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Bicycles Are Not Popular in West Hollywood – But Bike Lanes Are Sacred
After giveaways, rentals, and free rides all flopped, the Erickson-Hang-Byers council…
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Does Erickson Have a Problem with People of Color?
Does West Hollywood City Councilmember John Erickson have a problem with people of color who don’t know their place? Not publicly, of course. Publicly, Erickson is West Hollywood’s most vocal…
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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…
Erickson & Byers Support Krieger for Council. Krieger’s Family Sold ICE Its AR-15s and then Funded Her Campaign.
Helen Krieger is locked and loaded for National Night Out. What she won’t tell you is that…
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…
Byers Deleted 42 Posts (so far). Read Them Anyway.
In the days around West Hollywood’s decision to refer Councilmember Chelsea Byers to the…
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…
Council Votes to Refer Byers to State Ethics Agency. What’s Next?
Something rare happened in West Hollywood on Monday night: the City Council referred one of…
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…
EQCA Calls Erickson’s Travel Attacks Anti-LGBTQ. Its Board President Works for Lindsey Horvath.
Equality California has endorsed John Erickson and is now intervening in his State Senate…
Whose Lawyer Is She? Why West Hollywood’s City Attorney Doesn’t Work for You
When residents complain about a councilmember, they write to the City Attorney expecting a…
The Victim Machine: Erickson Can’t Answer an Ad, So Equality California Cried Bigotry for Him
It’s the same move every time. When John Erickson can’t win on the facts, he finds an…