The four people heard on an audio recording that rocked Los Angeles politics over the weekend have long been significant Democratic power brokers, not just in the city but in California as a whole. But they almost certainly could not remove them from office. I failed in holding others and myself to the highest standard. [28], The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times called on all three politicians to resign in an op-ed article published October 10, 2022. An earlier version of this article misstated what Nury Martinez called Oaxacan immigrants living in Koreatown. I am prepared to do that job if the members want me to serve in that position, he said. He believes they should all resign, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said. The recorded conversation involving some of Los Angeless top power brokers exposed the racial and ethnic factions that have come to dominate politics in California. The profanity-laced recording of Los Angeles leaders mocking people in racist terms has stunned the nations second-largest city. Inside, the cacophonous demonstration was so relentless and deafening that the council members recessed, hoping, in vain, for calm. The City Council members Kevin de Len, Nury Martinez and Gil Cedillo have apologized for the crude remarks heard on an audio recording leaked over the weekend, but still face calls to resign from their posts. In Eagle Rock, protesters continued their push to oust De Len, chanting slogans near his home and setting up camp for a lengthy stay. The Los Angeles city attorney race was still seemingly too close to call, with three frontrunners. David Zahniser covers Los Angeles City Hall for the Los Angeles Times. Tuesday's agenda includes several items related to the incendiary recording made during a private meeting about the contentious issue of redrawing council districts, which can give some lawmakers significant power and dilute the influence of others and by extension, disenfranchise the ethnic or racial groups they represent. De Leon has apologized for seeming to make or condone "insensitive comments." Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Suspected shooter in attacks on Jewish men was on FBIs radar, LAPD chief says. Krekorian will be immediately tasked with leading the council through a turbulent stretch, with Councilmen Kevin de Len and Gil Cedillo facing fierce calls to resign for their roles in the City Hall racist hate speech scandal. Can it survive racist recordings? [27], One day after stepping down as council president, Martinez announced she would be taking a leave of absence. 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I am proud and humbled to have done this work and I am grateful for all those who have worked with me and supported me through the years, Cedillo said. Cedillos office did not respond to a question about his absences this afternoon. Now its Game of Thrones.. She also used a profanity while discussing Dist. Scores of angry protesters disrupted a council meeting as the episode exposed painful racial fault lines in the diverse and heavily Democratic city. In the profanity-laced recording, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times and which was first reported by The Los Angeles Times on Sunday, Councilwoman Nury Martinez, who is Latina, compared the Black child of a white council member to a changuito, Spanish for little monkey. She's not our ally. The court of public opinion has rendered a verdict, and the verdict is they all must resign.. On social media last week, she wrote, Now the hard work begins. She was additionally heard making racially disparaging remarks within the context of discussions over the redistricting of City Council seats. The two changes are expected to sharply increase voter participation in the mayoral race, and both candidates have been aggressively courting Latino voters. The court of public opinion has rendered a verdict, and the verdict is they all must resign., For more than a half-century, Los Angeles politics have been a study in demographic constituencies and race relations. Martinez dominated the conversation, using profanity and racist slurs as she aired personal grievances. Oaxaca is a Mexican state that has a high percentage of indigenous population, mostly of Zapotec origin, and Oaxacans are also represented in immigrant communities in Los Angeles. Councilmember Mike Bonin the target of Martinez's most offensive remarks tested positive for the virus after being consoled in the crowded chambers and appeared virtually at the following day's meeting. Rather than fight among themselves, Ms. Martinez said, they should demand a map in which one of them gets the massive Los Angeles International Airport. In the end, it is not my apologies that matter most; it will be the actions I take from this day forward. Nury Martinez, who stepped down as president of the Los Angeles City Council on Monday, said on Tuesday morning that she was taking a leave of absence from the council, citing emotional exhaustion, as calls for her to resign continued. He did not attend several key meetings at Los Angeles City Hall this week, including three City Council