It's Tuesday, October 18, 2022.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

There's been a huge story in Los Angeles, California, it's been unfolding in recent days, and it

has led to the resignation of the President of the Los Angeles City Council, and it

may lead to other resignations as well.

And at least according to the President of the United States and the Los Angeles Times,

it should lead to other resignations as well.

The story gets back to the reality that a leaked tape was made available in recent days

of a conversation that had taken place about a year ago in the year 2021 between four

leaders of the Hispanic community there in Los Angeles, three members of the City Council

and one developer.

The fact is that in the course of the conversation, then Los Angeles City Council President

Nuri Martinez made statements which are clearly racist.

They are based in the political ambition for Hispanics, as we shall see, for certain Hispanics

and Latinos to gain politically at the expense of other groups.

The central issue here in terms of the impetus for the conversation was an upcoming redistricting

in which lines of representation within the city government of Los Angeles would be redrawn.

Now, anytime you talk about redistricting or you talk about the reconfiguration of, say,

legislative districts within a state's contingent to Congress, well, you really are looking

at one of the most intensely political endeavors known to democratic self-government.

And in this case, it also was an occasion for a conspiratorial meeting between three

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