Park will represent Venice and other coastal neighborhoods, promising tougher stances on homelessness and crime than advocated by her predecessor, Councilmember Mike Bonin.
Municipal law attorney Traci Park claimed victory Thursday in the bitterly contested election to represent the Westside on the Los Angeles City Council, saying her more than 5,000-vote lead was too large for civil rights and criminal defense lawyer Erin Darling to overcome, eight days after the end of voting., who trailed by nearly 6 percentage points, only a marginal narrowing of a large lead that Park had held since election day.
“We feel confident our lead will stand and declare victory,” Park said in a statement. “It is gratifying that we received more votes, thus far, than any other L.A. City Council candidate in the 2022 general election.“I am humbled and honored that the constituents of CD11 have placed their trust and confidence in me to usher in a new era,” Park said.
Park, 46, will succeed retiring Councilmember Mike Bonin in the district composed of communities from Pacific Palisades to Los Angeles International Airport. She has promised to promote more moderate policies than Bonin, who evolved into one of the most left-leaning voices on the 15-member council. Park promised to vigorously invoke the city’s anti-camping ordinance to clear homeless encampments from areas around parks, libraries and other public facilities. Darling agreed with Bonin’s stance opposing the anti-camping law — Section 41.18 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code — saying that L.A. first needed to do more to construct temporary and permanent housing.
Darling struggled to project his message as broadly as Park, whose $751,000 in spending in the runoff was more than 2½ times Darling’s. The progressive candidate took an even bigger hit from an independent expenditure campaign, funded largely by landlords, real estate interests and the city’s police union — with total outside dollars for Park of $1.4 million some five times more than independent expenditures for Darling.
Darling, who was born and raised in Venice, relied heavily on a network of volunteers, who helped him win the June primary by more than 6 percentage points.
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