meetings, and did not show up to oversee the Housing Committee, which he chairs. By a two-thirds vote, the City Council could censure or, formally express its disapproval of members whose actions the Council determined to be a gross failure to conform to the highest standards of personal and professional conduct. Separately, Los Angeles voters can recall members, but the process is not fast or easy: Forcing a recall election requires the support of at least 15 percent of the voters in the council members district. Ms. Martinez stepped down as council president on Monday and said on Tuesday that she would take a leave of absence. Moreover, whoever wins the race will have to work with a 15-member City Council that is now deeply split. Shortly after leaving office, he released a three-page letter entitled "Why I Did Not Resign" in which he acknowledges that the conversation in the leaked recording crossed a line at several points but claims that the councilmembers were only trying to ensure that Latinos were adequately represented in redistricting. De Len and Cedillo who, like their colleagues, earn more than $229,000 annually have avoided council and committee meetings in recent days. Over the decades, the assorted constituencies have tried to develop a coalition style of politics based on common interests in the heavily Democratic city, but, beneath that veneer, the reality often has been a quest for power and political spoils. Photo: Getty Images. I cant forgive them, because its not my prerogative. I cant forgive them because its not my prerogative. She can also be heard to remark, "tan feos" (Spanish for "[they're] so ugly"). The way we build coalitions and unity is through work, she said. Many politicians and civic leaders in California have reacted to the news of the crude racist remarks in the audio recording with shock, condemnation and calls for the four people involved to resign their posts. In the ensuing exchange, Mr. de Len referred to Mr. Bonin as the councils fourth Black member and joked with Ms. Martinez that Mr. Bonin carried his adopted son, who is Black, as if the toddler were a designer handbag. Mr. Bonin said that he could never fully comprehend his sons experience of relentless racism, but he knew the fire that you feel when someone tries to destroy Black boy joy.. LA Times on 2022-06-15 03:16 Eunisses Hernandez pulls ahead of Gil Cedillo in tight L.A. Council race . Eunisses Hernandez, who appears to have unseated Gil Cedillo on the Los Angeles City Council, hopes to shift funding priorities for the LAPD and other agencies. [37], On October 23, after Martinez had already resigned, California governor Gavin Newsom called on Cedillo and de Len to step down. [32], The California/Hawaii and Los Angeles NAACP,[33][34] the Armenian National Committee of America[35] and the SAG-AFTRA union called for the resignation of all four individuals involved. Rodriguez, who represents the northeast Valley, said she told Krekorian at Sundays meeting that she favors Price, who just won reelection to a third and final term. The only recourse is resignation or recall, he said. She also called Oaxacan immigrants living in Koreatown little short dark people., At another point in the private conversation, Ms. Martinez used an expletive in reference to the Los Angeles County district attorney, George Gascn, saying that hes with the Blacks.. Clearly, I should have intervened. I was like, this kid needs a beatdown. After the release of the audio, Herrera faced calls to step down from across the labor movement, including the leaders of eight SEIU California unions with Los Angeles-area members, United Teachers Los Angeles, Unite Here Local 11 and the California Nurses Association. Maaaring gamitin ang paghahanap na ito upang maghanap ng mga kopya ng 24-Oras na Ulat sa Kontribusyon (Form 497) na inihain ng mga komite sa kampanya ng Lungsod at mga pangunahing donor. In the leaked conversation, Cedillo openly advocated for keeping certain communities such as Koreatown -- a majority Latino neighborhood -- away from the districts of colleagues he did not like. As many as five new council members could be seated in December, depending on the outcome of the Nov. 8 election. [2] Cedillo and de Len did not step down despite numerous calls for their resignations. Ms. Martinez is heard comparing the Black child of Councilman Mike Bonin to a changuito, Spanish for little monkey, and joking with Mr. de Len that Mr. Bonin carries the child around like a designer handbag. After another raucous start to its meeting, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 Wednesday to approve a pair of motions to censure Councilmen Kevin de . When you talk about traffic enforcement, that's a big driver of criminalizing folks, burdening people with fines and fees. Councilman Kevin de Len, left, and the Councils president, Nury Martinez, conferred at a City Council meeting this month. Cedillo lost his seat in the primary and will be replaced in December. 23 October 2022 Two weeks after audio recordings were released exposing racist comments by Los Angeles, California City Council members Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Len, both politicians. For that I am sorry. No one denies that the conversation crossed a line at several points, and I deeply regret not speaking up when it did. