President Joe Biden let it be known that he wants three Los Angeles City councilmembers caught on tape making racist remarks about a redistricting plan to resign, including Council President Nury Martinez.
President Biden, who’s about to head west on a four-day swing that will bring him to Southern California, intervened in a simmering, racially explosive scandal involving three Los Angeles City Council members on Tuesday evening. His call for the resignation of all three officeholders, who were caught on tape in an extensive discussion full of offensive racial slurs, was conveyed by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, as the Los Angeles Times reported:
Actually, Council President Nury Martinez has simply announced she is resigning as council president and taking a “leave of absence”; she is still on the legislative body.
