As former L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti prepares to move India as U.S. ambassador, the allegations involving an aide that held up his nomination remain unresolved, with a trial scheduled later this year.
The U.S. Senate’s 52-42 approval gives the longtime politician the opportunity to relaunch his career overseas, although theA trial is scheduled for later this year in a
“I don’t know if this is a vindication so much as it is a victory,” Levinson said. “He becoming an ambassador to India just means that there was the political will to move this nomination forward.” “It’s an amazing group of people who have been in this job before,” said Bill Carrick, the political consultant who helped Garcetti win the mayor’s seat in 2013. “So this is quite an extraordinary place to be.”
Guerra said that Garcetti can “take a kind of sabbatical from electoral politics but he can still remain in the game for the longer run with this kind of high-profile appointment.”
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