTAH Steals: 7 (Jones 3, Kel.Johnson 2, Bates-Diop, Vassell). SACRAMENTO
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Technical Fouls: None.
CLIPPERS PPG RPG APG
DALLAS Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Ingram ..............37 7-14 3-3 1-4 2 2 19 Markkanen.........29 5-11 1-2 4-6 4 4 13 George 24.5 6.1 4.5
PORTLAND Barnes ..............21 5-8 4-4 1-4 3 4 16
Bullock..............30 4-8 1-2 1-3 1 3 13 Murphy III ..........25 5-11 0-0 0-2 1 1 13 Olynyk...............28 7-13 11-13 2-11 2 5 27
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T Murray ..............12 2-6 0-0 0-3 0 0 4 Morris 14.8 5.9 2.2
Finney-Smith......36 7-15 0-0 1-3 0 2 21 Valanciunas .......13 1-4 0-0 1-3 2 4 2 Vanderbilt ..........24 1-1 0-2 2-9 1 1 2
Grant ................37 9-15 5-8 2-8 1 1 29 Sabonis ............27 6-6 5-5 1-7 7 4 17
D.Powell ............22 1-3 1-2 2-2 5 3 3 H.Jones .............22 4-7 0-1 1-3 2 4 10 Clarkson............33 5-16 2-2 0-2 5 1 15 Wall 12.6 2.3 5.1
Hart..................34 3-4 0-0 1-7 5 2 6 Fox ...................23 5-12 3-5 0-4 9 1 14
Dinwiddie ..........40 6-15 2-3 1-3 6 2 16 McCollum ..........36 11-23 1-2 1-3 9 2 30 Conley ..............33 3-10 3-3 1-4 7 5 10
Nurkic ...............15 4-9 1-2 2-5 1 2 9 Huerter..............29 7-10 0-0 1-2 3 2 19 Leonard 12.5 6.5 2.0
Doncic ..............39 11-22 11-11 2-11 5 3 35 Nance Jr. ...........30 8-10 2-2 2-7 2 1 19 Beasley .............23 5-12 1-1 1-4 0 1 14
Lillard ...............39 8-20 4-5 0-2 11 2 22 Davis ................26 12-16 0-0 0-9 4 3 31
Wood................23 6-8 1-4 0-7 0 2 15 Marshall............25 1-5 2-2 0-8 4 2 4 Kessler..............17 4-4 0-0 3-7 1 2 8 Powell 12.3 2.7 1.4
Simons .............33 7-16 4-4 1-3 2 2 23 Lyles.................17 4-12 1-2 3-4 0 1 12
Hardaway Jr........22 0-7 0-0 1-3 3 2 0 Alvarado............21 5-11 0-0 0-3 6 3 12 Sexton ..............17 1-5 1-1 0-1 4 2 3
Eubanks............33 4-5 1-1 3-7 1 3 9 Monk ................17 6-9 2-2 1-3 6 2 15 Jackson 10.6 2.2 4.3
Green ...............13 0-1 0-2 0-1 0 1 0 Daniels .............17 1-5 0-0 1-9 1 1 3 Fontecchio.........16 3-6 0-0 2-4 2 0 9
Sharpe..............22 5-7 1-2 0-2 0 2 13 Mitchell.............16 3-4 2-3 0-0 3 2 8
Kleber.................9 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 2 0 Graham...............9 0-1 1-2 0-1 2 0 1 Horton-Tucker .....14 2-5 6-6 0-1 3 1 10 Zubac 10.5 10.9 1.3
Little .................13 0-2 2-2 0-3 0 1 2 Metu.................15 1-3 0-0 1-4 0 1 2
Totals 35-80 16-24 8-34 20 20 103 Totals 43-91 9-12 7-43 31 20 113 Totals 36-83 25-30 15-49 29 22 111
Watford .............10 1-1 2-2 0-2 1 2 4 Okpala ..............12 1-1 4-4 0-0 0 2 6
Shooting: Field goals, 47.3%; free throws, 75.0% Shooting: Field goals, 43.4%; free throws, 83.3% Kennard 8.3 3.1 .6
Shooting: Field goals, 43.8%; free throws, 66.7% Totals 41-79 20-26 9-39 22 17 117 Dellavedova .........7 0-2 0-0 0-0 4 0 0
Three-point goals: 18-38 (McCollum 7-13, Murphy III Three-point goals: 14-43 (Fontecchio 3-5, Beasley Holmes ...............6 2-2 0-0 0-1 0 2 5 Mann 6.9 3.0 1.6
Three-point goals: 17-43 (Finney-Smith 7-13, Bull-
3-6, Ingram 2-2, H.Jones 2-3, Alvarado 2-6, Nance Jr. 3-8, Clarkson 3-11, Markkanen 2-5, Olynyk 2-5, Conley Shooting: Field goals, 51.9%; free throws, 76.9% Len ....................5 2-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 4
ock 4-8, Wood 2-2, Doncic 2-5, Dinwiddie 2-8, Green Covington 4.1 3.4 1.1
1-1, Daniels 1-3, Graham 0-1, Valanciunas 0-1, Marshall 1-6, Sexton 0-1, Horton-Tucker 0-2). Team Rebounds: 6. Totals 56-93 21-25 8-42 39 24 153
0-1, Kleber 0-1, Hardaway Jr. 0-5). Team Rebounds: 6. Three-point goals: 15-32 (Grant 6-8, Simons 5-10,
0-2). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: None. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 5 (Markkanen 2, Batum 4.0 4.0 1.4
Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 1 (Kleber). Turn- Sharpe 2-3, Lillard 2-9, Little 0-2). Team Rebounds: 8. Shooting: Field goals, 60.2%; free throws, 84.0%
Blocked Shots: 8 (Nance Jr. 2, Alvarado, Daniels, Beasley, Fontecchio, Kessler). Turnovers: 20 (Clarkson Three-point goals: 20-41 (Davis 7-10, Huerter 5-7, Lyles 3-8,
overs: 12 (Wood 4, Doncic 3, Dinwiddie 2, Hardaway Jr. H.Jones, Ingram, McCollum, Murphy III). Turnovers: 10 5, Horton-Tucker 3, Olynyk 3, Kessler 2, Markkanen 2, Team Turnovers: 2. Blocked Shots: 3 (Eubanks, Lillard, Brown 3.0 1.6 .0
2, D.Powell). Steals: 12 (Doncic 3, Finney-Smith 3, Barnes 2-4, Holmes 1-1, Monk 1-2, Fox 1-5, Metu 0-1, Mitchell
(Valanciunas 4, Marshall 2, McCollum 2, Alvarado, In- Beasley, Conley, Fontecchio, Sexton, Vanderbilt). Steals: Sharpe). Turnovers: 15 (Lillard 4, Little 3, Grant 2, Hart 0-1, Murray 0-2). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked
Hardaway Jr. 3, Dinwiddie 2, D.Powell). Technical Fouls: gram). Steals: 2 (Daniels, Murphy III). Technical Fouls: 7 (Conley 4, Kessler, Olynyk, Vanderbilt). Technical 2, Eubanks, Nurkic, Simons, Watford). Steals: 6 (Hart 3, Boston 2.6 .4 .0
Shots: 5 (Davis, Fox, Mitchell, Okpala, Sabonis). Turnovers: 16.
Dinwiddie, 6:49 third Marshall, 12:00 third Fouls: None. Eubanks, Grant, Little). Technical Fouls: None. Steals: 9. Technical Fouls: Kings, 00:59 first Coffey 2.2 .8 .6
CLIPPERS 15 17 33 36— 101 Memphis 35 25 27 15— 102 New York 23 38 22 35— 118 San Antonio 29 27 33 21— 110 Brooklyn 30 24 28 39— 121
Dallas 30 24 15 34— 103
Diabate 1.5 1.0 .5
New Orleans 32 27 30 24— 113 Utah 27 31 27 26— 111 Portland 30 32 31 24— 117 Sacramento 36 37 42 38— 153
A—19,810. T—2:22. A—17,611.
Preston 0.0 .0 .0
A—14,032. T—2:13. A—18,206. T—2:11. A—19,012.
B8 W E D N E S DAY , N OV EM BE R 16, 2022
THE DAY IN SPORTS
Roberts
second
for NL
manager
award
staff and wire reports
The New York Mets’
Buck Showalter beat the
Dodgers’ Dave Roberts for
the National League man-
ager of the year award Tues-
day night.
Showalter received eight
of 30 first-place votes, 10 sec-
ond-place votes and 77 total
points, edging Roberts, who
finished second despite
guiding the Dodgers to a
franchise-record 111 wins.
Roberts also earned eight-
first-place votes but had just
four second-place votes for
57 points. Atlanta’s Brian
Snitker finished third with
55 points.
Showalter is the third
person to win a fourth man-
ager of the year award and
the first to win with four
franchises. He also won with
the New York Yankees in
1994, Texas Rangers in 2004
and Baltimore Orioles in
2014. The other four-time
winners are Hall of Famers
Bobby Cox and Tony La
Russa. Cleveland’s Terry
Francona won the Ameri-
can League award for the
third time in 10 seasons.
First baseman Anthony
Rizzo is staying with the
Yankees, agreeing to a two-
year, $40-million contract,
the Associated Press re-
ported. ... Reliever Rafael
Montero finalized a three-
year, $34.5-million contract
to remain with Houston. ...
Left-hander Martin Perez
accepted a $19.65-million
qualifying offer to remain
with Texas. ... Outfielder Joc
Pederson accepted a one-
year, $19.65-million qualify-
ing offer from San Francisco.
ETC.
Nadal loses
fourth in a row
Top-seeded Rafael
Nadal lost 6-3, 6-4 to Felix
Auger-Aliassime, his sec-
ond straight defeat in the
ATP Finals. Nadal has lost
four straight matches for the
second time in his career.
It was Auger-Aliassime’s
first win over Nadal in three
tries. That loss coupled with
third-seeded Casper Ruud’s
win over Taylor Fritz meant
a swift exit for Nadal.
Novak Djokovic is set to
be granted a visa to play in
next year’s Australian Open
despite his high-profile de-
portation in January.
Georgia Tech quarter-
backs Jeff Sims (foot) and
Zach Pyron (collarbone) are
out for the season. Zach Gib-
son will start Saturday at
No. 13 North Carolina.
The Green Bay Packers
released wide receiver/punt
returner Amari Rodgers
and running back/kick re-
turner Kylin Hill. ... The Chi-
cago Bears placed running
back Khalil Herbert (hip)
on injured reserve.
Memphis Grizzlies guard
Desmond Bane (sprained
toe) will miss two to three
weeks. ... Denver center
Nikola Jokic entered the
health and safety protocols
and will not play Wednesday.
Hilary Knight and Alex
Carpenter scored in a shoot-
out, leading the U.S. to a 4-3
win over Canada in the first
game of a seven-game series.
Joe McNab, who spent 39
years as a football assistant
at Sherman Oaks Notre
Dame before taking over as
coach in 2020-21, will retire
from coaching football. He
will continue to coach track.
... Troy Thomas, who led An-
aheim Servite to the South-
ern Section Division 1 cham-
pionship game last season,
won’t return as coach.
— Eric Sondheimer
LAFC exercised options
on midfielders Kellyn
Acosta and Latif Blessing,
goalkeeper Maxime Cre-
peau and defender Ma-
madou Fall. The club de-
clined options on forwards
Cal Jennings and Danny
Trejo and goalkeeper
Tomas Romero.
