{"id":1408413,"date":"2022-03-29T19:29:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408413"},"modified":"2022-03-29T19:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:30:01","slug":"report-democrats-say-eric-garcettis-nomination-as-ambassador-to-india-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-democrats-say-eric-garcettis-nomination-as-ambassador-to-india-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Democrats Say Eric Garcetti\u2019s Nomination as Ambassador to India is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-democrats-say-eric-garcettis-nomination-as-ambassador-to-india-is-dead%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408413&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Senate Democrats have reportedly said Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti\u2019s nomination to be the ambassador to India is \u201cdead\u201d after sitting in limbo for months amid Republican opposition and allegations that the mayor witnessed a former aide\u00a0sexually harass a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Democrats have privately <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/archive\/3-29-22-punchbowl-news-am\/\">told<\/a> Punchbowl News that\u00a0Garcetti\u2019s\u00a0ambassadorship to India is \u201cdead\u201d or \u201cwithering on the vine.\u201d Since his nomination was left out of the nominees that the Senate approved last December, he will now have to wait until\u00a0late April or May at the earliest. And that is <em>if\u00a0<\/em>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and the White House can scrounge up the votes with the Republican opposition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The White House said that President Joe Biden had maintained his confidence in the confirmation process for\u00a0Garcetti \u2014 who was President Joe Biden\u2019s former\u00a0campaign co-chair.\u00a0Garcetti was nominated last July.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHis nomination advanced unanimously with bipartisan support in committee, a Biden\u00a0White House spokesman added. \u201cThe White House and the State Department are making calls to senators and working to earn bipartisan support for his nomination. He should receive a vote in the Senate expeditiously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While many of Biden\u2019s nominees have faced Republican opposition, Garcetti is facing opposition from both\u00a0Iowa senators \u2014\u00a0Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/11\/grassley-wants-hold-on-eric-garcettis-nomination-as-ambassador-to-india\/\">Chuck Grassley<\/a> (R-IA) and\u00a0Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/25\/joni-ernst-joins-grassley-in-placing-hold-on-eric-garcettis-india-nomination\/\">Joni Ernst<\/a>\u00a0(R-IA) \u2014 due to the allegations that he tolerated sexual harassment in his office, although he has denied\u00a0the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>A top\u00a0Garcetti aide\u00a0Rick Jacobs has faced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/11\/grassley-wants-hold-on-eric-garcettis-nomination-as-ambassador-to-india\/\">numerous<\/a> allegations of sexual harassment, including claims made by an\u00a0officer from the Los Angeles Police Department that was assigned to the mayor\u2019s detail,\u00a0Matthew Garza,\u00a0who has sued the city over the claim, and his\u00a0one-time <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/12\/mayor-eric-garcetti-accused-of-protecting-rick-jacobs.html\">spokesperson<\/a>, Naomi Seligman.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley told\u00a0Punchbowl the nomination would have to wait until he can review the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/58\/7e\/c57092884848a83a72591fa184ed\/ellis-report.pdf\">310 pages<\/a>\u00a0report on the incident, which supposedly clears him. Earlier this month, the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> reported that the mayor\u2019s office turned over a\u00a0\u201cnonpublic, city-ordered report into allegations of sexual harassment in his office to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee\u201d before the committee\u00a0voted on\u00a0Garcetti\u2019s nomination in January.<\/p>\n<p>However, while\u00a0Garcetti\u2019s nomination has been\u00a0suffering from \u201cneglect,\u201d he\u2019s enjoyed not-so-favorable media coverage of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/02\/03\/i-didnt-exhale-garcetti-claims-he-held-breath-in-maskless-photo-therefore-ok\/\">hypocrisy<\/a> at the\u00a0Super Bowl game last month.\u00a0In attendance of the game, Garcetti forwent\u00a0wearing a face mask, breaking his own\u00a0mask mandate for the second time. The mayor also was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/02\/03\/i-didnt-exhale-garcetti-claims-he-held-breath-in-maskless-photo-therefore-ok\/\">caught<\/a> taking a maskless picture with former NBA star Magic Johnson; Garcetti claimed he was holding his breath.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats have reportedly said Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti\u2019s nomination to be the ambassador to India is \u201cdead\u201d after sitting in limbo for months amid Republican opposition and allegations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}