Eyres also said Sepi Shyne was one of those who received an email from the chapter announcing the Sept. None of then were active members of the organization, she said. “… the chapter voted overwhelmingly in favor of endorsing Torres, Heilman and Erickson based on the track record each has in their work for women’s rights and in the area of improving the lives of women and girls. “Įyres said the chapter members who filed the complaint were “ardent supporters of City Council candidate Sepi Shyne.” She also said that Kolodji and Paris only recently joined Hollywood NOW and Buisson has no record of being a paid member. “No one, not any member of our leadership team or membership ranks, is in a position to manipulate the endorsement process in a way that excludes one or more candidates,” she said in an email message. 26, only two days later, West Hollywood residents began receiving mailers from Erickson’s campaign announcing the Hollywood NOW endorsement.Įyres told WEHOville that Hollywood NOW’s executive board did consider all candidates in the races in which the chapter made endorsements. 24 endorsement may have been decided well before that meeting, noting that on Sept. And it says that Erickson appears to have control of those accounts, noting that coordination between a candidate and a non-profit like Hollywood NOW is a violation of the law. The complaint says that Hollywood NOW’s social media accounts have been used only to promote its endorsements of Erickson and Ryu and not endorsements of Noemi Torres or Heilman. “Torres is running an underfunded campaign and is not considered a leading contender in the election, so the effect is an endorsement of two men-Heilman and Erickson.”
“At that meeting, on the evening of September 24, the chapter endorsed former chapter President John Erickson along with John Heilman and Noemi Torres-three candidates for two slots on the ballot,” the complaint says. And it says the chapter not inform its members of the Sept. The complaint also says that Hollywood NOW didn’t consider Sepi Shyne, a challenger in the West Hollywood City Council election. Raman, who served as the executive director of Time’s Up Entertainment, part of the Time’s Up movement against sexual harassment, is competing with Ryu in the Nov. City Council District 4 seat in the March primary. The complaint says that Hollywood NOW endorsed Ryu but did not invite Sara Kate Levy or Nithya Raman to be interviewed for a possible endorsement. Erickson has targeted and harassed women in a number of political organizations in which he has been involved and whilst taking on leadership within women’s groups has elevated his own ambitions over the interests of women.” “Ryu, in fact, was arrested in 2002 for an alleged rape. “The male candidates endorsed–Erickson and Ryu–have a reputation for mistreating women,” says the complaint. There is unlawful coordination between Hollywood NOW and Erickson’s current campaign for West Hollywood City Council.” It is biased in favor of John Erickson and his political associates rather than being open to all candidates. “Hollywood NOW is making partisan political endorsements favoring problematic men over qualified women that are inconsistent with the values of NOW,” says the complaint. The three Hollywood NOW members who filed the complaint claim that he and Karen Andros Eyres, the interim president, have used the organization for his benefit and that of David Ryu, who is running for re-election to the Los Angeles City Council and has endorsed Erickson. 3 election for West Hollywood City Council. Several members of the Hollywood chapter of the National Organization for Women have filed a complaint with the national organization and its California chapter claiming that John Erickson, its former president, has used the organization to promote his political career.Įrickson, who stepped down as president of the womens’ advocacy organization on July 31, is a candidate in the Nov.
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