L.A. County’s Redistricting Plan Puts Edelman in Latino District
The Los Angeles County supervisors’ map, redistricting the county’s five supervisorial districts, is an undisguised disgrace (“Edelman Put in Latino District by Board Plan,” Part A, June 28). If the previous map constituted a devious and contrived violation of the federal Voting Rights Act, this one has to be worse!
The supervisors seem to be under the impression that all they have to do is shuffle things around in such a way as to create a new, heavily Latino district without rocking anybody’s boat. Other aspects of fair representation or geographical integrity can be disregarded.
Supervisor Deane Dana unabashedly admits that his goal was to maintain conservative control of the board. So his district, the biggest gerrymander on the map, is unfazed.
The long doglegs which would include Supervisor Ed Edelman’s Westside home and the city of San Fernando in the new Latino district are outrageous on their face.
Proposals intended to “guarantee” the outcome of future elections should not even be considered.
It appears that our selfish incumbent supervisors have dumped on Judge David Kenyon the task of giving us an honest realignment of our country’s district boundaries.
EUGENE K. ANDREASEN
Los Angeles
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