Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. It’s county reporter Rebecca Ellis with a dispatch from the spiciest Board of Supervisors race and city reporter Julia Wick with more headlines. When Alex Villanueva announced his bid for Los Angeles County sheriff in 2017, the strategy was obvious: Trumpet his party affiliation.
County judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging Los Angeles’ “mansion tax” on Tuesday, marking the end of a months-long legal challenge from the luxury real estate community that looked to declare Measure ULA unconstitutional. The ruling is a big win for housing activists, who say that L.A. desperately needs the money raised by the tax, as my colleague Jack Flemming reports. Mayor Karen Bass, City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto and the city Housing Department all applauded the decision.
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