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California Hotel PAC

The California Hotel PAC supports candidates for state and local elected offices who show the most promise of understanding and promoting our members’ interests, significantly increasing our ability to facilitate a favorable business climate. All contributions to the California Hotel PAC are used in support or opposition of candidates at the state and local levels for both primary and general elections to affect change and ensure the best candidates win.

For contribution determinations we evaluate, among other things, the candidates, their challengers and positions on issues affecting the hospitality industry. Another component is looking at the race itself to determine, based on the number of candidates and available polling, the likelihood of candidate success and if the California Hotel PAC could affect change. We then review the election map for the greatest impact and for any potential conflicts or mis-alignment in other elections.

Hotel PAC wins. In just the past two years, California Hotel PAC has participated where our contributions helped good state and local candidates to win in the primary election, secure a clear path to office in November, and win again for the general election. Further, these funds have been used to help elected officials defeat recall campaigns at the local level – protecting logic-driven policymakers from personal reprisal attacks.

The Hotel PAC allows the hotel industry to present a strong, unified voice and to influence what happens to our industry – and our members’ business – in California. A contribution to California Hotel PAC is the most direct and efficient way for you to ensure the interests of the lodging industry are represented, advocated for, and protected.

A contribution to the California Hotel PAC helps ensure that well-reasoning legislators receive an opportunity to bring the state forward, for all.

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About the California Hotel Issues PAC

When the legislature fails to act on issues, those issues often fall to the ballot. CHLA’s Issues PAC is our tool to engage on those issues, both to support reform and oppose ill-formed concepts. The Issues PAC is our first-response tool to protect lodging interests when novel and urgent ballot issues emerge. Most recently, CHLA channeled funds from Issues PAC to the “No on Prop 15” campaign to defeat a ballot measure which would have reassessed properties at current market rates – increasing hotel property-tax liabilities by up to millions of dollars annually.