Ronda Politica: Three years after the audio scandal

Three years after the scandal of October 2022 regarding the audio in which three councilors and a union leader were recorded in a private conversation making racist statements, where are the main characters involved.

Of Nury Martinez, the president of the Los Angeles Council who was forced to resign overnight, the only thing we know is that she still lives in the San Fernando Valley; and some say she will eventually find work as a political consultant; Ron Herrera, who was president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, retired after the incident; former Councilman Gil Cedillo works as an advisor to the AltaMed health clinics; and former Councilman Kevin de Leon is known to collaborate with a well-known and powerful Silicon Valley-based company. The city lost three great leaders in one fell swoop. They were replaced by Imelda Padilla, Eunisses Hernandez, and Ysabel Jurado. While the new Latina council members won by a landslide at the polls, none of them have the charisma, courage, and stamina of Martinez, De Leon, and Cedillo. Putting aside the mistakes they made at the time, they were very good leaders, even recognized internationally.

With the exception of Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, Padilla, Eunisses and Soto-Martinez are failing us as council members, since so far they have produced very few results.

Challenger emerges

While Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez has about four challengers who will try to unseat her next year when she seeks her first reelection to office, her fellow Democratic Socialist, Hugo Soto-Martinez, just has a rival, and he is very close.

None other than his neighbor Colter Carlisle, vice president of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council, wants to remove him from office. And not only do they live in the same housing complex, but Colter voted for Soto-Martinez to be a council member in 2022. Hard to believe. However, the council member's stance on housing, regarding greater access, encouraged him, he says, to challenge his neighbor.

But how embarrassing it must be when they run into each other at the laundromat when it's time to wash their dirty laundry.

Under Fire

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is under fire as the Fair Insurance Practices Commission investigates his luxurious world trips, which even included an African Safari. His fondness for traveling the world at taxpayer expense, citing work-related reasons, was made public in an investigation by San Francisco's ABC television network.

Lara has made 48 trips around the globe since taking office in 2019, but why didn't the Los Angeles native wait to take his global trips once his term ended? He needlessly went too far into the lion's den.

He won't go to jail

The sentence given to former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Brian K. Williams on the security issue is absolutely ridiculous. He was sentenced to one year of probation for the felony charges of making a false bomb threat at City Hall last year. He must pay a $5,000 fine and perform 50 hours of community service.

Faced with the possibility of spending ten years behind bars in federal prison, Williams signed a plea agreement last May in which he admitted to making the bomb threat while on the job as Deputy Mayor to Mayor Bass. He attributed his reckless and dangerous action to being on edge.

Whatever caused him to make a terrorist threat in his workplace, the sentence is laughable; And he did get a judge with an incomprehensible empathy.

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