She was part of the team that was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist in breaking news for work covering a fatal shooting on the set of the film Rust. Previously, she was the author of the Essential California newsletter. "I think that Mr. Cedillo has to answer for why petty crime is how he thinks he's going to win this seat.". [15] Chu defeated Cedillo with 15,338 votes (31.9%) to Cedillo's 11,244 votes (23.4%). Hernandez, a long-time resident of District 1, has led the ballot count for the last several days. Times staff writer Kevin Rector contributed to this report. For more primary day election results, click here. I kept thinking of what my life would be like if I were 12, 13, 14 years old. Vasquez, who signed the no new cops pledge, said she would support hiring enough officers to keep the department at its authorized strength of 9,706, the number backed by the council last year. [22], In 2005, Cedillo authored SB60, another driver's license bill. Warmer storms could cause problems, 19 cafes that make L.A. a world-class coffee destination, The chance of a lifetime: Five friends ski the tallest mountain in Los Angeles, Shocking, impossible gas bills push restaurants to the brink of closures, Im visiting all 600 L.A. spots on the National Register. (Not all Cedillo stripped low-income units from a 725-unit project in Chinatown, saying the area had enough affordable housing.) The electorate is complicated. Soto-Martinez is looking to unseat Councilman Mitch OFarrell in Hollywood. Undocumented immigrants in the process of becoming legal residents, and citizens considered to have authorized presence but not legal permanent residency status, are known as people residing under the color of the law. Two days after losing her bid to unseat Councilman Mitch OFarrell in 2017, Jessica Salans and a handful of campaign volunteers gathered in a rented office above a Thai restaurant in East Hollywood to regroup. Abcarian: Mask mandates? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. He left office on December 12, 2022. If people go to Target or Rite Aid, they dont want to be there when someone is smashing and grabbing.. Ousting a City Council incumbent has historically been a little like snow in Los Angeles not impossible, but exceedingly rare. Hernandez said that, if elected, she would not vote to hire any additional LAPD officers. This year, Ground Game members are helping lead progressive campaigns challenging incumbents in two City Council districts. 65.109.71.124 Former Los Angeles City Councilmember Gil Cedillo, shown in 2019. The 1,143-word document is the first time Cedillo has talked extensively about the incident. I would be at home with [unreliable] internet with my little brother, overseeing his Zoom school too as Im trying to do my own work.. The population of District 1 is nearly two-thirds Latino, but some areas have seen wealthier, white residents move in. 11:43 a.m. March 3, 2022Meghan Choi served as field director for the 2017 Salans campaign, not campaign manager. Hernandez, 32, campaigned on stronger renter protections and called for funds to be shifted away from the Los Angeles Police Department and into other services, such as housing and mental health specialists. When told that the term was offensive to disabled people, she re-recorded the song with new lyrics. You decide whether you want to take your diabetes medicine. Last year, he succeeded in moving about $90 million out of the department and into job programs, anti-gang initiatives, a guaranteed income program and other community services. [citation needed] The bill allows drivers without a license who are stopped at checkpoints to have a licensed driver retrieve the vehicle and thereby avoid having the vehicle impounded for 30 days. It is rare for City Council members to endorse someone running against an incumbent. - Free Online Library", "Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. - Newsroom", "Gov. Your IP: Cedillo participated in Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA). The LAPD now has 9,371 officers, down from about 10,000 in 2020. Council District 1 has some of L.A.s most deadly streets, yet he voted against the citys Mobility Plan to make the car-dominated streets safer and more inviting for pedestrians, bicyclists and transit. Atty.] [16], Following his failed bid for U.S. Congress, Cedillo was elected to the California State Assembly's 45th District seat in 2010. If you do all that, he said during a recent candidate forum, crime is going to drop so drastically that the rest of it is just going to be up to us, to figure out how to keep each other safe.. When four Latino leaders held a meeting to discuss Los Angeles' City Council boundaries last year, one in the group acted at points as the political elder in the room, a now-infamous audio recording revealed. