LOS ANGELES DEMOCRATS CLEAN HOUSE

Unlike the "good" Republicans, who say nothing about the racism and antisemitism of too many in their ranks, as reported about what speakers said at Trump’s Nuremberg Ralies in Minden Nevada on Saturday and Mesa Arizona on Sunday, because their silence demonstrates their complicity, Democrats take the time to clean house immediately, as was the case today in Los Angeles, as reported tonight in Axios:

"Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez resigned from her position Monday after she and two other councilmembers were recorded making racist remarks. (TC Note: the remarks were made a year ago in a secretly-recorded conversation reported this weekend in the LA Times)

"Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera submitted his resignation on Monday night over his involvement in the racist conversation, per the Los Angeles Times.

"Martinez referred to a white councilmember's child, who is Black, as "ese changuito," or that little monkey, during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, according to the leaked audio of a nearly year-old conversation.

"Martinez also reportedly said that the councilor, Mike Bonin, handled his son as though he were an "accessory." She also referred to Bonin as a "little b---h."

"Herrera suggested that Bonin puts his young son out in public like a lawn jockey, the racist statues used to invoke the antebellum South.

"Martinez also is heard making fun of Indigenous people from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, who have migrated to Los Angeles. She referred to them as "short little dark people" and called them "ugly."

"The secretly recorded conversation revolved around the councilors' frustration that the growing Latino population wasn't resulting in more Latino council districts and concerns Black leaders were keeping some Black-majority ones.

In a statement announcing her resignation, Martinez asked for forgiveness "from my colleagues and from the residents of this city that I love so much... In the end, it is not my apologies that matter most; it will be the actions I take from this day forward. I hope that you will give me the opportunity to make amends. Therefore, effective immediately I am resigning as President of the Los Angeles City Council," the statement continued.

Whether one takes Martinez' statement as actually sincere or at least an attempt to say the right thing, the statement is light years better than anything said by any Republican in the past 24 hours since the events in Minden and Mesa.

We Democrats are obviously not "free of the taint," but it's not considered something to be complicit in. There aren’t any Democratic leaders out there defending the right of Martinez and Herarra and Kevin de Leon (who has yet to act, but that will probably change tomorrow) to “speak their minds honestly” or some other complicit bullshit. Instead, every Democratic leader said there was only one action to be taken, which is what Martinez did.

There are no "innocent" Republicans.

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