Meet the socialist LA leader making $240K to reign over drug-infested park as it crumbles

Meet Eunisses Hernandez — the progressive, permissive councilwoman raking in far more money than the average Angeleno each year, plus gold-plated benefits — even as MacArthur Park, the historic heart of her district, rots into a fentanyl-soaked nightmare.The Post spent the last week inside the park, witnessing and reporting on open-air drug use, pipe smoking, hand-to-hand deals and city-funded paraphernalia — needles, crack pipes and food handouts — being distributed in broad daylight.That scene now defines the park.Hernandez had an opportunity to make nice with her district Thursday at a packed public meeting with the very constituents forced to live with the consequences of her policies … and she was a no-show.MacArthur Park parents were there.

Neighborhood residents were there.Local small business owners were there.

But she wasn’t there.“I need to introduce someone to you,” challenger Maria “Lou” Calanche told the crowd, hoisting a life-size cardboard cutout of Hernandez.“This is our current council member — who’s MIA.” The room erupted in laughter.“This district is too important for a no-show,” Calanche said.

“She’s skipped three in-person debates.Meanwhile, encampments have swallowed our streets.

Parents can’t even take their kids to the park — there’s human waste on the swings.”“We need action,” she said.“Not a cardboard council member who refuses to show up.”Then came the gut punch.“She makes $250,000 a year,” Calanche said.

“The least she can do is show up.It’s her job.

She’s being paid for it.This is sad.

And we need change.”In interviews with local business owners, longtime residents and community members, the message was consistent: the chaos isn’t random.It’s the result of deliberate political choices — who say the blame lies squarely in the lap of Hernandez. Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who is now running to reclaim his old job, says what’s happening a...