Two of those responsible have submitted their resignation for the derogatory comments made while Biden demands the resignation of the rest of those involved
In June 2016, Hillary Clinton defeated Bernie Sanders in the California primary, emerging as the Democratic Party’s nominee to face Donald Trump. That’s despite the state seething with enthusiasm for the socialist senator from Vermont, while Hispanics in union T-shirts crowded into the Clintons’ rallies, often bused in.
It was enough to look at then-state senator Kevin de León and his friends from the political and union world backstage at the Plaza de los Mariachis in Los Angeles to imagine them in a smoke-filled room dividing the cake of power and laughing contemptuously at their rivals. But as the informant who posted an hour-long recording of their conversations on Reddit last Sunday wrote, “we all imagined that the unions slept with the councillors, but it is one thing to imagine it and another to hear it.”
The conversation, which occurred a year ago, has caused a political earthquake in Los Angeles, where the president of the Los Angeles County Labor Federation, Ron Herrera, resigned on Monday and Councilwoman Nury Martínez resigned on Wednesday. His racist comments towards blacks and indigenous people were not inconvenient for Herrera to promise to get them elected.
She was accompanied in laughter by two other councilors, De León and Gil Cedillo, whose resignation has been requested by the Los Angeles Times with the unanimous support of important Democrats, including the mayor of Los Angeles, the state governor and even Joe Biden. . “The president is glad to see that one of the participants in that conversation has resigned, but everyone should do so,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said without hesitation, calling the language used “unacceptable” and “horrifying”
As the clan agreed to “massage” the redistribution of the electoral map to serve their interests, Martinez called rival councilman Mike Bonin a “little whore,” whose three-year-old adopted son, an African-American, he said “has a face.” de changuito» (little pig), and described him as a monkey clinging to the bars of the floats in which they had paraded for Martin Luther King Day. “It makes you want to tell your mother, leave it to me for a moment so I can take it to the corner (to beat it up), I’ll give it back to you right now,” he laughed. “She’s got it hanging from her arm like it’s your Louis Vuitton bag,” De León joked.
Who knows what village these people come from?
If that and other racist comments have horrified the country, the contempt with which he refers to the Oaxacan population that lives in the Korea Town district has hurt the bulk of its constituents, in a city in which almost 50% of residents identify as Hispanic. “I see a lot of dark and short people there, who knows what village these people come from and how they got here. They are so ugly… they are horrible », he says in Spanglish.
De León, who has been a spokesman for the California Legislative Assembly and a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, is reluctant to resign with a statement in which he regrets “it seems that he condoned his words.” The scandal is added to that of other councilors, such as Jose Huizar, Mark Rindley Thomas and Mitchell Englander, indicted for fraud, corruption, and bribery, which has led the main California newspaper to ask that they make way for “a new generation of Latinos to represent the city with honor.
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