LA GOP Chair Urges Help After Karen Bass Touts 6-to-1 Donation Match

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 25

Roxanne Hoge urged Republicans to “send help” to California after Mayor Karen Bass’s campaign video highlighted Los Angeles’ 6-to-1 public match for qualified campaign donations.
Bass said a $5 contribution becomes $35 under the city’s “super match” program, prompting online criticism over taxpayer-funded support for her re-election bid.
Hoge said the program is legal under Los Angeles rules, tracing it to a 1990 voter-approved public financing system later expanded by the City Council into the current sixfold match.
The GOP chair cast the issue as evidence of entrenched Democratic control in Los Angeles, while arguing California remains worth contesting rather than writing off politically.