{"id":2786,"date":"2022-10-13T09:55:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T16:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2022-10-14T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:01:09","slug":"aca-calls-for-immediate-resignation-of-la-city-councilmembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/aca-calls-for-immediate-resignation-of-la-city-councilmembers\/","title":{"rendered":"ACA Calls for Immediate Resignation of LA City Councilmembers"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, October 10, 2022, after the Los Angeles Times published a recording<\/a> in which Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez is heard making racist remarks while talking with fellow Councilmembers Kevin de Le\u00f3n and Gil Cedillo and labor leader Ron Herrera about how the city\u2019s council district boundaries should be redrawn, Armenian Council of America\u2019s Board issued a statement calling for the elected officials to resign immediately.<\/p>\n

In the statement ACA specified that \u201cracist, homophobic, and deeply cruel statements disqualify individuals from elected office. Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo, and Kevin de Le\u00f3n should resign from the Los Angeles City Council immediately.”<\/p>\n

ACA also welcomes California\u2019s Attorney General’s announcement that his office will investigate the Los Angeles City Council to determine whether any state or federal voting rights laws and transparency laws were violated during the Los Angeles City\u2019s 2021 redistricting efforts. The City of Los Angeles is home to one of the largest Armenian American Diasporas, and as such backroom dealings may have undermined the voting power of Armenian-Americans in the city.<\/p>\n

While Nury Martinez resigned from the City Council on Wednesday, October 12, Kevin de Le\u00f3n and Gil Cedillo have yet to do so. Therefore, ACA reiterates its call for their immediate resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, October 10, 2022, after the Los Angeles Times published a recording in which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"post_badge":[],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1.jpg",800,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1-250x250.jpg",250,250,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1-768x768.jpg",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1-400x400.jpg",400,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1.jpg",800,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1.jpg",800,800,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1-800x715.jpg",800,715,true],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1-800x500.jpg",800,500,true],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1.jpg",800,800,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1-540x340.jpg",540,340,true],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1-400x250.jpg",400,250,true],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1-45x45.jpg",45,45,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"ArmenianCouncil","author_link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/author\/armeniancouncil\/"},"category_info":"News<\/a> Press Releases<\/a>","tag_info":"Press Releases","comment_count":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Seal_of_Los_Angeles-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_badge?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}