— Kevin Baxter
S LAT IMES. C OM
Pac-12 title game is within reach
But path to Las Vegas
is more direct for USC
than it is for UCLA,
which will need help.
By Thuc Nhi Nguyen
The only thing more cha-
otic than “Pac-12 After Dark”
is the Pac-12 after tie-
breakers.
With two weeks remain-
ing in the regular season, the
Pac-12 Conference race re-
mains wide open. Five teams
— USC, UCLA, Oregon,
Utah and Washington — still
could land in a five-way tie
for two spots in the confer-
ence championship game.
Here’s what to know
about how UCLA and USC
can claim a ticket to the title
game Dec. 2 at Allegiant
Stadium in Las Vegas:
USC (9-1, 7-1 Pac-12) has
the most direct path: Win
and the Trojans are in. USC
can clinch its spot in the
Pac-12 championship game
with a victory over rival
UCLA on Saturday night.
The Trojans likely would
face the winner of Sat-
urday’s Utah-Oregon game
for the title.
A win not only would ce-
ment USC’s place in its
fourth Pac-12 championship
game, but it also would
eliminate UCLA from con-
tention.
After last week’s loss to
Arizona, the Bruins (8-2,
5-2) need help to play in the
title game for a shot at their
first conference crown since
1998.
UCLA first needs wins
over USC and California.
Then the Bruins want Wash-
ington to lose at least once to
Colorado or Washington
State. No matter who wins
between Utah (8-2, 6-1) and
host Oregon (8-2, 6-1) on Sat-
urday night, UCLA still has a
chance because of the
Pac-12’s complicated tie-
breakers.
The tiebreaker order dif-
fers for two-team ties and
multiteam ties. After head-
to-head wins if the teams
have played each other, the
tiebreaking procedure in a
two-team tie is each team’s
win percentage against the
next highest-placed com-
Riley is not revealing plans for backfield
[USC, from B10]
clear how much he will share
them this week with rival
UCLA on tap Saturday night
at the Rose Bowl. Trojans
coach Lincoln Riley said on
his radio show Monday night
that Jones is “obviously Op-
tion 1,” but a breakout per-
formance from freshman
Raleek Brown has seemed
imminent all season. Darwin
Barlow, who rushed for 41
yards and a touchdown
against the Buffaloes in his
first extended action, also
could play a part.
Riley had no intention of
sharing plans for that peck-
ing order Tuesday. He
prefers to keep it a mystery
for the Bruins.
“There will probably be
some things that change,”
Riley said of the rushing at-
tack. “Probably will be. I’m
not gonna get into it.”
Jones is the obvious can-
didate to step in as USC’s
early-down back. His 52
carries are second among
Trojans running backs. His
average of 6.44 yards per
carry leads the group.
If USC can avoid SEC bias, it has shot at CFP
[McCollough, from B10]
even with two losses, still
had clearly accomplished
more this year than the
Trojans. USC also sits above
No. 9 Clemson, which could
finish as another one-loss
Power Five conference
champion when the dust
settles.
Riley’s Trojans, then,
have everything in front of
them. The top five of No. 1
Georgia, No. 2 Ohio State,
No. 3 Michigan, No. 4 Texas
Christian and No. 5 Tennes-
see didn’t change. No. 6
Louisiana State, with two
losses, joined USC in mov-
ing up a spot after Oregon’s
loss to Washington.
Either the Buckeyes or
Wolverines will lose in “The
Game” on Nov. 26 in Colum-
bus. The loser would not
remain above a 12-1 USC
that finishes with wins over
No. 16 UCLA, No. 18 Notre
Dame and No. 10 Utah or No.
12 Oregon in the Pac-12 title
TROJANS WIDE RECEIVER Tahj Washington, right, battles Bruins defensive back Cameron Johnson for
the ball last Nov. 20. USC would clinch a spot in the Pac-12 title game if it beats rival UCLA on Saturday night.
mon opponent in the stand-
ings. But in a multiteam tie,
the next step if the teams
haven’t all played each other
is win percentage against all
common conference oppo-
nents.
This can be important for
UCLA because of its loss to
Arizona.
The Wildcats are a com-
mon opponent among all
five teams in contention and
the Bruins are the only con-
tender to lose to them,
putting UCLA at a disad-
vantage in several multi-
team tiebreakers that fea-
ture teams that haven’t all
USC RECEIVER Jordan Addison, who suffered a leg
injury Oct. 15 at Utah, should be fully ready Saturday.
Yet, Jones’ role was re-
duced after a relatively
strong September, amid a
difficult stretch that in-
cluded problems in pass pro-
tection. He carried the ball
just 17 times over the previ-
ous six games ahead of Fri-
day’s win, as Dye took the
lead and Brown stepped in
as a change-of-pace back.
game. Conference champi-
onships matter to the com-
mittee, and so do blue-blood
brands that will drive view-
ership.
To keep things simple,
USC needs Georgia to
knock off LSU in the South-
eastern Conference champi-
onship game in Atlanta.
The Bulldogs will be an
overwhelming favorite to
beat the Tigers, who would
be a threat even with two
losses if they boasted wins
over Georgia and Alabama.
With one of the Big Ten
powers and LSU out of the
way, TCU and Tennessee
still stand in the way.
The Trojans faithful
should be rooting hard
against those two teams
from here if they want a fully
clear path with minimal
debate.
For argument’s sake, let’s
assume that the Horned
Frogs and Volunteers win
out. TCU would be in as an
played one another.
For example, UCLA,
Washington and USC could
be tied for second place at
7-2 behind an 8-1 Utah or Or-
egon. Even though UCLA
would have beaten USC, the
Trojans, who did not play
Washington this year, still
would win the three-team
tiebreaker because they
went 5-0 against common
opponents among the three
tied teams — Stanford, Ari-
zona, Colorado, California
and Arizona State — while
UCLA lost to the Wildcats
and the Huskies lost to Ari-
zona State.
Rick Bowmer Associated Press
Jones wasted no time in
asserting himself in his
friend’s absence Friday. He
finished with 113 total yards
from scrimmage and a
touchdown in 15 touches.
Brown wasn’t far behind,
with 90 total yards in nine
touches to go with his own
receiving score.
Both will have to be at
unbeaten Power Five cham-
pion. Then it would be down
to 11-1 Tennessee, which did
not win its own SEC divi-
sion, and 12-1 USC, which
powered through a tough
finishing stretch and won an
extra game to win its confer-
ence.
The SEC bias would have
to be pretty strong for the
committee to pick Tennes-
see over USC in this unlikely
scenario of the Trojans
catching fire and playing
their way to the brink of a
historic season.
This would be the part
where we have to remember:
The CFP four-team playoff
is an invitational meant to
create compelling television
programming for the mas-
ses.
Who wants to see No. 1
Georgia and No. 4 Tennes-
see in a national semifinal?
Millions watched as the
Bulldogs dominated the
Vols on Nov. 5. The 27-13 final
UCLA can survive a mul-
titeam tiebreaker that in-
cludes Utah or Oregon, but
not both. Having both teams
at 7-2 along with USC, which
didn’t play Oregon, would
invoke the common oppo-
nents tiebreaker. In a tie
among UCLA, USC and
Utah, the Bruins can ad-
vance on head-to-head wins,
and in a tie among Oregon,
USC and UCLA, because
USC and Oregon didn’t play
each other and each team
lost once to common oppo-
nents, the Bruins can fall
back on their win over Utah,
the next highest-placed
their best Saturday to keep
pace with UCLA’s Zach
Charbonnet, the Pac-12’s
leading rusher.
“We gotta step up for
him,” Jones said of Dye. “We
gotta take on what he’s been
doing so well with and just
continue to progress. We
just got to continue to work.”
Addison’s return
While he lay on the side-
line at Utah on Oct. 15, sur-
rounded by USC trainers,
Trojans wide receiver Jor-
dan Addison worried his leg
injury might hold him out for
longer than just a few games.
Worse, it felt to him as if
he had let down his team-
mates during USC’s only
loss this season.
“The hardest for me was
not being able to finish that
game for my team,” Addison
said. “I felt like I let them
down a little bit, just not be-
ing able to finish it through. I
felt like if I was playing, I
could’ve contributed and
made it a little different.”
The Trojans’ top receiver
has a clean bill of health
score was not indicative of
how easily Georgia handled
its business.
The No. 2 team from the
Big Ten against No. 3 TCU
would be locked in.
Who wants to see Geor-
gia against No. 4 USC?
Many, many more people
across the country.
USC against Tennessee
would be one of the most
fascinating debates the
committee has made to this
point.
If the committee wanted
to lean into its SEC love, it
could pull something like
vaulting the winner of Ohio
State-Michigan to No. 1,
placing Georgia No. 2, slot-
ting TCU No. 3 and drop-
ping Tennessee to No. 4,
avoiding the SEC rematch
in the first round.
If that happens, we won’t
have to guess why.
Of course, this is all moot
if USC drops a game within
this gantlet. But this is what
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
common opponent, which is
the third-tier multiteam tie-
breaker.
If the Bruins can win both
of their games and get one
loss from Washington, they
also will need Utah or Ore-
gon to go 2-0 to finish the
season or for both teams to
lose during the last week of
the season. The odds seem
longer than a 50-yard Hail
Mary and the path more cir-
cuitous than a double re-
verse.
Meanwhile, USC can con-
sider itself lucky. The goal is
simple in Heritage Hall.
Just win.
heading into Saturday. He
will be a matchup problem
for UCLA, which ranks near
the bottom of the Pac-12 in
pass defense.
USC’s staff limited Addi-
son to 30 snaps Friday
against Colorado, according
to Pro Football Focus. There
should be no such limit this
week.
“I feel like I’m back,” Ad-
dison said. “I’m gonna show
you all this week, though.”
Injury update
Injured receiver Mario
Williams and linebacker Eric
Gentry have been practicing
to start the week, and Riley
said USC is “hopeful” they
will be healthy enough to get
reps during Saturday’s
game. Whether either would
be considered full-go, if they
are cleared to return, re-
mains to be seen.
Defensive back Max
Williams left Friday’s game
because of an undisclosed
injury, and Riley said he has
been “participating some”
during practice. His status
for Saturday is unclear.
CFP rankings
The third of seven College
Football Playoff rankings
compiled by a 12-member
selection committee:
School W-L 13. North Carolina 9-1
1. Georgia 10-0 14. Mississippi 8-2
2. Ohio State 10-0 15. Kansas State 7-3
3. Michigan 10-0 16. UCLA 8-2
4. Texas Christian10-0 17. Washington 8-2
5. Tennessee 9-1 18. Notre Dame 7-3
6. Louisiana State 8-2 19. Florida State 7-3
7. USC 9-1 20. Central Florida 8-2
8. Alabama 8-2 21. Tulane 8-2
9. Clemson 9-1 22. Oklahoma State7-3
10. Utah 8-2 23. Oregon State 7-3
11. Penn State 8-2 24. N.C. State 7-3
12. Oregon 8-2 25. Cincinnati 8-2
the Trojans, who did not
lose to any Pac-12 bottom
feeder this season like
UCLA did, have provided
us: The chance to happily
keep dreaming.
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Peterson propels Trojans
USC 59, VERMONT 57
associated press
Drew Peterson scored 15
of his 20 points in the second
half and USC rallied to beat
Vermont 59-57 on Tuesday
night at Galen Center.
