Nury Martinez has stepped down from her seat on the Los Angeles City Council amid the furor over the comments she made on a leaked audio of a conversation with two other colleagues and a top labor official. “It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council district 6, the community I grew up in and my home,” she said in a statement on Wednesday.
Martinez resigned as City Council president on Monday and then announced the next day that she was taking a leave. But a chorus of top Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have called on her and the two other council members, Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo, to also exit.
The leaked audio, in which Martinez was heard making racist remarks about the Black son of one of her council colleagues, Mike Bonin, as well as disparaging remarks about other ethnic groups, has set off a furor.
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