MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: Spencer Pratt could have been a real contender. His greatest enemy was himself. Share, porfas!
NEW: California’s slow vote count faces changes as Supreme Court decision on late ballots looms:
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Here’s a pre-primary column explaining and exploring California’s unbroken modern-day history of rejecting rich candidates, with no prior elected office, trying to become governor or U.S. senator
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Spencer Pratt had a few things going for him when he launched an insurgent campaign to become Los Angeles' next mayor.
The U.S. Supreme Court could soon rule that California cannot accept ballots after election day. Experts are unsure what effect that would have on the counting process, but say there are other steps t...
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Over the past half-century, rich political neophytes have consistently tried and failed to be elected governor or U.S. senator. What makes California so inhospitable to the upper-crust aspirants?
Spencer Pratt is far and away better — like by millions of miles — in the role of martyr than he would have been as LA mayor.
1/Norton Simon Jr. William Matson Roth. Michael Huffington. Al Checchi. Bill Simon Jr. Carly Fiorina. Meg Whitman.
They all frittered away a great many, many millions in failed bids for statewide office.
Now Tom Steyer, who will not be California’s next, has topped them all.
For weeks, Trump has promised — at least 37 times, by some estimates — an accord with Iran is around the corner. Yet an issue far removed from the conflict’s epicenter may end up being the biggest obstacle to any treaty: Lebanon.
Nabih Bulos
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