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times, via Getty Images. Separately, another chief of staff to Mr. Garcetti, Ana Guerrero, went on leave in June 2021 after disparaging comments she made about other elected officials, government employees and labor leaders in a private Facebook group surfaced. LOS ANGELES Marielena Hincapi, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center . But let me be clear, people should not ask me for forgiveness. Sign up here for our free newsletters. Through tears, he says he didnt want to be here today. At the meeting, Ron Herrera, who was the president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor before resigning over the recording, called the group "a little Latino caucus of our own" as they discussed how to undo maps drawn up by a commission to benefit themselves and shore up power. While Cedillo has lost his bid for a third term, he serves for another six months, until December. Speaking to reporters gathered for Karen Bass's news conference, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa assailed the racist rhetoric of City Council members captured on the recording. a recorded conversation laced with racist remarks. The presidency vote comes at an awkward time. The two councilmembers were pulled from committees dealing with real estate development, housing, homelessness and other issues. The council has moved to censure Cedillo and de Leon but doesn't have the power to remove fellow elected officials from office unless they've been charged with a crime. At the time, Latinos held four of the 15 seats on the council but made up half the population of Los Angeles. For that I am sorry. This has been one of the most difficult times of my life and I recognize this is entirely of my own making, she said in a statement, adding that she needed to take some time to have an honest and heartfelt conversation with my family, my constituents, and community leaders. Periodically, speakers and protesters have shouted that there can be no city business until Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Len have stepped down. December 12, 2022 / 3:12 PM A metropolis council assembly the earlier day the first since news of the recording broke was interrupters by demonstrators filling the chambers, demanding the councilmembers resignation. The citys Black community, with a vibrant middle class and powerful community leaders like Tom Bradley, a former mayor, and Magic Johnson, the Los Angeles Lakers star, has long wielded clout. [22][23], As a result of the fallout from the controversy, separate audio recordings of a conversation between Herrera and Hannah Cho, a former Mitch O'Farrell (and later LA County Federation of Labor) staffer, were leaked on October 15. But Latinos make up the citys largest ethnic group by far. His statement was issued jointly with his husband, Sean Arian. "These members have lost all credibility, all standing," O'Farrell said at a City Hall news conference. Council members Paul Koretz and Nithya Raman additionally referred to as for Martinez to resign. I've reached out to that colleague personally. News of the recording was first reported on Sunday by The Los Angeles Times; by Monday night, Mr. Herrera had resigned from the labor federation and Ms. Martinez had relinquished her leadership post on the City Council, although she resisted calls for her to leave the Council entirely. On that day, I fell short of the expectations we set for our leaders and I will hold myself to a higher standard. Acting L.A. City Council President Mitch O'Farrell arrives to a news conference where he announces he is removing Councilmen Kevin de Len and Gil Cedillo from committee assignments at Los. Whoops! (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) By Julia Wick , Benjamin Oreskes Oct. 21, 2022 5 AM PT Two days. In years past, Ms. Rice said, lawyers with expertise in federal voting rights law wielded considerable influence on the drawing of local political boundaries. Sigcho Lopez has the endorsement of the Chicago DSA. She was the architect of successful Measure J, which calls for 10% of the countys unappropriated budget to be spent on programs that offer an alternative to incarceration. At the same time, he acknowledged that Cedillo and De Len have not been persuaded by calls from numerous political leaders, including President Biden, to step down. She grew up in the Los Angeles area, and is formerly a San Gabriel Valley girl. Later in the day, President Biden joined the calls for them to leave office. They had gathered to discuss how to create new City Council boundaries under the redistricting process. A Black speaker said she wanted an investigation into all decisions that have affected Black people in Los Angeles. Council president Paul Krekorian suggested that if Cedillo resigned before the end of his term, the council could seat Hernandez immediately. We are going to need to look at those maps, he said. 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