Spencer Pratt’s Hollywood-honed theatrics have made the Los Angeles mayoral race national news. Meanwhile, a behind-the-scenes industry player is attempting to secure the third-most-powerful elected job in the city with a notable campaign that’s so far received little attention. Zach Sokoloff, on leave from his top executive role at Hackman Capital, where he manages the firm’s Television City and Radford studio lots, is running for Controller — L.A.’s fiscal watchdog, independent auditor, paymaster and accountant. A Democrat who’s sewn up a slew of party endorsements, he’s hoping to knock out incumbent Kenneth Mejia, a progressive upstart who took office in 2022. “I decided to run because the city is broken,” Sokoloff says during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in which he criticized Mejia for being ineffective: too passive in confronting multiple civic crises and too uncollaborative in his dealings with fellow elected officials.…