This results in strange spectacles like the current Los Angeles mayoral race, which pits businessman Rick Caruso against Democratic Party stalwart Karen Bass. Since LA is a very blue city, Bass is favored to win. She has major endorsements, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris , plus the usual raft of celebrities. The 69-year-old Bass served in the California State Assembly, including two years as speaker, then spent a decade in the U.S. House of Representatives, with two years as the chairwoman of the powerful Congressional Black Caucus. Bass was a shortlister for Joe Biden’s vice presidential choice in 2020.
She didn’t get selected due to what some in the media tactfully termed “Cuba baggage,” which would not attract voters in key states like Florida. As is their wont, much of the media obscured the fact that, in her younger days, Bass was cozy with the Communist regime of Fidel Castro. This is euphemistically referred to by Democrats as her “activist” past. But it hides what was really going on. …
While Bass has downplayed her involvement, in 1975, the Communist Daily World newspaper described her as the “leader of the Venceremos Brigade in southern California,” while a 1996 academic dissertation depicted Bass in the 1970s like so: “As a ‘brigadista’ and then organizer for the Venceremos Brigades, Karen visited Cuba every 6 months.” A 1975 LA Police Department intelligence report described the then-22-year-old Bass as a “leader” in the VB, which was alleged to “train revolutionary-prone Americans in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare while claiming to harvest sugar cane.”
Moreover, the VB, since its inception, has been known by U.S. counterintelligence to be a front for Cuban intelligence[.]
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