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Editorial: This election showed L.A. voters are fed up with City Hall corruption and scandal
1 month, 1 week ago

Editorial: This election showed L.A. voters are fed up with City Hall corruption and scandal

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León speaks to supporters as election results are seen on a screen behind him last week. Two years after the leaked audio scandal rocked Los Angeles City Hall, voters finally had their say in this election. Voters overwhelmingly backed charter changes designed to curb elected officials’ political power by creating an independent redistricting commission …

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Nithya Raman, Kevin De León got more homeless people off the street. Will that sway voters?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Nithya Raman, Kevin De León got more homeless people off the street. Will that sway voters?

LA Times  

Incumbent Los Angeles City Councilmembers Kevin de León and Nithya Raman have had success in getting homeless people off the street in their districts. Raman, who chairs the council’s homelessness committee, said the work by her team shows that the city “can actually address street homelessness, which is what most Angelenos are concerned about, far more effectively than we have …

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Endorsement: Miguel Santiago for Los Angeles City Council District 14
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Endorsement: Miguel Santiago for Los Angeles City Council District 14

LA Times  

Councilmember Kevin de León should have stepped down after the leak of audio from a now-infamous racist conversation he joined in. He betrayed the public’s trust, lost the respect of his peers and helped turn the Los Angeles City Council into a national embarrassment. These communities desperately need stable representation and someone who can handle the big-picture issues, like housing …

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When it comes to L.A.’s police chief, some council members are keeping quiet
1 year, 10 months ago

When it comes to L.A.’s police chief, some council members are keeping quiet

LA Times  

Good morning and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. Last week, the deadline for the council to intervene on Moore’s fate came and went without a peep from the LAPD’s outspoken City Hall critics. Hernandez, Soto-Martinez, Price and four of their colleagues — all occupying the council’s left flank — repeatedly declined to tell The …

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De León and other council members tussle on redistricting
1 year, 10 months ago

De León and other council members tussle on redistricting

LA Times  

Then-mayoral candidate Kevin De León, with state Sen. María Elena Durazo, talks with campaign volunteers at his campaign headquarters in Los Angeles in 2022. The sparring came as the council considered opposing a proposed state law introduced by state Sen. María Elena Durazo and a coalition of L.A.-area lawmakers that could force the city to establish an independent redistricting commission. …

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L.A. City Council racist audio leak, transcribed and annotated
2 years, 1 month ago

L.A. City Council racist audio leak, transcribed and annotated

LA Times  

More than a year after it was secretly recorded and a month after it was leaked, a backroom conversation among three Los Angeles City Council members and a prominent union president continues to shake city politics. Julia Wick, reporter “Curren” This refers to Curren Price, a political ally of Martinez’s and a two-term L.A. City Council member who represents Council …

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LAPD launches criminal probe of racist leak at request of Martinez, De León, Cedillo
2 years, 1 month ago

LAPD launches criminal probe of racist leak at request of Martinez, De León, Cedillo

LA Times  

Los Angeles police Chief Michel Moore announced Tuesday that his department has launched an investigation into the source of the leaked racist recordings that thrust City Hall into a harsh national spotlight. “The department has initiated a criminal investigation into the allegation of eavesdropping into the L.A. Fed meeting involving then-Councilperson Nury Martinez, Councilmember Gil Cedillo and Councilmember Kevin de …

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LA’s Black-Latino tensions bared in City Council scandal
2 years, 2 months ago

LA’s Black-Latino tensions bared in City Council scandal

Associated Press  

Cross-cultural coalitions have ruled Los Angeles politics for decades, helping elect both Black and Latino politicians to top leadership roles in the huge racially and ethnically diverse city. Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., the executive publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel, a Black-run newspaper, wrote afterward of “the cancerous divisiveness that has been secretly harming our progress.” “To discover that these …

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Nury Martinez also makes crude comments about Jews and Armenians in leaked audio
2 years, 2 months ago

Nury Martinez also makes crude comments about Jews and Armenians in leaked audio

LA Times  

In the same leaked audio clips posted to Reddit in which former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez made racist remarks about Black people and Oaxacans, she also made crude remarks about Jewish people and Armenians. In the recording reviewed by The Times, Martinez can be heard saying the “judíos” — which means Jews in Spanish — “cut their …

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Granderson: City council members' recording isn't just offensive. It's also illuminating
2 years, 2 months ago

Granderson: City council members' recording isn't just offensive. It's also illuminating

LA Times  

So … this is the room where it happens. Not nearly as attractive as Aaron Burr described it in “Hamilton.” In fact — judging from the leaked audio from a 2021 meeting among Los Angeles City Council members Gil Cedillo, Kevin de León and Nury Martinez — the room where it happens is probably the ugliest place in politics. It …

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Breaking down crucial moments in the racist leaked recording of L.A. councilmembers
2 years, 2 months ago

Breaking down crucial moments in the racist leaked recording of L.A. councilmembers

LA Times  

In what they thought was a private conversation, some of the most powerful people in Los Angeles politics gathered to discuss the city’s once-every-decade redistricting process. Martinez and the other Latino leaders present during the taped conversation were seemingly unaware they were being recorded as Martinez said a white councilmember handled his young Black son as though he were an …

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What we know about the explosive leaked audio roiling L.A. City Hall and its origins
2 years, 2 months ago

What we know about the explosive leaked audio roiling L.A. City Hall and its origins

LA Times  

A leaked audio recording of three members of the Los Angeles City Council and a top county labor official punctuated by racist comments and derisive remarks about colleagues has rocked Los Angeles politics just a month before a key election. VIDEO | 03:12 City Council leader makes racist comments about colleague’s young son Council President Nury Martinez makes racist remarks …

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Extreme makeover? Two L.A. council members could see huge changes to their districts
3 years, 2 months ago

Extreme makeover? Two L.A. council members could see huge changes to their districts

LA Times  

A commission has been working on a draft map of Los Angeles City Council districts. The Los Angeles City Council Redistricting Commission, a group of political appointees that’s redrawing the 15 district boundaries, is weighing a proposal that would slice off many of the neighborhoods that made up Raman’s district: Sherman Oaks, Hancock Park, Miracle Mile, Park La Brea and …

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