The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO just dropped $221,000 on a digital attack ad against LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt — and the internet is absolutely convinced it's a pro-Pratt campaign spot. The ad, filed through an independent expenditure committee called "LA Unions Opposed to Spencer Pratt for Mayor 2026," was supposed to sink the Republican outsider. Instead, it listed every single reason frustrated Angelenos want to vote for him.
You genuinely cannot make this up. A coalition representing 300 unions and 800,000 workers pooled their resources, hired professionals, produced an 8-minute-and-3-second video — and came out the other side having created what amounts to a Spencer Pratt hype reel. Somebody at the Federation should be updating their résumé.
Here's what the ad actually says. Brace yourself. "Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor. Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for unhoused neighbors, saying it's time for the homeless to get help or get out." Oh no. The horror. He wants homeless people to either accept help or stop living in tent cities on the sidewalk. Somebody call Amnesty International.
But wait, it gets better. "Pratt thinks L.A. needs thousands more police officers rather than more social workers, and Republican Spencer Pratt thinks public employee unions should have less power, not more." They literally listed his platform like bullet points at a rally. More cops, less union power, no more dumping taxpayer billions into building brand-new houses for people camped under overpasses. In a city where residents have watched tens of billions vanish into the homelessness-industrial complex with zero results, this isn't an attack. It's a sales pitch.
The ad closes with the most delusional four words in modern political advertising: "LA is on the right track." Los Angeles. On the right track. The city where Mayor Karen Bass has presided over a homeless crisis so visible you can see it from space, where the Pacific Palisades fire in January 2025 burned Spencer Pratt's own house to the ground while city leadership fumbled the response. That LA. Right track.
Watch the ad for yourself, https://twitter.com/ZionistAF2/status/2053561346722074899
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, shared the video on X and wrote what everyone was already thinking: "This attack ad could well elect Pratt." Social media users piled on. One posted, "This is supposed to be an attack ad??? Lolol." Another quipped that even the opposition's own PAC was now "running ads supporting Spencer Pratt."
The numbers tell you why Big Labor is panicking. According to a UCLA Luskin poll, 40% of LA voters are still undecided heading into the June 2 primary. Bass is clinging to 25%. Pratt sits at 11%, ahead of far-left City Councilwoman Nithya Raman at 9% — and that was before the NBC4 debate where online polls showed 90% of viewers thought Pratt won. In a race where nobody hits 50% on June 2, the top two head to a November general election. The unions can do the math. Pratt is surging, and they're terrified.
So what did the LA County Federation of Labor accomplish with their $221,000? They reminded every voter in Los Angeles that Spencer Pratt wants more cops, less wasteful spending on homelessness, and weaker public employee unions. They filed the spending on Form 496 with the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, so it's all on the public record — a quarter-million-dollar donation to Pratt's name recognition, courtesy of the people who hate him most.
As Louder With Crowder pointed out, the ad is not satire. It's real. Produced by real union operatives who apparently have no idea what actual LA residents want. When your enemy spends six figures telling voters exactly why they should support you, you don't need a campaign team. You just need to sit back, smile, and let them keep talking.