This page contains information about Traci's donors from the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission's public data portal:
HTTPS://ETHICS.LACITY.GOV/CAMPAIGNS/
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Individual Contributions
Individual contributions are capped at $800 per person, per election cycle. For the wealthy households that Traci Park caters to, it's easy to rack up $3,200 over the course of a single campaign ($1,600 per couple during the primary and another $1,600 during the general). For wealthy families, it's also easy to manipulate the individual contribution caps by coordinating contributions from multiple family members. For an absurd example of this maneuvering, check out the Nagel family below. They run Decron Properties and spent $12,000 through individual contributions to lock in their anti-tenant city councilmember. Click the button below to view individual contributions to Traci Park's 2022 City Council campaign.
Independent Expenditures by Political Action Committees
An independent expenditure is a political campaign communication that expressly advocates for the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate that is not made in cooperation, consultation or concert with the candidate or committee in question. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not subject to limits, so they allow individuals and organizations to spend whatever they want to support their favorite candidates. Click the button below to view independent expenditures in support of Traci Park's 2022 City Council campaign.
Committee Contributors
Political action committees collectively spent nearly $3 million dollars to elect Traci Park. Multi-billion dollar companies wield tremendous power over local policy by funneling cash through these political action committees. For example, Douglas Emmett contributed over half a million dollars to elect their pro-landlord candidate by funneling the cash through a PAC formed by the LA Police Protective League. Click below to view contributors to the LAPPL committee and others formed specifically to elect Park.
Profiles:
Douglas Emmett: $566,000.00
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Real estate investment trust Douglas Emmett funneled a whopping $566,000 to Traci Park through an independent expenditure committee formed by the LA Police Protective League. Company employees also gave $10,849.30 directly to the Park campaign. Douglas Emmett is a publicly traded company worth about $3 billion.
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Kilroy Realty: $331,600.00
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Kilroy Realty spent $330,000 to elect Traci Park through an independent expenditure committee formed by the LA Police Protective League. Kilroy is a publicly traded real estate corporation valued at nearly $5 billion.
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California Apartment Association: $31,661.67
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The California Apartment Association is a landlord lobbying group that wields tremendous power throughout the state by shaping policy in Sacramento and killing local tenant protections at the municipal level. They take in massive sums from Big Real Estate and then carries out the industry's dirty work through four political action committees. The CAA’s influence on California state and local politicians has been enormous. The association spent over $30,000 to ensure that anti-tenant Traci Park got a seat on LA City Council.
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LA Police Protective League: $400,000.00
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LAPPL spent $400,000 to elect Traci Park and organized a PAC that spent a combined $1.6M on her campaign.
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United Fire Fighters of Los Angeles: $401,498.09
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UFLAC (the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City) spent over $400,000 to get their lackey on City Council. They cashed in on their investment shortly after Park's election by pushing her to join them in a failed attempt to tank the popular safe streets measure HLA.
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J. Clark Booth: $25,000.00
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J. Clark Booth spent an enormous sum to get a real estate puppet on LA City Council, contributing $25,000 to the Park campaign via the Committee to Elect Traci Park to Fix Homelessness. It's no wonder - Booth has worked in real estate his entire career. The Newport Beach-based octogenarian was Executive Vice President and Managing Director of the global commercial real estate investment firm CBRE from 1962 to 2000. In 2000, he founded Bay Hill Partners. It's hard to find photos of Clark - he's pictured here in an old newsletter from his alma mater, Claremont Men's College. Booth also contributed $25,000 to Bob Hertzberg's failed campaign for LA County Supervisor.
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Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce: $15,000.00
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Chambers of Commerce are inherently pro-business, anti-worker, anti-tax and anti-climate, and the LA Area Chamber is no exception. In 2019, they killed a parcel tax to fund education and in 2023, they opposed a city proposal to increase hospitality wages. It makes sense they would shovel thousands of dollars in Traci Park's campaign coffers - her entire career was a rehearsal for being an anti-worker lackey for the business community.
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Charles Bertucio: $10,800.00
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Investment firm owner and insurance broker Charlie Bertucio contributed $10,000 to the Park campaign, with an additional $800 from his spouse Corinne. It turns out Bertucio is accustomed to buying favors. In 2016, he was investigated for buying access to Teamsters head Hoffa and other officials with golf trips to Europe, tickets to NBA finals games, a job for Hoffa's son, and other payoffs. In return, Hoffa allegedly rigged the bidding process for a huge health insurance contract in Bertucio’s favor.
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California Association of Realtors: $10,000.00
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Conroy Commercial: $10,000.00
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Brad Conroy lives in a 5-bedroom, 6,000 sq ft house in Beverly Hills estimated to be worth $6.8M, and he makes a living wheeling and dealing in Los Angeles real estate. So spending a cool $10K on the Traci Park campaign was no big deal - especially if it locks in a City Council rep who is determined to protect your business interests and stomp on renters any chance she gets.
