(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file) Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin DeLeon (CD-14) is not having a Happy Holiday. In October, a conversation of a secret meeting between DeLeon, his former Councilmembers Nury Martinez (CD-06) and Gil Cedillo (CD-01), and L.A. Labor Federation President Ron Herrera was leaked , where the councilmembers spouted racist and homophobic slurs directed at their colleague Mike Bonin (CD-11) and his Black adopted son, as well as crass remarks made about Black council districts in general, and certain indigenous citizens in particular.
In case you haven’t been keeping score, Herrera resigned from his position and Nury Martinez resigned her CD-06 council seat. Calls for the resignation of Cedillo and DeLeon have fallen on deaf ears, but both councilmen have not attended a council meeting since the October fallout due to the disruptive protesters calling for their unseating preventing council business from being conducted. Couple that with […]
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