Supervisor Districts

State Senate Majority Leader Richard Polanco wants to amend the state Constitution to create two additional L.A. County supervisorial districts (Feb. 27). He claims that “we need to increase the number of representatives in order to provide the most effective representation.”

L.A. County has 10 million inhabitants. What’s the difference if we have one representative for every 2 million people or one for every 1,428,571 people, except for the cost of maintaining two more costly supervisorial districts?

Is Polanco thinking of gerrymandering into existence seven surrealistically shaped districts, one of which will be waiting for him when term limits force him out of the state Senate in 2002?

MARIAN PARSON, La Crescenta