{"id":215636,"date":"2026-01-09T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/spencer-pratt-will-not-serve-either-party-if-he-becomes-la-mayor\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:11:11","slug":"spencer-pratt-will-not-serve-either-party-if-he-becomes-la-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/spencer-pratt-will-not-serve-either-party-if-he-becomes-la-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Pratt &#8216;will not serve either party&#8217; if he becomes LA mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-01-09\" datetime=\"1767949871\" pubdate=\"\">9 January 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/spencer-pratt\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,spencer-pratt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spencer Pratt<\/a> will be a &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; mayor of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Spencer Pratt (pictured with wife Heidi Montag) is bidding to become LA mayor<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old reality star announced earlier this week that he was running for office and has now declared that he will not &#8220;serve either party&#8221; should he win the vote, even though he is registered as a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer wrote on social media site X: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been in the public eye for most of my life and there isn&#8217;t any dirt you can find on me that hasn&#8217;t already been aired.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seems like the only thing people don&#8217;t know is my voter registration, so here goes: I registered Republican in 2020 and never changed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hills star stated that he &#8220;won&#8217;t change it now just to check a different box&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nPratt added: &#8220;This is a non-partisan race \u2013 there will be no D or R next to my name.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;As Mayor, I will not serve either party. I will work with anyone who wants to help the City. No labels necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nSpencer announced that his run for mayor on Wednesday (07.01.26), which marked the first anniversary of the Los Angeles fires that destroyed his and his wife Heidi Montag&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said in his announcement: &#8220;The system in Los Angeles isn&#8217;t struggling, it&#8217;s fundamentally broken.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It is a machine designed to protect the people at the top and the friends they exchange favours with while the rest of us drown in toxic smoke and ash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nSpencer continued: &#8220;Business as usual is a death sentence in Los Angeles, and I&#8217;m done waiting for someone to take real action.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And let me be clear, this just isn&#8217;t a campaign. This is a mission, and we&#8217;re gonna expose the system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Pratt&#8217;s mayoral bid has been criticised by incumbent Karen Bass&#8217;s team \u2013 with the current mayor&#8217;s strategist Douglas Herman branding it as a publicity stunt.<\/p>\n<p>\nDouglas told Entertainment Weekly in a statement: &#8220;It&#8217;s no shock that in advance of his imminent book release, a reality TV &#8216;villain&#8217; who once staged a fake divorce to boost ratings and spent the last summer spewing post-fire misinformation and disinformation to pump up his social media following, would now announce he&#8217;s running for Mayor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/spencer-pratt-will-serve-either-party-becomes-mayor-1435686.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 January 2026 Spencer Pratt will be a &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; mayor of Los Angeles. Spencer Pratt (pictured with wife Heidi Montag) is bidding to become LA mayor The 42-year-old reality star announced earlier this week that he was running for office and has now declared that he will not &#8220;serve either party&#8221; should he win the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13425,3901,1483,3900],"class_list":{"0":"post-215636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-douglas-herman","9":"tag-heidi-montag","10":"tag-karen-bass","11":"tag-spencer-pratt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}