Update: Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera submitted his resignation to the federation’s executive board on Monday evening, as reported by the L.A. Times. The exit c…
, fellow councilmembers Kevin De Leon and Gil Cedillo and Herrera that was secretly recorded and posted to Reddit.
On the recordings, Martinez, who represents part of the San Fernando Valley, can be heard calling Bonin “a little bitch” and saying his toddler needed a “beatdown.” Several councilmembers called for Martinez to step down as president, while Bonin, Nithya Raman and Paul Koretz said she should resign from the council entirely. “Racist, homophobic, and deeply cruel statements like these are disqualifying for elected office in L.A.,” Raman wrote on Twitter.
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