We can get rid of the NIMBYest of NIMBYs

If we get rid of Traci Park in LA CD 11 on June 2

Want a Mamdani story in LA?

You’re not gonna get one.

Because LA has a “weak mayor system.” This means most of the power comes from the City Council.

And after a lot of people lost their jobs following the disastrous leaked recording in 2022, it’s gotten so much better.

However, two members still aren’t great, John Lee and the subject of today’s story, Traci Park.

Park represents CD 11, and while California is a blue state, and Los Angeles County is a blue county and LA is a blue city, CD 11 feels red.

It’s not red, that’s not fair, but it is conservative. Especially when it comes to renters and people experiencing homelessness.

Which makes Traci Park, staunch advocate of the single family home owner, very popular. She’s a NIMBY and her arguments against people she deems “criminals” are reminiscent of Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton.

If you drive around CD 11 you will see her signs EVERYWHERE. People who have never posted anything political before are supporting her. Even politicians who are typically very progressive like Rep Ted Lieu and State Senator Ben Allen endorsed her back in NOVEMBER.

I don’t get it. She very loudly and publicly does not have the values I associate with Democrats — “I’m a Democrat because I think and because I care,” as one of my shirts says — so I don’t know why certain Progressives continue to support her.

However, her opponent, Faizah Malik does have some momentum, so hopefully we can make her a one term councilwoman.

So, here are two things Park’s done that should convince people not to vote for her.

First, she doesn’t vote no, she just doesn’t show up. So it still says the vote was unanimous, she just wasn’t there. This has happened on at least two major bills.

The first was to make LA a sanctuary city. And it’s not just that she didn’t show up, it’s WHY.

I want to be very clear, absolutely no one wants to cause harm to working people, or children or families. So we must find a way to keep families together and create a pathway to citizenship. But I also want to be very clear that I will never support policies that harbor violent criminals or felons under any circumstance, and I want the police actively and fully enforcing laws across Los Angeles.

But wait, if that wasn’t bad enough, it gets worse. She continued:

I’m also worried that this action could jeopardize federal funding that our city very much relies upon, especially when we are facing such challenging fiscal times.

She won’t say it plainly, so I will. She’s saying that most undocumented immigrants are criminals and are protected under sanctuary city laws, which is not true. AND, that Trump wouldn’t like it, and since he is all powerful, we must listen to him, which is YIKES.

But wait, there’s more.

That was from November 2024. Maybe she changed her tune since then. I mean, Trump was elected, but he wasn’t president again yet.

Nice theory, but this next story is from March 13, exactly two months ago.

In a unanimous vote, the city council voted to end “pretexual traffic stops.” These are when a police officer stops a driver for something minor, i.e. a broken tail light or an expired license tag, just to search them for something else. Typically it’s based on skin color and is just an excuse for racial profiling.

The vote was unanimous, because, as always, when Traci Park doesn’t agree with a vote, she doesn’t vote no, she just doesn’t show up.

And based on her reasons for not showing up to the sanctuary city vote, you can pretty easily figure out why she didn’t vote on this one too.

But the people who like her don’t care about this. They care that there are less homeless on the streets of Venice. They do not care where they went, or that all their possessions were destroyed in the process, they just see cleaner streets.

And she was against COVID restrictions every single step of the way, which is, unfortunately still an extremely popular position.

So, now that you like her as little as I do, what can we do about it?

There are only two candidates running for CD 11, Park and Faizah. That means, the general election is in TWO WEEKS. This is decided on JUNE 2, not in November.

So we have to make sure people know how bad Park is and how good Faizah is in two weeks.

But Faizah has the endorsement of powerhouses like Delores Huerta, so, we CAN do this.

Faizah is a Progressive. And she has what it takes to be a Councilwoman. She is an attorney focused on housing justice, pretty much the complete opposite of Park. She was part of the case to return Bruce Beach to the Bruce family. She was instrumental in getting a landmark settlement for renters with pandemic rent debt. She isn’t just saying what she’ll stand up for, she’s already stood up for it.

West LA NEEDS her, but not enough people know her. We have two weeks to change that.

So if you want to get LA to a more progressive place, yes support Nithya Raman, who has a chance, unlike Rae Huang, but ALSO

TALK ABOUT FAIZAH! Follow her, spread what she’s doing.

AND talk about what Traci Park isn’t doing. Look into her votes. Or lack of votes, those are far more telling.

We can turn CD11 blue again and show that we actually care about ALL residents, not just the ones living in nice single family houses.