Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass‘s former 2022 opponent Rick Caruso called for “unity” Tuesday in a post discouraging her recall. Bass is facing calls for a recall after the Palisades and Eaton fires burned over 37,

The Los Angeles businessman who ran against Karen Bass in the 2022 election announced his opposition Tuesday to the recall effort to unseat her as the city’s mayor. Real estate magnate and former mayoral candidate Rick Caruso released a statement about the recall effort,

Bass and her office have said she was in constant communication while she was out of the country. But it’s impossible to know exactly what she was communicating, because her messages were not saved, according to a city lawyer.