Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti
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“I made it known earlier this week that my city needs me now, I want to be here and I need to be here,” said Garcetti, who was co-chair of the Biden campaign and a member of its committee. inaugural. .
The mayor added that he had entered quarantine after his nine-year-old daughter tested positive for coronavirus, although he said he and his wife had tested negative.
“Our family is taking an incredible precaution and what is happening in my house this week is happening in Los Angeles and this country,” he said Thursday in a live speech, according to Deadline.
According to reports, Garcetti would be among the names published for Biden’s transportation secretary, a role for which he appointed Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Ind., This week.
Black Lives Matter activists in the Los Angeles area have spoken out against the possibility of Garcetti joining the administration and cited his response to protests in the city this year.
“It is more than discouraging that Biden ignored the calls of the black organizers who helped him choose him and appointed Garcetti to any position the very next day. [Los Angele Police Department] LAPD violently assaulted protesters in front of the mayor’s mansion, ”BLM LA co-founder Melina Abdullah told Deadline earlier this month.“ We hope this is nothing more than a consolation prize and that Biden take into account the calls not to appoint one of the nation’s most troubled mayors to his cabinet ”.
Garcetti, who was re-elected in 2017, has a limited term and will step down in 2022.