Peterson made just one
of seven shots in the first half
and the Trojans (2-1) trailed
27-22 at intermission. But
the senior came out after the
break and hit five of seven
shots from the floor, plus all
five of his free throws, and
took over down the stretch.
Peterson’s layup tied the
score at 30 with 13:44 left to
play. From there the lead
changed hands nine times
until Peterson sank four
consecutive free throws to
give the Trojans a 46-44 lead
with 4:43 remaining.
Vermont (1-3) tied the
score at 49 on a three-point-
er by Nick Fiorillo with 3:01
left, but Peterson answered
with a layup and a three-
point play and the Trojans
stayed in front.
Peterson added eight re-
bounds and eight of USC’s 10
assists. Reese Dixon-Waters
had 13 points, while Boogie
TOP 25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Michigan State stuns Kentucky
associated press
Malik Hall forced two ex-
tra periods with dunks off in-
bounds plays, and Michigan
State outlasted No. 4 Ken-
tucky 86-77 in double over-
time after Oscar Tshiebwe
concluded his strong season
debut by fouling out at the
Champions Classic in India-
napolis.
Tshiebwe, last season’s
consensus national player of
the year, had 22 points and 18
rebounds for the Wildcats
before picking up his fifth
foul late in the first overtime.
Michigan State, coming
off a one-point loss to No. 2
Gonzaga on the deck of the
USS Abraham Lincoln, ap-
peared headed for another
tough nonconference defeat.
But the Spartans tied the
game in the final seconds of
regulation and overtime
thanks to Hall, who finished
with 20 points.
at No. 1 North Carolina
Watkins announces she’s picked USC right ankle surgery
The Sierra Canyon
girls’ basketball star is
staying home to add
to her ‘L.A. legacy.’
By Luca Evans
She posed for the cam-
era, a USC jacket zipped up
to her chin, toothy grin en-
cased in a red Trojans hood.
That was a decade ago, a
picture of the 6-year-old Juju
Watkins immortalized
Tuesday morning.
Minutes after the
Chatsworth Sierra Canyon
High star uttered the words
that would usher in a new
era of USC women’s basket-
ball — “There’s no place like
home” — aunt Trescelle
Watkins came up to her,
showing the photo, asking
whether she remembered it.
Watkins nodded, smiling,
whisked away to hug after
hug from a crowd of family
members, who always have
been there through the
painful and proud times for
the girl from Watts.
“To just be born and
raised here and to have a
community behind me,” a
red-eyed Watkins told The
Times in between sniffles, “is
amazing. And to just contin-
ue my L.A. legacy ... I just
think that hits different
when I’m born and raised
here and I get to continue my
journey.”
That journey began its
next steps inside Sierra Can-
yon’s gym Tuesday when
Watkins, a senior, an-
nounced her commitment to
play at USC next season live
on ESPN as a crowd of team-
mates, friends, family and
other Sierra Canyon ath-
letes sat behind her.
Technical difficulties de-
layed the announcement a
half-hour, Watkins waiting
patiently and petting a
puppy named Guapo her
family got a week earlier.
When the time came, she
TROJANS GUARD Drew Peterson, who finished with 20 points, eight rebounds
and eight assists, attempts to steal the ball from Vermont guard Robin Duncan.
Ellis scored 10.
Finn Sullivan sank three
three-pointers and scored 17
points to lead the Cata-
mounts. He added six re-
bounds and three assists
and blocked two shots. Dy-
lan Penn scored 11.
SOUTHLAND
MEN
California Baptist 62, Cal State Northridge 55: After trail-
ing by as many as 12 points in the first half, the Lancers (2-1),
led by Riley Battin’s 12 points, rallied to beat the Matadors in
the SoCal Challenge.
UC Irvine 79, Loyola Marymount 64: Bent Leuchten led all
scorers with 20 points, shooting seven for eight from the field
for the Anteaters (3-0). Dawson Baker added 19 points.
Pepperdine 94, Vanguard 80: Jevon Porter scored 23 points
and added eight rebounds for the Waves (3-1, 3-0). Maxwell
Lewis scored 21 points on seven-for-seven shooting, includ-
ing three threes. He also had nine rebounds and five assists.
WOMEN
USC 58, San Diego 50: Kadi Sissoko scored 19 points on nine-
for-13 shooting and Rayah Marshall had nine rebounds for
USC (3-0, 1-0). The Toreros (2-1, 1-1) were led by Myah Pace.
72, Gardner-Webb 66: Caleb
Love scored 20 points and
Pete Nance added 18 as
North Carolina fended off
Gardner-Webb. RJ Davis
scored on consecutive pos-
sessions down the stretch
and finished with 14 points
Kupp to undergo
spoke confidently. Proudly.
“I will be spending the
next four years at the Uni-
versity of Southern Califor-
nia,” she announced, as fam-
ily members unveiled a USC
banner behind her that read
“HOME.”
Watkins later revealed
she hadn’t decided her com-
mitment until Monday.
Two weeks ago, she had
zero idea of what she would
do. After transferring to Si-
erra Canyon and leading the
Trailblazers to an Open Di-
vision state championship,
elevating her platform and
becoming the most recog-
nizable face across the na-
tion in girls’ high school
basketball, she had nar-
rowed a long-awaited college
commitment list to three
schools: USC, South Car-
olina and Stanford.
On paper, the choice
seemed obvious. The Game-
cocks had just won a na-
tional championship. The
Trojans had just finished 12-
16. LeBron James’ son
Bronny, who also plays for
Sierra Canyon, said as much
in the parking lot afterward.
He thought Watkins would
pick South Carolina.
“When you look at all the
schools,” her father, Robert,
said of USC, “that would be
the last choice, in regards to
rosters.”
Yet Watkins visited USC
first and said something just
stuck with her. After deliber-
ating, spending chunks of
time alone in her room, she
told her dad firmly of her
choice during a car ride to
school.
“Dad, this is it,” Robert
Watkins recalled her saying.
It seemed as if USC was it
all along, even as Watkins
was sorting through her op-
tions. She grew up in Watts,
her family there always a
source of comfort in the rare
moments when jumpers fell
short or games went side-
ways at L.A. Windward,
where she played two sea-
sons, and Sierra Canyon.
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8 p.m. Women, Cal Poly at Stanford TV: Pac-12
Results COLLEGE FOOTBALL
MEN’S TOP 25 3 p.m. Eastern Michigan at Kent State TV: ESPN2
No. 1 North Carolina 72, Gardner-Webb 66
Michigan State 86, No. 4 Kentucky 77 (2OT) 4 p.m. Miami (Ohio) at Northern Illinois TV: CBSSN
No. 6 Kansas 69, No. 7 Duke 64
No. 13 Auburn 89, Winthrop 65 5 p.m. Western Michigan at Central Michigan TV: ESPNU
No. 17 San Diego State 74, Stanford 62 COLLEGE WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
No. 18 Alabama 65, South Alabama 55
Nevada Las Vegas 60, No. 21 Dayton 52 3 p.m. Wake Forest at Duke TV: ACC
No. 25 Connecticut 84, Buffalo 64
5 p.m. Arkansas at Missouri TV: SEC
OTHER PAC-12
USC 59, Vermont 57 GOLF
Prairie View A&M 70, Washington State 59 11 p.m. DP World Tour Championship, first round TV: Golf
Oregon 81, Montana State 51
UC San Diego 64, California 62 HOCKEY
Oregon State 83, Bushnell 66
4:30 p.m. St. Louis at Chicago TV: TNT
WOMEN’S TOP 25
7 p.m. Kings at Edmonton TV: TNT R: iHeart
No. 16 Oklahoma 77, Brigham Young 66
No. 17 Baylor 58, Southern Methodist 55 HORSE RACING
No. 20 Creighton 77, No. 22 Nebraska 51
10 a.m. America’s Day at the Races TV: FS2
1 p.m. America’s Day at the Races TV: BSSC
top-ranked team for the first SOCCER
7:30 a.m. Friendly, United Arab Emirates vs. Argentina TV: TUDN
time.
11:30 a.m. Friendly, Mexico vs. Sweden TV: KMEX, TUDN,
Univision
No. 6 Kansas 69, No. 7
Duke 64: Jalen Wilson 11:30 a.m. Friendly, Albania vs. Italy R: 1330
scored a career-high 25 7 p.m. Guatemala, Municipal at Club Xelaju TV: FOXD
and 10 rebounds for the Tar points and Gradey Dick TENNIS
Heels (3-0). Armando Bacot made three crucial baskets 5 a.m. ATP Finals, singles, round-robin TV: Tennis
added 10 points. Anthony in the final 21⁄2 minutes as 9:30 a.m. ATP Finals, doubles, round-robin TV: Tennis
Selden scored 21 points, the defending national Noon ATP Finals, singles, round-robin TV: Tennis
Julien Soumaoro had 17 champions extended the na-
points and Kareem Reid tion’s longest active winning
added 10 points for Gardner- streak to 14 games. Wilson
Webb (0-3), which faced a also grabbed 11 rebounds.
Before she even took her PREP FOOTBALL
seat at the podium Tuesday, PLAYOFF GAMES
her eyes already welled with
CITY
Rams’ star receiver
tears, a family member
passed her a pair of sun-
Semifinals, Friday, 7:30 p.m.
OPEN DIVISION
will go on injured
glasses and told her to take a No. 8 Eagle Rock (10-1) at No. 4 Garfield (9-2); No. 7
Birmingham (7-4) at No. 3 Wilmington Banning (6-5)
reserve and miss at
deep breath. Teammate and
best friend Mackenly Ran-
DIVISION I
No. 5 Cleveland (8-4) at No. 1 Granada Hills (9-2), 7
least four games.
dolph sat behind her, rub- p.m.; No. 10 Narbonne (6-6) at No. 3 Palisades (9-3)
DIVISION II By Gary Klein
bing her shoulders for a mo- No. 8 Granada Hills Kennedy (7-5) at No. 4 Marquez
ment. (8-2-1); No. 3 Panorama (11-1) at No. 2 Bell (5-7)
The USC decision made DIVISION III Cooper Kupp, the Rams’
No. 5 Los Angeles Wilson (6-5) at No. 1 Chatsworth
Watkins emotional, her (4-8); No. 3 Manual Arts (7-4) at No. 2 Crenshaw (4-7) star receiver who suffered an
mother, Sari, said, because NOTE: Championships, Nov. 25-26. ankle injury in last Sunday’s
8-MAN
she wants to give her com- Championship, Saturday, 6 p.m. at Birmingham. loss to the Arizona
munity a spotlight in a Tro- No. 2 North Valley Military Institute (6-5) vs. No. 1 Fulton Cardinals, will have surgery
(9-1)
jans uniform. To bring a leg- and be placed on injured re-
acy to a rebuilding USC pro- SOUTHERN SECTION serve, coach Sean McVay Mark J. Terrill Associated Press
Semifinals, Friday, 7 p.m.
gram and, in turn, back to said Tuesday. COOPER KUPP, hurt in
DIVISION 1
Watts. No. 4 Los Alamitos (9-2) vs. No. 1 Mater Dei (11-0) at Kupp, the reigning NFL Sunday’s loss, wears a
“I’m really glad she really Santa Ana Stadium; No. 2 St. John Bosco (10-1) at No. offensive player of the year, boot while leaving SoFi
6 Mission Viejo (10-1)
chose and picked with her DIVISION 2
will have surgery Wednesday Stadium with wife Anna.
heart,” Randolph said. “And No. 8 Sierra Canyon (8-4) at No. 4 Bishop Amat (9-3); and be sidelined for at least
this is truly where she wants No. 2 Chaminade (10-2) vs. No. 3 Inglewood (12-0) at four games. work!”
