I disagree. I would start with a little “Me too We’re liberals too” City - one with about 300k in their legal fund. Drain it and tell the mayor to show up two weeks from now (make him sweat) with his lawyer to discuss his/her pending indictment. When the little Me-Too cities cave it will set the stage to start going up the ladder to bigger cities and counties.
I strongly disagree.
You pick on one of the little cities and it immediately gets spun as “David v Goliath.” The narrative changes and risk some public sympathy for “David.”
To avoid that spin, and any possible public sympathy, you pick on a large city that is filled with the wealthy (and arrogant) elite but teetering on bankruptcy. That’s LA.
And CA itself isn’t that fiscally sound so if they go to the state for assistance you have the added bonus of taking the state itself down. It’s a win-win.