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 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 […]
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 […]
Park’s Offshore Drilling Pledge Is a Smokescreen for Her Oil-Funded Campaign
Traci Park wants you to think she is an environmental champion. Her latest “#Better11 Legislative Update” video, filmed against the backdrop of a Dodgers victory, opens with talk of “moral clarity” and “protecting our sacred coastline.” She thunders against the idea of offshore oil drilling, promising that “Los Angeles will never allow drilling off our […]
Traci Park Stands Alone as Los Angeles Rallies Against Authoritarianism
While tens of thousands of Angelenos poured into the streets for Saturday’s “No Kings” demonstrations, Councilmember Traci Park spent the day promoting herself at a local festival, far removed from the political energy sweeping her own district. From Venice to Santa Monica to Westchester, residents of Los Angeles’s westside, the most anti-Trump part of the […]
Family of Lobbyist Tied to Huizar Scandal and Shangri-La Probe Among Traci Park’s Top Donors
When Traci Park ran for Los Angeles City Council, she promised to help restore integrity to a city government shaken by years of scandal. But campaign records show that two of her maximum-level donors, Skyler and Jack Modrzejewski, are the children of one of Los Angeles’ most influential and controversial lobbyists, Chris Modrzejewski. Chris Modrzejewski […]