South Torrance
to be. She’s an L.A. girl.” DIVISION 3 “You never ever replace a The loss of Kupp further
The hometown kid is on No. 1 Corona del Mar (9-3) at No. 4 Yorba Linda (12-0); player like Cooper Kupp,” handicaps an offense that
No. 6 Bishop Diego (9-3) at No. 7 Upland (8-4)
the way. McVay said. “But we’ve got was without quarterback
DIVISION 4
No. 4 Cathedral (10-2) at No. 9 Downey (10-2); No. 2 to figure out the best way to Matthew Stafford in the 27-17
PREP VOLLEYBALL Newport Harbor (8-4) vs. No. 3 Cypress (12-0) at West-
ern
accentuate the skill sets of defeat by the Cardinals.
REGIONAL RESULTS DIVISION 5
the guys that will be Stafford, 34, was placed
No. 4 Aquinas (10-2) at No. 9 St. Francis (9-3); No. 6 playing.” in concussion protocol a few
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL FINALS Leuzinger (6-6) at No. 2 Etiwanda (7-5)
The Rams (3-6) play the days after a Nov. 6 defeat by
Tuesday DIVISION 6
No. 4 Loyola (7-5) vs. No. 8 Orange (10-2) at El Mod- New Orleans Saints (3-7) on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
OPEN DIVISION: San Diego Cathedral d. Mira Costa, 25-
20, 15-25, 25-14, 25-17 ena; No. 3 Calabasas (8-4) at No. 10 San Jacinto (10-2) Sunday in New Orleans. He remains in the protocol,
DIVISION 7 Despite the Rams’ strug- said McVay, who added that
DIVISION 1: Palos Verdes d. Vista Murrieta, 25-18, 25- No. 5 Golden Valley (8-4) vs. No. 1 Mayfair (8-4) at
20, 19-25, 25-16 Bellflower; No. 7 Western (10-1) at No. 14 Laguna Hills gles — they are in last place the team was “hopeful to get
DIVISION 2: Chaminade d. San Diego Parker, 23-25, (11-1) in the NFC West — Kupp was a little bit more clarity on
25-20, 25-15, 25-21 DIVISION 8
DIVISION 3: Buckley d. La Mesa Helix, 25-19, 25-16, No. 5 Lakewood (7-5) at No. 16 Rancho Verde (5-7); having another exceptional some of those things” later
25-23 No. 2 Vista del Lago (9-3) vs. No. 11 Northwood (11-1) at season. He has 75 catches for Tuesday.
Irvine
DIVISION 4: Visalia Central Valley Christian d. Palisades, 812 yards and six touch- The Rams’ injury woes
25-16, 23-25, 25-17, 25-20 DIVISION 9
No. 4 Norte Vista (9-3) at No. 8 Laguna Beach (9-3); downs. along the offensive line also
DIVISION 5: Chula Vista Victory Christian d. Los Angeles No. 6 San Dimas (8-4) at No. 15 Diamond Bar (11-1)
Marshall, 18-25, 25-18, 20-25, 25-19, 15-9
McVay stopped short of continue.
DIVISION 10
No. 9 Palmdale (8-4) at No. 13 Salesian (9-3); No. 6 declaring Kupp out for the Chandler Brewer, who
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL FINALS
Tuesday
Muir (6-6) at No. 15 Baldwin Park (10-2) season. started at right guard
DIVISION 11 “What we’ve learned, against the Cardinals, suf-
OPEN DIVISION: Mountain View St. Francis d. San Jose No. 8 Bellflower (10-2) at No. 5 South Pasadena (10-2);
Mitty, 25-20, 25-20, 16-25, 25-22 No. 7 Rim of the World (7-5) at No. 11 Walnut (9-3) more than anything, espe- fered a knee injury and was
DIVISION 1: Ross Branson d. Stockton St. Mary’s, 25-
18, 26-24, 25-20 DIVISION 12 cially this year, is let’s just scheduled to have surgery
DIVISION 2: Fresno Clovis North d. San Francisco Uni- No. 1 Lancaster (7-5) at No. 4 Arroyo (9-3); No. 6 Huen- take it a day at a time,” Mc- Tuesday.
versity, 25-19, 25-20, 17-25, 26-24 eme (6-6) at No. 2 Cerritos Valley Christian (5-7)
DIVISION 3: San Anselmo Williams d. Burlingame DIVISION 13 Vay said, adding, “I don’t He is expected to be side-
Mercy, 25-18, 25-22, 25-22 No. 12 Arrowhead Christian (8-4) at No. 1 Bishop Mont- think you want to pigeon- lined four to six weeks, Mc-
DIVISION 4: Ripon Christian d. Oakland Head-Royce, gomery (9-2-1); No. 3 Maranatha (11-0-1) at No. 2 San
25-15, 25-19, 15-25, 25-21 Gabriel (8-3) hole yourself into one ap- Vay said.
DIVISION 5: Walnut Creek Berean Christian d. Hanford, DIVISION 14 proach.” Alaric Jackson, who did
14-25, 25-17, 25-23, 23-25, 15-10 No. 4 St. Monica (7-5) vs. No. 8 Whittier Christian (8-4)
Kupp addressed his situ- not play against the Cardi-
at Whittier College; No. 14 Bassett (5-7) at No. 10 Lyn-
STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS wood (8-4) ation on social media. nals because of a knee injury,
at Santiago Canyon College NOTE: Championships, Nov. 25-26.
“Thanks to everyone who will not play again this sea-
Friday 8-MAN
Division V: Chula Vista Victory Christian vs. Walnut has reached out and sent son after developing clots
DIVISION 1
Creek Berean Christian, 4 p.m. prayers!” he wrote on Twit- that require blood thinners,
Championship, Friday
Division I: Palos Verdes vs. Ross Branson, 6:30 p.m.
No. 1 CSDR (11-0) vs. No. 2 Faith Baptist (9-0) at Birm- ter. “This is unfortunately McVay said.
Saturday ingham
Division IV: Visalia Central Valley Christian vs. Ripon DIVISION 2
just part of the game. Appre- McVay said that David
Christian, 11 a.m. Semifinals, Friday, 7 p.m. ciate having a trusted medi- Edwards, who has been side-
Division III: Buckley vs. San Anselmo Williams, 1:30 Hesperia Christian (9-2) at No. 1 Lancaster Baptist
p.m. (9-1); No. 3 Coast Union (9-2) vs. Avalon (4-5) at
cal team around me. Gonna lined for several weeks be-
Division II: Chaminade vs. Fresno Clovis North, 4 p.m. Machado Field (Avalon) get this thing fixed, then get cause of a concussion, could
Open Division: San Diego Cathedral vs. Mountain View NOTE: Championship, Nov. 25 or 26.
St. Francis, 6:30 p.m. back to work to get back to return.

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W E D N E S D AY , N O V E M B E R 1 6 , 2 0 2 2 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / S P O R T S
USC RUNNING BACK Austin Jones scores a touchdown during Friday night’s 55-17 rout of Colorado. Jones, who had 113 yards from
scrimmage in the win, is the main candidate to become the Trojans’ early-down back following Travis Dye’s season-ending leg injury.
Focusing on the stretch run
With pal Dye out,
Jones could take
lead role for USC
By Ryan Kartje
As Travis Dye was loaded onto an
injury cart Friday night, his left leg
wrapped in a cast, Austin Jones stood
close by, devastated. The running
backs had transferred from other
Pac-12 Conference schools in search of
opportunity, both winding up in the
same USC backfield, having commit-
ted just days apart.
They had grown close since then,
encouraging each other even as Dye’s
role grew at the expense of Jones’.
Now one of their runs with the Tro-
jans was over without warning, Dye
suffering a season-ending injury.
“To see him go out like that, it hurts
me,” Jones said Friday.
When Jones later barreled his way
into the end zone on a receiving touch-
down in USC’s 55-17 win over Colorado
at the Coliseum, he held up two fingers,
then six as a tribute to his fallen friend,
who wore No. 26.
The reins of USC’s rushing attack
are now in Jones’ hands, though it’s un-
[See USC, B8]
Falcons are under their wings
Feathered friends hold sacred place for people of Qatar
By Kevin Baxter
DOHA, QATAR — The Souq
Waqif, Doha’s ancient market-
place, unspools from the nearby
bay like a roll of precious fabric. A
medieval maze of narrow alleyways
linked to a wide main plaza, the
Souq has long served as a trading
post for Bedouin arriving by camel
and travelers in small boats.
But today, as one of the city’s
last surviving historic urban
spaces, the Souq also serves the
rapidly modernizing emirate as a
link to a history and a culture that
is fading. Nowhere is that clash of
past and present more apparent
than at the market’s falcon hospi-
tal, a state-of-the-art medical facil-
ity dedicated to caring for animals
that have been revered here for
centuries.
“In Qatar, falcons are a symbol
of dignity, valor and pride,” said Dr.
Ikdam M. Alkarkhi, the hospital’s
Iraqi-educated director and veter-
inary consultant. “For Arabs, fal-
conry was a way of life where every
[See Qatar, B6]
Ballmer’s bid to build perfect arena
Clippers owner wants the team’s $2-billion future
home in Inglewood to be a game-changer. A1
SPORTS
U S C VS . UC L A
AT THE ROSE BOWL | SATURDAY, 5 P.M. | TV: CHANNEL 11
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times
USC’s path
to CFP likely
goes through
Tennessee
J. BRADY McCOLLOUGH
ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Lincoln Riley says he doesn’t pay
any mind to the College Football Play-
off ’s weekly rankings reveal. And
certainly, with a massive rivalry game
against UCLA just days away, that’s
probably a sound decision. No wasted
minutes and all.
If he did happen to tune in Tuesday
night, he would have seen some pos-
itive signs of the CFP selection com-
mittee’s respect for the 9-1 Trojans,
who moved up a spot to No. 7.
USC stayed in front of No. 8 Ala-
bama, which won a hard-fought game
on the road at Mississippi, a result
Mark J. Terrill Associated Press that certainly could have nudged the
UCLA’S Zach Charbonnet, grabbed in Saturday’s 34-28 loss committee to say the Crimson Tide,
by Arizona safety Jaxen Turner, is the Pac-12’s top rusher. [See McCollough, B8]
Clippers give rally
best shot, fall short
Batum hits all seven
of his three-point tries
for L.A., but Doncic
saves Mavericks late.
DALLAS 103
CLIPPERS 101
By Broderick Turner
DALLAS — A potential
Clippers comeback victory
was so tantalizingly close
Tuesday night, an intention-
ally missed free throw close,
a fumbled rebound close.
But in the end, close
wasn’t good enough for the
Clippers, a 103-101 loss to the
Dallas Mavericks leaving the
team in agony because of
how close it came to happen-
ing. The team had rallied
from 25 points down to take
the lead in the fourth quar-
ter, only to fall short.
“That’s what we’ve been
Lujain Jo Associated Press about the last three years,”
VETERINARIANS at a hospital in Doha, Qatar, care for a falcon. Fal- Clippers coach Tyronn Lue
cons here are a “symbol of dignity, valor and pride,” one doctor says. said of his team competing
Will Bruins be blocked? Rams’ Kupp needs surgery
The UC Regents alter their meeting agenda and may The reigning offensive player of the year goes on in-
vote Thursday to block UCLA’s conference move. B1 jured reserve and will miss at least four games. B9
B10
DODGERS
PITCHER
CHOOSES
TO JOIN
ANGELS
Anderson declines
qualifying offer
for three-year deal
with crosstown team.