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Tapia said he was at home when it all went down but didn't realize what was happeninguntil the SUV took off. He also notes that he has had African American friends and mentors my entire life, from sports and school to politics., He argues that the way the media covered the leak scandal isnt how the media covers other racially insensitive conversations, comparing the October 2021 conversation which included racist comments about a council members young Black son with now-Mayor Karen Bass making some regrettable comments in a debate.. This was her first time on the . Just hours after his City Council term ended, Gil Cedillo released a three-page letter Monday titled Why I Did Not Resign, in which he shares his thoughts about the racist conversation and leak scandal that tarred his final months in office. Editorial: Los Angeles County bus riders get no shelter from the storm. Julia Wick is a Metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering City Hall and the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election. All rights reserved. [citation needed], Cedillo attended Lorena Street and Euclid Avenue Elementary, Stevenson Junior High and Roosevelt High. I think it is unusual in the city of L.A. to have this many challengers who are getting the traction that they are. Earlier, the comments in the roughly hourlong audio veered into divisive and racist remarks. "There's no leadership in the Housing Committee," Hernandez charged this month in the Zoom forum. California Gil Cedillo, a champion for immigrant rights, imperiled by racist leak scandal Oct. 15, 2022 His spokesperson, Conrado TerrazasCross, did not respond when asked why Cedillo chose. "While I did not engage in the conversation in question, I was present at times during this meeting last year. ", Fernando Guerra, a professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University, when asked specifically about Cedillo's comments, said, "It's not appropriate to discuss any group by their physical traits. [20] Senator Cedillo agreed to repeal the law he wrote under the agreement with the Governor to work on a bipartisan bill. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times. Opinion: Why does Mexicos president want to dismantle the democratic system that elected him? Here are 10 you cant miss, Woman in her 70s found stabbed to death in Lake Forest home, Yosemite breaks decades-old snowfall record, closing national park indefinitely, San Diego federal judge had defendants 13-year-old daughter handcuffed. It is my instinct to hold others accountable when they use derogatory or racially divisive language. Its cancel culture at its worst, and this kid from Boyle Heights never resigned.. Here are the L.A. Times editorial board endorsements for elected offices in Los Angeles city and county, LAUSD, superior court, statewide offices, the state legislature and U.S. House and Senate seats. The three incumbents backed a $150-million reduction to Mayor Eric Garcettis police budget in 2020, only to favor an increase a year later. [23] Again, Schwarzenegger refused to sign the bill, on the grounds that it did not satisfy his security concerns. Life is stressful. The number of candidates in OFarrells race increases the likelihood that the group will siphon away votes to force the councilman into a November runoff. Eunisses Hernandez, a 32-year-old activist who ousted two-term Councilmember Gil Cedillo in the June primary, is not scheduled to take over his seat until December. And in the City Council elections, every district has its own idiosyncratic issues, Yaroslavsky said. Cedillo worked for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU Local 660), Los Angeles County's largest union, where he served as general manager from 1990 to 1996. Cedillo prides himself on negotiating with developers to set a certain number of affordable units at least 20%, he said in market-rate projects. With the election just weeks away, L.A. City Controller Ron Galperin affirmed his support for Cedillo. But Soto-Martinez offered a more muted response during a candidate forum hosted by groups in the Windsor Square area. After a man burst in with a gun, a San Francisco synagogue confronts hate, 19 cafes that make L.A. a world-class coffee destination, The chance of a lifetime: Five friends ski the tallest mountain in Los Angeles, Shocking, impossible gas bills push restaurants to the brink of closures, Im visiting all 600 L.A. spots on the National Register. Hernandez is running against Councilman Gil Cedillo on the Eastside. But in a political arena where neighborhood-level discourse has typically dominated over big-picture ideology, former L.A. Councilman and county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky warned against painting with too broad a brush, particularly in regard to how increased turnout may affect election outcomes. Los Angeles City Council members Gil Cedillo, Bob Blumenfield, Monica Rodriguez and Curren Price were on track to secure another term as primary results continued to come in Wednesday, while. They were moved to even-numbered years in 2020, aligning with national and state races and reshaping the local electorate. TerrazasCross did not respond when asked whether that line in the letter was a reference to Bass suggesting that Rick Caruso, her opponent in the mayoral race, paid for the endorsement of a local Latino Democratic club comments for which she later apologized. We agree that L.A. should divert officers away from jobs that are unsuited to their skills. City Councilmember Gil Cedillo, 68, stepped in to guide the discussion among himself, Councilmembers Nury Martinez and Kevin De Len, and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor leader Ron. Nowhere is the array of views on public safety as vast as in OFarrells district, which takes in such areas as Silver Lake and Atwater Village. