Correction and Retraction re: Eyewitness Account
Correction and Retraction On June 13, TruthAboutTraci.com published an article reporting allegations that a campaign volunteer engaged in voter intimidation and electioneering at a Venice polling site during the June 7, 2026 primary. The article identified Elvina Beck by name and presented those allegations as statements of fact. The article was based on an anonymous […]
Homelessness in LA – The Science is Clear, Will Traci Listen?
Homelessness is an unfortunately evergreen topic in LA politics. According to a 2024 Stanford study, “L.A. County accounts for about 10 percent of the nation’s total homelessness and 19 percent of unsheltered homelessness . . . The number of unsheltered homeless per capita is more than six times greater in Los Angeles than it is […]
Traci Park’s Trump Ties Keep Showing Up
Traci Park does a lot of acrobatics to persuade you she’s not a Republican. When confronted she’ll wave her hands and claim she’s a centrist. If so, why are so many of her financial supporters hard-right MAGA chuds? Take, for instance, Donald Trump supporters Mark and Kelly Holscher who maxed out their donations for both […]
Traci Park Is Sweeping the Poor and Gutting ULA. Her Donors Are Thrilled.
This week Traci Park secured a new 41.18 enforcement zone to clear a Venice encampment that she already cleared two years ago, and attacked a voter-approved tax that funds rental assistance. In one update, Park highlights two policies with a single through line: the people who fund her win, and everyone else pays the price. […]
Traci Park Solicited $570K Airbnb Donation to Immigrant Nonprofit While Opposing Sanctuary and Renter Protections
A filing from last fall shows that Traci Park’s office solicited a $570,000 donation from Airbnb to the Salvadoran American Leadership and Educational Fund (SALEF), routing corporate money through her council office to an immigrant-serving nonprofit while publicly promoting the partnership as support for vulnerable communities. Behested payments are legal. But legality does not eliminate […]
Traci Park and the Westside Politics That Made Pershing Drive Deadly
Regan Cole-Graham was seven months pregnant. She was riding her bike with her husband and their two small children near their home in Playa del Rey when a car struck her on Pershing Drive. She was rushed to the hospital. Doctors delivered her baby girl. Regan died. Her daughter survived briefly in the NICU, then […]
Traci Park Knew Low Wage Workers Would Be Hit by the Fire and Chose Not to Act
From the earliest days of the Palisades fire, Traci Park was explicitly warned that the disaster would devastate low wage workers who clean homes, care for children and elders, cook food, garden yards, and keep Westside households functioning, and that many of those workers were already losing their jobs and income as evacuations spread and […]
Horvath Calls Traci Park’s Bluff on Venice Dell
After years of obstruction, delay, and spin, Traci Park finally got called out publicly and directly over Venice Dell. And this time, it came from someone with the authority and the receipts to shut the whole routine down. In a blunt series of posts this week, LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath dismantled Park’s latest talking […]
Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance Calls Out Traci Park for Climate Denial After Palisades Fire
A citywide sustainability coalition has taken the extraordinary step of publicly calling out Traci Park for denying climate change in the wake of the Palisades fire, and for good reason. In a recent bulletin, the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance reminded Angelenos that Park stood before a cheering crowd at the “They Let Us […]
After the Fires, Traci Park and Her Allies Let Landlords Rob Their Constituents
A new report released this week by The Rent Brigade documents one of the most devastating law enforcement failures in recent Los Angeles history. For people displaced by the Palisades fire, it confirms a painful truth about their own representation. This failure is not abstract or citywide in the general sense. It is concentrated in […]