Erin Darling
Erin Darling ran for election to the Los Angeles City Council to represent District 11 in California. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Darling completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Erin Darling was born in Los Angeles, California. He earned a high school diploma from Santa Monica High School, a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003, and a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2008. His career experience includes working as a lawyer. Darling has represented low-income tenants facing eviction, large class actions, the United Farm Workers, victims of sexual assault, and children in the foster care system.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: City elections in Los Angeles, California (2022)
General election
General election for Los Angeles City Council District 11
Traci Park defeated Erin Darling in the general election for Los Angeles City Council District 11 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Traci Park (Nonpartisan)  | 52.0 | 51,014 |
 | Erin Darling (Nonpartisan) | 48.0 | 47,056 | |
| Total votes: 98,070 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles City Council District 11
The following candidates ran in the primary for Los Angeles City Council District 11 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Erin Darling (Nonpartisan) | 34.7 | 22,939 |
| ✔ | | Traci Park (Nonpartisan) | 29.0 | 19,168 |
| Greg Good (Nonpartisan) | 9.9 | 6,565 | ||
 | Allison Holdorff Polhill (Nonpartisan) | 8.8 | 5,805 | |
 | Mike Newhouse (Nonpartisan) | 7.1 | 4,702 | |
| Jim Murez (Nonpartisan) | 5.0 | 3,286 | ||
| Mat Smith (Nonpartisan) | 3.9 | 2,590 | ||
| Midsanon Lloyd (Nonpartisan) | 1.7 | 1,116 | ||
| Total votes: 66,171 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Erin Darling completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Darling's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Erin has served on the Venice Neighborhood Council and on the LA Count Beach Commission. He still lives in Venice, with his wife and 3-year-old son.
He is running to keep working people on the Westside, to create more affordable housing, push LA to 100% renewable energy by 2030, and address the housing and homelessness crisis with compassion and best use practices, not scapegoating and vitriol.
Erin is proud to have been endorsed by the LA Times, the Sierra Club, the LA County Democratic Party, County Supervisors Sheila Kuehl, Holly Mitchell and Hilda Solis, State Senator Ben Allen, Assemblymembers Isaac Bryan, Richard Bloom and Tina McKinnor, Councilmember Mike Bonin, LA County Young Democrats, Stonewall Democrats, Working Families Party, Sunrise Movement, Youth Climate Strike L.A., UNITE HERE, ILWU, Carpenters, and many others.
- Address the homeless crisis by strengthening renter protections (including a right to counsel for those facing eviction), create more affordable housing so that people who work on the Westside can afford to live on the Westside, and lead the process so that folks living in encampments can find shelter and ultimately permanent housing with wraparound services.
- Establish a city-wide mental health rapid response team so that individuals experiencing mental health breakdowns can receive treatment from licensed clinicians.
- Ensure that LA transitions to 100% renewable energy by 2030
We must strengthen renter protections, including a “Right to Counsel” for all tenants facing eviction who would otherwise qualify for a public defender if they were facing criminal charges. I was part of the legal team that created Public Counsel’s eviction defense team in 2011 and the “right to counsel” pilot project. Over ten years have passed and we know what works: tenants are very likely to stay in their homes when they have a lawyer represent them in eviction proceedings and very likely to lose their homes when they are unrepresented. The time has come for this pilot project to be City–wide. LA should also strengthen its short-term rental ordinance and increase enforcement. When tourism ticks up again in a year or two we must have stronger protections in place.
Three of the most important responsibilities of the City Council are controlling traffic regulations, land-use authority, and the city budget. LA’s annual budget totals nearly $12 billion. The Councilmember for District 11 represents approximately 300,000 people; the Councilmember is responsible for providing key neighborhood services like pothole and sidewalk repair, street sweeping, bus shelters, and traffic light syncing.
Elected officials must be compassionate and committed to the public good; that means pursuing justice and equity. It means that I believe it’s necessary to address the needs of all constituents, from the least fortunate to the most fortunate. It means fighting for the rights of the powerless and disenfranchised, because what benefits one part of our community benefits our whole community. We see this in the homelessness crisis and affordable housing crisis; they are two sides of the same coin, and they affect us all. We see the need for justice and equity in calls to address the blatant racism and intentional disenfranchisement of renters and Black voters in the recent City Council scandal.
When I think about the future we’re leaving behind for our kids, it scares me. The status quo is not working, and we need to make a change. I want to be able to tell my son, you will grow up in a neighborhood that you can be proud of. You can have tons of parks and beaches to play in without having to worry. You can feel safe getting around in your own neighborhood. You can grow up in a Westside without traumatized people in encampments because they’ve been helped into real housing with mental health and addiction services. You can breathe clean air. And you can buy a house here where you can start your own family one day. And that better, safer, healthier version of the Westside is just within our reach. But it will take all of us working together to achieve it. We are blessed with abundance, but can we talk to each other as neighbors? Can we do right by each other? We have to.
Every day in Los Angeles, approximately 210 Angelenos make it off the streets while 230 more fall into homelessness. This is unsustainable and untenable. We must, first and foremost, keep people in their homes by strengthening renter protections and enacting a tenants’ right-to-counsel. Next, we must create a pipeline to get people off the streets, by providing targeted assistance to help the newly unhoused and create a path out of encampments and into, eventually, permanent supportive housing. Lastly, we must acknowledge the mental health component of homelessness and invest in sustained service outreach and mental health teams, to assist individuals experiencing mental health crises.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on November 5, 2022
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