'Whichever candidate becomes mayor will have no choice but to navigate this very polarized, but still very delicate environment,' writes Erika_D_Smith.
For one last time before ballots start arriving in mailboxes for the November election, mayoral candidates Karen Bass and Rick Caruso will meet on stageI hope they are prepared. Like, really and truly prepared. Because Angelenos haven’t been this desperate for fair, moral and trustworthy leadership in decades.
Secretly recorded audio of a conversation they had last year, uploaded to Reddit and revealed by my Times colleagues over the weekend, is full of bigoted “jokes” and half-baked plots to take Black political power and give it to Latinos.Of course, their racist words landed in diverse Los Angeles like a bomb, widening existing fissures over race and power into canyons, especially among Black Angelenos.At L.A. City Hall, Nury Martinez has been known as a blunt speaker.
It’s why in every statement her campaign has put out about the leaked audio — including one on Monday calling on Martinez, Cedillo, De León and Herrera to resign — says some version of the following: “For more than 30 years, I have built alliances between Los Angeles’ Black and Latino communities to increase our people’s health, safety and prosperity.”
Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, left, and Los Angeles City Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson speak during a news conference on Monday in Inglewood on ,council President Nury Martinez’s racist comments made public Sunday.
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