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The sad, desperate, Hispandering end of Kevin de León's
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The sad, desperate, Hispandering end of Kevin de León's

LA Times  

He preened, he hugged, he shook hands and hobnobbed with legends and politicians. Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León was in full campaign mode two days before Tuesday’s election, when voters would decide whether he deserved a second term. But what De León’s supporters don’t get is that the Latino Power strategy that long fueled Eastside politics is over …

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City Council OKs $3.8 million to clean up and secure graffitied downtown skyscrapers
10 months, 1 week ago

City Council OKs $3.8 million to clean up and secure graffitied downtown skyscrapers

LA Times  

The City Council voted Friday to approve $3.8 million to clean up and secure the unfinished Oceanwide Plaza skyscraper project in downtown L.A. The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to allot nearly $4 million to remove graffiti and secure unfinished downtown Los Angeles skyscrapers that have been heavily tagged in recent weeks. “The purpose of my motion is clear: …

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Clean and secure your tagged high-rise or we’ll do it for you, L.A. tells owners
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Clean and secure your tagged high-rise or we’ll do it for you, L.A. tells owners

LA Times  

After six trespassing arrests were made in less than a week related to a heavily tagged unfinished skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to order the property owners to clean up the site. California Four more trespassing arrests made at graffitied downtown skyscraper Police arrested four more people at the unfinished Oceanwide Plaza development, …

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Column: Nury, Kevin and Gil turn to the most weak salsa excuse of all for their racist remarks
1 year, 2 months ago

Column: Nury, Kevin and Gil turn to the most weak salsa excuse of all for their racist remarks

LA Times  

A protester at the Oct. 11, 2022, L.A. City Council meeting calls for the ouster of Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León after the leak of a recording on which the three council members can be heard making racist remarks. The voices — then-Los Angeles City Councilmember Nury Martinez, then-Councilmember Gil Cedillo, Councilmember Kevin de León, and then-Los …

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Protesters disrupt De León’s Cinco de Mayo presentation during council meeting; 1 arrested
1 year, 7 months ago

Protesters disrupt De León’s Cinco de Mayo presentation during council meeting; 1 arrested

LA Times  

One man was arrested during a Los Angeles City Council meeting Friday morning after protesters interrupted Councilmember Kevin de León’s Cinco de Mayo presentation. Since De León’s participation in a secretly recorded conversation with other city leaders was made public last October, his presence in council has often brought jeers and expletives from protesters. As Los Angeles Police Department officers …

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Column: Kevin De León is the problem, but other L.A. councilmembers are part of the solution
1 year, 11 months ago

Column: Kevin De León is the problem, but other L.A. councilmembers are part of the solution

LA Times  

Kevin de León doesn’t have to remain the center of everyone’s attention. Opinion Columnist Jean Guerrero Jean Guerrero is the author, most recently, of “Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda.” As the City Council meets for the first time in 2023 on Tuesday, it’s imperative that De León’s three Latino colleagues prevent him from being the …

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L.A. on the Record: KDL, absurdist theater and a trick play
2 years ago

L.A. on the Record: KDL, absurdist theater and a trick play

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record. Hugo Soto-Martínez, one of two new council members who’d vowed to leave chambers if De León was present, said he did not initially realize that De León was in another room casting votes. Along with Bass’ emergency order on homelessness, the council also approved a one-month extension of the city’s COVID-19 …

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Bass’ emergency homelessness declaration approved during tumultuous City Council meeting
2 years ago

Bass’ emergency homelessness declaration approved during tumultuous City Council meeting

LA Times  

Embattled City Councilman Kevin de León sits alone at the horseshoe in Los Angeles City Council chambers on Tuesday. The Los Angeles City Council approved Mayor Karen Bass’ declaration of a homelessness emergency at a fraught four-hour meeting Tuesday, giving the new mayor a potentially critical tool for addressing the city’s humanitarian crisis. Protester Greg Akili demands that council members …

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Embattled L.A. Councilman Kevin de León and protesters remain equally defiant after fracas
2 years ago

Embattled L.A. Councilman Kevin de León and protesters remain equally defiant after fracas

LA Times  

The City Council went into recess after member Kevin de León showed up at a meeting Friday morning. The weekend’s events followed an uproar at Friday’s City Council meeting, where protesters, including Reedy, cursed at De León and engaged in a shouting match with the council member’s supporters. “I’m not going to let a group of extremely hostile individuals from …

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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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Photos: Chaos erupts after Kevin de León shows up at his first L.A. council meeting since October
2 years ago

Photos: Chaos erupts after Kevin de León shows up at his first L.A. council meeting since October

LA Times  

Councilmember Kevin de León showed up in the Los Angeles City Council chambers on Friday morning, appearing briefly at a council meeting for the first time since fallout from a racist leaked audio tape roiled the city in mid-October. The Los Angeles City Council went into recess after Councilmember Kevin de León showed up at the council meeting Friday morning …

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Kevin de León shows up at a City Council meeting, sparking an uproar
2 years ago

Kevin de León shows up at a City Council meeting, sparking an uproar

LA Times  

The Los Angeles City Council went into recess after embattled Councilmember Kevin de León showed up at Friday’s meeting. After a nearly two-month absence, Councilmember Kevin de León showed up for a Los Angeles City Council meeting on Friday, triggering an uproar in the audience involving both his critics and supporters. “Unfortunately, neither of those things happened.” Hours later, De …

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Recall effort against L.A. Councilman Kevin de León is cleared to gather signatures
2 years ago

Recall effort against L.A. Councilman Kevin de León is cleared to gather signatures

LA Times  

Councilmember Kevin de León, right, sits in Los Angeles City Council chambers Oct. 11, the last council meeting he has attended in the wake of a leaked audio recording of a 2021 conversation that involved racist comments and attempts to manipulate the redistricting process. A recall petition against City Councilmember Kevin de León was approved by the Los Angeles city …

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Kevin de León refuses to resign. What happens to his constituents?
2 years, 1 month ago

Kevin de León refuses to resign. What happens to his constituents?

