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Advocacy
CHLA Political Action Committee
At CHLA, we cover all our bases.
About the California Hotel and Lodging Political Action Committee (CHALPAC)
CHLA’s Political Action Committee (CHALPAC) 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 pro-lodging business climate. CHALPAC receives contributions from individuals and businesses interested in the well-being of California’s lodging industry.
CHALPAC 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 CHALPAC 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 CHALPAC helps ensure that well-reasoning legislators receive an opportunity to bring the state forward, for all.
About the CHLA 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.