By Jack Harris and
Sarah Valenzuela
Tyler Anderson is staying
in the Southland, but it
won’t be with the Dodgers.
Instead of accepting the
Dodgers’ qualifying offer of
one year and $19.65 million
Tuesday, the left-handed
pitcher agreed to a three-
year contract with the
Angels worth $39 million, ac-
cording to a person with
knowledge of the situation
who wasn’t authorized to
speak publicly. The Dodgers
will get draft compensation
in return.
Star shortstop Trea
Turner also declined his
qualifying offer from the
Dodgers and remains a free
agent, likely to receive one of
the biggest contracts of any
available player this winter.
That decision had been ex-
pected. Anderson’s
crosstown move, on the
other hand, came as a sur-
prise.
The 32-year-old journey-
man had a breakout season
with the Dodgers, who
needed him to take on a far
more prominent role than
originally expected when he
signed a one-year, $8-million
deal in the spring.
After starting the season
in the bullpen as a long re-
liever, Anderson was forced
into the rotation because of
injuries and quickly flour-
ished with a reworked pitch-
ing arsenal centered on a
devastating changeup.
In 30 appearances (28
starts), Anderson went 15-5
with a 2.57 earned-run aver-
age. He earned his first ca-
reer All-Star selection. He
had the best performance of
any Dodgers starter during
the postseason, pitching five
scoreless innings in Game 4
of the National League Divi-
sion Series against the San
Diego Padres.
Entering the offseason, it
wasn’t certain that Ander-
son would get a qualifying of-
fer, as the nearly $20-million
salary was expected to sur-
[See Anderson, B6]
and coming back in games.
“We didn’t start the game
particularly well offensively
or defensively and got be-
hind. And when you get be-
hind by that many points,
it’s hard to try to catch up
and then you get ex-
hausted.”
Nicolas Batum had been
the man of the hour for the
Clippers, knocking down
three-pointer after three-
pointer, going seven for sev-
en from long distance to be-
come the only player in fran-
chise history to finish a game
perfect from beyond the
three-point line with that
many attempts.
Batum stepped to the
free-throw line for two shots
with 4.2 seconds left and the
Clippers down 103-100.
He made the first free
throw but missed the second
on purpose.
Lue said he wanted to run
the Clippers’ “X free-throw”
play, which turned out to be
Batum missing the free
throw to the right side of the
[See Clippers, B7]

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DIVAS REMATCH WITH
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There is plenty of
superstar power, plus
promising new faces.
MIKAEL WOOD
POP MUSIC CRITIC
B A
eyoncé and Adele won’t be
the only superstars vying for
music’s most highly coveted
trophies at the 65th Grammy
Awards.
As predicted by many music-indus-
try insiders, the two A-list pop divas
turned up numerous times in nomina-
tions announced Tuesday by the Re-
cording Academy, including in the top
categories of album, record and song of
the year. Beyoncé, who leads all nomi-
nees with nine nods in total, was recog-
nized for her LP “Renaissance” and its
No. 1 hit, “Break My Soul,” while Adele,
who received seven nominations overall,
was honored for her album “30” and its
chart-topping lead single, “Easy on Me.”
But Grammy voters — not a group
reliably known to align with a given
year’s commercial and critical favorites
— gave the singers lots of high-powered
competition for those major prizes:
Timely message of self-help
Michelle Obama follows up her memoir
“Becoming” with “The Light We Carry.” E4
GRAMMY NOMINATIONS
Other LPs up for album of the year
include 2022’s most-consumed full-
length, “Un Verano Sin Ti” by the Puerto
Rican singer and rapper Bad Bunny;
Compton-born MC Kendrick Lamar’s
“Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers”; and
former boy-band heartthrob Harry
Styles’ “Harry’s House,” all of which
dominated streaming services like
Spotify on their way to the top of the
Billboard 200. Lamar’s “The Heart Part
5” and Styles’ “As It Was” both made the
cut in the record and song categories,
where their competition includes ines-
capable singles such as Steve Lacy’s
psychedelic-soul hit “Bad Habit,” Liz-
zo’s disco-funk “About Damn Time” and
the gleefully profane “ABCDEFU” by
18-year-old Gayle.
Among artists with multiple nomina-
tions, Lamar follows Beyoncé with eight
in all, while folk-rock singer-songwriter
Brandi Carlile received seven to tie with
Adele; Styles, veteran R&B vocalist
Mary J. Blige, DJ Khaled, rapper Future,
songwriter-producer The-Dream and
mastering engineer Randy Merrill each
got six.
Still, Beyoncé vs. Adele — “a heavy-
weight battle,” as Recording Academy
CEO Harvey Mason Jr. described it to
The Times, between two “once-in-a-
lifetime voices” — [See Grammys, E2]
New ‘Walking Dead’ lawsuit
Producers sue AMC again in another effort to
recover profits from the show and its spinoffs. E5
Major acts got love,
but there are notable
omissions, oddities.
By August Brown, Suzy Exposito
and Kenan Draughorne
t April’s Grammy Awards
in Las Vegas, the big win-
ner was Jon Batiste, a
jazz-funk bandleader with
a plum TV gig and critical
acclaim but almost zero chart presence
prior to the ceremony.
On Feb. 5, 2023, it will be music’s
reigning A-listers vying for the top
trophies.
Superstars Beyoncé, Kendrick
Lamar, Harry Styles, Adele and Lizzo
were all nominated for album, song and
record of the year for the 65th Grammy
Awards, as announced Tuesday by the
Recording Academy. Longstanding
Grammy favorites Mary J. Blige (a
nine-time winner and 37-time nominee)
and Brandi Carlile (six wins, 24 nomi-
nations) were both nominated for
record and album of the year, and 2022’s
top-selling artist, Bad Bunny, received
an album of the year nomination. Even
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of Beyoncé,
clockwise from
bottom, Brandi
Carlile, Adele,
Kendrick Lamar
and Harry Styles
by Ross May
L.A. Times;
photos by AP
Taylor Swift, whose “Midnights” isn’t
eligible until next cycle, grabbed a song
of the year nomination for her 10-min-
ute re-recording of “All Too Well.” Rat-
ings for televised awards shows may be
at an all-time low, but with a night filled
by performances from some of pop
music’s biggest draws, executives at the
Recording Academy and its network
TV partner CBS have reason for opti-
mism.
While Beyoncé and Adele were
expected to lead the pack, there are a
handful of notable surprises and a few
pointed snubs. Here are some that
caught our eye:
1. No more drama; many more
nominations.
R&B great Mary J. Blige has en-
joyed a long and storied career, and the
Grammys have rewarded her with nine
trophies, from her first in 1996 to her
most recent in 2009. But her six nomi-
nations this year will likely catch even
hardcore Mary fans off-guard. Album of
the year nominee “Good Morning Gor-
geous” was an exemplary addition to
her discography, but it peaked at No. 14
on the Billboard 200. The title track, up
for record of the year, topped out at No.
83 on the Hot 100. But they clearly
struck a nerve [See Surprises, E3]
E2 W E D N E S DAY , N OV E M BER 16, 2022
BAD BUNNY made history by having the first-ever Spanish-language album to be nominated for the album of the year Grammy.
Academy has stars in its eyes
[Grammys, from E1]
is likely to be the marquee
attraction at the ceremony,
set for Feb. 5 at Crypto.com
Arena in downtown Los
Angeles. The showdown will
echo the 59th Grammys in
2017, when the two went
head to head in the same
categories — and Adele’s
sweep led the English singer
to tearfully proclaim from
the stage that she couldn’t
rightfully accept the album
award for her solidly built
“25” over Beyoncé’s ground-
breaking “Lemonade.”
Their rivalry captures a
key tension of the academy,
which seeks to celebrate
innovation at the same time
that it upholds tradition.
Adele’s characteristically
ballad-heavy “30” is classic
Grammy bait, while “Ren-
aissance” — a kaleidoscopic
love letter from Beyoncé to
the Black and queer pio-
neers of dance music —
represents an edgier choice
for voters who at April’s
Grammys went for the
old-fashioned musicianly
comforts of Bruno Mars’
Silk Sonic (which won
record and song of the year
with its retro-soul “Leave
the Door Open”) and Jon
Batiste (who took album of
the year with his jazzy “We
Are”).
The match-up also
evokes the Grammys’
fraught racial dynamics.
Beyoncé’s defeat in 2017
followed an earlier loss to
Beck, whose “Morning
Phase” won album of the
year in 2015 over Beyoncé’s
self-titled effort — evidence
of a system, according to
many, that routinely under-
values work by Black artists
steeped in hip-hop. Indeed,
beyond Taylor Swift —
whose re-recording of her
decade-old “Red” wasn’t
nominated for album of the
year (and whose blockbust-
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TOP
GRAMMY
NODS
RECORD
OF THE YEAR
“Don’t Shut Me Down” —
ABBA
“Easy on Me” — Adele
“Break My Soul” —
Beyoncé
“Good Morning Gor-
geous” — Mary J. Blige
“You and Me on the
Rock” — Brandi Carlile
Featuring Lucius
“Woman” — Doja Cat
“Bad Habit” — Steve
Lacy
“The Heart Part 5” —
Kendrick Lamar
“About Damn Time” —
Lizzo
“As It Was” — Harry
Styles
ALBUM
OF THE YEAR
“Voyage” — ABBA
“30” — Adele
“Un Verano Sin Ti” —
Bad Bunny
“Renaissance” —
Beyoncé
“Good Morning Gor-
geous (Deluxe)” — Mary J.
