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Kevin de León and Ysabel Jurado trade insults in fight for Eastside city council seat
3 months, 1 week ago

Kevin de León and Ysabel Jurado trade insults in fight for Eastside city council seat

LA Times  

Ysabel Jurado made a huge splash on Los Angeles’ Eastside last spring, coming in first in the five-way primary election for a City Council seat representing neighborhoods stretching from downtown to Eagle Rock. Since 2020, the year De León took office, the city has opened “tiny-home villages” for unhoused residents in Eagle Rock, Highland Park and Boyle Heights. So has …

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Activist sues L.A. over fight with Kevin de León, saying toy giveaway needed more security
1 year, 1 month ago

Activist sues L.A. over fight with Kevin de León, saying toy giveaway needed more security

LA Times  

Activist Jason Reedy testifies on Dec. 9, 2022, at Los Angeles City Hall, hours before he and Councilmember Kevin de León got into a physical altercation at a holiday toy giveaway. An anti-police activist who was involved in a physical altercation with Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin De León at a holiday toy giveaway has filed a lawsuit against De …

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Kevin de León and activist won’t be charged over their fight. Here’s why neither is happy
1 year, 4 months ago

Kevin de León and activist won’t be charged over their fight. Here’s why neither is happy

LA Times  

The L.A. city attorney’s office has announced that no charges will be filed against L.A. City Councilman Kevin de León, shown, and an activist after the two got into a caught-on-video kerfuffle with each other last year. Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de León and the activist with whom he got into a physical altercation late last year both criticized …

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Inside the financial ties between a controversial housing nonprofit and Kevin de León
1 year, 9 months ago

Inside the financial ties between a controversial housing nonprofit and Kevin de León

LA Times  

In summer 2020, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation was ramping up its fight with the city of Los Angeles over housing homeless people. City staff would respond differently depending on who makes the ask.” Political ethics experts said that De León’s relationship with the foundation and failure to disclose his financial ties raise a potential conflict-of-interest concern. This is really unethical.” …

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A low for L.A. politics: Council member and activist fight as children watch in horror
2 years ago

A low for L.A. politics: Council member and activist fight as children watch in horror

LA Times  

Kevin de León returns to City Council chambers at City Hall on Friday after a two-month absence. Ochoa said he was DJing when a group of about five people walked in and started shouting “You’re a racist” at De León. “As it is, we live in a low-income community, and these guys are coming here who don’t even live there, …

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‘Little kids were starting to cry’: Inside the Kevin de León fight at Christmas gift giveaway
2 years ago

‘Little kids were starting to cry’: Inside the Kevin de León fight at Christmas gift giveaway

LA Times  

The fight between embattled Councilman Kevin de León and an activist Friday night has heightened the simmering tensions in L.A. politics over the leak of racist audio that has rocked City Hall. Alan Ochoa, 36, was DJing the event when he said about five people walked in and started shouting “you’re a racist” at De León. In a statement, De …

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De León vows: ‘I will not resign.’ Council president says apology isn’t enough
2 years, 2 months ago

De León vows: ‘I will not resign.’ Council president says apology isn’t enough

LA Times  

L.A. City Councilmember Kevin de León says he won’t resign after the leak of an audio conversation in which racist comments were made. “We need to show the world that there is no seat for racism, exclusion and disrespect on the Los Angeles City Council.” Earlier in the day, De León sent a letter to Krekorian in which he expressed …

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L.A.’s Black-Latino alliance has always been fragile. Can it survive racist recordings?
2 years, 2 months ago

L.A.’s Black-Latino alliance has always been fragile. Can it survive racist recordings?

LA Times  

Jorge Nuño learned the hard way how race, power and politics work in Los Angeles. “I think that is exactly why people are so offended, because that is not who we are,” said Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who is Black and represents South Los Angeles’ 8th Council District. Richard Alatorre, the son of an East Los Angeles beautician and repairman, who …

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Guerrero: L.A. needs a new generation of Latino leaders
2 years, 2 months ago

Guerrero: L.A. needs a new generation of Latino leaders

LA Times  

Behind closed doors, they sound like former President Trump. “For a long time, Latino and Mexican American communities have had a choice to make about where they’re going to stand in relation to white supremacy and whiteness,” said Kelly Lytle Hernández, a professor of history and African American studies at UCLA. “And in those tapes you’re hearing a certain set …

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Kevin de León, working to clear encampments, wages an escalating fight with activists
2 years, 11 months ago

Kevin de León, working to clear encampments, wages an escalating fight with activists

LA Times  

L.A. City Councilman Kevin de León says the city moved more than 90 homeless people off the sidewalks near El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, home to Olvera Street. Rep. Karen Bass unveiled her plan last week for removing street encampments, which says the city cannot tolerate “open air drug trafficking” and violence that’s “hidden behind tents.” Last week, …

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