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sentences that state something as happening or true
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0 of 29 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Is Nithya Raman plucking daisy petals, or running for mayor?
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Raman → pluck → mayor
They direct me, they direct me not …
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they → direct → me
She won’t say.
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She → say → ?
Raman evaded questions from the California Post on whether or not as mayor she’d advance looney Democratic Socialists of America policies — including expropriating private property.
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she → evade → property
Meanwhile, in a recent interview with LA media, Raman equivocated.
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Raman → equivocate → media
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Sign → sign → California
Asked if she’d “co-govern” with DSA-LA — as per that group’s expectation of her — Raman said yes.
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Raman → ask → her
But also, she said, she’d co-govern with all the groups — “with everyone.”
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she → say → everyone
Raman needs to cut the gobbledygook, and level with the public: She’s running to unseat Mayor Karen Bass on Nov. 3.
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She → need → Nov.
Would she peddle DSA-LA policies from the mayor’s seat, or not?
Simple question.
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she → peddle → question
This much is clear: Nithya Raman is proudly endorsed by DSA-LA.
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Raman → endorse → LA
She’s been a member of the City Council’s nutty socialist faction for years — and voted accordingly.
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She → vote → years
DSA-LA does, after all, expect DSA-endorsed elected officials to advance what it calls “our program.”
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it → expect → what
That program includes seizing private property, defunding the police, and ending restrictions on homeless “camping.”
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program → include → camping
It also calls for funding “safe” drug-injection sites; using taxpayer money to run grocery stores, restaurants and internet service; and letting noncitizens vote in LA elections.
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noncitizens → call → elections
(Raman & Co. pushed for the latter just this summer.)
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Raman → push → latter
This is a group that Raman says she’d “co-govern” with as mayor.
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she → say → mayor
So: Would she use mayoral power to push some or all of the DSA’s looney-tunes program?
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she → use → program
The California Post asked specifically about 16 planks of the socialists’ platform.
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Post → ask → platform
Raman wouldn’t address a single one.
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Raman → address → one
Raman’s lack of clarity — and refusal to renounce extreme politics — should ring alarm bells citywide.
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lack → renounce → bells
If running the city is just a big co-governing lovefest, then why elect a mayor at all?
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running → run → mayor
We have a guess, and it’s straight out of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”: All (co-governing) groups are equal, but some groups are more equal than others.
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groups → have → others
For years, Raman and her council colleagues have badly botched local government’s most fundamental responsibility: public safety.
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Raman → botch → responsibility
The councilwoman — along with her DSA pals on the council — has voted to shrink police funding, shift resources away from policing and ease restrictions on squalid homeless “camping” in LA.
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councilwoman → vote → LA
Of course, by ducking the DSA question, Raman — unwittingly, perhaps — insults the same voters she courts.
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she → duck → voters
Her evasions make her look weak, shifty and irresolute.
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her → make → ?
The bottom-line question is this: Is Nithya Raman running for mayor to represent the people of Los Angeles?
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Raman → run → Angeles
Or is she running to represent a small group of fringe socialists who want to cement control over City Hall?
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who → run → Hall
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