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L.A. ‘sanctuary city’ law won’t prevent deportations. But ‘we are hardening our defenses’
1 month ago

L.A. ‘sanctuary city’ law won’t prevent deportations. But ‘we are hardening our defenses’

LA Times  

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles in 2020. Facing President-elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation of immigrants in the country illegally, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday tentatively backed a “sanctuary city” law that forbids city employees and resources from being involved in federal immigration enforcement. The L.A. sanctuary city law, which was proposed in early …

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Kevin de León’s likely election defeat closes dark chapter in city politics
1 month, 1 week ago

Kevin de León’s likely election defeat closes dark chapter in city politics

LA Times  

Kevin de León’s City Council election defeat will conclude a dark chapter in city politics tied to his involvement in the L.A. City Council racist audio leak that included racist comments and insults against Black people, Oaxacans, Jews, Armenians and others. Here’s what you need to know to start your weekend: Los Angeles City Council racist leak eventually catches up …

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Ysabel Jurado leads Councilmember Kevin de León; Hutt and Nazarian also ahead
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Ysabel Jurado leads Councilmember Kevin de León; Hutt and Nazarian also ahead

LA Times  

Ysabel Jurado, running for Los Angeles City Council District 14, dances with supporters at her Election Night Party at block party in Highland Park. Tenants rights attorney Ysabel Jurado opened up a significant lead over Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León on Tuesday in the race to represent an Eastside district, according to early returns. twitter facebook envelope angle-double-right …

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Column: The real problem with L.A. Latino politics isn’t City Council boundaries
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: The real problem with L.A. Latino politics isn’t City Council boundaries

LA Times  

Los Angeles Councilmember Kevin de León and then-Council President Nury Martinez confer at a City Council meeting on Oct. 4, 2022. It’s been nearly two years since a secretly recorded conversation featuring Los Angeles political heavyweights rocked City Hall — and really, what has changed? But Gil Cedillo — who claimed on the recording that the three City Council districts …

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Frustration builds as Mayor Bass cuts local voices on L.A.’s harbor commission
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Frustration builds as Mayor Bass cuts local voices on L.A.’s harbor commission

LA Times  

Former Los Angeles harbor commissioner Diane Middleton inside City Hall on Friday. Middleton, a retired lawyer, said her mission was to represent both the community and port’s workforce — which meant posing difficult questions to harbor department staffers. “She protected our communities,” said Gary Herrera, president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 13, which represents more than 10,000 workers, …

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Editorial: Kevin de León’s campaign finance shell game gives career politicians a bad name
4 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: Kevin de León’s campaign finance shell game gives career politicians a bad name

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León has $3 million in a campaign account he created several years ago for a possible run for lieutenant governor. De León is prohibited from transferring money from his state committee into his city reelection campaign committee, Times reporters Dakota Smith and David Zahniser explained. So far, he’s transferred $600,000 to the Kevin de …

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City Council boosts copper wire theft crackdown with $200,000. Critics call it a waste
4 months, 2 weeks ago

City Council boosts copper wire theft crackdown with $200,000. Critics call it a waste

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci Park looks at wire as Councilmember Kevin de León speaks on a recent copper theft bust in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Council has dedicated an additional $200,000 toward the copper wire task force, tripling the funds focused on curtailing the theft of metal from public infrastructure. Peter Brown, Councilmember Kevin De León’s communications …

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Kevin de León seeks to rename Pershing Square for Biddy Mason, ex-slave and unsung L.A. hero
6 months ago

Kevin de León seeks to rename Pershing Square for Biddy Mason, ex-slave and unsung L.A. hero

LA Times  

A rendering shows Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles after a planned renovation is complete. On Wednesday, De León announced he intends to rename Pershing Square after Biddy Mason, who was born into slavery and won her freedom in court and became a philanthropist and unsung hero of Los Angeles, founding the city’s First African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of …

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Biden, Obama raise more than $30 million at glitzy L.A. event
6 months, 1 week ago

Biden, Obama raise more than $30 million at glitzy L.A. event

LA Times  

President Biden speaks with former President Obama during Saturday night’s fundraiser. “We’re trying to give ordinary people a chance, just a chance.” Obama added that Biden had built upon their policies when he was president and Biden was vice president, such as expanding access to the Affordable Care Act and increasing funding for efforts to stop climate change. “One of …

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The battle over L.A.’s ‘no encampment’ zones gets more intense
9 months, 2 weeks ago

The battle over L.A.’s ‘no encampment’ zones gets more intense

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. “41.18 is a failed policy that has only made our homelessness crisis worse.” Horvath, who represents parts of the Westside and San Fernando Valley, made those assertions amid an already hot debate over a memo, issued by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, sharply criticizing 41.18. …

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Despite scandal, the race for Kevin de León’s seat has been lacking in fireworks
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Despite scandal, the race for Kevin de León’s seat has been lacking in fireworks

LA Times  

Nearly 15 months ago, the Los Angeles City Council chamber was a turbulent place to conduct business, a byproduct of a scandal centering heavily on Councilmember Kevin de León. “We want Ysabel to be elected because she’s the best candidate for the district.” Councilmember Kevin de León greets people at a food distribution event outside his Eagle Rock office in …

