{"id":429596,"date":"2026-08-11T07:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429596\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:48:33","slug":"la-city-council-president-responds-to-ramans-retaliation-claim-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429596\/","title":{"rendered":"LA city council president responds to Raman\u2019s retaliation claim \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman\u2019s insinuation that she\u2019s being \u201cpunished for running<\/a> against Mayor Bass\u201d is the equivalent of her reaching \u201cthe bottom of the barrel politically,\u201d according to Marqueece Harris-Dawson, President of the Los Angeles City Council.<\/p>\n

Tensions arose further between Raman and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday after Raman announced in a YouTube video her removal as chair of the Los Angeles City Council\u2019s Housing and Homelessness Committee. While Raman, LA\u2019s councilmember for the city\u2019s 4th District, described the removal as retaliation, Harris-Dawson said the decision was made in the best interests of residents as Raman focuses on her mayoral campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hardly a punishment,\u201d Harris-Dawson told NBC Los Angeles. \u201cIt\u2019s something to make the council functional and to put the council in the position to answer some very key questions between now and election regarding homelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The council president said Raman\u2019s portrayal of her removal is disappointing, especially since he said he and the councilmember had months of discussions about her leadership on the committee. Harris-Dawson said the last conversation they had on the topic was about the direction the committee went in its decision to remove Raman.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very, very disappointing to see her reach to the bottom of the barrel politically and to use something that she knew would happen,\u201d Harris-Dawson said. \u201cIn fact, she has a quote in the Times saying, \u2018I expect that I\u2019m going to lose my leadership position as a result of this move,\u2019 months ago. So, for her to reach to the bottom of the barrel and use it as something to shoot a commercial, it\u2019s just disappointing because I always thought of Nithya Raman as somebody who was better than that and above that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRaman is being removed as the head of the Housing and Homeless Committee on the city council. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Raman said the Housing and Homelessness Committee would be split into two different committees, with one focusing on housing and the other focusing on homelessness.<\/p>\n

Harris-Dawson argued against Raman\u2019s claim that her removal was retaliation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this were really political retribution, it would have been done Feb. 8, the day after she announced (her candidacy for mayor),\u201d he said. \u201cI didn’t do it then.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSince that time, (the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) has tried to defund homelessness, the county has begun a process to separate and Judge (David) Carter has reentered the fray with all eyes on the city of Los Angeles and what we’re going to do about homelessness. So, those are questions we have to answer now that cannot wait until the end of the mayor’s race.\u201d<\/p>\n

NBCLA has reached out to Raman’s campaign office for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman\u2019s insinuation that she\u2019s being \u201cpunished for running against Mayor Bass\u201d is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,13],"class_list":["post-429596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}