Blige
“In These Silent Days” —
Brandi Carlile
“Music of the Spheres” —
Rob Grabowski Associated Press Coldplay
“Mr. Morale & the Big
Steppers” — Kendrick
Lamar
“Special” — Lizzo
“Harry’s House” — Harry
Styles
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OF THE YEAR
lished Grammy darling comers (Anitta and Omar “abcdefu” — Sara Davis,
especially visible this year Apollo), along with R&B Gayle & Dave Pittenger,
thanks to her repeated singer Muni Long and blue- songwriters (Gayle)
collaborations with Joni grass performer Molly Tut- “About Damn Time” —
Mitchell; Coldplay’s “Music tle. About the only thing Melissa “Lizzo” Jefferson,
of the Spheres”; Lizzo’s that connects these dispa- Eric Frederic, Blake Slatkin
“Special”; and “Good Morn- rate acts? An emphasis on & Theron Makiel Thomas,
ing Gorgeous” by Blige, who musical virtuosity. songwriters (Lizzo)
also scored a record nod One conspicuous omis- “All Too Well” (10-minute
with the LP’s title track — sion from best new artist is version) (The Short Film)
one benefit, perhaps, of her Zach Bryan, the young — Liz Rose & Taylor Swift,
appearance in this year’s roots-rock singer-song- songwriters (Taylor Swift)
celebrated Super Bowl writer whose “American “As It Was” — Tyler John-
halftime show. Heartbreak” album has son, Kid Harpoon & Harry
Other nominees for been a streaming goliath Styles, songwriters (Harry
record of the year (which this year. Another notable Styles)
recognizes performers and snub: the smash sound- “Bad Habit” — Matthew
producers) include Carlile’s track to Disney’s “Encanto,” Castellanos, Brittany
“You and Me on the Rock” which was expected by Fousheé, Diana Gordon,
Timothy Norris Getty Images and “Woman” by singer and many to compete for major John Carroll Kirby & Steve
SINGER Steve Lacy at Coachella in April 2022. His rapper Doja Cat; song of the prizes, thanks in part to its Lacy, songwriters (Steve
song “Bad Habit” is nominated for two Grammys. year (which goes to song- chart-topping single “We Lacy)
writers) has DJ Khaled’s Don’t Talk About Bruno,” “Break My Soul” — Bey-
genres in these nominations all-star hip-hop team-up but which scored nomina- oncé, S. Carter, Terius “The-
is a sign of where our mem- “God Did” and Swift’s 10- tions only in the music for Dream” Gesteelde-Diamant
‘The 65th bership is and where it’s minute version of the fan- visual media categories. & Christopher A. Stewart,
going.” fave “Red” cut “All Too Bryan did pick up a nod songwriters (Beyoncé)
Grammy To wit: Bad Bunny’s “Un Well,” which became a pop- for country solo perform- “Easy on Me” — Adele
Awards’ Verano Sin Ti” is the first culture sensation last fall ance for his song “Some- Adkins & Greg Kurstin,
Spanish-language album to when she released it along thing in the Orange.” Else- songwriters (Adele)
Where: CBS receive a nod for album of with a cinematic music where in the country catego- “God Did” — Tarik Az-
the year. Lamar’s nomina- video. ries, voters showed no reser- zouz, E. Blackmon, Khaled
When: Sunday, Feb. 5,
tion makes him the first The proliferation of stars vations about Maren Khaled, F. LeBlanc, Shawn
2023
rapper to compete for that promises to be a boon for Morris’ outspoken political Carter, John Stephens,
Streaming: Paramount+ prize with four consecutive the Grammys telecast, comments this year — she’s Dwayne Carter, William
(live) studio albums. Sam Smith which like all awards shows up for country solo perform- Roberts & Nicholas War-
and Kim Petras, whose has seen its ratings plum- ance and country song with war, songwriters (DJ
er “Midnights” came out too “Unholy” is up for pop duo/ met in recent years. (This “Circles Around This Town” Khaled Featuring Rick
late for the 65th Grammys) group performance, are the year’s edition registered a and country album with Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John
— the only true superstars first openly nonbinary and slight uptick from 2021’s “Humble Quest” — while Legend & Fridayy)
with eligible LPs missing transgender artists, respec- worst-of-all-time viewer- making clear they’re not “The Heart Part 5” —
from the show’s flagship tively, to make that catego- ship.) “Seeing the names on quite ready to re-embrace Jake Kosich, Johnny Kosich,
category are Drake and the ry. And Beyoncé’s nine the list definitely made me Morgan Wallen after he was Kendrick Lamar & Matt
Weeknd, both of whom nominations bring her think, ‘Wow — this could caught on video last year Schaeffer, songwriters
declined to submit their career total to 88 — tied for potentially be one of our drunkenly using the N- (Kendrick Lamar)
work in apparent protest. the most in history, with her best shows,’ ” Mason said. word. Though he was nomi- “Just Like That” — Bon-
Eligible recordings had to husband, rapper Jay-Z. “We want to make sure we nated for Nashville’s highest nie Raitt, songwriter (Bon-
be released between Oct. 1, Yet the vast majority of have a show that a lot of honor, entertainer of the nie Raitt)
2021, and Sept. 30, 2022. Beyoncé’s nods (as well as people watch.” year, at this month’s Coun-
The academy says it’s Jay-Z’s, for that matter) Because it’s the Gram- try Music Assn. Awards, NEW ARTIST
making efforts to diversify have come in the Grammys’ mys, the major categories Wallen received no Grammy Anitta
its electorate of more than various genre categories, include some surprising nominations for the second Omar Apollo
11,000 music professionals; which critics say demon- choices, among them AB- year in a row. DOMi & JD Beck
nearly half of its latest mem- strates the academy’s tend- BA’s nomination for album In the rap album catego- Muni Long
ber class comes from “tradi- ency to marginalize Black of the year with the little- ry, Lamar’s “Mr. Morale” is Samara Joy
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with Grammy voters, who
perhaps rekindled their
affection for the queen of
hip-hop soul after her per-
formance alongside Dr. Dre,
Snoop Dogg, Eminem and
Kendrick Lamar at the
Super Bowl halftime show
in February. Blige is also
nominated in four R&B
categories.
2. The “Only Thing That’s
Gone” is Morgan Wallen’s
shot at a Grammy.
After a year in which
more than one superstar
torched their reputation
with conspiracy theories
and racist remarks, the
Recording Academy is
probably grateful they don’t
have a Morgan Wallen prob-
lem to deal with. The coun-
try star’s “Dangerous: The
Double Album” spent 10
weeks atop the Billboard
200, but Wallen was shut out
this year at the Grammys, a
likely by-product of the viral
video that caught Wallen
using the N-word. He’s back
to selling out arenas on tour,
but Grammy voters weren’t
as ready to welcome him
back to the fold.
3. Bluegrass, jazz, Brazilian
pop and a 35-year-old
rap newbie.
In recent years, the
best new artist category
heralded the arrival of a
new superstar: Olivia
Rodrigo, Megan Thee
Stallion, Billie Eilish and
Dua Lipa were past winners.
This year, however, the
category is all over the map
and full of still-emerging
acts. Bluegrass singer-
songwriter Molly Tuttle,
hipster jazz duo Domi and
JD Beck and old-school
jazz vocalist Samara Joy
all revel in pyrotechnic
musicality. The field is as
eclectic as it is wide-open:
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R&B STAR Mary J. Blige received six Grammy nominations, including album and record of the year.
There’s Brazilian música
urbana (Anitta); winsome
Latin indie (Omar Apollo);
Italian glam rock (Måne-
skin); droll U.K. indie-rock
(Wet Leg); sassy Atlanta
rap (Latto); and arresting
R&B (Muni Long). Mean-
while, 35-year-old Houston
rapper and actor Tobe
Nwigwe has already re-
leased 11 (!) albums prior
to his new artist nod. No
one stands out as the obvi-
ous front-runner, which
should make for a lively
competition.
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4. Cry havoc and let slip the
Barbz of war.
Nicki Minaj raps from
start to finish on her No. 1
hit “Super Freaky Girl,” but
the Recording Academy
decided its sample of Rick
James’ “Super Freak” made
it bubbly enough to compete
in the pop category instead.
The news didn’t sit well with
Minaj, but she tweeted she
would accept it on one con-
dition: If Latto’s smash
single “Big Energy” was
moved into pop as well.
Minaj struck out on both
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fronts: She failed to garner a
single nomination, and “Big
Energy” received a nomina-
tion for melodic rap per-
formance.
5. It’s her, hi, she’s the
country nominee.
In the 15 years that fol-
lowed her country music
debut, Swift has fully meta-
morphosed from Nashville
darling into indubitable
Queen of Pop. Although
Swift never quite formalized
a departure from country
music, the electro-pop
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edges of her 2012 master-
piece, “Red,” foreshadowed
her eventual mainstream
foray; and the singer-song-
writer’s 2021 re-recording of
this critical chapter planted
her firmly back into the
country soil that raised her.
As a prelude to next year’s
expected dominance of the
top categories, Swift re-
ceived three nominations on
Tuesday: Her 10-minute
redo of 2012’s “All Too Well”
is up for song of the year;
“Carolina,” her rootsy num-
ber for the film “Where the
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nated for song written for
visual media; and her duet
with Chris Stapleton, the
once-vaulted ballad “I Bet
You Think About Me,” is in
the running for country
song.
6. The first Grammy
circle pit?
It’s not every year a hard-
core band gets a shot at a
Grammy, but thanks to the
eccentric dazzle of their 2021
LP, “Glow On,” Baltimore’s
Turnstile get three: They
are nominated for rock
song, rock performance and
metal performance. The
five-piece will have to con-
tend against industry vets
like Ozzy Osbourne, the
Black Keys and the Red Hot
Chili Peppers — as well as
some eyebrow-raising wild
cards, like the Grammy-
winning Americana star
Brandi Carlile and Canadi-
an power balladeer Bryan
Adams.
7. “Encanto” shut out
in top categories.
Disney’s Oscar-winning
“Encanto” yielded more
than just a soundtrack full
of kid-friendly sing-alongs.
Including eight zippy Latin
showtunes written by Lin-
Manuel Miranda and com-
posed by Germaine Franco,
the “Encanto” soundtrack
sparked a takeover of the
Billboard charts, led by the
cha-cha-chá number “We
Don’t Talk About Bruno” —
which held No. 1 on the Hot
100 chart for five consecutive
weeks. Yet at this year’s
Grammys, the soundtrack
and its biggest single will be
shut out of the general field
entirely, instead to be siloed
away into genre categories:
song written for visual me-
dia, score soundtrack and
compilation soundtrack for
visual media.
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was never one for hobbies,”
she writes, before sharing
that knitting is in fact in her
DNA. “According to my
mother, every woman on her
side of the family learned
how to work a needle and
thread, to sew, crochet, and
knit.”
As Obama acknowl-
edges, such nimbleness with
needle and thread was, for
Black women throughout
American history, more
often born of economic ne-
cessity than developed as a
hobby. The seamstresses in
Obama’s lineage worked for
white families, making and
with folks you might not feel
immediately aligned with.
Or when she uses comedian
Ali Wong to convey the
power of bringing your
whole self to things, as when
this Asian American woman
filmed her 2016 raunchy
stand-up comedy special,
“Baby Cobra,” while 7½
months pregnant.
As in her first book, Oba-
ma’s writing is most free
when she’s talking about the
love of her life, Barack. In a
chapter titled “Partnering
Well,” she writes, “Our mar-
riage is what we launch from
and land in, a place where we Crown

fixing and darning their can each be thoroughly,

clothes. It’s a perfect way to
start the book, because it’s
not just about the “enforced
stillness” that knitting af-
fords Obama but also about
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FORMER FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA, on a tour stop in Toronto in through history to knit and
2019 for her memoir “Becoming,” is back with a new book, “The Light We Carry.” purl ancestral memory into
her yarn-in-progress.
BOOK REVIEW This is the overarching
theme of “The Light We
comfortably, annoyingly The Light We Carry
ourselves.” It’s a joy to read
Overcoming in
about her love for someone
Uncertain Times
whom we, the public — but
especially Black folks — Michelle Obama
have loved too, and yet in Crown: 336 pages, $33
such a different capacity.
And to get relationship ad- ing how tenuous such con-
vice from someone who ex- nections can be — and con-
plains, “The only love story I versely how much humanity
know is the one I happen to consists of and relies on their

Guiding ‘Light’ for a

Carry” — the narrative
weave that each of us con-
structs from our own spindly
threads of observation,
shaped in part by the plain
live inside every day.” When
the other half of that love
story is someone we know
(or think we know) so viv-
idly, it’s kind of titillating to
cumulative impact.
This recognition is Oba-
ma’s bass note, the ballast in
her book of lessons. After all
she has witnessed and ex-

nation adrift right now and tender truths of those

who came before us. Not only
our biological ancestors, but
our human ancestors. We’re
all in this together, Obama is
read that his “candor and
certainty” are “sexy as hell.”
Toward the end of “The
Light We Carry,” Obama
writes about how paradoxi-
perienced, both as a first
lady and as a Black woman
in America, she knows in her
bones just how timely these
themes of unity, compas-

Michelle Obama deftly knits together a self-help saying.

