LOS ANGELES — Just hours after his L.A. City Council term ended, Gil Cedillo released a three-page letter Monday titled "Why I Did Not Resign," in which he shares his thoughts about the racist conversation and leak scandal that tarred his final months in office.
Cedillo disappeared from the public stage in mid-October, shortly after the Los Angeles Times reported on the inflammatory backroom conversation, with his spokesperson repeatedly telling reporters that the veteran politician was "at a place of reflection."
Cedillo was one of four high-profile participants in the secretly recorded October 2021 conversation, which centered on Los Angeles' once-a-decade redistricting process and included racist and derogatory comments about a rainbow coalition of groups.
