Kevin McCarthy out: House speaker chaos stuns lawmakers

Table Of Content

• Democrats blast Jordan as speaker and urge Republicans to talk to them about alternative
• McCarthy's speakership
• California holds the key to GOP power in the House. McCarthy’s retirement makes everything harder
• L.A. council members made racist comments in leaked audio. Read our full coverage
• Inside the failed White House coup to oust Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

They didn’t provide the votes Friday morning for the procedural vote until it became overwhelmingly clear Republicans could not pass the rule on their own. “We won’t let it fail,” said one senior Democratic aide, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to outline internal strategy. The House will also vote Saturday on a fifth bill of Republican priorities to secure the border and limit migrants entering the United States. But it will most likely fail because the measure needs the support of two-thirds of the House since it is moving under a different process.

Democrats blast Jordan as speaker and urge Republicans to talk to them about alternative

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The speaker's chair was vacated and Patrick McHenry of North Carolina—a McCarthy ally—was made speaker pro tempore and the House went without a proper speaker until the October 25 election of Mike Johnson of Louisiana. McCarthy subsequently announced his resignation from Congress effective at the end of 2023. “commission has fucking gone rogue”The 21-member citizens redistricting commission was entirely made up of political appointees — people who had been chosen by the 18 politicians at City Hall. Martinez, here and elsewhere, is not happy that some of those commissioners — including one of her own appointees, Fred Ali — were not taking directions. Near the end of the commission’s work, some council members began replacing their commissioners with new appointees.

McCarthy's speakership

“‘The Wizard of Oz’ effect’”This goes to the idea that Black people have more political power than our numbers suggest we should, making up only about 8% to 9% of the population and having three seats on the City Council. “Susan”Susan Minato is an official with Unite Here Local 11, where Hugo Soto-Martínez worked. Minato was also a last-minute appointee to the redistricting commission.

California holds the key to GOP power in the House. McCarthy’s retirement makes everything harder

If Republicans can't coalesce around a consensus candidate, Democrats could attempt to build a coalition with Republicans, Green said. “It is now the responsibility of the GOP members to end the House Republican Civil War,” Jeffries said, announcing the Democratic leadership would vote for the motion to oust the speaker. While McCarthy enjoyed support from most Republicans in his slim majority, eight Republican detractors — many of the same hard-right holdouts who tried to stop him from becoming speaker in January — essentially forced him out. McCarthy’s chief rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, orchestrated the rare vote on the obscure “motion to vacate,” and pushed ahead swiftly into a dramatic afternoon roll call.

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The suit claims that Garcetti witnessed some of the inappropriate behavior, including crude comments and unwanted touching, but did not intervene. Calls for the council members to resign were swift and loud. Cedillo had already lost his reelection campaign by the time the recording was made public. In the clip, then-City Council President Nury Martinez disparaged a white council member’s Black son, using a Spanish phrase meaning “looks like a monkey” and suggesting the child needed to be beaten to make him behave. She said the council member treated his son like an “accessory,” and Councilmember Kevin de León later seemed to compare the council member’s handling of his child to Martinez holding a Louis Vuitton handbag. The conversation also included Councilmember Gil Cedillo and Ron Herrera, then-president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.

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To oust a duly elected member of Congress from their seat is a heavy lift. It would require a two-thirds vote in the House, rather than just a majority. And only five House members have ever been expelled by their colleagues.

Gaetz had been motivated by a “personal” vendetta against him, related to the Congressional ethics inquiry into his behavior, including allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and misuse of campaign funds, McCarthy told reporters. He said the Florida congressman was not a true conservative, and that his goal had been to attract attention and campaign donations. “We’re getting email fundraisers from him as he’s doing it,” McCarthy said. House Republicans selected Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan as their new speaker nominee on Friday — but more than 50 Republicans voted against supporting him on the House floor. A majority of members of Congress – 218 if everyone is present and voting – selects the speaker.

Ron HerreraSo here’s like, for us, I didn’t finish, but, so we got the, you know, Gil’s opponent, whatever you want to call them. And then you have, you know, the CoCo group. Who believe in union and, you know, helping poor Latinos. So we could, if the council split three ways — which it very well could — then you got the whites on there, right? We’re the minority with 25% at that point. Nury MartinezI think, no matter what happens, Gil, we’re going to have to fix it in our house.

Ron HerreraYou have the hard copies and I’ll send you guys electronic ones. Kevin de LeónWe’re going to have the conversation, but we’re not going to do it. Kevin de LeónBut they shout like they’re 250, when there’s 100 of us and it sounds like it’s 10 of us. “little short dark people”As my colleague Melissa Gomez put it in a story about the outrage in L.A.’s Oaxacan community, this is “a racist stereotype often used to demean Indigenous communities.” L.A. Is home to one of the largest Oaxacan communities outside of Mexico, with much of the city’s Oaxacan diaspora concentrated in Koreatown and other parts of Central L.A. “Shatto Place”If you look at the final map approved by the City Council, Cedillo’s district did in fact run right up to Shatto Place in Koreatown.

The Los Angeles political world was roiled in early October by audio from a 2021 closed-door meeting among some of the city’s most powerful Latino leaders discussing the city’s redistricting process. “personal friend”Herrera was such a big supporter of Hutt that he personally went to the City Council in September and testified in favor of her becoming the temporary replacement for Mark Ridley-Thomas. During his remarks, he made clear he was not happy with the contingent of council members who had delayed a vote on Hutt.“She leads the community now,” he told the council.

Nury MartinezAhí trae su (There he brings his) negrito, like on the side. You sit next to him, you don’t got nothing to say. For MLK, for the parade, that Herb used to organize and all the council who wanted to join Herb on the float, ’cause he used to do a whole float — it used to be nice.

“figure out the Valley,” “Latino seats,” “Comptons to the Gardenas”At this point in 2021, figuring out the San Fernando Valley meant finding a way to revise the draft map that was proposed by the citizens redistricting commission. The draft map called for one council member to lose 100% of their district. Problem was, the commission didn’t say who that would be.