LA Times  

Just down the street from Pamela and Valentin Marquez’s tidy two-bedroom home, next to an industrial strip where trains rumble through the night, is a park and playground with a walking path through oak trees. Protesters set up tents outside his Eagle Rock home with signs that read, “just 25 Black people yelling.” The City Council censured De León and …

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Column: Kevin de León is on an apology tour. When will he realize it’s a farewell tour?
2 years, 1 month ago

Column: Kevin de León is on an apology tour. When will he realize it’s a farewell tour?

LA Times  

Protestors disrupt the Los Angeles City Council meeting at City Hall on Tuesday. I know what my principles are.” California Organizers launch bid to recall embattled L.A. City Councilmember Kevin de León It’s relatively easy to launch a recall attempt in California, but actually triggering an election is far more difficult. By censuring the council members, he added, it sends …

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City Council censures De León, Cedillo, Martinez after police clear out demonstrators
2 years, 1 month ago

City Council censures De León, Cedillo, Martinez after police clear out demonstrators

LA Times  

Protestors return to City Hall on Wednesday to demand that no meetings be held until Councilmembers Kevin De León and Gil Cedillo have resigned. Under City Charter rules adopted in 2000, the council may, by a two-thirds vote, adopt a resolution of censure against members whose actions “constitute gross failure to meet the high standards of personal and professional conduct.” …

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Amid noisy protest, the L.A. City Council — listening via earbuds — conducts its business
2 years, 1 month ago

Amid noisy protest, the L.A. City Council — listening via earbuds — conducts its business

LA Times  

Pete White, center, with the Los Angeles Community Action Network, and Kenia Alcocer, right in red, with the Los Angeles Tenants Union, join other protesters shouting for over two hours to disrupt the Los Angeles City Council meeting on Oct. 25. Walker said she found De León to be “arrogant” during an hourlong interview, held right before the council’s meeting, …

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L.A. on the Record: A City Council standoff as De León digs in, Cedillo stays silent
2 years, 2 months ago

L.A. on the Record: A City Council standoff as De León digs in, Cedillo stays silent

LA Times  

Then-acting Council President Mitch O’Farrell, left, speaks with Councilmember Kevin de León at a City Council meeting on Oct. 11, two days after the recording came to light. Theoretically, according to Section 207 of the charter, an office becomes vacant when “the incumbent has been absent from the City without the consent of the Council for more than 60 consecutive …

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Roots of L.A. City Council’s leaked audio scandal can be traced back decades
2 years, 2 months ago

Roots of L.A. City Council’s leaked audio scandal can be traced back decades

LA Times  

In simple terms, the scandal that has sent Los Angeles politics into a tailspin began with a surreptitiously recorded private meeting last year involving three City Council members during which crude, racist comments were made. “What I heard on that tape, it was just unbridled arrogance.” Now, as support grows for changes that would expand the number of council seats …

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Column: ‘I’m a Black woman, not a pawn.’ The forgotten victim of L.A.’s racist tape scandal
2 years, 2 months ago

Column: ‘I’m a Black woman, not a pawn.’ The forgotten victim of L.A.’s racist tape scandal

LA Times  

Heather Hutt, an interim member of the L.A. City Council for the 10th District, at City Hall in August. “The one who will support us is Heather Hutt,” says Los Angeles City Councilmember Gil Cedillo. But now, it’s like, ‘Wow.’” :: Angelenos who support appointing Heather Hutt as an interim councilmember attend a City Council meeting in August. “Folks remember …

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Gil Cedillo, a champion for immigrant rights, imperiled by racist leak scandal
2 years, 2 months ago

Gil Cedillo, a champion for immigrant rights, imperiled by racist leak scandal

LA Times  

Councilmember Gil Cedillo at the Los Angeles City Council meeting Tuesday, where there were calls for his resignation. “It’s enraging.” Communications consultant Helen Sanchez, who first worked with Cedillo in the late 1980s on then-presidential candidate Michael Dukakis’ campaign, said the lesson is that “we need to speak up when someone is saying terrible things, even if they are our …

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Nury Martinez and the limits of Latinx political representation
2 years, 2 months ago

Nury Martinez and the limits of Latinx political representation

LA Times  

Nury Martinez resigned from the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday, days after The Times published a story in which Martinez and three other prominent Latinx political figures were caught in a leaked audio recording making racist, homophobic and other derogatory comments. As Times columnist Erika D. Smith aptly put it, these comments “bluntly confirm the worst fears of many …

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L.A. City Hall in limbo as pressure builds for Cedillo, De León to step down
2 years, 2 months ago

L.A. City Hall in limbo as pressure builds for Cedillo, De León to step down

LA Times  

With two of its members refusing to resign over their involvement in a leaked racist recording, the Los Angeles City Council found itself in limbo Thursday, unable to muster enough members to meet Friday and lacking clarity about what happens next. Acting City Council President Mitch O’Farrell canceled a meeting that had been scheduled for Friday after it became clear …

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