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This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. And in a closely watched race in South L.A., educator Dulce Vasquez is attempting to unseat Councilman Curren Price. Hernandez, who lives in Highland Park, said she supports more treatment facilities and safe consumption sites for drug users. David Zahniser covers Los Angeles City Hall for the Los Angeles Times. The county Federation of Labor identified new Latino voters, sending them mailers that Cedillo was the Democrat that Pete Wilson feared most.". Wick says that he is to the left of the incumbent . 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. Councilman Mitch OFarrell is being forced into a Nov. 8 runoff and is now trailing his opponent, labor organizer Hugo Soto-Martinez, in a district that takes in all or part of Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park and Atwater Village. But his record is mixed. Soto-Martnez, whose Prius has a custom LBRMVMT license plate, has spent most of his career organizing hotel workers and leading campaigns with Unite Here Local 11. Hernandez had 50.65% compared to Cedillos 49.35%. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Note: In District 1, Eunisses Hernandez, a community organizer, defeated longtime Councilmember Gil Cedillo outright in the June primary, with 54% of the vote to Cedillo's 46%. Cedillo received 71,199 votes, Ten received 18,581 votes, and Murray Levy, a Libertarian candidate, received 3,469 votes. Price has already played a role in shifting funds away from the LAPD. He ran for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council representing Council District 1 and was elected in 2013. 25). In 2004, Schwarzenegger vetoed AB2895, an identical bill to Senator Cedillo's SB1160 that stalled in the legislature, saying that it did not meet his security concerns. After winning a L.A. City Council seat in 2013, Cedillo won reelection in 2017 in a race that saw his opponent, Joe Bray-Ali, undone for making incendiary comments on a website with racist content. All these new people are going to be voting people whove historically voted in congressional and state elections who havent voted in city elections, said Pynoos, a former aide to Councilman Mike Bonin running against OFarrell. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. Cedillo, like Price and OFarrell, voted repeatedly over the past decade to increase the police budget, signing off on several raises for officers. On September 28, 2006, Cedillo was arrested along with approximately 200 others for blocking Century Blvd. 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. But to resign for staying silent, with no look at who said what in that room, and ignoring the totality of my work and history? Cedillo competed against Judy Chu, a former . That thing for us is to exercise our power.. [36][37] However, he lost to political newcomer, Eunisses Hernandez. A self-described Mexican American Jew who has a Black brother-in-law and a Black nephew, Harris said she was left shaking after hearing Martinez's suggestion of striking the young Black son of a white councilmember, and questioned why Cedillo didnt shut down the talk. [21] AB2895 was introduced to the legislature by one of Cedillo's closest allies, Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nez. involved with the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall promised by President Donald Trump before being able to work with the City of Los Angeles. "I think that Mr. Cedillo has to answer for why petty crime is how he thinks he's going to win this seat.". You cannot be dismissive of the crime thats taking place, said Cedillo, who lives downtown. (Madeleine Hordinski / Los Angeles Times), Meghan Choi served as field director for the 2017 Salans campaign, not campaign manager. A fourth participant, Councilmember Kevin de Len, remains in office. 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 Herrera, when the conversation strayed from the topic of the 15 City Council districts. 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. Cedillo didnt say anything else in the text, said David Graham-Caso, Bonin's deputy chief of staff. When Price won his first political campaign an Inglewood City Council race in 1993 it was at the expense of a three-term incumbent. We're in a different spot now than we were 25 years ago. Track SoCal rain with LIVE Megadoppler 7000 HD. Not long after the death of George Floyd in 2020, labor organizer Hugo Soto-Martinez protested at Echo Park Lake, where he and hundreds of others demanded cuts to the Los Angeles Police Department. ", I know Gilbert, I know hes not a racist, Sanchez said. 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 redistricting process,. 2017 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The electorate is complicated. (Image: Eric Kelly | Courtesy of the Eunisses Hernandez Campaign) On April 6, the Hillside Villa Tenants Association held a protest at Councilmember Gil Cedillo's field office, saying that Cedillo hadn't kept his . 