Leaked audio of LA City Council members has gotten a lot of attention for its racist remarks, but experts say the conversation about redistricting are also cause for concern.
's Fair Map Act. We're looking at California's Voting Rights Act and the Federal Voting Rights Act. All of those essentially give procedures for how you can redraw district lines and what you should not do. Some of what we heard is potentially trying to dilute the power of African American voters and this is simply what you can't do when you draw district lines," said Levinson.
Martinez, de León and Cedillo were key in drawing the district lines that were eventually unanimously adopted.Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez has stepped down after leaked audio showed her using racially charged language to describe councilman Mike Bonin's Black son. Experts chime in on the leaked audio and the fallout., and issued the following statement:
"As a human being, as a father, as someone who has committed his life to public service and takes great pride in representing the constituents that have decided — my bosses who have decided — to put me in office and allow me to do my best to represent them, to do as much good for them as I can: I, like so many others, find what was said unacceptable, offensive, painful, and hurtful. And there’s right and there’s wrong: It was wrong — what was said, what was done, what was expressed.
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