New Prop 33 Ad: California Apartment Association is MAGA
2024年8月13日 - 9:11AM
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Same greedy corporate landlords funding the
Make America Great Again movement are behind the fight against rent
control in California
***Watch the CAA is MAGA ad***
The Yes on 33 and No on 34 campaigns are releasing a new ad this
week – CAA is MAGA – highlighting the California Apartment
Association’s (CAA) ties to the Make America Great Again (MAGA)
movement. CAA is the anti-tenant front group for greedy corporate
landlords fighting to stop rent control in California as well as
kneecap the world’s largest HIV/AIDS healthcare nonprofit because
of its support for rent control.
The CAA is MAGA ad points out that corporate landlords like
Blackstone Group CEO Steven Schwarzman are driving up rents
in California to amass exorbitant profits while demonizing rent
control, and many of CAA’s Board Members and financial supporters
are the same monied interests backing the MAGA movement.
As of May 2024, Schwarzman has given $426,200 to MAGA campaign
committees, and Blackstone, via its newly acquired AIR Communities,
contributed $1.4 million to the CAA Issues Committee which is
funding both the fight against rent control and the anti-AHF
revenge initiative.
Schwarzman is not the only one.
- Sares-Regis Group Co-Founder John Hagestad contributed $40,000
to Trump Victory between 2016 and 2020. Sares-Regis President Jeff
Bailey sits on CAA’s board of directors.
- Irvine Company Chairman Donald Bren delivered $25,000 to Trump
Victory in 2016. Irvine Company executive Michelle Grande sits on
CAA’s board.
- Fuller Enterprises President Doug Smith shelled out $2,800 to
Trump Victory in 2020. He sits on CAA’s board.
- Conservice Utility Management and Billing Co-Owner Marc
Treitler contributed $54,150 to Trump Victory between 2019 and 2020
and sits on CAA’s board.
- Sares-Regis and Fuller Enterprises also have contributed
$297,000 and $100,000, respectively, to the California Apartment
Association Issues Committee, which is funding Californians for
Responsible Housing sponsored by the CAA – the entity fighting rent
control.
- R&V Management CEO Gerry Ranglas delivered $18,854 to
multiple MAGA committees between 2016 and 2023 and also contributed
$1,315,700 to the California Apartment Association Issues
Committee.
- Lyon Living CEO Frank Suryan Jr. shelled out $125,000 to Trump
Victory between 2016 and 2020 and contributed $89,100 to the
California Apartment Association Issues Committee.
The CAA is MAGA ad will run for the next two weeks beginning
Wednesday, August 14th. It will air throughout California in
primetime on CNN and MSNBC during the Democratic National
Convention.
Script:
“The California Apartment Association is run
by billionaire corporate landlords. These very same landlords, like
Stephen Schwarzman worth $39 billion, are filling the pockets of
the MAGA movement. So please, when you see the mailers opposing
rent control and the TV ads attacking the AIDS Healthcare
Foundation, look closely to see who paid for them. The California
Apartment Association is MAGA. Vote Yes on 33 and No on 34 this
November.”
Proposition 33, sponsored by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)
and now endorsed by more than 100 elected and formerly elected
officials in California as well as more than 70 labor, senior,
veteran, healthcare, and tenant groups, is just 23 words: “The
state may not limit the right of any city, county, or city and
county to maintain, enact or expand residential rent control.”
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Ged Kenslea, AHF Senior Communications Director 323.791.5526 c
ged.kenslea@ahf.org