By Dan Walters, CalMatters
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One might think that becoming mayor of the nation’s second largest city would catapult someone into the upper ranks of American politics.
However those who’ve captured the mayoralty of Los Angeles sooner or later discovered that navigating the city’s bewildering array of cultural, ethnic and socioeconomic fragments is difficult at best and often impossible, making it a dead end job.
Here’s a bit of trivia that illustrates that harsh reality: Every one of the five Los Angeles mayors who preceded current Mayor Karen Bass tried to climb another
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