{"id":562143,"date":"2021-06-12T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=562143"},"modified":"2021-06-12T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T20:52:11","slug":"dsa-member-elected-to-l-a-city-council-faces-recall-threat-less-than-6-months-after-taking-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dsa-member-elected-to-l-a-city-council-faces-recall-threat-less-than-6-months-after-taking-office\/","title":{"rendered":"DSA Member Elected To L.A. City Council Faces Recall Threat Less Than 6 Months After Taking Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fdsa-member-elected-to-l-a-city-council-faces-recall-threat-less-than-6-months-after-taking-office%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=562143&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Nithya-Raman.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America who was recently elected to L.A. City Council has been targeted for a recall less than six months after taking office.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-06-09\/nithya-raman-recall-bid-launches\">reported<\/a>, \u201cCD4 for CD4, a campaign committee formed last month, served Councilwoman Nithya Raman with a recall notice outside her Silver Lake home Wednesday.\u201d Raman has 21 days to respond to the notice if she chooses to do so. If city officials approve the petition, the group could begin gathering signatures to oust her on July 7, 2021. According to the Times, \u201cthe committee argued that Raman\u2019s office is inexperienced, unresponsive and too politically radical for her constituents to endure a full four-year term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raman, 39, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2020\/02\/nithya-raman-los-angeles-city-council-candidate\">told<\/a> Jacobin magazine last year that she is \u201ca member of DSA locally and pretty much my entire platform very much overlaps with what DSA has been fighting for here in L.A.\u201d DSA-LA has <a href=\"https:\/\/dsala.nationbuilder.com\/nithya_raman_2020\">claimed<\/a> her as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DSA_LosAngeles\/status\/1299529840698294272\">one of their own<\/a> and was instrumental in her election, as she became the first L.A. council candidate in 17 years to defeat an incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>She represents L.A.\u2019s Fourth Council District, an area she says has \u201cbeen wildly gerrymandered over the years\u201d that includes parts of Hollywood, Central L.A., and the Sherman Oaks neighborhood. Recall organizers would need to collect valid signatures from 15% of registered voters in CD4 to qualify for the ballot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"17.685950413223\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LA&#8217;s Council District 4, where I\u2019m running, cuts through K-town, Mid-Wilshire, Sherman Oaks, Toluca Lake, Los Feliz, Hollywood and Silver Lake.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t always the case! CD4\u2019s been wildly gerrymandered over the years. Here\u2019s how it\u2019s changed, and why we need reform. (thread) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hvGU5uBYGD\">pic.twitter.com\/hvGU5uBYGD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nithya Raman (@nithyavraman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nithyavraman\/status\/1318254238418432000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The lead proponent of the recall effort is Allison B. Cohen, a constituent and the editor and publisher of a community news source called the Los Feliz Ledger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNearly every time Raman talks or has a spokesperson talk for her, her message always winds its way back to her penchant for talk therapy for the homeless or buzz words related to racial injustice and equity,\u201d Cohen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.losfelizledger.com\/editoral-recall-nithya-raman\/\">wrote<\/a> in an editorial last month.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen has criticized Raman for being \u201cin bed\u201d with DSA-LA and backing a plan to eliminate positions from the LAPD. She says Raman won last November because \u201cno one was paying attention\u201d to the race because of the pandemic, and credited her \u201camazing social media presence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awalkerinLA\/status\/1403234005906976769\/photo\/1\">recall notice<\/a> claims Raman repeatedly puts her \u201cPERSONAL HOMELESSNESS IDEOLOGY over constituent safety,\u201d has \u201cenabled gang members to commit crimes,\u201d and \u201croutinely\u201d skirts \u201cthe topic of PROTECTION OF SINGLE-FAMILY ZONE NEIGHBORHOODS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, you refuse to disavow your alliance with the Democratic Socialists of Los Angeles, which claims to \u2018co-govern\u2019 with you \u2013 a group that proudly brandishes the hammer and sickle-whose goals are to end capitalism and abolish prisons and police,\u201d the notice continued. \u201cYour actions appear scripted by the DSA-LA and its affiliates.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" readability=\"12.43853820598\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There is no more urgent or possible moment to end the racial, environmental, and moral crisis that is homelessness in LA. Our leaders have finally been forced to listen.<\/p>\n<p>The path is not complicated: fund services. Fund housing. Fund care.<\/p>\n<p>Defund the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nithya Raman (@nithyavraman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nithyavraman\/status\/1271496791943344131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Erin O\u2019Neal-Robinson, a co-chair of DSA-LA\u2019s electoral politics committee, described the forces behind the recall attempt as \u201cright-wing extremists who are throwing a tantrum\u201d in an interview with the Times. She called Raman \u201cone of our candidates,\u201d and said the group would probably support the councilwoman if the recall qualifies for ballot placement.<\/p>\n<p>Raman\u2019s husband, Vali Chandrasekaran, was an executive producer on the ABC hit sitcom \u201cModern Family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America who was recently elected to L.A. 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