Airbnb’s $750,000 to Karen Bass fuels pay-to-play claims over LA rental policy
“This is what pay-to-play politics looks like.”She later argued that the arrangement represented a broader pattern in which corporate interests benefit from City Hall decisions while renters bear the consequences.But the campaign finance records do not show that Airbnb gave money directly to Bass’s campaign. Voters understand that companies participate in politics. She raised more than $3.2 million during the primary, compared with just under $1 million for Raman.
- ▪“This is what pay-to-play politics looks like.”She later argued that the arrangement represented a broader pattern in which corporate interests benefit from City Hall decisions while renters bear the consequences.But the campaign finance re
- ▪Voters understand that companies participate in politics.
- ▪She raised more than $3.2 million during the primary, compared with just under $1 million for Raman.
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Airbnb has poured $750,000 into an independent political committee supporting Mayor Karen Bass’s reelection, drawing fresh scrutiny as the mayor backs a proposal that would loosen Los Angeles’s restrictions on short-term rentals.The contribution has given City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, Bass’s challenger in the November runoff, new ammunition in her attacks on the mayor, whom she has accused of engaging in “pay-to-play politics” by advancing a policy sought by one of the country’s largest short-term rental companies.
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