Which again may sound a
cal the human experience
can be. She describes lying
sion, gratitude, courage and
the desire to see one another

message in follow-up to her memoir, ‘Becoming.’
By Rebecca Carroll
It should be easy to write
off “The Light We Carry,” by
former First Lady Michelle
Obama — with its toolbox
framework, motivational
one-liners and inspirational
quotes from Toni Morrison,
John Lewis and Maya An-
gelou — as a clichéd self-help
manual, an easy holiday-sea-
son layup after putting in the
hard work on her mega-best-
selling memoir, “Becoming.”
Among the reasons it’s
not so easy to dismiss are the
indefatigable humility of its
author and, perhaps more
important, the resolute ne-
cessity of a book like this
right now, in this particular
moment, for a pandemic-af-
flicted nation that is politi-
cally siloed, socially unteth-
ered, emotionally shell-
shocked.
Divided, like her memoir,
into three parts, “The Light
We Carry” is both personal
and practical. Obama re-
flects on her experiences not
just as a public figure but
also as a daughter, friend,
mother and partner, weav-
ing together small yet de-
tailed anecdotes with larger
life messages in an effort to
remind us “that self-worth
comes wrapped in vulnera-
bility, and that what we
share as humans on this
earth is the impulse to strive
for better, always and no
matter what.”
If “Becoming” was about,
well, becoming, its follow-up
is about Obama committing
even more deeply to the per-
son she has become. “Maybe
more than I ever had,” she
writes in this book’s intro-
duction, reflecting on her
speech at the 2020 Demo-
cratic National Convention,
“I’d experienced the kind of
volcanic clarity that comes
when you speak from the ab-
solute center of your being.”
In the opening chapter,
“The Power of Small,” Oba-
ma’s discovery of knitting as
a way to quiet her anxiety is
relatable and charming, but
it’s her simultaneously set
and blooming self-aware-
ness that appeals — here
and throughout the book. “I
bit cliché, but I for one am
very happy to be reminded of
this fact, especially if it
comes with some choice an-
ecdotes. I don’t mind it when
Obama uses the story of a 29-
year-old Lin-Manuel Mi-
randa overcoming his fears
to perform a newly written
song from a fledgling “Ham-
ilton” at the White House to
demonstrate the following
point: “The fearful mind
loves to show up at moments
of peak stress, and with a
clear agenda: It wants to
veto everything. It is not at
all down with your twirl.”
I don’t mind it when she
enlists her college friend An-
gela, “a fast-talking kid from
D.C. with a ferocious intel-
lect and the preppiest ward-
robe I’d ever seen,” to help
emphasize the importance
of cultivating friendships
next to her daughters at
bedtime when they were lit-
tle. “I’d watch them drift off
to sleep, their lips parted,
the arcs of their little chests
rising and falling beneath
the sheets, and feel struck by
the realization that no mat-
ter how much I tried, I’d ne-
ver know even half their
thoughts. We’re alone, each
one of us. That’s the ache of
being human.”
It’s a moment at once
personal and existential, but
right now, it also feels strik-
ingly pointed. In our loneli-
ness, especially during the
pandemic, we reached out to
become less unknowable via
social media, only to watch
helplessly as one platform, a
source of Black culture, joy
and livelihood in particular,
falls at the hands of a white
male billionaire. We are see-
are: “Any time we grip hands
with another soul and recog-
nize some piece of their story
they’re trying to tell, we are
acknowledging and affirm-
ing two truths: We’re lonely
and yet we’re not alone.”
And for those who are
surely wondering: Yes, she
does address the now-fa-
mous catchphrase from her
speech while campaigning
for Hilary Clinton at the 2016
Democratic National Con-
vention. In fact, she gives it a
whole chapter — the last in
the book, called “Going
High,” in which Obama
somehow manages to tie
everything up in a bow that is
neither neat nor messy but,
rather, tidily handmade.
Carroll is a cultural critic,
podcast host and editor at
large at the Meteor.

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The producers of AMC
Networks’ “The Walking
Dead” have filed a new $200-
million lawsuit in their latest
effort to recover profits
from the hit show and its
spinoffs.
A group of producers, in-
cluding the creator of the
comic book series, Robert
Kirkman, first sued AMC in
2017 over how it calculated
profits from the show, but
most of their claims were re-
jected by the court.
On Monday, the produc-
ers renewed their claims in
Los Angeles Superior Court,
suing AMC Networks for
breach of contract over the
zombie series and its pre-
quel, “Fear the Walking
Dead.”
In their latest complaint,
producers allege that AMC’s
$200-million settlement with
the series showrunner
Frank Darabont in 2021 enti-
tles them to similar treat-
ment.
“On the one hand AMC
tells them they are entitled
to nothing based on erro-
neous pre-trial rulings which
are subject to appeal, while
AMC paid $200 million to
Frank Darabont and CAA to
avoid a New York jury’s re-
view of the exact same con-
tingent compensation defi-
nition,” the producers said
in a statement via their at-
torney Sheldon Eisenberg.
“Instead of giving Plaintiffs
the benefit of the Darabont
settlement as required by
the express terms of their
contracts, AMC’s creative
activity these days seems
TELEVISION REVIEW
Ho, ho, ho! Look
who’s come down
the chimney in
charming fashion
ROBERT LLOYD
TELEVISION CRITIC
“The Santa Clause” is
coming to town for a fourth
installment of the Tim Allen
franchise, now in the form of
a six-episode television se-
ries, “The Santa Clauses,”
premiering Wednesday on
Disney+.
Following the much-de-
rided “Santa Clause 3: The
Escape Clause,” one could
call it something of a recov-
ery, and though it’s thin in
characterization and obvi-
ous in the emotional beats —
sort of the point in a work
like this, anyway — it’s a re-
spectable, fairly amusing
holiday entertainment for
anyone who would like to
start their Christmas now.
For those fresh to this
epic, which first came down
the cultural chimney in 1994
with “The Santa Clause” —
the contractual “clause” be-
ing the pun the series is built
on — Allen plays Scott Cal-
vin, a distracted, divorced
dad who startles Santa on
his roof one Christmas Eve.
Santa slips, falls and dis-
solves, leaving only the suit
and a card instructing the
finder to put it on; this turns
him into the actual new
Santa, fat, bearded, jolly, etc.
(Frankly, this forced trans-
formation always struck me
as more curse than blessing.
Also, “The Santa Clause” be-
gins with the death of Santa,
an oddity the new series —
which, incidentally, has a
quite frightening credit se-
quence — finds an opportu-
nity to address.)
In the second film, Scott
acquires a wife, Carol (Eliza-
beth Mitchell), another legal
obligation. As the Disney+
series begins, they’ve got a
couple of teenage kids (Eliz-
abeth Allen-Dick as Sandra,
Austin Kane as Cal), and
Scott/Santa, who is as old as
Tim Allen, is slowing down.
He’s losing weight no matter
how much junk he eats, his
magic has become unreli-
able and, realizing that the
last 28 years have been more
about him than his family,
he’s considering retirement.
Carol, who can barely re-
member her own name, is in
the grip of a long-delayed
identity crisis, having “left a
CHRISTIAN SERRATOS, center, and Ross Marquand, right, in “The Walking Dead.” Producers and AMC are battling over profits.
limited to figuring out new
ways to mistreat the talent
that is responsible for its
now past success.”
Orin Snyder, attorney for
AMC Networks, noted that
the producers’ biggest
claims against AMC were al-
ready rejected by the court.
“Another lawsuit means
another attempt to rewrite
their agreements and ex-
tract even more than the
millions they have already
great job to be the nameless,
faceless woman behind a
larger-than-life man,” stuck
for years playing a character
“devoid of all personality
and appeal and somehow
humorless while still provid-
ing comic relief.” The kids,
meanwhile, have grown curi-
ous about ordinary human
life. (The program on Cal’s
VR headset is modeled on
Topeka, Kan.)
Like old ornaments hung
on a new tree, the TV series
echoes and calls back to the
movies (including a couple
of clips). Eric Lloyd makes
an appearance as Scott’s son
Charlie, from his first mar-
riage, whom Scott tries to in-
terest in the job; David
Krumholtz, absent from
“The Santa Clause 3,” re-
turns as now-former head elf
Bernard.
New Santa candidate Si-
mon Choksi (Kal Penn), is,
like Scott in his previous life,
a single father in the toy
business — he’s expanding
clumsily into e-commerce,
the enemy of the Santa
system — who’s too busy for
the child (Rupali Redd as
Grace) he obviously loves.
(They also share initials.)
As in the second and
third films, the North Pole
will be taken over by a figure
who doesn’t have its best in-
terests at heart, and, as in
those and countless other
Santa-themed films, Christ-
mas itself will be threatened.
Really, if we’re to go by
the movies, it’s an amazingly
fragile holiday, always about
not to happen: No Santa, no
toys for the kids, no elves. A
North Polemageddon.
As always, elves matter.
(That they are played by
children — who are not
playing children — takes
some getting used to.) Prime
among them are all-busi-
ness elf-in-charge Betty
(Matilda Lawler, so great in
“Station Eleven” and invalu-
able here), who declares, “I
don’t make the rules. I just
enforce them with stead-
fast intensity.” She’s mar-
ried to the antic Noel (Devin
Bright), insanely, unhealth-
ily devoted to Santa, with
whom he rides shotgun on
Christmas Eve.
Created by Jack Burditt,
who created the Allen sit-
com “Last Man Standing,”
been paid, and will be paid in
the future, for their profit
participation in The Walk-
ing Dead,” Snyder said in a
statement. “This is just an-
other crass money grab. We
are confident it will fail, as
their previous attempts
have failed.”
Fights over profit sharing
have escalated between
distributors and content
creators, who argue they
have been shortchanged as
“THE SANTA CLAUSES” brings back old pals, including Elizabeth Mitchell and Tim Allen, on Disney+.
‘The Santa
Clauses’
Where: Disney+
When: Anytime
Rating: TV-PG (may be
unsuitable for young
children)
“The Santa Clauses” func-
tions as both a tribute to and
an affectionate critique of
the franchise, retconning its
weird premise, commenting
on the male-dominated mi-
lieu of its predecessors.
(Laura San Giacomo, in an
enjoyable, Chico Marx-ish
turn as La Befana, the
Christmas Witch, relates
how she had to ride a broom
because “back then, a witch
couldn’t get a sleigh loan
without a warlock to co-
sign.”) The jokes range from
low to … less low, from obvi-
ous to obscure.
Because Scott and Ber-
nard are older (there is an
explanation for Bernard ag-
ing), there are humorous ref-
erences to acid reflux and a
hiatal hernia. Scott steps in
reindeer poo, an elf vomits
glitter (“Throw some hay on
that,” says Santa), Santa’s
name is misspelled as “Sa-
tan.” There is the usual con-
fection-ication of swearing
(“Son of a biscotti!” “For the
love of Mike & Ike!”).
Betty remarks that San-
ta is into NFTs — “nutty
fudge cakes.” There is an an-
gel dust joke, of all things,
and a dig at the “Star Wars”
Christmas special. There
are jokes built on elves being
centuries old, including a
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Gene Page AMC
shows have taken off on Buckley in 2020 agreed with Darabont and CAA first
streaming platforms. AMC’s arguments that it did sued AMC in 2013 after he
So far, the producers of not breach its contract with was fired from the show. He
“The Walking Dead” have the producers. alleged the network de-
faced multiple setbacks in The producers have since prived him of millions in
court. filed amended complaints profits through improper
The lawsuit first filed by and were dealt another blow and abusive “self-dealing,”
producers Robert Kirkman, in April of this year when when a network creates a
David Alpert, Gale Anne Buckley dismissed most of show and then makes a deal
Hurd, Charles Eglee and their case. with itself for the distribu-
Glen Mazzara in 2017 was However, he allowed the tion rights, lowering the po-
split into stages. producers to pursue litiga- tential cut for creators.
