Among the accomplishments that Nithya Raman can lay claim to in her astonishing 2020 race for a Los Angeles City Council seat is having enticed a number of major Hollywood figures to care deeply about a local race.
Though industry figures frequently endorse, mug and stump for national candidates, the extent of those who did so for Raman, whose opponent conceded the race for District 4 on Nov.
6 and became the first an incumbent Councilmember to be unseated in L.A. in 17 years, was exceedingly unusual. Over the course of the urban planner's campaign, Raman won the endorsements of Tina Fey, Natalie Portman, Mindy Kaling, Jane Fonda, Nick Offerman, Adam Scott, Ike Barinholtz and Busy Philipps alongside those of Sen.
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