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Column: You said you were the anti-De León, Wendy. You’re more like a disappointment
1 year, 1 month ago

Column: You said you were the anti-De León, Wendy. You’re more like a disappointment

LA Times  

The L.A. politics chisme mill flooded my phone with texts and calls this morning. Not the candidate for the L.A. City Council 14th District seat held by Kevin de León in a race that’s roiling Eastside politics. Considered one of De León’s two main challengers, her arrest will inevitably launch a sea of “Wino Wendy” opposition mailers from now until …

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Opinión: ¿Qué significaría para Los Ángeles el regreso de Kevin de León?
1 year, 2 months ago

Opinión: ¿Qué significaría para Los Ángeles el regreso de Kevin de León?

LA Times  

El concejal Kevin de León, que se presenta a la reelección, saluda fuera de su oficina en Los Ángeles el 21 de septiembre. “Por culpa de gente como Kevin, la gente ha perdido la fe en nuestra democracia”, me dijo, y añadió que la consecuencia ha sido una baja participación electoral en el distrito. Pero los negros serán los siguientes …

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‘Completely destroyed’: Nury Martinez talks about the leaked recording and her life today
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Completely destroyed’: Nury Martinez talks about the leaked recording and her life today

LA Times  

In Nury Martinez’s first interview since a leaked audio that prompted her resignation from City Hall, the former Los Angeles City Council president said that her comments were not intended to be racist, and that the scandal has left her and her family “completely destroyed.” During the interview with LAist, Martinez said that on the day the audio became public, …

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Kevin de León says he deserves another chance. Critics say he’s ‘gaslighting’ L.A.
1 year, 2 months ago

Kevin de León says he deserves another chance. Critics say he’s ‘gaslighting’ L.A.

LA Times  

The crowd applauded the moment Kevin de León walked up. “We decided that we were going to show him what 25 Black people yelling sounded like,” said Abdullah, who estimated that on one night, the crowd near De León’s home reached 700. “This community deserves that.” :: Councilmember Kevin de León, standing in the council chamber last month, said he …

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‘Ain’t a damn thing changed.’ Black L.A. skeptical a year after racist audio leak that roiled City Hall
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Ain’t a damn thing changed.’ Black L.A. skeptical a year after racist audio leak that roiled City Hall

LA Times  

Protesters pack City Hall last year demanding that no meetings be held until Councilmembers Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo resign. “You don’t climb to the top of office without being so dirty and brash and putting down a certain group of people,” Brewer said. I can’t afford to be negative.” Since the audio recorded at the labor federation headquarters …

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Column: A year after the City Hall tape leak, where will Latino political power in L.A. go?
1 year, 2 months ago

Column: A year after the City Hall tape leak, where will Latino political power in L.A. go?

LA Times  

On a Tuesday morning in the fall of 1998, I waited in line at a polling precinct at Manzanita Park in Anaheim. “If we focus on that, we’ll just continue to circle the wagons and not advance anywhere.” Fernando Guerra, director for the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, has tracked the rise of Latino …

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Los Angeles Council Member Embroiled In Racist Audio Scandal To Run Again
1 year, 3 months ago

Los Angeles Council Member Embroiled In Racist Audio Scandal To Run Again

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Kevin de León, one of the Los Angeles City Council members caught up in an audio-recorded racist conversation with other public officials last year, revealed Wednesday that he’s running for reelection. And that’s why I’m running.” De León was one of four city officials secretly recorded in the notorious conversation released by The Los Angeles Times last …

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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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In downtown L.A., Bass’ plan to clear encampments faces crime, addiction and resistance
1 year, 6 months ago

In downtown L.A., Bass’ plan to clear encampments faces crime, addiction and resistance

LA Times  

David Ruther, who lives in a tent in downtown Los Angeles, says he turned down the offer of a hotel room from homelessness outreach workers. Since she took office, Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe initiative has moved more than 1,200 homeless people off the street in Venice, North Hollywood, Del Rey, Beverly Grove and about a dozen other L.A. neighborhoods. …

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LAPD widens investigation into source of racist City Hall leak
1 year, 11 months ago

LAPD widens investigation into source of racist City Hall leak

LA Times  

Information obtained by Los Angeles police from search warrants served on Twitter and Reddit has led detectives to additional investigative avenues as they work to uncover who recorded a meeting between three L.A. City Council members and a labor leader that was filled with racist and offensive comments, according to court documents and sources. The LAPD’s Major Crimes Division focused …

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Column: Even if Kevin de León won’t resign, activists have a plan. ‘We’re never letting this go.’
2 years ago

Column: Even if Kevin de León won’t resign, activists have a plan. ‘We’re never letting this go.’

LA Times  

Embattled Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León sits alone at a meeting at City Hall on Tuesday after his colleagues walked out in protest of his attendance. On a recent afternoon, a small group of activists showed up outside Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León’s field office in El Sereno. California Bass’ emergency homelessness declaration approved during tumultuous …

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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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