Former Associate of Los Angeles City Council Candidate Tim Gaspar Speaks Out About Her Experience Working With Him

Christina Rackohn describes years working alongside Tim Gaspar and says voters deserve to hear what she witnessed before casting their vote for City Council.

LOS ANGELES (October 12, 2026) – Christina Rackohn, a former associate of Los Angeles City Council District 3 candidate Timothy K. Gaspar, is speaking out about her years working alongside him. In a video released today, she describes a hostile workplace ruled by Gaspar's temper - where staff lived on edge, bracing for his next outburst, and where turnover was so constant and so brutal it became a dark running joke among employees.

Rackohn came to work alongside Gaspar after the sudden death of her father, with whom she had built Creative Insurance Services in 2010. Grieving, and suddenly responsible for preserving the business her father had built. Looking for a partner who could protect that legacy, she brought the company into Gaspar's business - and says what followed was a far cry from the partnership she had been promised.

Rackohn says Gaspar's temper was not an occasional lapse - it was the defining feature of who he was. Employees nicknamed him "Purple Tim," she says, because his face would visibly flush red or purple when his anger took over. In emails reviewed by the Girvan campaign, Gaspar himself references the nickname, joking about going "a little Kanye" - an apparent nod to Kanye West, whom Rackohn says Gaspar at one point compared himself to. On one occasion, Gaspar stormed downstairs mid-dispute, yelled at her in front of the entire office, and ordered her to pack her belongings and leave on the spot. In an email reviewed by the campaign, Gaspar later admitted he was sorry for how, in his own words, "I came at you on this matter this morning" - an acknowledgment, Rackohn says, of a pattern his own staff had learned to fear.

"You just never really knew which Tim you were going to get on any given day," Rackohn says in the video.

Volatility defined the office, she said, and drove people out the door. She recalls a grim joke among staff: don't bother getting close to the new hire, because odds are they won't last six months. The video also points to a chorus of online reviews, apparently from former employees, independently echoing the same portrait - a boss described as short-tempered, impulsive, and volatile; the campaign notes it has not independently verified the authorship of those reviews.

Rackohn says the experience took a toll on her, causing significant anxiety, and that she ultimately felt pushed out of the business her father had built. "Ultimately, I feel like I was pushed out of the business that my dad had started and that I had brought over," she says.

Rackohn says she's speaking out now because Gaspar is asking voters to hand him real power over their city. "If Tim were to run the city as he ran his business, I would want constituents to know what that was really like," she says. "I'm not the only one. I know I'm not alone with how I feel, with how we were treated by Tim."

"Public office is a position of trust - trust is earned through judgment, not promises. A leader who can't manage his own temper, let alone his commitments to those closest to him, raises serious questions about the judgment he'd bring to decisions that affect our entire community." said Barri Worth Girvan. "When someone comes forward at real personal cost to describe what they witnessed behind closed doors, we do not look away. We have a responsibility to listen, and voters have a right to know. Christina made a personal choice to tell her story in her own words, and I believe her."

“Mr. Gaspar likes to tout his 'real-world experience' as a qualification for office. But voters deserve to know what that experience actually meant for the people who worked with him - by her account, a pattern of explosive temper, intimidation and broken commitments to those who trusted him most. That matters, and character does not change when someone takes an oath of office. If this is how Mr. Gaspar operates a small business, voters have every right to ask how he would interact with constituents, colleagues and staff if elected. I believe in a government that earns people's trust through its conduct - and voters deserve nothing less from everyone asking for their vote” she concluded.

Christina Rackohn’s video can be viewed here.

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