Hydee Feldstein Soto

Why Thrive LA endorses Hydee

Hydee Feldstein Soto is the incumbent Los Angeles City Attorney, a career attorney with decades of private practice experience, and the first woman and first Latina elected to citywide office in Los Angeles. She brings a pragmatic, competent approach to a role that is critical to how this city functions. We endorse Feldstein Soto because she represents steady, professional legal counsel for the City of Los Angeles at a time when that stability is under threat. Her biggest challenger seeks to staff city legal operations with ideological activists and weaponize our government's legal institutions into a tool for activism that undermines economic opportunity. That is not what the City Attorney's office is for. Los Angeles needs a City Attorney who defends the city's legal interests, enforces existing laws, and helps cut through bureaucratic red tape, not one who views the office as a vehicle for ideological crusades. Feldstein Soto has demonstrated a willingness to take enforcement seriously. Her Western Avenue Initiative, launched in partnership with District Attorney Nathan Hochman, targeted sex trafficking networks and led to the arrest of 72 sexual predators along the Figueroa Corridor. She also secured a $1.3 million grant to prosecute impaired drivers. These are the kinds of results that make communities safer. Los Angeles cannot afford to hand its legal office to an ideologue. Hydee Feldstein Soto is the experienced, results-oriented City Attorney this city needs.