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Where the lines are crossed. Legal exposure, policy violations, ethics breaches.
UPDATED Tick-Tock: Is Langer Pushing the Byers FPPC Question Past the Election?
On June 29 the City Council stopped a housing vote, said the question of whether Councilmember Chelsea Byers…
Erickson Leverages Council Business for Illegal Campaign Cash in Senate Race
State law bars a councilmember from accepting more than $500 from anyone with business before the council, and keeps barring it for a full year after the vote. John Erickson accepted $16,300 from three of them while running for State Senate. The law does not bar them from giving. It bars him from taking.
Chelsea Lee Byers Conflict: The Full Paper Trail to Date
In late June, a straightforward question landed on the West Hollywood City Council: can a councilmember who is…
Byers Deleted 42 Posts (so far). Read Them Anyway.
In the days around West Hollywood’s decision to refer Councilmember Chelsea Byers to the state’s political-ethics regulator, 42…
Byers Told SCAG Her Employer Takes No Position on Housing Bills. Then Its SB 79 Posts Disappeared.
On Monday night, the West Hollywood City Council voted to refer Chelsea Byers’s conflict of interest to the…
Chelsea Byers Is Paid to Lobby Against Single-Family Homes and Parking
Byers is a paid staffer for a national network whose member groups co-sponsored SB 79, the state law…
Byers & Erickson Panic Over Flock. Proudly Vote to Deploy ICE-Linked Guards.
Councilmembers Chelsea Byers and John Erickson want to turn off every license plate camera in West Hollywood because…
Email: Questions for Erickson Regarding 2024 Campaign and Z. Wright
We sent the following email to Councilmember John Erickson and Captain Fanny Lapkin last night. If you happen…
Updated: Erickson’s Campaign Prop Appointment Raises Conflict of Interest Concerns
Most residents don’t spend much time thinking about the city’s boards and commissions, but these groups quietly play…