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Kenneth M. Karmin: $10,000.00
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As Ken Karmin puts it, finance is "in his blood." He started his career as a derivatives trader in the deregulated financial markets of the 1980s. He's currently the CEO of Ortho Mattress, where he has an F rating, and continues his work as an investment banker with San Francisco-based JMP Group. He has a $20M house in the Palisades and runs a "family" investment group called High Street Holdings.
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National Association of Industrial & Office Properties Socal PAC (NAIOP): $10,000.00
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NAIOP is a developer lobbyist group whose mission is "to advocate for public policies that promote and protect Southern California’s robust commercial real estate industry." As one Cambridge, MA city councillor put it, the organization’s legislative efforts "are a case study in how commercial interests influence" local politics. And their influence is felt across a broad range of public policies - their legislative "victories" include defeating anti-wage theft bills and legislation to protect against climate change. NAIOP boasts of its "exclusive access" to elected officials and ability to "educate lawmakers of the substantial value of commercial real estate." Their $10,000 contribution will certainly buy access to the most pro-landlord member of City Council, Traci Park. Now you know who to thank for her bogus talking points.
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Valley Industry & Commerce Association: $6,700.00
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The Valley Industry & Commerce Association is one of the most virulantly anti-worker organizations in the city of Los Angeles. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, VICA president Stuart Waldman tried to block hero pay for frontline workers, arguing that city council should be focused on getting grocery workers vaccinated instead of giving them hazard pay. In 2022, Waldman tried to kill a new law requiring large retailers to give employees their work schedule at least two weeks in advance. Given Traci's horrible track record on labor and workers' rights, it's no wonder VICA pumped almost $7K into her campaign coffers.
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Decron Properties: $12,000.00
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The Nagels collectively contributed $12,000 to Traci Park's campaign. The whole family got in on the action, even teenage grandchildren. When you realize they're all connected to real estate firm Decron Properties, it makes perfect sense. Click here for the complete run-down.
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Carolyn & Daniel Jordan: $9,800.00
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Carolyn Jordan and her husband Daniel collectively contributed $9,800 to elect Traci Park, and their law firm Glaser Weil poured a total of $18,300 into her campaign. Carolyn is a land-use attorney known for representing corporate landlords and current president of the corrupt Brentwood Community Council, so she's perfectly situated to buy political favors from the anti-tenant Park. In 2024, Park introduced a motion that would grant non-democratic associations in wealthy enclaves (like the Brentwood Community Council) the privileges enjoyed by city-governed neighborhood councils, without any of the democratic obligations. Wonder what prompted her to do that?
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The Bjelajacs: $6,501.16
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Ron & Stacy Robinson: $10,900.00
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The Kaplans (Douglas Emmett): $5,210.06
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Irving Azoff: $5,000.00
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Bob Carlson - $5,800.00
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Hyper-conservative, anti-homeless man cosplaying as a laid-back hippie skater (he owns Arbor Collective).
Endorsed Villanueva Supports disastrous Republicans and DINOs including:
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Hatem Dhiab: $5,000.00
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Iapetus (Craig Taylor): $7,400.00
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Robert McKeon: $5,000.00
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Keith Prokop: $5,000.00
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Lives in an $8.3M house in Santa Monica
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Rick Selby: $5,000.00
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Bizfed: $3,600.00
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Jim Murez: $5,000.00
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The Levin-Lichtensteins: $4,785.65
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Richard Taite: $75,000.00
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Richard Taite lives in an $8.7M house in the Palisades and spent $75,000 on the Traci Park campaign. He circumvented spending limits by funneling the cash through a political action committee called "Citizens to end the homeless crisis in CD11." A former addict, Taite leveraged his personal addiction struggle into a profitable rehab empire. He's cashing in on the opioid epidemic by luring wealthy clientele to his luxury rehab center, Cliffside Malibu. A lawsuit filed in 2018 alleges that Taite engaged in false advertising and underhanded practices in a cutthroat race to fill his beachside facility with clients. According to an advocate for reform in the addiction industry, Taite's tactics have “essentially kept people from getting real life-saving treatment.”
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Jerry Greenberg - $125,000.00
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Sugarfish founder Jerry Greenberg sold his company Sapient for $3.7B back in 2014, and he lives in a $22.6M house in Santa Monica. So throwing a couple hundred thousand dollars to a conservative LA candidate like Traci Park who won't disturb his super-rich status quo is nbd. He funneled his cash to Traci through the LAPPL political action committee. The fact that billionaires like Greenberg can spend without limits on our local elections underscores everything wrong with our campaign finance laws.
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Matthew McNicholas - $50,000.00
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Matthew McNicholas serves as legal counsel to two of the most right-wing organizations in LA: the Los Angeles Police Protective League and the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City. These two "unions" collectively spent almost a million dollars to get their pro-cop, anti-safety candidate in office, so it's no surprise their lawyer threw in $50K. McNicholas was also the LAPD lawyer who sued when the city released data on police officers pursuant to a public records request. Lawsuits by McNicholas and City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto to clawback the information were quickly denounced as meritless by First Amendment experts. “Once the government gives you information in good faith, you have the right to publish it under the First Amendment.”
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