Kolby Lee, who served as director of communications since February, resigned from Bass' office Monday.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaking at a town hall about the Lineage fire in Boyle Heights on July 9. A top spokesperson for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass left her administration Monday after a brief tenure, joining a growing list of communications aides who have departed over the last nine months.
Kolby Lee, who started as Bass’ director of communications in February, said he was resigning to spend time with family and loved ones.
“I’m very grateful to Mayor Bass for giving me the opportunity to be part of her team and serve the people of Los Angeles,” Lee said in a statement Tuesday. Bass’ communications office said in a statement to The Times on Tuesday, “We thank Kolby for his contribution to the office and wish him and his family well. ” Bass is running for reelection against City Councilmember Nithya Raman.
The departures began in October, when Zach Seidl, Bass’ longtime deputy mayor of communications, left for the private sector. Bass then brought on Amanda Crumley to replace Seidl. But Crumley lasted little more than a month, leaving in March. Lee started as communications director shortly before Crumley’s departure, serving for about four months.
Robb was not paid by the city for his work and served in an unofficial role providing comments on important issues, includingabout Robb’s work for the Bass administration at the same time that he is a crisis communications consultant for Lineage Logistics, the company whose Boyle Heights warehouse erupted in flames last month, inundating the area with toxic smoke and rotting food odors. Noah Goldberg covers Los Angeles City Hall for the Los Angeles Times.
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But more than 18 months after those January 2025 fires, survivors are still waiting on an additional $16 billion in federal disaster relief from the federal government, which was revised down earlier this year from nearly $34 billion. The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed.
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