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LA City Councilmembers react to De Leó n' s refusal to resign
10/21/2022 6:00:00 AM LA City Councilmembers react to De Leó n' s refusal to resign
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LA City Councilmembers react to De León's refusal to resign Mike Bonin, Joe Buscaino and Bob Blumenfield all called on Kevin de León to reconsider, nearly 24 hours after he revealed his plans to remain on LA City Council despite his involvement in a racist scandal. , despite his participation in a racially-charged conversation back in Oct. 2021, fellow City Councilmembers have come forward to express their disappointment in his decision. "I have to do the hard work. I have to repair. I have to help heal. I have to help restore," the councilman said during an exclusive interview with CBS2's Tom Wait on Wednesday. Those councilmembers are just a few of the many Los Angeles residents outraged at his refusal to resign in the wake of an audio leak that revealed de León, Gil Cedillo, then-Council President Nury Martinez and LA Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera involved in a conversation where a number of racist comments were hurled around. Read more:
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The headline should read “mikebonin forgets to try and govern and milks this for all its fucking worth” Karen Bass was the other woman on the float, whom Nury Martinez twice mentioned by name in the recording with regard to the supposed impromtu attempt to parent the two-year old. Gee, it's strange you would choose to omit that detail.😂 “My life has taught me that we’re all fragile and that we all fall down...we need to lift each other up.' -Mike Bonin Aug 2021 Waiting for MikeBonin to lift up Kevin DeLeon to show us all his words are ever anything more than a political ploy. California man who sat in Mike Pence’s chair during Capitol riot sentenced to prisonAfter leaving the Capitol, Christian Alexander Secor boasted on Twitter that “One day accomplished more for conservatism than the last 30 years.” Two days later, he deleted his Twitter account. 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De León and Gil Cedillo both attended a raucous Los Angeles City Council meeting in the days after the recording was made public earlier this month, but departed after a conversation with their colleagues. I have to repair.m. I have to help heal. The once-a-decade process can pit one group against another to gain political advantage in future elections. I have to help restore," the councilman said during an exclusive interview with CBS2's Tom Wait on Wednesday . Some unexpected factor may interfere and reverse the demand and adoption trends related to BTC, but McGlone. Those councilmembers are just a few of the many Los Angeles residents outraged at his refusal to resign in the wake of an audio leak that revealed de León, Gil Cedillo, then-Council President Nury Martinez and LA Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera involved in a conversation where a number of racist comments were hurled around." Martinez also called the child"ese changuito,'' Spanish for"that little monkey. Capitol during the Jan. In the weeks since the audio was leaked to the public, Martinez and Herrera have offered their resignations, but Cedillo and De León have refused to bend to the public's will. Some people have even camped out near de León's Eagle Rock home, hoping that their demonstrations will lend some insight into how his constituents truly feel with his blatant disregard to their feelings."Mike Bonin won't f---ing ever say peep about Latinos. Moments after the interview with de León was first aired on CBS2, Councilman Mike Bonin, whose family was specifically targeted during the conversation, with his Black son being referred to as a"little monkey," to express his profound anger in De León's decision. In a 2020 Election Day text cited by prosecutors in court documents, Secor wrote, “We’re going to win bigly and if we don’t we’re taking this ship down in flames,” following up a day later by writing, “They’re cheating. On Thursday, he spoke with CBS and doubled down on that disappointment." De León also compared Bonin's handling of his son at the MLK Parade to"when Nury brings her little yard bag or the Louis Vuitton bag. "I was really disappointed and sort of disgusted by Kevin's comments," he said."He clearly doesn't get, I think, what he did and the gravity of what's going on. In the interview Wednesday with CBS Los Angeles, de León said he made a"flippant remark" that he should not have made. 5, 2021, Secor traveled to Washington D." Bonin wasn't the only LA City Councilmember to express their disappointment on Wednesday. "For the sake of his constituents and for the sake of the city, I wish and I call on him to resign," said Councilman Bob Blumenfield."They're a hell of a lot more than flippant. Blumenfield is just part of the entirety of City Council that have called for De León and Cedillo to step down from their seats.” A day later, Secor attended a “Stop the Steal” rally headlined by then-President Donald Trump before joining a mob in marching on the Capitol building, where congressional leaders were in the process of certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Some members have even threatened to skip out on council meetings until the pair have resigned. It was a horrible converstation. "I'm hearing from my colleagues that they will boycott the City Council meetings if he does shop up," said Councilman Joe Buscaino."This here is greater than Kevin. "I will not resign because there's a lot of work ahead," he to the TV station. He eventually made his way to the Senate Floor, where he sat in a seat that had been occupied by Pence, who had been forced to evacuate the building a half-hour earlier. We as a city need to advance our policy agenda and we can't have one person refuse to come in for us to do the people's work." As he continues to express his apology for his role in the scandal, De Leon disclosed that he called Bonin in the hours following the audio leak, leaving a profuse apology to his voicemail. The crisis that is happening in the district, the infections, the unemployment, the threat to eviction, the humanitarian crisis of the homeless. Bonin said that doesn't quite cut it. Secor’s attorney, Brandi Harden, wrote in a sentencing brief that Secor “will forever regret” his decision to enter the Capitol, adding that his life since has been “turned upside down. "He needs to seek an apology, at some point, from my son, and my son's too young to understand this, so Kevin's gotta wait about 10 years until the little boy who was hit by these words understands and has the capacity to make his own decision of forgiveness," Bonin said. Protesters have gathered outside de León's for several days, demanding his resignation. He said that if either De León or Cedillo show up for Friday's scheduled City Hall meeting, he'll walk out. . "Kevin de León cannot be part of the healing as long as he refuses to resign," Bonin tweeted., he had become disillusioned by the hysteria about a stolen election coming from social media and news channels,” the defense attorney wrote.