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The California Legislative Women’s Caucus is asking for the fast dismissal of Dana White after a video emerged of White and his spouse getting right into a bodily altercation on New Year’s Eve in Mexico. The letter was addressed to Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel.
Footage of the bodily altercation between the 2 emerged on Jan. 2. One week after the information broke, the California Legislative Women’s Caucus is “calling for the fast elimination of Mr. White as President of the UFC.”
“Given Mr. White’s earlier remarks in opposition to home associate violence, we believed that Endeavor and the UFC shared this dedication to security, respect, and accountability,” the letter reads. “You your self have written extensively about the necessity to converse out and act after we see issues that aren’t in step with our values.
“And but, we now have seen the video of UFC president Dana White, the place he strikes his spouse at a New Year’s Eve celebration with a closed fist. We had been appalled. It was alarming, to say the least. In the times because the video was launched, you have got remained silent. Your continued silence speaks volumes. As you as soon as wrote: ‘Silence and inaction will not be an choice.'”
The Legislative Women’s Caucus claims to signify and advocate on behalf of the various pursuits of ladies, youngsters and households all through California, describing itself as bicameral and bipartisan. The group insisted that Emmanuel — whose Endeavor holding firm is the mum or dad firm of UFC — intervene and set up new management within the UFC.
“The head of a significant sporting group can’t declare to be for the security of ladies whereas a video of him putting his spouse continues to flow into on-line with no response from you. The hypocrisy is astounding. Enough is sufficient. It is time to take away Mr. White from his management position, to permit him and his associate to get the assistance they want whereas reminding the world of what Endeavor stands for and that violence in opposition to ladies will not be a conduct that you simply condone.”