Los Angeles County Su- tion with more limited AMC has denied those al-
perior Court Judge Daniel claims. legations.
Disney+
reference to “the thousand-
year itch.” Peyton Manning
makes a funny cameo.
With Penn taking on the
series’ more manic atti-
tudes, Allen gets to be nicely
relaxed here, and I found it a
relief to see him in his own
skin during the family’s
sketchy sojourn in Chicago.
There and elsewhere, the
kids’ characters could be
better developed, especially
since their needs and desires
are supposedly central to
the story; even Grace is just
a foil for her father. (As Cal
— originally called Buddy,
but Will Ferrell owns that elf
name now — Kane is never-
theless a consistently en-
gaging doofus.) At the same
time, character develop-
ment matters less than plot
here, even as the big ques-
tion — “Will Christmas hap-
pen?” — isn’t really a ques-
tion at all.
As to who’ll be the next
Santa, it’s not hard to see
where that’s going — clues
are planted early on, and one
never really expects Simon
to work out. He thinks in
terms of “corporate syn-
ergy,” refers to Christmas
lists as “orders” and re-
sponds to an elf asking
“What’s a union?” by ex-
claiming, “Oh, man, I love
this place!”
Of course, he will have a
lesson to learn, because
learning lessons is a Christ-
mas-movie tradition. The
conclusion sort of buries
everyone’s concerns except
Scott’s, but homilies about
magic and believing trump
domestic issues, and there is
nothing a group hug can’t
make moot. And the elves
will be happy.
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SUDOKU
KENKEN
Every box will contain a number; numbers depend on the size of the grid. For a 6x6
puzzle, use Nos. 1-6. Do not repeat a number in any row or column. The numbers in each
heavily outlined set of squares must combine to produce the target number found in the
top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be
repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
You expect challenges inher-
ent to the work at hand. Your
sporting attitude should
make this a lot of fun!
Taurus (April 20-May
20): Intuition often comes in
the form of curiosity or inter-
est. Follow that and you’ll be
psychically connected.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
You’re protective of your
loved ones and will leap to
their defense at the slightest
sign that it’s needed. Do the
same for yourself.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
Even though the demands
on you are not difficult, they
are still abundant. You have
to draw the line somewhere.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
You’ll get another chance at
a project that didn’t quite
work out the first time
around.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Your kind words set you
apart. They might catch
CROSSWORD
Edited By Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By Chandi Deitmer
ACROSS
1 Like uncombed hair
5 Muslim leader
9 Structure made of snow
or blankets
13 “Gotcha”
14 Walking stick
15 Zones
17 *Netflix documentary
series about a
controversial zookeeper
19 Krispy __
20 Carton sealer
21 Tenant’s contract
23 Abolish
24 Home of the NHL’s
Blues
25 Floe makeup
27 Period
28 Surgery ctrs.
29 Langley org.
30 *Showtime medical
drama starring Edie
Falco
33 Surrounded by
35 Razz
36 George Eliot’s
“Adam __”
37 Sinuous fish
38 Sitar music
42 “Not Gon’ Cry” singer
Mary J. __
45 Tolkien creature
corrupted by the One
Ring
47 *USA series about
corporate crime
51 Caustic solution
52 Lady bird
53 Obtained
54 Iris locale
55 Duty
56 Husky hello
57 Vidalia __
59 SportsCenter anchor
Linda
61 Thunders
63 Annual Discovery
Channel programming
event that could feature
the shows in the
answers to the starred
clues?
66 Fight with foils
67 Terrain map, briefly
68 Ish
69 “On the double!”
70 Short itinerary?
71 Let the tears flow
DOWN
1 Quick thinking
2 “Starting now?”
3 Public defender’s
offering
people off guard, but you can
be sure that later they’ll
think about what you’ve
said.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
You value politeness, but
there are many more impor-
tant virtues that will come to
bear on today’s situation.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
Though the broad strokes
may seem to be lining up just
fine, it’s what you pick up in
the small details that will
have the biggest effect on
your energy.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): You don’t believe
that anyone’s time is more or
less valuable than yours, and
you prove this point by being
punctual.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): When being around peo-
ple is draining, you find ener-
gy in other kinds of connec-
tions. For instance, with ani-
mals, you appreciate nature
and praise its beauty.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): Your good taste will be
called on as you host or as-
4 Like a basso profundo
voice
5 Sound of disgust
6 Large envelope
7 “Coming of Age in
Mississippi” writer
Moody
8 Many a contract for a
superstar player, e.g.
9 Orange skin that
doesn’t peel?
10 Hockey legend Bobby
11 Boston-based
sportswear giant
12 Salty Japanese
condiment
16 Word with common or
good
18 Rider’s controls
22 Korean rice liquor
24 Reminder of a scrape
26 __ and paste
31 Girder material
32 Corner PC key
34 Amount owed
37 Big-headed sorts
39 Complete
40 Some northern South
Americans
41 Visa/MC alternative
43 Key part of a block
party?
COMICS
11/16/22
sist a friend in hosting. It is
not lost on you that the one
who controls details like mu-
sic and lighting is also con-
trolling the mood.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): You don’t always have
the correct space to do the
activities you most enjoy,
but you will make moves to
remedy this and build a life
more to your liking.
Today’s birthday (Nov.
16): You love seeing good
things happen for your col-
leagues and family; it forti-
fies your belief that it can
also happen for you, and so it
will. You’re open to the world
and yet you’ve an unchang-
ing core of strength inside
you. Among this year’s
amazements: A prayer is an-
swered and a wish is deliv-
ered too. Scorpio and Cap-
ricorn adore you. Your lucky
numbers: 2, 22, 28, 30 and 14.
Mathis writes her column
for Creators Syndicate Inc.
The horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
© 2022 Tribune Content Agency
44 Tappable image
45 “Bad Feminist”
writer Roxane
46 Big name in vacuums
47 Mooring spot
48 Medal recipients
49 Swaddled one
50 Algonquian
language
58 “Now I get it”
60 “Stop! That hurts!”
62 TV pioneer
64 Fishing pole
65 Keystone __
ANSWER TO
PREVIOUS PUZZLE
11/16/22
BRIDGE
By Frank Stewart
In the final of the Life
Master Pairs at the ACBL
Summer Championships,
Larry Sealy took advantage
of a defensive slip to make a
valuable overtrick. His part-
ner, Wafik Abdou, brought
the deal to the Daily Bul-
letin.
Against four hearts,
played by South after a
transfer response to 1NT,
West led a diamond. Sealy
ducked East’s jack, and East
shifted to the king of clubs.
Sealy took the ace and led
the queen of trumps: king,
ace. He took the ace of dia-
monds, ruffed his last dia-
mond high and led a spade
from dummy. East played
low, and Sealy took the ace
and ruffed a club.
When dummy led a
ASK AMY
Taking sides in a divorce
Dear Amy: My wife’s neph-
ew “Chris” is going through a
divorce. He and his wife,
“Jan,” have two children.
Jan has always had a pos-
itive relationship with our
family.
Their divorce has been
cordial, but my wife’s family
now wishes to ghost Jan.
I feel bad doing that, but I
risk alienating my wife and
her family by being cordial.
I feel like calling her to ex-
press my sadness that I can’t
talk to her, and that I hope
she understands, but even
that would seem risky.
Common sense tells me
to stay out of it. Can you help
me feel not so bad about it?
Middled
Dear Middled: Unfortu-
nately, I can’t help you to feel
better about your wife’s
clan’s choice to deliberately
initiate an estrangement.
If they succeed, Chris’
kids will be forced to contin-
ually split their time and at-
tention, not only between
their parents but extending
into other generations.
For instance, they will
learn that they won’t be able
to tell one set of grand-
parents about experiences
with the other set. They will
train themselves never to
mention their mother in
front of their father’s family.
And if your wife’s family
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trump next, East awoke to
the danger of being end-
played with his queen of
spades; he discarded it. But
Sealy then led the nine of
clubs and threw a spade
from dummy. East had to
win and lead a minor-suit
card, conceding a ruff-sluff.
If East plays the queen on
the first spade — easier in
hindsight — he can save his
six as an exit card and hold
declarer to 10 tricks.
You hold: ♠ K 10 8 7 3 ♥ K
♦10 7 6 2 ♣ 8 7 5. The dealer, at
your left, opens two dia-
monds (weak). Your partner
doubles, and the next player
passes. What do you say?
Answer: Your partner
has a hand worth at least
15 points with support for
the unbid suits, especially
the majors. (He might hold a
powerful hand with his own
long suit.) Since you have a
would punish you for simply
being kind and cordial to
Jan, this reflects extremely
poorly on all of them.
“Circling the wagons” af-
ter a break-up is expected.
This is mainly demon-
strating supportive behav-
ior at a challenging time.
I hope that Chris will ac-
tively discourage this
”ghosting,” however. Nor
should you play along.
You should not contact
Jan to tell her you’re sorry
you won’t be able to speak to
her. You could tell her you’re
sorry this break-up is hap-
pening, that you always en-
joyed her presence in the
family, and that you hope
she and the kids do well
through the process.
If your wife confronts you
about this, remind her that
you are an adult and she’s
not in charge of you.
Dear Amy: My friend “J”
celebrated her birthday five
months ago.
She invited me, her hus-
band, “M,” and another
friend out to a karaoke bar
for dinner and drinks.
M told us he was paying
for everything as a gift to J.
When the bill arrived, it
was more than he’d ex-
pected. He told us he’d send
us a Venmo request for our
share the next morning.
J pushed back, saying
DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
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SPEED BUMP By Dave Coverly
five-card spade suit and two
working kings, you should
try for game. Bid three
spades.
South dealer
Both sides vulnerable
NORTH
♠942
♥AJ98652
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♣Q
WEST EAST
♠ K 10 8 7 3 ♠Q6
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♦ 10 7 6 2 ♦KQJ9
♣875 ♣ K J 10 6 4 3
SOUTH
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♥ Q 10 4 3
♦A84
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SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1 NT Pass 4♦ Pass
4♥ All Pass
Opening lead — ♦ 6
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that it was his gift to her and
he couldn’t back out now.
I didn’t hear anything
about it again until this
week, when I got a Venmo re-
quest for $85.
I texted M to ask what the
request was for, and he said
he found a sticky note saying
everyone owed him that
much for the party.
He apologized for not fol-
lowing up earlier but said
he’d like me to pay him back
as soon as possible.
I feel like it’s extremely
tacky of him to ask for repay-
ment now. Plus, if I do, I’ll
have about 17 cents until my
next paycheck.
My petty side wants to
make him wait five months,
but frankly I don’t feel like I
should have to pay him back
at all. What’s your take?
Broke
Dear Broke: According to
PayPal, which owns Venmo,
the “Venmo lifecycle is 48
hours.” I think you should
contact “M” and tell him
that while you had funds five
months ago, you don’t now,
but in the next few months
you’ll do your best. You
could Venmo him $1.76 a
week until you feel the gag
has run its course.
Email questions to Amy
Dickinson at askamy@
amydickinson.com.
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