The committee also approved a proposal to 'transparently and expeditiously explore all options' for what representation could look like for the district if Price is suspended.
After more than 90 minutes of impassioned testimony, a Los Angeles City Council committee Friday tapped the brakes on the effort to suspend Councilmember Curren Price, postponing a recommendation until at least the end of August.10 felony counts in a case that partly involves votes he cast on affordable housing projects developed by companies that employed Price’s wife as a consultant.
Price said he was pleased with the committee’s decision, noting that he has “not yet had the opportunity to answer the unwarranted charges” against him in court. “If Councilman Curren Price is presumed innocent until proven guilty, that means that you would be suspending an innocent person,” Pastor Shep Crawford of the Experience Christian Ministries told the committee.
Unite Here Local 11 Co-President Kurt Petersen addresses the City Council rules committee on Friday in support of Councilmember Curren Price. Several called the charges “bogus” or raised concerns about their “flimsiness,” with some drawing distinctions between Price’s case and those of other council members who were charged with corruption in recent years.
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