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Raul Claros, a 45-year-old community organizer hoping to unseat Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, acknowledged his plan is a publicity stunt but hopes the publicity will get results.

Problems with drug dealing and drug use in and around the park have worsened in recent years.

A spokesperson for Hernandez said the councilmember has brought cleaning teams, violence prevention workers and street medicine teams to the park.

MacArthur Park has come to symbolize some of Los Angeles’ most intractable issues.

Homeless people crowd the park and streets nearby. Drug dealers peddle fentanyl in public. Businesses struggle to stay afloat. The mayor and other city leaders have searched for a

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