Calls are intensifying for LA City Councilmembers Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo to quit for their part in a racist backroom discussion about how to benefit themselves.
One day after former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez resigned, acting City Council President Mitch O’Farrell on Thursday, Oct. 13 canceled the City Council’s scheduled Friday meeting, and urged council members Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Leon to step down for their roles in a leaked conversation with Martinez that was filled with racist remarks.
Former Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick, who has been observing the scandal closely, said she wasn’t surprised that the two council members are holding onto power despite the intense pressure to quit. And part of that reason, she says, is money. Chick said De Leon and Cedillo “don’t quite understand that they actually did something very wrong and it wasn’t just horrific comments. It’s a whole way of doing business behind closed doors, away from the public that they serve.”
The secret recording captured a conversation between the three city leaders and a labor union leader, in which Martinez made racist remarks and derogatory comments about City Councilman Mike Bonin’s toddler, who is Black, calling him a “little monkey” in Spanish and saying he needed a “beat down.” And they discussed how the city’s redistricting efforts, a highly politicized process in which city council districts are redrawn, could benefit them.
“It’s a little surprising, quite frankly, because what our jobs are is to put our personal feelings and our personal ambitions and our egos to the side as elected officials and do what’s best for this city,” he said.
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