According to reports from the city’s Ethics Commission, as of May 25 former reality tv star Spencer Pratt has raised more in contributions through fundraising efforts for his Mayoral campaign against his competitors. So far he has raised almost $2.72 million between April and May 16, while Karen Bass has raised about $283,000 during the same timeframe according to the Los Angeles Ethics Commission. In total, incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has raised $2.8 million in total contributions, bring-ing her to $3.7 million in matching funds, while Pratt has quickly trailed Bass with a rough total of $3.28 million. So Bass may not have raised as much recently, but she is still slightly ahead of Pratt in overall funds.
Both are followed by City Councilmember Nithya Raman who has fundraised $530,000 since her announcement for running for mayor in February.
Raman is the one of the latest to announce her run for mayor, so it is notable that she has $530,000 in 2 months. According to a Los Ange-les Times report, Raman has received most of her funding from entertainment industry profession-als such as producers and writers. She currently has a total of $930,000 in received contributions.
As of Jan. 1 Mayor Karen Bass has raised a total of $495,000 in fundraising and is seek-ing a reelection. There are currently 13 other challenges placing their bid for the position in the June 2 primary, including tech entrepreneur and businessman Adam Miller and community organizer and pastor, Rae Huang. Bass began fundraising for a potential second term in 2024 and apparently has $2.3 million available for her campaign, the Times reported. Other records show that Bass has raised a little over $2.8 million since her campaign began.
Miller has donated $2.5 million of his own funds to his campaign.
Pratt lost his home in January 2025’s Palisades Fire, sparking criticism towards Bass, as he has been vocal about the fire, Bass response, and her other directives.
“There’s no meaningful difference in the amount of money the top three candidates have raised,” said Dan Schnur, a political science professor at Pepperdine University USC and UC Berkeley said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times. He suggests that despite the small differ-ences in their fundraising dollars, fundraising polling reports usually show that top three can-didates evenly match funds for the final weeks of the campaign.
