Three years after the October 2022 scandal in relation to the audio in which three councilors and a union leader were recorded in a private conversation making racist statements, where are the main characters involved.
Of Nury Martínez, the president of the Los Angeles Council who was forced to resign overnight, the only thing we know is that she continues to live in the San Fernando Valley; and some say she will eventually find placement as a political consultant; Ron Herrera, who was the president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, retired after the incident; Former councilor Gil Cedillo works as an advisor to the AltaMed health clinics and former councilor Kevin de León, it is known that he collaborates with a company of great renown and economic weight based in the Silicon Valley.
The City lost three great leaders in one fell swoop. They were replaced by Imelda Padilla, Eunisses Hernández and Ysabel Jurado.
Although the new Latino councilors won easily at the polls, none of them have the charisma, courage and stamina of Martínez, De León and Cedillo. Leaving aside the mistake made, at the time, they were very good leaders, even recognized internationally.
With the exception of Councilor Mónica Rodríguez, Padilla, Eunisses and Soto-Martínez are leaving us with a lot of responsibility as councilors, since so far they have given very few results.
It seems challenging
While Councilor Eunisses Hernández has about four challengers who will try to unseat her next year when she seeks her first re-election to office, her democratic socialist colleague, Hugo Soto-Martínez, has just had an opponent, and he is very close.
None other than his neighbor Colter Carlisle, vice president of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council wants to remove him from office. And not only do they live in the same housing complex, but Colter voted for Soto-Martínez to be a councilor in 2022. Hard to believe. However, the councilor’s positions on the housing issue in terms of greater access encouraged him, he says, to challenge his neighbor.
But how embarrassing it must be when they bump into each other in the laundry room when it’s time to wash their dirty clothes.
under fire
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is under fire as the Fair Practices Commission investigates his luxurious trips around the world, which even included an African Safari. The pleasure of traveling the world at the expense of taxpayers, arguing for work reasons, was made public in an investigation by the ABC television network of San Francisco.
Lara has made 48 trips around the globe since taking office in 2019, but why didn’t the Angeleno wait to make his trips around the world, once his responsibility was over? He went deep into the lion’s den, unnecessarily.
He won’t go to jail
The sentence given to the former vice mayor of Los Angeles on the security issue, Brian K. Williams, is totally ridiculous. He was sentenced to one year of probation for felony charges of making a false bomb threat at City Hall last year. He must pay a $5,000 fine and do 50 hours of community service.
Facing the possibility of spending ten years behind bars in federal prison, Williams signed a plea agreement last May in which he admitted to making the bomb threat while at his job as Mayor Bass’ deputy mayor. He attributed his foolish and dangerous action to his very nervous nerves.
Whatever the cause that led him to make a terrorist threat in his workplace, the sentence is laughable; And yes, he received a judge with incomprehensible empathy.