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Nicholas Goldberg: Why I’m voting against Rick Caruso. (Hint: It’s not because of his positions on the issues.)

Karen Bass, from left, businessman Rick Caruso and Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer during the mayoral debate at Bovard Auditorium on the USC campus on March 22, 2022.

LOS ANGELES — Karen Bass wants to hire 500 new LAPD officers while Rick Caruso wants 1,800 more. Bass plans to house 17,000 homeless people in her first year as mayor; he promises 30,000. He excoriates her for accepting free tuition from USC, while she says he broke a promise to spend $1 million backing a pro-choice ballot measure.

This is important stuff, undoubtedly. I've listened, I've considered, I've compared.

But at the end of the day, when I walk into my polling station on Nov. 8 to help choose a new mayor of Los Angeles, I

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