Traci Park is the Los Angeles City Councilmember representing Council District 11, covering Venice, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Mar Vista, Del Rey, Playa Vista, and Westchester. She assumed office December 12, 2022 after defeating attorney Erin Darling 52% to 48%. A former registered Republican, she is identified by the Los Angeles Times as the most conservative member of the Los Angeles City Council. Her 2022 campaign was heavily funded by real estate interests and the Los Angeles Police Protective League.

Who funds Traci Park?

Traci Park's campaigns have been primarily funded by real estate interests, police unions, and Republican-aligned donor networks. The LAPPL operated an independent expenditure committee that spent over $500,000 supporting her 2022 campaign, including over $300,000 from Douglas Emmett Inc., a major West Los Angeles landlord. The Nagel family of Decron Properties coordinated fifteen family members to donate the maximum contribution on the same day, funneling over $12,700 to her campaign. Her campaign was subsequently fined $8,000 by the LA City Ethics Commission for eight campaign finance violations.

What is Traci Park's record on housing?

Traci Park has consistently opposed affordable and supportive housing in CD11. She co-introduced the City Council resolution opposing SB 79, California's transit-oriented housing law signed by Governor Newsom in October 2025. She is named as a defendant in a 2024 fair housing lawsuit alleging she illegally obstructed the Venice Dell Community project — a 120-unit development for unhoused Angelenos that had been approved by the City Council, secured $42.4 million in state funding, and received California Coastal Commission approval.

Is Traci Park a Republican?

Traci Park was a registered Republican before switching her party registration to Democrat ahead of her 2022 campaign. The Los Angeles Times identifies her as the most conservative member of the Los Angeles City Council. Her campaigns have received substantial support from Republican-aligned donors, corporate real estate interests, and the Los Angeles Police Protective League, which has historically opposed progressive policing reforms and supported Republican candidates.

What controversies is Traci Park involved in?

Traci Park's tenure has involved multiple documented controversies: eight campaign finance violations resulting in an $8,000 Ethics Commission fine; a 2024 fair housing lawsuit alleging illegal obstruction of the Venice Dell Community supportive housing project; an approximately 11-day silence following the vandalization of the Black Lives Matter mural at the First Baptist Church of Venice; opposition to SB 79, California's transit-oriented housing law; opposition to Measure HLA, a street safety measure that passed overwhelmingly in her own district; and opposition to the sanctuary city ordinance protecting immigrant communities.

Who is running against Traci Park in 2026?

Faizah Malik, a housing justice attorney at Public Counsel, is challenging Traci Park in the June 2026 CD11 primary. Malik raised $127,000 in six weeks after launching her campaign. Notably, Malik is also the lead attorney in the Venice Dell fair housing lawsuit filed against Park and the City of Los Angeles, alleging illegal obstruction of supportive housing for Black and Brown Angelenos.

What is Traci Park's stance on immigration?

Traci Park opposes the Los Angeles sanctuary city ordinance that prohibits city resources from being used to enforce federal immigration enforcement. She has backed motions to penalize street vendors, many of whom are immigrant workers. Critics note her positions align with far-right immigration enforcement priorities despite her Democratic party registration.

June 13, 2026
By Truth About Traci

Anonymous Eyewitness Files Ethics Complaint Over Alleged Voter Intimidation at Venice Polling Site

On June 7, 2026 (primary election day in Los Angeles) a witness at the Oakwood Recreation Center voting site in Venice observed what they describe as sustained voter harassment by a Traci Park campaign volunteer, with the apparent knowledge and encouragement of Park campaign staff stationed nearby. The witness has filed an ethics complaint. This is their account.

On election day June 7, 2026, from 430 – 7 pm, I witnessed Traci Park campaign volunteer Elvina Beck electioneering for Traci Park’s campaign within the 100 feet border from the Oakwood voting center in Venice, California. Elvina used her body and her Traci Park sign to literally block access to over twenty voters from the Oakwood voting center. She stood in front of over twenty voters, not letting them walk and delaying them from entering the voting center. She displayed Traci Park’s name, logo on her sign within 100 feet of the Oakwood voting center. She wore a Traci Park shirt with Traci’s logo.

Elvina Beck yelled at, harassed and forced these voters to listen to her loud rants about why they must vote for Traci Park. She could be heard from fifty feet from where she was yelling. She asked every voter who they were voting for. She forced voters to take Traci Park flyers to the voting center. I heard her tell over twenty voters to vote for Traci Park and against Faizah Malik. I heard her make up lies about Faizah Malik. She said voters who voted for Faizah Malik wanted drug addicts on Venice streets.

Elvina harassed voters with full support of Traci Park’s staff who were working at the Traci Park table across the street from the voting center. I witnessed Traci Park staff coaching Elvina Beck, telling her how to pressure, coerce voters and how to harass them. I witnessed Traci Park’s staff cheering Elvina to stop voters from voting. This harassment of voters was sanctioned by Traci Park’s campaign. For over two hours I witnessed Elvina Beck harassing and yelling at Faizah Malik supporters, trying to intimidate them, on behalf of Traci Park’s campaign.

Oakwood Voting center polling supervisor Ivan Spiegel received a complaint that Elvina Beck was harassing voters within the 100 feet border from the Oakwood voting center. I witnessed polling supervisor Ivan Spiegel meet with Elvina for thirty minutes. I heard him warn her several time to stop yelling at and harassing voters within the 100 feet border from the Oakwood voting center. Ivan Spiegel asked her to leave several times. She refused to leave and continued to stop voters from voting after he left and returned to the voting center. He was informed that an ethics complaint would be made against Elvina Beck and the Traci Park campaign.

Ivan Spiegel stated that Elvina Beck is a well known political activist. He stated that he had met her many times at the Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council. He stated that she was previously the President of the Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council, Her website is elvinabeck.com. I am filing a new ethics complaint against Elvina Beck and Traci Park’s campaign for electioneering.

Signed,

Anonymous