Martinez had relinquished her leadership post on the City Council, although she resisted calls for her to leave the Council entirely. Herrera had resigned from the labor federation and Ms. News of the recording was first reported on Sunday by The Los Angeles Times by Monday night, Mr. Protesters gathered outside Los Angeles City Hall on Tuesday. Those were only two of the offensive comments in the 80-minute recording, which included ugly remarks describing recent migrants from the Mexican state of Oaxaca and disparaging remarks about the trustworthiness of white liberals and a councilwoman who is of South Asian descent. Bonin carries the child around like a designer handbag.
Martinez is heard comparing the Black child of Councilman Mike Bonin to a “changuito,” Spanish for little monkey, and joking with Mr. The recording was a conversation among Nury Martinez, the Council president Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León, council members and Ron Herrera, the leader of the powerful Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, that took place in October 2021 during intense negotiations over City Council redistricting. Over the decades, the assorted constituencies have tried to develop a coalition style of politics based on common interests in the heavily Democratic city, but, beneath that veneer, the reality often has been a quest for power and political spoils. Los Angeles is a kind of microcosm of the world its roughly four million residents speak a combined 200-plus languages at home. But it also highlighted the political impatience among leaders of the city’s largest ethnic group: Latinos, who make up roughly half of the city’s population but who hold only four of its 15 City Council seats. The recorded conversation involving some of Los Angeles’s top power brokers exposed the racial and ethnic factions that have come to dominate politics in California. “The language that was used and tolerated in that conversation was unacceptable, and it was appalling.” “He believes they should all resign,” Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said. President Biden on Tuesday called for the departure of the three council members in the nation’s second-largest city. Biden’s spokeswoman called the language used on the tape “unacceptable” and “appalling.” But she stopped short of resigning from the council, despite calls for her and the two other members to do so from Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles, both of the candidates running to replace him, President Biden and many other prominent Democratic officials. Martinez stepped down as council president on Monday and said on Tuesday that she would take a leave of absence. That official, Ron Herrera, resigned late Monday. Martinez with two other council members, Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León, and the head of one of Los Angeles County’s most powerful labor organizations. The remarks occurred during a meeting of Ms. She also called Oaxacan immigrants living in Koreatown “little short dark people.” In the profanity-laced recording, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times and which was first reported by The Los Angeles Times on Sunday, Councilwoman Nury Martinez, who is Latina, compared the Black child of a white council member to a “changuito,” Spanish for little monkey. Scores of angry protesters disrupted a council meeting as the episode exposed painful racial fault lines in the diverse and heavily Democratic city. LOS ANGELES - President Biden joined a growing chorus on Tuesday calling for the resignation of three Democratic politicians in the nation’s second-largest city, after a leaked audio recording revealed racist and disparaging remarks made by the City Council president in a meeting last year.
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