Los Angeles is a broken city, facing huge problems made worse by corrupt politicians. It is overrun by homelessness, crime, blight, and the horrifying aftermath of the 2025 Palisades fire.

In several weeks, Los Angeles voters will elect a new mayor. One candidate, former reality television star Spencer Pratt, is making a huge splash. He was previously known for his starring role on the MTV show The Hills from 2006 to 2010.

He lost his house, along with his parents, in the Palisades fire. Unlike two of his opponents in the race, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman, who live in mansions, Pratt and his wife are still living in a mobile home because of the fire. His disgust at the slow recovery of his hometown is fueling his grassroots campaign.

Pratt is a second-generation Los Angeles resident who has remade himself as a “community advocate” and energized mayoral candidate. The nonpartisan primary election will be held on June 2, 2026. While a total of 16 candidates are in the race, the top three, Pratt, Raman, and Bass, were invited to participate in the first televised debate, hosted by NBC-4 and Telemundo-52, last week.  

Pratt did very well and blasted Bass as “an incredible liar” in her comments about the wildfires. As every resident of Los Angeles will remember, Bass was on a “diplomatic mission” in Ghana, 7,000 miles away, when the wildfires started. Bass eventually admitted that “it was a mistake to travel” at the time that Los Angeles “needed me the most.”

In the debate, Pratt blamed Bass for “burning my house, and my parents’ house, and my town, all my neighbors........

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