Dear friend,

Last night, the world watched as Mayor Anne Hidalgo, the first woman to ever serve as Mayor of Paris, passed the Olympic flag to Mayor Karen Bass, the first woman to ever serve as Mayor of Los Angeles.

The moment also marked Mayor Bass becoming the first Black woman Mayor to ever receive the Olympic flag during a closing Olympic Ceremony. And to make it even more meaningful, Mayor Bass was joined by Simone Biles, the greatest Olympic gymnast of all time.

Mayor Bass hopes that the ceremony sends a message to girls around the world that no matter where they are from, they can live out their dreams — they can run for gold and they can run for office.

The ceremony marked the close of the Paris games and started the official countdown to the 2028 games in LA. But Mayor Bass has already been working hard to drive changes that are making life better in LA right now:

• Thousands more people moved from the streets, resulting in the first decline in homelessness in years
• A new, comprehensive public safety strategy to keep Angelenos safe through enforcement and prevention
• Tens of thousands of affordable housing units expedited — more than ever before
• Increasing safety and cleanliness on Metro to grow ridership back to pre-pandemic levels; Metro just surpassed Chicago's to become the second-busiest transit system in the nation

We need Mayor Bass to keep making change. Will you chip in to help ensure that Mayor Bass’s leadership continues?

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Thanks for all you do,

Team Bass