{"id":11522,"date":"2026-05-28T13:28:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=11522"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:28:04","slug":"billionaire-donors-pour-millions-into-la-progressive-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=11522","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire donors pour millions into LA progressive campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; 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height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Los Angeles\u2019 capitalist-hating socialist candidates are having vast sums of cash funneled into their campaigns \u2013 from the very billionaires they openly despise.<\/p>\n<p>Records show lefty City Attorney candidate Marissa Roy has had a staggering $1.4 million from billionaire-backed super PACs pumped into her campaign to turn the DA\u2019s office into a the biggest \u201cpublic interest law firm\u201d in Los Angeles \u2014 focusing on civil rights, corporate accountability and treating criminals with mental health and addiction diversion programs rather than prison.<\/p>\n<p>Cop-hating councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, who also wants to increase taxes on corporations, has picked up $310,000 from the same groups, while Westside candidate Faizah Malik \u2014 who helped draft and defend LA\u2019s \u201dmansion tax\u201d on homes that sell for more than $5 million \u2014 has collected $200,000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>City Attorney candidate Marissa Roy <span class=\"credit\">marissaroy.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Eunisses Hernandez has benefited from support tied to progressive political networks and donor-backed independent expenditure efforts during Los Angeles election cycles. <span class=\"credit\">Jonathan Alcorn for CA Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Nithya Raman has benefited from support tied to progressive donor networks and independent expenditure spending in Los Angeles elections. <span class=\"credit\">Jon Rou\/LMU<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even wannabe mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, who claims she takes no money from corporate interests, has had $20,000 spend on her campaign by billionaire-sponsored groups.<\/p>\n<p>The cash flowing to political committees and super PACs \u2013 especially the Smart Justice California Action Fund, which is campaigning for lenient criminal justice policies \u2013 allows donors to pour in vast sums into local races with no contribution caps.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>This strategy circumvents the strict limits on how much individuals can give directly to candidates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the cash exposes the hypocrisy of the LA\u2019s socialists \u2013 pitching themselves as champions of working-class Angelenos while benefiting from money tied to some of the richest people in America.<\/p>\n<p>At the center of the funding network are four wealthy backers tied to tech and finance fortunes and progressive causes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Patty Quillin has become an influential political donor in Los Angeles and California campaigns. <span class=\"credit\">Drew Altizer Photography \/ Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><figcaption>Chart illustrating the 2026 money network fueling progressive LA campaigns <span class=\"credit\">Jack Forbes \/ NY Post Design<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Patty Quillin, the wife of Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, whose net worth is about $5 billion, Elizabeth Simons, daughter of late hedge fund titan Jim Simons, whose fortune peaked at roughly $30 billion; Kaitlyn Krieger, a Democratic donor married into a tech fortune worth hundreds of millions; and Quinn Delaney, an heiress to the $8 billion-plus Clif Bar empire.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those donors don\u2019t even live in Los Angeles \u2014 and are so wealthy they can afford private security, insulating themselves from the anti-police and soft-on-crime policies critics say they help to bankroll.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Quinn Delaney, a longtime political donor and activist, has helped fund progressive causes and campaigns.  <span class=\"credit\">Greg Mathieson \/ Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Quillin alone has already contributed $1.8 million to Smart Justice California Action Fund in 2026, with Simons donating $991,700, and Krieger contributing $134,450, according to campaign filings and Transparency USA data.<\/p>\n<p>Smart Justice California Action Fund has already spent $1.4 million backing Roy. <\/p>\n<p>They also spend another $300,000 on Hernandez while Working Families, another organization tied to the billionaire network, added an additional $10,000 this election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>But the billionaires are also donating directly to the individual candidates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quillin donated $2,000 to Hernandez, $1,000 to Hugo Soto-Mart\u00ednez, $900 to Raman and $900 to former DSA-backed candidate, Ysabel Jurado.<\/p>\n<p>Kaitlyn Krieger separately contributed $4,500 directly to local candidates, including $900 each to Raman, Soto-Mart\u00ednez and Hernandez.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kaitlyn Krieger is a political donor whose funding has supported progressive campaigns and advocacy efforts in Los Angeles and California. <span class=\"credit\">Benjamin Lozovsky\/BFA \/ Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Los Angeles\u2019 public financing system means the city\u2019s public financing system magnifies those contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible donations are matched at six-to-one by taxpayers, turning a $1,000 contribution into $6,000.<\/p>\n<p>Soto-Mart\u00ednez was the only candidate to comment, claiming he was \u201cproud\u201d to be \u201cthe only campaign in this race running a \u201c100% clean money campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not accept contributions from corporate PACs, real estate developers, or fossil fuel interests, and any contribution that conflicts with those standards is returned immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lou Calanche, who is challenging Eunisses Hernandez in Council District 1, blasted Hernandez over her campaign support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEunisses Hernandez can\u2019t claim to be a champion of working people while Bay Area billionaires bankroll her campaign \u2014 the hypocrisy speaks for itself,\u201d Calanche said.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime Los Angeles political consultant Rick Taylor said the billionaires are driving policy in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are people who are not affected day to day by decisions made by these council members. They don\u2019t live here. They\u2019re not impacted by homeless encampments. They\u2019re not impacted by our firefighters being diverted to emergencies or trying to save lives every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Elizabeth Simons is a major political donor whose contributions have supported progressive causes and campaigns in California and Los Angeles. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nico Ruderman, a Venice resident who helped lead the recall campaign against former DSA-backed Councilmember Mike Bonin, said policies bought by these billionaires have had \u201cdevastating real-world consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruderman said many of those donors live \u201cbehind golden gates near the Golden Gate Bridge,\u201d protected by private armed security, while backing efforts to defund police agencies working families rely on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difference is they don\u2019t have to live with the consequences of the policies they promote,\u201d Ruderman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat made so many people furious was being told by these politicians that protecting schools, parks, beaches, and neighborhoods somehow \u2018doesn\u2019t solve homelessness,\u2019\u201d Ruderman said. \u201cThat became the excuse for refusing to set basic boundaries anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruderman added: \u201cThose things are not mutually exclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huge donations to leftwing Los Angeles politician have caused chaos in the city previously.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Smart Justice California Action Fund poured about $3.7 million into supporting District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n, who promised sweeping reforms. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, critics point out his divisive, liberal policies only fuelled a sharp increase in crime across Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Shoplifting, for example, surged by as much as 130% during parts of his tenure, alongside spikes in auto thefts, property crimes and violent offenses that intensified concerns over public safety.<\/p>\n<p>By 2024, voters removed Gasc\u00f3n from office, in a race many viewed as a political course correction.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Download The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters <\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><strong>California Post News<\/strong>: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedIn<br \/><strong>California Post Sports<\/strong> Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X<br \/><strong>California Post  <\/strong>Opinion <br \/><strong>California Post Newsletters<\/strong>: Sign up here!<br \/><strong>California Post App<\/strong>: Download here!<br \/><strong>Home delivery<\/strong>: Sign up here!<br \/><strong>Page Six Hollywood<\/strong>: Sign up here!<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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