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 […]
Traci Park Is Building Trump’s Deportation Machine on the Westside
Traci Park is bringing mass surveillance to the Westside. She’s expanding police and ICE tracking power at the exact moment when those systems are being used nationwide to hunt immigrants, track protesters, and criminalize entire communities. And she’s doing it enthusiastically, on camera, standing under newly installed automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras and selling […]
How Traci Park Operationalizes NIMBY Rage
A new California Public Records Act release from last week exposes how enforcement pressure in Traci Park’s Council District 11 is actually generated and who is driving it. The documents, produced in response to a request for communications about the oversized vehicle ordinance, show a steady drumbeat of emails from housed residents demanding the removal […]
Traci Park’s Selective Concern for Street Safety
Traci Park is suddenly very concerned about street safety. In a recent legislative update, Park told constituents that the City Council “scrapped” the speed hump program, left Council District 11 with “literally none,” and forced her to step in with district funds to protect neighborhood streets. She cast herself as the adult in the room, […]
Traci Park Hires a Master of Trump-Style Gutter Politics
He called a political opponent a “dead rat.” He bragged about putting a “political bullet” between an opponent’s forehead and making him “pee in his pants.” He mocked rivals with nicknames like “Humpty Dumpty” and dismissed one as a “walking zombie corpse.” He once summed up his political philosophy as “loyalty, loyalty, and screw the […]