Woke California lawmaker who claims to hate billionaires is happily pocketing checks from wife of Netflix tycoon
Eunisses Hernandez is fighting to retain her seat on the LA City Council and despite claiming to not take billionaire money, two prominent super wealthy donors have backed her.
A leftist Los Angeles lawmaker posted a social media clip claiming she refuses 'billionaire checks' despite having accepted funding from multiple super wealthy donors.
Eunisses Hernandez is fighting to retain her seat on the LA City Council after being blamed for her inaction as the park in the heart of her district continues to turn into a disaster area.
She ended her year with a request for a small dollar donations, decrying how 'corporate PACs and special interests are lining up to pour millions into this race' because of her hyper-woke policies.
'Your contribution goes straight to organizing: powering voter outreach, multilingual materials, neighborhood canvassing, digital tools, and the grassroots infrastructure it takes to beat corporate money. No backroom deals. No billionaire checks,' she wrote.
However, as The Daily Mail reported in 2022, Hernandez - who rakes in $240,000 a year - has multiple rich donors funding her campaigns.
Patty Quillin, the philanthropic wife of billionaire Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, has written multiple checks supporting Hernandez, despite living in a completely different part of the state.
Similarly, billionaire hedge fund heiress Elizabeth Simons has also helped fund Hernandez.
Simons is the daughter of the billionaire investor and Democratic donor James Simons.
Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez (pictured), a leftist Los Angeles lawmaker, posted a social media clip claiming she refuses 'billionaire checks' despite having accepted funding from multiple super wealthy donors
Patty Quillin (pictured left), the philanthropic wife of billionaire Netflix CEO Reed Hastings (pictured right), has written multiple checks supporting Hernandez, despite living in a completely different part of the state
She and her husband Mark Heising now run the Heising-Simons Foundation.
Simons has also backed PACs supporting New York City's socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to the tune of $250,000, The New York Post reported.
Quillin and Simons both live nearer San Francisco than they do LA. Quillin and Reed live in Santa Cruz, whereas Simons lives in the affluent Silicon Valley suburb Atherton.
Simons and her husband also live in Atherton, where homes cost upwards of $40million. They bought their home in 2007 for $18million.