{"id":1414036,"date":"2022-03-31T22:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414036"},"modified":"2022-03-31T22:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T02:15:16","slug":"multiple-democrats-show-concern-over-eric-garcettis-nomination-as-ambassador-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/multiple-democrats-show-concern-over-eric-garcettis-nomination-as-ambassador-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Democrats Show Concern over Eric Garcetti\u2019s Nomination as Ambassador to India"},"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%2Fmultiple-democrats-show-concern-over-eric-garcettis-nomination-as-ambassador-to-india%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=1414036&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\">Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and\u00a0Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) join the growing list of Democrats to show concern over\u00a0Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti\u2019s\u00a0nomination to serve as\u00a0U.S. ambassador to India.\u00a0This comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/29\/report-democrats-say-eric-garcettis-nomination-as-ambassador-to-india-is-dead\/\">reports<\/a> that multiple Senate Democrats have\u00a0privately said the nomination is \u201cdead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garcetti\u2019s nomination, which has also seen Republican opposition,\u00a0is said to be\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/29\/report-democrats-say-eric-garcettis-nomination-as-ambassador-to-india-is-dead\/\">withering on the vine<\/a>,\u201d and now, Kelly and\u00a0Blumenthal are the two latest members to come out against the nomination. This is all due to\u00a0the allegations that he tolerated sexual harassment in his office, although the Biden nominee has denied\u00a0the allegation.<\/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>On Wednesday, Kelly\u2019s\u00a0spokesperson\u00a0Jacob Peters told the Arizona Republic that the senator \u201chas concerns about this nomination based on the serious allegations raised by whistleblowers and is continuing to evaluate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Blumenthal, a former state\u00a0attorney general, told\u00a0Axios on Wednesday,\u00a0\u201cI have concerns because I\u2019ve seen and heard about the allegations\u2026\u00a0I want to put them to rest, if that\u2019s possible, before I vote.\u201d He explained that he would be speaking to some of his\u00a0colleagues but has not\u00a0made \u201cany final conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two leading\u00a0Republican oppositions that\u00a0Garcetti is facing opposition from are 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).\u00a0A 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 class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/12\/mayor-eric-garcetti-accused-of-protecting-rick-jacobs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">spokesperson<\/a>, Naomi Seligman.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley recently said that\u00a0the nomination would have to wait until he can review the\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/58\/7e\/c57092884848a83a72591fa184ed\/ellis-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">310 pages<\/a>\u00a0report on the incident, which supposedly clears him.\u00a0Earlier 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. But,\u00a0Grassley has also stated that the\u00a0city\u2019s probe \u201cwas incomplete at best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0Krysten Sinema (D-AZ) and Sen.\u00a0Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/scoop-another-dem-senator-has-concerns-about-garcetti-8106bc02-3221-42f8-aee9-9655986df3b6.html\">indicated<\/a> that they would like to\u00a0review Garcetti\u2019s qualifications before making a vote.<\/p>\n<p>Garcetti would need to receive the vote of at least\u00a050 senators in the evenly split upper chamber to be confirmed as ambassador.<\/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>Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and\u00a0Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) join the growing list of Democrats to show concern over\u00a0Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti\u2019s\u00a0nomination to serve as\u00a0U.S. ambassador to India.\u00a0This comes after<\/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-1414036","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\/1414036","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=1414036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414036\/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=1414036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}