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. Cedillo was already scheduled to step down Dec. 11 after community activist Eunisses Hernandez won the June primary in District 1. I kept thinking of what my life would be like if I were 12, 13, 14 years old. De Len and Cedillo have given no indication in recent days that they intend to resign in the aftermath of The Times reporting on the leaked audio, which was recorded during a meeting at the L.A . So unlike 25 years ago, we now have a Mexican in charge of the [county Federation of Labor]. Soto-Martinez said the city needs fewer officers and more mental health counselors, trained mediators and addiction specialists. He and his team got food distributed to needy residents, and COVID-19 testing and vaccinations in the community quickly. 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. Some think the realignment of the election calendar could radically alter the citys political landscape. Its cancel culture at its worst, and this kid from Boyle Heights never resigned.. She is a native Angeleno. Elected in 2013, Cedillo has had plenty of time to make big, impactful change on both the district and the city level particularly because hes chair of the City Councils Housing Committee. 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. 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. A member of the Democratic Party, Cedillo was previously a member of both the California State Assembly and the California State Senate. [29][30], Gil Cedillo ran for reelection in Council District 1 in Los Angeles. Only radical intervention can save juvenile justice, Commentary: L.A.s snowy mountains are a glorious, fleeting thing to behold. - Free Online Library", "Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. - Newsroom", "Gov. In 2001 and 2002 Governor Gray Davis vetoed two of Cedillo's bills that would have permitted this. [3] His father worked as a mechanic at American Can in Vernon and was a member of the United Steelworkers of America. He assumed office in 2013. Vasquez is challenging Councilman Curren Price in South Los Angeles. Jerry Brown signs driver's license bill for undocumented immigrants", "Cedillo's challenge to legislative pay cut is tentatively denied", "Assemblyman Gil Cedillo to run for Los Angeles City Council", "Gil Cedillo: "The Nation Has To Thank Bernie Sanders", "The 'Bernie vote' is split in the race to replace Xavier Becerra in Congress", "Municipal elections in Los Angeles, California (2017)", "L.A. City Councilman Gil Cedillo and bike activist Joe Bray-Ali looking at May 16 runoff election", "LA City Council: Cedillo Wins Reelection, Ridriguez Heads to victory in northeast Valley", "I'm proud to support @gilcedillo's campaign for reelection to the City Council. 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. In Los Angeles, a century of off-cycle municipal elections and the sheer size of the citys sprawling council districts fortified officeholders positions. Albert Corado, a co-founder of the progressive advocacy group Peoples City Council, Soto-Martnez and Pynoos are among the other progressive contenders vying for a spot. People see it.. Cedillo's description of the rise in Latino power matched his own path to City Hall. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Cedillo prides himself on negotiating with developers to set a certain number of affordable units at least 20%, he said in market-rate projects. Cedillo should have been using his leadership on the committee to more aggressively push systemic housing reforms. [12] In the blanket primary (now superseded by Proposition 14's "top two" primary system), Cedillo competed against Judy Chu, a former Monterey Park assemblywoman and vice-chairman of the State Board of Equalization;[13] the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, voted to endorse Chu. Cedillo is one of two City Council incumbents who find themselves in serious political danger. They were on neighborhood councils and in homeowners associations and it was basically like small-town government, said Newman, who once worked for the late Councilman Tom LaBonge. But her public safety strategy is more moderate than the ones being pushed by some of OFarrells opponents. And in the City Council elections, every district has its own idiosyncratic issues, Yaroslavsky said. Hernandez had the backing of a number of grassroots groups, including the L.A. chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and Councilman Mike Bonin. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Two days after a leaked audio recording jolted Los Angeles, angry. [5] President Bill Clinton stated that his decision to provide funding "was reached after critical consultations with SEIU". So they would be the essential workers, said Vasquez, a Mexican immigrant who at one time had been in the country without legal authorization. Hernandez is running against Councilman Gil Cedillo on the Eastside. Readers speculate why, Letters to the Editor: Serious about the drought? [3] As a 2016 Bernie Sanders delegate,[31] he was backed by Our Revolution. With the election just weeks away, L.A. City Controller Ron Galperin affirmed his support for Cedillo. "[39], In May 2017 Cedillo authored a motion requiring companies to disclose whether they were [20] Senator Cedillo agreed to repeal the law he wrote under the agreement with the Governor to work on a