Councilmember Heather Hutt is receiving the most grassroots support to be Council District 10 representative. She is the first woman to represent CD 10, the only Black woman on the current City Council and only the third Black woman to serve on the Council in the history of the city.
L.A. City Council President Pro Tem Curren Price has endorsed Marisa Alcaraz for Council District 6. Alcaraz currently serves as Price’s environmental policy director and deputy chief of staff and is vying for the seat left vacant by former Council President Nury Martinez. A special election is scheduled for April 4.
Deaconess Jacquelyn “Jackie” Marie Snead, who demonstrated a life of dedication to God and service to others, passed away on January 28. She was 90-years-old.
The Los Angeles City Hall has a dirty little secret that goes well beyond the leaked audio files of the now fallen former and current City Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Kevin De León and Gil Cedillo.
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles (BLMLA) has pitched their tents in front of disgraced Los Angeles Councilmember Kevin De León’s Eagle Rock home.
Last week, a recording anonymously posted on the social media site Reddit rocked the Los Angeles City Council. On the recording, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Hererra, City Council President Nury Martinez (District 6), and City Council members Kevin de León (District 14) and Gilbert Cedillo (District 1) can be heard discussing redistricting using crass terms and divisive, racist language.
The Los Angeles City Council elected Councilman Paul Krekorian as the new president of the City Council replacing Councilwoman Nury Martinez, who resigned first as president of the City Council and then from her position elected representative of Council District 6 following the release of audio tapes of racist, homophobic and hateful remarks and plotting against her colleagues and other residents throughout the city.
Racist, anti-Black, and homophobic rants lead to the downfall of four of Los Angeles’ most powerful Latino leaders Sunday October 9, 2022 was unlike very few Sundays in the political history of Los Angeles. The L.A. Times and the LA Knock obtained and reported secretly taped audio conversations between then-Council President Nury Martinez (who resigned her post as president of the Los Angeles City Council on Monday, October 10, and then announced that she would be taking a leave of absence from the council on Tuesday, October 11), Councilman Gil Cedillo, Councilman Kevin de León and Los Angeles
On the evening of Oct. 10, L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price held a candlelight vigil to bring healing to the City of L.A. and demand the immediate resignations of L.A. City Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo. It was a beautiful gesture brought out of extreme darkness. The event was held in response to the leaked audio release featuring the three Latino Councilmembers who were caught saying racist and cruel statements against Councilmember Mike Bonin and his young son, who is Black. Unaware of being recorded, the Councilmembers alongside Ron Herrera, then-head of the L.A.