Los Angeles Doesn’t Need a City Council
Resignations Won’t Fix a Broken System. Instead, Let Everyday Citizens Take Charge
Please! Pretty please! With azúcar on top! I beg you—Kevin de León and Gilbert Cedillo—not to resign your seats on the Los Angeles City Council like Nury Martinez did. Instead, I’m imploring you to stick around, and brazen this scandal out.
The people of Los Angeles need you, their power-hungry representatives, disgraced by a tape of your racist insults against nearly every demographic in town.
Why?
So they can have the pleasure of firing you themselves!
Sticking around to be fired could galvanize change in city governance. Because resignations can’t cure what ails Los …
