After openly racist comments made by Nury MartÃnez, president of the Los Angeles City Council, were made public last Sunday, the official decided to resign from her position under strong media pressure.
The conversation remained private for nearly a year until the recording was leaked and surfaced, where it is heard that, behind closed doors, Martinez made racist comments, mocked some of his colleagues and their relatives, and even used rude terms such as "how the city should be politically constituted."
Ahead of the elections on November 8, the leak caused three of his colleagues to ask for his resignation, however,