Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de Leon, who represents Los Angeles’ 14th Ward, lost his seat after a colleague made racist remarks and was seen on an audio recording in 2022 complaining about constituents. refused to resign.
Now, two years later, his voters have done it for him.
Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de Leon sits in the chamber before the Los Angeles City Council meeting on October 11, 2022. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/Associated Press)
Tenant rights attorney and Highland Park native Isabel Jurado declared victory Thursday in a scathing social media message.
“Like [President-Elect Donald] “Trump, he has resorted to fear-mongering, red-baiting, misogynistic and racist dog whistles to divide us,” she wrote.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the Filipino-American progressive’s victory makes him the first person of non-Latino descent to hold the 14th District since 1985, when the late Richard Alatorre won the district. will be given seats.
Jurado himself was not immune to scandal. When asked by a UCLA student earlier this year about her stance on police abolition, she was recorded saying, “What’s a rap verse? It’s the police.”
Isabel Jurado, in this undated image from her campaign website, is running for Los Angeles City Council District 14.
She later told Westside Current that it was “just a lyric” and that “her commitment to public safety is as strong as ever.”
As of Friday, Jurado had an 11 percentage point lead over de Leon in the district that stretches from downtown Los Angeles to Eagle Rock.
The former U.S. senator and Los Angeles mayoral candidate has yet to publicly concede the race.