bipartisan bill. At that event, the candidates were asked to raise their hands to indicate whether they think defunding the police is a good idea. Our campaign in no way condones the actions of these individuals, who appear to have been supporters of Councilmember Cedillo acting on their own. citizens. Like Hernandez and Soto-Martnez, Vasquez is young and digitally savvy, but she is hesitant on the progressive label, saying that though she would probably brand herself that way, her views dont fit perfectly squarely in any box.. "Im listening to my own people talk that way about my own family," she said. He apologized in mid-October and told The Times that he didnt make racist remarks or mock his colleagues during the conversation. Julia Wick is a Metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering City Hall and the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election. We know that police officers do not prevent crime, he said at one forum. Thats not something weve seen historically, said Tommy Newman, vice president of United Way of Greater Los Angeles. As the only serious candidate challenging Cedillo, Hernandez faces a more difficult climb. The race for the three council seats comes at a turning point for the LAPD. [6] Cedillo was fired from the union after losing a power struggle with Local 660's board of directors. 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. [26] Cedillo remarked, It took a long time, but now its here. [citation needed]. Rifts and alliances on the City Council are common, and Bonin endorsed Hernandez in the race. Challenger Joe Bray-Ali drew 38 percent, more than any other challenger, and was able to face Cedillo in the runoff. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Hours after announcing a screening of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," embattled Los Angeles Councilmember Kevin de Lon postponed the event due to . Meanwhile, fatal shootings by police have spiked, sparking demands for a more humane response to people facing addiction and mental health challenges. 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.. That means the winner of June 7 primary election takes the seat. 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. Hernandez has been a leader in one of the most significant criminal justice system reforms in the country first persuading county leaders to scrap plans to build new jails and instead invest in community-based mental health treatment and rehabilitation services, and then persuading voters to pass Measure J, which directed the county to budget at least 10% of its locally generated revenue for youth programs, affordable housing, restorative justice, job training and similar programs. [citation needed], Cedillo attended Lorena Street and Euclid Avenue Elementary, Stevenson Junior High and Roosevelt High. Pete Wilsons anti-immigrant message. We recommend Hernandez for Council District 1. On Tuesday, Soto-Martinez was leading OFarrell 38% to 34%. He could remain on the City Council until Dec. 11 without showing up, under rules that allow councilmembers to have absences for up to 60 days. 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. Challenging Price in a district that includes much of South L.A., Vasquez cited a similar frustration with the status quo. The pandemic and protests around police reform also put klieg lights on city government, making it a focus of new attention for a broad swath of Angelenos. What was really being discussed? Cedillo has . Because of term limits, Cedillo could not run for reelection to the California State Legislature in 2012. Hernandez, a long-time resident of District 1, has led the ballot count for the last several days. Cedillo and Hernandez have taken plenty of swings at each other. 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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. Cedillo ran for re-election to the Los Angeles City Council to represent District 1 in California. Eunisses had 50.65% of the vote, compared to Councilman Gil Cedillos 49.35%, as of Tuesday. The increase in crime its very visible. The only one who did was Corado. Corado, Soto-Martinez and a third candidate, former council aide Kate Pynoos, have signed a no new cops pledge circulated by the Peoples Budget Coalition, which is led by Black Lives Matter-L.A. Signers of that document must commit to voting against any plan for hiring additional police above attrition. The man then drops the. [16], Following his failed bid for U.S. Congress, Cedillo was elected to the California State Assembly's 45th District seat in 2010. As the head of the criminal justice reform group La Defensa, she campaigned successfully in 2020 for passage of Measure J, a ballot item aimed at moving hundreds of millions of dollars away from county law enforcement and into social services. However, this also carries a sense of turnabout: In 2015, Cedillo endorsed Gloria Molina, who was running . Cedillo, a former state lawmaker, sought to portray Hernandez as a dangerous extremist, highlighting her work as an abolitionist on policing and prisons. Council President Nury Martinez needs to resign, Councilmembers Kevin De Leon and Gil. 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