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Alex Stowell here!

The people who have been running the Westside and the leadership at City Hall have failed beyond words.

  • Despite having billions to spend, homeless encampments keep growing
  • Violent crime, robberies, and arson are all up
  • Trash piles under bridges and in alleys go uncleaned for months
  • Politicians cave to special interests and activists while ignoring the working class

We need change.  We cannot have people who are part of this monolithic group continue to govern.

In CD 11 there are two candidates, Traci Park, and Erin Darling.

Traci Park is an attorney who decided to run the for the CD11 position  as Mike Bonin was facing a recall.  She lived amongst the destruction caused by those in office and decided to set her career aside and jump in the  mix to try and help. Through her tireless, grassroots efforts, she emerged at the top of the candidate field in the CD 11 run off.  She is an outsider to the political machine, and as such is not beholden to anyone.  Traci will govern from a sensible and balanced perspective.  If you want to see the Westside get better, vote for Traci Park.

Darling is the desired candidate of those currently in office. His campaign is propped up by the full weight of the “progressive” political machine.  Media, donors, politicians, activist groups, and more are working to get him in.  Senator Ben Allen, County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, Council member Mike Bonin, and the L.A. Times are a just a few of Darling’s endorsers.  Why do you think this is?   Because Darling is an establishment insider, a trust fund kid who can be counted on to toe the party line.  And on a performance note, Darling was elected to the Venice Neighborhood Council, missed 46% of the meetings, and then quit.  This is similar to his appointment as a Commissioner of Beaches and Harbors, where he missed 45% of the meetings. This does not exactly speak of a committed hard worker.  We need someone who will show up day in and day out, as well as be accessible and responsive to the community.  We need Traci Park.

Monster on the Venice Canals:

The massively unpopular proposed four story mega development on Pacific and N. and S. Venice Blvd., that Bonin unsuccessfully tried to push on the Venice community,  is supported by Darling.  Traci Park has committed to killing the project.  The developer that wants to build this is the Venice Community Housing Corp., a major Bonin and Darling donor.  It is being presented under the guise of being artist/low income housing by its proponents.  Don’t fall for this non sense. You can read all about it here.

The race for Mayor is not too different from the CD 11 race. 

We have two candidates running for Mayor of L.A., Rick Caruso and Karen Bass.  Caruso is a businessman and a political outsider. Karen is a congresswoman in the very system that has been ruining L.A.  We need someone new, who will govern from a fresh perspective, not a career politician pushing a failing agenda.  We need Rick Caruso.

Don’t be fooled by character smearing propaganda

When someone tells you that someone else is racist,  fascist, hates certain things, or  shouldn’t be taken seriously for whatever reason,  think of their motive for doing so.   They are doing this in order to make you pick their side as the only reasonable choice.

Aside from allegations of these sorts generally being unprovable,  these are simply low level mind control tactics to make you stop any critical thinking and respond with emotion.  Do your own thinking.  Don’t form your opinions by unknowingly reading weaponized posts.

Don’t fall for “Housing First” as a solution to homelessness

To fix a problem you must address the cause.

Homelessness, people living in the street, is not caused by lack of buildings, and therefore it cannot be solved by more buildings.  Drug addiction,  running away from abusive situations,  mental health disorders, inability to conform to or compete within societal norms,  bad behavior,  refusal to work, and many more things can manifest in a person having no where to go to sleep.  These are just a few of the things that can cause someone to be homeless.  Not one of these has anything to do with “not enough housing.”

Until  the root causes of homelessness are addressed and remedied, there will always be new generations of homeless, therefore you will always need to build more buildings. It is an endless cycle of construction.

Building shelters or converting buildings to shelter benefits 2 groups of people

  1. It benefits the govt. as it increases the amount of land and property  they own, therefore increasing power. And it gives them a guaranteed voting base among those who live in the buildings.
  2.  It benefits the developers, service providers, etc (political donors) who get the contracts the build, renovate, and run said buildings.

So when politicians say they want to build higher and denser to solve homelessness, what they really mean is that they want to acquire more land, buildings, and power for the themselves and the govt. and gift their donors along the way.

Think about it, do you want the current direction of a degrading L.A. to continue?

Vote for change!  The current people in charge have had their chance, and  failed.  Vote for Traci Park and Rick Caruso.

For more info and to get to know the candidates and their plans, go to

TRACI PARK FOR LA CITY COUNCIL

RICK CARUSO FOR MAYOR

YOUR VOTE IS YOUR VOICE! GO BE HEARD!

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