Richard Alarcon Creates a Mess

Here you have a guy who was a State Senator but had to run for State Assembly because of term limits. Then less than a month after being elected, he decides to run for the City Council to take back the seat from the guy who took over for him but got elected to his State Senate seat.

Confused? Probably not as much as voters in the 39th Assembly District who will have to navigate and vote two seperate ballots in a combined Los Angeles City General Election and state special election to replace the barely elected Assemblyman Richard Alarcon who is now a City Councilman.

No wonder voters are turned off when politicians are more concerned with arranging seats for themselves than serving the public.