LOS ANGELES — From her 2013 election upset to her resignation last week, disgraced former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez put motherhood at the heart of her political career.
She was the mom next door on an all-male council, a self-styled advocate for abused women and kids and a champion for paid parental leave.
So many were stunned when the blunt-talking mama was caught on tape comparing a colleague's Black son to a monkey and gleefully prescribing the toddler "a beatdown" in an explosive recording that has upended L.A. politics since it became public earlier this month.
