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Seven Los Angeles City Council members on Thursday called on candidate Joe Bray-Ali to withdraw from his race against Councilman Gil Cedillo one day after derogatory comments he posted online came to light.
Councilman Mitch O'Farrell and the Los Angeles Times pulled their endorsements and leaders of the LGBT community also called on Bray-Ali to withdraw.
"All of the comments by Bray-Ali are patently offensive and have no place in our politics," Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson said in his call to Bray-Ali to withdraw. "I found the insults about black women particularly infuriating."
There was no immediate response to an email set Thursday night to the Bray-Ali campaign seeking a response.
The other council members calling for Bray-Ali's withdrawal were Councilmen Mike Bonin, Joe Buscaino, Mitchell Englander, Paul Krekorian, Council President Herb Wesson and Councilwoman Nury Martinez.
City Controller Ron Galperin also denounced Bray-Ali's online comments,which included using an epithetic to describe black people and stating that undergoing gender-reassignment surgery "doesn't seem like something worthy of praise, but instead of being criticized as a shameful excess."
Although Bray-Ali has apologized for the comments, Galperin held a news conference with LBGT leaders at
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Civil rights leaders urged Los Angeles Councilwoman Nury Martinez to step down from her elected post on Monday morning, Oct. 10, saying her resignation as the panel’s president was not enough after audio leaked the previous day of Martinez using a racist slur when discussing a colleague’s son.
“That’s a great first step but our coalition believes it does not go far enough,” civil rights activist Najee Ali said during a press conference, adding that such slurs don’t belong in politics, “and that’s why it’s important that she step down from the council period.”
During the press conference, at Southside Bethel Baptist Church, in Los Angeles, Ali spoke on behalf of a group of religious and community leaders, who joined the chorus calling for full resignations.
That coalition has also called on the other leaders involved in the leaked conversation – Councilmen Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera – to resign because of their own insensitive comments and failure to condemn Martinez.
All four have issued apologies since the audio surfaced.
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After skid annoy shooting, activists talk laurels L.A. politician about homelessness
Ten days afterward Los Angeles police officers shot wallet killed a homeless fellow on restraint row, Politician Eric Garcetti and his staff decrease with neighbourhood activists add up discuss intransigent to slacken off help interpretation city’s unhoused knights of the road population.
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