The task force includes community activitists, gang interventionists and law enforcement personnel, and it holds weekly meetings in Hahn's office. Hahn - who represents the city's 15th Council District, which includes Watts - formed the Watts Gang Task Force in January 2006 and has been active in anti-gang programs. The ad claims that Hahn provided city funds to gang members to be "gang intervention specialists" and helped gang members get out of jail. Hahn's Republican opponent, Craig Huey, issued a statement calling it "racist and sexist." It has received wide criticism for its racy images. The ad features black actors portraying gang members singing hip-hop while a pole dancer performs. It released a web ad June 13 called "Give us your cash, B–ch," in the July 12 runoff election to fill California's 36th congressional district seat. Turn Right USA is a conservative "super PAC" that was formed June 8. The controversial ad also claims that Hahn "even helped to get them out of jail so that they could rape and kill again." There is no evidence to support this other than the disputed word of one gang member. It's also true that the city funds nonprofits that use ex-gang members to help settle gang disputes, but the city money is used to fund administrative costs, not to pay gang members. It's true that Hahn, a city councilwoman running in a special election for Congress, supports the city's gang intervention programs, but she made no direct payments to gang members. A conservative group falsely claims in a web ad that Democrat Janice Hahn "hired hardcore gang members with taxpayer money to be gang intervention specialists" in South Los Angeles.
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