Faizah Malik says she's running for CD11. But who is she really running for? Follow the money, follow the connections, and decide for yourself.
Remember Mike Bonin? The dysfunction, the decline, the encampments? CD11 voted for change. Now Bonin is back — not on the ballot, but behind Faizah Malik.
A vote for Faizah Malik is a vote to bring back the Bonin era. CD11 already lived through it once. Do we really want to go back?
Malik campaigns as a humble public interest attorney. Here's what she doesn't mention:
Meanwhile, Traci Park actually comes from a working-class background. You can't criticize wealthy elites from a multi-million dollar home with your kids in a $40K-a-year school. That's not advocacy — that's hypocrisy.
Faizah Malik's campaign is funded almost entirely by a single powerful labor union. Her support comes from out-of-district backers and the deep pockets of Unite Here/Local 11.
When 87% of her money comes from one union, who do you think she'll answer to? Not you.
She's not running to represent CD11. She's running to expand the political influence of Unite Here/Local 11. Period.
Faizah Malik is a card-carrying member of the DSA — an organization that supports some of the most extreme positions in American politics:
These aren't the values of CD11's working families, homeowners, and neighborhood business owners. Is this the agenda you want representing your district on the city council?
The Dell development was an insider real estate deal that would have cost you — the taxpayer — $203 million for a mere 120 units of low-income housing. That's nearly $1.7 million per unit.
The city has already started building affordable housing across the street with a different developer — one not connected to Malik. So why does she want to restart the Dell? Because it is all about the $$$.
The only reason to revive the Dell project is to funnel a mountain of taxpayer money to politically connected developers. That's it.
Faizah Malik was the primary author of Measure ULA. The unions and development corporations that backed ULA are the same ones that stand to profit from the contracts ULA funds. And they're the same ones bankrolling her campaign.
Faizah Malik's "Mansion Tax" is not a tax on the wealthy at all; Measure ULA is a tax driving businesses out of Los Angeles. Read more at The Real Deal →
She writes the legislation. Her donors fund her campaign. Her donors profit from the legislation. And she's the attorney for one of those donors in a lawsuit against the city. How many conflicts of interest is too many?
California has thrown $35 billion at the homelessness crisis. LA is still the homelessness capital of America. Everyone's asking the same question: where is all the money going?
Look no further than Faizah Malik. She sits at the center of every organization that critics call the Homeless Industrial Complex — the network that's been absorbing those billions without producing results.
$35 billion spent. Still the homelessness capital of America. Ask Faizah Malik where the money went.
Under a Malik administration, the money would keep flowing to politically connected organizations — not to homeless people, and not to CD11 residents.
Don't let one union and a network of insiders pick your next councilmember. Know the facts. Talk to your neighbors. Make your voice heard.
Read the Facts AgainFaizah Malik: the privileged, Ivy League educated special interest attorney advocating for the non-profits spending your tax dollars.