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Woman in her 70s found stabbed to death in Lake Forest home, Yosemite breaks decades-old snowfall record, closing national park indefinitely, San Diego federal judge had defendants 13-year-old daughter handcuffed. Now, all three are running for Los Angeles City Council in the June 7 election, looking to unseat a trio of incumbents who have served on the body for nearly a decade. A version of the bill was finally signed into law after Cedillo was termed out of office. "Privileged powerful people stopping business from being conducted at City Hall is a gut punch, Harris said. He was formally censured by the City Council in a unanimous 12-0 vote on October 26. I just focus on the work and delivering services as a council member like I always have and focusing on a public service agenda and not a political agenda, OFarrell said. With no name recognition, little money and no paid staff, Salans placed third in a primary that OFarrell won outright with 59% of the vote. Hernandez who co-chaired a successful county ballot measure campaign in 2020 to steer more county money to social services and jail diversion programs said that more than one local elected official urged her to be a good girl and not oppose a longtime councilman who would be unseated in four years by term limits. The county Federation of Labor identified new Latino voters, sending them mailers that Cedillo was the Democrat that Pete Wilson feared most.". Sitting council members will still have strong advantages in the primary, but the near-invincible protection of incumbency may be eroding. On the issue of the LAPD, a much sharper contrast can be found between the two candidates running to represent the heavily Latino 1st District, which stretches from Highland Park south to Pico-Union. Cedillo filed a claim in December 2010 with the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board seeking back pay for what he maintains were illegal pay and benefit cuts. In 2011, Cedillo authored a pair of assembly bills to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain financial aid for universities through both private and public sources. Now hes under review, Blizzard conditions close major highways and roads in Lake Tahoe area, I-5 closed through Grapevine as last wave of winter storm hits Southern California. ", Communications consultant Helen Sanchez, who first worked with Cedillo in the late 1980s on then-presidential candidate Michael Dukakis' campaign, said the lesson is that "we need to speak up when someone is saying terrible things, even if they are our friends. In the wake of Ramans 2020 win, some see a shift. Why are we still having these debates? "We have more members on the council. Cedillo also writes extensively about how Black and Latino interests have both figured into his personal history, citing his leadership of the Service Employees International Union Local 660 at a time when it had more African American members than any other union in L.A. and his support of Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama as a Democratic Party convention delegate. citizens. Thats not expected in South L.A.s 9th District, where Price, a two-term incumbent, is facing a vigorous challenge from Vasquez. Cedillo's description of the rise in Latino power matched his own path to City Hall. [18] Cedillo served as chairman of California's Latino Congressional Caucus. ), Inside the room: The entire L.A. City Council racist audio leak, annotated by our experts, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, 19 cafes that make L.A. a world-class coffee destination, The chance of a lifetime: Five friends ski the tallest mountain in Los Angeles, Shocking, impossible gas bills push restaurants to the brink of closures, Im visiting all 600 L.A. spots on the National Register. Shes one of several candidates who have called for the defunding of law enforcement. Hugo Soto-Martnez, a candidate for L.A. City Council challenging incumbent Councilman Mitch OFarrell, talks to residents at the East Hollywood neighborhood farmers market Thursday. Each of them voted last year to study the idea of moving traffic enforcement away from armed officers, although progress on that has been slow. He has argued in favor of eliminating the entire $3-billion police budget, with the proceeds going to social workers, mental health and antipoverty programs. We're in a different spot now than we were 25 years ago. Thats good. When he walked onto the council floor Tuesday, the first day the body convened since the explosive audio was leaked, he was met with shouts of Resign, Gil! from the audience. Eunisses Hernandez is running for L.A. City Council District 1. Latinos make up about half of the citys population, but at the time of the conversation held just four of 15 council seats. LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Former City Councilman Gil Cedillo, who defied widespread calls to resign over his participation in a racist 2021 conversation that attempted to manipulate the city's. Should any of the challengers succeed, they could find themselves in an unlikely position in four years time: running as incumbent members of one of the most powerful local legislative bodies in the country. 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