County Supervisors vote 4-1 to keep "status quo" for district boundaries
The "status quo" future of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor?
After hours of racial testimonials from some 800+ speakers and a looming deadlock looking certain, Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas rescinded an earlier "no" vote to support the "status quo" redistricting plan of Mike Antonovich, Dan Knabe and Zev Yaroslavsky.
Bet on a lawsuit by MALDEF in the days ahead and don't think that Zev and Gloria Molina will bury the racial hatchet anytime soon. After all, both may have an eye on the same political office in their respective futures.
** LA Weekly's Gene Maddaus take on today's proceedings.
** Ron Kaye comments on Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti's "taking sides".
** LA Times "come from behind" coverage.
** LA Weekly's Gene Maddaus take on today's proceedings.
** Ron Kaye comments on Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti's "taking sides".
** LA Times "come from behind" coverage.
Your thoughts..............
Scott Johnson in CD 14
Labels: Board of Supervisors, Mark Ridley-Thomas
Posted by Red Spot in CD 14 @ 9/27/2011 07:24:00 PM
2 Comments:
Ridley-Thomas is toast anyway, if Latino voting is as racially polarized as he claims. The A3 (without the minor amendments that Antonovich read in after closed session) is 34% citizen voting age population (CVAP) Latino and 36% CVAP Black. So if the court challenge fails, Latinos have a strong incentive to find a good candidate and take him out in 2012, or at least make him sweat.
But, if the court challenge succeeds, the easiest way to add a second Latino influence district is to redraw SD2 to include more of the Gateway Cities and Pico Union area, while SD1 takes in more Asians and whites. Thus SD2 no longer is an African American influence district. I doubt you could prove the same level of racially polarized voting against African Americans than against Latinos, especially in 2010 LA (consider, for instance, the many young whites who supported Obama over Clinton in the 2008 primaries). So a VRA SD2 is no longer necessary, and Ridley Thomas's seat is now Latino.
Politically this is why the S2 plan had to come from African Americans. Otherwise the African American community could be chipped away in service of a second Latino district.
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE BIGGEST BUNCH OF STUPIDITY THERE IS! LATINS WILL NEVER BECOME AMERICANS AS LONG AS WE ALLOW THEM TO INVADE THE COUNTRY NOT SPEAK ENGLISH NOT FILE FOR CITIZENSHIP NOT ADHERE TO OUR LAWS AND CONTINUE TO ACCOMMIDATE THERE EVERY NEED. IF THEY BEHAVED THIS WAY IN MEXICO FOR ONE THERE GOVERNMENT OR THERE PEOPLE WOULD TAKE THEM IN A ALLEY AND SHOOT THEM DEAD. THEY KNOW THIS THAT'S WHY THEY COME HERE TO PUSH US DEFENSELESS BLEEDING HEART SUCKERS AROUND. THEY WILL CONTINUE TO USE OUR LAWS AGAINST US LOOK AT THE DREAM ACT WHAT A BUNCH OF GARBAGE. IF THEY GET THIS TAXPAYER FINANCED EDUCATION THEY STILL WON'T HAVE JOBS TO TAKE LOOK AT EXPERIENCED PEOPLE WORKING AT RALPH'S THEY DON'T SEEM TO KNOW OR CARE ABOUT THIS. IT'S ALL ABOUT GETTING ALL THEY CAN GET AND TO HELL WITH AMERICA AND IT'S LAWS.
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